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The f!rt In a series of stories
discussing agriculture In Jack
son county appear on page 14
of todays Mail Tribune.
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No. 20
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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.
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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.