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Elkins, who was the star wit ness before the Senate commit tee investigating labor racket eering, and Clark were charged 'with . illegally intercepting and divulging telephone conversa tions. The seven-man, five-woman jury, after deliberating more than three hours, returned a un animous verdict against them on all seven counts. ; Oden Investigation U. S. Judge William East ord ered a pre-trial investigation af ter both men declined the judge's offer of immediate sen tencing. Elkins is free on bail of $5,000 and Clark dti $3,000 oom men iace a maximum penalty of a year in prison and $10,000 fine on each count. Before the jury adjourned for deliberations, Judge East in structed then for more than an hour. He told them that they could return separate verdicts on each count and against each person. The government in the 26 day trial submitted as evidence five reels of tape as being the alleged wire taps made by El kins and Clark. The tapes were first seized in a raid on Clark's home by county officers and later seized by the FBI as evi dence. Among government witnesses who appeared at the trial were Mayor Terry Schrunk and ex Multnomah county District At torney William M. " Langley. Langley was officially ousted on Thursday when he was sentenc ed on a neglect of duty charge. Mayor Terry Schrunk is sched uled to go on trial on a perjuiy charge on May 22. He is accused of lying when he told a grand jury he did not take a bribe in connection with a raid on a Port land, Ore., night club while he was Multnomah county sheriff. Saudi Arabia, Iraq Kings End Feud Baghdad, Iraq, U.R) The kings of Saudi Arabia and Iraq met Saturday to end a blood feud and ally their oil-rich lands more closely with the west in the face of Egyptian and Syrian overtures to Russia. American and other western diplomats predicted the meeting would herald a shift of Midde East powers into a new align- m on f King Saud of Saudi Arabia and a retinue of 80 flew to Bagh dad for conferences with Iraq Feisal aboard three special plan es. The trip was the first by a Saudi monarch to Iraq and sym bolized the end of a bitter quar rel that stemmed from the fact that Saud's father ousted Feisal's grandfather from Arabia after World War I. Both monarchs made a cere mony of their meeting. Saud, in flowing white Arab robes, was greeted by Feisal and crown Prince Abdul Ilah wearing field marshal uniforms at Baghdad airport. Seven Children Perish In Connecticut Fire Stratford, Conn. (U.R) Seven children perished in a fire which destroyed a two-story frame house here Saturday. Fire department officials said five children died when trapped in the building. Two others died at a hospital. 'Five of the chil dren were believed to be of one family. The building was destroyed. The cause of the fire was not immediately determined. Sports Bulletins Portland .U.R) The Port land Beavers made it two in a row ever the league leading Los Angeles Angels ai ' they knocked off the Angels last night, 7-4. Seattle UR) With iev en of their runs unearned be cause of five Seattle errors the San Diego Padres defeat ed the Rainier 9-4 here last night in a Pacific Coast league baseball contest. Vancouver. B.C. 'U.R) right-hander Charles Beamon celebrated his return Jo Van couver with a two-hitler last night as the Mounlies hammer ed the San Francisco Seals 12-1. 'It's Easier If You Keep Your Eyes Closed" Tax Bill Voted Out J State Committee Salem (U.R) House bill 1, representing the heart of the Democratic tax program, was voted out favorably Saturday by the Senate Taxation committee. The vote was strictly on party lines, with the four Democrats on the committee voting in fa vor of the measure and the three Republicans against. . The measure passed with only a few minor amendments of an administrative nature, but with no substantive change. And once the measure passes the Senate as observers believe it will the Berlin Students Strike in Protest - Berlin (U.R) A student strike last night forced East Ger man Communists to back down on an order suspending 122 vet erinary students who boycotted classes after their dean fled to the west. The Communists alerted their militia to prevent-student dem onstrations from growing into a lull-Hedged anti-government outburst. The reds first expelled 122 veterinarian students at Hum boldt university in East Berlin, then reinstated them when the entire student body began a pro test strike. Some 122 students the en tire junior class of Humboldt veterinary school refused to attend lectures Thursday given by professors substituting for Dean Guenther Scheutzer. The dean fled to the west last week when the Communists threaten ed his with disciplinary action for supporting a student anti Communist movement. Mayflower Passed Near Canary Islands London U.R) Norwegian tanker radioed Friday night it had passed the Mayflower II about 500 miles southwest of the Canary Islands. A message received here from the 1,524-ton tanker Barli said it had passed close to the tiny Pilgrim ship Friday shortly af ter noon. The Mayflower was scudding along before a gentle breeze in a calm sea the message added. Mayflower Skipper Command er Alan ViHiers reported late Friday night the tiny ship had sailed 2,500 miles in 20 days. In a radio message received here he said, "The third week finds the ship bowling along in the north-east trade winds skirt ing the tropics edge and making steadily westward." "We must be nearer Colum bus' track than the original May flower but we are going nicely," it said. Polish Politburo Will Be Increased to 13 Warsaw (U.R) "Liberal" Communist party leader Wlady slaw Gomulka will further bal ance the Stalinist and Titoist elements in Poland by enlarging his politburo to 13 members, in formed sources said Saturday. The sources said the independent-minded party chief would bring defense minister Marian Spychalski, one of his keenest supporters, into the policy-making group. It also would include deputy premier Zenon Nowak, an avowed Stalinist. House is expected to concur quickly in the Senate amend ments and send the measure to the governor's desk for signa ture. Rough Passage Even so, indications were the measure would find rough pass age in the Senate. Republican senators on the committee, Phil Lowry of Medford, Lee Ohmart of Salem and Rudie Wilhelm Jr. of Portland, all indicated they would give their reasons on the floor for being against the mea sure. ' And Sen. Ben Musa, The Dal les Democrat, while voting to bring the measure out favorably said he reserved ' the right to vote against it on the floor if he saw fit.- Musa had submitted al ternate proposals for assessment, starting at 2 per cent on the first $1,000 of taxable income, and rising to a maximum of 8 per cent on all taxable income in excess of $5,000. His amend ments were voted down at Fri day's meeting of the Taxation Committee. Claims Surtax Included Lowry called HB1, which is designed to take the place of the "rather detested" surtax, a "su per built-in surtax that will cost the taxpayers more money. It makes the stop-gap surtax per manent." Wilhelm said "instead of a 45 per cent surtax we now have a 51 per cent surtax- permanent ly written into law." Sen. Monroe Sweetland, Mil waukie Democrat, retorted that the Republicans "would be op posed to any program short of a sales tax." Here are the rates under House bill 1: On the first $500 of taxable income or any part thereof, 4 per cent. On the second $500 of taxable income, 5 per cent. On the third $500 of taxable income, 6 per cent. On the fourth $500 of taxable income, 7 per cent. On the third $1,000 of taxable income, 8 per cent. On the fourth $1,000 of tax able income, 9 per cent. On all taxable income in. ex cess of $4,000 and not in excess of $8,000, 10.2 per cent. On all taxable income in ex cess of $8,000, 11.6 per cent. The bill raises the exemption of a single person from $500 to $600 and of a married couple, from $1,000 to $1,200. And it increases the credit for each de pendent individual from $500 to $600. Bids Will Be Called This Spring for Several Work Camp White Bids on sev eral additional work phases in the Talent project will be called this spring and early summer, the bureau of reclamation has reported. Expected to be invited Tues day will be bids for construc tion of government community facilities at Howard Prairie dam in the Cascades southeast of Ash land. This will consist of install ing trailers, a two-stall garage, a shop and warehouse building and a washouse: and grading and graveling one central street and parking area. Included will be installation of a generator and constructing sewer, water and lighing facilities. Bid call will be issued about May 24 for removal of timber and brush from 870 acres in the Howard Prairie reservoir, locat tci about 20 miles from. Ashland Colombia President Leaves for Exile After 4-Day Revolt More Than 100 Are Killed in Violence Bogota, Colombia U.R) Colombian mobs beat, choked, kicked or burned to death scores of supporters of President Gus tavo Rojas Pinilla in the final hours of violence accompanying his ouster and flight toward ex ile in Spain, it was learned Sat urday. The death toll in four days of mounting revolt totalled more than 100, including 70 "Rojistas" killed in rioting Friday in the southwestern provincial capital of Cali. Elsewhere in the country, 34 deaths were reported. .. Mobs in Cali also destroyed the plant of two pro-Rojas news papers, "El Pais" and "Diario Del Pacifico." Doused with Gasoline In Cali two pers6ns were dous ed with gasoline and turned into flaming torches. The country remained divid ed Saturday between jubilation at the overthrow of Rojas and fury at his supporters. But no new incidents of major violence were reported. The five-man military Junta which succeeded the President appealed to the .United States and other nations for diplomatic recognition. Government offices and the property of Rojas supporters in various cities were destroyed by mobs celebrating the "revolu tion." The ex-president, accompanied by nine relatives, left Bogota secretly Friday night in a special Air Force C-54. The Army de tailed a strong guard to escort him to the airport. Brig. Gen. Juan B. Cordoba, chief of the government press of fice, told newsmen . the Junta government , urgently . needs for eign recognition to holster its "de facto" status. OLCC Suspensions Effective May 20 License suspension for two Jackson county liquor outlets will become effective on Mon day, May 20, the Oregon Liquor Control, commission reported Friday. License of the Veteran's club, 42 North Front st., Medford, was ordered suspended for ,10 days by the OLCC for serving non members. Service permits of two employees, John Schuster and Mary Mathias, also were order ed suspended for two days. The Commission said they allowed persons other than members or guests to enjoy club privileges and to 'purchase and consume al coholic liquor. Licenses issued to private clubs provide that sale or serv ice is for members only, and not the general public. Guests must be in the company of a member, the OLCC explained. License of Paulsen Thrift Mar ket, 126 Pine st., Central Point, was ordered suspended for seven days. The suspension order fol lowed review of a hearing at whith Martin J. Gates, one of the licensees, was found to have contributed to a candidate for a political candidate or party. Wesf European Nations Accept U.S. Invitation London (U.R) Virtually all West European nations Sat urday planned to accept an Am erican invitation to send obser vers to a series of atomic test explosions in the Navada desert next summer. Phases of Talent Project in the Cascades, During June and July, five bid calls are expected for con struction of the 67-foot-high Keene Creek earth dam and ap purtenant structures; the six-foot-diameter, 2,000 - foot - long concrete-lined Cascade Divide pressure tunnel; about 150 feet of 60-inch diameter monolithic concrete pressure conduit; a wasteway turnout structure, and about 8,000 feet of 24-inch-dia-meter precast concrete pipe wasteway. Also scheduled is construction of the six-foot-diameter, 5,000-feet-long concrete-lined Green Springs pressure tunnel :' and about 300 feet of six-foot-diameter monolithic concrete pressure conduit. Site of the work is southeast of Ashland. Bids also will be invited for construction of the Green mm FOREST FIRES Light rain in New England brought some respite to an outbreak of forest fires in the northeastern states, but officials said heavier rains were needed to end the Eighth Annual Safety Patrol Banquet Will Be Held Next Friday The eighth annual school safe ty patrol banquet will be held in the Pioneer room of the Jack son hotel Friday, May 17, accord ing to Aubrey Loper, president of the ' Medford Safety council. The banquet, sponsored by the council, will honor more than 100 boys and girls who comprise the school safety patrols of the Medford public schools and St. Mary's school. Arrangements for the dinner, which will start at 6:30 p.m., are being handled by John ChilderS, chairman. Robert Baccus, Elliott Becken and Ed Anderson . arc assisting. - ' Program Highlight , The program highlight will be an address by Medford Police Capt. Clyde Fichtner, a member of the safety council and one of the school safety patrol organ izers in Medford. Captain Fichtner has been a member of the Medford police iorce lor years ana nas Deen active in youth work in the com munity. His talk, "Leadership for Safety", will trace development of the school program and show the importance of this activity in development of the school patrol program and show the importance of this activity in District 9 Election Scheduled Tuesday Eagle Point Residents of Eagle. Point school district 9 will vote Tuesday, May 14, on the district's proposed $415,029. 72 budget for 1957-58. Polls will be open in the high school gymnasium from 2 to 8 p.m. The proposed budget is $105, 867.64 more than the current budget, which is $309,162.08 General operating budget . for next year is $374,947.22 and the amount for bonds and interest is $40,082.50.. . Estimated receipts for. ' next year are $142,479.27. The am ount to be raised by taxation is $272,550.45. A-total of $52,720.- 67 is within the 6 per cent limi tation, leaving $219,829.78 more than the 6 per cent limitation. With an estimated assessed valuation of $4,658,935.41, the mill levy would be 58.5 of 1.8 mills less than the present op erating budget. Springs pressure conduit, which will include about 4,200 feet of 60-inch-diameter monolithic concrete-precast pipe, modified pre stressed concrete pipe, or coal tar enameled steel pipe. Also to be called are bids for construction of about eight mil es of the Howard Prairie deliv ery canal, including about three miles of reinforced concrete rec tangular flume section, a 48-inch concrete pipe siphon about 1,200 feet long, and the earth and rock fill Little Beaver creek diver sion dam. Final bid call will be for re moving a 42-inch wood-stave pipe siphon, and construction of a 54-inch monolithic concrete or precast concrete steel cylinder pipe siphon about 1,600 feet long. This will be the Bear Creek siphon on the Talent lat eral near Medford. ft developing leadership qualities in boys and girls. Mayor John Snider of Medford will be introduced by Russ Jam ison, chairman of the public in formation committee, and will present individual awards to the school safety patrols. The banquet will be open to the public and tickets may be obtained from members of the banquet committee. Tickets will also be available at the door on the night of the event. Five Are Killed In Oregon Mishaps By UNITED PRESS Five persons died in accidents in Oregon Friday and early Sat urday. Four were killed in high way mishaps and an eastern Ore gon farmer was crushed by his tractor. Edward A. Shirtcliff, 50, Myr tle Creek, was killed about 1:20 a.m. Saturday when his auto mobile collided with a pickup truck driven by 16-year-old Ger ald . Wayne Anderson of Rose burg, on Highway 99 about a mile south of Roseburg. Ander son and two passengers in the Shirtcliff care were injured. Peter E. Eliason, 47, Forest Grove, died when he drove off Highway 26 at Cherry ville. He was driving an old Army am bulance vehicle. Levi Francis Trudell, 63, of Albany, was killed in a two-car head on-collision two miles south of Albany. Mrs. Bertha Watson, 61, Florence, was in an Albany hospital with serious injuries. State police said Mrs. Watson's northbound car apparently went out of control and spun on the highway, colliding with Trudell's southbound car. Betty Jean Shimek, 11, of Portland, was struck by a car driven by Ruby Neola Pfenning who was pulling out of a restaur ant parking lot. The driver said she was not aware that she had hit the girl on a bicycle until a passenger in the car shouted at her to stop. Frank John, 80, a farmer who lived four miles south of Adrian in Malheur county, was pinned by a tractor . he was cranking when it started in gear. He was crushed against the inside wall of his barn. Ceremonies Slated For Memorial Day Memorial Day ceremonies will be held at the Camp White cemetery on Thursday, May 30, starting at 1:30 p.m. Master of ceremonies will be E. K. Ricker, manager of the domiciliary. Representative of veterans organizations and auxiliaries will perform massing . of the colors in front of the speaKers platform. Caesar Muzzioli ac cordianists will play the Nation al anthem and Chaplin Law rence Eskay will give the invo cation. Ricker will introduce County Judge Rodney Keating as main speaker for the ceremony. Ricker will lay the memorial wreath, after which the audience will stand at attention for one minute of silent prayer. Bene diction will be by Chaplin Al bert S. Feller. The Camp White rifle team will fire a salute and a recording of Taps by Lax Iry Findley will be played. HitTexa fire threat. The fires above are in the Ply mouth, Mass., vicinity, where damage was estimated at $1,500,000. Light Rain Brings Relief to Forest. Fires in Northeast Boston (U.R) Light rain brought a respite Saturday from a multi-million dollar outbreak of forest fires in New England. But officials warned that a drenching downpour was needed to end the fire threat. Gov. Foster Furcolo appealed to President Eisenhower to de clare Massachusetts a disaster area. ( Governor Furcolo said in a telegram to the president that cities and towns had thrown all their resources into the fight against forest fires and govern ment "logistical support", was needed. -Order Operations ' Although more than an inch of rain had fallen in Boston since Friday morning, Furcolo ordered cloud-seeding operations begun in all all-out effort to bring more rain to the state's parched wood lands. . National Guard rain-making teams moved through the state spraying silver iodide crystals skyward. The crystals from the nuclei of artificial snowflakes which could turn to rain About 1,000 firefighters pa troled the the outskirts of his toric Plymouth, Mass., in the wake of a fire that ate through 20,000 acres of forest and threat ened for a time to burn show place homes preserved from the Pilgrim era. Damage in that section alone was estimated at $1,500,000. 14 Plead Innocent In Cairo Spy Trial Cairo (U.R) Fourteen of 16 persons facing possible .death sentences as "spies" including two of four Britons on trial pleaded innocent in a heavily- guarded courtroom here Satur day. The other two British citizens reserved their pleas. Eleven Egyptians and a Yugo slav ex-colonel, in addition to the fpur Britons were present in court when the biggest spy trial j in Egyptian history finally got under way. Four other Britons named in the indictment are still at large. AEC Sending Experts On Special Mission Washington (U.R) The at omic energy commission an nounced Saturday it is sending a team of experts in the peace ful uses of atomic energy on a special mission to Japan, Na tionalist China, and the Philip pines. The five-man team will par ticipate in a conference on peace time uses of the atom opening in Tokyo May 13. The 13-day con ference is sponsored by the at- . - . r U omic industrial ioruius i me United States and Japan. Weather FORECAST: Partly cloudy this morning and early this after noon. Increasing cloudiness with showers or thundershow ers late this afternoon and evening. Rain Monday morn ing. Slightly warmer Sunday and Monday. High, both days 75, low Sunday night 4. Temp. Richest Yesterday I1 Lowest yesterday 4S Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 4:53 a.m. Sunset 7:23 p.m. The Moon rises P-"1- sets Monday 4:40 a.m. and will' be, Full Monday after noon. A total eclipse of the Moon, coming at that time, will not he seen in North America, except, on the east coast where It will end Just at or ihorUy after moonrise. Central Part of State Drenched in Cloudburst Rains Undetermined List Of People Marooned Dallas, Tex U.R New Flash floods, built up by sev en-inch cloudbursts in two hours time, struck central Texas last night. Creeks in the already satur ated area swept out of their banks, flooding highways and leaving an undetermined num ber of persons marooned at two small towns. The department of public safe ty issued an urgent call for boats with heavy motors for rescue work. A helicopter was requested from the army to rescue three persons who were swept away in their automobile but - managed to grab and hold on to a tree. New Crisis The new crisis developed in central Texas as new and con tinuing cloudbursts sent at least six rivers charging to dangerous heights earlier Saturday, wash ing out a railroad track between two approaching trains. At least one person was kill ed. She was Mrs. Monroe Miller, 66, who was swept from the highway along with five women in an automobile near Del Rio. The flash floods last night struck the same areas that un derwent flash flooding on three previous occasions since an un paralleled seige of heavy weath er struck the state April 19. The creeks that went out o the banks last night were the Bullhide and Cow Bayou, about 15 miles south of Waco. United Press correspondent Ray Bell said at Waco that the streams were moving with unbe lievable swiftness. He said rain fall at Waco only totaled 1.14 inches but it was still raining. At Austin, the department of public safety said a woman and a patrolmen tried to rescue the pair in a boat but the boat over turned and left patrolman Rob ert A. Knowles hanging to a stop sign. The other patrolman, John Dendy, managed to climb the tree. Bell said the heavieset rain in the. area was at Moody, 30 miles south of Waco, which had 6.81 inches and heavy rains' were still falling there. United Press correspondent Harry Gaines said five inches of rain fell at Eddy, between Tem ple and Waco, stalling 102 auto mobiles or forced them off the highway.' , Highway patrol Capt. Sam Gardner issued the appeal for boats. It was reported that resi dents at Golinda, a town of be tween 100 artd 150 people were marooned. Fears were also rais ed for residents of the little town of Troy. The weather bureau issued its 125th severe- weather forecast for the year Saturday, warning of the possibility of tornadoes. One tornado did hit near Chan ning, in the northwest corner of the Texas panhandle, knock ing down power lines. Mail Tribune Gels Certificate of Merit The Medford Mail Tribune Saturday received a certificate of merit for its record in the 1956 safe driving campaign sponsored by the American Newspaper Publishers associa tion and the International Cir culation Managers association. The Mail Tribune was one of 54 newspapers awarded a cer tificate out of a total of 475 participants. A letter from Cranston Wil liams, general manager of the ANPA, to the- Mail Tribune, stated, "Our records indicate your circulation fleet operated a distance of 238,468 miles dur ing 1956 without a single acci dent." Official recognition was given recipients of certificates at the 71st annual ANPA meeting held in New York City on April 24. Hawthorne Park Pool Will Open June 9 The Hawthorne park swim ming pool will open June 9 this year, according to Darell Hu son, city treasurer. The pool usually opens during the first week after school is out, he said Before the pool is opened this year it will be repainted an aqua color, Huson said. The pool only needs a few minor repairs this year, he added.
