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hi C 51st Year Medford. United Presi Full Luscd Wire 24 Pages ' c' ' II .'i 4,, me mi tin unirj mmi iMir ' i . , . ,. B 16 rmfitmrrf r -ir in rr rrtrT .: NEW CITIZENS Henry Loh Shtli Chin, native of China and one of a class of 11 per sons to receive naturalization papers Tuesday at the Jackson county courthouse, is shown here signing his paper in the clerk's office. Henry f ong accompanied his countryman and st-rved as interpreter during a special cere mony held for Chin, whose knowledge of English is slight. The new citizen, who has Hungary Workers Again Strike Against Russians Budapest (U.P.) " Angry Hungarian workers paralyzed the nstion today in a two-day "total strike" against the Rus sians. ' The walkout was called to protest a Soviet attempt Wednes day to broak up a meeting of the National Workers' Council, supreme1 organ of Hungary's workers, . farmers and intellec tuals. It ws not supposed to- begin until a.m. today (11p.m. PST) but" news of tKe Red army move race! through the city late Wed nesday and the strike was on. Street car and Jbus crews ab andoned" their vehicles in the streets wnen they walked off thfir jobs. This morning all public trans portation was at a standstill as ii;y winds and riear freezing tem , pcraturcs gripped the country. Budapest -Radio broadcast no news. Instead the Communist-cp-,erted station. aired a long string "of appeals to' railroad, public "transportation and factory work ers to return to their jobs. " The appeals were- in vain and the tie-up was tighter even than Eth' general strike that preced ed it. Only food services and es , sential maintenance were func tioning. 'Kidnaping of John 'Denied in Germany Karlsruhe, Ger. iO.R) The wife of Dr. Wolfgang 'Wohlge mutch donfed today that her hus ebarw! kidnaped former West Ger man, Security Chief Dr. Otto s John ". . Prirtty 22-year-old Mrs. Rose marie Wohlgemuth said she talked to her husband four tfmcs since Tie drove- John to ' 0 Comunit Eiist Berlin in July, 954. Stic said he told her he drove John there at John's re quest and that John told him i;e intended" to remain in - East Germany. John is on trial here for Irea- son. The government charges he went to tle East voluntarily for 17 months. John's defense is :ised on his story that Wohlge muth drugged and kidnapped ehim. Ashland Man Dead in State By UNITED PRESS 6 Tragedy struck throughout Oregon Wednesday on the eve of the Thanksgiving day holiday as at least two persons lost their lives in traffic accidents, one, person drowned and a small child burned tq death when fire destroyed the family home. Paeenis Absent K!Icd in a fire afBigss Jund- o tion ast of The Dalles was 2 '.I-, year-ofti Michael Raymond Thompson. The child's parents. Mr. and Mrs. John . Edward Thompson, were absent from the home and working in. a nearby res?ai:ant at the time. A wo-car highway . crash about 18 miles west of La ' e o Grande ciaineed the life, f Mrs. e9 Bonnie May James. 43! of !oses e e Lake, Wash?, and sen three.per- MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1956 Some stores which had reop ened only a day or so ago when the general strike began to dwindle were closed again. All factory gates were shut, and workers who had gone back to their jobs earlier this week only to maintain a sitdown strike stayed away altogether. New Recognition Only Wednesday Hungary s workers wrested new recog nition from the Soviet sponsored government of Premier Janos Kadar. The government, in an announcement brodacast over Budapest radio Wednesday night gave their workers' councils full legal standing which clearly de fined their rights in sharing con trol of the nation's economy. But even this sweeping con cession did not prevent the work ers carrying out the new walk out. Despite repeated denials ty the Kadar government of depor tations by the Russians, reliable reports continued to be received that young Hungarians still are Charles Porter Sets Visit in Phoenix Congressman-Elect Charles O. Porter, Eugene, will be in Med ford Saturday on a final "swing" around the fourth district before leaving for Washington, D. C, to take office. , He and Mrs. Porter will be guests at an open house from 5 to 8 p.m. that day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Norton, Phoenix. Jackson county people who were active in his campaign have been invited, and anyone else wishing to greet Porter will be welcome, Norton said. The Nortons were in charge of Por ter's campaign in this county. Porter, who visited Jackson county four or five times this fall before election, this week is visiting every county in his dis trict. He will attend a Demo cratic "victory dinner" in Port land Dec. 1 at the invitation of Gov .-Elect Robert Holmes, and plans to leave for Washington later that week. The Nortons live at the west end of Fifth st. in Phoenix. Among Four Accidents sons to the hospital with non critical injuries. A 73-year-old Ashland man, Robert Arthur Davis, died when the car he was driving went out of control and plunged into a canyon near Canyonville. His wife was hospitalized but was reported not in critical condi tion. Struck Slick Spot Police said the accident that claimed the life of Davis oc curred when his car struck a slick spot and skidded out of control. He and his wife, Loreen, were en route to Corvallis at the time to spend the Thanks giving holiday with a son. Mrs. Viola' Ross, Lakeside, drowned in the waters of Ten Mile creek at Lakeside, appar ently when she slipped and fell into the stream. XT SSTribune his named changed from Loh Shui to Henry Loh Shui Chin, has lived in this country for several years and has worked in both Portland and Eugene as well as Medford. He is em ployed now part-time at Kim's restaurant for Fong. Also pictured are LcRoy Schilling (back to camera) naturalization examiner from Portland, and others of the citizenship class. - being exiled off to the Soviet Union. One woman said the Russians found a list of rebel under ground leaders in Budapest's Moscow Square district Wednes day and began arresting them for deportation. The woman said her son and two others known to be on the list were seized. Flight To West Continues At the same time the flight of Hungarians to the Free West continued without' respite, J. . Although the Russians blew up a number of bridges on the Aus trian border Wednesday night in an attempt to dam the tide, Austrian frontier police report ed that another 4,000 fled to the West during the night bringing the total number of refugees up to nearly 50,000. Railroad Wage Dispute Settled Chica;o U.R) A three-year package agreement has settled a wage dispute between the na tion's railroads and the Brother hood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. The settlement, which provid ed increases averaging about 26Vi cents an hour, was an nounced Wednesday by the Na tional Mediation Board, which intervened in the dispute. Under the agreement, retroac tive to Nov. 1, there are first year pay boosts ranging from 10 to 16 cents an hour for various work classifications. Effective Nov. 1, 1957, and Nov. 1, 1958, are additional 7-cent hourly pay boosts. In addition, a cost of living escalator clause was contained in the new pact, which also pro hibits the reopening of the con tract for wage negotiations until Nov. 1, 1959. Another stipulation said the BLFF can apply all or a portion of the second year wage boost for the purchase of health serv ice benefits. The settlement, which covered about 50,000 employees, was similar to a contract signed earl ier this month by 11 non-operating unions representing about 728.000 railroad employees and the nation's 140 class one rail roads. An across the board wage hike had been sought by the union, which finally agreed to the pack age after a marathon 72-hour negotiating session. Springfield Funds OK'd, Morse Says Washington (U.P.) Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) said to day that an advance allocation of S65.975 had been approved for a study of the Springfield, Ore., urban renewal area. The funds, Morse said, were for the purpose of studying the project area and developing a sound urban renewal project pian. The-' planning work will be done in an area containing ap proximately 161 acres, known as the 3rd st project. i Price 10c United Press Full Leased Wire No! 209 By President Washington (U.P) Text of President Eisenhower's Thanks giving proclamation: With the completion of the cycle of winter and summer, seed time and harvest, we come to the traditional time of thanksgiving, when our minds and hearts turn to Almighty God in grateful acknowledgment of his mercies throughout the year. Let us be grateful that the foundations of freedom in our nation ,grow stronger with .each passing year, giving hope to fettered peoples that they may walk as free men unafraid; that the yield of our soil and the production of our factories have been abundant, enriching our lives and enabling us to share our bounty with less fortunate ones in other lands; and that the forces of nature are being harnessed for less possibilities of comfort and to future generations. Should Consider God's Providence It is also fitting at this season that we should consider God's providence to us throughout our entire history. Let us remember the Pilgrim fathers who, fleeing from religious oppression, landed on a bleak, forbidding shore and began to carve out what became this great republic which it is our happy destiny to love and serve. For their foresight, their courage, and their idealism let us give happy destiny to love and serve. For their foresight, their courage, and their idealism let us give thanks to the power which has made and preserved us a nation. Humbly aware that we are a people greatly blessed, both materially and spiritually, let us pray this year not only in the spirit of thanksgiving but also as suppliants for God's guidance, to the end that we may follow the course of righteousness and be worthy of his favor. In Accordance With Joint Resolution Now, therefore, I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, in accordance with the joint resolution of Congress approved December 26. 1941, which designates the fourth Thursday in November of each year as Thanksgiving Day, do hereby proclaim this as a day of national thanksgiving. On tins day let all of us, of whatever creed, foregather in our re spective places of worship to give thanks to God and prayerful con templation to those eternal truths and universal principles of Holy Scripture wnicn nave inspired such measures of true greatness as this nation has achieved. And let us, as the beneficiaries of this greatness, give a good account of our stewardship by helping those in need and by rendering aid, through our religious organizations and by other means, to the ill, the .destitute, and the oppressed in Algerian Rebels Sow Death and Terror Algiers (U.R) Heavily armed rebel units raced through East Algeria's Soumman Valley today, sowing death and terror among the pro-French Moslem mountain folk. They overwhelmed self-defense groups armed by the French in the villages of Taourirt and Taazibt, perched high in the Ras Tara Tinzar Massif. Men Abducted as Hostages They ransacked the villages and abducted the men as hos tages. About 18 persons were missing, French officials said. The number of Moslem dead was not yet known. The army blocked both sides of the 100 mile long valley known as "The Valley of Death" since the rebels slaughtered 100 pro-French Moslems there in one day last April. The valley runs in a north westerly direction from the sea about 150 miles east of Algiers. Outposts throughout the terror stricken region were alerted to U.S. Officials Wait Kremlin Developmenf Washington (U.R) U.S. offi cials today awaited future de velopments in the Kremlin be fore giving any flat assessment of ex-Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov's new job as minister of state control. There have been recurring re ports of a jockeying for power inside the Soviet hierarchy, par ticularly over Moscow policy toward Eastern Europe's restive satellites. Rumors, and nothing more than that, have been heard that Molotov might be in line to suc ceed Soviet Communist Party Boss Nikita Khrushchev, and former Premier Georgia Malen kov might return as premier, succeeding Nikolai Bulganin. Of ficials, however, said they had no confirmation of these reports, which originated in France. Molotov has been regarded as the leader of the Kremlin wing which has questioned the Khrushchev-Bulganin non-Stalinist policies for the satellites. Threat of West Coast Dock Walkout Abated San Francisco U.R) The threat of a West Coast longshore strike abated today as union and employer representatives pre pared to resume negotiations on a wage increase. Noon Edition i,son peaceful purposes, bringing limit happiness both to ourselves and try to stop the rebels before they attack other hamlets. Verdun Hero Killed The rebels who no longer wage battle in the open also slew four Moslems in West Al geria, near the Oran department settlement of Picard. There, the rebels kidnapped Kadda Ahmed, 59, a veteran of the battle of Verdun who re ceived eight medals for bravery. and his three sons, and killed them with a burst of a tommy gun. Hearing Scheduled On Bus Firm Request A public hearing will be held at 9 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 6, in the Jackson county courthouse on an application filed with the public utilities commissioner to transfer a permit and operating privileges from the Valley Tran sit company, Inc., to Evergreen Bus line. ' ' Valley Transit company oper ates a regular schedule between Medford, the municipal airport, Camp White and Eagle Point. The permit would be transferred to Evergreen Bus lines, whicn operates runs between Medford, Jacksonville, Ashland and Cen tral Point and within the city of Medford. Henry J. Huber of the Ever green Bus lines filed an applica tion to acquire the transfer of permit with Charles H. Heltzel, commissioner. California Town Feels Sharp Quake Hollister, Calif. 0J.PJ A sharp, rolling quake shook Hol lister for 90 seconds today, send ing residents scattering to the sidewalks but causing no injur ies or damage. Residents of this San Benito county seat which sits atop of the Hayward fault, said it was the "hardest" jolt felt here in more than a year. The seismograph laboratory at the University of California was closed for the day and there was immediate Richter magni tude reading available of the quake which hit at 8:44 a.m. (PST). Chicago U.R) James Laurit sen spent Thanksgiving Day in jail for refusing to pay for the support of his estranged wife's five cats which dined on beef kidneys instead of the tradition al turkey. "Hold It, Men. That Last One Was KhrushcW Again" Forces Comply rVith UN United Nations, N. V. U.R Secretary-general Dag Hammars kjold today announced officially the initial compliance by Brit ain, France and Israel with the U.N. demand to withdraw their forces from Egypt. All three reported to Ham marskjold that they had pulled back part of their forces and were prepared to complete the action once full arrangements have been made for the U.N. Emergency Force to take over. Separate Reports Hammarskjold published the separate reports from the three powers with this comment: "At the present stage the secretary-general does not wish to present any observations con cerning the state of compliance reflected in the replies received. Nor does he find it to the purpose now' to discuss the views ex pressed on the circumstances under which compliance (with the cease fire and withdrawal resolution of the General As sembly) was to be established." Substance of the three re plies had been made public by the governments concerned Wednesday night. Hammarskjold also published a note to Israel expressing con cern about unrest and casualties in the Israeli-held Gaza Strip, where the bulk of 960.000 Arab refugees are quartered, and re peating a request that U.N. ob servers be stationed there. Israeli Foreign Minister Mrs. Golda Meier replied that "as I have explained to you, there is now complete tranquility in the area." But she said she was con sulting her government on the request for observers and hoped to have "an early reply." All three governments told him they had started activating Speed in Departure Of Soviet Envoy Urged Washington (U.R) The Senate Internal Security sub committee today urged the State Department to end the "unwar ranted delay" and speed the de parture of a Soviet diplomat ord ered to leave this country Oct. 29. The diplomat is Konstantin P. Ekimov, first secretary of the Russian UN delegation. The State Department ordered him to leave the United States after the subcommittee held hearings showing the Russian diplomat was involved in the departure of 2'4-year-old Tanya Chwas tov. Tanya, a U. S. citizen, was slipped aboard the liner Queen Mary Oct. 3 by her refugee fa ther, Alexi Chwastov. A State Department spokes man said "we fully expect Mr. Ekimov to leave by the end of the month." The subcommittee urged Eki mov's departure in a letter to Acting Secretary of State Her bert Hoover Jr. Weather FORECAST: Cltir this itter noon and tonight. VUy tot Fridav morninic, otherwise (air. HiEh today 55-58. Low tonight ZS. Hifh Friday 55. TEMP. Hirhett Yesterday SJ Lowest this Morning 23 Sunrise a-Tn- Sunset . 4:44 P-m- Moonrise 9:M p.m. Last Quarter Nov. 24 Our Skies Tonight BRIGHTEST STAR Sirius. rises .10:1S p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Mars, in the southwest at moon rise. Jupiter, low In east 2:13 a-ra. Venus, rises 4:36 a.m. and is the last "star" to MUe out In the mnrninr twilicht. Demand plans for withdrawal from Egypt. Britain said as evidence of its good faith, it is removing one battalion from Port Said. Reli able sources said France told Hammarskjold it was removing a third of its troops. Public Statement The Israeli reply was the only one made public in full Wednes day night. It said Israeli troops had been withdrawn "for vary- ing-distances" all along the Egyptian front. It did not specify how many troops were involved It said Israeli is strictly ob serving the cease fire despite Egyptian attempts to penetrate the line within the last two days Holiday Traffic Claims 46 Lives Chicago U.R) Americans observed Thanksgiving in pray er, but the festive occasion was marred in many homes by tragic holiday deaths of travelers en route for traditional family re unions. A United Press count siiowd 46 persons killed in traffic acci dents by 9 a.m. (PST). -Two deaths in a plane crash, and two more in fires brought the total holiday fatality count to 50. Illinois reported the worst single traffic accident. Five members of a family were killed and two youths seriously injured in a headon collision on U. S. 36 west of Springfield. Ohio and Pennsylvania each counted seven dead in traffic ac cidents. Illinois was next- with six, and Georgia and Michigan each rpporled four. The National Safety Council hoped the toll until midnight to night would fall below the 110 traffic deaths normal for "a non holiday Thursday in late-November. Icy and snow-packed roads were reported in many sections of the Midwest, a factor which the safety council hoped would help realize a lower traffic death toll. Civil Defense Rescue Institute Scheduled Santa Rosa, Calif. (U.R) Civil Defense officials from five West ern states will meet here on Nov. 26-27 to take part in a rescue institute, according to the Fed eral CD Western regional office. Regional Administrator Philip D. Batson said that the institute will present latest types of .light and heavy duty rescue measures for use in areas of mass, destruc tion cause by. enemy attack or natural disaster. Installation of Decorations Starts Friday Christmas decoration; on downtown Medford streets will be installed by city crews start ing Friday, according to Vern Thorpe, public works director. It is planned that installation of the decorations will be com pleted by Wednesday, "Nov. 28, Thorpe said. This 'will be in con junction with the formal open ing of the Christmas shopping season Wednesday nights when downtown- Medford business es tablishments will remain open. Streets on which Christmas decorations are usually installed include Main st.. Central ave. and Eighth and1 Bartlejt sts. The decorations were contributed and are maintained "by tfle Med lafl-lteriley Emergency Rower Will Be Invoke Q o O Fact-Finding Board Set Up Under Order Washington U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower today moved to end the crippling dock workers strike by invoking his emergency pgwers under 'the Taft-Hartley act. The President signed an ex ecutive of 5er setting up $ f act- iiiiauig Doara to determine whether the .veeek-long strike of the International Longshore men's AssociaHon ato Atlantic alid Gulf Coast ports constites a national emergency. If the board so finds, Mr. Ei senhower will direct Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. to seek an 80-day federal court in junction ordering the strikers back to work. ft was the third time that Mr. Eisenhower invoked hi emerg ency strike-ending powers. He moved against the same union in a 1953 Eai (joast dock tieup, and in 1954 ordered employees back to work at the atomic energy plant in pak Ridge, Tenn. Mr. Eisenhower signed the order this morninss- before he left the White House for Thanks giving Day church services. Board Calls Session In the order, he stated if tha strike continued it ould im peril the natioiuo health and safety. o The three-man board of in quiry set up by the President went into session at the Federal Mediation ana Conciliation Serv ice offices slrtly after the President signed the executive order. Federal officials said the group coficerVably could report:''' back to the White House Friday. The board, however, is Re quired to make a factual report to the President on issues in the dispute n or before Saturday, Nov. 24. If the board finds an emer gency exists, the President may ihen direct the attorney gener al to file an injunction which would pnjhibit' striking for as .long as go days.. .. - Board meribers appointed "by" the president are Thomas W. Holland, chairman, Arthur Stark and Jacob BIir. Holland is pro fessor of labor economics at George .Washington University here and a me,nlber of the Atom ic Energy commissJi's panel on labor. Stark, an outstanding la bor arbitrator, is the former ex ecutive fi rector of the New York Stat Mdiatii Service, and Blair is psofesor of business at the University of Pittsburgh. The group is not empowered to rrrake recommeida1ions for settlement of the tieup. The, administration generally has followedoa hands off policyO in labor-management strife. Dur ing the administration . of Presi dent Truman ,wen the act was passed over his veld, emejyncy powers were invoks4 by t e White House' 10 tinjps. Hagerty Releases Order White "House Press Sfcretary James C. Hagerty rfleased the0 executive order to reporters. He repeated tiK statement he Aade Monday which nted that the dock tie-up s serioSs and has q repercussitws which spread far beyond the maritime i.(ustr. Hagerty also repeated the hope thatboth labor a-i man agement will "recognize their oblations to he country and the puftic an6 will resolve their private differences across tlO bargaining table . ." Cleveland (U.R) The Cleve land N,wsiap? Publishers As sociation has refthed a teiatfc agreement with the Igst of ignt craft unions, clearing the way for r,eSumrion ot publication by the city's ths-eedaily news Ijapers. a . Eugene (U.R) Establish ment of a new branch of the First Nationai Bank of Porfiand in the Willakenzie arfla north east of Eugene, ehs been aft nounced. Christmas ford Retail Mercnants associa tion, .o . Stjres will Yf. open until 9 p.m. each evening in the down tovfn area from Dec. 17 to 22, according to Sthe Retail Mer chants association. o Also scheduled for Vfednes iay is the fourle aiiua? Christ mas opening pSrde starting at b:ju p.m. in Hawthorne park with theSanta Claus float lead jng it. It is being sporred by the Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with the merchants association. Those interested in entering floats in the0parde are asked to contact o3ill jframeg, PJaycee president anS parade chairman, by telephoning 2-6209.
