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Eastland, Jenner
'Say Information
Confirmed by FBI
Transcript Cleared
For Publication
Washington (UP.) The Demo
cratic chairman and a Republi
can member of the Senate Inter
nal Security Subcommittee said
today that the State Department
had checked with the FBI and
"corroborated the truth" of sub
committee information linking
a Canadian diplomat with Com
munism. They asserted also that the
State . Depaitment "cleared for
publication" the transcript of a
hearing last month at which old
subcommittee charges were re
vived and aired again.
Phoned To Press
The statement was made by
Sens. James O. Eastland (D
Miss.), chairman of the subcom
mittee, and William E. Jenner
(R-Ind.). It was telephoned this
morning to press associations by
a subcommittee staff member,
Later, the subcommittee ask
ed that the statement be with
drawn but one of the press as
sociations tnot the United Press)
already had sent it out on its
wires and refused to withdraw
it
Eastland gave this explanation
of wanting the statement pulled
back:
He saidthatjt was. originally
prepared weanesaay ior release
Wednesday night but that in the
meantime President Eisenhower
commented on the Norman case,
at his weekly news .conference.
Eisenhower said that it was
'hoped that the thing can now
be dropped."
"He (Eisenhower) said it ought
to be dropped and we killed it
(the statement)," Eastland told
the United Press.
FBI Remains Silent
The State Department had no
immediate comment but said it
would issue a statement later,
The FBI declined comment.
The diplomat, E. Herbert Nor
man, committed suicide last,
Thursday in Cairo where he was
serving as Canadian ambassador
to Egypt. Canadians attributed
his act in part to the subcom
mittee's action in publishing
charges which the Canadian gov
ernment said it had disproved
in 1951. '
Angry Canadian reaction to
the incident Reached a climax
Wednesday. The Canadian gov
ernment said in a note that it
no longer will supt-ly security
information to the U.S. govern
ment unless it receives a guar
antee the information will not
v be given to congressional com
mittees without Canada's ad
vance consent.
President Eisenhower at his
news conference and Acting Sec
retary of State Christian A. Her
ter in a formal note to Canada
disclaimed responsibility for the
subcommittee's publication of
the controversial transcript.
Blame State Department
Today, however, in the state
ment which they tried to with
draw, Eastland and Jenner re
torted in a joint statement that
"the State Department did not
and - could not disclaim" the
Senate group's -rtion.
- The Canadian note angrily de
mandec. guarantees that any se
curity information supplied to
this government be kept out of
congressional hands without
Canada's consent.
Company Formed To Explore
Josephine Nickel Deposits
Cave Junction (U.R) John
H. White Jr., president of Chemi
cal Metallurgical Inc., Salt Lake
City, announced Wednesday for
mation of the Nickel Corporation
of America for the purpose of
exploring and developing nickel
deposits in Josephine county.
The Salt Lake firm has been
joined in the enterprise by New
Delhi Ltd., Toronto, Canada.
Lionel Simard, of the Canadian
firm of Simard & Knight, will
be in charge of exploring and
drilling operations to be started
in the mountain area adjacent
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Chlorine Fumes
Rout Over 1.000
Ellwood City, Pa-. (U.R) A
chlorine tank car parked at a
phemical plant in nearby Frisco
sprang a leak early today send
ing green clouds of deadly gas
billowing over a mile-square
area.
Thirty nine persons were
treated for gas poisoning at Ell
wood City hospital. A score of
other residents jammed Ellwood
City physicans' offices.
More than 1,000 persons were
routed from their homes until
the choking fumes were dispers
ed. The leak in the railroad
tanker, parked on a siding at
President Requests
New Airways Board
Washington (U.R) Presi
dent Eisenhower asked Congress
today for a new, independent
"airways modernization board"
to solve the growing menace of
air collisions.
The plan promptly collided
with a Democratic charge that
it does not go far enough.
Eisenhower called for estab
lishment of a three-man board
which would coordinate all civil
and military research on the na
tion's air traffic control prob
lem. It would .be .composed of i
two representatives from the De-
Checks Received
For Flood Damage
The Jackson county court to
day received two checks, total
ing $28,186.62, from the Oregon
Civil Defense agency as pay
ment for damages to the county
roads and bridges in the Decem
ber, 1955 flood. .
The checks represent 75 per
cent payment toward total esti
mates made in two surveys here
by Civil Defense officials.
One check for $25,417.62 is
payment toward the $33,890.17
estimate of damages made in a
survey designated as project 16.
The other check for $2,769.11
is payment toward the $3,692.15
estimate of damages made in a
survey designated as project 61
and 62-A.
The payments were author
ized by the Federal Civil De
fense agency on April 14, 1956,
and August 31, 1956. Final pay
ments will be made at a later
date, members of the county
court said.
The court had originally esti
mated flood damage to county
installations at $250,000. It was
learned later that much of this
damage did not come under Ci
vil defense aid requirements.
Weather
FORECAST Cloudy tonight,
Showers Friday. Outlook for
Saturday showery. Low to
night 45. High Friday 60.
Highest Yesterday 59
Lowest This Morning 42
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise
5:38 a.m.
Sunset :48 p.m.
The Moon rises well before
sunset and sets Friday 4:18 a.m.
In Perigee, it is 226.100 miles
from the Earth tonight.
Mercury, low in west in the
evening twilight is about 93
million miles from the Earth
tonight.
to the Illinois river valley in
southwest Josephine county near
here.
White said his company had
assays of more than 1,000 sam
ples of ore and that they have
all been satisfactory. The pres
ent exploration, which will take
three to four months, will de
termine the future of a process
ing plant which might be in
stalled later.
"If the final test proves as
we hope, the installation in the
Illinois valley will be equal to
these of the Hanna Co., at Rid
dle," White said.
1957
CLARED
to releas
the Ellwood City Chemical Co.,
was discovered after a man and
wife, ill from the fumes, stum
bled into police headquarters.
Firemen, wearing masks to
protect them from the World
War I type gas, went to the
scene. They went from house to
house waking residents. In some
cases they were forced to break
down doors.
Daniel Pelloni, one of the
owners of the plant, dashed in
to a concentration of the gas,
climbed to the top of the car,
and closed a faulty valve with
a pipe wrench. He suffered a
severe hand burn.
fense and Commerce depart
ments and headed by a chair
man appointed by the President.
But Sen. A. S. Mike Monron
ey (D-Okla.), said such a board
"invites delay, dissension and
compromise."
"The emergency is too great
and requires immediate action,"'
Monroney said. "I doubt the wis
dom of a three-man board as
proposed by the President."
Monroney, whose Senate In
terstate Commerce Subcommit
tee will hold hearings on the
proposal, said he fears the board
organization as proposed by the
White Hous? lacks sufficient au
thority.
"Its scientific goals are ad
mirable," Monroney added, "but
such a board must be given the
power to order civil and mili
tary aviation officials to put its
recommendations into effect. It
should be run by one man, not
three. The three-man set-up just
invites delay, dissension and
compromise "
Eisenhower's plan went to
Capital Hill in the form, of a
special interim report by Ed
ward P. Curtis, chief of the
President's aviation facilities
planning group established in
March, 1956
Around May 1, Curtis will
issue a comprehensive blueprint
for overhauling the present air
traffic control system. His inter
im report contained only one
specific recommendation the
airways modernization board.
Education Conclave
In Final Session
San Francisco (U.R) The
Western Regional Conference on
Education moved intd its final
session today as western educa
tors, governors and laymen made
plans for a tremendous influx
of college students during the
next decade.
Tracy E. Strevey, dean of the
College of Letters, Arts and
Sciences at the University of
Southern California, told the
group . that in dealing with stu
dents, "We are dealing with our
most important resource.
"It is our youth the oncom
ing generations of young people
who are currently progressing
through our schools who in
their day will determine the
destiny of r.ur country and prob
ably that of the world," he said
President O. Meredith Wilson
of the University of Oregon was
scheduled to speak later in the
day, and Utah Gov. George D.
Clyde will deliver the closing
address tonight.
Air Force Calls for
Bids at Camp Adair
Portland (U.R) The Air
Force has announced it will re
ceive bids May 2 for construc
tion of a sage defense facility at
Camp Adaii, near Albany. Plans
have been issued to six selected
contractors.
Tne project win include a
four-story central building and
a two-story powerhouse. Both
buildings will be reinforced con
crete with insulated built-up
roofs.
' Other facilities will include
paved access roads, fencing, tow
ers, tanks, boilers, generators
and accessory utilities and simi
lar work.
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Witnesses Testify
Langley Failed To
Stop Gambling '
District Attorney at
Fund-Raising Party
Portland iU.R) Portland
racketeer James B. (Big Jim)
Elkins testified today that
Multnomah County District
Attorney William Langley
took a share of the proceeds
from a private gambling party
at a Portland nightclub Feb.
25, 1955.
Under direct examination,
Elkins said Langley had pro
tested that his share of the
gambling proceeds was "a pid
dling amount."
' Portland (U.R) The state
called more witnesses today to
back up its charges that District
Attorney William Langley fail
ed to prosecut gambling at a
1955 fund-raising party. .
" The state called nine witness
es Wednesday at Langley's trial
on the misdemeanor charge and
indicated it may rest its case to
day. Special Presecutor Elliott
Cummins told the jury of six
men and six women that Lang
ley saw illegal gambling going
on at a party of the Portland
Paint, Lacquer and Varnish
Dealers Association. He said the
district attorney, who also is un
der indictment on several other
counts, failed to move to prevent
it or prosecute any of the opera
tors.
Defense Attorneys K. C. Tan
ner and Richard R. Carney
claimed Langley could not pros
ecute under the law because the
statute said violation does not
apply to charity fund-raising.
The state said high dice and
blackjack were in operation at
the party.
William B. Nettleton testified
he installed two dice and three
"21" tables at the party and
that he obtained them from
racketeer James B. Elkins who
he said bankrolled the opera
tion. Nettleton testified he saw
Langley "out in the foyer, part
of the cocktail lounge, sitting at
a table with a man and a lady
. . . perhaps five minutes." Net
tleton said he now lives at Wa
pato, Wash.
Other witnesses told of see
ing gambling at the party.
Joe Hennessy, a former as
sociate of Nettleton, said he
helped get the gambling tables
ready. Hennessy denied he ever
said he saw Langley at the par
ty. Meanwhile, the county grand
jury went back into session to
day after taking Wednesday off.
In Federal Court a hearing
continued on a motion by Elk
ins and Raymond Clark to sup
press evidence the government
plans to use against them in a
case accusing them of illegal
wiretapping. The hearing might
last until the eve of their trial,
scheduled to start at 10 a. m.
next Tuesday.
Woods Employees
Idle at Coos Bay,
Coos Bay U.R More than
400 woods employees of Weyer
haeuser Timber Company re
fused to go to work today after
a dispute . over working hours
of a nine-man boom crew.
The employees work at Alle
gany in Coos county and are
members of local 2562 of the
AFL-CIO Lumber an " Sawmill
Workers Union.
President Max Barber of the
local said the company tried to
split up the hoars .o have four
men go to work at 7 a.m. and
five at 11 ajn. The crew had
been working with seven men
going to work at 8 a.m. He said
that when they, showed up this
morning the company refused to
let them work unless they split
off.
A. O. Karlen, general man
ager f' the Coos Bay branch of
Weyerhaeuser, said the busses
took the men out and then
brought them back when they
refused to work.
Tulsa, Okla. (U.R) W. G.
Skelly, pioneer oilman and board
chairman of Skelly Oil Co., died
today. ' . -
Saudi Arabia To
Fire on Israeli
Ships in Aqaba
Formal Protest
Against Tanker Filed
By UNITED PRESS
A Cairo newspaper said today
King Saud of Saudi Arabia had
warned Israel that Saudi artil
lery will open fire on any Israeli
ship trying to pass through the
Gulf of Aqaba.
The warn)ng was reported by
the independent newspaper Al
Ahram which also said Saudi
Arabia and. Egypt had protested
formally to the United States
against passage of an American
tanker through the gulf to an
Israeli port.
At the same time an Egyptian
spokesman said Israel had re
fused to withdraw troops from
positions 'in. Egyptian territory
covering the approaches to the
Israeli port bf Eilat at head of
the Gulf ) Aqaba.
In Jordan, where a major po
litical crisis was feared, King
Hussein was reported ' arresting
all known Communists in Am
man and olher Jordan cities in
a desperate effort to stay in
power.
New Cabinet Boycotted
Hussein jJso was reported con
sidering placing his country un
der military government follow
ing the resignation of pro-Soviet
Premier Suleimaan Nabulsi. No
outbreaks were reported, but
Nabulsi has shown before he can
call out mob support from among
the Palestinian refugees if he
needs it.
A dispatch from Amman
one of the few .to penetrate the
heavy censorship there said
King Hussein today asked for
mer Foreign Minister Hussein
Khalidi to torm a new cabinet.
Diplomatic circles predicted ne
would be unable to do so.
The three major parties In
Nabulsi's ' cabinet announced
they would not enter the new
cabinet.-
Syria Would Aid Jordan
A United Press dispatch from
Damascus said Syrian newspap
ers ' expressed fear today that
Israel might "commit aggression
against Jordan" if a conflict
breaks out between Hussein's
and Nabulsi's follower's.
Political circles in Damascus
affirmed that the Syrian Army
was ready to aid Jordan in the
event of an, Israeli attack. -
American Egyptian negotia
tions on operation of the Suez
Canal remained stalemated, and
Cairo reports said Egyptian For
eign Minister Mahmoud Fawri
had used 'the last meeting with
U.S. , Ambassador ' Raymond
Hare to protest against transit
of the Gulf of Aqaba by the Am
erican tanker Kern Hill with
oil for Israel.
Aerobee-HI Rocket
Fired in New Mexico
White Sands Proving Grounds,
N. M. U.PJ The Navy fired an
Aerobee-HI rocket 126 miles
high Thursday in the first test
of sensitive instruments to be
carried in the earth-circling sat
ellite sometime after July.
Electronic devices began send
ing back signals 20 seconds after
launching and officials said they
received 360 seconds of data be
fore the rocket crashed into a
rugged area of the testing
ground, 17 miles from the
launching site.
John W. Townsend, who head
ed the test for the Navy, pro
nounced the first checkout of
the instruments "very success
ful." GAO Considering
Cancelling Contract
Washington U.R A House
Government Operations Subcom
mittee today authorized steps
which could lead to cancellation
of a $834,150 Army clothing
contract held by the family of
Robert Tripp Ross, former as
sistant secretary of defense.
Comptroller General Joseph
Campbell notified the subcom
mittee that his General Account
ing Office will consider can
celling the contract, provided
such action' would not interfere
with an investigation being con
ducted by the ibeommittee.
Subcommittee Chairman Chet
Holifield (D - Calif.) promptly
gave Campbell a go-ahead.
"Any action which the Comp
troller General might contem
plate will not affect the com
mittee's investigation," Holifield
said.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York (U.R) Dow-Jones
final averages: 30 industrials
484.70, off 0.47; 20 railroads
147.11, off 0.27; 15 utilities 71.50,
up 0.14, and 65 stocks 170.80,
off 0.09. Sales Thursday were
about 2,350,000 shares compared
with 2,920,000 shares Wednes
day- ,
"I Said, 'How Dare You Have Weapons Like
That'!"
Mm . Ilk"'
Graduation
Will Be Dr.
Dr. Clifford Robinson, super
visor of secondary education,
state department of education,
will speak at commencement ex
ercises for Medford High school
at Hedrick Junior High school
June 6.
Dr. Robinson formerly was
principal at Ashland and Albany
High schools, and has been with
the state department for the past
12 years. He is vice-president of
the national association of sec
ondary' school principals and
consultant for several national
education publications.
Commencement speaker was
announced at a Medford school
board meeting this week.
Building Specialist
School officials announced
that Dr. Keith Goldhammer,
school building specialist with
the University of Oregon, will
meet with local officials and the
board April 17 to discuss a study
and survey of high school build
ing seeds and location. .- - v.
Dr. Goldhammer recently com
pleted a two-year course at the
building and research depart
ment of the school of education
at Stanford university. He just
returned from Little Rock, Ark.;
where he studied building needs
in the Little Rock school system
in cooperation with Kellog Foun
dation, which makes grants for
studies for various phases of ed
ucation. -Negotiations are under way
for an elementary school site in
the northwest portion of the
district, school board officials
said. The board recently pur
chased a seven-acre site in the
southeast portion of the district
from Dr. Ira Phipps for an ele
mentary school.
The site, east of Modoc ave.
at the end of Siskiyou blvd., was
approved by the state depart
ment of education, board mem
bers said.
Preliminary meeting on the
proposed 1957-58 school budget
will be April 24, and the full
budget committee will meet May
2, board members announced. A
budget committee is being ap
pointed, they added.
The board granted a leave of
absence to Gatewood Smith, sci
ence instructor at Hedrick Jun
ior High. . Smith recently re
ceived a scholarship from the
National Science foundation for
advanced 6tudy in science at Ore
gon State college.
The board this week completed
its annual inspection of all school
district buildings and sites, in
cluding the West Side and Oak
Grove facilities, which were con
solidated with the Medford dis
trict last year.
Kiwanians to Name Committee to Study
Problem of 'Obscene' Magazines, Books.
Medford Kiwanis club mem.
bers moved yesterday to have
their board of directors name a
committee to investigate the
problem of "obscene, immoral
and indecent" magazines - and
books on newsstands and to see
what can be done about the
matter.
- Their action . followed a, talk
by Paul Haviland, Medford at
torney, on . "What Our Young
People Are Reading Today."
Displaying covers and tear
sheets from a number of maga
zines, Haviland termed indecent
literature "the most cancerous
thing in our society today." He
declared that such -material
"needs just as much control as
anything that is a blight, on our
society."
Material en Display
Stating that the materials on
display were "picked up from
places - where your kids hang
out," the attorney called upon
Kiwanians to look at such litera
ture in the eyes of young people.
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Speaker
Robinson
, Ten teacher resignations were
accepted by the board, and 11
teachers were elected to serve in
the district.
Resignations accepted were
from . Don Littman, and Mrs.
Kathleen Quinowski, both of
Jackson school; Mrs. Audrey
Berry, Oak Grove school; Ramp
ton Barlow, Hedrick Junior
High; and Miss Joyce Porter,
Miss Carol Stone, Mrs. Hazel
Bosshard, Mrs. Jeanne Nelson,
Steve Bayless and Mrs. Margaret
Brown, all of McLoughlin Junior
High school.
Teachers elected are Mrs. Nan
cy Speight, primary teacher
from Portland public schools;
Mrs. Charlotte Sweet, primary
teacher from Medford; Mrs. Ber
tha Haskins, intermediate from
Medford; Miss Harriett Scrog
gins, speech therapy and special
education, who comes from the
University of Oregon; Mrs. Fran
ces Ruch, High school English.
- Mrs. - Janette Dean, intermed
iate, and Carlyle Dean, junior
high school coach, ; both from
NamrJa, Idaho; Mrs. Joanne
Weatherford, homemaking a t
McLoughlin Junior High, from
Nampa, . Idaho; Miss Patricia
Mounts, girls physical education
and health at Medford High,
from Elmira Union High; Wil
liam Stoughton, art and social
studies -at McLoughlin, from
Brisco elementary school, Ash
land; and Mrs. Myrna Dean. pri
mary. Russian Nuclear
Explosion Delected
Washington iU.r!) Russia
has thundered home its latest
warning of atomic retaliation
wit1, a new nuclear blast.
The Atomic Energy Commis
sion announced Wednesday night
that Russia tested t nuclear
weapon Wednesdays causing a
blast "some what larger" than
earlier ones in the current So
viet test series.
The AEC announcement of the
Soviet test coincided with new
Soviet threats to Middle East
ern friends of the United States
and to West Germany.
Radio Moscow warned the
Middle East Wednesday night
that nations allowing the United
States to establish atomic bases
on their territory would be de
stroyed in event of war. Early
Thursday Radio Moscow warn
ed West Germany .for the second
time in a week that it faces the
possibility of atomic retaliation
if it equips its forces with nu
clear weapons. 4
He stated that persons who as
sert that youngsters can read
the magazines and not get some
ideas from them are "crazy."
Drawing from his experiences
as a lawyer, state police super
intendent and district attorney,
Haviland took the position that
indecent, filthy magazines are
"not merely a symptom" but a
cause, of delinquency and crime.
He maintained that "sex devi
ates are not born. They develop
from things like this."
The attorney contended that
obscene magazines develop sex
desire. He asked, "How are they
(young people) going to release
this' desire?" He warned that
"your kids may be the victims"
of those releasing such desire.
Moral Courage
Haviland brought out that
laws forbidding sale of porno
graphic and immoral literature
are adequate but he pointed to
the need for moral courage to
enforce the laws or otherwise
combat . the . sale of such ma
Misunderstanding
Of Bookkeeping
System Disclosed
Expected Revenue
Said Reason for Delay
Washington U.R President
Eisenhower's budget director has
admitted he helped bring on the
Post Office Department's pres
ent money crisis because he
didn't understand part of the
federal bookkeeping system. .
Budget Director Perciyal F.
Brundage told a House Appropri
ations subcommittee recently
that the post office told him
as early as last July that it
would run out of money this
spring. But he said he kept turn
ing down their request for more
funds.
"I just said no, no, no, no,"
he said.
Brundage was called on' the
carpet by the subcommittee
March 27 to explain why he
didn't pass on the Post Office
Department's request sooner. His
testimony was made public to
day. Postmaster General Arthur E.
Summerfield told Congress last
month that he needed $47 mil
lion in emergency funds to keep
the post office operating through
July. He threatens to curtail
post office services drastically
beginning Saturday unless the
money is forthcoming.
' The full House Appropriations
Committee so far has approved
only $17 million of the request.
The committee is scheduled to
meet again Friday to act on it.
House Democratic Leader John
W. McCormack (Mass.) said a
deficiency appropriation bill,
which will include the postal
appropriation, will be taken up
in the House Monday.
Although the postmaster gen
eral hasn't said so; members as
sume that Summerfield will de
lay the postal cutbacks if the
committee gives him approxi
mately what he wants.
Expected Revenue Increas
Brundage told the subcommit
tee that the reason he kept re
fusing the post office's request
for additional funds was that he
thought there would be an in
crease in postal revenues of $20
million.
Brundage, who was appointed
budget director in April, 1956,
after serving as deputy director
two years, said he thought the
increase would be turned in to
the postal agency for its use.
He admitted that a staff mem
ber of the House Appropriations
Committee had to explain to him
that the extra revenue "would
not help" - because postal reve
nues are turned in to the Treas
ury just as are other funds col
lected by the government. Any
money to operate the post office
still must be appropriated by
Congress.
. Brundage s-id that finally his
staff recommended he approve
the $47 million request and he
did so "reluctantly" MarcJr 12.
But "I still am not entirely
satisfied that they could not
make some savings there," he
told the subcommittee. "I just
don't have time to go into it my
self in detail."
Brookings Girl Dies
After Heart Massagea
Gold Beach, Ore. (U.R) A six-
year-old Brcokings girl died in
a local hospital Wednesday after
a physician had started her heart
beating again by massaging it.
The girl was Linda Nichols,'.
daughter of Mrs. Lola Nichols.
The girl s tonsils were re
moved Wednesday morning. La
ter, in her hospital . room, her
heart stopped beating. She was
rushed to surgery and a physi
cian massaged her heart until it
began eating cgain. However,
she died about -4:45 p.m. in her
room.
Her mother said the eirl had
been in ill health previously.
terial.
The speaker told of the need
for a businessman to be. as care
ful with his newsstand as he is
in removing "bad apples." He
expressed the belief that some
merchants "don't know what
they are putting out." Haviland
mentioned the matter of having
merchants take care of the prob
lem themselves. 'They are per
sonally responsible," he said.
Haviland spoke of the efforts
along other lines-, to meet
juvenile problems and declared
that the good done can be wiped
out from the "poison" in obscene
magazines and books.
In discussion at the meeting,
one Kiwanian with a back
ground in handling magazines,
stressed that "all . magazines
aren't bad." Another, who has
a newsstand, stated that it was
the adults who wanted the maga
zines and that to correct the
problem it's the adults who must
be controlled. He said he had no
problem with young people.