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52nd Year Subscribers To report Improper or non-delivery of the Mail Tribune in Medford ohone 2-6141. Ashland 3-1021 Vreka 841W before 6:45 P-m. daily and 10:30 a.m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives short ly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. - Recommended Medford RIBU The f!rt In a series of stories discussing agriculture In Jack son county appear on page 14 of todays Mail Tribune. United Press Full Leased Wire United P Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, APRIL .14, 195? 60 PAGES No. 20 r Rackets Committee May Unfold 'Goon Squad7 in Hearing Scranton, Pa., Phase To Start This Week Washington U.R) The Sen ate Labor Rackets committee will unfold a case study of coer cion and "goon squad" violence in public hearings this week in the Scranton, Pa., area, chair man John L. McClellan dis closed Saturday. Briefing newsmen on the com mittee's forthcoming hearings, the Arkansas Democrat said the series "involves conspiracy be tween officials of different un- ions, violence and coercion that deprived members of their un ion rights." 'Use of Thrtat lne use of threat and vio lence would appear to be very prominent in this," he said. He estimated the Scranton phase of the committee's much publicized hearings will take three or four days and involve 12 to 15 witnesses. It is under stood to involve use of violence by union officials to force their way into construction jobs and to discipline balking members. McClellan said "there also has been evidence of violence in other areas" in which the committee is investigating. Committee Counsel Robert F. Kennedy said the "activities of a goon squad" are at the center of the picture which the com mittee plans to present starting Tuesday. Goon Squad Operations The goon squad operations, McClellan said, involve the use of violence against management groups as well as labor union members. He said one aspect of the case "will present a very grave ques tion of ethics." He said union of ficials who have been convicted in court of "offenses that should disqualify them for holding of fice" are still in their posts ex ercising as great or greater con trol tnan before their convic tions. , ; , r As it did in the committee's five week series of hearings, McClellan said the Teamsters union the nation's largest will figure in the Scranton in quiry. He said three AFL-CIO building trades unions also will be involved. Kennedy identified them as the Carpenters and Common La borers unions and the Interna tional Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. State Institution Interest Defended Salem OJ.R) Gov. Robert D. Holmes Saturday defended his record of interest in state insti tutions from charges made by Secretary of State Mark Hat field. ' Hatfield claimed the governor had violated the requirement that every board of control mem ber visit state institutions every 90 days. Governor Holmes said he had visited all state institutions ex cept the Pendleton mental hos pital before taking office. He added that in 1953 he served as chairman of the Ways and Means Subcommittee which studied in stitution budgets. . "At that time it was general ly agreed I showed more interest in institutions than anyone else," he said. The governor added that he was particularly active in get ting money for the state tuber culosis program. Mass Rally Scheduled In Portland Today Portland U.R Rank-and-file committee representing Teamsters in southwest Wash- ton and Oregon completed the drafts of resolution to be pre sented at a mass rally in a pub lic auditorium in Portland to day Robert Miller, chairman of the committee, said the mass meet ing was organized after the Ore gon Joint Council ot teamsters "turned down a petition calling for a meeting of the rank and file." Miller said officers will be elected to replace th temporary committee now headed by him. Miller added, "we want to ad vise the rank and file as to what is being done to correct the situ ation." United Nations, N. Y. JU.R) Secretary General Dag Ham marskjold probably will turn down a belated invitation to visit Communist Hungary, ob servers said Saturday. "Who's 13 Dead After Fire Guts Home for Aged Montreal U.R Fire turn ed a 200-year-old suburban home for the aged into a stone-encased inferno last night, fatally burn ing more than one-third of the Father, Daughter Killed in Crash South of Dunsmuir A. E. Pisch, 51, and his daugh ter, Marjorie, 5, were killed in an automobile accident about four miles south of Dunsmuir, Calif., according to reports made by friends heraturday. T Injured in the same accident were Mrs. Pisch, 46, and Ray Wyatt. 62, proprietor of the Ta ble Rock store north of the Rogue river. Mr. and Mrs. Pisch, whose home is in Hayward, Calif., re cently acquired a cabin on the north slope of Table Rock, and planned to construct a home there, friends in the area report ed. They had been frequent vis itors in recent months. Critical Condition Mrs. Pisch was said to be in critical condition in Community Hospital at Mt. Shasta, Wyatt was in the same hospital with a fractured skull, broken arm, and cuts and.bruises, the reports indicated. The Pisches were en route to their home in Hayward, accom panied by Wyatt, who was going to visit his son, Kenneth, at San Lorenzo, Calif. They were travel ling in the Pisches' ear, a 1953 station wagon. According to re ports reaching here, the car struck the under part of a lum ber truck trailer, which had jackknifed in the highway ahead of them. The car was said to have been demolished. Friends said the Pisches are believed to have had four chil dren other than the little girl who was killed. First Vertijet Plane Makes Successful Test San Diego (U.P.) Ryan Aeronautical company announc ed Saturday its radical new X 13 vertijet plane, which can takeoff and land vertically, had undergone successful flight tests at Edwards Air Force base, Calif. A Ryan spokesman said the turbojet plane made a vertical takeoff Thursday, went through horizontal flight tests and then returned to the air force base where it made a vertical land ing. The X-13 is the first ver tical takeoff-landing plane using a turbo-jet engine. Medford Police Arrest Six Boys in Connection With Recent Thefts Medford police cleared a re ported break and entry and a series of thefts of articles rang ing from hubcaps to a 1957 au tomobile Friday after arresting six juvenile boys. Thefts last January of five hubcaps from cars owned by Dan A. Parker, 235 South Oak dale ave., and Earl A. Mercer, 1414 East Euclid ave., were re portedly admitted by a youth who was arrested with two com panions for discharging fire arms within the city limits. The boys, ages 15, 16 and 17, were arrested Friday after of ficers received a complaint that Ahead?" 38 trapped pensioners and at tendants as they slept. Morgue officials rerted .16 dead after a check of the charr ed ruins of the Henri Old Per sons' home. Police said 14 bodies were recovered from the black ened wreckage of the ancient building, and two other victims died after being taken to hospi tals. Officials of the home said the 18-room converted mansion in suburban Pointe Aux Trembles housed 30 pensioners from 55 to 80 years old, and 8 attendants. The survivors were rushed to a nearby hospital. Their condi tions were not disclosed. Fire Chief Iuc Delorme said the fire was "the wor.i in my 32 years with the department." Del orme -said the victims "died in their beds" Out of Control The fire started about 7:10 p.m. FST and raged out of con trol for five hours through the isolated home. The roof of the structure col lapsed shortly after firemen ar rived at the scene, hampering rescue and search operations. Firement indicated the blaze apparently spread through the old stone building within min utes after it broke out. They said it was believed to have started in the electrical wiring, which carried the fire like fuses to all parts of the structure. U.S. Responds to Red Search Appeal Washington-AU.R) The Unit ed States has ordered American Navy patrol planes to search for three Russian seamen who dis appeared from a Russian motor launch in the Denmark 'Straits April 2, the state department disclosed Saturday. The search' was ordered in response to an appeal Friday by the Soviet Embassy here in the hope the men may still be alive on ice floes in Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland, where their boat went down. Upon receipt of the request, made by Soviet Embassy Coun selor Sergei R. Striganov, the state department contacted the defense department, which is sued instructions to authorities at the Keflavik, Iceland, air base. Acting state department Press Officer Luther J. Reid said U.S Navy air patrols operating in the Denmark Straits have been ordered to search for the seamen. He said the United States is "extremely eager" to meet the Soviet request. three youths were shooting at birds on Crater Lake ave., north of Spring st. They were taken to the police station, where one of the boys also admitted the hubcap thefts. The three were cited to appear in municipal court with their parents at 8:30 a.m., Monday, on the firearms charge. A 16-year-old Medford boy re portedly admitted to officers Friday that' he broke into the Courtesy Chevrolet establish ment, 425 Modoc ave., in Febru ary and stole a 1957 four-door sedan, which he said he drove 35 miles. The abandoned ve hicle was recovered by police HouseMemberAsks Resignation of Postmaster-General Lesinski Says He Should Be Prosecuted Washington '(U.P.) Rep. John Lesinski (D-Mich.), A member of the House Post Office commit tee, demanded Saturday that Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield resign for halting Saturday mail deliveries and making other cutbacks in postal service. Furthermore, Lesinski said, Summerfield should be prosecut ed under the anti-deficiency law, which is designed to punish gov ernment officials who so mis handle their agencies'1 money that acute shortages result. Summerfield ordered the ser vice cutback on grounds that his department has nearly run out of money and Congress hat not yet voted it more. Maximum Penalty The maximum penalty on con viction under the anti-deficiency law is a $5,000 fine and two years of imprisonrhent. Lesinski's was the second de mand by a member of the post office committee for Summer field's resignation and prosecu tion. A similar one was made on Tuesday by Rep. Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.). Meanwhile, Summerfield made good on his threat to halt reg ular mail deliveries yesterday and follow this up with other postal service cutbacks Monday because Congress failed to give his department an extra $47,000, 000 in operating funds. Across the nation, post offices closed and letter carriers failed to make their appointed rounds. Only a trickle of mail, most of its special delivery letters, got through. Chairman Clarence Cannon of the house appropriations com mittee charged that Summerfield "had no justification whatever" for cutting postal services. 'Cash on Hand ' . .' "" He said the post office depart ment actually has $449,180,000' "cash on hand" to keep it run ning until July 1 when it will get its annual appropriation for the new fiscal year. Summerfield has insisted that he cannot count on actually get ting the extra funds, however, until' both House and Senate approve the committee action. The shutdown began to create a heavy backlog of mail in the post offices of larger cities. This resulted because even . though post office windows were closed the lobbies remained open for depositing letters and collecting mail in drop boxes. " If the backlog is heavy enough, mail that normally would be de livered on Saturday will be de layed in reaching its' destination in some cases for several days. Subscribers May Get Friday Paper Monday About 600 subscribers to the Mail Tribune in Jackson county, and about 300 outside the coun ty, who have U.S. mail-delivered subscriptions, probably will re ceive their Friday and Sunday papers at the same time. With Saturday deliveries cut off by the post office depart ment, and none made on Sun day, the Friday papers going out by mail will not be delivered until the first regular delivery Monday. The 900 mail subscribers to the paper from only a small part of the total number of subscrib ers, which amounts to almost 17,000. Most of these are deliv ered by carriers, either boys on bikes, or mounted carriers on the rural routes. New Delhi U.R Indian archeologists have unearthed a 2.300 vear-old city complete with dockyard and modern-style underground drainage. Juvenile on West 10th st., between Ivy st. and Oakdale ave., Feb. 15. The same youth admitted at tempting to break into the Thrift Auto Supply building, 409 North Riverside ave., in February, police said. He was remanded to juvenile author ities. Two other Medford boys, ages 15 and 16, admitted Friday they took a manifold valued at $100 last month from a- garage at the residence of James William Young, 518 South Oakdale ave., according to police. They also were remanded to juvenile authorities. Jtrdliim F' jTth' W1V if l --WM &f jWKr m: 7 ii " i J-mmm-J J JE 7 :77 "5 'in will MSiiiniissfliinwl'' 'ms'i 1 n iwiil'l' i Lswi'lirM '11 7" jw"''' , (Jtiisslr JUDGE TAKES OFFICE James M. Main, Medford attorney, appointed by Qov. Robert Holmes to succeed the late Judge Rawles Moore took the oath of office at the court house Friday afternoon in a ceremony con LAfJGL Jury Deliberates Hour. 40 Minutes k Multnomah Case Portland k'U.R) District -Attorney William M. Langley was found guilty Saturday of a charge that he was negligent in failing to prosecute a gambling operation at a private fund-raising party. The verdict by a circuit court jury of six men and six women came at 3:03 p.m. after one hour and 40 minutes of deliberation. It was the first case to come to trial out of indictments by a vice probing Multnomah county grand jury. Failing to Prosecute The 41-year-old District At torney was charged specifically with failing to prosecute Wil liam B. Nettleton; a former Portland gambler, with setting up and operating gambling at a charity bazaar sponsored by the Portland Paint and Varnish deal ers in February,. 1955. The jury verdict was" 11 to 1 on he misdemeanor charge. Defense Attorney K. C Tan ner immediately : asked Judge Frank J. Lonergan for an arrest of judgment which the . judge granted. While the jury verdict will be filed, the arrest motion means that no judgment by the court will be entered until Mon day. . Judge Lonergan set April 26 as tentative date for sentencing Langley. Littla Outward Emotion The district attorney, untler other indictments by the. Grand Jury, showed little outward emotion as the jury's verdict was read. It was the first of seven in dictments against Langley to be taken into court and it brought a direct clash between the em battled district . attorney and Racketeer James B. (Little Jim) Elkins, a recent star witness be fore the Senate Rackets Investi gating Committee. Elkins testified that he put up $5,000 to bankroll the gambling operation at a fund-raising party of the Portland Paint and Varn ish. Dealers in 1955. He said he grossed "about $600." Langley, the Portland vice overlord testi fied, took a cut of the proceeds and later complained about it being "a piddling amount." Langley denied he ever took any money from Elkins and ac tually was not well acquainted with him. "I despised Elkins tne first time I saw him," Langley told the jury. . 'Neither Rain Nor Snow . . . Knoxville, Tnn., OJ.R) The Knoxville News-Sentinel Saturday printed this headline apropos of the postal stoppage on its front page: . 'Neither rain Nor Snow . . .' But money can." EY FOUND Boundary Board Sets Hearing on Petitions The Jackson county district boundary board will meet Tues day, April '23, to consider sev eral petitions requesting changes in boundary lines of the Medford and Lone Pine school districts, according to Alf B. Mekvold, county school superintendent and secretary to the board. Mekvold said the reason for considering boundary . changes was due to the recent purchase of a future high school site of the Medford school district. At present the property "is within the Lone Pine school district, and the petition was submitted to include the area into the Med ford area. Location of Site The site is located between Springb'rook rd. and Crater Lake ave., Buckshot Hill rd., and Roberts rd. The second petition under con sideration is for 6 acres which was transferred from the old Kenwood district to Medford in 1952, Mekvold said. The purpose of the transfer at that time was to give Medford an additional school building site. Mekvold in dicated it was later learned the site could not be used because it was in line with the Medford airport flight approach pattern. The petition requests the prop- Annual Kiwanis Club Easter Egg Hunt Set Medford Kiwanis club will hold its annual Easter egg hunt Saturday, April 20, at Haw thorne park. Starting time will be 9 a.m. Cochairmen Norm Buvick and Darrell Miller said that all chil dren of the Medford vicinity are invited to participate. Three separate areas will be set up for the hunt,' one each for children 1 to 3, 4 to 6 and 7 to 9 years of age. The chair men said that an ample supply of eggs will be scattered in each area, giving all youngsters an opportunity to find some. Specially marked eggs entitle finders to prizes. will Eden Undergoes Major Operation Boston U.R) Sir Anthony Eden underwent his fourth ma jor operation in as many years Saturday for removal of a bile duct obstruction that had caused fever attacks. He was reported in good condition. Lahey clinic surgeon Dr. Rich ard B. Cattell operated on the former British prime minister at New England Baptist hospital. A medical bulletin issued two hours after the operation said the site of theobstruction had been found in the right hepatic duct and the constricted area was delated, or expanded. veminniera ducted by County Clerk Bereth Hopkins. Witnesses were, left to right, County Clerk Deputies Lucile Smith and Doreen Strauss. His appointment will be effective until Janu ary, 1959. GUILTY erty be returned to the Lone Pine district. When the Kenwood district was dissolved last year, the portion would have gone to Lone Pine if it had not been part of Medford. The change of boun daries would return it to Lone Pine. The site is between Rob erts rd., Crater Lake highway, Whittle ave., and Crater Lake ave. There are no residences nor school population involved. Mekvold said the hearing scheduled at 10 a.m. April 23. is Spring Cold Wave Hits East Coast BY UNITED PRESS A record-breaking spring cold wave spread over the eastern seaboard Saturday while temper atures moderated over the cen tral and northern plains. A team of four icebreakers freed five of nine ice-bound freighters in Whitefish Bay near Sault Ste. Marie. The Coast Guard said the, other stranded ships must be broken loose be fore great lakes shipping can be resumed. In addition, 22 more freighters were waiting in lower St. Mary's river to move through the Soo locks into Lake Superior where another 13 freighters were stand ing by to move through a nar row shipping lane cut in the ice three feet thick to the locks. A hard freeze was expected from the New England states southward to South Carolina and Georgia by Sunday morning due to a disturbance several hundred miles off the. North- Carolina coast. , . Viet Nam May Seek More Aid From U.S. Washington U.R) President Ngo Dinh Diem of - South -Viet Nam is expected to ask for a substantial increase in American aid when he visits President Eis enhower here next month. The American - backed leader is due May 8. He is said to antici pate increased Communist activ ity in southeast Asia which will make necessary heavier expend itures by anti-red regimes in that area. South Viet Nam is at present receiving about $280 million a year in U. S. military and eco nomic aid. Viet Namese officials say the Communist - controlled northern part of the country is getting much more than that from the Communists. Berlin XU.R) The East Ger man Communist Workers mil itia waged mock war against "counter - revolutionaries" ' in East Berlin Saturday to practice for any Hungarian-style uprising. Former Defense Minister Opposes Ike's New Doctrine Syrian Troops Move Into Jordan Beirut, Lebanon U,R A Syrian radio announcement said Saturday that anti-western' for mer defense minister Abdul Halim Nimr has succeeded' in forming a new government for Jordan and has presented his cabinet list to King Hussein. It would oppose the Eisenhower doctrine. Simultaneously, diplomatic sources in the Jordanian capital of Amman said an armored bat talion of Syrian troops moved into Northern Jordan to rein force another 3,000 Syrian troops which have been station ed there since the Suez crisis last fall. Demonstrations Anti-American demonstrations erupted throughout Jordan. Jor danians paraded in Amman, Bethlehem, Jerusalem and else where in orderly but noisy pa rades chanting slogans against the Eisenhower doctrine. The tiny kingdom, wracked by a political crisis resulting from Hussein's search for a middle-of- the road government leaning away from Russia, was hemmed in by the troops of three of its neighbors. Saudi Arabia also has 3,000 troops stationed in southern Jor dan. King Saud supports Hus sein. .Israel, alarmed by the Jor danian crisis, warned through foreign minister Mrs. Golda Meier yesterday than any "false moves" by Arab troops in Jor- Jdan could result in Israeli ac tion. Reports Ridiculous However, sources in Amman said that an armored Syrian re giment had "invaded" Jordan were "ridiculous." They said a single armored battalion with Soviet-supplied T-34 tanks was moving in under Jordan's mu tual aid pact with Syria and Egypt. Nevertheless, Hussein was re ported opposed to the presence of Syrian troops. It appeared that the young monarch had lost out to the anti-western and pro Syrian and Egyptian elements led by ousted Premier Suleiman Nabulsi. . The king called in Nimr. the defense minister in the Nabulsi cabinet and a member of Nabul si's National front (Socialist) par ty after failing in efforts to or ganize a more moderate govern ment. Attempt to Blow Up Recording House Told An apparent attempt to blow up a water recording house on Biddle rd., north of the Cali fornia Oregon Power company sub-station, was reported to Sheriff Howard Gault Friday by the Jackson county water master. The attempt was believed to have been made sometime last week. It was discovered when officials made a routine check of instruments in the structure Friday. Deputies said some boards from a walk in front of the building had been torn away by the blast, but the building itself apparently was not damaged. Part of a fuse was found lying on the premises. Deputies said they were unable to determine what type of explosive had been used. . Weather FORECAST: Rain this morning turning to showers this after noon and tonirht. A few showers and occasional sun ny periods Monday. Cooler, temperatures with highs both days near Si. Low tonight near 38. Temp. Highest Yesterday ; R0 Lowest this Morning 27 Our Skies Tonight" Sunrise S 3J a.m. Sunset :52 .p.m. 7:36 p.m. April 21 Moon rise , Last Quarter PROMINENT STAR Aldebaran. sets 9:51 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Mercury, sets : S.0S p.m. Mars, above Aldeharan. Jupiter, high In ' southeast 8:12,pm. Saturn, rises 11:16 p.m.
