Penury
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."
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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
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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.