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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.