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Newspaper Page TextTyT A T T 52nd Year Price 10 Recommended A f titan story iboat the Jack ion County Oof pound, iu purpote, and th tfutits of the dos; control officer appear on put 14 of today'! Mall Tribune. Subscribers To report Improper or non-delivery of the Mail Tribune In Med ford phone SP 3-6141. Ashland MU 3-1021. Yreka 841W before 6:4.5 pjn. daily and 10 JO ajn. Sunday If regular delivery arrives short ly after you call please notify of fice thus eliminating special mes senger service. Medford Umtad Pre Pull Leased Wir United Press Full Leased Wire 56 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 1957 No. 128 feH4JTRIBUNE' Amended Civil Rights Bill May Have Enough Votes to Pass Senate Washington HP Democratic leaders figured Saturday they finally had corralled enough votes to shove the Senate's amended Civil Rights bill through the House and to pass- . age But they conceiJ d it could be the end of this week or even later before they can force a ' showdown. They originally fcad hoped this could come in the House Wednesday. Meantime Republicans, with fresh backing from President Eisenhower, fought to reform their wavering ranks in opposi- Maureen J)eoies Testimony About Theater Incident o .. Hollywood (in Actress Maureen O'Hara declared Sat urday she rgd a gtamped pass port and 10 witnesses to prove she was in Europe at the time it is claimed she engaged in a "cuddling" scene with a Latin lover in the back row of a theater here. The Irish-born film star has denied the testimony of a de fense witness in the criminal libel trial of Confidential mag azine that she was involved in an escapade i the theater Nov. 9, 19S3. She sued the magazine shortly after publication of the Co To Court Her statement. Saturday, also declaring she was "eager" to go to court to fight the claim, was issued through her attorney, Guy I. Ward. The lawyer' had said earlier he believed he would be able to prove the actress was not even in the country at the time James Craig testified he saw her with the unidentified escort. At the same time; Ward said the actress would appear in his office Monday to amend her civ-1 11 suit against the magazine "as a result of the additional pub licity" from Craig's testimony. Ward said she would ask for $13 million instead of the $1 mil lion sought originally in her suit charging her reputation was damaged. In addition. Ward said Craig has been served as a de fendant in the action. Appear When Called Ward said she did not plan to appear at the Confidential trial until called by the prosecution. Ward said Miss O'hara had documents to prove she left the U. S. Oct. 6, 1953, arrived in Ireland Oct. 8 and "thereafter, continuously engaged In making the film Tire Over Africa.' " Christmas day she spent with her mother in Ireland-and re turned to New York in Janu ary, 1954, Ward said. ' Sports Bulletins Portland im Pat McMur lry. the young and up ' and coming heavyweight from Ta coma. Wash., knocked out Carl (Bobo) Olson, th ex middleweight champ from from Vancouver, Wash., in the second round her last night in their scheduled 10 round outdoor fight at Port land Meadows. Before ihe crowd had hardly settled is. their seals. McMur try. who weighed in at 1B7V. lashed out with a straight light hand to th jaw and stunned th ax-champ. He fol lowed with another right and Olson dropped to th canvas. As Referee Eddie Volk tol led th lell-lal count, ih pro Olson crowd hollered .for him to get up. Bu tt was all in ain as Olson ros to on knee and ih& fell back to th can vas. Medford Cheney Studs de feated Ashland-Talent 22 to 13 her last night in a Rogua Val ley league baseball game. Portland HP Bob Alexand er pitched shut out ball as the Portland Beavers shaded ih San Francisco Seals 1-0 in a tight Pacific Coast leagu con test in Multnomah stadium last night. It was th third time this season th Bevos have managed to toppl th Seals. Seattle UP Bobby Bal cena singled with th bases Qloaded and two out in th 10th inning last night to give Seat tle a 6-5 win over Sacramento in a Pacific Coast Lagu contest. tion to passage of what they called a weakened version of the bill. Continue to Insist Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. (Mass.) said after a White House conference that GOP will continue to insist that the bill's right-to-vote provisions be strengthened. Martin said passage of the bill in the fgrm proposed by the Democrats would be a "tragedy" for the millions of Negroes who, he said" have waited 90 years for legisaltion assuring their right to the ballot. The bill's Democratic man agers, who so far have not been in a hurry to reach a test, now believa the House is ready to approve, with one amendment acceptable to the Senate, Senate amendments to the bill as it originally was passed by the House. However, barring an unex pected change of heart on the part of a Southern , Democrat who heads the powerful House Rules Committee, they don't see how they can set the issue up for a House vote before the end of the week. The rules chairman is Rep. Howard W. Smith (D-Va.), an ardent opponent of Civil Rights legislation in any form and a wily parliamentarian not easily out-maneuvered. Smith's 12-man committee must recommend in advance the procedure to be followed in a House vote on the fcsue. Smith so far has declined to call the committee into session. Sources familiar with his think ing said he is not likely to change his mind although power ful appeals are likely to be made. Khrushchev Plans Trip to'Syria London (IP) boviet Com munist party Chief Nikita S. Khrushchev is planning a barn storming trip to Syria and Egypt to woo both countries further away from the West, diplomatic sources said Saturday. The sources said they learned that Khrushchev may accomp any Defense Minister Georgi Zhukov, the powerful Red Army chief who already has accepted an invitation to visit Syria in the near future. It was believed that Khrush chev and Zhukov planned to cash in on new Soviet economic and military ties with Syria which is on the verge of beconv ing an outright Soviet satellite in the Middle East. According to diplomatic dis patches, the Kremlin sees in Syria and Egypt an opportunity to strike another blow against the Eisenhower doctrine. Demo Dinner Ticket Chairman Announced Portland ' State Representa tive Richard Groener of Mil waukie will be ticket sale chair man of- the Jefferson-Jackson dinner, which will be held in Portland at the Masonic Temple Sept. 28, Bob Boyer, Medford, Democratic State chairman, has announced.- The Jefferson-Jackson dinner. annual fund-raising dinner of the Democratic party, will fea ture Gov. Edmund S. Muskie of Maine as quest speaker in ad dition to the entire Oregon dele gation of Democratic elected of ficials. Groener has appointed a state wide steering committee of tick et chairmen which will be sup plemented by a ticket chairman in e-ery county. Typhoon Heads Toward Okinawa's U.S. Base Naha, Okinawa (TP) A typhoon with 115 M.P.H. winds bore down on this U.S. military base Saturday. Servicemen and their families took shelter. The Air Force clos ed down operations at noon, ty ing down all light aircraft, in cluding F-100 jet fighters. An Air Force weather recon naissance plane last reported the storm 350 miles southeast of Okinawa moving west-northwest at 15 M.P.H. High winds extend ed for a radius of 200 miles. Las Vegas, Nev. (IP The Atomic Energy commission last night rescheduled firing of at omic device "Shasta," for 5 ajn. today on the basis of a late wea ther report which indicated wind conditions in the area would be favorable by morning. 'Some View, Eh?" 'Standing Room' Only Crowd Attends Play At Ashland Festival Ashland The Oregon Shake spearean Festival had a "stand ing room only" crowd last night for the first time in more than a year as attendance records headed toward new highs, ac cording to William Patton, gen eral manager. All 1,093 seats in the Festival theater were sold out late yes terday afternoon, Patton said. "As You Like It," which has been this season's most well attended play, was presented last night. Midway through its 17th sea son, gate receipts are 13.5 per cent above last year's, Patton said, and advance ticket sales continue to hold a 22.7 per cent edge over 1956. .. . Patton indicated that other productions may sell-out before the season closes Aug. 31. All four plays rank close 'in at tendance, Patton said, with An gus Bowmer's "As You Like It," and James Sandoe's production of "Othello" leading. The other two, "Two Gentlemen of Ver ona," and "Henry VIII,' rank close in attendance. Ticket reservations for the latter part of the month are showing a sharp upswing, Pat ton said. Good seats still are available for almost all preform anees, he added, but encouraged area residents who plan to at tend to make early reservations for tickets. Seats may be reserved by call ing the box office in Ashland at MUrdock 9-5111, or by mailing Plane Lands Safely With Blown-Out Tire San Francisco (IP A United Airlines DC-7 with 56 passengers and five" crew members aboard Janded safely here Saturday with a blown-out tire that was damaged on taking off from the Idlewild Airport in New York. The non-stop plane was met by all the emergency equipment available when it set down aft er its cross-country hop but both passengers and crew described the landing as "routine." The plane's pilot, Capt. Clyde Parlette, San Francisco, was no tified that his big plane prob ably had a blown tire after frag ments of tire and inner -tube were found on the runway from which he had taken off. Morse Says Sen. Wayne Morse, in a tele gram to the Mail Tribune, has denied that he and Sen. Richard L. Neuberger have been feuding. Senator Morse's statement was in response to a story by the Mail Tribune's Washington cor respondent, A. Robert Smith, in which Smith reported that the two Oregon senators have fallen "to squabbling like disenchanted lovers." Smith claimed the "po litical honeymoon" between them was over. Senator Morse said: "Such stories are a lot of nonesense." Smith is Washington correspond ent for several newspapers in the northwest. The United Press reported Saturday that Senator Neuberg er did not wish to make any im mediate comment. The UP said Neubeger had not seen the story and quoted him as aying: "I feel it would be inappropriate and unfair for me to make a public comment on newspaper dispatches which I have not yet had an opportunity to read." aVr ym UAH Tstri TT orders to Shakespeare, Ashland. Director Robert B. Loper is now calling frequent rehearsals for .the fifth play, "Pericles, Prince of Tyre," which will be staged Aug. 23 and 29. Techni cal and costume crews are pre paring the wardrobe and prop erties for the play. Patton said enthusiasm for the production is running high in the company, and advance reser vations indicate considerable audience interest in the seldom- seen play. 10,000-Acre Fire Destroys Town . Portland (IP Ten thousand acres of eastern Oregon grazing lands are ablaze and the century old ghost town of Malheur City has been - destroyed, according to reports the bureau of reclama tion office here. - " John C. Hunt, fire control of ficer for the bureau, said two fires were raging out of control. one in northern Malheur and southern Baker counties and the other along the Oregon-Nevada border. 1 Hunt said bureau officials Fri day flew over the fire scene and reported the historic ghost town of Malheur city a total loss. They said they could see all the re maining buildings in the old mining town' on fire the old church, general store, three or four houses and even crosses, in the town cemetery. No inhabitants were reported in the path of the flames but the fire on the Oregon California border threatened some eattle on the Disaster Peak and Turner ranches, Hunt said. At least 20 tank trucks, 13 bulldozers and 160 men were fighting the blaze in Malheur and Baker counties. School Officials Seek Housing for Teachers Medford residents who have houses or apartments for rent have been asked to contact the Medford public schools, officials said Saturday. New teachers are expected to arrive in the next two weeks and will need moderately priced housing, they noted.' Those with housing available may contact the school by tele phoning SPring 3-3683. He, Neuberger Are Not Feuding "When these dispatches reach my desk, I will then decide whether any comment is need ed," the UP reported Senator Neuberger as saying. Senator Morse's statement: "Information has just reached me that newspaper stories are appearing in Oregon to the ef fect that a' serious parting of the political ways has developed between Dick Neuberger and myself. Such stories are a lot of nonsense. "Apparently they grow out of the fact that Dick voted for the Senate version of the civil rights bill and I voted against it. Both of us made speeches in the Sen ate setting forth our respective reasons for our votes. Those speeches show that Dick and I held diametrically opposed views views as to the value of the bill. In essence, he voted for it because he thought it was a step forward in the field of civil rights. I voted against it because I thought it was a step back ward. Each of us defended bis Lebanon Offers to Meditate in Syria, U.S. Situation Country ih Grip Of Communist Purge Beirut, Lebanon (IP Lebanon has offered to mediate between Syria and the United States in the present tense situation be tween the two countries, it was announced last night. Reports here said Syria ac cepted the offer. But United Press staff correspondent Joe Morris reported from Damascus that the offer was rejected. He quoted a Syrian govern ment source as saying: "There's no specific problem between Syria -and the United States and therefore we told them there is nothing to mediate." The announcement followed a meeting in Damascus Saturday between Lebanon's Foreign Min ister Director General Najib Sa daka and Syria's Premier Sabn Assali. Contacts Continuing Reports from Damascus said the Syrian leader explained the nature of the Syrian position with the United States and then accepted the Lebanese offer. Sa- daka reported the talks were successful and contacts were con tinuing. Informed sources said Syria was in the grip of a spreading Communist military purge. They described it as a "red colony" of the Soviet Union. The leftist clique of army of ficers united behind Syrian De fense Minister Khaled Azim ap pear to have won in the struggle for power, and have begun to clean out their opposition in the armed forces. Their next step may be a forced reshuffle of the Syrian cabinet. Ailing President Shukri El Kuwalty appointed Gen. Afif El Bizn, a top-ranking Communist, as Syria's new Army Chief of Staff and Brigadier Amin Nu- foury.s Deputy Chief of Staff Saturday. These moves were tne clearest indication of growing leftist domination of the country. Bizri was promoted from Colonel to replace Gen. Tewliq Nizameddin. who asked to be re tired on a pension at the age of 44 last Thursday. Observers have interpreted Nizameddms re tirement" as a forced resigna tion. Rackets Committee To Hear Offici Washington (IP The Senate T.ahnr Rackets committee Sat urday scheduled more grilling for two Teamster union vice presidents and ordered a search made for four New York wit nesses who have eluded federal marshals. Chairman John L. McClellan, (D-Ark.). announced that vice Dresidents Einar Mohn and James R. Hoffa will testify when the hearings resume this week. Hoffa will be confronted with charges that he supplied "gang sters, criminals and racketeers" with hunting licenses" to "prey upon legitimate business, hon est working people and union members," McClellan told news men. Thirteen days of hearings have shown that Hoffa, crown prince of the nation's biggest union, arranged for chartering of seven "phony" Teamster lo cals in New York city, staffed them with thugs and gangsters, and used their votes to rig the election of New York city's joint Teamster council, McClellan said. position in Senate debate with vigor, and apparently some newspapermen have chosen to reach into the vigor of that in tellectual difference and assum ed personal difference that does not exist. "Dick Neuberger and I are close personal and political friends and we shall remain so, much to the conternatioi of dis appointment of our mutual po litical enemies. We are not po litical Siamese twins. Each of us recognizes that the senatorial duty we owe to the people of Oregon is to cast independent votes on the merits of each issue in accordance with our honest opinions. .... "Ever since Dick and I have been in the Senate together, we have worked as a team, always respecting the right of each to cast independent votes on the merits of each issue in accord ance with our honest opinions. ' "Ever since Dick and I have been in the Senate together, we have worked as a team, always Russian In Morros' Testimony COMET VISIBLE Comet Mrkos, named after Czech astron omer who discovered it Aug. 1, has been visible in the north western sky during the past week from the Rogue valley. Its brightness has diminished during the past few nights, but was plainly visible as late as Friday night with binoculars. The second comet visible from this area this year, Comet Mrkos is estimated to be one million miles wide at its head, and has a tail estimated to be '15 million miles long. Bomber Crashes in Housing Development Killing Four Crewmen West Palm Beach. Fla. (IP A doemed pilot threaded his crip pled medium bomber through the narrow backyards of a hous ing development Saturday in a flame-spewing crash that killed all four crewmen but left sleep ing residents unharmed. As the wreckage stopped in a boiling ball of orange flame, the two engines of the Air Force B-23 hurtled into the corner of an enclosed porch where the two girls of MSgt. Robert Roths child were sleeping. Their mother frantically dug them out of the room debris that covered them and rushed them out of the house unscathed along with three other children. Col. George W. Peterson, com manding officer of Palm Beach Air Force Base, arrived on the scene moments after the crash and took command of removing the bodies of the four airmen from the wreckage. He was fear ful that one of them might be that of his own son. Peterson himself probed through the charred remains of the plane for some 45 minutes. He explained later that his flier son is stationed at Vance Air Force Base, Enid, Okla., where the ill-fated bomber was based. The bomber, on a "routine Stop Signs to Be Installed on Eighth Stop signs will be installed Monday morning for east and west bound traffic on Eighth st. at the intersection of Holly st., according to Vernon Thorpe, di rector of public works. . Installation of signs at the lo cation was approved by the city council Thursday night. Four traffic accidents have occurred at the intersection since Aug. 5, police records show. respecting the right of each to vote in accordance with his best judgement on individual issues. This teamwork is so close that I do not know of a single import ant problem affecting Oregon that has not been handled co operatively between ourselves and our staffs. "The people of Oregon can be assured that this cooperative' re lationship will continue. On the majority of roll-call votes, we have voted together. It so hap pens that in recent weeks there has been a series of roll-call votes on foreign aid and civil rights matters on which we have reached different conclusions. The Senate speeches we have made in support of our votes apparently are being seized upon by those who would make this political wish the father of the thought in an attempt to create the completely false impression in Oregon that Dick and I are not longer closely together in the Senate. It simply is not true." Spies Named training flight" from its Okla homa hasp crashed onlv a eiuar- ter of a mile short of the runway oi tne farm ueacn At a. uniy moments before, it had received rnntinp lanrlinp instruction hv radio and gave no indication of trouble. An Air Force spokesman cred itprf thi last heroir thought of the unidentified pilot for possi bly saving the lives of dozens of residents of the Belvedere hous ing rleveloDment. It was mostly occupied by the families of serv ice men. After smacking into the prnnnri the bomber skidded down a narrow alley of back yards between rows of houses. It swerved to the left at the last second and clipped the corner off one house. Flames and flying de bris damaged four other homes. No residents were injured, but the force of the crash jolted many out of their beds. Swedish Girl to Arrive Here Today . A 17-year-old ': Swedish girl who plans to attend Medford High school this year will arrive here by plane at 4 p.m. today. The girl, Margareta Aulin, 17, of Falun, Sweden, will stay dur ing the year with the Frank Bash family, 1325 Bundy st. Bash said yesterday he re rcivprl word that Miss Aulin was detained in New York Tuesday after being stricken with in fluenza. She arrived there aboard the ship Arosa Sky which brought 800 foreign exchange students to this country. It sailed from Rotterdam, The Nether lands, Aug. 5. Miss Aulin was originally scheduled to reach Medford Wednesday after a flight to Port land and a bus trip here. Bash said yesterday she will travel by plane the entire trip, arriv ing via San Francisco. She will attend Medford High as a senior. The Rotary club is sponsoring her stay here under an exchange program of the American Field Service. Buenos Aires HP Convair Aviation "officials have started negotiations with Brazil to trans fer their San Diego plant opera tion to this country, it was an nounced last night. Weather FORECAST Variable riich rloudiness thrnurh Sunday. Jartly cloody Monday. Hteh both days 32. Lojv Sunday night 53. Richest Saturday PI ' Lowest Saturday mornuis 33 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise Sunset 5:21 a.m. . 7:09 p.m. 11:17 p.m. Moonrise fw Moon AUR. z VENUS and JUPITER are now in the west after sunset. Venus, the brighter of the two, is on the right and it will continue to move nearer Jupiter the next few nights. Martha Dodd Stern Among Those Listed For Investigators 55 Red Businesses Served As Covers Washington (IP Retired counter-spy Boris Morros has named Martha Dodd Stern, her husband, a secretary in the U.S. Embassy in Prague and a U. S. intelligence agent m Germany as Soviet spies, it was revealed Saturday. Mrs. Stern is the daughter of former American Ambassador to Germany. In other testimony before con gressional investigators, Morros said: Moscow officials once boasted they had established 55 business firms in the United States to serve as covers for espionage. Planting Agent His orders from the Soviet spy ring included planting an agent in the office of Francis Cardinal Spellman, Catholic pre late of New York, and getting compromising information on President Eisenhower, Gen. Lucius D. Clay, and other prom inent Americans. A chairman of the former Four-Power Allied Control com mission in Vienna, a Soviet am bassador to Switzerland, and a secretary in the Soviet Embassy in Washington were his super iors at various times during 12 years of cloak and dagger work as a U. S. government agent pos ing to the Russians as a capitalist-hating Soviet spy. . Morros' named Mrs. Martha Dodd Stern as the "prominent American woman" whom he earlier had mentioned as a mem ber of the Soviet spy ring in this country. Also in Ring Her husband, Alfred Stern, also was in the ring, Morros said. The ' couple recently slipped out of 'Mexico. U. S. officials believe they went behind the iron curtain in Eastern Europe. Morros made the statements Friday in sworn testimony in New York to a team oi staff agents of the house committee on un-American activities. High lights of his testimony were made public Saturday by Com mittee Chairman Francis E. Walter (D-Pa.). Walter said the committee had maintained contact with Morros for the past six months. Poses As Red Agent ' Morros, prominent Hollywood motion picture director and com posed, recently testified before a New York grand jury on So viet espionage activities in the United States. He worked for the U. S.' government for 12 years, posing as a Russian agent while collecting information on Soviet spies. - His role was revealed when the spy case of Myra and Jack Soble and Jacob Albam was broken. , In a recent news conference in New York he said that, while acting as a U. S. counterspy in Moscow, he was betrayed to the Russians by a "prominent" American woman whom he re fused to name. Sjhortly after this, Mrs. Stern aid her wealthy husband cashed in their assets about a million dollars and fled to sanctuary behind the iron curtain. They had refused to come to the United States for questioning by a grand jury. Earthquakes Rock Two Areas Friday Berkeley, Calif, m Earth quakes rocked two widely scat tered parts of the western hem isphere Friday night." In Mexico City and Berkeley, Calif., seismographs recorded an earthquake centered south west of Mexico City, possibly in the Pacific Ocean. It had a Rich ter magnitude of 6.5 on a scale of 10. A fairly sharp quake shook the western part of San Fran cisco at 10:24 p.m., but there were no reports cf damage. It was the same area that was bad ly shaken last March 22. - The quake measured 2.5 on the Richter scale. It was center ed about 25 miles southwest of Berkeley, off the coast, and last ed 30 seconds.