Ike Faces One of
Busiest Periods in
Office on Return
Washington IB Urgent missile spending decisions and
preparation for crucial NATO talks in mid-December will plunge
President Eisenhower into one of the busiest periods of his career
when he returns today from Augusta, Ga.
The President has just a few weeks to lay out a' new budget
for Congress stepping up the missile effort and cutting back non
defense programs.
He also must come up with the rallying point for North Atlantic
nations to meet Russia's new-found military-scientific strength.
Interlaced among these two major pressing problems the Presi
dent will have secondary ones and the regular business of run
ning the government to keep hii hands full for the next six
weeks. Top items:
On Tuesday he makes his third "chins up" speech to the
ration from Cleveland on the value of international cooperation
to U.S. security.
Bipartisan Meeting Started
He holds a bipartisan meeting Dec. 3 with Congressional
leaders to go over the U. S. proposals for the NATO meeting.
Before NATO he will confer with Adlai E. Stevenson, who
Is serving as a special NATO consultant.
He also will confer with Republican leaders separately on
his legislative program.
At the same time government economists are gloomily predict
ing a four million unemployment figure by February and labor
leaders want the government to bolster the economy.
Some of the President's biggest headaches loom in deciding
what shall be sacrificed domestically for defense as well as how
much more money should be put into missiles.
According to current estimates defense spending may be
upped one billion next year to 39 billion dollars.
Benefit Programs Tabbed
Budget Director Percival F. Brundage said Wednesday night
that any shift of expenditures would have to come'from govern
ment "benefit programs." He mentioned specifically farm price
supports, veterans allowances and housing.
The President is returning from his week-long vacation to find
relations with France improved after the breach over U.S. arms
to Tunisia. The two nations apparently have reached informal
accord on establishing bases for U.S. intermediate range ballistic
missiles In France and partial agreement on limiting guns to
Tunisia to keep them from Algerian rebels.
Rackets Committee
To Subpoena Records
Of Teamsters Locals
Washington (IP The Senate
Rackets committee drew up
subpoenas today to force Mid
west Teamsters locals under
James R. Hoffa's control to hand
over records on selection of dele
gates to the union's recent con
vention. Gfmmittee Counsel Robert F.
Kennedy charged ihat 75 per
cent of all delegates to the Octo
bft: convention which elected
Hoffa union president were
'Ifrosen illegally.
Kennedy disclosed that only
a few of the 400 locals in Hoffa's
Midwestern Conference have
complied with the committee's
request for full data on how
ffich unit selected and financed
its convention delegation.
Locals Reply
More than half the Teamster
locals throughout the rest of the
country have replied to the re
quest, he said. Almost all the
Western Conference locals re
sponded, he said, as did most
of those in the Eastern Confer
ence. The information was due
Nov. 15.
Kennedy said the committee
is drawing up subpoenas for the
records from 40 Midwestern lo
cals. Data from other locals will
be subpoenaed when committee
experts have completed studying
these, he said.
He also told newsmen the com
mittee has started drafting legis
lative suggestions to submit with
a report to Congress in January
on the committee's work to date.
Committee Chairman John L.
McClellan (D-Ark.) said in a
speech in Little Rock, Ark., Wed
nesday that he expected the next
session of Congress to crack
down on crooked labor leaders.
He proposed eliminating tax
exemption privileges of unions
whose officers refuse to give
accounting of union funds.
Grave Danger
McClellan warned there is a
"grave danger that in a few
years our cherished free enter
prise system will be supplanted
by a racketeering, dictatorial
controlled gangsterism economy"
unless cleanup legislation is
passed.
Kennedy said the committee
has agreed to let locals in the
Southern Conference and some
locals from the Chicago area
furnish the delegate informa
tion by Jan. 1, or after comple
tion of the lower court case in
Hew Members Listed
For County Chamber
.Sight new members of the
board of directors of the Jack
son County Chamber of Com
merce were announced today by
the elections committee follow
ing counting of the mail ballots.
They will take office Jan. 1
for three-year terms. The eight
were elected from a slate of
16 nominees. Both nominations
and final elections were made
by the entire membership.
The new directors are Frank
Bash, California Oregon Power
company; H. D. Christensen. Nu
Way cleaners; Ken W. Cook,
United Air lines; Otto Ewald
sen, Swem's Gift shop; Dwight
Houghton, U.S. National bank,
Chester Hubbard, Hubbard
Brothers: Gerald T. Latham. Mail
Tribune, and C. H. Young, Rogue
Valley State bank.
which thirteen rank - and - file
Teamsters are challenging Hof
fa's election.
In addition, Kennedy said, the
deadline for submission of exten
sive financial data by Central
and Southern Conference locals
has been moved back from Nov.
15 to December 1.
City Main Charges
To Be Considered
A public hearing on assess
ments for a trunk water main
in the Black Oak dr. and Ar
gonne ave. areas will be held at
the city council meeting at 7:30
p.m. today.
There will also be an execu
tive committee report on a study
of the proposed franchise for
closed circuit TV. Action on the
ordinance was postponed pend
ing the report of the committee
at the Nov. 7 meeting.
A second reading of the pro
posed firearms ordinance will be
made tonight. The ordinance
would permit Medford residents
to obtain firearms permits from
the police chief for up to 30
days. The way the present ordi
nance reads it is illegal even
for a police officer to fire his
pistol in the city limits, the chief
said.
Also under consideration at
the meeting will be several
amendments to the city business
license fee ordinance on meth
ods of setting space rental fees
for motels and hotels. City At
torney E. R. Bashaw was in
structed by the council at the
last meeting to prepare several
amendments for council con
sideration. Mitchell Says Rise
In Prices Levels Off
Washington (IP) Secretary
of Labor James P. Mitchell said
today he believed the 13-month
rise in consumer prices to record
levels has "come to an end."
The labor secretary also told
a news conference that unem
ployment would rise early next
year but said this would not be
"serious."
Mitchell said the consumer
price index for October to be re
leased Friday would show no
basic change from the Septem
ber figure 121.1 of average
1947-49 prices.
UN Delegates
Eastern Sectors May Turn
United Nations (tfl United
Nations delegates today weighed
warnings that two important
sectors of the Eastern world may
turn Communist unless their ter
ritorial demands are satisfied.
Indonesian Foreign Minister
Sugandrio and Saudi Arabian
Minister of State Ahmad Shuk
airy delivered the warnings in
two separate U. N. committee
meetings Wednesday.
Shukairy, speaking in the spe
cial Political Committe debate
on Palestine refugees, said the
West might lose not only Saudi
Arabia but the entire Arab
world to Russia if it maintains
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A
Larceny Trial of
Beck Jr., Nears
Climax in Seattle
Attorneys Indicate
Jury Action Friday
Seattle rj) The grand lar
ceny trial of Dave Beck Jr. near
ed its climax today and both
prosecution and defense agreed
the case would reach the jury
by Friday.
The 37-year-old son of the out
going Teamsters Union presi
dent Dave Beck, is accused of
selling two Teamster-owned Cad
illacs and keeping the money.
He took the stand on his own
behalf Wednesday and testified
he sold the cars on orders from
his father.
Beck said the 1951 Cadillac
owned by Joint Council' 28 was
sold Xo John Stratton of Seattle
for $1,850 and paid for by check
made out to him because no in
structions had been given on
how the transaction should be
made.
Someone Got Money
He said he gave the money to
his father a day or two later and
asked "someone" in the union
office to take care of a transfer
of title.
"Did your father tell you
what he was going to do with
the money?" asked defense at
torney Charles Burdell.
"He said it would find its way
back to the rightful union," said
Beck. "He said he was going to
give it to Verschueren." Fred
Verchueren Jr., Joint Council
bookkeeper.
Witness Challenged
Earlier in the day, deputy
prosecutor Laurence Regal
charged Verscheuren's testimony
that he had been given two enve
lopes containing $6,600 by Beck
Sr. purportedly containing mon
ey from the sale of the Cadillacs
"was a story concocted" by the
bookkeeper and the Teamster of
ficial.
Verschueren denied the alle
gation.. .
Burdell said he would ask
Beck Sr. to take the stand today
if necessary."
The retiring Teamsters presi
dent was indicted by the same
grand jury that indicted his son.
He is charged with misappro
priating the money from the sale
of one union-owned Cadillac and
will go on trial Dec. 2.
Soviet Spy Says
Space Secrets Given
Lewisburg, Pa. OP) A con
victed Soviet spy today told Sen
ate subcommittee investigators
that Russia obtained U.S. secrets
on space platforms and atom
powered planes from executed
espionage agent Julius Rosen
berg. At the same time, David
Greenglass said Rosenberg and
his wife, Ethel, turned over se
cret information on antimissile
missiles to the Russians.
Robert Morris, counsel for the
Senate Internal Security com
mittee, said Greenglass, Rosen
berg's brother-inlaw, told him of
the incident during a 90-minute
interview at the federal peniten
tiary here.
He did not say when the in
formation was passed.
Morris spoke to both Green
glass and convicted spy Harry
Gold here.
Man Said Injured
In Deadwood Tunnel
Jim Shrum, 25, 1449 North
College Way, Ashland, was ad
mitted to Sacred Heart hospital
late this morning for injuries
received from an accident in
Deadwood tunnel, in the Talent
project. It was reported by of
ficials that Shrum was employed
by Lord Brothers of Ashland at
the time of the accident. No
further information was avail
able at press time.
Weigh Warnings That Two
its present policy toward Israel.
Will Drop Present Policy
Subandrio, in the main Pol
itical Committee's debate on
West New Guinea, declared that
Indonesia might be forced to ab
andon its "active independent
policy." if the Netherlands does
not surrender the disputed ter
ritory. Shukairy proposed the return
of 900,000 Arab refugees to their
Palestine homes, prohibition of
Jewish immigration to Palestine,
outlawing of Zionism, prohibi
tionof Zionist fund-raising cam
paigns and creation of a U.N.
agency to send Israel's Jews back
ea ss le :mM ei
Dulles Warns Attack
Would be Retaliated
Chicago HP) Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles warned
Wednesday night that an attack
on U.S. allies would trigger a
counter-attack on a par with
"Pearl Harbor."
Dulles said in a news confer
ence that instant retaliation
would follow any attack on the
U.S. or its NATO allies because
their forces are so meshed "cer
tain kinds of attack" would call
for an American counter-attack.
Speaking later before the Chi
cago Council on Foreign Rela
tions, Dulles said the grave dan
gers of international Commu
nism were dramatically brought
home to the Free World by the
launching of Sputniks I and II.
Dulles said the temporary ad
vantages won by Soviet power
in the missile field pose a threat
that can be met one of three
ways:
1 Make a deal with the Com
munists. 2 Go it alone against them.
3 Meet in cooperation with
other free nations and form alli
ances like NATO.
There was no doubt Dulles
considered NATO-type alliances
the obvious defense against Rus
sian menace.
The first proposal involves ac
cepting Russian promises and,
in turn, ending the ban on ship
ments of strategic goods to satel
lite nations and ending security
pacts such as NATO and SEATO.
The list of repudiated Russian
promises rules this out unless
there are enforceable safe
guards, Dulles said.
Go it alone, he said, and the
U.S. would have to resort to a
controlled economy such as Rus
sia's and a large military estab
lishment. Collective Policy Best V
. Collective "defense, the "policy
which has been keeping the peo
ple of the world free since 1950
with no Russian advances, is the
best solution available to the
Free World, Dulles said.
Following his speech, Dulles
made these points in a question
and answer period:
Russia has adopted a me
too policy in copying U.S. pol'
icies of foreign aid.
Freedom must be made so
desirable, no despotisms can pre
vail against it.
The present situation in
Russia cannot last forever, al-
Trial Delayed For
Glen E. Johnson
, District Attorney Thomas J.
Reeder reported today that the
trial . of Glen Eugene Johnson,
36, Live Oak, Calif., scheduled
to start today, will not be held
as the attorney for the defense
has indicated the defendant
wishes to change his plea. John
son had previously pleaded in
nocent to a charge of grand lar
ceny. He was one of three men ar
rested by police last July in con
nection with the robbery of
Grady Allen Conner, Medford.
Willie Woodrow Wolfe, 36, Los
Angeles, Calif., and William
Lloyd Johnston, 33, Huron,
Calif., were also arrested in con
nection with the same incident.
Wolfe was found guilty by a
jury trial Wednesday of grandJ
larceny. Johnston pleaded guilty
earlier to charges of larceny
from a person and was senten
ced to one year in the county
jail.
Wolfe is scheduled to be sen
tenced in circuit court Friday
and it is expected Johnson will
change his plea at that time.
Salem IIP) Bids on $5,400,000
in highway projects will be re
ceived by the State Highway
Commission in Portland Dec. 5.
Communist
to their original homelands.
Noted Red Action
He noted that Russia and its
European satellites already have
outlawed Zionism, halted its
fund-raising campaigns and ban
ned Jewish emigration to Israel.
Subandrio hinted that Indone
sia would line up with the Com
munists if it is unable to obtain
satisfaction in its eight-year-old
dispute with the Dutch.
Dutch Ambassador C. W. A.
Schurmann replied that the
Netherlands will never relin
quish its portion of the war-famed
Pacific Island except through
the will of its inhabitants.
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though he does not know when
it will end.
West Germany would have
to direct any policies involving
an anti-Red uprising in East
Germany. U.S. policy would not
trade the wiping out of East Ger
many and other satellites at the
risk of global war.
Budget Chief Says
Benefits Will Be
Cut For Program
Washington (IP) The nation's
budget chief has pointed the
economy knife at farm subsidies,
veterans benefits and housing to
obtain more defense money.
Percival F. Brundage, the
budget director, is the first ad
ministration official to name
specific non-defense programs
which President Eisenhower
said will have to be cut back to
finance the expanded space age
military contest with Russia.
Brundage gave the three as
examples of federal "benefit"
programs which would have to
be reduced. He said all the pro
grams account for $17 billion,
or 23 per cent, of the current
budget.
Control of Spending
Brundage discussed control of
federal spending in a speech
Wednesday night to the Wash
ington chapter of the National
Association of Accountants. Con
trol over spending could be
strengthened, he said, if Con
gress would authorize the Presi
dent to veto selected items in ap
propriations bills. Under present
L practice the president must sign
or veto an entire money bill.
Brundage reiterated his en
dorsement of a proposal to make
spending authority lapse on
funds that are unspent at the
end of a fiscal year. This is part
of a recommendation by the Hoo
ver Commission under which
Congress moved to vote money
only for goods and services that
would be received in the fiscal
year.
This so-called "accrued ex
penditure" system, Brundage
said, would give the law makers
more control "over the scope of
agency programs" and of the
budget "in terms of surplus or
deficit."
Government departments are
now permitted to carry over ap
propriations and spend them af
ter the fiscal year for which
Congress' voted them.
Comedy Starts Today
At Local High School
"Carousel," popular musical
comedy,, will open tonight at
Medford High school auditorium
for a two-night run. Curtain
time is 8 p.m. .
The production represents the
combined effort of a large num
ber of students, faculty members
and groups. Vocal students, dra
matic students and the orches
tra will present the musical
members -of the Art Students'
league made the set, the home
economics department helped
with costuming and tickets are
being handled by Future Busi
ness Leaders of America. Lynn
Sjolund and Mrs. Lenore Zap
pell are musical and dramatic
directors and Miss Colleen Hope
aided with dance numbers.
Tickets may be secured at the
door.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York (IP) Dow-Jonei
final stock averages: 30 indus
trials 439.80. up 6.43; 20 rail
roads 102.70. up 1.87; 15 util
ities 66.83. up 0.91. and 65
stocks 147.41, up 2.23. Sale
today were about 2,190.000
shares compared with 2,400,
000 shares Wednesday.
WEATHER
FORECASTS Fair through Fri
day except for patches of val
ley fog tonight and early Fri
day. Occasional gusty south
east wind. Cooler tonight.
Low tonight 25. High Friday
Temp.
Highest Yestirdav 48
Lowest this Morning 31
Prec. to 10 a.m. Today 08
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise ?:10 a.m.
Sunset 4:45 p.m.
The Moon will be In conjunc
tion with the Sun (New
Moon) 8:19 a.m.
and sets 5:05 p.m.
PROMINENT STAR
Sirius. rises 10:15 p.m.
and will h the brightest star in
the sky the rest of the night.
'What Are We Fighting Now Inflation
Or Deflation?"
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Vanguard Launching
May Determine When
U.S. Satellite Goes
Cape Canaveral, Fla. (IP) A
slender Vanguard rocket was
believed ready today for a trial
launching which may determine
when this nation can launch a
satellite.
There was no indication wheth
er scientists will attempt to orbit
a six-inch test satellite with the
rocket's firing test. Nor was
there any indication when sci
entists plan. to-let fly with the
black, white and gray missile.
The mid-section, carrying the
vital "brain" for its war or
moonhead, has already been
tested successfully on the ground.
Might End Test
There was specuation that if
a test satellite is launched and
High Winds Whip
Los Angeles Area
Los Angeles (W Strong
winds in guests up to 75 miles an
hour battered Southern Calif
ornia today, threatening to
develop into "one of the most
severe" Santa Ana-type storms
in recent years.
The dread Santa Ana, a term
applied by the weather bureau
when wind, heat and dust com
bine to plague residents below
the mountain passes, howled out
of the northeast this morning,
raising a eye-blinding dust cloud
as high as 5,000 feet.
Power lines and trees were
ripped down over a widespread
area from the nearby citrus
growing belt to San Fernando
Valley.
The weather bureau reported
high fire danger in the moun
tains which was expected to be
come extreme tonight and Friday
with winds of 35 to 70 miles an
hour.
Gott In Fair Shape
After Collision
Emmett Marion Gott, 42, of
2283 Buckshot Hill rd., was re
ported in satisfactory condition
by Rogue Valley hospital authori
ties this morning after a car he
was driving was involved in a
collision on North Pacific high
way about 12:05 a.m.
Police said Gott's car was in
volved in the collision with a
car driven by Ralph Marion
Guches, 509 Third st., Jackson
ville, in front of 2330 North
Pacific highway.
Gott suffered a fractured
sterhum and possible broken
nose in the collision, according
to city police They said he was
taken to the hospital by Medford
Ambulance Service after he com
plained of chest pains.
Road Conditions
Siskiyous Spots of ict.
Highway 66 (Green Springs)
spots of ice.
Prospect Pavement bare.
Highway 230 (East Dia
mond Lake id.) Packed
snow, carry chains.
Klamath Falls Pavement
bare.
All highways into northern
California reported open.
RIBUNE
goes into orbit, the remaining
two scheduled test firings might
be called off and an earlier at
tempt made to put up the actual
satellite to match the Russian
Sputniks.
Newsmen, who make frequent
and often fruitless trips here
when there is a hint of a "big
shoot," had little to go on besides
a brief unveiling of the rocket
pn the Airjc-rce missile test cen
ter Wednesday, and the an
nouncement from Washington
that the "brain section" of the
Vanguard had undergone succes
sful statis firing at the center.
More Tests Needed
The Defense Department an
nouncement indicated that more
ground tests were needed before
the rocket can be sent up from
its launching pad. These may or
may not have already taken
place. .
In Washington, J. Paul Walsh,
deputy director of Project Van
guard, told a news conference
that the second stage of the rock
et had been successfully tested on
the ' launching pad. The second
stage contains the eletronic
equipment which will guide the
rocket and satellite on the flight
into space.
The last Vanguard test was
Oct. 23. The Defense Department
announced it had shot up to 109
miles above the earth, reaching
a peak velocity of 4,250 miles an
hour.
Officers Turn Wranglers
In Big Horse Roundup
City police officers Charles
Chisum and Berle Stephens
reported lo the desk sergeant
Tuesday afternoon they took
part in a roundup of several
horses in the Springbrook
and Delta Waters xds. area.
The horses were rounded
up and corralled by them
within a few minutes of ar
riving in the area, they re
ported. The police officers
didn't say whether they used
the patrol cars in the roundup.
Wisconsin Farmer Enters
Innocent Plea to Murder
Wautoma, Wis.
(IP)
Ed
Gein, confessed killer of two
women and possessor of a col
lection of human heads, was
charged today with first degree
murder of Mrs. Bernice Worden.
Gein's attorney entered a plea
of innocent and innocent by rea
son of insanity and Gein was
bound over to circuit court for
trial.
The next term of circuit court
comes next May, but a special
session could be held next week,
authorities said, at which time
a sanity examination will prob
ably be requested.
The discovery of the kindly
widow's butchered body in a
lean-to on Gein's farm near
Plainfield Sunday uncovered a
pile of human skulls and other
human body parts in the debris
littered house.
Seem Content
Waushara county authorities
seemed content to charge Gein
with one murder and have him
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Mahon Says Group
'Satisfied' With
Progress Reports
Calls for Production
In Quantity of IRBM
Washington HP) Rep. George
H. Mahon (D-Tex.) today called
for an end to interservice missile
rivalry and the immediate pro
duction in quantity of U.S. in
termediate range ballistic mis
siles. Mahon said that ordering pro
duction now, and not waiting for
certain perfection of the missiles,
would be "a gamble." But he
said it would be a "safe gam
ble." Mahon is chairman of the
House Defense Appropriations
subcommittee which is investi
gating the entire U.S. missiles
program. He spoke to reporters
after a secret subcommittee ses
sion with ballistics officers of
the Army, Navy and Air Force.
Navy officers said after the
session that development of the
Navy's intermediate range mis
sile Polaris is being stepped up.
They said the seaborne weapon
will serve as a "tremendous de
terrent" to Russian aggression.
Time for "High Gear"
Mahon told reporters that he
and his subcommittee were
"highly gratified" by the prog
ress reports they received from
the three armed services on
what the military has done,
plans to do, and are capable of
doing in the missiles field.
Mahon said that it was impos
sible "for the moment" to elimi
nate interservice rivalry. But he
said the decisions on which mis
sile or missiles to put into pro
duction must "soon" be made to
expedite the entire program so
that it shortly may "bear fruit."
He said that the decision
should be made by the Defense
Department "in a few days" to
go ahead with production of in- O
termediate range missiles in
quantity. The decision, he said,
should not be put off until Janu
ary or next spring.
Mahon said it obviously would
be safer to wait until spring and
further perfection of the mis
siles before starting full-scale
production. But he said recent
Russian developments and U.S.
prestige require immediate U.S.
production of missiles.
Rear Adm. John E. Clark,
Navy director of guided missiles,
said the Navy is exploring
"every possible way" to advance
the scheduled operational date
for the Polaris. He said it now
appears the timetable can be ad
vanced "appreciably."
No Rise Reported
In Flu Case Count
A total of 205 cases of flu
have been reported to the county
health office so far this week,
health officials said today. This
is about the same as the pre
vious week, when the total for
the entire week was 245 cases.
The highest peak of flu cases
was reported three weeks ago
when 516 were reported through-'
out the county.
According to officials who
have been administering the
third round of Salk polio vac
cine in the county schools, school
attendance has been good with
very few absentees reported due
to illness.
committed as insane. Villagers
and authorities in other coun
ties want to keep the case alive
to determine whether the farm
er is a mass murderer or grave
robber.
Gein also admitted the killing
of Mary Hogan, 54, a Pine
Grove, Wis., tavern operator
who vanished about three years
ago.
Gein's confession to the
second slaying raised fears that
he may have been the mass
murderer. However, Gein claim
ed he killed only the two women
and- got the other skulls from
robbing fresh graves on moon
lit nights.
Crime Lab Director Charles
Wilson's statement did not men
tion the source of the other hu
man heads and face masks. But
local authorities appeared con
vinced that Gein was telling
the truth about the grave rob
beries and made no plans to dig
up any of the snow-covered
graves for investigation.