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52nd Year ce 10 Subscribers To report improper or non-delivery of the Mail ' Tribune in Med (ord phone SP 2-6141. Ashland MU 2-1021. Yreka 841W before 6:45 p.m. daily and 1030 a.m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives short ly after you call please notify of fice thus eliminating special mes senger service. Recommended MEBFQRB A story ihoot an Ashland Arm which started miklni boats to develop a log-Huoiul in dustry appears on pf II of today's Mall Tribune. - w United Press Full Leased Wire . Full Leased Wire 50 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 5, 1957 No. 38 m Beck, Teamsters Leaders Meet to Get United Front Preparing to Appear Before AFL-CIO Group Washington OJ.R Dave Beck and other Teamsters Union leaders are expected to try to work out a united front today against AFL-CIO charges that the big union may be dominated by corrupt influences. The union's 13-man executive board will hold its extraordin ary Sunday meeting to prepare for an appearance Monday be fore the AFL-CIO ethical prac tices committee to face the charges. The committee's inquiry could lead to an AFL-CIO ultimatum to the Teamsters to "clean house" or get out of the AFL CIO. The meeting today could be 'particularly crucial for Beck. The AFL-CIO investigation of the union involves his admitted "borrowing" of more than $300, 000 of . union funds without in terest and his refusal to answer Senate Labor Rackets committee questions on charges that he used union money for personal matters. Discuss Rebuff The teamsters leaders also are supposed to discuss AFL-CIO President George Meany's rebuff of protests against the suspen sion of Beck as an AFL-CIO vice president on the same charges. The AFL-CICv executive council has asked Beck to appear for trial as an AFL-CIO officer on May 20. The portly union president Fri day was still campaigning for reelection at the union's Sep tember convention despite signs that his leadership may be de teriorating and despite his arrest earlier in the day on income tax evasion charges. The meeting today will start a strenuous week for Beck. He also has been summoned to ap pear again before the Senate committee on Wednesday to hear what the committee calls additional "derogatory informa tion." The beleaguered Beck, after posting $5,000 bond on the tax evasion indictment, attended on Atlantic City, NJ-, meeting of Eastern Teamsters officials to bolster his support. He told them, at a closed meet ing, of the growth in finances and members of the union under his leadership and said "if you can find anyone who can do a better job than I have done, go ahead and elect him. Construction Starts On Medical Buildi Construction of a $100,000 moriiral office building opposite the Medical-Dental building on East Main st., got under way Thursday. The structure will' be owned -Profpssional Properties Inc., of Medford. It will be a single story Haydite block building of about 6.000 square feet. Office facilities are plan ned for six physicians, accord William Brooks of Med ford, contractor for the project. Completion of the building is .iannH for September or Oc tober, Brooks said. Brooks also was contractor for the Meaicai rental huildine. Parking facilities for the estab lishment will accommodate more than 100 cars. The parking area will include a one-way drive from Main st. to layior st. - nii hnuse on the construc tion site was razed several ' months ago in preparation for the project. Thousands File Past Bier of Joe McCarthy The body WdSlJU - - - - of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, the ...u-. Wamp a hero and an man vvnv epithet, lay in state Saturday at a Pennsylvania ave. lunerai nome iioiim"s Thousands of friends, associ ates and the simply curious were expected to file past the bier of the 47-year-old Republican be . ' r,rai services are held Monday in the Senate The fun eral home was m-hu. ,pen to the puDiic i- nours 9nH Sunday. ill noj " - . . senators, cab drivers and tprf socialites were . ih fii-d norenns who naia among m- their final respects to McCarthy Friday night when his body was . 1,j Tiiihlie view. flpSl UldLCM Vn Z McCarthy, who died Thursday night at nearoy cemma , ..,-, hrnueht durine the dav to Joseph Gawler s Sons " ,, - -.tvi Funeral ieme a the White House where McCar NicaraguaGovernment Claims Honduras Air Force Attacks Towns Tgucigalpa, Honduras U.R) The Nicaragua government said planes of the Honduras Air Force attacked two Nicaraguan border villages Saturday. Nicar aguan radio stations called im mediately for "total war." A Managua government com munique reported the attack after a 10-man fact-finding mis sion from Washington flew to Honduras Saturday to try to find out just what is going on along the disputed border. The Managua communique said the Honduran planes at tacked the town of Mocoron and the hamlet of Laimon. Unoffic ial sources said Laimon suffer ed "numerous casualties.'' Challenge Raiders The communique did not dis close the number of planes that took part in the attack or whether the planes used bombs or machineguns on the village. It said planes of the Nicaragua Air Force challenged the raid ers in an aerial dog fight. Radio stations called for "to tal war," and some sources said reinforcements left for the bor der with tanks and heavy ar tillery. Ricardo M.' Arias of Panama, chairman of the team sent to Tegucigalpa by the organization of American States (Pan-American Union), said earlier yester day he believed the situation was improving. Both Honduras and Nicaragua promised to co operate with the OAS mission, which includes officials of five western hemisphere nations. Confusion continued to veil the exact state of affairs on the "Mosquito Coast," a border strip some 12 miles wide which has been claimed by both Nicaragua and Honduras for more than a century.. The entire Tegucigalpa police force has left for tne front." High school students took over the task of directing traffic here Saturday. Somoza said every inch of territoryt hat Nicaragua is hold ing is that country's legitimate property. He said any Honduran attempt to "trespass" on the dis puted zone would be considered an act of aggression." Gen. Roque - Rodriguez, . a Tax Bill Is Due For Opposition Salem (U.R) The Demo cratic tax program which passed the Oregon House Mast week Is due-- for some more opposition this time from one of its own members. Sen. Ben Musa, The Dalles Democrat and vice-chairman of the Senate Taxation committee, announced Saturday he is oppos ed to the bills "with its present tax structure. The bill would repeal the 45 rw?r cent ' surtax, increase ex- emntions from S500 to $600 and allow' rates ranging from four per cent to 11.6 per cent. How ever, the offset for federal tax es paid was retained in the law. Sen. Bpn Musa wants to ab olish the offset, keep the person al exemptions at $500 and to set up tax rates ranging from two to eight per cent. Sports Bulletins Portland (U.R) Six Port land errors plus 11 hits off eight Portland pitchers en abled the Sacramento Solons to defeat Portland, 15-6. last night in Multnomah Stadium and even the series at two games apiece. Seattle (U.R) Seattle bunts helped along by loose San Francisco infield play enabled tha Rainier to defeat the Seals 5-1 last night and take a 4-2 edge in the eight-came Pacific Coast league series. Richards Arrives in Tunisia En Route Home Tunis. Tunisia U.R U.S sDecial Eisenhower doctrine en voy James P. Richards arrived in Tunisia Saturday for a two- day visit before flying home to report to the president on his Middle East mission. Richards and a party of eight officials landed at El Aouina air field after a flight from Athens, Greece. He will make a final ex planation of the Eisenhower doc trine to Tunisian officials before flying on Monday. London U.R A London newspaper identified engineer ing Inspector Ian Shaw, 42, Sat urday as a leader of the Ku Kliut Klan in Britain. member of the three-man mili tary junta that governs Hondur as, retorted that this country is "engaged in a military operation to drive out the Nicaraguan in vaders." "If Nicaraguan planes drop bombs on our cities, the Hon duran Air Force will retaliate bv bombing military objectives in Managua," he said. '- DONALD B. WHALIN . Lumber Division Head Whalin Named to Head UMC Division Donald B. Whalin, 300 Wind sor ave., has been appomted lumber division leader for the 1957 United Medford Crusade, according to Robert A. Johnson, UMC general chairman. -t . Whalin is timber manager at Timber Products company. He is president of the Southern Ore gon Conservation and Tree Farm association, active in the First Presbyterian church, member of the county planning commission and executive officer of a local Army Reserve unit. He is also area leader and treasurer of the Jackson county Republican cen tral committee. After graduating from Am herst college, Whalin enlisted in the Connecticut National Guard and served five years in the in fantry in World War II, includ ing 18 months in the European theater of operations. Whalin and his wife, Lois, have two daughters, Barbara and Charlotte. Chosen to assist in the lumber division campaign are S. V. Mc Queen, assistant division lead er; R. J. Hogue, lumber mills; G. T. Haupert, loggers; Robert C. Taylor, wholesale lumber; and Riley C. Cook, retail umber. Finnish Freighter Sinks in Atlantic New 'York (U.R) The Fin nish freighter Bornholm sank Saturday in the mid-Atlantic minutes after her 28 crew mem bers were rescued by the Coast Guard cutter Duane. The Coast Guard here said there were no injuries. The crew was aboard the cutter eight minutes before the freight er sank. Early Friday the 342-foot freighter, bound for Wilming ton, Del., radioed that it was "leaking badly." The Duane, on a weather, search and rescue pa trol out of - Boston, picked up the distress signal and sped to the scene. Effects of Effects of the admittance to the United Nations of 21 new member-nations were discussed by Dr. Charles P. Schleicher at the annual meeting of the Med ford League of Women Voters yesterday. About 50 persons here for the annual convention of the Oregon United Nations association were special guests. Dr. Schleicher, professor of political science at the Univer sity of Oregon, recently spent a year in India as a Fullbright professor at AHahad university. He is on the executive commit tee of the Oregon association of UN. The professor explained eight effects which might result from the new members' admission to the UN. "The day is passed," he de clared, "when the United States can ba assured of an aromatic AEC Calls Hearing Into Why Report Of Accident Late Four Houston Men 'Burned' by Element Houston, Tex. (U.R) The Atomic Energy commission sum moned the officials of a Houston nuclear laboratory Saturday to a May 22 laring in Washington to explain why they waited 29 days to report that a dangerous radioactive element had gotten loose and "burned" four men. It was learned that the acci dent was the second in a year at the M. W. Kellogg company, which used radioactive iridium 192 to check steel construction material for flaws. Two men were burned earlier on the hands while handling radioactive co balt. First Accident The first accident was worse than the second. A doctor who treated the two men burned ear lier plant superintendent James Martin and technician J. C. Wil liams said their hands looked "just like hot grease had been poured over them." The blisters healed and they returned to work. Later, the blood supply to their fingers was constricted and "day ulcers" de veloped. The ulcers were excised and skin grafted over their fin gers so they could work again. It could not be determined whether this accident was re ported to the AEC. But the sec ond accident, which happened March 13, was not reported un til 29 days later. Dr. Willard F. Libby, a mem ber of the AEC, said there will be a full-scale investigation to find out why. Attempted Measures S. B. Converse, an official of the Kellogg compaffy from New York, said the accident was not reported sooner because "we at tempted our own control mea sures. : '.'But the control was not ad equate," he said. "As soon as we saw it was inadequate, we notified the AEC." The four men and the whole laboratory were contaminated when a safety clutch mechan ism used to handle the iridum 192 slipped and cut into a can nister of pellets. The men were immediately sworn to secrecy and put under continuing medical checkups to detect any symptoms of radio active poisoning. . But they apparently received only small doses and there was no outward sign they were "burned." New York Police Fear Gangland War New York (U.R) Police feared Saturday that a gangland war might erupt in the wake of the abortive assassination at tempt against reputed rackets czar Frank Costello. Without suspects or motives, a squad of 66 detectives tried to track down the burly gunman who Thursday night fired One shot that creased the scalp of the erstwhile underworld king as he entered the foyer of his apartment building. They feared, however, that gangsters either friends of the 66-year-old Costello or members of the assassin's own mob would get to the gunman first. Authorities based their theory on the belief that the assassin, hav ing failed in his mission, was marked to die by those who hired him. Police were convinced that the attempt on the life of the rack ets kingpin was a carefully-plan ned, professionally - executed scheme. But they were at a loss for a. motive. 21 New UN majority" in its "UN activities, and we must now modify our proposals or give them up." The United States now can almost always block anything proposed in the UN, "but not always," he said. He predicted that the Soviet Union will not be any better off now by the increased mem bership, and added that "it may be that on important matters the great powers may tend to do more business outside the UN." Until there is a satisfactory "substitute for force," Dr. Schleicher said the world can not expect an end to armed con flict "We have gone further against the use of force than we have provided a substitute." The general assembly may be moved toward a working com promise, "rather than the "hol low voting victories," and be come, less of a propaganda Mew lrll American Newsman Roughed Up During Recording Attempt High School Girls Against Doctrine Damascus, Syria U.R) Syr ians shouted anti-American slo gans Saturday and roughed up an American newsman but other wise failed to show much inter est in by-elections billed as an important test of Communism. The American newsman was roughed up when he tried to tape-record shouts by high school girls against the Eisenhower doc trine. Police spared" another news man from mob attack only by explaining to frenzied crowds that he was a German and not an American. The ominous anti-American feelings erupted during parlia mentary by-elections that provid ed the first test of strength be tween Syrian left and . right wingers since the upheaval in neighboring Jordan. ' But despite the heated emo tions only 24 per ' cent . of the electorate had balloted by poll- closing time and the government decreed the election will contin ue today. . i The first target of anti-Ameri can feeling was Welles Hangen, National Broadcasting company correspondent. An angry youth tried to grab the tape-recorder which Hangen was using to record shouts against the Eisenhower doctrine. The American newsman's clothes were , torn and his-notebook dis appeared in the scuffle. Later, Hans Hartmann, staff television cameraman covering the elections for United Press- Movietone news, had to show his German passport to escape mob anger. Police assigned Hartmann a detective bodyguard who fol lowed him on the rounds of poll ing places. Work on County Budget Completed The Jackson county budget committee Friday completed all but signing the 1957-58 county budget. Committee members will meet late this week to sign the budg et after tabulations are finish ed, according to Tom Wray, chairman. After the budget is signed, date for a public hearing will be set. Wray said the committee made a few salary adjustments for em ployees in several departments, including the health department, clerk's office and sheriff's office, The new budget also calls for a $3,000 county parks fund, which would be used to install boat landings and . maintain parks which are not eligible for state funds. Committee members also ap proved purchase of about 90 acres of property at the Hanley ranch near the Jacksonville-Central Point rd. for southern Ore gon branch experiment station agronomic research. Price of the property is between $600 and $650per acre, they said. . Agronomic research is cur rentlv being conducted at a site near Phoenix. Property there has been declared unfit for research projects because a high concen tration of lead arsenate there un dermines effectiveness of experi ments. Members organ. . - Because of the economic sta tus of most the new members, Dr. Schleicher said there is in creasing pressure for the UN to be more concerned with eco nomic and social questions. He also forecast increased anti-colonialist voices in the world organization and the pos sibility that USSR might be in fluenced toward greater moder ation in its foreign policy. Dr. Schleicher also discussed membership qualifications of the UN, saying the problem has be come "political rather than legal." He declared that , there was no question of "admitting Communist China," but rather, "What is China?" ' The effects of the new mem bers, many of which are also new nations, will be nominal in the various UN organs, according to Dr. Schleicher, "but will be rpn n Cemtral Tenuis "Look, Lady You Don't See Me Worrying" Attorney General to Be Questioned About Charg es Ag Salem K'U.R) Chairman War ren Gill of the Senate Judiciary committee said Saturday At torney General Robert Y. Thorn ton will be questioned concern ing charges -made against him by the vicei probing Multnomah grand jury. ; The attorney general was the target of a blistering report by the grand jury , which charged the state's top law enforcement officer with "appalling inability" in the - current vice investiga tions. - While the grand jury was pre senting its report to Circuit Judge Charles W. Redding in Portland, Multnomah County District Attorney William M. Langley was suggesting to the Judiciary committee in Salem that the Legislature "should give serious consideration to abolish ing the grand jury system." Thornton, who also appeared before the committee Friday night, said the grand juries should not be restricted in their investigative powers. ; The two law enforcement of ficers were the first witnesses before the committee's special hearing on legislation to change the laws on criminal procedures. RemOTal Hit Langley, who is under several indictments and has been con victed of one count, said that indicted public officials should not be suspended from office pending trial ' because "that smacks of impeachment" which is prohibited by the state constitution-' He said removal from office should be left to the courts. Thornton told the committee a recently - published estimate that the cost of prosecuting the welter of indictments returned by the Multnomah county grand jury would run to one million dollars was "way out of line and beyond reality." However, under questioning the attorney general said he didn't know just how much the cost would be. Richard Carney, attorney for Langley, told the committee grand jury procedure should be most influential in the general assembly. He explained that while the Soviet bloc and the "non-Soviet' bloc, can muster sufficient help to block a general assembly vote, it is more difficult to . secure the two-thirds majority required for passage of a proposal. . : In a business session preced ing the talk, Mrs. Hugh Collins was elected president of the Medford League of Women Vot ers. Mrs. Dunbar Carpenter was elected vice president; Mrs. John Ousterhout, second vice presi dent: Mrs. Ron James, secretary; and Mrs. Ogden Kellogg and Mrs. Donald Bohnert, directors. Mrs. Robert Hiatt, retiring nresident. was in charge of the inpptinff. She announced - that the league's annual one-half fin ance drive will take place morrow. to- A AA -- ainst H i m changed to give Circuit judges express control over their de liberations. He critized Thorn tons' handling of the Multnomah grand jury charging the attorney had "purposely" brought out two indictments against Langley during thi district attorney's recent neglect of duty trial, Sen. Gill said the next session of the committee would be Tues day at 7:30 p.m. He did not dis close the names of. witnesses but he said Thornton "will be interrogated again, in executive session." Press Services Ask Defeat of Bill Salem U.R Newspaper and radio representatives have call ed for defeat of a Senate-passed bill to toughen the state's libel law. - The measure, recently passed 16-14 by the Senate, would per mit recovery of punitive dam ages for negligent libel and put on the publisher the burden of proof that the libel was uninten tional. .".- The present law, passed in 1955, provides for recovery of actual damages only for inten tional or negligent libel, if a re traction has been published. Lamar Tooze, attorney for the Oregon Newspaper Publishers association, told the committee that there is no other instance where the defendant must bear the buraeit oi prooi. tie saw ine present law is adequate and that it is constitutional. Sen. Philip Lowry, Medford republican, sponsor of the bill, said the law was unconstitution al and called it a "special inter est law." James W. Frost, manager of the Oregon State Broadcasters association, handed the commit tee a resolution from the group opposing the new measure and asking that it be defeated. Police Officer Acts Cowboy Part Briefly Medford Police Officer Ger ald Butler Friday night dou bled as a cowboy long enough to help drive 20 head of -cattle from Crater Lake ave., be tween McAndrews rd. and Buckshot Hill rd. Police were notified at 7:08 p.m. that the cattle were roam- - ing - at large and creating a traffic haiard. Owner of the cattle. Charles Bateman. route 1, box 74, Cen tral Point, was called to the scene to assist Officer Butler in driving the animals to their 'pasture. .Officer Butler's brief cow ; boy career ended as Bateman repaired the break in the fence through which the cattle had escaped. Taipie, Formosa U.R A Nationalist Chinese military spokesman said Saturday that Communist China has some 960 planes stationed along its "first line on the mainland coast. 40 Families Are Forced to Move In Wichita Falls Louisiana Town Is Threatened by Stream Dallas, Tex. 0J.R) New flood crests poured down the Brazos and Bosque rivers toward a junction in water-logged central lexas Saturday and another stream invaded the city of Wich ita Falls, driving out 40 families. a nood crisis developed in northwestern Louisana. where 600 men . with sandbags and earthmovine. machi shoring up the levels of Red river before it can pour over 13,000 acres and th nrnimnnitv of East Point. La. The water receded from nart of Dennis, Tex., 40 miles from Forth Worth, where a resurging flood made all 200 residents flee into the hills. The flood also drained out of Bennett, near Dennis, where 24 families were driven out. Rirer Receding in east Texas, along the Louis iana line, the Sahi np river which had been flooding all week, was falling as far south as Tatum. Tex., freeino t.h homes of 300 person and 1,000 oilwells gradually from the grip oi yeiiow water. President Eisenhower author ized one million dollars to Texas from federal emergency funds to be spent on projects that have to do with public health. Gov. Price Daniel had asked for one million dollars immed iately but had said that ."tenta-" tive and preliminary estimates' indicate the damage to public facilities alone would total five million dollars. Weather forecasters for the first time said a siege of deluges, tornadoes and floods that hit Texas since April 19, may be ending. The weather, according to a ; United Press count, has taken 21 lives since then, mostly by drowning. May Avoid Flood Officials in Waco, Tax., where the Brazos and Bosque run to gether, forming one stream call ed the Brazos, believed they would avoid another flood like a disastrous one two weeks ago. The danger was below Waco, where levees are lower and here the crests of the combined rivers will flow into on chan nel already running bank-to-bank. , The flood in Wichita Falls was caused by a heavy local rain that sent Holliday creek over its banks into 25 or 30 blocks. Civil defense authorities set up a guard to prevent looting. The crest on Red river, In Louisiana, was below Shreve port, but the river was not ex pected to fall before Monday. East Point, where the Red threatened to break its banks, is 30 miles below Shreveport. Morse Urges Hall To Nuclear Tests Washington (U.R) Sen. Wayne L. Morse urged last night that the United States halt, its nuclear weapons tests "right now", and challenge Russia to do the same. The Oregon Democrat said such a move would "give a new impetus to disarmament." "Such an announcement by us would put the Soviet Union in the position of having to de cide whether to continue the tests alone, in the face of world wide religious and scientific ob jections and in the face of world wide public opinion," Morse said. Weather FORECAST: Mostly sonny to day and Monday. Thunder storms forming over the Cas cades this afternoon and asain . Monday afternoon. High to day 82. low tonight near 40, high Monday near SO. TEMP. Highest Yesterday . SI Lowest Yesterday 41 Our Skies Tonight Snnrlse 5:02 a.m. Snnset 7:15 p.m. 12:34 a-m Moonset Monday T"h transit of MerenrT across the face of the Sun today will be seen. In part. In most of North America except the ex treme eastern part where It will not begin until after sunset. The planet will be seen as a very tiny dot moving across the Sun. The transit begins here 4:00 p.m. and ends at S:2 p. thy seldom wa weicuu.
