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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.
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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.
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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.