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J T ndiiunai Drcaa iax Studied; Farmers Pass Wheat Control Washington U.PJ Depart ment of Agriculture officials are weighing the merits of a penny- a-loaf bread tax to help finance Thirteen out of $1 eligible wheat farmers took part in the wheat quota election la Jackson county Friday, ac cording to the Jackson coun ty Production Marketing As sociation. Of those voting. 10 were in favor of the quota and 3 were against it. a proposed two-price support plan for wheat, the nation's basic food grain, it was disclosed Sat urday. Would Start in 1955 The plan, of approved by Con gress and the President, would go into effect in 1955 when the present farm law expires. The tax would be levied on wheat processors who presumably would pass-itnrto" the TWftsum- ers. Under the proposal, farmers would be guaranteed high prices for only as much of their wheat as goes into domestic food. Sun ports for wheat for exports, an imal feed and kindred purposes would be lower. Details of the plan became known on the heels of a nation wide referendum in which wheat farmers approved by a rec ord vote ot more than 87 per cent government production controls on their 1954 crop. Would Have Cut Price Had they voted down con trols, price supports would have dropped to as low as 50 per cent of parity. The farmers also would have had to return to the so-called "free enterprise" sys tem of growing and selling wheat competitively. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson called the vote "a wise decision." It means that supports under the current law will continue next year at 90 per cent of the "fair return" par ity price for the entire crop. This averages about $2.21 a bushel. Dropping of controls would have lowered the support price to about $1.10 a bushel. Dick Randall 28th In Driving Contest Washington (U.R) Dick Ran dall, 18-year-old Medford, Ore., high school graduate, Saturday ranked 28th among the 48 en trants in the National Road-e-o contest here. Randall scored a total of 720 points out of a passible 1,000 in the competition which includ ed driving a specially-designed obstacle course, an actual road test In downtown Washington traffic, and a written examina tion. Randan recently won the Ore gon Road-e-o title at Bend. Results of the contest were announced Friday night at an awards banquet Washington (U.R) The Na tion's new teen-age driving champion, 17 -year -old Jimmy Miholick of Honolulu, said Sat urday his best tip to other mo torists is: "Develop a safe driv ing attitude." Miholick outpointed 46 "state . side" youngsters and one from Canada to win first place honors in the three-day finals of the 1953 teen-age driving Road-e-o which ended yesterday. Berlin OLE) The first phase of the American-backed food program for East Germans ended Saturday after 2,600,000 Eastern residents had picked up jusennower xooa packages. , Would Mot Plan Before Scute "If other nations try to vote Communist China in," he said, "I shall proceed to move a reso lution which I have already in troduced In the U. S. Senate." Knowland said the resolution "says in effect if the other na tions vote Communist China into the United Nations, the United States will get out." Statement Cheered The California Republican's stern declaration was greeted by a standing ovation from more than 200 members of the execu tive committee of the GOP state central committee. It was a departure from a pre pared text of the address deliv ered by Knowland before the committee's meeting here. "I say this to you on my re sponsibility as a senator of the United States," Knowland told the state Republicans. "This is a serious business." He was reviewing the U. S. contribution to the Korean war, and the heavy casualties suffered by Americans and South Korean infantrymen as compared with other U. N. members aligned with America in the conflict. No Such Thing L" We, would -be kidding urj people to lead them to believe we have an effective system of collective ' security," he said, "When we have no such thing." Knowland . emphasized "We cannot, carry such a burden in the future, and the sooner our friends in Europe realize this the sooner we will have an orderly and peaceful world." He said the Eisenhower ad ministration brought the stale mated war in Korea to a close," but warned the communists if they renew the conflict "neither this nation nor its allies" will remain south of the 38th par allel." Anti-French Groups Rioting in Morocco Rabat, Morocco (U.R) S om e 1,500 fanatic anti-French rioters thirsting for the blood of rebel leader Thami el Glaoui battled French police in the streets of Marrakech Saturday night, it was announced here. First reports said two French gendarmes and two rioters were killed and 15 injured in the bit ter street battle. Thirty-five were arrested in Marrakech and 10 in a similar but less violent outbreak in Fez. The clash in Marrakech oc curred when supporters of Sul tan Mohammed tried to crash through police lines protecting the official residence of El Glaoui in the southern resort city. Diehard nationalists from all over Morocco began moving to ward Marrakech Saturday after it was announced that Berber chieftains led by th pro-French El Glaoui had vowed to strip Mohammed of his religious pow crs and make his cousin Moulay Ben Arafa spiritual leader of Morocco. 75 ore American POtJs Freed; 'Bed Tape' Panmunjom, Sunday U.R) Seventy-five more Americans came back from Communist pris on camps today to raise the total of GI's freed in Korean prisoner exchange over the 1,000 mark. Appear Well The Americans, part of a con tingent of 412 UN prisoners re leased by the Reds today, ap peared well. They shouted and waved and leaped briskly from their trucks as they arrived at Freedom gate. . . The Communists announced they would return 402 Allied Medford Soldier . Died in Prison, Conpunists State Cpl. Phillip Todd Missing Three Years The Defense Department Saturday announced that Cpl. Phillip J. Todd, Medford, is re ported by the Communists to have died while in a Korean Washington (U.R) The Defense Department Saturday night released a heart-break list of 243 more American soldiers whom the Communists said either died in or escaped from Korean prison camps. The new Installments of the lists went out from the Penta gon with the customary notice for whatever solace families of the men can find in it that the reports were based entirely on the word of the Reds. Identified were 210 Ameri can soldiers whom the Com munists said died while in prison. It was the fourth such list, and raised to 568 the num ber of names in that group re leased thus far. prison camp. The announcement was carried by United Press. Corporal Todd is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Todd, 603 North Fir st. He was born and lived his entire life in Medford until enlisting in October, 1949 in the Army. Lived at Howard The family lived in the How ard district until after he com pleted the eighth grade and later moved into Medford proper where he attended Medford jun ior high school. The evening before he was to start in Medford senior high school he was injured in a bicycle accident and after recovery did not continue his schooling.' For about a year before en listing he worked at the Big-Y doing warehouse work and carry ing groceries for customers. The corporal received training at FU Ord Calif., and left April, 1950, from this country, for the Far East frdm Camp Stoneman, Calif. He served in combat with the infantry from July, 1950 until Nov. 28, 1950, when he was reported missing in action. No further word was received from him after that date. The only other information the family has had regarding him is a Defense department not ification that Communists re ported his name on a list of prisoners who died in their camps. He has two brothers and three sisters, all living away from this vicinity with the exception of a sister, Ardith Todd, a stu dent at Medford junior high school. - Cpl. Williams Now Heading for Home A personal telegram from Cpl. Henry Frank Williams, 24, just released from a North Korean prisoner of war camp, was re ceived Friday by his parents, Mr. and Mrs- J. J. Williams of 48 Mace rd. in Medford. The brief massage simply rtated "free again," and told his family he would be home soon. His parents reported that the message from their son. personally, completed official notices of his release. After receiving the telegram they sought to find out what boat he would return to the United States on in order to meet him when he first landed. It was learned yesterday 'by radio station KYJC that Wil liams left Inchon in Korea on Friday night aboard the Gen. W. F. Hase. The ship will dock at San Francisco in about two weeks, the station learned, when it was seeking information re garding a radio interview. Delays Troopship war prisoners tomorrow, includ ing 75 Americans. Another 437 American sol diers, released earlier in the 12-day-old operation "Big Switch" sailed from Inchon this morning aboard a troopship bound for San Francisco after a 14-hour de lay caused by Army red tape. Forms Left Ashore It was discovered at the last minute someone had left the soldiers' administrative forms ashore and the ensuing delay forced the transport to watt for the next tide, - EHJ yp-aia'ii n aawayiaaajajaaajaajaaaajaj 'ft' Km iijOC-S v-' DISASTER BEYOND IMAGINATION Two small boats carry sarvhrors from a quayside at ArgostoH, Greece, as new tremors rocked islands off the Greek coast. Death toB was unofficially estimated at 1090. In background of radtophoto abort, ckwdt of dwt partly envelop wrecked city. Foresters Battle Blaze on Slopes Of Ml. McLoughlin A 20-acre fire in brush and scrub ipift-fir on the south west slope of Mt. McLoughlin at timberline is proving to be a "son-of-a-gun" to combat, ac cording to Jack Wood, super visor of the Rogue River Nation al forest No Dirt Available The blaze, one of some 20 caused by lightning strikes in the past few days, is difficult to fight for several reasons: There is no dirt to scrape away to make a fireline; the area is mostly in jagged lava flows. There is no water; the near est is 2,000 feet lower in ele vation than the fire. The nearest road is four miles away, and a trail runs only half this distance. A variable wind, mostly from the east, was blowing Saturday at 25 to 30 miles per hour. Wood said there is little dan ger of any valuable timber being threatened unless it spreads around the side of the mountain and down the slope. The firefighters are attempting to cut it off on the lower side. Supplies Dropped Bedrolls and supplies were dropped to the 40 men on the fire yesterday afternoon by a Mercy Flights plane, which was called into service because For est Service planes are busy in other areas, mostly in Califor nia. - . . The fire will probably get bigger before it can be control led, Wood said. All other fires in the forest, mostly in the Un ion Creek district, were small and were under control yester day, he added. The state forestry department reported that 10 fires were started by the lightning storms. All are -small, the largest being about an acre, and all were con trolled Saturday. They were scattered along the east side of the forest district between Pros pect and the Dead Indian area TnHav'a exrhanffii hrnnoVit in 1,032 the number of Americans released thus far out of 3,313 promised by the Communists. The overall number of Allied returnees mounted to 4,788., Ahead of Schedule) The Americans went through in three groups of 25 eath. Pro cessing was so fast that each of the last two batches . crossed through Freedom gate 20 min utes ahead of schedule. ' The last 25 Americans were completely processed .at 11:15 aja, (7:15 p.m. Saturday PST). fires :mm m QUAKE GBTflES F mwfc - Athens, dreece-(UP) Fires fed by stockpiles of olive oil raged through devastated cities of Greece's western islands Saturday as American and British Navy teams rounded up the dead and helped survivors of the worst earthquake in modern Greek history. - Bulldozers landed from warships crunched through the rubble, clearing debris and opening fire lanes. One huge cache of olive oil was moved out of danger of new fires which were eating their way back over stretches of ruins already blackened by earlier flames in the city of Zante. Speeding British Passenger Trains Crash; Ten Killed Manchester, England (U.R) Two speeding railroad trains col lided with such force on a high viaduct Saturday that one crowded coach , was hurtled through a brick waU to carry at least 10 persons to death in a river bed 90 feet below. All of the known dead were in the wreckage of the fallen coach. Authorities said it would not be known if there were oth er dead until the smashed car was pulled from the waters of the river Irk. More than 50 injured, many of them in serious condition,, were taken to three Manchester hospitals. Police, firemen, railway work ers and volunteers pried open the twisted steel with crowbars and torches in a search for fur ther' victims. The accident , occurred in murky weather at 7:40 a.m. when an electric train, inbound from Bury with workers and weekend vacationists, crashed into an outbound train. The impact carried the first coach of . the electric train through a two-foot brick retain ing wall and hurtled it into space. The locomotive of the steam train and three other coaches of the electric train were de railed atop the viaduct. The dead included a seven-year-old boy, an elderly woman whose hand still clutched a tick et to a seaside resort, and the electric . train's engineer who was identified as former Mayor Albert Hardman of Bury. Rome U.R) Guiseppe Pel la, third man recently to try to qualify as premier of Italy, Sat urday night announced selection of a -cabinet excluding ex-Pre mier Elcide de Gasperi but con taining enoue:h other well- known political names to fore-. shadow chance ox success. "Estimated 1,000 Dead In Greek Islands 'The rescue work went on" in devastated towns on the islands of Cephalona, Ithaca and Zante, where the weeklong quakes have. left an estimated 1,000 dead, 4,000 injured, and 100,000 homeless and destitute. United Press Staff Corre spondent Robert Musel flew from London to Zante aboard a naval plane. He reported that the ancient capital of that island is a "dead city." Adm. J. H. cassady, com mander of the U. S. Sixth fleet, reported from the cruiser Salem lying off the port of Argastolion that the situation there was "still serious." ' But he said British and Amer ican shore parties were making headway against blocked roads, fires and the threat of whole sale contamination from the hun dreds of unburied dead bodies. Parachute Food. Water American and Greek planes continuously parachuted food and water to survivors while the corpses and the injured were being recovered. The International Red Cross at Geneva reported that 10 na tions were sending relief , sup plies to the quake-hit islands. U. S. Navy demolition teams carefully planted dynamite char ges among the piles ml jagged masonry and splinteted timber and blew them up to help others searching for bodies or trying to reach dated , an injured sur vivors. (See Story on Paea 15) Local Pear Picking Set to Start Monday ' The earliest pear crops will be ready to begin picking on Mon day, according to the Jackson County, agent's office. Main picking of bartlett pears will begin Aug. 24, and the pick ing of the d'anjou pears will be- gin about the first of September, was reporteu- Communists Call Additional Strikes Throughout France Paris U.R) The Communists called new strikes Saturday in an effort to block a back-to-work movement by other unions and eventually force Premier Joseph Laniel to resign Union Out Monday , The Communists ordered its powerful Metallurgical Union to go on sit-down strikes Monday vhen the metallurgical industry, largest in France, returns to work after the annual August holiday. The sit-down strike was called in the Bouches-Du-Rhone depart ments which includes Marseille, the second city of France, strong hold ot military Reds and often the scene of violent fighting be tween workers and security forces. The Communists, through their General Confederation of Labor (GCT) control most of the work ers in the industry. The strike caU for Monday was seen as an important test of their ability to win control of the labor situa tion. Seek Compromise Other non-Communist union chiefs meanwhile made heir first move to seek a compromise with the government since they began a wave of strikes 11 days ago that paralyzed most of the nation. Socialist and other non-Communist unions who actually be gan the strike movement con ferred privately and unofficially with government representatives to head off the Communist threat Seven Dead Heads Into Nantucket, Mass.' (OR) The season's first major hurri cane, which battered the At lantic coast from Florida to Cape Cod, turned out to sea Saturday, leaving in its wake seven per sons dead and some $1,300,000 in damage. . . The storm, which forced some 50,000 persons to flee the 500 mile coastal belt from North Carolina to Long Island, was headed seaward south of the Nova Scotia coast, the Weather bureau . said. Canadian fishing boats fled to shelter as weather men warned that winds up to 50 miles an hour would hit the coastline. Yachts Washed Ashore . The hurricane's backlash whipped southern New England throughout the night On the island of Nantucket, yachts were washed ashore. The Coast Guard said several others were taken in tow when their anchors failed Tentative Approval Given Soviet Bid To Far East Meet United States Opposed To Inclusion off India United Nations, N- Y.-J0J.B The United States has agreed tentatively to a United Nations proposal to include Russia in the Far East political conference, in formed sources said Saturday. The U. S-, it was learned, will oppose a similar bid to India. Met Three Hours The disclosure came after the 16 nations whose troops fought for the U. N. in Korea met for three hours at the American del egation headquarters Saturday to iron out British and American differences over invitations to those two countries to attend the forthcoming conference. The political meeting on the Far East was set up by the Korean armis tice agreement. American Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., flanked by British Minister of State Selwyn Lloyd and French Deputy For eign Minister Maurice Schumann, told newsmen after Saturdays meeting: t "We are rapidly approaching an area of very complete agree ment on a great number of im portant subjects." The conferees will meet again Sunday afternoon. Lodge confirmed that the IB- nation group was working on more .than one resolution deal ing with the composition with the Far Eastern "Korean Peace" parley that is to be held by Oct, 27. According to informants one would be sponsored by all or most of the 16 Allies and name the six to 10 nations among them who should represent the U. N. countries that waged the Kor ean campaign against Red ag gression. The other two would be indi vidual resolutions naming Rus sia and India to attend. Reliable sources said the commonwealth-European supporters of a U. N. bid to Russia had forged a resolution they believed the U. S. would vote for thus apparently disposing of the chief issue standing between the U. S. and its major allies. But they added that the U. S. still opposed India and that the New Delhi government might withdraw if it saw it could not win support from the U. S. and Russia. The U.S. was believed to command the votes needed to kiU any bid to India. Fire Spoiler Brought Out for Operation Merlyn Cuss, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Guss, 721 Penn sylvania ave., underwent an emergency appendectomy late Friday, after being brought to Sacred Heart hospital from the top of the Bessie Rock forest lookout, where he was a fire spotter for the U. S. forest ser vice. Young Guss reported his ill ness by radio Friday, and forest service men immediately started out to get him down. The look out is about 10 miles due east of Prospect, and Guss had to be carried down 3Vi miles of trail where a Conger-Morris ambu lance was waiting for him. as Storm Atlantic to Jiold. But by noon the storm was 300 miles east of Boston. Along the southern coast of Long Island more than 1,000 per sons who heeded coast guard warnings to seek higher ground began moving back to their homes and to inventory the dam age as the morning brought clear skies. Among those who fled large estates built on seaside dunes were Henry Ford II, and his family. Families Return to Homes Westhampton Beach's Mayor Paul Waldo estimated that 150 families complied with police warnings to leave their Long Island homes along the narrow peninsula between the ocean and Moriches Bay. The evacuees began returning today. New York shipping, battened down for the big blow, returned to near-normal. The United States lines America, whose sail ing was delayed six hours, was at i
