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rui ill I1IITI i v Medford UrUtad Pr rnfl LMad Wto 48th Year 18 Pages E. German Police Ring Berlin To Halt Rush for Food Roads Patrolled, Police Rids Trains Berlin (U.R) The East Ger man government ringed Berlin with heavily armed police today to halt a final rush for "Eisen hower food parcels" before next Saturday's deadline. Food seekers who ran the tightened blockade said Commu nist police armed with machine pistols stopped Berlin bound traffic SO miles from the city and turned back thousands of hungry East Germans. People's police were said to be patroling secondary roads and checking trucks, bicycles and pedestrians to enforce the ban on picking up free food in West Berlin. Beds Bide Trains - Reinforced police guards rode all trains into the city. Other police units backed by Commu nist strong arm squads patroled railway and elevated stations in Berlin suburbs. However, an estimated 100, 000 of the free parcels were distributed today, about half of them to residents of the Soviet zone outside of Berlin. They brought the total for the 17 days of the program to about 2,500,000 free food parcels dis tributed. The number was ex pected to climb sharply between now and Saturday when the distribution will stop for 12 days until a new program gets under way. Communist authorities also adopted terror as a weapon in a fight to save their harvest and avert starvation. The Neue Zeitung, U. S. high commission newspaper, reported police arrested farmers and farm laborers throughout the Soviet zone during the week end and charged them with delay in har vesting crops. The flight of thousands of farmers to the West in the last year has produced a critical shortage of agricultural labor. The government has appealed in vain to workers, city dwellers and housewives to volunteer to help harvest crops. Phoenix Works on Wafer Difficulty Phoenix "Everything possi ble" is being done by the city council and mayor to alleviate Phoenix's water troubles, ac cording to Mrs. Kathryn Stan cliffe, mayor. She pointed out a new city ordinance setting water ration ing during the present emergen cy, which divides the city into two zones: users west of Pine st. shall irrigate on the odd days of the month, and persons east of Pine st. on the even dates. Wa tering will only be between 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. on the alternate days. The ordinance adopted last night imposes a maximum penal ty of $50 fine or 10 days in jail, or both. She invited everyone's cooperation during the emer gency and stated that the cur rent pump installation will take time to test its results. The may or also pointed to the low under ground water table all over the valley, which has affected the city's wells. Salem (U.R) The Salem city council has rejected a pro posal to establish a police triffic division. More French Workers Join Spreading Work Stoppages Paris (U.R) More than 1,000,000 government workers and employees in nationalized Industries were on strike today in a spreading work stoppage which crippled railway, postal, telephone, telepgraph and gas services. Coal production also was sev erely hit by refusal of miners to enter the pits. Gas service was reduced to a trickle. Subway and bus work ers debated a renewal of their week end walkout. Labor vs. Government Ground service personnel at airports voted a 24 hour walk out. Merchant seamen at Mar seille already were out and em ployees of the nationalized elec tric system warned they would stay home. The strikes and slowdowns were labor's answer to the econ omy measures proposed by the right wing government of Pre MEDFORD, OREGON, Copco Rate Hearing To By PUG Here Aug. 18 Salem (U.R) State Public Utilities Commissioner Charles H. Heltzel said today that David Don, PUC chief engineer, will preside at a hearing in Medford August 18 into application of California Oregon Power Co. to increase its rates an average of about 20 per cent in Oregon to bring in an estimated $2,459,000 a year. The hearing will open at 9:30 a.m. August 18 in the Jackson county courthouse. Officials To Study Evidence Heltzel said today He antici pated that Copco probably would conclude its "case in chief" in one day. Then the hear ing will be recessed "in the pub lic interest" to give PUC offi cials and others time to study all the company's evidence, ex pected to consist of several ex hibits as well as testimony pre sented. Copco serves the Medford, Grants Pass, Klamath Falls, Lakeview and Roseburg areas. It also supplies power wholesale to Ashland, which has its own municipal system. Copco, in its formal applica tion to the PUC for the rate increase in Oregon, said it had Army To Give Names Of Americans Listed As Dead in Red Camps Washington (U.R) The Army this week will begin re leasing the names of about 1,000 Americana reported by the Com munists to have died in Red pris on, camps, a spokesman said to day. The Army said it is cross checking the Communist list of dead prisoners with its own in formation and will notify next of kin before beginning to make the names public. A spokesman explained, however, that the Communist list is not accepted at its face value as completely accurate. Armistice Agreement The list of soldiers who died in prison camps was handed over by the Communists last week end in accordance with a provi- Iowa Governor in Medford for Visit Gov. William S. Beardsley of Iowa and his wife have been visiting their son Blaine Beards ley, 121 King st., and his family since Sunday. Governor Beards ley will return to Iowa today, but his wife plans to remain here for another week. Beardsley is serving his third term as governor of Iowa. When asked his impressions of the Rogue valley, he said, "Well, I'm from the mid-west, you know, and anyone would nat urally fall in love with the coun try out here." Beardsley went on to describe the tremendous resources, the beautiful scenery and the friend ly people to be found in the Rogue valley as "the things ev eryone is looking for." This is Beardsley's second trip to the Rogue valley. He also visited here last fall. mier Joseph Laniel His. cabinet, employing decree making powers granted it by the National assembly, published a number of orders yesterday aim ed at streamlining the swollen French bureaucracy and putting nationalized industries on a pro fitable basis. Economic Troubles Included were measures pro viding for tougher retirement and pension qualifications, more rigid job requirements, and high er rents. Labor accepted these decrees as proof it would be asked to bear the burden of Laniel's ef fort to get France back on its economic feet. Last week they sought to warn Laniel off such a program by a strike of 2,000,000 government and nationalized workers. Those walkouts were largely in sym pathy with a strike of 200,000 post and telegraph employees. United Pr TUESDAY, AUGUST 1 1, 1953 Increase Be Held experienced an "unprecedented increase" in its system load, from 73,550 kilowatts in 1945 to 270, 550 kilowatts in 1952. It contemplates a construction program of $75,000,000 in Ore gon spread over five years at $15,000,000 a year. Copco noted that inflation had increased its costs and that it never has had a general increase in its rates. However, Heltzel said all the evidence would be studied with extreme care before the PUC makes its decision after the hearing. Most Business in Oregon Copco is a California corpora tion, but it does 80 per cent of its business in Oregon. Its lines extend north to Springfield, west to McKinely, about 19 miles east of North Bend, east to the new North Umpqua projects almost as far east as Diamond lake, and more southerly, to Lake view. In California, its lines ex tend to Crescent City to the west, Yreka, Etna and Dunsmuir to the center, Tulelake, Alturas to the east and Pit River and Delta to the south. It is not serv ing customers in Alturas to the east and Pit River and Delta to the south. sion in the armistice agreement, Radio Peiping reported yester day that the list contained 481 non-Korean soldiers and that an other 569 have been reported as dead in a previous list handed over by the Communists in De cember, 1951. While confirming the Radio Peiping report as substantially correct, a spokesman said the Army is not accepting the total as final. He pointed out that dis crepancies were spotted immed iately in the 1951 list, and for this reason the Army has never notified the next of kin of exist ence of the Communist report. Even after cross checking the Communist list, the Army will not state officially that the sol dier has died in a Red prison camp. Rather it will report to the next of kin that the Com munists have reported him dead. Army officials, frankly ad mitted that the Communist total of men who died in prison camps was not as large as had been ex pected. They had looked to the Red list to give a clue as to what happened to thousands of Amer ican soldiers unaccounted for in the war, and also to explain in part the discrepancy between the number of prisoners to' be returned by the Communists and the large number which the United States believes the Com munists hold. Telephone System To Pass On Tax Cut Washington (U.R) The Telephone system has promised to pass along to its customers the full amount of any cut which Congress may vote in the present excise tax on telephone service. The pledge was given to the House Ways and Means commit tee last night by Mark R. Sulli van, president of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co., who said he spoke for the entire Bell System. The committee is holding a hearing on excise tax revision, with a view toward preparing legislation for action at the next session of Congress. Four Men Start Terms In Oregon Sfote Prison Four men were taken to Sa lem today by Sheriff Howard Gault to start terms in Oregon state prison. They were David Clinton Crockett, 31, Lander, Wyo., and Donald Edward White, 32, Bill ings, Mont., who were sentenced to indeterminate periods not to exceed 15 years for burglary by explosives; Monte Joe Tread well, 33, James, Tex., sentenced to four years on a forgery charge;; and Alfred Bernard Tuey, 62, Camp White, sen tenced to an indeterminate per iod not to exceed four years for a sex crime. Tribune Full Ltmi Win No. 122 Russians Demand Full Compensation For Downed Plane Bohlen Reiterates Responsibility Denial Washington (U.R) Russia formally demanded today that the United States make full com pensation for a Soviet transport plane shot down over Korea July 27, the State Department disclosed. The department said U. S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen, when presented with the de mand in Moscow, stuck by the previous U. S. position that the United States had no responsi bility for the lost plane because it was in the war zone. The Russians claimed the plane was over Red China when attacked. Soviet Claim Denied The Soviet Union in a pro test July 31 claimed four Ameri can fighters invaded Red China and attacked the IL-12 transport while on a routine flight from Port Arthur to the Soviet Union. This government replied Au gust 1 that the Soviet claim was false. It said confirmed in formation in the hands of U. S. military authorities showed the plane was shot down by an Air t orce fighter plane over Korean territory. The United States said it de plored the loss of life in the Korean zone of hostilities and the responsibility therefore must rest with those Soviet au thorities who flew the Soviet aircraft through Korean terri tory." Compensation Demanded The State Department said Bohlen was called to the Soviet foreign office today "and hand ed another note on the IL-12 incident." ".The Soviet note alleges that a further investigation of the incident has been made by the Soviet Union and it demands that compensation be made," the department said. "Ambassador Bohlen, when presented with the Soviet note, reiterated that the facts in the case were those contained in our note of August 1." A department spokesman said qnly a summary of Russia's note has been received here. A deci sion will be made later whether a reply should be made. Longshore Group Faces Suspension Chicago (U.R) The" AFL Ex ecutive Council recommended today that the International Longshoremen's Association be "suspended" on charges of water front racketeering.! " The council voted to recom mend to the AFL's 72nd annual convention in St. Louis next month that the longshoremen be suspended until they comply with a cleanup edict. George Meany, AFL president, said the suspension vote was "the milder of the two steps we could have taken." The other alternative would have been outright expulsion, unprecedent ed in AFL history. Meany said the council de cided to give the longshore lead ers "a little more opportunity to do the things they say they are trying to do." This is not the final step," he said. Suspension would mean that the longshoremen would have no vote in AFL affairs, none of the rights and protection af forded member unions, and would pay no dues to the parent organization, Meany said. Draft Issue Calls For 23,1 Washington (U.R) The De fense Department today issued a draft call for 23,000 men for October. All will be inducted into the Army. The October call, the first since' the Korean truce, will bring to 1,538,430 the number of men inducted into the military service since the start of the Korean war. The 23,000 figure is the same as draft calls for July through September. Weather FORECAST ralr t h r tk Wednesday. Low tonight J; high Wednesday !-. Ten. Highest yesterday 91 Lowest this oralaf t All Department, Agency Heads to Practice Economy Move To Head Off Special Session Denver (U.R) President Eisenhower today asked govern ment department heads to cut expenditures as much as possible to head off the need for a special session of Congress this fall to raise the federal debt limit The President, from his sum mer White House headquarters here, sent a letter to all depart ment and most agency heads calling for an immediate economy campaign, plus "substantial re ductions" in their planned ex penditures for fiscal 1955. Results Uncertain Press Secretary James C. Hag erty said the President's letter was an effort to avoid having to call a special session on the debt limit this fall, but he said the White House was "by no means" certain that sufficient economics could be put into ef fect to avoid a special session. In the letter to each depart ment head, the Presdent said: "It is absolutely essential that you begin immediately to take every possible step progressively to reduce the expenditures of your department during the fis cal year 1954. 1955 Budoet Estimates "In addition to this action, you will be expected to make substantial reductions in your requests for new appropriations and in th level of your expendi tures for the fiscal year 1955, beyond those already indicated for the fiscal year 1954." The White House disclosed at the same time that Budget Direc tor Joseph W. Dodge today noti fied all department heads that they were to submit their 1955 budget estimates to him by Oct. 1. The President's new economy campaig nwas discolsed a she conferred here with Adm. Ar thur W. Radford incoming chair man of the joint chiefs of staff. Radford does not replace Gen. Omar Bradley until the middle of this month, but he flew to the President's vacation head quarters to start what will be for him a new weekly assign ment, briefing the -President on world developments as seen through the eyes of the Defense department. Soviet H-Bomb Radford spent nearly an hour and a half with the President. When he left Mr. Eisenhower's office, he told reporters he did not think the hydrogen bomb claims made by Soviet Prime Minister Georgi Malenkov was a product of Soviet "imagina tion." He said the Malenkov speech did not come up in hit discussion with the President. Hagerty said the President gave the departments no dollars and cents target to shoot at, leav ing it to the individual depart ment head to accomplish as much as possible. Hagerty point ed out that the outgoing Truman administration had submitted a budget for the current fiscal year of $78,600,000,000 and this was cut by Congress and the GOP administration by $13,000,000,000. Economy in Government "Ever since the date of the inauguration, every member of this administration has been dedicated to the purposes of ef ficiency and economy in govern ment," the Preisdent said in his departmental directive. "Now that Congress is adjourned, it is time to attack the problem with renewed vigor." Japanese Threaten U. S. Military Strike Tokyo (U.R) More than 100,- 000 Japanese employed by the U. S. military forces threatened today to tie up military ship ments to Korea for 48 hours, be ginning tomorrow, with a nation wide strike against a new labor contract offered by the American forces. Two unions claming a total of 125,000 members in U. S. em ploy yesterday reaffirmed their decision to call the first national strike against the American forces. Leaders informed Labor Min ister Zentaro Kosaka the strike would begin at 6 ajn. tomorrow. Butane Gas Truck Burns on Siskiyous A truck loaded with butane gas caught fire and burned on the Siskiyou summit yesterday, state police reported. The truck, driven by Daniel Hatcher, Yreka, caught fire when a connection blew up, officers said. Hatcher received ocly minor burns, but the truck was demolished. The fire was brought under control by the state forestry department. lmm unlauoEa (shargs Police Apprehend Two Escapees; One Man Still Sought AWOL Servicemen Caught at Ruch, LA Two AWOL servicemen who escaped from the Jackson county jail late Sunday were in custody today, according to Sheriff Howard Gauld. A third escapee, Floyd Earl Denno, 23, of Sun Valley, Calif., is still at large. Army Pvt. Arnold Fay Grisham, 19, of Box 524, Jack sonville, was apprehended at about 9 p.m. yesterday by Don Smith, a part time Jacksonville and Central Point policeman, Gault said. No Struggle . , Grisham was taken without a struggle at a shack on Forest creek near Ruch, according to the sheriff. Marine George M. Edwards, 20, of Box 73, Butte Falls, was arrested at 12:45 a.m. today in Los Angeles by Los Angeles city police, who had "staked out" a building which Edwards was known to frequent. He reached Los Angeles by bus, LA police reported. Grisham was lodged in the felony tank last night at the county jail. Deputies reported that he had half of a hack saw blade in his shoe when he was brought into the jail. Edwards probably will not be returned to Jacksonville county unless he waives extradition, sheriff's deputies said. California will not extradite him, they stated. Both Edwards and Grisham face sentences of three to five years in prison on jail break charges if they are brought to trial in Jackson county. Denno, who was jaled on a larceny by bailee charge, is believed to have left this area, according to DeArmond Leigh, chief deputy. More information on his whereabouts may be ob tained when Edward's statement to Los Angeles police is received, Leigh said. Jack Benny Visits Medford on Way to Canada Vacation Radio and television star Jack Benny was taking it easy in Medford today while en route to a vacation in Canada. Traveling with Writer Irving Brecker, Benny stopped off in Medford last night while Breck er visited his family in northern California. The famous come dian said that his plans were indefinite, but that he expected to drive to Seattle after leaving Medford. Benny was scheduled to play a round of golf at the Rogue Val ley Country club at 1130 p.m. today. Others in the foursome were Harry Watson, manager of the Medford hotel where Benny is staying; Al Williams, profes sional golfer at the country club. and George Harrington, one of the state's outstanding amateur golfers. Standing in the lobby of the Medford hotel, where his pres ence drew no particular atten tion, the casually dressed Benny explained that his main purpose on his trip is "just to relax." O'Dwyer Reported Divorced in Mexico Cuernavaca, Mexico (U.R) Suit has been brought in the civil courts of Cuernavaca by at tractive former New York fash ion model Sloan Simpson for a divorce from former U. S. Am bassador William O'Dwyer court records revealed today. A Mexico City newspaper col umnist said the divorce already has been granted by the court. Court officials said all docu ments in the case have been withdrawn from the archives by the governor of Morelos state, Gen. Rodolfo Lopez de Nava. Under Mexican law, divorces are granted by the court but must be approved by the gov ernor of the state in which ac tion is brought before they be come final. BASEBALL NATIONAL Cincinnati . 0 S 0 17 1 Chicago Colum and Somlnick; Mia aer and McCullough. igteisl iff OUSTED Hans Jendretsky (above), chief of the Berlin branch of the East German Com munist Party, has been ousted for supporting an "enemy faction" which wanted to appease anti Communists. The "faction" re putedly proposed a "soft" policy to appease East Germany's angry population. October Start Set For All-Inclusive Charity Campaign The first all-inclusive cam paign for charitable funds to be conducted by the new United Medford Crusade will start about the first of October, it was decided at a meeting of the group's board of directors last night. The campaign will Be pre ceded, during September, by an intensive campaign of education and information, to let the resi dents of Medford know just what the United Crusade is, how it operates and what are its objec tives. One Organisation Spokesmen pointed out the organization was formed this summer to provide a means by which all charitable donations may be made to one organiza tion, rather than to a number of fund-raising groups. It is design ed to provide a way in which an individual may, through the gift of one lump sum or payroll deduction, take care of all his charitable donations for the year. In some ways it is like the old Community Chest, and it also embodies some of the ideas of the Medford Plan. If it works the way it is intended, it will eliminate the need for both. Movement Grows Rapidly The United Fund plan has grown rapidly throughout the nation in recent years, and has had considerable success. Chief beneficiaries of the plan would be merchants who at present are solicited many times during the year for various groups depend ent on gifts, and the agencies themselves who now depend upon their own independent campaigns for funds, in compe tition with other similar groups. Robert Wilcox Wins College Scholarship A four-year scholarship to the school of veterinary medicine at Colorado Agriculture and Me chanical college at Fort Collins, Colo., has been awarded to Rob ert F. Wilcox, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Wilcox, old Military rd., Medford. Wilcox will be one of six reciprocity students from Ore gon to be exchanged with six students from Colorado. The scholarship was awarded to him through Oregon's State Board of Higher Education.' Architect Ben Todd Named To Draw Plans for Annex Medford Architect Ben H. Todd has been retained by the Jackson county court to draw plans for an annex to the coun ty courthouse, it was announced today. May Start in Spring Members of the court revealed that work on the annex may be started by next spring. Some 5400,000 set aside by the court during the past two years from the county's share of funds de rived from the sale of timber on Oregon and California re vested lands will be used for construction of the building and the architect's fee. It is tentatively planned that the proposed annex will provide expanded quarters for the coun ty assessor, county clerk, agri culture department and the en Action Pondered By United States If POVs Withheld Prepared to Get Tough, Dulles Says Wasihneton (U.R) Th United States mav ask tha United Nations to accuse the Communists of violating the Korean truce if thev fail to re turn all prisoners of war, in cluding those convicted of so called crimes. Officials said a UN appeal is one of several steps under con sideration. They said no final decision will be made until mom evidence is obtained about the way the Reds are carrying out the POW exchange. U. S. May Get Tough Secretary of State 'John Foster Dulles, who arrived last night from an eisht dav trin to the Far East, made it plain that the United States is prepared to get touch with the Reda if th withhold any United Nations prisoner for any reason. He said, however, that it is too early yet to know for sure whether any POWs are actually being witnneid. Returning GI ar hrincrint; back reports that the Commun ists are withholding some UN prisoners oecause they have been convicted of instieatins in surrection . Precaution Taken Questioned about these r. ports, Dulles said "precaution ary measures" are being consid ered to make sure all UN pris oners are freed. He noted that there are a "considerable num ber" of North Koreans and Red Chinese in UN custody who have been convicted of serious crimes. "Naturally," he said, "they would not be returned until the prisoners who have been sen tenced by the Communists are returned to us." Panmunjom, Korea (U.R) -More Americans strolled to free dom here today as the first ship load of returnees left Inchon and the first plane carrying the sick and wounded neared home. The Communists ended the first week of "Operation Big Switch" by freeing 100 Ameri cans and boosting the total of U.S. soldiers repatriated during the past seven days to 648. Of the total, 17 stretcher cases were aboard a military transport plane expected to reach the West coast tomorrow and 328 rested on the decks of the transport Gen. Nelson M. Walker as it left Inchon today on a two week voyage home ward. Watch for Communists In addition to the Americans released today, the Reds freed 25 Britons, 25 Turks and 250 South Koreans and promised to free 100 more Americans to morrow. Uniformed counter-spies mingled with former prisoners aboard the Nelson Walker, watching the movement of cer tain Americans accused of ac cepting Communism and plot ting to further the Red cause at home. BULLETIII Athens (U.R) Reports recching here said today 200 persons were killed and at least 250 injured la heavy earthquake shocks which rocked the big islands of Caphalonia and Ithaca off the western coast of Greece early today. Tha islands lie off the mouth of the Gulf of Corinth, about 155 mUes west of Athens in the Ionian. gineer and water master, either through providing new office space in the annex, or allowing expansion of office facilities in the present courthouse building. WiU Get Ideas Members of the county court will meet with department heads "to get their ideas," and Todd will sit in on the meetings to coordinate the ideas in the plans for the annex. Commis sioner Robert Lytle said. Before making his home in southern Oregon, Todd was an associate in a southern Cali fornia architectural firm. Includ ed in structures he has designed are churches, schools and public buildings. He is registered as an architect in Oregon, as well as uriti h National Council at Architectural Registration Boards.
