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Newspaper Page TextPenury gestetl Linuor 'Whitewash in Committee Studies Charge of Stifling Probe of Industry Direct Conflict Of Statements Eyed Washington (U.R) A House Investigator suggested the pos sibility of perjury Tuesday in the wake of sworn testimony by two witnesses at hearings on an alleged Justice Department "whitewash" of the liquor in dustry. Rep. Kenneth B. Keating, R N.Y., cited a direct conflict in statements given a House jud ciary subcommittee by Herbert A. Bergson, former assistant at torney general, and Edward L. Branham, a lawyer in the Justice Department's anti-trust division Complaints Studied The subcommittee is investi gating complaints that a Justice Department study of anti-trust i charges against the big four "liquor distillers was "stifled' after executives of the firms con tributed heavily to the Demo cratic national committee. The firms have been listed as Sea grams, Schenley, Hiram Walker and National Distillers. To Reserve Judgment Keating told newsmen that either Branham or Bergson might have been lying, but that he will "reserve judgment un til the subcommittee has a chance to "cross examine" Bergson Fri day. Branham, who claims he was "intimidated" because he refused to go along with a "whitewash' of the liquor industry, denounc ed one of Bergson's statements as an unmitigated lie." Bergson, in a sworn statement put in the subcommittee's rec ord, had said Branham never denied a charge that he "men tally horse-whipped" a group of local liquor dealers by threaten ing to "put them in jail." Formation of Rural District Opposed By Volunteer Group JACKSONVILLE Members of the Jackonville volunteer lire department today went on record against continuing any ' attempt to form a rural fire dis trict to be served by them. The reason given for the ac tion was an alleged lack of sup port by Jacksonville business men, which they say has led to the conclusion that the present volunteer firemen are not in a positions to serve the people within the city limits of the town. A lack of interest on the part of people within the proposed ru ral fire district was also listed by the volunteer firemen. This lack of interest, they slate, makes it apparent that those peo ple are not interested in an in crease in taxes at this time for any reason. Jacksonville fire chief said that equipment of his depart ment will not be available for any calls outside the city limits of Jacksonville. 4 Prospects for formation of a Jacksonville rural fire district were already at a low ebb be cause of difficulty of meeting a July 15 deadline for submission of a budget for a four-mill levy. Persons Interested in forma tion of the district also pointed out that, because of a low as sessed valuation in the district, it would be difficult to obtain funds for a rural fire truck which would meet necpssary 'standards. Two trucks available for that use at the present time would have to be remodeled at considerable expense to the dis trict, they stated. Ellsworth Deplores Expense-Paid Visit Washington (U.R) Rep. Har ris Ellsworth, R.-Ore., Tuesday charged It would be "irregular" for the Interior department to pay expenses of members of Congress invited to inspect pub lic lands in the Pacific North west next month. Ellsworth said he favored hav ing congressmen Retting to know more about public lands prob lems, but added it was "odd, and I think irregular that a part of the deal is that the department of interior is paying the expenses of members of congress who go along." BASEBALL NATIONAL St. Louis 0 ( 0 Brooklyn 6 110 L Pretko, Crimian 5, Yuhai 8. ' and Rice: Roe and Campanu la. Horn runt: for Brooklyn Hodget, Snider, Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 47th Year IKE DESCRIBES ISOLATIONISM AS STUPID DOCTRINE Denver, Colo. (U.R) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower warned Tuesday the "simple truths" he outlined in his foreign policy pro nouncement must be incorporated in the GOP platform adopted by the Republican National Convention or he cannot accept the party's foreign policy plank. Denver (UP) Dwight D. Eisenhower, in a speech des cribed as an outline of foreign policy differences between him self and Sen. Robert A. Taft, branded isolationism Monday night as a "stupid" philosophy of self-destruction. He told a television and ra dio audience he put aside his uniform to seek the Republican presidential nomination because he believes "peace may well be at stake" in the forthcoming campaign. He offered a "prac tical"' peace program which he said "fits the situation." May Move Headquarteri Eisenhower never referred to Taft by name during his 15-min-ute address from his hotel head quarters, but an adviser, Sen. Frank Carlson, R-Kan., said be fore the broadcast the general would point out how he differs with the Ohio senator on for eign issues. A spokesman disclosed mean while that Eisenhower was con sidering a plan to move his cam paign headquarters to Chicago, either before the Republican Na tional Convention, which starts July 7, or soon after it opens. Slow Suicide In his most bitter speech since relinquishing his European, com mand, Eisenhower said the iso lationists advocated a doctrine of slow suicide for this nation and for those who look upon the U. S. as the last bastion of free doom. Those who believe the United States can get along without the friendship and resources of oth er nations, he said, are ''taking an unjustified gamble with peace." They are no friends of America's security,'' Eisenhower said. Living In Past "They are living in years long past. Theirs is not the counsel of enlightened self-interest. It is the counsel of eventual self-de struction. And the American peo ple have shown time and time again that they will not- support this stupid and myopic near sighted doctrine." Eisenhower said if the Commu nists grab the resources, the United States needs for economic survival and take the holdings of the overseas democracies, "a gaunt and naked America would be encircled by a savage wolf pack." McMinnville Boy, 6, Located Near Home McMinnville (U.R) Six-year old John Hassler, lost in rough, wooded country in hills seven miles west of here all night, was found alive about half a mile from his home shortly after noon Tuesday. The Yamhill county sheriff's office said the boy was found by Barney Cabe and Archie An derson, two members of a large search party. The boy was found about half a mile from his farm home, at the bottom of a canyon. "He was pretty cold, but he was all right," a sheriff's deputy said. Cambridge, Mass. (U.R) Fred Butler built a 22-foot cabin cruis er by himself. But he needed help from 20 neighbors to chop down six trees, tear up a wire fence, saw three inches of mold ing from two houses and rip up some shrubbery to get it out of his back yard and launch it. Washington (U.R) FBI Direc tor J. Edgar Hoover said Tues day his agents have located and muds available to draft boards more than 19.000 delinquent registrants since the peacetime selective service act became ef fective just four years ago. Condon, Ore. iU.R) R. J. Dick Greiner, 52 -year -old Mayville, Ore., rancher, was killed late Monday when his car collided with a truck on a curve one half mile west of Fossil on the John Day highway. 18 Pages Sen. Taft Ignores Eisenhower Blast; Woos Pennsylvania Washington (U.R) Sen. Rob ert A. Taft went delegate-wooing in pivotal Pennsylvania Tuesday and ignored, for the moment. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's blast at "ignorant and irrespon sible" isolationists. Eisenhower did not mention Taft by name in his foreign pol icy speech from Denver Monday night. But his supporters said, he was definitely aiming at his chief rival for the Republican presidential nomination when he denounced persons who "gamble with peace" by opposing the At lantic Pact, foreign aid and other moves to build u pstrong allies abroad. Taft in Pennsylvania Taft moved into Hershey, Pa., for a meeting with Pennsylva nia's 70-vote delegation to the GOP national convention after having a "quite satisfactory talk Monday night with Mary land's 24 delegates. The Pennsyl vania and Maryland delegations represent two of the largest blocs which are not yet firmly com mitted to either Taft or Eisen hower. Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin, who now holds Maryland's dele gates as a "favorite son" candi date, said after the closed-dnor dinner meeting with Taft that he still favors Eisenhower. Harriman Schedules Fast Oregon Tour Portland 4U.R) Averell Har riman, candidate for the Demo cratic nomination for president, was to arrive in Oregon late Tuesday night for a two-day visit. Harriman was to spend the night at Vancouver, Wash., and make a speech there at 8:43 a.m. Wednesday. He will then drive to Portland to meet Oregon Democrats and will record a radio program. At 12:15 p.m. he was to speak at a luncheon in the Columbia Athletic Club. Harriman will leave here in his own plane at 2:30 p.m. Wed nesday for Corvallis and will go to Lebanon for a 5 p.m. speech. Then he will return to Corvallis in time to fly to Coos Bay for a 7 p.m. dinner and an 8:30 p.m: speech before the Coos Bay forum. He will remain overnight in Coos Bay and fly to Pendleton Thursday morning for a speech and reception. Then, he will fly to Boise. i Pullman, Wash. (U.R) The twin son of Crooner Bing Crosby will enter Washington Stale col lege in September, Admissions Director Claude Simpson report ed Tuesday. BULLETINS Washington (U.R) Harold E. Slasten said Tuesday that Sen. Robert A. Taft'i actual delegate strength in the fight for the Republican Presidential nomination it "far short" of the 604 votes which Taft claims. Wahingln--'U.R) The Sen ate Labor committee Tuesday voted 9 to 3 to approve a modified FEPC bill. The meas ure would tei up a five-man "commission on equality of op portunity in employment" which could order employer! to ttop ditcriminating became of race, religion, color, na tional origin, or ancestry in hiring workert. . Weirlon. W. Va. (U.R) Weirton Steel Co. granted tit 11.500 independently organ ised worker! pay increatn to taling 25 centt an hour Tuet day and announced it would seek an Immediate price In crease, . MEDFORD, OREGON, Acheson and Eden Open Series of Talks on Europe Varied Subjects Under Discussion London (U.R) Secretary of State Dean Acheson conferred with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden Tuesday, opening a momen tous series of Allied talks on Europe, the Middle East and the Far East. A one -sentence communique said of the two-hour and 20 minute meeting: "The foreign ministers met with their advisers and reviewed the situation in Europe and the Middle East." Troubles Discussed Under discussion were the troubled Allied relations with Russia., German rearmament, the threatened Soviet blockade of Berlin, Britain's disputes with Egypt over the Suez canal and the Sudan, the Iranian oil situa tion and other issues which keep Europe jittery, From the foreign office, where Tuesday morning's meeting was held, Acheson went directly across Downing street to lunch with Prime Minister Winston Churchill while Eden lunched with United Nations Secretary General Trygve Lie. The Acheson-Eden talk was then resumed. " Before he leaves London for Berlin and Vienna Saturday, Acheson is to confer with French Foreign Minister Robert Schu man, who will join him and Eden here. Acheson also will confer at length with George F. Kennan, United States ambassador to Russia, who after only six weeks in his-new post is coming Wire to report. Diplomats attach great impor tance to Kennan's visit. He has long been the State Depart ment's No. 1 Russian expert. Not only will he be able to help Acheson; Eden and Schuman in orienting their policy but it is understood he will tell Acheson that he Is seriously worried by the bitter anti-American cam paign which the Russians have started in their official press. Reds Accuse Allies Of Prolonging War Panmunjom, Korea (U.R) Communist truce negotiators ac cused the United Nations Tues day of prolonging the Korean War by resuming their screen ing of war prisoners on Koje Island. North Korean Gen. Nam 11. head of the Red delegation, said the resumed screening was "a dangerous step." He accused the U.N. of refusing to return war prisoners or to negotiate. "In fact," he said, "you . . . show that you do not hesitate to extend the Korean War." Nam also disputed a state ment by Maj. Gen. Wililam K. Harrison, chief U. N. negotia tor, that the major obstacle to settlement of the prisoner ques tion was the number of prison ers the U.N. would return under its policy of voluntary repatriation. Soldier, Believed Buried for 3 Weeks, Found To Be Alive; Police Interested Milwaukee, Wis. !U.R) James Weekes. 21-ycar-old AWOL sol dier, cleared up the mystery Tuesday of a mistaken corpse that was buried by Weekcs' rela tives in the belief they were burying the soldier. Police were still interested, however, in how 30 friends and relatives, including Weekes' mother, could view the body of Donald Wayne Becker, 23, and mistake It for Weekes. Almost Perfect Doubles "They must have been almost perfect doubles," said Sgt. Wil liam Wysocki. Officers planned to exhume the body of Becker to tc". just how closely he resembles Weekes. Weekes turned up alive Mon day to the great surprise of ev eryone who had attended his fu neral. He appearead at the home of Mrs. Charles Phillips, the land lady of Weekes' mother. "You're supposed to be dead!" gasped Mrs. Phillips. It wai Mri. Phillipi who bad TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1952 Kg MUKDEN gggtUS iSllfc U usan'ISS -ANTUNfSSr DAM (PLANTS BQM6CD E????? PLANTS SMASHED ESSr OF : PYONGYANG XKOTONG S2 miles E BIGGEST YET Bomb blasts on above Ncwsmap shows where 500 Allied warplanes smashed huge Suiho Dam along the Yalu River and four hydroelectric plants in the biggest air strike of Ihe Korean war. The attack seriously crippled power necessary for enemy factories and cities. Soviet Border Guards Ignore West Protest Berlin (U.R) East German Communists erected road bar ricades Tuesday on the bor der between the Soviet lector of Berlin and ihe rest of Eatt Germany. Berlin (UP) Soviet border guards ignored an Allied protest Tuesday and again barred Amer ican and British military police patrols from the Berlin-West Germany super-highway. The U. S., British and French high commissioners sent a note to their Soviet opposite Monday "insisting'' on the Allied right to patrol the 110-mile artery across the Soviet Zone of Ger many. Agreement Violated They said the Soviet ban im posed May 8 violated the four power agreement ending the So: victs' 1948-49 blockade of West ern Berlin. At Braunschweig, police an nounced that two young West Germans who had been kid naped Sunday from the western side of the East-West German frontier by a Soviet patrol were released Monday. Questioned By Redt They told police they were dragged across the border and Two Rural Districts Elect New Directors Further election returns from rural school districts in Jack son county show that Sam Smith was elected director at Evans Valley and Walter Graff direct or at West. Side, according to the county school office. The elections were held June 18 and official tabulations are being completed as soon as pos sible, according to the office. The county non-high school board will meet Wednesday at 8 p. m. in an organization meet ing and will count votes for one directorship on the board. The rural school board met this aft ernoon and two director posi tions were to be filled. identified Becker's body as that of Weekes for authorities last week. The mystery began when a dead man was found in a Mil waukee hotel room that had been registered to Weekes. At the time, Weekes' mother, Mrs. Eleanor Weekes, was out of town so Mrs. Phillips made the initial identification. Mrs. Weekes viewed the body when she returned home. She remarked at the time that she thought his features may have been altered by death and em balming. None of the group who attend ed the funeral Saturday express ed doubt that the body they buried was that of Weekes. Mrs. Phillips called the police Monday after Weekes showed up alive. They seized him at a rooming house three blocks from hi mother's home. Weekes confessed that he went AWOL from Camp McCoy, Wis.', on June 12. He said he went to Chicago lor time and tiien came to Mil Tribune SR.3 questioned by East German Com munist police about the strength of West German border and cus toms guards in the area. All was quiet in the Schoen Ingan area of the zonal border, where Soviet troops and Com munist police kidnaped 43 West German workers Sunday and held them until Monday. Colored Video Ban Modified Washington (U.R) T h e ov ernment Tuesday modified its ban on manufacture of color tele vision sets, but warned against expecting any sudden Increase in the number available. No additional material allot ments will be made available to makers of color sets, Defense Production Administrator Henry H. Fowler said. Effective Immediately, how ever, manufacturers may apply for NPA authority to use por tions of their material allotments for color sets. By NPA order, a flat ban on any color set manu facture has been In effect. Fowler said each application to build color sets will be screen ed by his office to make certain there will be no drain off of skilled engineers from defense work or any impairment of the given company's ability to han dle defense electronics contracts. HEARING TONIGHT Central Point The final hearing on Central Point's city budget will be held tonight at 8 o'clock In the city hall, accord ing to A. R. Pinkham, city re corder. The budget totals $56, 207.97 with $381.29 over last year's lax levy of $23,424.21. No special election will be necessary for the excess of $15,060 over the six per cent increase limi tation because of a 15-mill con tinuing levy. waukee last Tuesday. He regis tered at the hotel and, that eve ning, went to a saloon where he met two friends. The friends Introduced him to Becker, a resident of Milwau kee. After an evening's drinking, Becker went back to the hotel with Weekes. Slumped to Floor' As they talked, Weekes said, Becker suddenly passed out and slumped to the floor. Weekes said he tried to re vive Becker with wet towels and finally lifted him onto the bed and then fell asleep himself. The next morning, Weekes said, he found that Becker had died. In fear that he would be implicated in Becker's death, Weekes said he fled from the hotel and left all his possessions behind. Hotel employees later found Becker's body together with Weekes' Identification papers, and the chain of circumstances started which culminated In Weekes' "return to We." United Press Full Leased Wire LABORITES IRKED BY AIR ATTACKS ON KOREA PLANTS London (U.R) Prime Minister Winston Churchill told Parlia ment Tuesday that he had not been consulted about the Allied air raids on Yalu river power plants and indicated he might make "representations" to the United States. A leftist Laborite question about the raids in the House ot Commons resulted in an exchange that showed clearly the fear of the Conservatives and the moderate Laborites, as well as leftists, that the Yalu attacks might extend the Korean war. Churchill assured the first questioner that the raids meant no change in policy so far as he knew. But he admitted that he had not been consulted in advance. "But we naturally will inform ourselves of the whole matter," Churchill safd. ". . . We naturally reserve all our rights as a friend ly ally to make any representations which may be thought de sirable. The Laborites demanded an raids. Laborites' Distrust Of America Shown The speaker intervened to de lay the demand but said that he might permit a motion later for the debate. Labor's distrust of American policy was shown when a leftist Laborite asked Prime Minister Winston Churchill whether, as British newspapers suggested, the Yalu river raids meant a change in United Nations policy. Churchill said that they did not. "... It is the policy of the U.N. command to limit hos tilities," Churchill said. "While there has not been much ground fighting in the past few months, air operations by the U.N. forces have continued with the entirely legitimate object of decreasing the enemy war potential in Ko rea. Altlee Voices Fears Labor Leader Clement R. Attlee, who normally tries to soften the attacks of his leftist wing on American policy, moved in to voice his own fears and de mand an immediate debate. "Does the prime minister not consider that this was one of the matters on which there should have been consultation with others who are concerned in the actual fighting in Korea?" Attlee asked. Manchuria Said Affected "Hitherto, although there has been bombing on purely mili tary targets on the bridges over the Yalu, this represents the de struction of important establish ments which affect the whole of Manchuria. "That kind of policy Is surely one that should not have been embarked upon without full con sultation, especially in view of (he fact that discussions for an armistice are now taking place." Report Shows Bridge As Safe for Traffic A preliminary report from the state highway bridge engineers who recently inspected the bridge at Rogue River says that the bridge is "safe for traffic," County Engineer Paul Rynnlng states this morning. A three-foot section of the bridge fell out on. May 28 and since that time the bridge has been Inspected by state highway engineers and a concrete speci- man is being analyzed by the slate laboratories for mixture. A complete report to be made at a later date, will be submitted to the grand Jury which will convene around the first of July. Indiana Delegates May Back Stevenson Indianapolis (U.R) Indiana Democratic leaders Tuesday hand-picked eight delegates to the national convention In the hope that they could add to the 14 Hoosier delegates already backing Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois. The parly bosses' choices must be approved by the state conven lion Tuesday anfl their strategy swung on the hope that Steven son would enter the presidential race or accept a draft. The Illinois governor has re peatedly denied he is a candidate and has said he "could not run COUNTY" BUDGETHEARINO A public hearing on the 1952- 53 budget for Jackson county will be held In the county court chambers at 10 a. m. on Wcdnes day, according to County Judge J. B. Coleman. The budget to tals a record high of $2,270,572 with $598,621.82 to be raised by property taxes. Weather FORECAST: Partly rtoudy with few light thowert through Wedneidiy. Low tonight 50, hi;!-. Wednesday 70-75. Hlsheit Yesterday .., T2 Lowest thli Morning .. . 52 Prec. To 4:3 a.m. Today t No. 81 immediate debate on the Yalu Fighter-Bombers : Renew Assault on Electric Plants Seoul, Korea (U.R) Allied fighter -bombers struck again Tuesday at three of the five vital North Korean electric power plants smashed In Monday's ree. ord 500-plane assault, destroy ing buildings and transformers. The 5th Air Force sent mop-ping-up missions to drop bombs on plants attached to Fusen Dams No. 3 and 4 and Chosen Dams No. 3 and 4 In northeast Korea.. However, one of the plants, the Fusen No'. 3, was still mask ed by heavy black smoke so thick that Thunderjet planes were forced,. Instead to attack alternate targets along a rail line south of Hungnam. The bombers hitting the other three plants "completed the de struction of several buildings and transformers," the 5th Air Force said. The Allied planes did not fly over Suiho, the Orient's largest hydro-electric plant, left a skele ton in Monday's raid. UN Teams Screen Commie Prisoners Koje Island, Korea (U.R) United Nations teams, question ing more than 1,000 prisoners an hour, have screened 15.000 Communist prisoners on Koje Island In the past two days, Brig. Gen. H a y d o n L. Boatner an nounced Tuesday. Boatner, the tough command er who restored order among; Koje's turbulent hard-core Red prisoners, said the screening pro gram Is "going along as smooth ly as the ripples in the harbor." It was unofficially estimated that 5 per cent of the prisoners so far screened have said they would voluntarily resist repatria tion to the Communist side. The prisoners now being screened total 45,000 of Koje's 80,000 inmates. The other 30,000 prisoners were questioned sev eral months ago. Trouble in Bunches For Portland Woman; Police Seek Answer Portland (U.R) Police Tues day investigated the tale of trouble reported by Mrs. Tal bcrt Sandvig of Portland. It all began Friday with delivery men bringing things she didn't order. They came In this order: Men from the Portland Gas and Coke company tried to dump two tons of briquets at her house. She hadn't ordered them. The Oregon Journal phoned to check on an ad that her house was for rent. She said nope, it wasn't. A florist tried to deliver some flowers from a shop the said she had never heard of. A telephone repair man was told that her phone was in per fect order after he answered a complaint that it was out-of-order. A fuel company tried to unload a load of sawdust she hadn't ordered and couldn't use. Mrs. Sandvig was telling a patrolman of her troubles when the topper In the form of a Trailways bus rolled up to her door. The driver had . an order, he said, to take a group of Boy scouts to Cham-pocg.