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ON TOUI MAU-GET SET Thousands of East Germans m the Soviet zone of Berlin, ignoring threats
of Communist leaders, as the second phase of the -Eisenhower food packages" went into effect.
Above a group of East Bertiners make a dash for the food packages daring the first phase of tne
food program.
Administration
Officials Pleased
By Budget Slash
Washington U.R) Adminis
tration officials were elated to
day by an up to date budget re
port showing that the Republi
can economy drive has slashed
$6,100,000,000 from the prospec
tive federal deficit for fiscal
1954.
In a new review of income
and spending, the Budget Bu
reau estimated the government
will go $3,800,000,000 in the red
for the year ending next June
30. That compares with a deficit
of $9,900,000,000 forecast by
former President Truman before
he left office last January.
It also represents a substantial
improvement in the budget out
look since May, when President
Eisenhower estimated the deficit
at $5,600,000,000.
The budget review estimated
government spending for the
year at $72,100,000,000, or $6,-
500,000,000 below former Presi-
- dent Truman's January estimate
and $2,000,000,000 below Mr.
Eisenhower's May estimate.
Secretary of Treasury George
M. Humphrey hailed the revised
estimates as "very good news."
He said the new figures mean
"we have turned the corner" in
the struggle for a balanced bud
get, next year "until we get the
facts."
Part of the "good news" is
that it will not be necessary to
call Congress into special session
this fall to boost the debt limit.
The new figures estimated that
the national debt at the end of
this fiscal year will be $271,100,-
000,000, or $3,900,000,000 below
the present limit and some $2,
000,000,000 less than President
Eisenhower had estimated in his
urgent, but futile last minute ap
peal to Congress to boost the
debt ceiling before it adjourned
early this month
Note Says Marines
Held by Communists
San Mateo, Calif. (U.R) The
FBI today received a note sup
posedly signed by two Marine
Corps servicemen who claimed
they were being held captive by
Communists in a submarine 10
miles off the California coast.
Sheriffs deputies asked the
FBI to investigate the claim, but
at the same time pointed out
that the note was probably a
hoax. Neither name appears on
the Marine Corps' roster of men
stationed on the West Coast
Former Nazi Gang Members
Held in Train
New Orleans (U.R) Authori
ties disclosed today the arrest
of seven youths, two of whom
were members of a teen-age
Nazi type gang rounded up last
year, in the attempted derail
ment of Southern Pacific's
speeding Sunset Limited stream
liner here late yesterday.
Switchman Credited
Louisiana State Police said
the fast passenger train was
flagged to a screeching stop on
the outskirts of New Orleans
seconds before it would have
crashed into a jammed train
switch.
They said a "serious" derail
ment was averted by two fast
working switchmen who
brought toe train to a bait 3001
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Local Cloud Seeders
Operations Described
In National Magazine
The cloud-seeding operation
conducted in the Rogue valley
by Pilots Harvey Brandau and
Gene Kooser is the subject of an
article in the science section of
Time magazine this week.
The maeazine. on the news
stands today, describes the con
troversy which arose after
Brandau and Kooser, both ex
Navv fliers, started their hail-
prevention operations in 1949,
using their secret goop," wnicn
thev revealed last week to be
sodium chloride or table salt.
Switch to "Goop"
"At first Brandau and Kooser
used silver iodide," Time's
Steege Tells of
Good Treatment
Tokyo (U.R) An Oregon Ma
rine, cantured eieht days before
the war ended, told today how
the Reds gave him "the best
possible medical attention," in
cluding candy, nuts, chicken and
all the fruit he wanted.
Pfc. Leonard E. Steege, 20,
Medford, Ore., wounded shortly
before he was captured by a
Communist raiding party July
19, said his captors, none of
whom could speak English,
dressed his wounds and gave
him morphine. He said Chinese
female nurses at a forward hos
pital "ran around and got me
anything I wanted."
"I think they treated me nice
because they knew the war was
about to end," he said. "Other
guys who had been there long
er said this nice treatment had
been going on for a couple of
months."
The young Marine, who is
awaiting air shipment home,
said he knew the war was over
because the Chinese "sang all
night and staged a wild party.
He said they "seemed over
joyed." (See Story on Page 7)
Weather
FORECAST: Cloudy with rain
thii evening. Generally cloudy
with shower Saturday. Low
tonight S3. High Saturday
CS-70.
Temp.
HlfBett Yesterday , 7
Lowett thia Morning SS
Wreck Try
feet from the open switch. Had
it not been flagged down, the
streamliner would have hit the
open switch at 60 miles per
hour.
In Nazi Organisation
Police said two of the seven
youths arrested in the incident
were among the members of the
Nazi teen-age organization
smashed last November by Jef
ferson authorities with the dis
covery of a clubhouse of weap
ons, ammunition, and Nazi party
organization cards with a pic
ture of the former German dic
tator. Railroad authorities had com
plained to officers that many
trains in the area were being
sionea ana inoi at with air
rifles.
article said, "sprayed through
extensions on their planes' ex
haust pipes. Eventually, to cut
down expenses, they replaced
the iodide with goop ,whicb
seemed to work just as well . . .
"For the first few years," it
continues, they seeded typical
hail clouds, and "no hail hit the
valley's prize fruit. The skeptics
called it coincidence. But after
three unspoiled harvests, the
skeptics were almost convinced
t,
Then, the story adds, there
were hailstorms in the summers
of 1952 and 1953. The pilots
have explained that during one
of them the planes were ground
ed for repairs, and during
another the storm was a general
one and that "they had never
claimed to have the equipment
to handle such frontal storms,"
the article states.
Storm Changed
"This summer," Time con
tinues, "an unpredicted hail
storm hit the valley before the
planes could get aloft. But, de
spi: - the late start, the fliers did
their best. Weather reports
showed a change from storm to
light rainfall as the two planes
shepherded the clouds across the
valley."
The pilots said today they ap
preciate the article, despite what
they claim are some minor in
accuracies in it. The information
for the article was prepared by
Joe Stein, an Oregon Journal
reporter who is a Time corres
pondent in Portland.
Brandau and Kooser, despite
the fact that results of a project
such as theirs are difficult to as
sess, maintain that long-range
evaluation will prove their suc
cess in fighting the "typical sum
mer thunderstorms" which they
are equipped to handle.
Such an evaluation, based
both on observation of seeding
results and on statistical data of
hail activity over a period of
years compared to years when
they were operating, is being
made by the Rogue River Val
ley Traffic association, which
employs the pilots and owns the
planes they use, a Navy fighter
and a P-40,' which they call the
"Iron Bird."
The Time article is illustrated
by a picture of the fliers and
one of the planes, taken by Kenn
Knackstedt, Medford photog
rapher.
Hotel Says Dispute
Involves Two Groups
A labor dispute at the Medford
hotel involves only the dining
room and lounge and not the
hotel proper, representatives of
the hotel said today. Pickets
were placed around the hotel
yesterday by the Culinary
Alliance and Bartenders union,
Local 329.
Of the 24 employees in the
two departments, only five of
the present staff have partici
pated in the dispute, the spokes
man said. He added that the
union "does not represent a
majority of the employees and
for that reason the management
is not willing to sign a labor con
tract which would require all
employees to belong to the
union."
"The management of the hotel
has offered to pay the 84 cents
an hour - union scale." hotel
spokesmen stated.
Medford
United Prcaa - full Laaa Wlr
48th Year 20 Pages
Dmdtei Qdaiifis Had fer
Progress Reported
Jn Checking Forest
Fire in California
Many Evacuated
In Path of Blaze
San Bernardino, Calif. (U.R)
Some 600 fire fighters made
progress today in checking a
wind fanned timber and brush
blaze that forced evacuation of
many mountain residents, and
for a time threatened the Lake
Arrowhead resort area.
Forest Service officials here
said a "bad situation" still
existed but the Lake Arrowhead
area no longer was in immediate
danger.
An estimated 4,000 acres,
mostly heavy brush and some
timber, was destroyed in the fire
that started Wednesday in the
foothills. Many campers and
vacationers left the area when
flames threatened to sweep
through populated areas.
But W- W. Skinner, chief
ranger here, said the fire fighting
crews, which include 160 Zuni
Indians, had stopped the blaze's
advance toward Arrowhead.
Two fingers of the fire reached
across the Rim of the World
Highway yesterday, forcing clos
ing of the road linking San
Bernardino with the lake re
sorts. Fire fighters concentrated to
day in keeping the center of the
fire line from crossing the road.
Speakers Alert Residents
Authorities said winds of 15
to 25 miles per hour today were
fanning the flames. They said it
would not be known until late
today whether the fire could be
controlled before it spreads into
rich timber areas.
The San Bernardino sheriffs
office said cars and jeeps
equipped with loud speakers
had warned hundreds of resi
dents to be ready to flee if winds
shift the blaze toward their
areas. The areas alerted included
Alpine, Twin Peaks, Valley of
the Moon, Strawberry Lodge,
San Moritz and Crestline.
The main body of the fire was
located about three miles south
of the southern tip of Lake Ar
rowhead. Silver Bar Sale
Attempted in City
City police reported today that
a man has been attempting to
sell a bar of silver marked "US
Mint, San Francisco, Calif.," to
local jewelers.
The first notice came from
Grabows Jewelers yesterday.
When asked where he obtained
the silver the man evaded the
question, and answered that
there was "plenty more where
it came from," city police records
stated.
Police notified other jewelrv
stores in town and were told
that the man had "been in
Brophy's Jewelers. He was re
ported to be in Chapman's Jewel
ers when the police called there,
but he immediately left. A clerk
followed him for about a half
a block, but lost him.
He was described as about 20
years old, 5 feet, 9 inches tall
with dark hair and wearing an
Air Corps bracelet and silver
signet ring, police said.
A call to the secret service re
vealed that no silver is known to
be missing from the mint. '
Leaking Gas Causes
Explosion in Sewer
An explosion at the intersec
tion of West Uth and Hamilton
its. at 9:39 p.m. yesterday was
caused when gas from a break
in the California-Pacific Utili
ties gas line leaked into the city
sewer line, the gas became ig
nited by a flare on a man hole
cover, city police reported.
California Pacific Utilities of
ficials said today that the leak
in the lines occurred when con
tractors excavating for paving
work on the street broke the
gas line.
Medford firemen were called
to the scene of the explosion.
No damage was reported,
MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1953
CAPITAL PHtt
HORKERS STRIKE
By UNITED PRESS
Labor unrest grew today as a
new telephone strike was called
in the Washington, D- C, area,
and an angry mob screamed its
defiance at night stick swinging
police in a violent communica
tions strike in Indiana.
Meanwhile, negotiators tried
again to reach a wage agreement
between the nation's long dis
tance telephone operators and
the American Telephone & Tele
graph Co. after a handful of op
erators in three Midwest cities
staged temporary walkouts yes
terday. At St. Louis negotiators were
stalled over a "strike protection
clause" in attempts to end a
week long strike by 53,000 em
ployees of the Southwestern Bell
Telephone Company.
New Strike Starts
The new phone strike in the
cast began at 6 a.m. when pickets
appeared in Washington. A total
of more than 14,000 CIO Com
munications Workers of America
members were ordered to walk
out at the Chesapeake and Po
tomic Telephone Co. exchanges
in the capital, suburban Virginia,
Kidnaping, Other
Charges To Face
Man Arrested Here
William Frank Cory, 34, Rose
burg, who was arrested here
Wednesday evening, has been
returned to Roseburg to face
several criminal charges, state
police here said today.
The police office was inform
ed this morning that Cory will
be charged with kidnaping,
illegal possession of a firearm
by an ex-convict, assault with
a dangerous weapon, and lar
ceny of a gun.
The charges were to be filed
this afternoon, according to
United Press.
Gun ia Car
Cory was arrested in Medford
after Mrs. Andia Jones, wife of
Roseburg Attorney William
Jones, had told a Shady Cove
waitress she had been kid
napped. City police said there
was a gun in the car when he
was arrested, and that there was
a bullet hole in the car's uphol
stery. Mrs. Jones returned to
Roseburg Wednesday evening.
Cory, an ex-convict, reported
ly has been sentenced to prison
at least three different times,
and has spent some 17 years
behind bars. He was accused by
Mrs. Jones of forcing her to
leave her husband's office in
Roseburg Wednesday, and to
come south with him. In a state
ment given to officers Wednes
day evening, she also said he
fired a shot near her face dur
ing an argument.
Jones recently successfully de
fended Cory from conviction in
a burglary charge, according to
information from Roseburg.
Cory was taken to Roseburg
yesterday afternoon by two state
policemen after being question
ed at the Medford. city jail by
state and city police officers. He
has denied portions of Mrs.
Jones' story, according to police
reports.
Jet Plane Drops Wing
Tank Before Landing
Firemen were called to stand
by at the airport yesterday when
an Air Force jet plane landed
after dropping a wing tank in
the Camp White area.
Two Air Force crash wagons
were dispatched to the area
where the tank was dropped and
the Medford city tank stood by
in their absence. The tank re
portedly was dropped because it
would not feed fuel to the mo
tor. Firemen were also sent to the
home of Dr. Milo Kubalek, 1308
Winchester street, yesterday
when clothes in a dryer caught
fire. The lint trap of the dryer
had been left off, firemen said,
and clothes got against the heat
ing element, , -
most of Maryland and parts of
West Virginia.
A company spokesman said
the federal government's huge
and vital telephone network
would not be affected.
Violence and Arrests
The strike call was issued
after futile all-day bargaining
sessions yesterday in which the
CWA rejected a company wage
offer ranging from $1-50 to
$2.50 a week for operators and
maintenance men in the Wash
ington area.
At least 15 persons were ar
rested and three injured last
night in Indianpolis, Ind., when
a shouting, surging mob dem
onstrated in the CWA strike
against Indiana Bell Telephone.
"Bring on your bayonets," the
crowd shouted, in an apparent
reference to rumors that the
Indiana National Guard has re
ceived recent riot training with
rifles and bayonets.
Oregon Growers
Face Crop Losses
If Rain Continues
By UNITED PRESS
Oregon grain growers faced
heavy losses today as the weath
er bureau predicted more rain
and showers through Saturday.
Harvesting was at a near
standstill in Polk county where
hundreds of acres of vetch, wheat
and barley are ready for harvest.
M. M. Giles, manager of the
Dallas cooperative warehouse,
said about 60 per cent of the
grain harvest had been complet
ed in that area but that only
about 10 per cent of the barley
crop had been taken in. Discol
oration and overripeness could
cause heavy losses if the rains
continue, he said.
Vetch Crop Periled
At Stayton, in the Santiam
river area, farmers reported
they would be able to salvage
only a small part of their vetch
crop. Barley is also threatened
there. More damage was report
ed in late hay cuts, unharvested
oats, early prunes and some
beans and hops.
Woman in Hospital
After Pill Overdose
Mrs. Margaret Harris, 55, of
pDute 1, box 386, Talent, was in
"critical" condition at Sacred
Heart hospital today, according
to hospital attendants.
She was admitted to the hos
pital at about 2:40 p.m. yester
day after taking what sheriff's
deputies reported as "an over
dose of Vi grain nembutal cap
sules." Mrs. Harris has not re
gained consciousness since being
taken to he hospital, attendants
stated.
Mrs. Harris apparently took
the capsules at her home, where
friends called the sheriff's office.
Mrs. Harris drove to the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Cooper,
route 3, box 244, Medford, where
Mrs. Cooper was fixing coffee
for her when she collapsed.
Mrs. Cooper called Mrs. Har
ris' doctor, who in turn called
Perl ambulance which took Mrs.
Harris to the hospital.
Communist Spies
Said in South Korea
Tokyo (U.R) The Com
munists have sent "more than
20 teams" of North Korean spies
across the demilitarized buffer
zone in Korea to get information
on United Nations positions, it
was learned today.
The spies posed as civilians
fleeing from Communist rule in
North Korea, reUable United
Nations sources said. Most of
them took orders from women
leaders.
United Nations troops saw
through their scheme and cap
tured them-
"Many of them confessed," the
fourcea laid,
Tribune
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No. 137
Nomination To
Korea Conference
Withdrawn in UN
We$tern Slate
OKd by Assembly
United Nations, N. Y. (U.R)
India withdrew from the run
ning for a seat in the Korean
Political Conference today and
the United Nations General As
sembly then approved, 43 to 5,
the Western slate backed by the
United States.
The crucial Western resolu
tion which recommends that all
17 countries that fought for the
U. N. in Korea be invited to
the parley, wes approved by the
assembly with the Soviet bloc
opposing it and 10 countries
abstaining.
Russia Invited
Indian delegate V. K. Krishna
Menon, in a dramatic move be
fore the vote, asked the assem
bly not to take a ballot on the
British Commonwealth proposal
to invite India to the conference.
The assembly also approved
an invitation to Russia to attend
the Korean conference, "pro
vided the other side desires it."
The vote 4or the Soviet resolu
tion was 55 to 1, with National
ist China against and Argentina
abstaining.
The American led Western
powers actually picked up one
vote over the ballot taken yes
terday in the Political Commit
tee as the assembly approved
the plan for conference member
ship. The committee had return
ed a 42 to 3 vote in favor of the
West.
Measure Ratified
In addition to approving the
membership resolution, the as
sembly ratified a measure pro
posed by India, Indonesia and
Liberia instructing Secretary
General Dag Hammarskjold to
communicate the proposals and
proceedings of the assembly to
Communist China and North Ko
rea. The vote was 54 to 3 with
1 abstention.
Police Investigator
Opens Oifice Here
Howard I. Bobbitt, the former
FBI agent who is conducting an
investigation of the Medfora po
lice department for the - city
council, has set up an ofiice in
the Jackson hotel building.
He will be available there for
visits or telephone calls from
those who have information to
present to him which might aid
in his investigation.
Bobbitt said this morning that
those who wish to confer with
him regarding the police situa
tion can do so with assurance
that their confidence will be
respected.
The office telephone number
is 2-4087, and it is listed under
"police investigator" with the
telephone information service.
The office is the "director's
room" of the hotel, and has a
street entrance next door to the
Fidler agency, on Eighth st.
Chicago U.R) The CouacU
on Dental Education has listed
the University of Oregon Den
tal School in its first list of ac
credited schools for dental hy-gienists.
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Yokum
announce the birth of a baby
on Thursday, August 27,1953
at Dogpatch
Iil Abner and Daisy' Mae, to you
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Yokum of Dogpatch announce the birth el
their first child, a son or daughter, as the case may be at home
ea Thursday, August 27. The sex of the child has not yet beea
determined because nobody seems particularly interested In learn
ing whether it is a boy or girl. Mrs. Yokum is the popular Daisy
Mae. a' Dogpatch belle. Mr. Yokum (and this is the first time he
has ever been called Mister) is more familiarly known as Lil Ab
ner. Details will be found ea the oemics page.
Fugitives Grabbed
In Sierra Hideout
By Disguised FBI
- Four Others Arrested
On Harboring Charges
San Francisco (U.R) Two
fugitive Communist party leaders
were clapped behind bars today
after unshaved FBI agents dis
guised as campers surrounded
and trapped them in a remote
mountain hideout in the High
Sierra.
Four other persons were ar
rested for harboring fugitives,
and the federal agents, reluctant
to discuss how the trap was laid,
said "We've got five other Reds
to track down."
The top Communist party
leaders, wanted on charges of
plotting to overthrow the gov
ernment, were disguised with
dyed hair, mustaches and crew
cuts when the FBI surrounded
the well appointed, comfortable
cabin near Sonora, Calif., yes
terday. Held At Alcatras
Robert G. Thompson, 38, one
of the top II American Reds con-
cealed underground by the
Portland (U.R) Robert
George Thompson, one of the
Communist fugitives captured
by FBI agents yesterday in
California mountain hideout
is a native of Grants Pass, Ore. '
and lived in the state until
1933.
The Moscow - trained Red
was born June 21. 1915, at
Grants Pass. He went to Mos
cow in 1935 to attend the
Young Communist Interna
tional Congress and stayed in
Moscow for a year, working
in a ball bearing plant and at
tending night school to learn
the Marxist-Leninist line.
party since his conviction on
Smith act charges four years
ago, was held in Alcatras
Prison.
Sidney Steinberg, also 38, a
second string Red leader who
had been evading arrest since
June, 1951, when 21 Commun
ist organizers were indicted for
conspiracy, was in San Fran
cisco County Jail.
Three other persons, charged
with harboring the two fugitives
in a cabin two miles north of
the California summer resort of
Twain Harte, were in jail with
Steinberg.
Woman Arrested '
All five were arraigned before
U- S. Commissioner Joseph Kar
esh here last night less than nine
hours after they were caught in
the FBI trap.
Almost simultaneous with the
arraignment of the five here,
other FBI agents were arresting
a sixth person implicated in the
huge Communist coverup.
A woman identified as Patricia
Blau. 42, alias Janet Conroy.
was stopped as she drove her
car from Modesto to Stockton.
Calif. The FBI said her car "had
been used" recently by the two
fugitive Red leaders.
Names of Others
The FBI said she "definitely"
was involved with the Reds
trapped in the mountains.
Also arrested were Carl Edwin
Rasi, 40, a Minnesota Communist
leader, Samuel I. Coleman, 42,
New York Red functionary; and
Mrs. Shirley Keith Kremen, 21,
described as a onetime member
of the "Young Progressives."
Shady Cove Serviceman
Due From Far East Area
A 2c Charles T. Parks'," Shady
Cove, is included among service
men due to arrive in Seattle to
morrow aboard the transport
W. O. Darby from the Far East,
according to the United Press.
Available directories do not list
the serviceman.