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o O O SIXTErX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, Fbrury II. 1957 Conservative Wing of GOP Planning Assault On Ike's Program Washington (U.R) The con servative wing of the Republi can Party seems to be winding up for an assault along a broad front against some of President Eisenhower's foreign and do mestic programs. The President's position on a number of issues has come under fire from several individuals in his own party in the past few days, including his administra tion's leader in the Senate, Sen. William F. Knowland. oMr. Eisenhower and "new Re publicanism" were the targets for some conservative-wing fire riig the week end in Chicago. Discusses Ideai Tonight Knowland, who often becomes restive over administration for- U. 5. Communists To Discuss New Constitution New York (U.R) The U.S. Communist Party meets today to r;cuss a proposed new constitu Oion by which members voted overwhelmingly to remain a po litical party in a Moscow recnmended decision. Delegates to the party s 1 6th national convention adopted compromise resolution Sunday framed to resolve sharp differ ences among the party's leader ship. Party Form Continued Members voted to continue the tiami and party form and to "strengthen, rebuild and consoli date" the party as recommended by the Kremlin. The resolution which opposed changing the party into a "po litical or education association" was a victory for the faction headed by William Z. Foster, the party's 75-year-old national chairman. Foster and Eugene Dennis, the party's general sec retary, have hewed close to the hard Moscow line. Further Discussion It offered a compromise to a faction headed by John Gates, editor of the Communist Daily WtPker, in providing for further discussion, "as may be organized O by the incoming national com mittee." Gates has advocated that the party have more inde pendence. He hoped for an end to legal and other restrictions that have virtually isolated it in the United States. Party officials who filtered nes of the convention to re Qporters who were barred from me convention nail, said there were-'only three opposing votes and 17 abstentions, against "more than 300 favorable votes" ... in the balloting. A HAIR-RAISING FLIGHT Paris (U.R) Unhappy passen gers aboard a London-bound air liner Sunday pulled the hair of two pretty hostesses and tried to bite them when the plane made a forced landing In Paris. The hostesses opened the door of the fane and stepped into a screeching mob of 300 monkeys which had broken out of their cages while being transported to Hie London Zoological Gardens. The U.S. navy requisitioned its first airplane in 1911. eign policy, objected to talk about invoking United Nations sanctions against Israel. Some usually staunch administration backers joined him in opposing any U.S. support for such sanc tions. Knowland will discuss his ideas for new U.S. approaches in the United Nations in a speech tonight at Georgetown Univer sity here. The California senator also in dicated dissatisfaction this week end with Mr. Eisenhower's record peacetime spending bud get of $71.8 billion. Knowland told newsmen that he expects Congress to cut the administra tion's appropriation request by more than $2 billion. Bridget Joins In Sen. Styles Bridges (N.H.), chairman of the Serte GOP Policy Committee and another dominant figure in the party leadership in Congress, agreed with Knowland. He told a re porter Sunday that he was work ing on a detailed program to show how administration money requests could be cut by up wards of $2 billion. The budget is the keynote of the administration's legislative program. A $2 billion cut would almost certainly require some alterations of policy in both the domestic field and the foreign aid program. Both Bridges and Knowland predicted that Congress would take a slice off the administra tion's $1.95 billion program of foreign economic aid. Knowland has become in creasingly identified as a lead ing spokesman for the conserva tive wing of the GOP, although it could be argued that he stands at the center of his party. He usually votes with the adminis tration, but when he dissents he seems to do so in a spectacu lar fashion. O If you're in love say so . . . For every degree of ( affection . . . see our complete selection mm . j i J. j -rs .1 jjj .1 m;ii ii.vunuTi:4w:'.f Nurse Missing From Yacht Ocracoke, N.C. 'i'U.R) Guards men and sheriff's d e p u ties ties searched coastal waters and ashore today for a nurse who vanished from the yacht of a wealthy physician on a cruise from New York. A Coast Guard plane and two boats searched in vain Sunday for the woman listed as Miss Mary Ann Scales, 33, of Borden town, N. J., reported missing from the yacht of Dr. James T. Dodge, 45, of Ulster Park, N. Y. Sheriff Charlie J. Cahoon of Hyde county, who led a search of Ochacoke Island, said the couple, both divorced, were cruising alone on Dodge's swanky, 30-ft yacht, the "Mary N." Cahoon said Miss Scales had worked in Dodge's office as a nurse for 12 years. Dodge told authorities he dropped anchor in Ocracoke in let Saturday evening and first missed the woman when he awoke Sunday morning. Dodge said he at first thought she was "hiding from me." Cahoon said the woman had left her shoes on the bridge of the yacht and was believed wearing a blouse and shorts. She could easily swim the short dis tance to shallow water and wade ashore, he said. Bunker Hill Firm Sets Sales Record San Francisco (U.R) The Bunker Hill Company, lead-zinc mining and smelting firm, today announced record annual sales and mining operations for 1956. Presidet John D. Bradley said the company's sales, subject to year end audit, were estimated at $56,976,000, compared to $54, 082.000 in 1955. He said that during 1956 a new historic tonnage record was established for ore extraction at the Bunker Hill mine in Nor thern Idaho. Bradley restated the com pany's intended $15 million ex pansion program. Expansion on the firm's large electrolytic zinc plant is on schedule, and the company has opened a new $150. 000 office building and ware house in Los Angeles County. Fair Skies Greet Soaked Residents In West Virginia By UNITED PRESS Weathermen Monday predict ed mostly fair skies for the east in the wake of heavy rains that brought new floods and flood threats to portions of West Vir ginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio. The clearing weather followed an invasion of cooler air from Canada, threatening to boost the demand for New York City's dwindling fuel supplies. Roads Iced Freezing rain and snow flur ries iced roads in sections of the Midwest, while rain doused the Ohio Valley and the Central Gulf states. The upper Monongahela river and its tributaries, fed by near ly three inches of rain within 24 hours yesterday, overflowed in northern West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania, causing minor damage. Clarksburg, Weston and Phil ippi, W. Va., were hardest hit, and three major highways in that area were blocked by the flood waters. However, no flooding was reported in south ern West Virginia, scene of last week's floods. Ohio Near Flood Stage Flash floods in Portsmouth, Ohio and Scioto county, Ohio, during the week end boosted the Ohio river to near flood stage between Portsmouth and Cin cinnati. The floods washed out numerous roads, but main roads were reported open Monday. The colder weather in the east replaced relatively mild air which had helped New Yorkers conserve fuel supplies. About 70 per cent of the city's fuel de liveries have been cut off by a tugboat strike. Rain in Washington A new disturbance in the northwest brought scattered rain to most of Washington and snow to northern Idaho. Showers also were reported over central Cali fornia and northern Nevada. Weathermen said precipitation will continue in the Pacific Northwest, and scattered snow flurries are seen for the Great Lakes eastward to New York and Pennsylvania. Most of the rest of the nation is expected to have fair weather. Big Oil Companies Warned To Cut Prices Or Face Legislation Washington (U.R) Sen. Jo seph C. O'Mahoney (D-Wyo.) warned the big oil companies yesterday that if they do not cut back the price of gasoline im mediately. Congress may have to take legislative action. O'Mahoney, chairman of s joint Senate subcommittee in vestigating the Oil-For-Europe program, predicted that eventu ally gasoline prices will be re duced voluntarily, "at least I hope so." He said the longer the industry waits, the greater will be the demand for legislation. O'Mahoney was asked if the possible legislation would take the form of a system of price controls for the petroleum in dustry. "It might be," O'Mahoney said. He said later that "price control by government is not as bad as price-fixing by a monopoly." George Liberace Beaten by Thugs Chicao (U.R) George Liber ace, violin playing brother of pianist Liberace, was beaten and robbed today by two bandits. George was slugged and hos pitalized for treatment of pain ful head injuries when he tried to resist the robbers. The Negro thugs took a $1,500 diamond ring in the shape of a violin from Liberace and his German Wes terling violin, also valued at $1,500. Authorities said George had left the Chez Paree night club, where he and Liberace are ap pearing, early this morning. He was walking toward his nearby hotel when the two bandits, one armed with a pistol, stepped from a doorway. George surrendered his ring and $50 in his wallet without protest, police said, but when the bandits demanded his violin he punched one of them. The rob bers jumped on him and hit him several times before fleeing. Although groggy and bleeding from several cuts, George walk ed back to the night club and in formed his brother, who notified police and rushed George to Wesley Memorial Hospital for treatment and observation. Sixteen stitches were required to close three wounds on George's scalp. Liberace accom panied his brother to the hos pital and remained at his bedside. Oregon Man Held For Attempt To Kill Divorced Wile Concord, Calif. U.R) A 35-year-old Oregon man who drove here expressly to kill his ex wife, shot her nine times yester day and then threatened suicide before she talked him into call ing an ambulance. Mrs. Eleanor Wilson, 45. was in critical condition in Kaiser Foundation hospital with one bullet in her chest, one in her liver, and seven others in her right arm. Police said Jerry Wilson, 35. admitted driving from his pen dleton, Ore., home Saturday night to carry out a murder plan conceived when his wife's di vorce became final last year. Clubbed with Flashlight The couple has a three-and-a-half-year-old son. They said Wilson let himself in the back door of her house with a key he had kept from the days when he lived there, shot Mrs. Wilson, then clubbed her with a flashlight. After the shooting Wilson threatened to kill himself, ac cording to the police, but she finally convinced him to call an ambulance. The ambulance of fice notified police who booked Wilson on charges of assault with intent to commit murder. Sen. Eites Kefauver (D. Tenn.), a member of O'Ma honey's joint subcommittee, said last night that there is "no eco nomic justification" for the re cent hike in oil and gasoline prices. Kefauver said he was "disap pointed in the attitude" of gov ernment officials toward the price increases. He said they felt "no responsibility" to protect the public from the price hikes. O'Mahoney also said he could see no "real reason" for the in crease, particularly in the price of gasoline. He said this country has more than an adequate sup ply of gasoline. Needed Control O'Mahoney criticized the ad ministration for allowing a 15 company private oil group to handle the Oil-for-Europe pro gram, designed to help Europe out of a fuel shortage brought on by the closing of the Suez Canal. He said he would have "had the government supervise the whole business." "I do not believe," he said, "an industry group should carry out government functions." Kefauver said the government relaxed anti-trust laws for the 15 major oil companies which compose the Middle East emer gency committee so they could combine efforts to ship oil to Europe. "One of the first results of this program was an increase in the gasoline prices here in the United States, bringing home to 'al! of us the fact that the Middle Eastern emergency is only as far away as the corner filling sta tion," he said. Dunsmuir Youth Wins $325,000 Judgment Redding, Calif. (U.R) An 18-year-old youth has won a $325, 000 judgment against his high school district for an injury suf fered in a football scrimmage in 1955. Anthony L. Welch, 18, Duns muir, Calif., sued the Dunsmuir joint union high school district for $672,000 for the injury suf fered in a scrimmage between his high school squad and the Enterprise high school of Red ding, Calif., on Sept. 10, 1955. Welch was paralyzed from the waist down as a result of the injury and his mother, Mrs. Gladys Welch, filed the suit charging negligence on the part of the school for permitting a scrimmage so early in the season. The suit also charged the school was negligent in permit ting the youth to be moved from the field after his injury al though testimony was presented that a doctor was present and authorized his being moved. V 0NL.y 1 V ji en any troin between the jk f CJfe Northwest and Chicago. Vl f CtflX ,M, in arMKWlM t u CoH or writ UNION PACIFIC CITY OF PORTLAND TO CHICAGO C. H. SAMMAnSH. Gpnm! Pusn(rr Accnt 751 Pillock Block. Phone CApltol I-JJJ1 .PorUand, 5, orrcon To Buy or Sell - Use Tribune Classified Ads Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Africa !U.R) Authorities reported Saturday that 24 persons were killed and 30 others injured in a' head-on collision of two trucks near Toumodi Friday. Wager Hinges on Bow and Arrow Hunt New York ttJ.R) A 42-year-old Texas oil millionaire shoul dered his bow and arrow and boarded ship yesterday for the Belgian Congo where he's going elephant hunting. William Negley, the oilman, who hails from San Antonio, stands to win $10,000 for a San Antonio museum if he manages to bag a pachyderm with the special 102-pound bow and four bladed, steel-tipped arrowhead. What he'll get if he scores a near miss depends on a lot of things. Negley made his $10,000 bet with William K. Carpenter of Wilmington, Del., who maintains an elephant will not succumb to a bow and arrow. Negley, direc tor of the Witte museum in San Antonio, says it's possible. If Negley is right. Carpenter will pay $10,000 to the museum. Negley said he planned to aim for the heart. Alleged Gambling Raid Nets 68 Arrests Portland (U.R) Police raided an alleged gambling den in north Portland early yesterday and ar rested 68 persons. Sixty-six of those arrested were charged with being behind barred doors and most were freed on $25 bail. One person was charged with unlawful sale of liquor and another with con ducting gambling. 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