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o O o o " O cO o O Russan ' t 1 . o o : s : ! rr '. " ra lJM "P- '"wrs JrWil CM M t ' I Is n CRASH KILLS 32 Rescue workers sift through the still sraoking wreckage of an Ital ,fcm airliner which crashed and burned a short distance from'Orly Held near Paris. The plane Seven Contractors Submit Bids (or Howard Dam Job ' Seven firms submitted bids for construction of Howard Prai rie dam, part of the Talent proj ect. Bids were opened thisunorn ing at the bureau of reclamation Camp White office. R. A. Keintz Consttuction company of Portland submitted a bid of $1,074,345. Other bids were submitted by Green Con struction company, Seattle, $1, 226,469; John Delphi and Wil liam Burrows, Patterson Calif., $1,248,113.20; O. K. Mittry and Son, Gardenia. Calif., $1,330, 712.50; C. W. Montag and Son, Portland, $1,449,520; Cheff, San key and Birch, Seattle, $1,463, 757; and Peter Kiewit and Sons, Medford, $1,978,799. Engineer's estimate of ihe work was $944,533. Forwarded to Denver Bids will be forwarded to the Denver, Colo., office for consid eration and awarding the con tract. The contract is expected to be awarded about the first of the year, bureau ft reclamation of ficials said. The dam will be built on Bea ver creek -north of Little Chin quapin mountain in the Green Springs. It will provid storage for 60,500 acre feet of water in Howard Prairie reservoir. The dam will be about 940 feet long and will require about 186, 000 cubic yards of earth fill and 204.000 cubic feet of. rock fill. The core will be concrete con struction 90 feet high. It will be equipped with outlet to the Howard Prairie delivery canal and a spillway. Bids on the first section of the delivery canal will be opened next month. a Work already has started on Dcadwood tunnel, the first phase of the $21 miilion project. Lord Brothers contractors of Portland was awarded the contract for the tunnel. Labor's Legislative Program Outlined Portland (U.R) J. D. Mc Donald, president of the Oregon State Labor Council, last night outlined before the Portland Cen tral Labor Council organized la bor's legislative program for the 1957 session. He said labor's objectives weuld include improvements in industrial accident and unem ployment laws, better safety codes and w?lat he called a "fair" tax program. He did not elabor ate on the precise form the tax program would take. The labor council also learn ed that 18 Portland upholstery firms had granted pay increases to 29 members of the unholstcr ers' union local, giving Jhem a basic scale of S!.4i'i. Fringe benefits would raise he actual base to $2.74'i. according to Al Beccher. secretars of the local. Western Allied Military Trains 'Allowed in Berlin Berlin (U.R! The Soviets . al lowed Westwn Allied military trams to pass to and -from isolated Berlin without -incident t"day. Newsman Ejected . The Soviets banned a west Jitmnd Briti train from passing fie Cist-West border Monday -nd delayed the U.S. Berlin-'-Tuni t-auv8 for two hours be cause it was carrying an Ameri can newspaperman The Army ejcctfJ the neSvsman from the train, e a . Jhe Russians imposed new re Arttions " on military train Christmas Parade Set In Medford Tomorrow The -fourth annual Christmas parade, sponsored by the Med ford Junior Chamber of Com merce, will start at 6:30 p.m. to morrow at Hawthorne park. The parade, sponsored in con junction with the Medford Re t a il Merchants association, marks the "official" opening of the Christmas shopping season. Street decorations, which were UMC Reaches 93 Per Cent of Goal The United Medford Crusade has reached 93 per cent of its $117,175 goal during the 1956 campaign, Sam Hcrsh, general chairman, reported today. Collections and pledges thus far total $109,01)0. Returns from some industries in the area are expected at next Monday's re port meeting;- Hersh said, and he expressed hope that the cam paign may reach 100 per cent then. The campaign will close of ficially Saturday, Dec. 15. It started Sept. 24. Funds collected during the campaign are budgeted to 25 agencies in Medford and Ore gon. The over-all budget of the' Crusade this year vis 7',i per cent above the goal last year, when $114,353.75 was collected. Hersh said several campaign divisions have pledged or con tributed more than 100 per cent of their allotment, while other divisions have been below ex pected collections. Fogf Ice Menace Drivers in Oregon Salem (U.R) The Oregon Highway Department today warned motorists again to be ware of fog and icy conditions on major routes throughout the state. Highway maintenance crews warned that heavy fog and ice conditions existed north of Bend on Highway 97. Fog also was reported at Warm Springs junction, Tillamook, Eugene, Roseburg, Grants Pass, Medford, Cave Junction, Sisters, Ontario, John Day, Austin and Seneca. Treacherous ice spots were re ported by highway sanding crews at Warm Springs junction, Wil son River summit. Sunset sum mit. Astoria. Tillamook, Salmon river, Detroit, Bend Santiam pass Ochoco summit, Meacham, Austin and Seneca. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 470.18, off 0.11; 20 rail roads 152.98. off 0.25: 15 utili ties 66.08. off 0.29, and 65 stocks 166.86, off 0.23. Sales today were about 2.130.000 shares compared with 2.320,000 shares Monday. travel through the Soviet zone last week but Western officials here refused to disclose what they were. There were signs the Western powers were complying with new restrictions, at least to some extent. Newspapermen Banned An American official here said that "for the time being." American newspapermen ac credited to the Army stationed in West Germany would not be allowed to travel on the train. He said, however, newsmen who in Berlin could use the train. had just taken off for New York. Of the 34 persons aboard, only two were dragged from the blazing plane alive. installed by city and California Oregon Power company crews late last week, will be illuminat ed. Bill Kramer, president of the Medford Jaycees and parade chairman, said Santa Claus will lead the parade and distribute candy to children. About 40 or ganizations in Jackson county have indicated they plan to en ter floats in the parade, and Kramer said any organization may enter. There is no deadline, he said. West on Main Street The parade will start at Haw thorne park, proceed west on Main st. to Holly St., north to Sixth St., south to Eighth st., east to Bartlett St., north to Main st., and east to Hawthorne park. A total of 13 cash prizes will be awarded for the best floats, Kramer said. Persons or groups interested in entering floats may contact Kramer by telephoning Medford 2-6208.' - - Medford stores will remain open until 9 p.m. each Wednes day night, until Christmas and every night between Dec. 17 and Dec. 22, for convenience of Christmas shoppers. Hungarian Refugee Bodies Said Seen Eisenstadt,' Austria (U.R) Hungarian refugees reaching freedom here today said they saw at least 20 bodies of would be escapees who were shot and killed by Communist border guards. The Hungarians said they saw the bodies in the fields near Bucsu, Hungary, opposite the Austrian border village of Rech nitz. They said their fleeing coun trymen apparently were shot only a few hundred feet inside Hungarian territory. They said the Russians for bade local Hungarian authorities to bury the bodies in order to "deter other Hungarians from escaping to Austria." Peterson Leaves lor Washington, D.C. Eugene K. Peterson, district forester for the bureau of land management, was to leave by plane today for Washington, D.C, where he will assist with preparation of materials regard ing the proposal to lift all mar keting area restrictions in the sale of O & C timber. The senate interior commit tee has recommended discontin uance of the restrictions. The restrictions require lumber mills to be located within the market ing area in which a timber sale is made in order to be eligible to bid on it. Peterson expects to remain in Washington for about a month. Eastland in Hawaii To Investigate Reds Honolulu U.R) Sen. James O. Eastland (D.-Miss.) arrived here today to head a subcommit tee investigation of Communist activity in Hawaii. No demonstrators represent ing Harry Bridges' longshore union were on hand as Eastland landed in a Military Air Trans port Service plane at Hickham field. The union has threatened demonstrations when the hear ings open Friday. "I have had professionals aft er me before and demonstrations do not mean much," Eastland said. , Former Freedom iqhters Arrested In Big Crackdown First Two Candidates For Trials Announced Vienna U.R) A wave of ar rests was reported from Hun gary today in the- wake of So viet sponsored puppet Premier Janos Kadar's announced crack down orf "criminals and counter revolutionaries." Reports reaching Vienna said Hungary's puppet government was losing no time in putting its new "tough" policy into ef fect. Arrests of former "free dom fighter" leaders were re ported underway all over the country. Returning diplomats reported the crackdown was. started even before Kadar told the nation in a radio broadcast Monday night: "I solemnly declare that all criminals and counter-revolutionaries will be sought out and put on trial." Soldiers Arrested Kadar himself announced the first two candidates for triai. He named them as journalist Miklos Gimes and writer Andras Szandor, both, recognized as "Titoists." In the countryside, the Rus sians arrested the entire 600 man Hungarian Army garrison of Hegyeshalam, near the Aus trian frontier. Soldiers were charged with supporting the freedom fighters by helping refugees to find a safe route to freedom across the Iron Curtain border. Premier Kadar was riding roughshod over the disheartened leaders of the uprising regard less of the effect on the striking workers. He thus showed signs that he considered the revolt was thoroughly quelled and his Red dictatorship was back in the arcver s seat. The Hungarian man in the street already has rejected the government version that Imre Nagy. the popular "freedom pre mier," went -to Romania at his own request. He also did not accept Kadar's view that Nagy was guilty of an "unforgiveable crime" in permitting "reaction aries" to murder Communists such as members of the hated AVH secret police. Workers Drift Back Kadar, backed by the Work ers Council of Greater Buda pest, was claiming that the four-wcek-old general strike was vir tually over. In effect, the claim appeared true, since workers were drifting back to the fac tories and mines under the pres sure of bitter cold and hunger. But production remained para lyzed by lack of fuel and power. Kadar said "reactionary ru mors" and workers' demands for wage raises also were "hamper ing" the return to work. He said it was impossible to meet the "just" wage claims at pres ent but that the government would do something about them "once order is restored." . Magic Phrase ' Kadar was pinning ever pos sible improvement, including a "broadening" of his government to include non-Communists, to the magic phrase "when order is restored." Budapest Radio cited the trade union newspaper NEP Akarat today as saying that "the majority" of factories pro ducing consumer goods were back in operation. The newspaper said mildly that "a number" of factories were idle for lack of power. Among these it cited all the plants in industrial Szeged, south of Budapest. Portland Man Held For Beating Daughter Portland (U.R) Glen Den essen, 34-year-old longshoreman, was booked in the county jail on an assault and battery charge yesterday after his 13-year-old daughter, Janet, claimed he had beaten her. Bail was set at $3000. The girl, who had bruises on her face, told authorities she had received numerous beatings and that her head had been held under water. A report by authorities indi cated the girl had been punish ed for not doing up her clothes properly or not doing her house work well. The girl told investigators she had been given two peanut but ter sandwiches for Thanksgiving dinner while the rest of the family had turkey. 51st Y, Me United Preis--ulJ ceased Wire 28 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1956 : No. 213 Venezuela-Bound Airliner Crashes Near Destination All 25 Persons On Board Killed Caracas, Venezuela U.R) A Venezuelan four-engine Constel lation airliner en route from New York to Caracas crashed into a mountain 10 miles from a safe landing here today. Airline officials said all 25 persons on board were killed. The plane left New York's Idlewild International airport Monday night. It was due at the Caracas Maiquetia International airport Monday night. It was due at the Caracas Maiquetia In ternational airport early today. But it hit a mountain peak in the Naiguata range, 10 miles north of Caracas, as it came in for a landing in rain and a thick overcast. Officials of LAV, Linea Aero postal Venezolana, in New York said the Constellation carried 18 passengers and seven crewmen. The passengers included 10 Americans, six Venezuelans, a German and a Cuban. It was raining and there was low overcast at Caracas about the time the plane was due. But officials said the weather was not considered "dangerous" for flying operations. When the aircraft failed to ar rive on schedule, LAV put out an air alert. Later, it was re ported the plane hit a peak in the Naiguata mountain range 10 miles north of Caracas. The U.S. Coast Guard in New York and San Juan, Puerto, Rico, said the plane sent out an international distress call today. At that time, the plane gave its position as over the Caribbean sea 35 miles northwest of the Maiquetia airport at Caracas. The Coast Guard said an am phibious plane from San Juan, a Navy plane believed to be from' Trinidad, a privately owned Venezuelan DC3 and two Royal Netherlands Air Force planes from Curacao were sent to the area to make a search. Radio reports intercepted in Miami, Fla., said the plane was last heard from when it was only 35 miles northeast of Mai quetia airport at Caracas. The disaster was the second this year for the Venezuelan air line. An LAV super Constella tion fell flaming into the Atlan tic ocean June 21, 32 miles east of Asbury Park, N.J., killing all 74 persons aboard. Navy Planes Collide In Air; Piof s Die Raymondville, Tex U.R) , Two Navy trainer planes col lided in flight 17 miles north of Raymondville today and went down in flames, killing both pilots. Officers at Cabaniss Field, Corpus Christi, disclosed that the planes and student pilots were from there. The planes were propeller-driven AD Sky raiders. Officers withheld the identity of the victims until after their next of kin are notified. ' Nehru-Eisenhowei Talks Expected at Gettysburg New Delhi U.R) Indian press reports said today the planned talks between Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and President Eisenhower are likely to take place at the President's Gettysburg farm Dec. 17-19. The reports said Nehru would return to Washington after the talks and then proceed to New York to confer with U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammar skjold. Weather FORFCAST: Vallry foe tonicht and Wednesday morn inf. other wie . variable, cloudiness through tVednesdav. Low to night 2$. Hith Wednesday 50. Temp. Hithest Yesterday 54 Lowest this Morning ... 24 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise - . 7:17 Sunset 4:42 Moonrise Wednesday 3:31 a.m. p.m. a.m. f KU.mINEM STARS Atdebaran, rises 5:39 Spica. near the Moon. VISIBLE PLANETS Mars, due south 7:29 Jupiter, low in east 1:5 - Venus, between Spica and Sun. p.m. a.m. the sess 210 o "I Wasn't Beaten ISP ?S ;7 i . 1 Check Asked on Suez Buildup by United Nations, N.Y. 'U.R) India's V. K. Krishna Menon asked Secretary - general Dag Hammarskjold today to obtain immediate assurances from France that it is. not reinforcing its forces in the Suez Canal Zone. Krishna Menon made the re quest after Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi read to the U.N. General Assembly a press report that French tanks were being landed at Port Said in violation of the world organ ization's repeated demands for the withdrawal of British, French and Israeli forces from Egypt. , "I ask leave to read a cable I have now," Fawzi said, "which says that the French . Defense Ministry spokesman in Paris to day refused to confirm or deny this press report." He attributed the Paris cable to United Press. Published in London The dispatch in question quot ed a report in the Socialist Daily Herald in London that a "com plete French tank regiment" had landed at the northern end of the canal. The paper said it was part of a "huge Anglo-French buildup." The French Defense Ministry refused to confirm or deny the report and the British Defense Ministry said it had no information on it.. The re port did not appear in other British newspapers. "My delegation," Krishna Men on said, "has no desire to accept this news report as factual, but on the other hand, in view of Eugene Area Police Hunt for Bank Robber " Eugene (U.R) Police search ed a wide area around Eugene and maintained patrols on all roads and highways today in an effort to apprehend an armed bandit who held up a teller and escaped with $2000 from a Eu gene bank yesterday afternoon. Police said the bandit bran dished a pistol in the face of a woman teller at the West Eugene- branch of the First Na tional Bank of Portland and thrust a note into her cage say ing, "This is a holdup. Give me S2000." The teller, Miss Mary Lahar ty, 20, at first thought the man was joking but she noticed the pistol in front of him on the counter. "This is it. Give me $2000," the man told her before grabbing up the money she handed him and fleeing through a side door of the bank. Wheat 37 Per Cent of Umatilla Agriculture . Pendleton (U.R) James learn er, office manager for the Uma tilla county Agricultural Soil Conservation Service, said here today that wheat provided 37 per cent of the agricultural gross income of the county during j 1956. ml Price 10c Tribune United press Leased Win In Any Election" France the history of this matter, a prima facie case has been made by the Egyptian Foreign Minis try in appraising the assembly of this very serious matter... No Report on Hungary "Tt is -the ' request of my dele gation that the secretary-gener al communicate with the French government immediately for either confirmation or denial of the facts." Hammarskjold, who had talk ed with Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitri T, Shepilov and Imre Horvath, foreign minister of Hungary's puppet regime, was not ready to report on his efforts to get Hungarian agreement to send U.N. observers into the country. " The assembly proceeded with its general debate. Egypt Denies Plan For Mass Expulsion London U.R) The Egyptian government denied today that it ever planned any "mass' expul sion" of British and French na tionals from Egypt. However, it did announce that it had placed all such nationals under "restricted residence" on the grounds that some Anglo French citizens killed civilian Egyptan volunteers during the invasion of Port Said. The official denial of the mass expulsion idea was relayed to the Swiss government in Bern for relay to the 3ritish and French governments. The Swiss have been acting for London and Paris since their diplomatic re lations with Cairo were severed. Robert Barclay Taken To State Penitentiary Sheriff Howard Gault Mon day escorted Robert Barclay, 31, of 321 Willamette ave., to the state penitentiary at Salem. Barclay was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary for parole violation involving a charge of obtaining money un der false pretenses. Water Board Will Announce Minimum Stream Flow plan Salem (U.R) Oregon's water resources board voted yesterday to announce a plan at the earli est possible date fixing the mini mum flow on Oregon streams. The minimum flow would be set on larger streams first, which would then be preserved frorp further appropriation of water for purposes other than domestic or livestock use. No Effect on Vested Rights Vice Chairman L. G. Binford explained that fixing a 'mini mum flow would not affect vest ed water rights but would make ail subsequent appropriations subject to minimum flow ' re quirements. H. E. Maxey, Springfield, chairman of the board, said the board would call in interested agencies to determine the mini Appeal Made lj Uoited Stales o o For Mo?e Atfiis o SriViet Infiltf&iorl) lato Syrfti Daftgergps London (U.R Wholese SoviuJ if titration intooyria threatened today to touch off a clash between Syria and Sraq. There wer urge. apjjeals to the Unite! States to do some thing about the worsening situa tion. The new threat to peace in the Meddle East overshadow developments in the Siez crisis where danger of war remained great despite the growing num "ocrs of United Rations Emer- , gency Forces (UNEFBarriving in Egypt. v Turkey, a lomber ofothe pro Western Baghdad Pact with Iraq reported steady shipments of So viet arms into Syrjp. Reports reaching London said Syria was in the grip of a triumvirate keadedj by an awed Crnmun- ist. o Appeals for Arms Iraq appealed to he United States for more (rms and warn ed Syria in an oKicial note that it would ftefend f?ireats to its security. I drfc? that recent de velopments in Syria had assum ed "dangerous proportions" and it fondemned the campaifj ' against Iraq being waged in the controlled Syria press. Moscow radio took note of the situation today and blamed the United States for what it called a "provocative campaign against Syria." It said the cam paign was "accompanied by at tempts to goad the British and French allies on to fresh gambles in the Middle East." The reports added up to this: The anti-Communist Moslem countries particularly Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Pakistan, were lin ing up solidly against the nations which have accepted vast am ounts of Soviet arms Egypt and Syria. . Dangerous to Peace Authoritative sources In Lon don said the new Mideast Strug gle was potentially more dang erous to world peace than the current Suez or Israeli - Arab disputes. Turkey, a member of NATO, was deeply involved since Communist domination of Syria would threaten it from north and south. The Moslem members of the Baghdad Pact, after two recent meetings, warned of the "rising tide of subversion in the Middle East." Britain, fifth member of the. pact, did not attend the meeting. British intelligence was alarm ed at the flood of Soviet arms and "technicians" into Syria. The movements followed closely the pattern of Soviet infiltra tion into Egypt which Britain and France disclosed and said they had halted by the attack on Egypt. Hermiston Man Dies In Two-Car Smashup Hermiston, Ore. U.R) One man was killed and three other persons were injured in a two car collision about two miles north of Stanfield on Highway 32 last night, state police re ported. Killed was Elvin Harland Tracy, 40, Hermiston, who was . in one car. Hospitalized here were Wilbur Gifford, 46, Stan field, and his two daughters. Jean, 16, and Marion, 17. Gif ford suffered forehead and neck lacerations. Jean had wrist and ankle fractures, and Marion shock and lacerations. State police said Tracy was heading north when his car ap parently went out of control on curve before the collision. Tracy was thrown from the vehicle. mum flew on onestrean at a Ma,xCy said the boar would not issue blanket orders cover--irfg many streams. All six board members were agreed on the general icaBof establishing a minimum fl&v, but members. Robert H. Fley, Baker, pointed out that niany eastern Oregon streams tried jp in the summer and the minimum flow would be zero. Barriers Overcome State Enginr Eewis A. Stan ley told the group that ll bar riers to the Klmath iver com-pact- between Oregon. ai1 Cali fornia had bqfij overcome ex cept.for one objejtio b the U.S. Justice Department that the government would b oug,d by the contract.
