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