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0 o 0 9 G3 O O ri Nl t4 jf Ml o i ' sir-. v hi idiq s o STALLING TRAFFIC over vast area, four feet of snow maroons hundreds of automo biles at Springville, N. Y. Stalled cars were left by deer hunters. (International) Oregon Highway Crashes Kill Seven; Scy Conditions Blamed By UNITED PRESS Winter driving conditions in many sections of Oregon sent the week end highway traffic death list soaring with at least seven persons killed on Oregon highways. Another four Oregon residents lost their lives in Wash ington accidents and three more died in northern California Jimmie Marti, 15. Berkeley, Calif., was injured fatally when the car driven by his father, Wil liam, skidded on ice and crashed into a bridge railing about 25 miles north of Madras. State po lice said the boy apparently was thrown from the car.' Mr. and Mrs. Marti .were hospitalized at Madras. Killed Near Boteburg Killed on the Umpqua road three miles west of Roseburg ' yesterday was Andrew E. Pal mer. 31, of Roseburg. Police said his car crashed into a ditch and a power pole when he swerved to avoid colliding with an on coming car. Four persons were killed and two others suffered serious in jury early Saturday in two sep arate accidents on the same icy spot on Highway 99 six miles south of Canyonville. State police identified the dead as John Leroy Ambuehl, 20, Den nis W. Esteep, 20, both of Port land; Enoch Alexander Krodn, 72 and his daughter Anna Kroon, 43, both of Seattle. Ambuehl and Esteep were killed sometime between mid night and 2 a.m. The wreckage of their car was not discovered until Saturday morning when the second car plunged to the bottom of the 188-foot deep can yon where their car ty. Crescent Women Killed Mrs. Robert Baxter, 23, of Crescent, Ore., was found dead early Saturday about 30 feet from her wrecked car on High wav 97, two miles north of Gil christ. Police said the vehicle apparently left the highway and crashed into a tree, throwing the victim from the auto. Three Oregon residents were killod.in week end accidents in Washington and a fourth died of injuries received in an earlier crash. Vaughn H. Shelton. 46. Port land, was killed in an accident near Scouim. Wash., that also took the life of James L. Beller, 29. of Sequim. Ronald Rex Gibbs of Joseph. Ore., was killed when his car failed to make a curve and crash- Weather FORECAST: rlr thrnuih Ttirs rtv with patrh of morning foe. Low tcmlfht -2J.- HUH ... Frldy ii. Trmp. HirbfU Mtff(!v . S5 Unt this morninj 21 Ou Skies Tonight Sunri'-e 1:13 .m. 4:2 p.m. Stinpt MnAnriir Tuesdav 2:24 .m. w moon Satnrdmy ninht PROMINENT STABS: RMWRfUs. low in fast B:Hp.m. Procvnn. low In east - 9:19 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS: -Mars, in the southwest 9:53 p.m. Jupiter, above the moon. Venus, rises 4:45 .m. Western Democrats Seek Stronger Voice in Party Washington U.R) Western Demi5fcrats today demanded a large voice in Democratic party affaies and more emphasis on Wcstefti needs. Want Voice More Audible Calvin Rawlings. Salt Lake Civ, a -.member of the Execu tive .omrjiittee of the Democrat ic National committee, told newsmen: "We want to make t'ne oice 6f the-West more aud ible" in party circles. f.iC committee met for- the first time since the Nov. 6 elec tion. Rawlings said in an interview before the meeting that he and V a V ' , -Oil ed out of control on Highway 99 about eight miles east of Bing en. Wash. Sam Stigers, 53, of Curtin, Ore., was killed yesterday when the car in which is was a passen 'ger collided with another vehicle about three miles north of Cen tralis, Wash. Two other persons in the car were injured. Driver of the car in which Stigers was riding was Charles Brown, 65, of Cottage Grove. Alfred Carlson, 45, of Port land, died inan Olympia hospital Appeal Made for U.S., Britain To End Rift United Nations, N.Y. U.R) Australia appealed today to the United States and Britain to mend their diplomatic rift "for the good of the whole demo cratic world." Australian External Affairs Minister R. G. Casey made the appeal in the Middle East de bate of the U.N. General Assem bly. The assembly was hearing explanation of votes on two reso lutions approved Saturday. One deals with arrangements for the international police force and clearing the blocked Suez canal. The second repeats the U.N. call to Britain, France and Israel to get their troops out of Egypt "forthwith." . -.. "This Middle East situation," Casey told the assembly, "has obliged us all to do some serious thinking about things wo previ ously have taken for granted. "We cannot afford to continue: to paper over the cracks in the United Nations I speak of rela tions between the United States of America and the United Kingdom. "British-American relations do not affect only the United King dom and the United States. They affect 90 per cent of the non- Three Youths Injured In Vehicle Accident Three Jackson county students were injured Saturday morning when their car hit an icy spot on the Tiller-Trail highway north of Drew and rolled into a can yon, relatives reported this morning. Bill Caldwell, Eagle Point, sophomore at Pacific university and driver of the car. suffered cuts on the head. His sister, Sandra, received a broken collar bone and Georgia Mason, Shady Cove, several broken ribs, it was reported. The car was badly damaged. They were brought to Rogue Valley hospital where they were treated and released. Miss Cald well and Miss Mason, seniors and yell leaders for Eagle Point High school, were en route to Salem to attend the Eagle Point-Silver-ton semi-final championship football game. Young Caldwell and his sister are the son and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Caldwell, Dutton road, Eagle Point. California National committee man Paul Ziffren want approval for a Western conference of Democrats to meet in Los Ange les or San Francisco either be fore January or after the con gressional recess next fall. For Western Leaders He said the conference would include party leaders of 11 west ern states, national committee men, state chairmen, members of Congress and governors. Rawlings said the meeting "would help get over projects that are helpful to the West" such as public power, reclama tion and agriculture. t mi mi V i 'J of injuries received on Nov. 14 when his automobile failed to make a curve in Tumwater, south of Olympia. In addition, three members of a Klamath Falls family were killed about 35 miles south of Klamath Falls in northern Cali fornia last night when their car and a produce truck collided. The victims were John Soto, 34; a son, John Jr., 2. and a daughter Evelyn, about 10. Three other members of the family were hos pitalized. Communist countries of , the world. ..." It was the second time Austra lia had appealed to the United States and Britain to get togeth er. Casey made a similar appeal last week. While the assembly plodded through what one Arab delegate referred to as "a post mortem ot Saturday's--debate,'' Secretary G en era 1 JDagHammarskjold plunged into plans for getting all foreign troops out of Egypt and putting the blocked Suez canal back into operation. Several to Attend Victory Dinner More than 25 Jackson county Democrats have made reserva tions for the state-wide Demo cratic Victory dinner to be held at the Salem armory Saturday. Dec. 1, according to Larry Shee han, county Democratic .central committee chairman. He said a number of others indicated they plan to attend. The dinner, scheduled for 6:30 p.m., will be preceded by a gov ernor's reception to be given from 5 to 6 p.m. by Gov.-Elect and Mrs. Robert D. Holmes at the Marion hotel. Sen. and Mrs. Wayne L. Morse, Rep.-Elect and Mrs. Albert Ullman and other recently elected Democratic of ficials will be in the reception line. Tickets Available Tickets for the dinner, which include printed invitations to the reception, may be obtained in Jackson county from Sheehan, Mrs. Edward C. Kelly, Mrs. Al bert Straus, Robert A. Boyer and others. A caravan of cars will be formed locally for those wishing rides to the event, Sheehan said. He advised all interested to con tact party heads or those holding tickets before Thursday pf this week. Norway UN Police Force in Port Said , London U.R) Norwegian forces of the U.N. police army took up patrol duty in Porf Said today in the first actual move to take over from the British and French occupation troops and hasten their . withdrawal from Egypt. The Anglo-French command announced today it had cleared a sunken dredge from the har bor mouth leading into the Sue; canal, permitting passage of the 10.000-ton Liberty ship size. It will speed the arrival of U.N. Emergency forces, the first of whom to arrive by sea will be 700 troops from Communist Yugoslavia. They will pass through Port Said to an as yet undisclosed destination. Bulletin Greenwich, Conn. (U.PJ Tommy Dorsey, famed band leader, was found dead ia hii home here today. He was 51 ytan old. r 51st Year Medi United Press Pull Leasee 16 Pages Fears lor Safety Of Mindszenty Seen In Kadar Blasts No Response Seen By Hungarian Strikers Vienna (U.PJ New attacks by Hungarian Communists on Josef Cardinal Mindszenty and the United States fomented new fears here today for the safety of the Roman Catholic prelate of Hungary. Mindszenty, who was released by Hungarian freedom fighters after eight years in Commu nist captivity, took refuge in the U. S. Legation when Soviet tanks and troops launched their surprise offensive on Budapest Nov. 4. In Grip of Strike Hungary remained in the para lyzing grip of a "total strike." There were few indications workers would respond to the mixture of threats and promises voiced by the Soviet-backed Janos Kadar regime. Kadar's promises, including broadening of the government to include non-Communists, all hinged on an end to the strike and restora tion of "peace and order." The official Hungarian Com munist government newspaper Nep Szbadsag Sunday accused Mindszenty of being a tool of the "reactionary forces" in Hun gary. It was the most bitter at tack against the Cardinal since his release during the early stages of the anti-Communist revolution. A charge that the United States had advance knowledge of the anti-Communist rebellion in Hungary and in fact helped to foment it was made bv Kadar. Kadar said a statement by Allan W. Dulles, "head of American intelligence and brother of the secretary of state," indicated that "not only indignant students" participated in the uprisings. Kadar did not cite the alleged statement. ' Fear Long Confinement . Sources here feared Minds zenty may be confined indefin itely within the U. S. legation in Budapest, which is protected by diplomatic immunity. The Soviet-imposed Kadar re gime, however, already has indi cated its contempt of interna tional law in the kidnaping and arrest of former Premier Imre Nagy. Kadar insisted again that Nagy asked for asylum in Romania. He made no mention of the fact that the government betrayed safe conduct pledge given Nagy before he left refuge in the Yugoslav asylum. The Romanian government professed no knowledge of Nagy's arrival. One West Berlin newspaper said he was flown to Moscow to stand trial as a traitor. Refugees Pledged Continued U.S. Help Washington (U.PJ President Eisenhower today denounced Russia's forced exiling of thou sands of Hungarians as "shock ing" and pledged continued U.S. help to refugees and Hungarians remaining in their oppressed homeland. z He made the statement in welcoming 12 Hungarian refu gees to this country. He received them at the White House shortly before flying to Augusta, Ga., for a vacation. "Recently . . . the news from your country was particularly disturbing and shocking." Mr. Eisenhower told them. "Many thousands of your people have been taken from their homes by force and sent into exile at bayonet point. "This is the ultimate tyranny can do to a people. I want to tell you that this country not only resents it deeply but we will never agree that this is le kind of thing one country may do in justice to another." Shrine Ceremony Honors Potentate at Eugene Eugene ill.P.) More than 1200 Shriners from all parts of the Northwest and Canada were in Eugene over the week end as the Hillah Temple honored this year's potentate. Dr. George F. Guldager, the first Eugene man to hold the office since 1946. The order initiated 48 new members during the week end ceremonial. 5K3Sn3 BOS ,sv Record-Breaking Flight Of B52s Warn Russians Washington U.R) A group of B52 jet bomb ers have demonstrated with record - breaking, non-stop flights of up to 16,000 miles that they could strike deep within Russia from bases in this country and return. The Air Force put on the demonstration over the week end, keeping eight of the giant jet bombers aloft for periods ranging from 26 to 31 hours. The flights, covering from 13,500 to 16,000 miles, were the longest ever made by the planes that will carry the H-bomb if it ever has to be used. The Air Force called the flights a "routine training mission." But it went out of its way to publicize them even though it usually keeps flights of the Strategic Air Command bombers highly secret. Demonstration Warning to Russia. The demonstration obviously was a warning to Russia of the intercontinental striking power of the S8 million B52. The flights were more than twice the approximate 5,000-mile distance from U.S. air bases to the Soviet Union. The B52s, which have a range of 6,000 miles, Russians Block Western Allied Train From Berlin Berlin (U.R) The Soviets have blocked passage of a West ern Allied train from Berlin to the West for the first time jince the Berlin blockade was lifted, a British spokesman said today. The spokesman said the So viets at the East-West German bprdcr refused to allow the British military train to enter West Germany and sent it back J10 miles to Berlin. - The train was refused passage because of "new documentation procedure s," the spokesman said. Earlier, an American spokes man said the American military train traveling to Berlin from West Germany was held up by the Soviets today at the East West border for two hours be fore it was allowed to pass. It was such interference with Western Allied military trains that led to the 1948-49 blockade of Berlin. The Western Allied ambassa dors in Bonn today discussed the new Soviet interference and in Berlin Western allied officials discussed the matter with the Soviets. Neither the Americans nor the British would say just what new travel documents the Soviets re quired or what restrictions they wished to impose. Two Plead Guilty To Grand Larceny David Walker Laflin, 1032 Cherry st., Medford, and Jack T. Stallsworth. 106 Lincoln St., Medford, pleaded guilty to dis trict attorney's information in circuit court this morning on charges of grand larceny. They were arrested last Mon day while carrying a safe from Cubby's Drive-In restaurant. Laflin and Stallsworth, who appeared before judge H. K. Hanna, will be held pending the arrival of FBI reports. Also appearing in circuit court was Claron William Henderson, 124 Tripp st., Medford, who was paroled on good behavior from county jail. He was arrested with John Earl Simon and accused of'set ing off a stick of dynamite in a pump house on Old Stage rd. July 3. He was sentenced Aug. 24 to serve a year in the county jail. Window Smashing Spree Investigated at Safem Salem (U.PJ Police today were investigating an epidemic of window smashing which saw a business firm and seven homes victimized here over the past week end. The vandalism was accom plished by rock throwing, offic ers said. DOW JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 470.29, off 2.27: 20 rail roals 153.23, off 0.93; 15 utilities 66.37, up 0.02. and 65 stocks 167.09, off 0.69. Sales today were about 2,230,000 shares com pared with 1,880,000 shares Friday. T T IfeTRIBUNE 'MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1956 Moscow Joins Egypt In Attack on U.S. London (U.R) Moscow joined Egypt today in attacking the United States' stand on the Suez Canal dispute. The canal, however, was not the only center of discord in the troubled Middle East. Syria and Iraq, both allied with Egypt in the Canal dispute, exchanged angry words among themselves over the week end. Syria accused Iraq of "collu sion" with Israel against her and of supplying arms to would- be revolutionaries in Syria. There were predictions that Syria, with arms supplied by Russia, would move new forces into tiny, neighboring Jordan to forestall a similar move by Iraq. The United States found it self the man in the middle in the Suez Canal dispute, under verbal attack by Moscow and Cairo and criticized by British Conservatives, its normal allies in Britain. Blasts at America Conservative member of Par liament, F. A. Burton suggested in a speech that with the "un witting cooperation of America," U.N. Secretary - General Dag Hammarskjold had made a deal with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser which would throw "not only the British but Western interests down the canal." But opposition leader Hugh Gaitskell again decried the blow to Anglo-American cooperation and called again for withdrawal of Anglo-French forces from the canal in accordance with a U.N. resolution. Radio Moscow charged that the United States is "conniving" to keep the Anglo-French forces in Egypt. It cites as proof U.S. support of a U.N. resolution which omitted mention of "grave con- Ike in Augusta For 10 Days of Rest Augusta, Ga. (U.R) President Eisenhower flew here from Washington today for a week or 10 days of golf and rest. The presidential plane Colum bine landed at the Augusta Air port after a two-hour flight from the nation's capital. The weather was warm and sunny as the President .and his party arrived. The Augusta trip is Mr. Eisenhower s first vaca tion since August. Mr. Eisenhower went to church services Sunday at the National Presbyterian Church, then re turned to the White House for a conference on the situation in the Middle East and Central Europe. OSC Winter Term Registration Delayed Corvallis (U.R) In order to give students ample time to return safely from the Rose Bowl game in Pasadena, winter term registration at Oregon State college will be delayed two days. Oregon State plays Iowa at the Rose Bowl Jan. 1. Registration has been post poned until Friday and Satur day, Jan. 4 and 5. Classes begin Monday, Jan. 7. t Price 10c United Press Pull Leased Wire No. 212 were refuled in the air by tanker planes. The Air Force would not say how many times they were refueled. During the demonstration, one group of four B52s took off from Loring Air Force base in Maine and another from Castle Air Force base in California. Both circled the northern United State and Canada carrying out simulated bomb ing attacks, and all but two returned to their home bases. Test New Plan for Civilian Airporti "Those two landed at Friendship airport in Baltimore, testing a new Air Force plan to use civilian airports as dispersal points for its planes in case of enemy attack. The pilots of these two B52s received their instructions to land at Baltimore during their flight and without advance warning. It was the first time a plane the size of the 140-ton, eight jet B52 had landed there. The runways proved long enough even though the planes had to use their parachute arresting gear to help bring them to a quick-enough stop. The bombers flew at altitudes of above 35,000 feet at average speeds of 500 miles per hour. ' cern" that Britain, France and Israel still maintained their forces in Egypt. Violence Reported Meanwhile, Israel reported that Arab Fedayeen night raid ers had blown up a well.. near Telavia early today, injuring one person, and that a vehicle had been blown up by a land mine. In Cairo, the Middle East News Agency reported that -an Egyptian reconnaisance patrol penetrated about 33 miles into Sinai Desert positions still held by "Zionist gangs." Also in Cairo it was reported Egypt will reject an American proposal to start clearing the Suez Canal while British and French troops are withdrawing from Port Said. Gathering Honors Congressman-Elect About 70 Jackson county resi dents Saturday evening attended a social gathering at the Marc Norton home in Phoenix in hon or of Charles O. Porter, Eugene, new Democratic congressman elect for the fourth district. The session climaxed Porter's last official visit in this area be fore assuming his duties in Washington, D. C. He will leave next week for Washington to find a home for himself, Mrs. Porter and their four children. Porter also made visits Saturday in Josephine county. Most of the guests were Dem ocratic party members who as sisted in Porter's campaign, in cluding Larry Sheehan, Jackson county Democratic central com mittee chairman. Mr. and Mrs. Norton were in charge of Por ter's local campaign. A buffet dinner was served to guests who arrived and left at various intervals between 5:30 and 8 p.m. No formal speeches were made during the evening. "This Is Strictly An Internal Matter AnSong Us Doves" Sudden Change in Wind Sends Flamex. Roaring in Raving Bodies of Victims Taken To San Diego Ramona, Calif. (U.RWEleverP firefighters were burned to death Sunday night ween a sud den wind change whipped flames into a ravine nwhiyh they were battling a 35,000-acre brush and timber fire, the"or est Service reported. Bodies of the victims were re moved to the coroners office in San Diego and next of kin noti fied. The victims were Fortst Serv ice officers Albert Anderson and Forest Maxwell of the Shasta Trinity National forest and Carl ton Lingo of the Descanso dis trict of the Cleveland National forest; Viejas Honor Camp guard Leroy Wehrung and prisoners Jo seph O'Hara, Miles Daniels, Joe Tibbetts, L o n n i e Shepherd, George Garcia, Virgil Hamilton, and William Fallin. Ages and home addresses of the victims were not immediate ly available. Q Ten Flee to Safety Ten men, six of them prison ers, fled to safety when the ill fated crew was trapped by flames in the Ritchie creek area of Cleveland Nations!- forest in San , Diego county, according to Walter Puhn, forest supervisor. The tragedy occurred on the north line of the fire about eight miles east of here where the blaze remained out of control today. James G. Reed, supervisor of the camp, was a member of a crew which brought out the bod ies today. Didn't Have Chance "It was extremely rough ter rain and I don't believe the men had a chance when the wind changed," Reed said. "The.were trapped in a ravine and unable to get out in time." The six survivors were not in jured. They were being returned to the prison honor camp. It took several hours to reach the victims The bodies ere car ried out on litters to a highway where ambulances removed them to a morgue in nearby San Diego. "I don't see how the other men go; out," a Forest Service spokesman said. "The entire area was red hot even when we arrived some hours after fire swept the area." The Forest Service said the men were working in a steep re mote section of fire line Sunday night when winds reaching 50 miles an hour shifted and trapped the crew. 12 Homes Destroyed The crew was part of 1.600 firefighters battling one of Cali fornia's worst brush and timber fires on record.- The fire already has blackened more than 30.000 acres and destroyed 12 homes. The blaze broke out Satur day in the Cleveland National Forest. Tricky winds, which reached gusts of 100 miles an hour Sunday, have made fire fighting operations "touch and go," the Forest Service said. Four ranch hemes were de stroyed and eight homes burned on two Indian reservations. The fire was beljeved to have started on the Inaja Indian Reservation when an electrical applnce In a home shorted out. More than 100 persons were evacuated from the Barona Indian Reser vation Saturday night. o I jlj ' f:l ft o "6 O O
