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Ago Khan Dies
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The Aga Kahn died today at the
uge of 79. ending a fabulous
career as Moslem religious lead
er, millionaire sportsman and
former father-in-law of Rita
Hayworth.
He died of a heart attack.
He may be succeeded by
Prince Aly Khan as spiritual
leader of 10 million Moslems of
the Ismailia sect who showed
their devotion each 10 years by
weighing him in gold, platinum
or diamonds.
Almost a God
To the West, the Aga Khan
was an aristocratic playboy and
horse breeder, a friend of kings.
To the East he was almost a god,
rcvertd by millions.
Estimates of his wealth rang
ed up to more than a billion
and a half dollars but when
queried about his great holdings
he only laughed.
He had been ill for the past
few years, and his condition
worsened a few months ago.
During the recent European
heat wave he was brought to
his mountain villa here in hopes
the coolness would save his life.
Prince Aly and his younger
brother, Sadruddin, were sum
moned from Geneva shortly aft
er midnight when the end ap
peared near. Aly was in Geneva
with his daughter. Princess Yas
min, daughter of Rita Hayworth,
for a visit with "grandpa."
Sadruddin was in Geneva for
his marriage Monday to a beau
tiful British model, a wedding
certain now to be postponed.
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Th AGA KHAN
Fabulous Career Ends
Sadruddin, also mentioned as
a possible heir in case Aly
should not prove acceptable, was
engaged to Nina Dyer, a former
London fashion model and the
ex-wife of multimillionaire Bar
on Heinrich von Thyssen.
The Aga Khan himself had
married a succession of beauti
ful women. His widow, the Be
gum Aga Khan, herself was once
chosen Miss France.
The Aga Khan, famed as a
statesman as well as a religious
leader, was the 44th lineal de
scendant of the Prophet Moh
ammed and sacred to the Ismaili
I sect. '
June Unemployment
Remains High in Area
Unemployment in Jackson
rounty during June remained
high compared to a year ago, ac
cording to John J. Patton, man
ager of the Medford office of
the state employment service.
An estimated 1,500 were un
employed last month, about
twice the number for June last
year, he said. Total weeks of un
employment benefits claimed
during June, showed an increase
of about 75 per cent more than
last year, and a decrease to aK
most half the total for May this
year.
Patton said the increase in
employment in June appears to
mem to tine up against tne
wall," she said. "Then he began
rifling through the cash
drawers behind the cage."
Salem Ur Plans are current
ly being drawn for a $110,000
face lifting for the state office
building, according to Secretary
of State Mark Hatfield.
roll making a net gain of about
$500,000 in total county pay
rolls. Hie gain was partially due
to a change in law effective Jan.
1, 1956, making employers with
two or more employees subject
to unemployment coverage.
Agricultural Increase
Agriculture during June
opened with the usual increase
in hiring in orchards due to
thinning pears and peaches with
more work than was originally
anticipated, he said.
Work opportunities should in
crease steadily during the next
60 days, Patton said, with the
demand for unskilled . labor
nie commission declared all
four bids submitted on the pro
ject were too high. Bidders were
Keith Bros. Construction comp
any. Medford. $167,692: Central
Paving company, Independence,
$168,464; Peter Kiewit Sons'
company. Vancouver, Wash.,
S180. 637.20: and F. L. Somers,
Medford, $183,856.
Grants Pass Woman
Killed by Husband
During Argument
Reconciliation Talk
Turns Into Tragedy
Grants Pass HP Mrs. Mar
guerite Brame, 46, was shot and
killed Wednesday evening and
authorities held her estranged
husband for the slaying.
District Attorney Max McMil
lin said a first degree murder
charge was filed today against
the woman's husband, Felix J.
Brame, 46.
Police said that Brame had
gone to his wife's home in an
effort to make a reconciliation
and that an argument occurred
in his car which was parked in
front of her home. Mrs. Brame
was shot several times with a .45
caliber revolver. Brame, who
formerly operated a gun repair
shop here, was arrested by
Deputy Sheriff Paul Shelton,
who heard the shooting at his
nearby home.
Fell Out Open Door
Mrs. Brame was shot twice
while she was in the car and
twice as she fell out an open
door, police said.
Shelton quoted Brame as say
ing "call the police" as he made
the arrest.
The couple had two children.
Camilla, 15, and Pat, 13, who
lived with the mother.
Police said Brame was a re
tired Army major and that his
wife had filed suit for divorce
in April, charging cruelty.
Mrs. Brame, a member of the
Grants Pass chapter of Business
and Professional Women's club,
taught a class in millinery this
spring in the Medford school
system's adult training program.
She studied hat designing in
Denver.
Man Arrested in
Stabbing Incident
A stabbing in the Casino tav
ern, 17 South Front St., resulted
in the arrest of a Camp White
man early this morning.
The victim, Roger Walter
Moreland, 56, of 520 North Front
drill holes. A ton of ore, he
said, produced 400 pounds of
pure metallic iron. Other
samples have been running from
20 to 30 per cent iron, White
said.
The Nickel Corporation of
America recently was organiz
ed to develop nickel deposits
in the Illinois Valley.
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Lumber Company To Start Operations at
Old Donna Timber Site at Jacksonville
The C. and R. Lumber com
pany sawmill will start opera
tions next Wednesday a mile
east of Jacksonville, Pete Thorn
ton, mill foreman and mill
wright, has announced.
The new semi-portable gang
mill was installed at the site of
the former Jackson Creek saw
mill owned by the Donna Tim
ber. Inc. The former mill was
destroyed by fire May 6 at a loss
estimated between $140,000 and
$150,000.
Articles o' incorporation were
filed for the new mill at Salem
yesterday. They were signed by
Reed Cox, president, Yreka,
Calif.; Lyle M. Russell, vice
president, Central Point, and
Laverne C. Watrud, Medford,
stockholder.
The mill will start with one
shift and soon operate with two
shifts turning out an estimated
100.000 board feet of lumber
each 16-hour period. Production
will consist of 90 per cent fir,
some pine and some cedar,
Thornton said.
The 20-man crew is expected
to have a payroll of $3,500 every
two weeks. Thornton said.
The new firm's logging opera
tions will be conducted in the
Yreka area. Remainder of the
log supply will be bought on the
open market.
The new company started
tearing down the remains of the
old mill and installing the new
one June 11, Thornton said.
Valuation is estimated at
$150,000.
"We figure we can turn out
the required quality and quan
tity of lumber with a small num
ber of men." Thornton ex
plained. "The big decline in lum
ber prices has knocked out only
the inefficient operator using
too large a crew,"
Trucker Pit
Line Results ...
Medco Shut Down
Dispute Grows Over
Rehiring Three Drivers
The woods and railroad opera
tion of Medford Corporation is
shut down as the result of a
strike against a trucking con
tractor, it was reported today.
Approximately 130 employees
of Medco, members of the Local
6-221, International Woodwork
ers of America, AFL-CIO, are
off the job, it was reported by
B. L. Nutting, manager of
Medco.
The strike is not against
Medco, but against Austin L.
King, Medford trucking con
tractor, who has been hauling
logs for Medco from the woods
to the firm's railroad reload
above Butte Falls. The strike
began as a result of a dispute
over the rehiring of three truck
ers employed by King, and
Medco employees have refused
to cross the picket line estab
lished by the three truckers
above Butte Falls.
Charges Are Filed
As a result of the strike, Med
ford Corporation and King have
both filed unfair labor practice
charges with the National Labor
Relations Board, and agents of
the board have been in the area
conducting a n investigation.
Medco alleges the effect of the
strike against King, which has
closed its operations, constitutes
a secondary boycott, banned
under the Taft-Hartley act.
King's charges allege failure
to negotiate on a contract prior
to the strike, which began June
25. King and the Medco opera
tion were closed June 26, 27,
and 28, and July 8 to the pres
ent, following the regular sum
mer contractual vacation period.
Nutting said Medco is urging
all employees who are observing
the Dicket line to attend thei
Coverage May Spread
Salem (IB Insured employ
ment in Oregon was extended to
cover an average of 376,258 jobs
in 1956 and may pass the 400,
000 mark in 1958, the State Un
employment Compensation Com
mission said today.
The 1956 figure was an in
crease of almost 11,000 over
1955, but the addition of 18,826
federal workers and 17,000 re
ported from firms with two or
three employes was responsible
for the higher total.
Coverage will include state
workers in 1958 and other pub
lic agencies also may elect to
come under the law.
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THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1957
No. 96
National Employment
Figure Reaches Peak '
Washington HP) The govern
ment today reported that em
ployment across the nation in
June hit a record peak for the
month at 66,500,000.
The figure was up 1,300.000
over May, according to a Com
merce and Labor Department
report. The increase was due al
most entirely to the rush of
school-age youngsters into sum
mer jobs, the report said.
Jpholds
Deliver Girard
Tokyo (IPI The trial of
U.S. Army Sp-3 William S.
Girard. of Ottawa. 111., will
start Aug. 26. the Maebashi
District Court announced today.
Washington ,IIP1 The Su
preme Court ruled today that
the U.S. has a right to deliver
GI William S. Girard to Japan
for trial.
The ruling came in a five
page, unsigned opinion by the
eight-judge bench.
Japan will try Girard on its
lightest manslaughter charge, for
causing the death of a woman
who was scavanging metal on a
firing range last Jan. 30.
The court said the narrow is
sue was whether the constitution
or legislation prevented carrying
out the arrangement between
the U. S. and Japan for trying
soldiers who violated the laws
of both.
"We find no constitutional or
statutory barrier to the provision
(of the agreement) as applied
here," the opinion said.
"In the absence of such en
croachments, the wisdom of the
arrangement is exclusively for
the determination of the execu
tive and legislative branches."
The opinion carried as an ap
pendix an affidavit on the facts
WILLIAM GIRARD
U. S. Has a Right
of the case sworn to by Robert
Dechert, general counsel of the
Defense Department. This had
been kept secret in the District
Court here which first heard the
case.
The U.S. District Court ruled
June 18 that the government had
no legal right to turn Girard
over to a Japanese court for trial
Right To
To Japan
because his alleged offense was
committed on duty. District
Judge Joseph C. McGarraghy or
dered Girard given an Army
court martial.
The Supreme Court reversed
McGarraghy's basic ruling, but
affirmed his denial of a writ of
habeas corpus which would have
forced the government to bring
Girard home, out of reach of
Japanese prosecution.
The Supreme Court pointed
out that it decided many years
ago that "a sovereign nation has
exclusive jurisdiction to punisn
offenses against its laws com
mitted within its borders, unless
it expressly or impliedly con
sents to surrender its jurisdiction."
The opinion further noted that
Japan's cession to the U.S. of
jurisdiction to try American
military personnel for conduct
which violates the law of both
countries was conditioned by an
agreement. This agreement said
authority of the state having pri
mary jurisdiction "shall give
sympathetic consideration to a
request from the authority of
the other state for a waiver of
its rights in cases where the
other state considers, such wai
ver to' be of particular importance."
Talk About Clean.
H-Bombs Termed
As 'Stupidities'
Meeting With Tito
Hinted by Russian
Measles Cases in
County Reach New
High for 6 Months
More than 1,600 cases of
measles were reported to the
Jackson county health depart
ment during the first six months
of 1957, Dr. A. Erin Merkel,
supplies of the vaccine. A sig
nificant shortage of the vaccine
was reported locally until a few
weeks ago.
Ike Said Willing To
Amend Civ7 Rights Bill
Washington OPi President
Eisenhower is willing to amend
his civil rights bill to allay any
fears troops will be used to force
school integration in the South,
Republican sources said today.
But as of now he will not
make any further concessions
to southern foes of the legisla
tion, these sources told the Un
ited Press. This ruled out ac
ceptance of a so-called jury-trial
amendment which Dixie sena
tors are demanding.
County Grand Jury
To Convene Tomorrow
The Jackson county grand
jury, originally scheduled to
meet today, will convene at 9
a.m. tomorrow.
It was reported that the ses
sion had to be postponed be
cause the jury foreman was out
of town. This is a regularly
scheduled session of the group.
"Collective Leadership"
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In Virtual "Exile
London 41H A Communist
correspondent in Moscow -reported
today that Georgi Malenkov's
accomplices will join him in vir
tual exile, V. M. Molotov as a
foreign ministry "political ex
pert" and Lazar Kaganovich as
a factory manager.
Molotov ' would get a menial
job under his own student and
former deputy. Foreign Minister
Andrei Gromyko, according to
the authritative report published
in the Danish Communist party
organ Land Og Volk.
It said Dmitri Shepilov, ousted
from the Communist party secre
tariat as a lesser, "anti-party"
figure, would become a professor.
Baseball
NATIONAL LEAGUE
St. Louis 0 6 0
New York 1 S 0
L. McDaniel. Wilhelm (8)
and H. Smith; Antonelli and
Thomas.
county, J a n o u c h listed the
amount of bonds issued as
$792,710.70; bonds oustanding,
$419 000; and sinking fund,
$28,552.52.
Net debts for individual dis
tricts are Gold Hill, $13,946.45;
Eagle Point, $28,034.83; Med
ford, $155,418.58; and Talent,
$193,047.62.
Neuberger Asks Ike
To Hear Dam Backers
Washington W Sen. Richard
L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) asked
President Eisenhower today to
grant an audience to sponsors
of a high federal dam at Hells
Canyon.
Noting that Eisenhower heard
Sen. Richard B. Russell (D-Ga.)
argue the case against his civil
rights bill, Neuberger said it was
"only fair and proper" that
Hells Canyon backers have the
same opportunity.
Vale W George Lea, con
servationist for the Bureau of
Land Management here, has re
ported new infestations of the
poisonous weed Halogeton in
Malheur county. The weed is
deadly to sheep flocks.
Prague Wl Soviet Commu
nist party chief Nikita Khrush
chev attacked President Eisen
hower today for speaking "stu
pidities" about a "clean"
H-bomb.
"How can there be clean
bombs for dirty things?" he
asked.
Khrushchev also hinted that
he will' meet again soon with
Yugoslavia's President Tito, one
of the leaders of the policy of
"independent socialism" free
from Moscow control.
Remark 'Rather Amazing
The White House in Washing
ton labeled the Khrushchev re
mark "rather amazing." A state
ment issued by Press Secretary
James Hagerty and approved
by the President and Secretary
of State John Foster Dulles said
the avoidance of mass human
destruction in in atomic ar "is
and has been a prime objec
tive" of Eisenhower. It added
the objective is "no less than
the aim of eliminating the pos
sibility of war itself."
It is rather amazing that Mr.
Khrushchev would think that
efforts by American scientists
to eliminate dangerous fallout
from atomic explosions are 'a
stupid thing," " the ( statement
said.
Off the Cuff Speech .
The burly Khrushchev, In an
off the cuff speech at the Stalin
grad metal works here during
the current visit to Czechoslo
vakia by him and Soviet Pre
mier Nikolai Bulganin, also
promised the Soviet bloc outside
Russia that "we don't criticize
you if you don't criticize us."
On the H-bomb, he was criti
cal of President Eisenhower's
statement last week that Ameri
can scientists hope to perfect
an H-bomb free from radioactive
fallout dangers.
Kills Women and Children
"Eisenhower is a man of prin
ciple and integrity but look
what stupidities he says when
he speaks of a dean hydrogen,
bomb," Khrushchev said. "How
Tension Flares Anew
Jerusalem Hfl The Israeli
Syrian border tension flared
into action during the night
when Syrian machinegun and
rifle posts opened up for 15
minutes on border settlements,
it was reported today.
An Israeli spokesman said the
fire was directed at the border
village of Gonen near the Sea
of Galilee where Israeli and
Syrian troops dueled for ten
hours with artillery on Tuesday
and exchanged some shots Wed
nesday. No casualties were reported
today.
Weather
FORECAST: Partly cloudv fo
ment.. Fair Frldav. Low to
night so. High Friday .
Temp.
Hichrit Yfstrrdav !!
Lowest thi. Morning - 56
Our Skies Tonight
Sun titte
Sunset
Moonnse
. 4:44 a.m.
..7:49 p.m.
7:29 p.m.
, 2:50 p.m.
Full Moon
Saturn, our south at 9 no p.m.,
now appears almost directly
tbove the star. An tares. In six
vears it has moved from where
ve now see Jupiter to Its
present position among- the stars.
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