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Weather An illustrated feature review ing the beginning- of Siikiyon passenger train service, due to end Tuesday, appears on Page , first section of today's Mall Tribune. .,. -' FOR FORECAST Partly elondy to day... Increasing cloudiness tonight and Monday. High today 5S-5S, low tonight 15. High Monday about SS. Temp. Highest yesterday 52 Lowest yesterday morning M ' United Press Full Leased Wiro United Press Full Leased Wire 46th Year 24 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1952 No. 292 Me Defense Budget For NATO Approved At Lisbon Meeting $300 Billion Plan To Meet Red Strength ; Lisbon, Portugal (U.R) The North Atlantic Treaty organiza tion today gave unanimous ap proval to a three-year $300 bil lion program to make Europe secure against the threat of So viet aggression. The huge defense program which pledges West Europe to put guns ahead of butter calls for $75 billion to be spent during 1952 to provide Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower with 50 divisions and 4,000 war planes. Unanimous Vote There was not a dissenting vote as the 14 NATO powers ac cepted the report of W. Averell Harriman of the United . States and representatives of the 12 original NATO nations for the vast, three-year defense buildup. The Harriman committee re port placed the $300 billion limit on what the NATO powers could safely spend for defense during the next three years without wrecking their economies. Goals beyond 1952 were tenta tive, but look toward an eventu al armed force of 100 divisions to defend Europe. Authoritative sources said that in approving the Harriman re port, the NATO nations lopped off about $3 billion from the original figure recommended. Of that total, $1 billion was taken from the allotment of France, whose economy has been hard pressed to meet European de fense commitments and the costs of her anti-Communist war in IndoChina. 30 Divisions First phase o the program will be devoted to whipping into shape 30-combat-ready divisions, 20 reserve divisions and the 4,000-plane tactical airforce be fore this year's end. Approval of the Harriman plan pledged previously reluct ant European members to stream line their economies to meet the costs of translating NATO's am bitious defense program from paper to uniformed men, tanks, guns and planes. It came just 24 hours after the NATO members had taken an other historic step approval of a plan for a 1,430,000 man Euro pean army, including German units, tinder a unified command. Brownsboro Rancher Dies of Rifle Wounds Herman Gustav Meyers, 64, of Brownsboro, was found dead at his home at about 5 p. m. Satur day, according to County Cor oner Carlos Morris. Meyers suf fered two head wounds .from rifle shots and apparently took his own life, the coroner stated. The body was discovered by his brother, E. E. Meyers, and Wil liam Jordan, who was employed by Meyers. Meyers was a long-time resi dent of the Brownsboro area and was a rancher. Perl Funeral home is in charge of arrange ments. Los. Angeles (U.R) Physicist Dr. Vera O. Knudsen said today that sufficient atomic bombs have been developed to produce "1100 Hiroshimas". Frail Widow, 2 Months in Northport, Wash. (U.R) A frail, mentally-alert widow who claims to be 102 was isolated in her snowbound rural shack with out proper food and warmth for two months after an eccentric son who cared for her left home the night of Dec. 23 and failed to return, she told authorities- Sat urday. The pathetic plight of Mrs. Mary Moore : was discovered three days ago by J. D. Lael, a retired sheep rancher who waded through snow 20 inches deep to the Moore place to buy some fruit trees. He found the woman too helpless to -report her ordeal or the disappearance of her son Abandoned by Son . Mrs. Moore told Lael her son, John, a 57-year-old part-time prospect miner in this north western Washington community, left the house with three pet dogs and failed to return. The dogs re turned three days later without their master, left again after being fed and returned again two days later, the woman told Stevens county authorities. Investigating officers said "there is something funny about the deal." - The gray-haired woman, who shuffled busily about her home as she cleaned it today, was in apparent satisactory health. The worst of her suffering was from worry over the fate of her son. REDS RIOT IN JAPAN Japanese police close in en Communist rioters in Tokyo. The rioters, in an apparent co-ordinated attempt to cause unrest, demonstrated hi groups of 400 and too m at least five cities. The Reds attacked police stations and railroad depots. Attlee Charges Open British Great Debate London (U.P.) Laborite Clement Attlee today accused Prime Minister Winston Chur chill of encouraging "dangerous elements" in the United States who want a spreading war with Red China. - The Socialist former Prime Minister said Churchill, during his recent visit to Washington, led the American Congress to believe Britain favors that poli cy too. ' ??r"t-V" Attlee's charges, broadcast to tjje. ration, added heat to what isshaping up as Britain's own great debate over just what commitments Churchill made on Britain's behalf while in the U. S. capital. Churchill has declared and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden who accompanied him has confirmed that no commit ments for specific actions were made during their talks with President Truman, Secretary of State Dean Acheson and others. But Churchill sparked con troversy with his statement to Congress that if a Korean truce is reached, and then broken by the Reds, Britain would join in "prompt, resolute and effective" reaction. Some circles both in the United States and Britain promptly interpreted that to mean Britain would support an attack against Red China itself. Climax Ahead The issue will be pushed to the forefront on Tuesday when Churchill makes his delayed foreign policy speech to Com mons. It was headed for a cli max February 26 when Chur chill was scheduled to speak and face a vote of censure in troduced by the Laborite op- 102, Isolated Remote Shack Lael, a kind-hearted widower, has taken it upon himself to care for the aged woman until county officials agree to provide for her. She refuses to leave her run down shack. Lael. a heavy-set man of 58, told authorities, "You don't wor ry how things is until you go to her home. I found her too weak to walk 50 feet and she was liv ing on fried corn meal made with water. ..... "Gracious alive, we're lucky it's no worse than it was for the poor woman. I'm going to go back and forth with food for her until something is done by. the county. "I couldn't sleep unless that woman has something to eat. ' Sheriff Beryl Warren of Coh ville said the fate of the missing man was not known. He said a search would get underway as soon as side roads in the isolated region .were plowed-clear of snow. - - Mrs. Moore, whose mind is de scribed by neighbors as ."clear as a bell," doubted that her son had "a religious bug", and , was studiously reading several books before he vanished. She said he "acted kind of coo-coo at times." Lael said he wrote Mrs. Erma Kelly of Portland, a daughter of Mrs. Moore. He. said he expected her to arrive here to care for the aged widow. ; - 0 Pi 0 0 position. The death of King George VI averted that possible showdown on the Issue Attlee. in his broadcast speech, charged Churchill with misrep resenting to the U. S. Congress the views of even hie own Con servative party. Company Officials, State Case In Mill Walkout Union and management spokesmen Saturday slated their cases In the labor depute thai has idled the Southern Oregon Planing Mill company for nearly a week. A. W. Lingaas. company secre tary, declared Saturday the strike was due to a misunder standing on the part of the union over several provisions In their contract with the firm. ' In a statement released to the press, the company said, as far as it it concerned, the strike "stands as an Metal walkout and the nest move will have to be on the part of the union In getting its members back on the Job before any further negotiation can be carried on." About 01 employees, member of local 3030. Lumber and Saw mill Workers. AI"U have left their Jobs at the Central Point plant The union's side of the dispute cajjie from Gene W. Tedrick. business agent for the Klamath Basin district council el the Lumber and Sawmill Worker He denied there was a "me understanding and claimed the actual cause of the walkout wo an attempt by the com pony te reinstate a man who had eeen a foreman Into the ranks of the union with no km of seniority Tedrick called It an "out and out violation of the contract." The worker involved had once been a onion member but had been made foreman; therefore, according to Tedrick. he tost all standing In the anion. If he w returned to a Job covered by the union he will have to start at the bottom as a new man. the business agent said. That would mean that other anion men who have been laid oft would have to be reinstated before the es fore man could be rehired. Tedrick said other grievances over technicalities of the con tract had been thrown in after the strike started but the fore man's Job was the actual strike cause. He added "we have told the company that were ready to sit down and talk things over any time they're ready." former BMrjurr ores Gordon L Schennerhom. 412 North Ivy street, former sheriff of Jackson county, died while en route to a Medford hospital late-- Saturday, according to Conger Morris ambulance at tendants. Schennerhom served a sheriff during the trial of Llewellyn A. Banks in the early 1930s. Conger Morris Funeral home it la charge of arrange ments. Ike Aides Doubt Trip (3 Stats Before Convention To Visit GrMot, Turkey Next Month Paria U Ceo, Dwight D. Eisenhower is planning to visit Greece and Turkey and It is "highly probable" he will go early neat month, hit At lantic Pact headquarters said today. An official spokesman said, however, that Eisenhower did not plan to vt the United State "in the foreseeable fu ture." There have been mount ing demands that he come home and help backers who are trying to win the Republican presi dential nomination for him. "It is highly probably the general will visit Greece and Turkey in early March," the spokesman said. He pointed out that Eisenhower visited all other North Atlantic Treaty nations when he assumed supreme com mand in Europe. The spokesman's statement was the first official comment from Eisenhower's headquar ters on a statement In Lisbon yesterday by Greek Foreign Minuter Sophocles Venuefos that Eisenhower was going to visit his country. Eisenhower's visit will take him to the two nations whose military forces add 40 divisions to the North Atlantic powers potential punch. He will also see bases which shove Western military micht within striking distance of Russia's vital Baka oilfields. Turkey's SO divisions are rated about as combat ready and effective as any in the world, while Greece's 10 di visions have been gften inten sive training under American direction. While announcing the gen eral's plans to visit the two new NATO member nations, the spokesman said "There is still no chance In the general' patfUosi that oe trip o the. United State b planned in the 'frareseeeble fu ture. " Eiaenhowert supporters want htm to come home and disclose just where he stands on key issue. San Truxurn iti S" A sla'e of electors pledged to support Gen. Dwtgnt D aUsenhowers nomination for president on the Democratic ticket will be enl. red in the California June pri mary, a "Demorrau for lUen hower" committee anno-toted Saturday The committee, heeded by San rranrtsro banker Phillips S. Davie, announced Its action was motivated by the conviction that "the country must have a cttance in leadership if we are to retain our cherished Democrat Meats of honesty. etTiCwocy and h manity in government." Washington 0i) Sen Frank Cartsdn. tit, Kami a director of the Ejunrooes fae President campaign, said Satur day night the LMon agreement on Eurepeeo defer thoatd speed the time when lus candi date can come horns. Eisenhower boost era took new hope that st wt'l eoette tree general to return to the Varied State before the Republican National convention. Carlson sosd he believe the! the troop eTeeaewl orm nearer the full aerompltrfienetits of the task for whtrh Iiewhwee went to Europe a year ago. The K ansae senator eoileej not only the ceospetl that H may speed Efaenhowee return but also the generals perwjnol con tribution to the eeitst which produced the new Euro pean defense agreeeaewt. Alaska l:::i Gains Suppers Washington C Senate proponent of statehood for Alaska were reported Saturday to have shown a marked Bn a strength duneg the pes two weeks. It stall appeared nnLhety. how ever, that the pending statehood bill would survive a vote neat Wednesday to shelve IL An admtnMratien spoke nee, a In the Senate md men check have Indicted the Senate would vote by a marttn of four or free to send the bill back to rornmit tee. Two week at It wa ex pected the meure would be snowed under, by a much tarter margin. The adn-'riUtration sourts at tributed th ImpTBMd prospects to pickup In strencth asnorg Republican an ou Tor : of a simUr bU to Irani Ul boos to Hawaii. "OrCH!" aCs David Cutter. 1. as Los Anirlct firemen wlrld hacksaei to relrsje finger h made mistake of pushing into ln etnrra'.or bo. ffevfiej Stassen's Claims Against McGralh To Get Airing Washington JJ f A House investigator said Saturday he understands Harold E. SUssen "doe have some credible evi dence" to back his charges that Attorney General J. Howard SfrGrath became a millionaire while in public office. To Can McCrath The awrrtinn was made by Rep. Patrick 1. Hillings (R-Cal.t. a mcwbcf of the Houee Judiciary subcommittee which has tackled the tk of Investigating the Juttke department's prosecuting activities, or lack of them, in the past sis years. XlcGrath villi be called before the subcommi'.tee. But whether Stamen's char res would prompt an earlier call than had been planned was conjectural. Subcommittee Chairman frank L. Chelf (D Ky. said "we had planned all along to call McCrath in due time and In due course." iu::int Mkf It appeared the SMtter should be the first subject to be cnnsideredL He said Mc Crath should be eked to appear at an early date "so we can consider this right off the bat' lie said McCrath should have the opportunity to "give his Ceaperation Promised Staeten. candidate for the Re publican previdenUal nomina tson. promised to cooperate with the subcommittee. He uggeted that MrCrath "promptly be cal led and placed under oath for the inoutry." The subcommittee atked for Stamen's information after he charred he had prrnstent. confi dential repnTts that McCrath had becoene a millionaire during his IS year of public office dating from his election a tovrrnor of Rhode Island in 140. SPOHSBUILETKIS r. spaady ard of the Medford ntoh bktbn weint wa carried to the dissilag ream on lb llir of has eommat leaf snffci. tt was ft mac Mamie lee the her of lb boor ns In lack Taenado posted ll freel victory af ike n. r tree abet wtlft IS tstsaas left In In ffe MX feed U M tl victory ever Kleanarh Fall. 1c lb trtosaph lb Tornado saioid l leadership in the Beg rr dieteien of lb Soatfc- Medteed. bostune, all tb way la Ike sec g oeerter when lb Pel doadlockod lb sain at U-aU and ZVaO. Then Klemslh went ahead SS to M. Ktoeaesn asd a SO to SS naif- The Pel sisasd to ndeanS ewsMtoSSasdS0toS7a eay-die Medfeed bo- fan an trpwtrd climb thai Ikons on behind STIaa em 44 to 41 at tW third po rted toisrwisslsa In tb North Manaa Med iae fan to 44 to 43 to 4S hot Klamath to SO to 4S. A free Doreld Weoton and to by ttsld SO to 44 lee SS k BMfcoai . Set Deaf Pence ail 40 Bneih marein. by Woeton and Coo op the fans at SS-aU i than two saismss to wtth with 17 point and tUtob Carroll poked la SS lor Asklind Tk leothorn EoOeo Red their ltSMSSS ball cnn bar Saturday aofht wib a 74 to SI victory flies i List m Report Includes 44,000 "Kidnaped" South Koreans Request for Information On UN Prisoners Ignored Tokyo 0J.PJ The Allies to day handed the Communists a complete list of 44.000 "kidnap ped ' South Koreans held in Allied prison camps including those responsible for the bloody Koje Island riot. - The accounting was requested by ".he Communists yesterday. When Red delegates were asked for a similar report on 50.000 missing Allied prisoners, how ever, they hastily changed the subject. Called Internee The 44,000 prisoners were cap turned in battle by the Allies, but were "reclassified" from military prisoners to "civilian Internees" when they" proved that they had been "kidnapped'' and forced to serve in the Rei army. Some are Communists, and it appeared that these were to blame for the K o J e outbreak last Monday, when 6.000 fanatic internees shouting "kill GI's!" mobbed guards at the island pris on southwest of Pusan. Seventy- six persons were killed. The riot had little actual connection with the truce talks, but the Reds had made it clear that they planned to make It the key issue in a new drive to stall the negotiations. , The Communist campaign was expected to be a long and dirty one. Intended mainly to make the Allies abandon their refusal to ore prisoner to return to their Communist -be Id homes. Some Reds believed the battle already was won. "Voluntary repatriation Is now dead as an issue, and it was your side that killed It," a Commu nist newsman said. 'The negotia tion are now covered by the smell of the blood of our dead." Threaten Talks The Communist charges of "barbarism' and "massacring In U. N. camp started a Red propaganda offensive which may seriously affect the progress of the Korean talks. A series of enemy propaganda broadcast fanned the flames. Peiping radio, after accusing American planes last week of bombing Manchuria, said today the United States had practiced "bacteriological warfare" against North Korea. The violently worded broad cant said Communists had pro tested to the International Ked Cross which they have not rec ognised in the Korean talks against "these inhuman crimes. It was full of such expressions as "desperate maniacs, utterly devoid of human principles." Such Communist propaganda charges usually have preceded some major development at Pan munjoro. The Communists yielded on the subject of troop rotation Saturday, bu they lodged a bit ter protest to United Nations staff officers against the Koje incident and said it proved tthe utter bankruptcy of your third principle of so-called voluntary repatriation." This is one of the three major problems blocking an armistice. The negotiations are also dead locked over the problem of Russian participation in armis tice inspecting teams and the Communist demand to build air bases during an armistice. But the Koje incident over shadowed the actual negotia tions.' U. N. ' spokesman Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols said Allied peace negotiators would make no direct response to the Reds because activities in prison camps were beyond the authority of the truce delegation Colonel Tsai Cheng presented the Red protest, calling it a "sanguinary, intolerable inci dent." He followed it with a demand for "clear account for the slaughter of those personnel of our side." The Red protest was forward ed to Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway. Subsequent reports from Koje disclosed 73 internees were kil led and 139 wounded. One Amer ican was killed, one seriously wounded and SI treated for Injuries. Wasrungtoo OJ J9 President Truman returned to Wrhington Saturday after cruising on the PoUmac river. MS Ifs Easier To Serve A Cat Than To Save Oneself, Boys Find Two small boys played the part of rescuers here Satur day and then had to call on dry police. to rescue one of them. Jack Robinson, 11, of 1409 Euclid avenue, and Bobby McClaeb. 12, Yrka. Jack's cousin, who is visiting her, looked over th side of zh Jackson street bridge Satur day afternoon and discovered a small, forlorn kitten ma rooned on com debris in th middl of rain swollen Bear creek. Rescue operations war started immediately. The boys report that it took about two hour to get th equipment ready, but the cat had no place to f o and was still waiting to bo saved. One of the boys want over th sid of th bridge, x a rope, put the cat in a sack, and the other pulled the animal to safety. Then the trouble started. When the boy over th sid wa unable to get back up on the bridge his comrade called for help in the form of a po liceman. The oficer pulled the boy onto the bridge and the cat and all three rescuers called it a day. Ho Trace Found . Of Private Plane With Four Aboard Klamath Falls, Ore. U.R) Clearing skies late Saturday aided the search for a private plane missing with four, air force men aboard, but search units had failed to find any trace of the Cessna 170 when grounded for the night by darkness. The Civil Aeronautics Admin istration said 10 civilian planes and two military craft flew over the rugged country south of here looking for the vanished plane. A low overcast hampered the search early today. From Redmond The plane disappeared yester day on a flight from Redmond, Ore., to Sacramento, Calif. The only clue to the plane's disappearance came from sev eral persons in south Klamath Falls who reported hearing and seeing a plane answering the description of the missing Ces sna flying low about 9 a.m. yesterday. The plane was due in at Sacramento at 10:27 a.m. The four missing men were identified as Harley Pallett, 20, Sacramento, the pilot; Ernest Kidwell, 19, Del Paso Heights; Bruce Prinz, 19, of Sacramento; and James Sims, about 20, Fair Oaks, Calif. All were stationed at Geiger Field in Spokane, Wash. Market-Wide Of Milk Set for County Market-wide pooling wa es tablished for Jackson county milk producers who supply local markets and new schedules of minimum producer and resale prices to be effective March 1, were issued by the Oregon State Board of Agriculture, according to reguM'ons released today. Prices Set Under the minimum price schedule, producers will receive not less than SI. 02 per pound butterfat and S2.37 per hundred pounds of milk for milk used in the bottle trade. Minimum prices to be charged consumers will be 22.5 cents a quart for milk containing not less than 3.4 per cent butterfat, 23.5 cents a quart for milk containing 3.8r4.1 per cent butterfat and 24.5 cents a quart for 4.4-4.7 per cent milk Minimum rates for half and half," homogenized milk contain ing 9-11 per cent butterfat are 46 cents a quart; light cream, 18-22 per cent butterfat, 25 cents for a half pint; and heavy cream, 30-33 per cent butterfat, 35 cents a half pint, minimum prices for skim milk and buttermilk are 14 and 17 cents a quart respect ively. - : ;. T The new pooling plan institut ed in the county supersedes the distributor-tvpe pooling that has been in effect for many years. Producers associated with the pools supplying Snider's Dairy. Jorgensen's Dairy and Gilman's Dairy -in Medford, and the Sil ver, Crest Dairy, Ashland, will iiiijiigiiuisil! Diehard Commies Had Taken Control Of UN Compound Revised Toll Lists 76 Dead, 173 Injured Koje Island, Korea (U.R) Fanatical, diehard Communists had taken over contral of the United Nations compound where 6,000 civilian internees attacked American soldiers Monday, it was disclosed Saturday. The group, shouting "kill G. I.'s!", attacked members of the 3rd battalion of the 27th "Wolfhound" regiment of the 25th division who had 'entered the compound to find out which of the internees were Com munists. One American Dead A revised toll of riot casual ties said 75 civilian internees and one American soldier were killed. Civilian wounded totalled 135. One American soldier was wounded seriously and 38 were treated for minor wounds. Brig. Gen." Francis T. Dood, who was sent to the island im mediately after the riot, said "civilian internees" was the name given to South Korean war refugees and captured South Koreans who had been impressed into the North Ko rean army. Dodd, commander of a U. N. prison camp, said the internees had changed from professed loyalty to the Republic of Ko rea into flag-waving, shouting Communists and that "the com pound became so hostile that we figured any South Koreans who were loyal never had m chance to say so. . ... :; Mass Demonstrations . Col. Maurice J. Fitzgerald of New York City, deputy com-, mander of the camp, said a group of Communists had taken over the government of com pound No. 62 in the past two months. They worked through "intimidation," he said, though there was no. increase in beat ings or murders during the period; . , " For two months, Fitzgerald said, the internees held mass demonstrations, refused to work, sang Communist songs and shouted taunts at prisoners of war passing on a nearby road. They were fanatical to the point of refusing to do anything we told them," Dodd said. "They were more hostile than any oth er Compound on the island, in cluding bona fide prisoners of war compounds. ,"We certainly hope it doesn't spread." Berlin (U.R) Soviet Deputy Premier Georgi M. Malenkov has replaced Premier Josef Stalin as chairman of the five man organization bureau of the Soviet Communist party. . Pooling become members of the Jackson Mar'-At Pool with the same quota allotments as they held in the smaller pools. Producer-Distributor da'ries including Bud's Dairy and Cloverleaf Dairy at' Ashland will also participate in the pool on a "sales-quota" bas's. The monthly pools, which will be computed by the board,' will result in uniform prices being paid for milk classified as "quota" production. : Prices Analysed ' The determination of mini mum producer prices followed an analysis of. average produc tion costs made by representa tives of Oregon State college during 1951 with r adjustment to compensate producers for in creased costs due to higher feed and supply costs that have oc curred since October 1, 1951. Minimum producer prices set by the board will yield 12.91 cents a quart to produ s for milk , containing 3.5 per cent as com pared with 10.98 cents for the producer in November 1949. The board also denied a re quest from grocers to increase the e-esent margin to stores. The order released today said the present margin of two cents per quart for selling milk is set by the -Office of Price Stabilization and cannot be increased by the board. It added that store opera tore had presented no conclusive evidence relating to the cost of selling milk during the hearing held in Medford in January.
