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PACIFIST S3 R DEV1C ea TESTED; Ike Sees End of Allack Fear Boon To Disarmameni Inspection Plan Agreement Hoped Washington (IP) President Ei senhower said today that world disarmament would follow al most automatically from any East-West agreement to free the world from the fear of surprise attack. If progress is made on reliev ing the world of the fear of sur prise attack, the President said this would be the greatest ray of hope on the dark world scene since he has been in the White House. Utmost Hops Eisenhower told his news con ference that he has the utmost hope that the Soviet Union will agree to the latest American-al- lie proposals for aerial and ground inspection zones. These proposals were put before Rus sia by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles at the London dis armament talks. Other major points.In his news conference: He said Secretary of De fense Charles E. Wilson had noti fied him sometime ago that he wanted to quit before work start ed this fall on a new budget. He said he expected to name Cin cinnati soap manufacturer Neil H. McElroy to replace. Wilson, if Mctlroy passes a thorough gov ernment investigation of his qualifications. Opposes Senate Bill The jury trial amendment to the civil rights bill as adopted by the Senate would seriously hamper the operations of the federal courts system. He de clined to say whether he would veto the rights bill if it reaches him in the Senate form. But he restated his opposition to the amendment. He has a successor in mind to replace John Holister as head cf the International Cooperation Administration, but Holister has promised to remain in his post at the President's convenience. He dismissed as inconse quential a comment by Rep. Cleveland H. Bailey (D-W. Va.) who last week described Eisen hower as a '"lousy liar" in con nection with defeat of the school construction bill. Admires Candidate He expressed great admira ' tion for the Republican sena torial candidate in Wisconsin. He said he had not been approached to take an active part in the Wis consin campaign, but he would like to go on record as one of Kohler's great admirers and he would like to see Kohler elected. He defended his acceptance of gifts, which was criticized by Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) Ei senhower said that most gifts he had received since entering the White House came from large, voluntary organizations and that he had never accepted anything from a business or a corporation. He also said that anything given to himhad been , on the record and not hidden. Jfafe Forestry Crews c Mopping Up Fire Three trucks from the Med ford office of the southwestern district of the state department of forestry were called to a 12 acre fire on Elk creek rd. yes terday. Fire burned off about two acres of brush and timber and 10 acres of grass It started from an undetermined cause onpri vate property near the road about 15 miles northeast of Trail, officials said. Three tank trucks and 10 men were sent at 1:05 p.m. A crew of four and one truck remained on the scene "mopping up" this morning. Spokane W The Rev. Ed mund W. Morton, 41, has begun his duties as president of Gon zaga University here. Festival Attendance Shows o Increase Over Last Year's Ashland Attendance at the Oregon Shakespearean Festival shows a 17 per cent increase over last year for the first round of plays, William Patton, Festi val general manager, has an nounced. About 3,000 persons attended the four plays, which started Thursday. Aug. 1, and ran through Sunday, Aug. 4. The opening night crowd tolled about 1,000,' Patton said. Advance ticket sales, he said, continue to show a 23.2 per cent lead over sales last year. Patton also announced that Andrew C. Love, National Broadcasting company producer, has arrived in Ashland to direct the presentation of the seventh annual radio program for the Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE Washington 30 New York 2 S 0 Pascual, Byerly (S), Cleven ger (9) and Berberei; Sturdi venl. Grim (9) and Beria. Cleveland 1 S 1 Detroit 4 7 0 Gray. McLish (I) Daley (8) and Hegan; Hoeft and Wilson. Kanias City 0 7 0 Chicago 7 7 0 - McDermott, Burnetle (3). Portocarrero (3), Gorman (6) and Thompson; Wilson and Lollar. Two Valley Homes Destroyed by Fire Yesterday, Today House fires, one yesterday and one early this morning, left three residents of the Gold Hill Sams Valley area homeless, to day. The main house, two sheds, and a pump house burned yester day on the John Payne property about three miles north of Sams Valley on the Ramsey Canyon road. Payne was not at home when the fire started, according to re- ports. A neighbor, "Bud" Looper, called the Medford for estry office about 3:15 p.m. when he saw an outside wall engulfed in flames. Neighbors Assist Two pumpers and a crew of four men fought the blaze, aided several neighbors in the area. The state forest office said Payne, a miner, lost mining equipment and other personal belongings in the sheds. He lived alone in the house. Half an acre of brush'on sur rounding ground was burned off in the fire, firemen said. Mr. and Mrs. LcRoy Martin, roufe'l, box 379 Central Point, escaped injury in a fire that de stroyed their home about 1 a.m. today. They were asleep in the bedroom near the front of the house, when Martin awoke and found the rear of the structure ablaze. A pumper and four men from the forestry department office arrived too late to save the house, officials report. Its con tents were destroyed, they re ported. ' The home was on the old Gold Hill highway about a mile south of Gold Hill. Forestry department officials said thev did not know the cause of either fire. Russia Detains Divinity Student Moscow API Authorities de tained a California divinity stu- dent for the second time in nine days here today on suspicion of photographing a military estab lishment. Two factory workers seized Stan Mumford, 21, Walnut Creek, Calif., and handed him over to officials of the factory near which he was sightseeing with his camera. He had been seized near the same factory, presumably an installation of military character, July 28. Mumford, now a student at Edinburgh University in Scot land, was here to attend the World Youth Festival. He was detained by authorities at the factory for 4,,z hours today be fore he was released. An official Youth Festival committee that obtained his re lease held him another lVi hours for further questioning. San Francisco (If! Police said they will add a charge of child molesting to' charges of kidnanine. rohhinc and rane aeainst M&lvin Bakkerud the pint-sized "torture kit" rapist. Kennewick (IPi Plans for a proposed SI 50 million dam on the Columbia river eight miles above Richland were announc ed Tuesday. network. Scenes from "As You Like It" will be broadcast on the network at 10:u6?.m. Tuesday, Aug. 27. ' Taping the program will start at 11 ajn. Saturday, Aug. 10, and will be open to the public, Patton said. Gates will open at 10:15 and close at 10:50 a.m. There will oe no admission charge, he added. Expanded rehearsal schedules have been posted for "Pericles," the season"s fifth play which will be presented Aug. 23 and 29 only. Other pla-s are "Othello," "Two Gentlemen of Verona," and "Henry VIH." Tickets for all performances may be reserved y contacting the Festival box office. Top Intelligence Officer Detained For Deportation Defense Secrets Said Transmitted McAllen, Tex. (IP) A federal Grand Jury in New York City indicted today a top Russian in telligence officer who had been held in the McAllen Detention center a month for simple de portation. The Russian officer, is Ru dolph Ivanovich Abel, indicted on charges of transmitting American defense secrets to the Kremlin while posing as a Brooklyn photographer. Abel is a Russian citizen and faces execution if convicted un der the peacetime espionage act of 1954. Authorities in New York said he is one of the most daring spies ever caught in the U.S. Servicemen Sought He was reported to be the head of a ring which tried to make Russian spies of U.S. serv icemen and transmitted Ameri can military secrets to Russia by short wave radio. J. Weldon Taylor, chief patrol inspector for the Immigration Border Patrol in McAllen, said Abel was seized 30 days ago. He was held only on an immigra tion charge and had been or dered deported. Taylor said he knew nothing about his being a spy until to day. A three- count indictment charged Abel with gathering in formation for the Kremlin "re lating to the national defense of the U.S. and particularly infor mation as to arms equipment and disposition of the armed forces and the atomic energy program." It said Abel held the Russian rank of colonel and had been a member of the Soviet's top intelligence agency since 1927. When Abel was arrested in McAllen, Tex., just a few miles from the Mexican border, he had $6,000 on him, indicating that he might have planned to flee the U.S. Abel, using the aliases of Mark Collins and Emil Goldfus, set up a film studio directly across from the Federal building in Brooklyn where he was in dicted., this morning. Assistant U.S. Attorney William F. Tomp kins said Abel used a prear ranged drop in Brooklyn's Pros pect park and Manhattan's Fort Tryon park and other isloated spots in the New York area to communicate with members of his ring. Others Indicted Four other persons were in dicted with Abel as coconspira tors but not as defendants. Tompkins said the government was not sure whether the co conspirators were still in the U.S. or had fled secretly to Rus sia. They were not identified. According to the indictment, Abel and his aides microfilmed the documents, maps and notes they obtained and secreted them in small objects that had been hollowed out as containers. In that way, America's national de fense secrets could be transmit ted to Russia . in nails, bolts, coins, batteries, pencils and cufflinks. Madras Restaurant Destroyed by Fire Madras flPI A Madras res taurant. Sonny's Steak House, was destroyed by fire shortly before noon today. Loss was es timated in excess of $100,000. The 10-year-old son of the owier Sonny Enders discovered the fire in the kitchen about 11 ajn He called his father who summoned the Madras Fire De partment. .The flames had made too much headway, however, for the firemen to save the establish ment. Enders said about 90 per cent of the loss was covered by in surance. Weather FORECAST? Partly cloudy, lit tle chanpe in temperature through Thursday. Low to nigtt 51, high tomorrow 84. ' Temp. Highest Yesterday 0 Lowest this Morning 52 Our Skies Tonight S ii rise 5:10 a.m. Sunset . 7:34 p.m. Meonset Thursday 3:34 a.m. Full Moon Aug. 10 VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, low in west .... 8:15 p.m. Mercury, dimly seen below Venus for the next several nights, vill make a better show ing as a morning star next month. Jupiter, tow in west.... 8:47 p.m. Saturn, low in south west 10:38 p.m. Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 24 Pages British, Muscat Forces Advance Near Rebel Fort Jet Planes Drop Leaflets on Village Bahrein, Persian Gulf API British and Muscat troops ad vanced today to the village of Izz, 14 miles from the rebel stronghold . of Nizwa. No con tact with r.ebel forces was re ported. . The British troops and the forces of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman were scheduled to stand at Izz and then advance on the Nizwa fortress Thursday. Capture of Nizwa would end phase one of the operations against tribesmen of the rebel lious Imam of Oman, the spiritu al leader who is trying to take over the desert country from the pro-British sultan. British Royal Air Force jet planes dropped leaflets on Izz five or ten minutes before the troops moved in, calling on the inhabitants to give every assist ance to the "army of the sultan." Raids Carried . Out RAF jets already had carried out a series of raids against reb elheld forts in the area around Nizwa and bombed the circular fortress there to soften up the rebels for the land action. The British-Muscat advance was made over burning hot des erts in 140 degree heat despite predictions in Cairo by the Im am's representative, Sheikh, Mo hammed El Harithy, that the "white hot inferno" would make an advance"tmpossible; " j Mamie's Condition Continues 'Fine' Washington (IP) The White Houses aid today that the condi tion of Mrs. Eisenhower, who underwent a two-hour internal operation Tuesday, "continues to be fine." White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty quoted Dr. Howard McC. Snyder, the Eisen hower's physician, as saying: v "Mrs. Eisenhower's post opera tive condition continues to be fine. She slept with but few in terruptions through out the night." v The first lady was operated on by a gynecologist to relieve a condition similar to a type that afflicts many women after they pass middle age. American Fails in Channel Swim Try Calais, France KPl Gustave Adolph Brickner, 45, a steel worker from Charleroi, Pa., abandoned his attempt to swim the English Channel today. He then announced "My long dis tance swimming days are over." Brickner waded into the wat er at nearly Cap Gris Nez at 5:10 a.m. He was forced to give up five hours and 48 minutes later. ' "I was helpless from the waist down," he said. "The boat crew had to lasso me and haul me out of the water." Deadline Nearing for Antelope, Elk Tags Portland ItPI The State Game commission advised hunt ers today that Aug. 12 is the deadline for submitting applica tions for the antelope season and for the Loon lake controlled elk hunt. A total of 600 antelope tags will be issued, 200 for each of the three antelope areas. The public drawing is scheduled for 10 a.m. Aug. .15 with the season set from Aug. 24 through Aug. 28. The Loon lake controlled elk hunt in Douglas county has been scheduled for Sept. 14 'through Sept. 16 with a total of 75 per mits to be issued. The drawing will be held immediately fol lowing the antelope drawing. Portland HP) Lucille Weeks and Mary Childress, who figured in the recent probe of- alleged vice conditions in Portland, pleaded innocent before Mult nomah county Circuit Judge Chu us W. Redding today to burglary in a dwelling. py MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1957 Medco Strike Suspended 'They Act As If They've Been Doped' Jess Outlines Plan For Subcommittees Of Resources Group Initial study plans for sur veys to develop a program for use of unappropriated and sur plus water in the Rogue River basii will be submitted by sub committees of the Jackson Coun ty Water Resources committee by Aug. 20. Progress reports are expected Sept. 3 and 17, and the final sub committee reports will be sub mitted Oct. 8, according to a plan outlined by William (Bill) Jess, chairman of the committee, at an organizational meeting last night. Subcommittee Named The Jackson County Water Resources committee recently named 16 subcommittees which will hold public hearings and de velop programs for their partic ular interest. Committee hear ings by some of the subcommit tees are scheduled to start next week. Jess pointed out that each sub committee should "develop the strongest possible program" for the phase "which it will study. The samp point was stressed by Ted Watson, engineer from the state water resources board who attended the meeting. A consolidation of subcommit tee reports wil be made for the state board, which tentatively has planned a meeting in Med ford in early November. From subcommittee reports, the county committee will at-i tempt to develop a program fa vorable to the majority " of the organization. If no agreement on an over-all program can be reached, majority and minority reports will be made. , Previous Surveys Watson pointed out that previ ous surveys made of the Rogue River basin have been centered on one particular phase such as flood control, irrigation, or for industrial use. The state board, which started its survey a couple weeks ago, is reviewing surveys made in the basin previously, in cluding one as far back as 1909. Malcolm Kerr, Salem, is engi- Youngster Injured In Fall at Lookout Portland W Teddy An derson, 5, son of Rev. and Mrs. Herbert Anderson of The Dalles was in "critical" condition in Providence hospital here today following a fall from a lookout tower ladder at Paulina Butte in central Oregon Tuesday. The Rev. Anderson, on leave from the . Calvary Baptist church in The Dalles, has been working as a ranger and was with his son at the time of the accident. The youngster fell about 10 or 15 feet while de scending, striking his head on concrete at the base of the tow er. Dmidlktted neer in charge of the Rogue basin study, which will include reports from Jackson, Josephine and Curry counties, and meeting be tween the three organizations will be held, committee members said. Speaking briefly last night were County Judge Rodney Keating, and County Commis sioners Ralph James and Chester Wendt. House Relents on Air Force Chapel Washington (IPI The House, reversing itself, gave the Air Force a reluctant okay today to proceed with construction of a $3 million, 19-spired aluminum chapel at the new Air Force academy. By a vote of 147 to 93, the House overrode complaints of opponents that the futuristic structure would prove a "mon strosity" a "garish monument" unsuited either to religious wor ship or to the academy site in the mountains of Colorado. Only Tuesday, on a 102 to 53 vote, the House had gone along with the complaints, ordering no funds spent on the chapel. Asiatic Flu Vaccine Due for West Coast Swiftwater, Pa. (W The National Drug Co. said today it would ship about 500,000 shots of Asiatic flu vaccine to the West Coast Aug. 15. Anthony Bolyn, associate di rector of the influenza vaccine program, said he believed it would be the first commercial shipment of the vaccine in the U.S. All previous production has been for the armed forces. Nation's Credit Belt Tightened Again As Banks Increase Prime Customer Rate New York HP) The nation's credit belt was tightened another notch today amid a new flurry of reports the Federal Re serve Board may raise the dis count rate. ' The new activity basically re flects the lack of sufficient money available to meet the tre mendous demand for it. Banks Follow Lead : Major New York City banks followed the lead of Bankers Trust Co. in boosting the rate they charge their prime commer cial customers from 4 to 4V4 per cent. Bank of America in San Francisco followed suit. Price 10c Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire No. 121 Settlement Is on Temporary Basis Alter Hearing Strike Against King Remains in Effect Portland (IP) A temporary settlement was reached late Tuesday in a strike against the Medford Corporation by Inter national Woodworkers of Amer ica union, Local 6-221 at Butte Falls, but a strike against the Austin L. King Trucking com pany remains in effect. The agreement came as a Federal court hearing was be ing conducted, here into charges that the union was engaging in a secondary boycott against Medco. The dispute was tempo rarily settled by stipulation of Butte Falls Local 6-221 and the National Labor Relations board. Signs Order ' Federal Judge Willliam East, told of the stipulation, signed an order granting a temporary in junction against the union. The order will remain in effect un til Aug. 23. If the dispute on in dustry demands is not settled by Aug. 23 the union may call a meeting of its membership - to determine whether or not to pursue any further strike action. The judge's order did not halt the strike against-King, a con tract log hauler for Medco. The union agreed during the period of the temporary injunc tion to place not more than two pickets against King in an area agreed upon by the union and Medco. The area agreed upon is the lot where King parks his equipment at the logging opera tion site owned by Medco. The union also agreed not to picket King elsewhere in the Medford corporation's logging area. A provision of the stipulation says it is understood that the union does not admit any of the allegations in the NLRB petition or that it committed any unfair labor practices. Changes in Contract Union Attorney William Bab cock said the dispute with King was not over wages but con cerned changes in the contract involving seniority and equip ment. B. L. (Bud) Nutting, ' general manager of Medco, said this morning that railroad section crews and mechanics started checking equipment and facili ties this morning in preparation for resumption of work. He said Medco's woods and railroad workers will resume in entirety Friday, Aug. 9. Railroad section crews and mechancis are checking equip ment and facilities to insure safe conditions for resumption of work, he added. McElroy Nominated For Wilson's Post Washington (IPI President Eisenhower today nominated Neil H. McElroy as the new sec retary of defense, succeeding Charles E. Wilson who will re sign late this month. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said the nomi nation went to the Senate today after a discussion with ,Wilson. Bankers Trust triggered this move late Tuesday which sends the so-called prime rate to its highest level since the early 1930s. It's the first increase in the prime rate since last August. At the same time rates on bankers acceptances, bills used to finance trade, moved up J4 of a per cent and now stand IVi per cent above where they were a year ago. Paper Dealers Up Rates And dealers in commercial pa per, short term promissory notes of corporations, announced they were raising their rates by Jith percentage point across the Ft. Lewis Troops, Canadians Watch Pre-Dawn Explosion 'Atom-lopers' Conduct Prayer Outside Gate Atomic Test Site, Nev.- The Atomic Energy Commission unswervingly fired the 11th In its summer series of nuclear de vices today while pacifists con ducted a prayer vigil 30 miles away. The device was triggered at 4:25 a.m. (p.s.t.) from its sus pension Equipment hanging from a 67-foot diameter balloon at a height of approximately 1,500 feet above Yucca Flat. Its yield was estimated as nominal, prob ably equal to 20,000 tons of TNT. Canadians Watch Troops from Ft. Lewis. Wash.. scheduled to take part in ma neuvers later in the series, sat at the observation point some 10 miles from ground zero In full battle dress. Also at the view point were 30 Canadian soldiers from the Queen's Own Rifles of Calgary. Just before shot time the bal loon holding the device was clearly visible in the dawn-breaking day. , The blast violently shook ob servers on News Nob and an un manned Navy Blimp drifting in the SKy five miles from ground zero burst into a blinding light as the shot was detonated. AEC spokesmen said the gas bag had been equipped with mag nesium flares triggered to go off simultaneously with the blast for photographic effects taken in the test. However, the shock wave smashed the front end of the blimp and it shuddered to the ground where it poised like a missile with its nose buried in the desert floor. Smoke from the flares rose skyward from the wreckage. ' The flash was plainly visible in Salt Lake City and Los Ange les. Atom-watchers in San Fran cisco described it as one of the biggest flashes seen here. Prayer Seision ' Some 30 miles away a group of demonstrators conducted a prayer session against nuclear testing outside the main gates of the AEC headquarters at. Mer cury, Nev. The group conducted sessions Tuesday and 11 of the demon strators were arrested and charged with trespassing when they walked into the restricted area. The so-called "atom-lopers" Dleaded innocent and all were found guilty. They were released as imposition of sentence was suspended for a year. Scouts to Climb McLoughlin Tonight Boy Scouts at Camp McLough lin, Lake of the Woods, will take their annual midnight hike up Mt. McLoughlin tonight, it was reported here today. Leon McDougall, Medford; waterfront director, will lead the group. All Scouts who have qualified at the camp by having made the trek during the day will be eligible for the midnight hike. The hikers, who receive a moun taineer badge for the feat, walk to Cove Springs this afternoon and will begin the approximate ly six-mile hike up the moun tain when the moon is up, Scout officials reported. The group sets flares each hour en route up and again on arrival at the top. They return following breakfast Thursday. Twenty-eight Scout are ex pected to make the trip. Dulles Challenged To Give Democrats' Names Washington API The Dem ocratic National committee chal lenged Secretary of State John Foster Dulles today to produce the names of money-giving Democrats who got ambassador ial jobs from the Republican administration. "We'll. be glad to check on any- names when Dulles comes up 'with them," a 'committee spokesman, said. board to a level Vath of a per centage point above a year ago. Both the commercial paper and the bankers acceptance rates are at the highest levels since the early 1930s. Pattern Followed These rates Xollow the pattern of recent weeks of rising bond yields, the- 4 per cent interest tags in the Treasury's new re financing operation, and the new 514 per cent FHA mortgage rate. . All have brought renewed speculation that the Federal Re serve Board may hike the dis count rate from the 3 per cent level that has prevailed since last August. o
