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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.
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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.