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52nd Year Subscribers Recommended Medford 5? To report Improper or non-delivery of the Mail Tribune In Medford p h 0 n e a-8141. Ashland 3-1031 Yreka 84 1W before 8: pjn. daily and 10:30 mm Sunday. If regular delivery arrives short ly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger i5 sed Wire A ftur itory about ft fofMt rrtce lookoot In tlit Butte Falll.arca appears aa pas 14 af tedij Mall Triton. United Press Full Leased Wire service. 34 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 1957 No. 8 U.S. Expected to Offer $75 Million In Aid to Poland Government Sought 4300 Million Washington (U.R) The United States is expected to of fer Communist Poland some $75 million worth of economic aid, it was disclosed Saturday. Administration officials said n aid program of this approxi mate size is up for final study by President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. An announcement of the American offer may . be made next week. Such an offer would be only a fraction of the $300 million in aid the Polish government sought in talks which began here Feb. 26. Poland, which has been seek ing to loosen its ties with Mos cow, wanted approximately $100 million worth of mining and agricultural machinery, about $200 million more in cotton, and mtre than a million tons of food grains. The Polish shopping list includes wheat, corn, barley, rye, fats and oils. U.S. officials were overwhelm ed bythe amount of aid Poland sought, and pointed out early in the negotiations that the $300 million bid just could not be met. Poland would pay, in one way or another, for all the $75 mil lion in aid it receives. As it now shapes up, the $75 million project would be started in carefully-controlled phases. This would allow the United States to cut off the program quicky if the Polish Communist regime moved closer to Moscow. American officials relieve the program would provide enough aid, as a starter, to let Poland's 20 million people know there is hope for them if they tighten their ties with the West and re main aloof from the Soviet line. There is some doubt whether Poland will accept-1he $75 mil lion aid proposal. Any American aid offer is sure to run into some congress ional nposition. Senate Minority Leader William F. Knowland (R Calif.). is opposedt o aid. But several Democratic senators and Rep. Thomas S. Gordon, (D-IU.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs committee have come out in favor of aid to Poland. Women's Clothing Taken From Rooms Thirty-five dollars in currency a(d miscellaneous women's clothing valued at $300 were re ported taken Friday In a burg lary at an apartment occupied by Mrs. Margaret Emma Riley, 217 Soutft Riverside ave., Med ford. Mrs. Riley told city police the burglary occurred between 2:50 and 10:30 p.m. Officers said the apartment was apparently entered through a kitchen window. They said the window screen had been re moved after it Was unlocked by the burglar, who apparently reached the lock through a hole In the screen. After ransacking the kitchen and living room, the burglar took the money, which had been placed in a jewel box, and the clothing, and left through the front door of the apartment, po lice) said. Investigation by officers is still in progress. Prince Rainier Sells Yacht for $142,350 Paris U.R Prince Rainier of Monaco Saturday sold his 29-year-old yacht "Deo Juvante" on which he spent his honeymoon with Princess Grace last April. The ship was bought by Homes Lines company founded in 1948 in Panama City. The reported price was $142,350. New Sunday Supplement to Start in M-T Next Week Effective April 7. one week from today, the Mail Tribune will add to its Sunday editions the colorgravure "Family Weekly' supplement. Family Weekly is the newest and fastest growing of the na tionally circulated Sunday sup plements, and is especially de signed for non-metropolitan newspapers. It is printed on smooth paper, and is fully illus trated throughout with four color covers and advertising. National Advertising The supplement carries nation al advertising, and calls upon a wide range of talented writers, artists and cartoonists to bring the Mail Tribune's more than 17,000 subscribers the best in River Basin Compact Ready For Governor Salem (U.R) The Klamath river basin compact with Cali fornia was ready for the consid eration ' of Gov. Robert D. Holmes Saturday after the House passed it Friday with only one dissenting vote. Final action on the compact was delayed pending an inves tigation by the Judiciary com mittee of changes in administra tive procedures that should be made in the compact. However, Rep. Robert Duncan Medford Democrat, said his com mittee felt it would be too com plicated to confer with Califor- Mrs. T. L. Roberts, Ex-School Teacher, Dies at Her Home Mrs. Thora Lawrence Roberts, for many years a Medford school teacher and administrator, and later a jewelry store proprietor here, died at her home Friday afternoon. She was 77. Funeral services will be held at Conger-Morris Funeral home at 10 a.m. Monday, with the Rev. George R. V. Bolster, of St. Mark's Episcopal church, offic iating. Commital will follow in the IOOF cemetery. Pallbearers will Include Vic tor Sether, Ben Trowbridge, Tod Tibbutt, Otto Frohnmayer, H. D. Christensen and Bert Lageson. Honorary palbearers will be E. H. Hedrick, Lcland Brophy, J. C. Collins, and George Grabow. Mrs. Roberts was born in Kingston, Tenn., on Jan. 20, 1880. At the age of six, she came to Phoenix, Ore. with her par ents the late William H. and El izabeth Pickle Smith, and later attended what was then Ash land Normal school (now South ern Oregon college), graduating in 1906. Taught In Alaska As a teacher, she went to Alaska and taught for four years, returning to Oregon in 1914, enrolling at the Univer sity of Oregon, from which she graduated. Returning to Medford she taught for many years in both grade and high schools, re tiring from teaching in 1928 as principal of Jackson school. That same year she was mar ried in Tucson. Ariz., to John F. Lawrence. He preceded . her in death in 1944, and until 1952, when she sold the Lawrence Jewelry store, she operated the establishment. On April 25. 1950, she was married to Dr. Frank Roberts of Medford, who survives. They have made their home at 2218 East Main st. She was an active worker in St. Mark's Episcopal church for a number of years, and belonged to the Zonta, Eastern Star, Daughters of the Nile, Zulemia Temple; American Association of University Women, and the League of Women Voters. Survivors beside her husband include a brother, Justin Smith, and a sister, Mrs. Grace Cle mans, both of Medford. GOP Central Group Names James Short Portland (U.R) The Re publican Central committee Sat urday chose James F. Short as its new chairman but postponed for further study a proposal to make the job salaried. Short, who is a former direct or of agriculture from Salem, Ore., used to live at Redmond, where he still operates a live stock ranch. Short. 54. succeeds Astoria at torney Wendell Wyatt who re signed to resume his law prac tice. Sunday newspaper reading. In addition to articles of inter est, each issue brings recipes for homemakers, and a page of puz zles, stories and games for younger members of the family. Among the features in next Sunday's edition will be articles on gardening, recipes, the wide spread use of handy folding fur niture, knitted swimming suits, an article about Red Skelton and his family, a description of how teen-agers learn safe driving in school programs, a story on big game hunting, as well as jokes, cartoons, and other attractions. The New Mail Tribune sup plement will be distributed to subscribers at no additional sub scription cost. nia and make the changes sug gested. The bill passed un changed. Similar legislation is now in the California House after pass age by that state's Senate. Duncan said it was of major importance to get the compact out now to assure that water from the Klamath basin was not diverted into the central valley of California. Duncan added that the com pact would validate all claims on the basin's water for domestic use, irrigation, recreation, hy droelectric and industrial uses. Water Stays in Basin Specifically, the compact pro vides that waters diverted from the Klamath river within the up per Klamath river basin for use in California shall not be taken outside the Upper Klamath river basin. Objections that delayed pass age of the compact centered on whether the Klamath River Bas in commission should have lim ited rule-making power and should not be suable. Both pro visions are in the compact. Duncan said that if any sec tion of the compact was declared unconstitutional, it would not af fect other sections of the compact not involved in the dispute. Rep. Robert Bennett, Portland Republican, said that the unlim ited rule-making power given the commission was probably un constitutional. He voted against passage. Duncan agreed, but stated that if unlimited rule-making was de clared unconstitutional, it would only affect the pollution pro gram and not the major water use agreement which is the heart of the compact. He added that if the Congress approves the compact it will give some precedent to the con tention that states have the right to determine the uses to which they will put their water. Local Man Killed In Auto Accident Fay E. Diamond, 82, of 723 Sherman st., Medford, was kill ed and another Medford resident was injured about 10:26 a.m. Friday when their car overturn ed on U. S. Highway 199 about 23 miles northeast of Crescent City, Calif. Injured was Raleigh C. Wy att, 71, Medford, who was tak en by ambulance to Seaside hos pital at Crescent City. Wyatt suffered a broken leg, accord ing to California officials. California state police said the accident occurred when Wy att, driver of a station wagon pulling a trailer, swerved to avoid a rock which fell on the highway as a large truck ap proached the station wagon. The vehicle, which was trav elling about 35 miles per hour, crashed into a bank before it turned over, police said. Impact from the crash knocked the ve hicle's engine into the front seat, they added. The two men were en route to Crescent City on a fishing trip, according to reports. Diamond's body is being re turned to Medford for services and interment. Conger-Morris Funeral home is in charge of arrangements. Police Say President Wasn't Speeding Washington ' (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower's limousine did not break any speed limits while travelling through nearby Mont gomery County, (MD.) en route to Gettysburg, Friday, the coun ty police superintendent insisted Saturday. Reporters immediately behind the presidential car said the speedometer on their automobile was registering 70 miles an hur when two county policemen flagged them down to the legal 55-mile speed limit. Col. James S. McAuliffe, coun ty police superintendent, said two policemen "got a glimpse of the president's car three times and on none of these occasions was he observed breaking the speed limit." The incident oc curred when Mr. Eisenhower was riding in his limousine, driv en by a secret service agent, for a week end visit to his Gettys burg estate. Vienna vU.R The Communist radio said Saturday an Israeli diplomat has been ordered out of Czechoslovakia because he was caught in the act of buying information from an "Interna tional spy ring." U.S. Accused of 'Aiming to Starve' Egypt by Nasser Continue to Oppose Israeli Ships in Suez Cairo iU.P.) President Gamal Abdel Nasser Saturday accused the United States of "aiming to starve" Egypt and pressure it into surrender in its disputes with Israel. In one of his most bitter pub lic attacks on United States policy, Nasser indicated that he would continue to oppose pass age of Israeli ships through the Suez Canal and the Gulf of Aqaba. He insisted that Egypt is not Communist and wishes to be friendly with the United States since his government has a "basically American" concept of neutrality. But he added that Egypt was more opposed than ever to Israel. Visiting Newsmen As he spoke to a group of 30 visiting American newsmen, the first convoy to clear the blocked Suez Canal in five months steamed through Port Said har bor into the Mediterranean from the Red Sea. The convoy included Russian, Italian and West German vessels. Another five-ship convoy en tered the canal at Suez. Opera tion of the canal made it ap parent the West would accept Egypt's terms for running it as an Egyptian operation. In New Delhi, informed sources said Egypt has agreed to discuss Israel's right to use the canal before the World Court at The - Hague. Nasser told his audience that the canal and the Gulf of Aqaba, despite claims to the contrary, are territorial waters. He said the United States re fused t send wheat to Egypt while Russia offered 600,000 tons of it for the hungry Egypt ian people. "The United States is aiming to starve us," he said, "while the Soviet Union is aiming to help us." He accused the United States of talking about freedom of navi gation but not "about freedom of the refugees" of the Pales tine war in the Gaza Strip whom Israel refuses to take in. Cramer Ordered to Mental Hospital Klamath Falls (U.R) The two remaining charges against 76-yearold Guy Earl Cramer were dismissed late Friday by Circuit Judge David R. Vanden berg. Cramer was found innicent by a jury Thursday on a charge of first degree murder because of insanity. Judge Vandenbcrg after dis missing the two charges of as sault with intent to kill ordered Cramer committed to the Ore gon state mental hospital. The Bonanza welfare recipient had admitted freely to the Jan. 4 fatal shooting of Fred Peter son, 75, Klamath County Wel fare Commission chairman, and the critical wounding of Welfare Administrator Mrs. Altha Urqu hart, and Commissioner Jerry Rainus. The dismissal of the charges was made on the motion of Dis trict Attorney Beesley who stat ed that the state did not have sufficient evidence to overcome "the adjudication of insanity" made in the Thursday verdict. Elmo Smith Buys Albany Newspaper Albany (U.R) Elmo Smith, former governor of Oregon, bought the Albany Democrat Herald here Saturday, according to a joint statement by Smith and R. R. Cronise, its former owner. The owner of the Blue Moun tain Eagle, John Day, Ore., and co-owner of the Madras Pioneer, Madras, will assume the position of publisher and general man ager of the paper Monday. Cronise will remain on the paper as advisory editor. Smith was governor of Ore gon in 1956 after being elevated from his position as president of the Oregon Senate at the death of Governor Paul Patterson in January, 1956. He was a mem ber of the Oregon Senate from 1949. Washington (U.R) Heli copters "might" be used to evac uate President Eisenhower from Washington in an emergency. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty, has announc ed. Probers T With British Industry May Be Paralyzed By Growing Dispute Half Million Walk Off Jobs Saturday London (U.R) Half a mil lion more factory workers walk ed off their jobs in the Greater London area Saturday in a growing wage dispute that threatens to paralyze British in dustry. The new walkouts brought to 1,700,000 the number of discon tented employes who have gone on strike to press demands for a 10 per cent pay raise. Some 200, 000 shipyard workers have been out two weeks and one million engineering workers have been out a week. Leaders to Meet Leaders of 40 unions involved in the mushrooming work stop page will meet Tuesday to de cide whether to call out another 1,500,000 engineering and fac tory workers. Hopes that the new walkouts would be called off disappeared Friday night when management made a "final" offer well below the union demands. The unions flatly rejected it. Labor Minister Iaen Mac Leod had asked the union lead ers to suspend their strike pend ing investigations by two courts of inquiry. Interim Contract Demanded The union leaders indicated willingness to do so if the em ployers granted 5 per cent in creases immediately under an "interim" contract. Management came up with a top offer of five to six shillings (70 to 80 cents) a week an in crease amounting to between 3 and 4 per cent. It was the first meeting be tween labor and management since the engineering and fac tory worker strikes began a week ago seven days after the shipyard strikes. MacLeod has appointed sep arate courts of inquiry for the shipbuilding workers and en gineering and factory workers. Neither has had its first meet ing. Industry sources estimated the strike so far has cost Brit ain more than 30 million dol lars. Chessman Is Named To Highway Group Salem (U.R) Robert B. Chessman, 36, publisher of the Astorian-Budget and manager of Astoria radio station KAST, was named to the three-man State Highway commission Friday by Gov. Robert D. Holmes. Chessman, who will give Ore gon's populous first congression al district its first representa tion on the commission in eight years, succeeds Ben R. Chandler of Coos Bay whose term expires March 31. Chessman's term will be for three years. Chandler, chairman of the commission and a member for 11 years, had announced he would not be a candidate for re appointment. Chessman's appointment pre sented a unique father-son pat tern on the Highway Commis sion. His father, Merle R. Chess man, a former state senator from Clatsop county and Astorian Budget publisher until his death, served from 1943 to 1946 on the commission. Weather FORECAST: Mostlr rloudy to day, tnnirht and Monday with hnt-er thrnurh tnnirht. HUh fodav 55, low tonight 38, high Monday 37. TEMP. Highest Yesterday 5ft Lowest Yeiterdiy - 35 Our. Skies Tonight Sunrise Sunset ... 5:56 a.m. 6:36 p.m. 7:20 p.m. April 7 Moonset . First Quarter VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, in the east at sunset, will be high in south east 9:11 p.m. Mars, in the west . 8:09 p.m. Saturn, low in south- t l:li a m. AFL-O 'Who Porter to Be Master Of Ceremonies at 7th Memorial Dinner Congressman Charles O. Por ter will act as master of cere monies for the seventh annual Roosevelt Memorial dinner to be held at McLoughlin Junior High school Saturday, April 27, according to Democratic County Chairman Larry Sheehan. A telegram accepting the com mittee's invitation to preside was received yesterday, Shee han said. Congressman Porter is scheduled during the same week to attend a series of flood con trol and water resources meet ings throughout the district, his Eugene office has notified the local committee. Gov. G. Mennen Williams of Michigan, recently listed by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt as one of five topflight Democrats qualified for the presidency (the list also naming Oregon's Sen ator Wayne Morse) will be guest speaker at the dinner. Introduced by Holmes He will be introduced by Gov. Robert D. Holmes, whose per sonal invitation is bringing Gov ernor Williams to Oregon. Ore gon's first lady will also attend the dinner, as will other state and party leaders, Sheehan said. James Redden, ticket chair man for the dinner, has an nounced that tickets are being distributed to committee mem bers. The ticket will include the full dinner and an evening of entertainment and no potluck dishes will be requested this year, according to Redden. Co- Fire Season Starts Officially Monday The 1957 forest fire season will officially start Monday, April 1, state forestry officials have announced. All regulations pertaining to the fire season will be in effect then. Permits will be required for burning on or within one eighth mile radius of any forest land. Logging and sawmill op erators must be equipped with regulation fire fighting tools in order to continue operations, of ficials stated. Sawmill operators must have forest service permits before starting work, it was explained. Anyone needing information per taining to fire season regulations may obtain it from forest inspec tors. U.S. Should Pay More For Canal, Experts Say Panama City iU.R) Latin American legal experts express ed the opinion here Friday night that the United States should pay Panama a higher fee for the use of the Panama canal. Panama University's Interna tional conference on interoceanic canals adjourned without adopt ing any formal resolutions, but the consensus of those attending was that the SI, 943,000 a year Panama receives from the U.S. owned canal company is not enough. 1 in Tri Me?" chairman of the ticket commit tee is William V. Deatherage. Heading the reception and serving committee are Clyde Fichtner and Marvin Madden; foods committee co-chairman, Mrs. George A. Watson and Mrs. Bert. Williams; arrange ments chairman, Mrs. Moore Hamilton; decorations chairman, Mrs. Marvin Madden, co-chairman Mrs. Roy Clarke; program chairman, Mrs. Stanley Zapell. Bandit Agrees lo Release American Tehran, Iran U.R) Iranian Deputy Minister of Interior Parviz Khanlari said last night a leader of an outlaw band be lieved holding a pretty Ameri can woman captive in Baluchis tan has agreed to release her. The outlaw leader said she was "safe." Khanlari said one of the Dad Shah brothers, who control a desert bandit tribe, messaged authorities he is willing to hand over the woman in exchange for a promise he will not be prose cuted. Iranian police reported earlier last night they are in a position to close in on a band of tribal women believed to be holding the woman in a wild and deso late area of Baluchistan. U.S. Embassy officials denied earlier reports that authorities had made contact with a messen ger from the -robber band and were negotiating with him. These reports followed the an nouncement that Iran had of fered a $65,000 reward for the safe return of Mrs. Anita Carroll of Issaquah, Wash., and another $10,000 for information leading to the arrest of the four men in the band who have split off from the women in an attempt to lose their pursuers. Salute to Stedman Show Draws Capacity Audience Friday night's performance of the "Salute to Bob Stedman" show drew what is probably the largest audience ever to attend any event at the high school auditorium, school officials re ported Saturday. The Thursday evening perfor mance of the testimonial to the Medford High school English and drama instructor had an audience of about 600, but Fri day night every regular seat in the 915-seat auditorium was fill ed, 124 extra chairs were brought in, about 50 "standees" were permitted to remain along the sides, a number of others stood in the rear doors of the auditorium, and about 100 had to be turned away. As a result, a check represent ing the proceeds of the two per formances, which will probably operate oD Group to Consider Any Requests for Case Information Labor Council Acts After Beck Appears Washington (U.R) Senate rackets investigators Saturday pledged "enthusiastic coopera tion" with the AFL-CIO in its investigation and trial of Team sters President David Beck. Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.), of the Senate Commit tee on Rackets in Labor and In dustry, said "any request" for information from AFL-CIO of ficials in bringing charges against Beck and in investigat ing his union "will be given im mediate consideration." Suspend Beck The AFL-CIO executive coun cil suspended Beck as a council member and an AFL-CIO vice president on Friday and order ed that he stand union trial May 20 on charges of "bringing the labor movement into disrepute." The council also ordered ita Ethical Practices committee to" investigate whether the Team sters union is dominated by "corrupt influences." The council acted within two days after Beck had invoked the Fifth Amendment 117 times ra ther than answer questions about his finances before the McClel lan committee.' At a news conference yester day McClellan said , resumption of the committee's hearings, ex pected "int wo weeks, could in volve any one of four cities Scranton, Pa., New York City, Los Angeles, or Philadelphia. Figure In Hearings McClellan said Beck and Cen tral States Teamster Czar James B. Hoffa will figure in one phase of the committee's investigation in New York establishment of so-called paper locals of the Teamsters union. . The high command of the 1.5 million member Teamster union appeared to be splitting under the clean-up pressures. Secretary-Treasurer John English broke with Beck on Beck's plan to spend $1 million in union funds on a publicity campaign to counter the committee's charges. English said he was not consulted about the plan and would oppose it. McClellan told newsmen that as chairman he could not pro mise every document in the committee's files to AFL-CIO in vestigators since such action would have to be voted on by the committee. But he said all such requests would get swift action. Bloodmobile Visit Staled April 9 The Red Cross Bloodmobile will visit Medford Tuesday. April 9, and will be in Ashland Wednesday, April 10. Red Cross officials have announced. Quota for the Medford visit will be 290 pints, Red Cross of ficials said, which means a quota of 350 donors. Appointments, which are being accepted now, may be made by telephoning the Blood Bank office, 3-3813, tney said. The Bloodmobile will be at the. Elks temple in Medford be tween 1 and 6 p.m. total about $1,200, will be pre sented to the Stedman family next week by Mrs. Ivan Burton, general chairman of the event, when she goes to Portland, where Stedman is convalescing from a series of serious opera tions. The money will go to help defray his medical expenses. Mrs. Burton, whose idea the local talent variety show was, said Saturday the plan grew from "just an idea" into some thing that the entire community participated in wholeheartedly. She said the way the Footlight ers, other volunteer performers, the school system, and "every one else we asked to help," did so was inspiring to her, and a real tribute to Stedman and the services he hag performed for the community. ,
