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nn Jl ii Mm) Second of Four Stranded Climbers Spoiled in Alps One Hauled To Safety In Daring Rescue Grindewald, Switzerland TCP Alpine rescuers today spotted the second of four stranded mountain climbers entanglW in his ropes and hanging head down on the sheer, icy north wall of 13,038-foot' Mount Eiger. "It appears that he died dur ing the night," the rescue teams from five countries reported. "The storm must have been too much for hjs exhausted body." The man spotted today was Stefano Longhi, 44, an Italian,1! the second of the four climbei accounted for. One man was hauled to safety Sunday in a daring rescue. The others were missing and feared dead. Clinging To Ledg t Longhi had been clinging pre cariously to a tiny ledge, 1,200 feet below the summit of the mountain, dangling from two ropes. He was reported injured earlier and the latest storm ap peared to be too much for him The 60-man rescue team pulled : one man to safety Sunday in a dramatic hours-long pick-a-pack haul before a raging snowstorm halted attempts to reach Longhi and two missing Germans. German Alpinist Alfred Hell part made a daring descent from the top of the mountain and rescued Claudio Corti, 29, Lecco, Italy. Corti was so weak Hell part had to lash him to his back. Two Germans Missing Mystery surrounded the fate : of the two German members of the party, Franz Meier, 21, and Guenther Notdurft, 22. They vanished after being seen with Corti in arr improvid ed camp on another ledge near a rock formation called the . Spider, 600 feet from the sum mit. Corti said they left him on Saturday in a desperate attempt to reach the summit on their own. Hellpart said he heard voices as he was being lowered, down the mountain side Sunday, but hundreds of persons scanning the icy cliff from below with binoculars and telescopes could find no trace of the two men be fore a blizzard blotted out its face. Planning Group , To Meel Tonight A public hearing will be held by the city planning commission tonight on a request for change of zone from "multiple family" to "limited commercial" for a block in the Fruitdale addi tion. The meeting will be at 7:30 ti m. in the city hall council chambers. The block under consideration is bounded on the north by Jack son St., on the east by Genessee t.. on the south by Sherman st and on the west by Hawthorne St. The commission also will con sider a request to amend the zoning ordinance to allow'medi cal clinics and similar establish ments use of the "same type sign as is permitted apartments in "multiple family" districts. A request for change of zone from "single family" to "limited I commercial" on property at the corner of Delta Waters rd.. and Crater Lake highway will be considered as will an offer by Jackson County Housing author ity to dedicate a Columbus ave. extension. A policy recommendation on water connections outside the city is on the agenda for consid' eration. o Hardboard Waste Found as Effective Ditch Sealant Hood River (W Waste material from Orefton Lumber .Company here has been utilized as an effective Hitch sealant, soil conservation oftcials announced here today. O Drop in Water akag Hardboard waste from the cvSnpany has been pumped into the HighXine irrigation ditch with the result being a 30 per cent drop in water leakage from the irrigation ditch. The solution has an extra ordinary suspension capacity and by dumping directly into a stream's headwaters, the irriga tion egineers aere able to ef fectively seal luO.000 square feet of ditch surface. Bedford Stores Will Be pen Until 9 o'clock-Tonight "Rise Clark Gable Linked To Confidential Story In Trial Testimony Hollywood Of) The former editor of Confidential magazine testified today that movieland party girl Francesca de Scaffa was "having an affair" with Clark Gable when she contribut ed an article to the magazine about Gable's first wife. Howard Rushmore, one-time editor of the Communist Daily Worker who was editor of the scandal-mongering magazine during its early years, testified about Gable's romance with the buxom girl-about-tovn under 284 More Donors Needed for Visit About 284 more appointments are needed by blood, donors for the regular visit of the Red Cross Bloodmobile here tomor1 row. Red Cross officials said today. A total of 350 donors are needed. The Bloodmobile will be at the Elks temple between 1 and 6 p.m. tomorrow. Appoint ments may be made by tele phoning SPring 3-3313. The Bloodmobile also will visit Ashland Wednesday from 1 to 6 p.m. at the Elks temple there. The quota there is 200 pints and 250 donors. Medfprd's quota for tomor row's bloodmobile visit is 290 pints. About 350 donors will be necessary to fulfill it, because a number usually are rejected for various reasons, officials said. The blood goes into the north west blood bank for emergency sureical use., with much of it being retained for use in Med ford. On many occasions in re cent years Jackson county resi dents have required more blood than has been donated here, a Red Cross official said. Shooting Suspect Held By Red Bluff Police Red Bluff, Calif. (in Po lice Chief Marion Clay announc ed today a suspect in the fatal shooting of 60-year-old news ven dor, Frank Reed Aug. 1 was be ing held by police in Salt Lake City. The chief said the unnamed suspect was arrested along with a companion after an attempted holdup. They were ' driving a car stolen here the same day Reed met death, he said. Attempts to seal the ditch be fore had failed and water loss was at a maximum. But a team of state, county and local officials 'experimented successfully with the fibrous effluent and found that it was a very effective sealant. The result of this cooperative effort was two-fold in that it gave the water, hungry farmers in this area untold savings in water and was an outlet for the lumber company's waste pro ducts. Before the waste had over flowed into the Hood river from the company's waste pond causing complaints from the fish commission and local conserva tionists. Up!' cross-examination in the crimi nal libel trial of the magazine and its agents. First Revelation His was the first of the promised sensational revelations about movie stars to be produced in the trial. Defense counsel Arthur Crow ley was attacking Rushmore's prosecution testimony last week that Miss De Scaffa told Rush- more she would get information for Confidential even if "she had to have an affair with the man involved." Do you know of any story which she obtained in that way?" Crowley -asked Rush more. "She did obtain information from a certain person with whom she was having an affair at the time," Rushmore said. 'Who was that person?" Crowley asked. 'Clark Gable," was the reply. Rushmore said the information contributed by Miss De Scaffa concerned Gable's first wife, drama coach Josephine Dillon. Gable currently is "wanted" by the defense for a subpoena to appear with about 100 other stars to "tell the truth" about their intimate lives. The grey ing 'king," listed on the studio biograph as 56, is married to Kay Spreckles, former wife of sugar heir Adolph Spreckles II. Date of the alleged "affair" between Miss De Ccaffa and Gable was not brought out in testimony. Desi Arnaz Linked The name of Desi Arnaz, real life and TV-lift husband of ac tress Lucille Ball, was linked with a Hollywood call girl in further testimony by Rushmore. "Do you know of any stories obtained as a result of informa tion from prostitutes?" Crowley asked, probing Rushmore's pre vious testimony that call girls were used as "lures" to get in formation on spicy happenings in Hollywood. 'Yes. we got a story from Ron nie Quillan (another Holly wood night life figure) about Desi Arnaz based on a state ment by a call girl," Rushmore answered. Nation's Population Figured at 171,200,000 Washington (IP) The na tion's population totaled 171, 200,000 July 1, the Census Bu reau estimated today. The figure was three million higher than the population esti mate for the same date a year ago, the bureau said, and about 20 million higher than the 1950 census total. The bureau said the current population is more than double the 1900 total of almost 77 mil lion. . . Weather FORECAST: Fair throorh Tii day. Low tonight 48. Huh Tuesday 85. Temp. Highest yesterday . 2 Lowest this mornine 41 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 5:15 a.m. Sunset .... 7:18 p.m. The Moon rises :01 p.m. In Apoceft it is about 233.000 miles from the Earth tonight. Last Ouarter Aur. 1 PROMINENT CONSTELLATION Perseus, in the northeast at midnight. (The shooting start seen tonight are mostly of the Perseid meteor shower). 52nd Year Medford United Press Full Leued Wire 20 Pages SULTAN'S TROOPS PURSUE Fleeing Forces Quit Stronghold Without Fight Guerrilla Warfare Said To Continue Bahrein, Persian Gulf (W Troops of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman drove northwestward today from captured Nizwa in pursuit of rebel forces who sur rendered their headquarters without a fight. The stronghold of Nizwa, some 80 miles inland from the capital of Muscat, fell to British and Muscat troops who had broken the back of the resistance in a skirmish at Firq. War To Continue In Cairo Sheikh Mohammed El-Harithy, representative of the rebel Imam, predicted contin uous guerrilla warfare in the mountains. He said the war would continue despite the fall of Nizwa. The Arab League political committee called a meeting in Cairo today to take action on a proposal to raise the Oman is sue before the United Nations Security Council. Some Arab states have accused Britain of "aggression" in heeding the Sul tan's appeal for aid. Reports from the front said the rebel leaders fled their capi tal and were racing toward Je bel Akhdar (Green Mountain) and Tanuf. headquarters of the dissident Sheikh Suleiman Bni Himyar. They were reported at Birkat "At Mauz; "a' village 10 miles to the west. t No Trace of Leader ' . ' There was no trace at Nizwa of the rebel leader, the Imam of Oman, Galib Bin Ali. His bro ther, Talib, believed ,to be the Imam's military leader, also was missing. Front dispatches said the bat tle for Firq was not yet over because some rebels were still 'fighting from caves and would have to be dug out one at 'a time. The rebels were reported also to be holding a roadblock in the area. Sin Seen Greatest Cause of Delinquency New York W Evangelist Billy Graham said Sunday night that the greatest cause of juvenile- delinquency is sin, which slowly paralyzes the will . and the mind. Graham told 18,500 persons at Madison Square Garden, "We've taught youngsters that morals are not absolute, but are relative. They can do as they please." He said that as a result of this attitude youngsters become bored, and are tempted toward violence. The evangelist also said that most efforts dealing with juven ile delinquency try to treat the symptom instead of the cause. Graham said many factors have been blamed for juvenile delin quency, among them poor, hous ing, too much leisure, poor par ental guidance, movies, and bad literature but that while these may contribute to delin quency, the real cause is sin. ," Bids to Be Called On Bear Creek Siphon Bids to replace the Bear Creek siphon between Ashland and Talent will be called Aug. 15 by the bureau of reclamation, it was announced today by the Camp White office. Work on the siphon, which is part of the Talent project, will include removing a .- 42-inch wood stave pipe siphon md con structing a 54-inch monolithic concrete or precast, pretension ed concrete steel cylinder about 1,500 feet long. . It will require approximately 8,500 cubic yards of excavation, 7,000 cubic yards of backfill and 550 cubic yards concrete in the siphon. Tentative completion time has been set at 240 days. TV! MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1957 ufir&L Pif Jy 'C!'"- ! ' h 41 ft S2 1?! ' - && J? r i - P1 STANDING ON THE CORNER Watching the horses and people go by in the 14th an nual Rogue River Round-Up parade Saturday ...were, these .youngsters at the corner of Sixth and .Grape sts. The Round-Up ended Satur Yreka Man Kills Self and Three Others With Home-Made Bonib ; Yreka, Calif. (IP! A 47-year-old mill . worked blasted himself and three members of his family to pieces with a home made dynamite- bomb Sunday but he failed in his real purpose to "get" his wife.. The tremendous explosion killed Wilburt Smith, maker of the bomb; his son, Ted, 16; his daughter, Charlotte Surges, 20; and his son-in-law, . Douglas Sturges, 24. Intended Victim Escapes Smith's intended victim, his wife, Clara, escaped without in jury but was sent to a hospital in a state o f hysteria. Deputies pieced together this story: Smith's wife had him jailed on July 14 for beating her. He was determined to get even with her. He went Sunday to the home of Ivan Swickard, where Mrs. Smith, their son and the Sturgeses were living. Swickard's daughter, Pat, 15, said she saw- Smith's two chil dren and son-in-law struggling 4-H Horse Show Scheduled Sunday A 4-H Horse show will be held Sunday, Aug. 18, starting at 10 a.m., Glenn Klein, county 4-H agent, said this morning. ' ' Lee Pruitt of Grants Pass will judge events at the Jackson County Sheriffs Posse grounds here. Classes include horseman ship, trail horse, halter' class, stock horse, western pleasure and games. Fifty-five 4-H members are ex pected to compete, Klein said. The horse show is the start of the annual 4-H and Future Far mers of America fair in Jack son county. The fair will start next Tuesday and continue for four days at the fairgrounds south of Medford. San Francisco Has Hottest August 12 San Francisco (W Today was the hottest Aug. 12 in the his tory of San . Francisco with 78 at 12:30 pn., according to the weatherman. , Previous .high for the city was 76 in 1886 and 1889. day evening with him - in the driveway, Ap parently trying to keep him from entering the hpuse. Another neighbor reported hearing someone presumably Smith 1 say, ''if you come any closer, I'll throw something." Tickets Available For State Fair Shows Salem (IP) Tickets can now be ordered for the horse show and night revue at the Oregon State Fair which opens here Aug. 31. ' " Fair Manager Howard Maple said the week-long fair would include matinee horse shows Sunday and Monday, Sept. 1-2. Season box tickets for the horse show and rodeo six seats and 10 shows are priced at $108 for the first tier and $81 for the second tier. Admission shedule for single seats is: , General admission, day and night: 50 cents. Children under 12 free. Night revue: Box seat $2. Re serve seat $1.50. General admis sion 90 cents. Races: Box seat $1. Reserve seat 70 cents. General admission 50 cents. Horse show: Box seat S2 and $1.50. Reserve seat $1.25. Gen eral admission 90 cents. Trampoline Accident Fatal To Bend Youth Portland IB Robert R. Myers, 17, Bend, died last night in a Portland hospital from in juries suffered in a trampoline accident at Bend Saturday. The accident occurred at Bend Municipal swimming pool. Rec reation officials at the pool said 'Myers was an experienced per former on the trampoline. He suffered the injuries when trying to perform" a one-and-one-half somersault and came down on the side of his face, appar ently snapping his neck hard, re sulting in serious injury to the spinal column. He would have been a junior at Bend High school. Price 10c Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire No. 123 REBELS with the second show of the week end at the posse grounds. The spectators above are unidentified but from left to right appear to, be a cowgirl, two ranch, hands, and.; 8 Gaucho.: . - - .. ". .. Then an explosion shattered the air. When the smoke cleared four' persons lay dead, parts of their bodies as far as 200 feet away. Mrs. Smith, who had come out of the house to witness . the struggle, was unhurt. Dynamite Caps in Car , Smith's body indicated he was holding some kindfof home made bomb close to his chest, deputies said. They found dynamite caps and fuses in the trunk of Smith's car. They said he had a reputa tion for liking to work with ex plosives.. , , . , i France Makes Move To Curb Inflation Paris OPI The Bank of France raised the discount rale from 4 to i per cent today in this nation's latest move to halt inflation. Following .immediately on the heels of the devaluation of the franc, which went into ef fect Sunday, the discount rate was raised to make credit and money more costly. . The action was designed to reduce inflationary pressure by decreasing the amount of money available for investments. The tax on advances for bonds was raised to 7 per cent. Meanwhile, the Paris Bourse reacted well to the sudden week end financial change. The money market was steady, and gold prices dropped lightly in early trading. Grants Pass Yauth Among Oregon Accident Victims By UNITED PRESS Three Oregonians met death in traffic accidents during the week end. Jack Stalkup, 30, ' Oregon City, died Sunday from injuries suffered earlier in the day when his car left the road on a curve and overturned about two miles southeast of Oregon City. Sher iff's deputies said Stalkup was found lying face down on the edge of the road. Ensuing Explosion Dismembers All Aboard Airliner Victims Returning From England Reunion Quebec City (IB A happy post-war reunion with relatives in Britain turned Into tragedy for a group of World War II , veterans and their families Sun day when a chartered airliner crashed and apparently explod ed in a desolate swamp, killing all 79 persons aboard. The disaster was the worst in Canadian aviation history and one of the world's worst. Dug Deep Crater The Maritimes Central Air ways DC4, chartered by the Im- t perial Division of the Canadian Legion in Toronto, burst into flames on impact and dug a deep crater in the marshland. Bodies of the 73 passengers and six crewmembers were torn limb from limb in the ensuing blast Identification was expected to be almost imposfible. Last rites were conducted at the scene of the tragedy by the Rev. Alexandre DeBlois, rector of the Parish of Ste. Croix. The passengers were British war veterans or members of their families who had settled in Canada after World War II. They had chartered the plane to visit their former homes in the United Kingdom. Weather Not Certain The doomed airliner's pilot gave no indication that it was in trouble. Last radio contact was made over Quebec City wnen its captain, Norman Ram say, 34, of Montreal, reported that everything was normal and the weather clear. Previously the weather had reported scattered thunderstorms in the area. Several persons saw the air craft as it flew overhead. They said it was "limping", and "mak ing a horrible noise." On im pact it exploded, "making a noise like an earthquake or thunder clap." Ramsay was suspended for six months when he crash landed a Trans-Canada Airiines Super Coasteliatioir' n'eTr " Brampton," Ont.on Dec. 17,, 1954. A board of inquiry charged him with "lack of alertness," although the Pilots' Association protested he had suffered from fatigue. He had been flying for MCA since late 1955 after resigning from TCA. ... J. P. Fournier, district super visor of air regulations for the Department of Transport, ar rived at the scene late Sunday night. He said it was "too soon to ascertain definitely" the cause of the crash, but "it appeared that it exploded on impact." Probers Continue Work Fournier was accompanied by another .DOT official. They were returning to the crash scene this morning to conduct an investi gation. , The area was roped off and six Royal Canadian Mounted Po lice constables in scarlet tunics stood guard. Fragments of twist ed metal and a water filled cra ter were all that remained of the red, white and silver plane. None of the pieces were more than two feet long. Rescuers waded through mud up to their knees to recover baggage from the marsh, which is surrounded on all sides by dense woodland. Medford Couple Fined In Municipal Court George William Smith, 67, and his wife, Elsie M. Smith, 56, were fined $50 each in municipal court today on charges involv ing sale of alcoholic beverages. Mrs. Smith was fined on charges of furnishing beer to three minors and her husband was fined for permitting minors to loiter on the premises of Smitty's tavern, 3522 North Pa cific highway. The rcouple was arrested by Medford police July 19 and re leased on $300 bail each. Lloyd Murphy, 15, Grants Pass, was killed late Saturday when struck by a car while he was crossing Highway 99 in Grants Pass. Willard C. Wallen, 20, Swiss home, was killed early Saturday in a one-car accident 25 miles east of Newport on the Alsea river road when a pickup truck failed to negotiate a curve. Morris E. Hulsey, 14v Waldport, and Thomas A. Cotter, 14, Swisshome, were injured. o o
