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fmimm of. tad mm 52nd Year Medf United Pre Full Levcd Wiro 18 Pages Hate To Joseph McCarthy Church, Senate .Eulogies Praise Communism Fight Burial at Appleton To Be on Tuesday Washington (U.R) The capital said farewell to Sen. Joseph R McCarthy today with eulogies in church and Senate Chamber for his campaigns against Com munism. In high vaulted St. Matthew's Cathedral, where McCarthy was married four years ago, his grieving widow heard him praised as a courageous "watch man of the citadel." Then in the Senate Chamber where he rose to prominence and later was condemned by his colleagues, the controversial Re publican from Wisconsin was ex tolled an an intrepid fighter against the "malignant powers of darkness. Plan Takes Body The two ceremonies preceded the departure of an airplane bearing McCarthy's body back to his home town, Appleton, Wis., for final burial rites Tues day. McCarthy died unexpected ly Thursday at Bethesda Naval Medical Center of a liver ail ment. At St. Matthew's, before 2,000 mourners Archbishop Patrick A. O'Boyle sang a solemn pontifi cal mass of requiem over the flag-draped casket. The cathe-1 dral's pastor, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. John K. Cartwright, praised Mc Carthy as a courageous "watch man who alerted his country men to the menace of Commu nism. Widow Weeps Briefly Mrs. McCarthy, the beautiful 31-year-old Jean, held back her tears until the very end of the cathedral service. When Arch bishop O'Boyle took her hand and spoke a few gentle words, she bowed her head and wept for a moment. In the chamber where he had served more than 10 years, Mc Carthy was praised by the Sen ate chaplain, the Rev. Dr. Fred erick Brown Harris, as an in trepid fighter against "insidious enemies of the republic, malig nant powers of darkness." The senator's body' was brought to the chamber from St. Matthew's in a flag-draped casket which was placed before the flower-banked rostrum. Catholic Services Dr. Harris, as chaplain, spoke for the Senate. He is a Method ist Then the priest who mar ried McCarthy and the former Jean Kerr in 1953, the Rev. Wil liam J. Await, conducted Catho lic services. Dr. Harris called on McCar thy's Senate colleagues to i pledge anew never to falter in fighting Communism "until this torn and tortured earth is made safe for decency, ; truth, honor, and the pledged word." Scores of House members and other special guests stood at the back of the Senate chamber. There were not nearly enough seats for all. Spray From Senate On McCarthy's desk was a spray of gladioli, carnations and anthirium from Sen. Karl E. Mundt (R.-S.D.). Against the cas ket rested a spray of white gladioli and white carnations from the Senate. Vice President Richard M. Nixon led the official mourners. He arrived at the cathedral be hind the funeral cortege with his wife, Pat, and Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longsworth, daughter of former President Theodore Roosevelt. White House Aide I. -Jack Martin, former assistant to the late Sen. Robert -A. Taft (R. Ohio) represented President Eis enhower at the services. Multnomah Jurymen To Receive Invitation Salem (U.R) Sen. War ren Gill, Lebanon Republican, said today members of the Multnomah county grand jury will be invited to appear before the Senate Judiciary Commit tee. The grand jury was excused in Portland today after several weeks of work- tbius ra.WG.I Osrael Discloses Receipt of French Armor, Jet Planes By UNITED PRESS Israel celebrated its 9th Inde pendence Day today by dis closing it had received massive supplies of French armor and jet planes that could help swing the balance of power in the Middle East. At the same time its navy units maneuvered at Eilat on the Gulf of Aqaba in a naval show that emphasized Israel's inten tion to sail the gulf and which Nicaragua Halts Border War for ing by Board ' Managua U.PJ Nicaragua and Honduras have agreed to call off their border war pending an international ruling on the century-old dispute that touched it off, it was announced today. President Luis Somoza said Nicaragua is willing to observe the truce provided Honduras does so. He warned, however, that any "new aggression" by Honduras would - mean "total war." Nations Agree " Ricardo M. Arias of Panama, chief of the 10-man fact-finding board that came here from Wash ington to investigate the conflict, said the two Central American nations have agreed to stop fight ing at least until the board has submitted its report to the Or ganization of American States. The agreement gives the fact finders, representing the United States, Argentina, Mexico, Bo livia and Panama, four days to work out plans for a settlement of the border dispute. The ban on troop movements halted a Nicaraguan column which was headed for Yalaguina, 30 miles inside the Nicaraguan border, to retaliate for a reported Honduran attack on the garri son. Raids Reported The only other military action reported over the week end con sisted of raids by Nicaraguan and Honduran warplanes on va rious villages in the disputed area. There was no report of cas ualties. V ' The disputed area is a 12-mile strip of the "mosquito coast whose ownership has been in question ever since Nicaragua and Honduras won their inde pendence from Spain. The late Spanish King Alfonso XIII, acting as an arbitrator, awarded the territory to Hon duras in 1906, but Nicaragua never recognized the ruling. Washington U.R) The Su preme court has ruled that the National Labor Relations Board may not wash its. hands of all unfair labor practice charges brought against unions by their own employees. City Jail Prisoner Escapes For 20 Minutes Saturday A prisoner at fhe Medf ord city jail had 20 minutes of free dom Saturday after escaping from the police station through a plate glass window. He was captured a few min utes later by three city police officers a few blocks from the police station. Westley Clarus Lyons, 1126 Stevens, st., arrested Friday on cHarges of disorderly conduct, made his break about 8:30 p.m. Saturday. At the time he was visitinjt his wife in a room dowi the hall from the chief's office and communications room where three officers were on duty. According to police reports, the man dashed down the hall and out of the police station, crashing through a 12 by 48-inch plate glass window near the sidewalk. The three officers gave chase. kccsuo 'sKasns )N' Monday, may brought words of warning from Jordan. Israel took the wraps off its French military aid with a pa rade at Tel Aviv which showed that more than 80 per cent of the Israeli heavy equipment was from France. Israelis Turn Out Thirty-six French-built mys tery jets flashed overhead more than three times the num ber Israel ever had acknowl edged receiving from France. More than 500,000 Israelis turned out for.the parade, but conspicuous by their absence were the diplomatic representa tives of Russia, Bulgaria, Ro mania and Czechoslovakia. Rus sia and Czechoslovakia had sun- plied Egypt with much of the equipment seen today. The naval show at Eilat was less impressive Israel held open house for the two frigates and the several motor torpedo boats with which it hopes to keep the Gulf of Aqaba open should neighboring Arab states try to stop Its ships. But it brought this warning from Suleiman Pasha Toukan, Jordan's defense minister and military governor: ,"We are ready for them. We have a large number -of soldiers there, "and the Saudi Arabian army is nearby. If they come we are ready for them." Egypt meanwhile hailed the results of Syria's parliamentary by-elections as a major victory for the Syrian government and proof that Syria will remain "on Egypt's side" despite West ern efforts to break up the "neutralist" Arab bloc. Left-Wingers Win -Left-wing government candi dates won the three principal by- elections in voting Saturday and Sunday marked by clashes at the polls and by great anti pathy on part of the voters, especially conservative middle-of-the-road groups. Cairo newspapers took note to day of a downward trend in Egypt's relations with Jordan and Lebanon and the feeling these two nations have been "lost" to the West. The news papers called this part of a Western plan to isolate Egypt from the rest of the Arab world. McChord Air Force Base U.R) First Lt. James Wakefield, 23, Hamlin Station, Pa., escaped in jury today when his F-102 jet fighter plane crash-landed here and caught on fire. bulletin Rome (U.R) Italy's middle-of-the-road government fell tonight. Silver-haired Premier. An tonio Segni, 66, announced to the Senate that he had handed the ' resignation of his 22 month - old government to President Giovanni Gronchi.. Police reported Lyons then ran east on Fifth st. where he hid under a car at a used car lot. Spotted by the officers, he returned up Fifth st. to Central ave. and then continued south on Central. Three gun shots fired over his head failed to stop him, police said. Hid in Alley Finally, he took refuge in an alley near Main st. between Cen tral and Front St., police said. Officers spotted him again, this time hiding under a staircasa in the alley. Police said he charged at them with a broken liquor bottle before being knock ed off his feet and handcuffed. After receiving - medical treatment for cuts he sustained going through the window, Ly ons was confined in the county jail. He is being held there for mental observation, according to police. Tribune 6, 1957 Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago .: 6 7 2 New York 2 8 1 Iaiier and Neeman; Gomes, Ridxik (6), Worlhington (8) and Wesirum, Katt (8). Water Accidents Take Five Lives During Week End By UNITED PRESS Four persons drowned in two accidents in Oregon Sunday bringing to five the number who lost their lives in water acci dents during the week end. The body of Mrs. Delia Marie Dorry, 40, Springfield, was dis covered Sunday two miles down stream from where she drowned Saturday when the boat in which she as riding capsized. Two persons each drowned Sunday in accidents near Port land and Coos Bay. Marilyn Wagner, 10, and Har old L. Newman, 36, both of Portland, drowned in the Wil lamette river Sunday evening. The girl and her father, Marvin, were thrown into the river by the wave wash from a passing boat. Newman dove into the water in a rescue try. He and the girl went down while Wagner managed to reach the boat. Also in the boat were Newman's son, Michael, 8, and Karen Wagner, 4. A picnic ended in tragedy when Bonnie Colton, 21, .and Donald Lindquist, 24, Coos Bay, drowned in the south fork of the Coos river about 11:40 a.m. Sun day. The young woman was re ported to have slipped on a rock and fell into the stream. Lind quist,' who was considered a goqd. swimmer, dove in after ner. Both apparently suffered cramps. Members of the Koos Kelps, a skin diving club in Coos Bay, recovered the bodies from about 40 feet of water. Pulitzer Award Goes To Russell Jones New York -(U.RX The Pulitz er Prize for international report ing was awarded to United Press Correspondent Russell Jones to day for his excellent and sus tained coverage of the Hungari an revolt against Communist domination." The prize for meritorious pub lic service by a newspaper was awarded to the Chicago Daily News for its exposure of a $2,500,000 fraud in the office of the Illinois state auditor. The award for local reporting under pressure of edition time went to the staff of the Salt Lake Tribune for its coverage of the collision of two airliners over the Grand Canyon. The Pulitzer Prize for dis tinguished local reporting with out the pressure of edition time went to Wallace Turner and Wil liam Lambert of the Portland Oregonian for their expose of vice and corruption in Portland involving some municipal offi cials and officers of the Team sters Union. Two Escape Plane Crash Near Weed Weed, Calif. '(U.R) Two men escaped - serious injury Sunday afternoon when their light plane crashed during a landing attempt at the new Weed airport. " The pilot, Angelo Ferrara of Coquille, and his passenger, Hap Pauletto of Weed, walked awqy from the wrecked plane. Fer rata was shaken up and Pauletto suffered shoulder and arm bruises. Ferrara, who bought the plane only last week and had logged about six hours flying time in it, brought the craft in too low in attempting to land, snagged a telephone crossbar, ripped out phone wires, sheared off a fence post and skidded for some dis tance before coming to a halt at the edge of the airport. Princess Grace Said Expecting Second Child London (U.R) The Lon don Sunday Dispatch reported from Rome Sunday that Princess Grace of Monaco is expecting a second child by Christmas. The report said the former movie actress asked the Pope's blessing during last week's audience not only for Princess Caroline but for her next child.' Price 10c United Prest Full Leased Wirt No. 39 Slate Legislature Due To Set Record As Longest Session 116 -Day Record To be Equalled Thursday Salem (U,R) The Oregon Legislature today opened the 17th week of what is destined to be its longest session in history, with 16 bills up for final action in the House and 13 in the Sen ate. The longest session on record was 116 days in 1951. This is the 113th day of the current ses sion. That means the record will be equalled Thursday; And few observers here look for the session to end before a week from Wednesday. Many are not even that optimistic. Phone Line Bill Slated One of the measures up for third reading and final action in the Senate today would mak it a misdemeanor not to release a party telephone line in case of emergency. The measure is an outgrowth of several recent incidents in various parts of the countryw here failure of persons to release lines resulted in deaths of persons in need of im mediate medical attention. The measure. House Bill 748, already has passed the House. Appropriation Aired In the House, a measure was up for final action . calling for an appropriation of $150,000 to buy properties in the bloc north of Court st., and east of Capitol st. for development of a state parking lot. Another appropriation mea sure up for final House action calls for $238,154 for the pro posed new state development de partment under the governor. Another House bill up for fi nal vote calls for revision of the election code and represents the first attempt in 40 years to re vamp Oregon election laws. . Golf Champion May Lose Amateur Status San Francisco '(U.RV The San Francisco News said today that National Amateur Champion Harvie Ward may lose his ama teur status because of financial help given him by his employer, automobile dealer Ed Lowery, San Francisco. The News said that a tran script of testimony given the county Grand Jury by Lowery, under indictment for state in c me tax evasion, said that Low ery admitted paying Ward's ex penses to golf tournaments. Stuart Heatley, member of the U.S. Golf Association's Execu tive Board for Northern Cali fornia, when . informed of Low ery's testimony, conferred with Joe Dey, executive secretary of the USGA in New York. , . "There is no question that If expenses were taken care of by Lowery as an employer, Harvie has breached his amateur stand ing," Heatley said after the con ference with Dey. Corvallis Man Elected Head of Association A Corvallis man was elected president of the Oregon State Association of Plumbing and Heating Contractors at a state convention in Medford Friday and Saturday. Earl Forsythe of Corvallis will head the group for the coming year. Other new officers are James Waite, Eugene, vice presi dent; Eugene Spaniol, Stayton, treasurer; and Burch Judson, Salem, secretary. A lifetime membership to the association was awarded 'to Arthur Farrell, who recently re tired as chief plumbing inspector for the state. Weather FORECAST: Fair tonight and Tuesday morning. Partly cloudy Tuesday afternoon. Low tonight 45. High Friday SO. Temp. Highest Yesterday m Lowest This Morning 47 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 5:00 I:l a.m. p.m. Sunset The Moon, at First Quarter : . Sets Tuesday and will be Full next Monday. PROMINENT STAR Betelgeuse, low in west VISIBLE PLANETS :29' 1:11 p.m. a.m. 8:31 p.m. lupiter, high in south :4S Saturn, rises 9:4S Man, seu l:2S p.m. p.m. p.m. "We're Not Going To The i Tem mm , . District 6C Election Wednesday Residents of school district! 6C in north Jackson county will go to the poll., between 2 and 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 8, to pass on a proposed $480,543 tax levy for the 1957-58 school year. This is $297,450.33 above the 6 per cent limitation. It com pares with $282,255.51 for last year, or ah increase of $15,194.87 on this item. " Estimated Expenditures Total estimated expenditures for the year are $808,843. Esti mated receipts and available cash balances total $353,300. Balance to be raised by taxation is $455,543. Estimated amount of taxes which will not be col lected during the fiscal year for which this budget is made is $25,000. Major portion of the increase in next year's budget over this year's is in the item for pay ment of bond principal and in terest. This " increase is due to the fact that excess O&CLfundsJ allotcd by the county were used in the last two budgets to lower the levy, according to H. P. Jewett, district superintendent. None of these funds are avail able on this budget.. ' ... Jewett -noted that Instruction costs are up due to need for add ing three : teachers on the ele mentary level to accommodate increased enrollments. Salary in crements for teachers this year were the same as last year on the schedule agreed upon at that time. The superintendent explained this budget provides for opera tion of schools of the district Polish Militia Turns Down Uprising Warsaw, Poland U.R) Polish army troops and two battalions of militia were reported today to have quelled one of the most se rious riots in Poland since last June's anti-Soviet uprisings in Poznan. The Warsaw youth newspaper Szpandar Lmodych said the latest riot took place in the garri son town of Jaroslaw, an indus trial community of 19,000 per sons in southeastern Poland. The report said the trouble started after military police ar rested a drunken soldier. It gave no date for the incident, but indi cated it took place late last week. The report, said the violence occurred when, other soldiers and - some young "brawlers" went to the rescue of the arrest ed soldier. A huge" crowd was said to have gathered outside the police station where the man was held and to have peppered its windows with stones. $400 Said Taken From Safe at Plant . About $400 in cash, was taken from a safe at the American Steel and Supply corporation plant, 703 South Grape st.;' Med ford, some time over the week end, according to city police. The safe was opened by two screw drivers, both . owned by the steel company, officers said. They, were found near the safe this morning. Nothing else was taken from the plant, police said. Officers reported the building was entered when a latch inside a sliding steel door on South Grape st. was pried loose by a wire. The crime was reported by Clyde Leonard Gwaltney, office manager at the firm. It occurred sometime between noon Satur day and 7:40 ajn. today, police said. Washington U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower has proclaimed next Sunday as Mothers' day. Keep You Cooped Up In Hold" Budget and is much the same as during the present year. He said no ex pansion in the program of the schools is planned. Routine ex penditures for maintenance and repair of grounds and buildings, and capital outlay . for replace ment and additional equipment, are all affected by price, in creases of materials and services, he added. Polls Listed Those who have lived in the school district for six months and have been registered for 30 days prior to the election will be eligible to vote in this elec tion. Polling places will be the Cen tral Point Junior High gymnasi um, Gold Hill elementary school gymnasium and Sams Valley school. Trio Found Guilty Of Assault, Battery A Medford couple and an Ash land man were sentenced to five months in the county jail, placed on parole, and fined $100 each and $5 court costs Friday in dis trict court. The three were charged with assault and battery against Mrs. John Drager, 272 Orange st., Ashland. Sentenced by District Judge James Main were Mr. and Mrs. Loren Cecil Keck of 2645 South Stage rd., . Medford, and Fred WKitham, route 1, Ashland. Mrs. Drager told police she was beaten last March by the trio in a car after they offered to take her home from an Ash land tavern. She said they threw her out of the car and left her on a sidewalk in Ashland after the alleged beating. The trial was conducted with out jury with the decision handed down by Judge Main. Segregation Vetoes In School Aid Issue Washington j(U.R) The House Education Committee today re jected a move to inject the segre gation issue into legislation to provide federal aid for school construction. . By a 16. to 10 vote, the com mittee defeated an amendment aimed at cutting - off federal funds to any ' school district maintaining segregated class rooms. Today's test on the segrega tion amendment came as the House committee continued to vote on various- sections of the school aid measure. If it clears Congress, the bill would set up a five-year, $2 billion program of federal aid. ' The outlook for the bill in House and Senate is not good. Neuberger Asks Wilson To Defend Budget in Oregon Washington (U.R)-Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) today invited Secretary of . Defense Charles E. Wilson to speak in Oregon to "enlist support among businessmen and Republicans" for President Eisenhower's budget. - Neuberger praised Wilson's re cent criticism of attacks on the budget by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He said he found that "about 95 per cent of the at tacks" on the Eisenhower budget in Oregon "come from promi nent Republicans and from so called leaders in the business community." He said, he found that about the only people defending the budget were Democrats. Entire Teamster Leadership Charged At Union Hearing Failure of Leaders To Take Action Cited Washington U.R)- The AFL CIO today charged teamsters President Dave Beck and Vice President Frank Brewster with using union funds for "person al purposes" and using their union positions for "personal profit or advantage." Teamsters Vice President Syd ney Brennan of Minneapolis, who has been convicted of ac cepting money from an employ er, was charged with "corrupt activities" by the AFL-CIO. Entire Leadership Charged And the entire Teamsters Un ion leadership was charged with failing to take action against the three. The AFL-CIO sepecifically questioned the teamsters leader ship's "apparent failure" to de termine for itself whether Beck is . in fact guilty of "personal corruption in the handling of union funds and in the conduct of union affairs and invoked the Fifth Amendment ... to con ceal the fact." Beck was accused by the Sen ate Rackets . committee of using more than $320,000 in union funds for personal matters, but he resorted to the Fifth Am endment 117 times in refusing to answer the committee's ques tions about his financial deal ings with the union. The bill . of particulars was contained in a 22-page state ment presented before the AFL CIO Ethical Practices commit tee as it started its hearing on the question whether the Big Teamsters Union is- dominated or substantially influenced by "corrupt influence." The AFL-CIO charges were spelled out after Beck himself accused the parent union in an opening statement of conduct ing a "medieval inquisition and witch hunt," at the hearing. Beck, backed up in his state ment by other members of the Teamsters Executive Board, de nounced the general charge of corruption as "malicious and un founded slander." Beck demanded that the com mittee provide teamsters lead ers a bill of "particulars" as tj the charges against the union. He said the board members had come to the hearing "solely" to find out whether they would get a detailed breakdown of the allegations. It was after he spoke that the committee came up with a 22- page statement detailing the charges. Misuse of Funds The committee's statement of detailed charges against the Teamsters alleged that Beck used union funds for "personal purposes" when he was -chairman of the union's Western Con ference. ' A similar accusation was made against Brewster. And both were charged with using their "offic ial union positions" for "person al profit and advantage." The committee then cited the corrupt influences"' of Bren nan. The commitee also question ed "the apparent failure" of the Teamsters Union to investigate the activities of the three offic ers. No mention was made of Teamsters Vice President James R. Hoffa of Detroit, who was present at the closed hearing. He has been indicted on charges of trying to bribe his way into the files of the Senate Rackets committee which also has been investigating corruption in the Teamsters Union. Washington Man Named Oregon ' Emerald Editor Eugene (U.R) Charles Mitchenmore, Long Beach, Wash., has been named editor of the Oregon Daily Emerald, student newspaper at the Uni versity of Oregon. Gary Capps of Ontario was named business ' manager and Allen Johnson of Oswego, man aging editor. - Therefore, he said in a state ment, "I have invited Secretary Wilson, who is a leader both in business and the Republican party, to come out to our state to line up Republicans behind the budget of the Republican president." He said "I am tired of being assailed by Republicans for my defense of the Eisenhower budg et. The time has come for Re publicans to get into the act and I think Wilson is a man with the courage and prestige to do it." Neuberger said he would be glad to help arrange Oregon, speaking engagements for Wilton. ii 4 I ' V
