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(UUmatiomU) Air Force Generals Disagree on State Of Atomic Defenses ' Colorado Springs, Colo. OI.PJ Gen. Benjamin W. Chidlaw, Air Defense commander, warn ed Saturday the nation's air de fenses are a "far cry" from what is needed to stop a Russian H bomb attack. The Air Force general said U.S. air defenses have improved "appreciably" in the past year, but he cautioned that the im provement should be measured against a previous low state of preparedness. Long Way To Go "There is still a tremendous long way to go until we near a point of perfection," he told re porters at the headquarters of his sprawling Air Defense com mand. "In this period of the H-bomb, anything short of near ly perfect, is not enough, and we are a far cry from that point.' Chidlaw declined to give an estimate of how many enemy bombers might be able to reach their targets in case of a mass air attack. He said there were many "intangible factors involv ed." He said the number of planes that could get through U.S. air defenses could range from "little to sizeable," depen ding upon such factors as the size of the attack, the weather and the timing. Prepared for War St. Louis, Mo. U.R) The United States is prepared for at omic war if it is forced upon the nation, the advance guard of American Legionnaires gath ered here for the Legion's an nual convention was told Sat urday. Lt. Gen. Erie E. Partridge, Air Force Deputy Chief of staff, said "any thinking" the Armed Forces does now must be based on the fact that Russia has the hdyrogen and atom bombs. "We are prepared for atomic warfare if it is forced upon us," he told a meeting of the Legion's National Security commission. "Our prime objective, however, is to prevent war." Door-to-Door Tax . Check Scheduled Washington (U.R) Of ficials of the Internal Revenue Service said Saturday their re cent door-to-door check of tax evaders in New England prob ably will be extended on a na tionwide basis in the next few months. The New England check brought in $33 for every dollar spent. It disclosed that hundreds of persons had failed to file in come tax returns. Officials be lieve this is symptomatic of the nation generally and that ex panding the door-to-door drive will bring in millions of dollars. Two checks were made in six New England states. A band of tax agents speni two days this week ringing doorbells of tax delinquents not covered in a two-day canvass in July. Rhee Threatens -War Resumption Pusan, Korea U.R) Presi dent Syngman Rhee threatened Saturday to resume open. war fare if the political conference fails to reunite his country. Rhee renewed the threat he has made before In a speech de livered at the dockside as a re lif ship arrived with the first shipment of U.S. rehabilitation goods for wartorn Korea. "I don't know what the poll tical conference will bring about,' he told 1,000 persons as sembled for the ceremony. v it ADMINISTRATION SET TO EXTEND BANS ON NEW POWER PLANTS By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent c Washington The Eisenhower administration has decided at the highest level to extend wall into 19SS the current ban on fed eral construction of new hydro electric projects in the Pacific Northwest. . This decision, made known in a confidential letter from Budget Director Joseph M. Dodge to the heads of ail government agen cies, would extend the so-called "no new starts" policy on public works projects which was launched as a budget balancing effort in the closing years of the Truman administration. . a a a No new major riverprojecthas been initiated in the Columbia basin since The Dalles dam was begun in 1951. There are no funds in the current federal budget, which runs until next July, for any new projects. The Dodge letter deals with the government fiscal year which begins next July and runs to mid-1955. It calls on all agen cies to cut their budgets for that forthcoming year by approxi mately the same amount they trimmed them during this year. Dodge's directive is pertinent now because all agencies must submit to him their budget re quests for fiscal 1955 by Sept. 15 two weeks from now. In specific language for the benefit of the Bureau of Recla mation and the Army Engineers, Dodge informed these two gov ernment dam construction agen cies that money to start new pro jects or new features of going projects is not to be proposed. And he warns that funds for con tinued work on projects now underway should be continued at the minimum economic rate. a This fall's activity at the Bud get Bureau is to prepare the way for President Eisenhower's an nual budget message to Congress next January. It will be the new Republican administration's first crack at preparing a detailed federal spendiifg program inas much as the budget approved by Congress during this past session was originally drawn up by the Truman administration, later re vised downward by Eisenhower. The keynote is the Dodge let ter is found in these sentences: "The levels of government employment, operations and constructions will continue to decline in 1955 as they will in 1954." 1 "The 1955 budget will reflect the continued withdrawal of the federal government from activi ties that can be more appropri Salvage of Flying Enterprise Expected To Recover $210,000 New York U.R) An in ternational mystery developed Saturday over stacks of sodden money " secretly salvaged from the sunken freighter "Flying En terprise." The Flying Enterprise sank in January, 1952, shortly after being abandoned by Capt. Hen rik Kurt Carlsen, who stuck to the ship for 15 days as a storm tore it apart. Totals $210,000 The money, in British and American currency, has been reported to amount lo $210,000. Officials of the Isbrandtsen lines said they knew of only $350 to $400 in cash being aboard their vessel. Aqjr other money would have x j -y i s,. I ately carried out in some other way." a a a Entwined with the administra tion's vow to bring federal spending into balance with tax receipts are two factors influen cing the "no new starts" policy continuation. First, Dodge, a former Detroit banker, is known to be neither well informed about nor sympa theic to multi-purpose river de velopment programs. This was the discovery of several dele gations of Northwesterners who called upon the Budget Director last spring. Whatever appeals might be made by other administration officials, such as Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay, Dodge next to the President has the final -word on what goes into and what is cut out of the bul ging budget. McKay, for exam ple wrote Dodge last spring in support of funds for stating Ice Harbor dam near Walla Walla, but to no avail. Congress, of course, can overrule the admini stration and vote such funds if it has the will. a a Second, the administration looks at natural resource spend ing as a whole in deciding what can be done and what must be deferred; and unfortunately for river development financing, atomic energy research and con struction is included in the cate gory of resources. Of the $3.5 billions appropri ated by Congress this year for resources, two-thirds is going in to production of fissionable ma terials and atomic (and presum ably hydrogen) weapons and procurement of uranium ore. The more that is budgeted for atomic energy, the less there-is left for land and water resour ces, according tp the Dodge sys tem. Whatever effect the first fac tor may have over the long haul is unknown, but so long as an international atomic arms race is in progress the second factor looms sufficiently large as- to foster a continued "no new starts'' policy on river projects. Chicago (U.R) Dissension in Democratic Party ranks blos somed into a full blown wrangle Saturday after the general chair man of a dinner honoring Adlai Stevenson resigned, apparently because he was miffed at the selection of the toastmaster. Paris (U.R) U. S.. Mutual Security Administrator Harold E. Stassen left Saturday by air for New York after conferring with chiefs of U. S. aid missions to 16 European countries. been in sacks of mail or express cargo. This is not the usual way of transporting currency legiti mately, they said. - "The whole thing is fantastic," said Capt Clayton McLaughlin, operations manager for the company. "There is much more to the story." From 262-Foot Depth The money was hauled up from a depth of 262 feet off the English coast by an Italian sal vage crew employed by a Brit ish insurance firm and was taken to a bank in Brussels, Belgium. The salvage ship steamed to the scene of the sinking again Saturday and resumed opera tions with its 27-man crew and diviai bell. All aboard vert' Italy Sends Troops To Trieste Border As f Grab' Feared Premier Tells Stand To Big Three Envoys Rome (U.F9 Italian troops, tanks and warships have been alerted as a result of reports that Yugoslavia may seek tp an nex part of the disputed ."free territory" of Trieste, it was re ported Saturday night. ' Italian infantry and armor paraded Saturday in Gorizia, a few hundred yards from the Yugoslav border, in what was called a "routine exercise." A similar "routine" naval alert was ordered in Venice. Italian officers said privately that the alerts actually were a direct result of the Yugoslav annexation reports. Will Not Stand By Earlier, Italy advised the United States, . Britain' and France that she will not "stand idly by if the Yugoslavs try to grab any part of the Trieste territory. Premier Giuseppi Pella con ferred with Gen. Efisio Marras, chief of the Italian general staff, for two hours. Then Pella, who is also foreign minister in his new government, called in the acting ambassadors of Brit tain, the United States and France to express his alarm. The crisis developed over re ports from Belgrade that Mar shal Tito was toying with the idea of annexing the Yugoslav held zone. Italian sources said Pella told the western diplomats that Italy would move troops to its eastern frontiers, on the borders of Trieste, if the Yugoslavs tried to seize permanent control. Yugoslav troops already are gathered near Trieste for large scale maneuvers. French Troops Raid Viefminh Positions ' Saigon, Indochina (U.R) French union troops staged com mando raids on two Communist Vietminh supply and troop cen ters Saturday, killing 67 rebels and taking 161 prisoners. The twin moves were part of the French strategy of keeping the Reds off-balance so they can not launch their threatened big autumn offensive when seasonal rains end next month. One raid was designated "Op eration Claude." This was aimed at cleaning out a Communist battalion which infiltrated the Red river delta and holed up on Tienlang, a river -island about 40 miles south of Hanoi. The as sault force was comprised most ly of loyal Vietnamese in the new light units now getting their first battle experience. The other raid was called "Op eration Savoy." Carried out by naval units and several infantry battalions, this action wiped out an ammunition dump, dispersed Vietminh troops threatening im portant rail connections, killed 50 enemy soldiers and captured 51. Juvenile Delinquents Increasing Problem By UNITED PRESS Teen-aged gangs roved big city streets in a mounting wave of lawlessness, brawls and stab bings Saturday as the long sum mer vacation period neared its end. Police in some cities were forced to take special measures to cope with youthful gangs. Depredations by unruly ado lescents were reported in Chica go, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Washington, D.C., and else where. sworn to secrecy about the con tents of the 6,711-ton Flying En terprise. V Emnlovees of t h e Bank, of Brussels labored in the bankYi kitchen to separate the bills with electric hot plates and hang them on lines to dry like a fam ily wash. The money had lain in the ship on the ocean's floor for more than 18 months, but bank officials said it was in sur prisingly good condition. Isbrandtsen officials were my stified by the salvage operation, about which they said they had received no advance - notice. They were equally puzzled by a report that the money was re ported to have been in the safe in the captain's cabin. 'Benefit1 Ball Game Fails to Materialize A two-boy basketball gam la a garage was advanced last week as the newest wrinkle la benefit fund-raising. Larry Scovill. 8. and Lee Wimberly. 7. after being mis sing for a time, were found busily advertising a basket ball game, each boy to consti tute a team, to be played la the Wimberly garage. Their motive, they explain ed, was to earn money for' their Junior Service League mothers. Mrs. Carl Wimberly Jr. and Mrs. Wright Scovill. whos conversation in recent days has run heavily to the league's various fund-raising projects. The game, by the way. was not played. United Fund Drive Schedules Sept. 29 As 'Kick-Off Date Monday, Sept. 29, will be the "kick-off date for the United Medfard Crusade fund drive, it was announced Saturday by John Dellenback, drive presi dent. The United Medford Crusade, which was recently organized as a corporation, succeeds the Med ford Community Chest and Med ford Plan organizations. Its pur pose is to consolidate all pro grams in the fields of health and welfare into one charity fund campaign. Several Advangtages Officials of the United Cru sade have pointed out that a United charitable fund raising campaign offers several advan tages both to the public and to the charities which take part. These include concentration of fund raising efforts into one per iod, rather than having separate drives tinder way throughout the year, and having the charitable campaigns operating under one drive, thus cutting campaign ex penses. The United Medford Crusade will replace both the Medford Plan and the Community Chest, according to F. N. Bash, Medford Plan president, and Paul Havi land, president of the Greater Medford Community Chest. Both endorsed the United Crusade and ask the public to give it full support. Local Agendas Invited All local health and welfare agencies have been invited to take part in the United Cru sade. Those which have already accepted have submitted budgets which are being reviewed by the United Crusade budget com mittee. These budgets will be the basis of the fund drive goal, which will be announced within the next few days. Officers of the new organiza tion are Dellenback. president; John H. Pletsch, first vice-president; Shelby Tuttle, second vice president; Eston B. Humphrey, treasurer, and Harold B. Cook, executive secretary. (Se story and pictures on Pag 13) McCarthy Says GPO 'Gambling' Threat Washington U.R) Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, who has accused the government print ing office of laxity in guarding national secrets, charged Satur day it also is harboring a gamb ling ring which is a "threat to security." He made the charge after Carl J. Lundmark, aprinting office employee, refused to tell Mc Carthy whether he leads a lu crative double life as a bookie printer. Public "Printer Raymond C. Blattenberger said Lundmark would be suspended from his $100 a week job. McCarthy sug gested, in one question to Lund mark, that the printing office handbook was worth "over $25, 000" last year. To that question, and to all others dealings with the alleged gambling ring, Lundmark re fused an answer, pleading pos sible self-incrimination. McCarthy's questioning devel oped thaV Lundmark owns a 35. acre farm where his son stables some of his 11 race horses which are now too old to be taken to racing meets. Sports Bulletin Pendleton (U.R) An All-Star East team, display ing a stubborn defense and a versatile of fans, scored a con vincing 194) victory over the ' West before approximately 8,000 football fans har last night. The victory evened up the two-rear record in the Class B Shiin AU-Stax gam. Russians Scuttle Proposed Meeting On Austrian Treaty Four Power Meeting Planned for October , Washington U.R) Russia has torpedoed a new proposal for a four-power conference on an Austrian peace, treaty, the State department disclosed Sat urday. It said Moscow has rejected an "invitation to a meeting of U.S.-French-British deputy for eign ministers on Austria, sched uled to open Monday in London. Flimsy Excuse "The Soviet government has once again demonstrated that it has no present desire to conclude an Austrian treaty," the depart ment said, charging the rejection was based on "flimsy procedur al excuses." The United States "will per sist in its efforts to reach four power agreement for re-establishment of Austria's independ ence," it said, and "with this objective in mind, it will seek to have the question considered at a four-power conference." Reports from Bonn, Germany, meanwhile, said the Western Al lies have agreed that the four power meeting of foreign mini sters should begin Oct. 15 at Lu gano, Switzerland. Notes invit ing Russia will be sent shortly. It is expected that this meet ing will be primarily interested in the beginning at least, in ne gotiations for a German peace treaty. Small Businesses Oppose Copco Rate Increase Requests A group of Jackson county small businesses, headed by Frank Koch, Central Point, have joined the Roseburg Chamber of Commerce in opposing an "across the board" 20 per cent rate increase requested by the California Oregon. Power com pany, Koch said Saturday. Will Represent Group Portland Attorney Walter Evans, who is representing the Roseburg chamber in the hear ings, has agreed to represent the small business goup, the Central Point man said. Evans is also representing the South ern Oregon Conservation and Tree Farm association and the Rogue River Valley Traffic as sociation. Koch asked that operators of small businesses wishing to be represented by Evans send con tributions to the Roseburg Cham ber of Commerce. He pointed out that this offers small busi nesses "an opportunity to be united in intervening in the hearings." The hearings were recessed here two weeks agb after Copco witnesses presented testimony for the company. They will be resumed at a later date to be set by the Public Utilities Com mission. At that time Copco wit nesses will be cross-examined and testimony by adverse wit nesses will be presented. Seek Rat Adjustment In addition to opposing the raise, Koch says his group seeks to have Copco rates "adjusted to an honest and reasonable amount and have them placed in the rate class where we be long." v The present Copco rate dis criminates against small busi nesses, Koch says. Li'l Aimer it a father but of what? , i The baby hat arrived but. unfortunately, : the youngster it stuck in a drain pipe! Is it a boy 01-a girl? Turn to the comics page and tee if j fyou agree with Dogpatch't newest par-, vent. To us it's all plumb confutin'li 'PMGfflESSTOIES' ROUGHED UP IV San Francisco (UP) The Navy transport Gen. William F. Hase arrived here Saturday with 437 freed American war prisoners, two of whom reported that "progressives" in their midst were beaten up dur ing the two week voyage. The soldiers, who refused to be identified, said "a few" of the POWs who sided with their Commun ist captors were "worked over" and had to be treated for cuts and bruises. One of the "pros" was warned he would be thrown overboard if he came up Return of AIIU.II. Prisoners Promised As 400 More Freed Panmunjom, Sunday (U.R) Anothqa.U0 Americans returned to freedom today from the heU of Communist captivity a few hours after the Reds announced they would live up to their pro mise to return "all" Allied pris oners who want to return home. Two hundred and 50 South Koreans, 25 Britons land 15 pris oners of assorted nationalities also were set free today, in creasing the day's total to 400 prisoners released.' The first Americans to pass through the "gate to freedom" arrived with the first batch of returnees at 9 a.m Mo Definite Guarantee The Communists promise to release "all" prisoners created hope that they will free the Am ericans they jailed on trumped up charges just before the Kor ean priconer exchange ' began, but gave no definite guarantee that they will do so. The Communists refused to explain exacUy what they mean by "all" prisoners. They an nounced that 300 South Koreans and "more than 20" non-Koreans have declared that they do not want to return home, but added that they are trying to "per suade" these prisoners to change their minds. An American returnee said there are 22 Americans and a Briton in the group of non-Koreans who are resisting repatria tion. Earlier reports said thousands of skilled American technicians have been spirited awayto serve as , slaves in the forced labor camps of Red China and Russia. Exchange May End Saturday According to Communist fig ures today's exchange will leave only 2,145 Allied prisoners in Red camps. Unless the Reds slow down their rate of exchange, the last of thbse prisoners could be in friendly hands by next Saturday. The communist announcement that some Allied prisoners had refused repatriation was the first time the Reds officially revealed there were Up i ted Na tions turncoats remaining be hind. Many of the repatriated prisoners told of former com rades who elected to stay with the Communists. Berlin (U.R) The Com munists threatened Saturday to evict from their homes any resi dent of the Soviet sector of the city who accepts an "Eisenhower package" of free American food. m arm m s ISA PROUD PAPA! . . .of a boy er. . or is it a girl? on desk of the transport, a returnee said. Decide Against Risking Freedom They said, however, that it was decided "it would be stupid Cpl. Hnry F. Williams. Medford. a recently released prisoner ef war. who was la Communist hands for more than two years, was en ef 437 freed American soldiers fa avvlA U Sam r... m.M Saturday. His mother and father. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Williams. 4t Mae rd wind The Mail Tribune to say that h is in "fair snap and se awfully glad to arrive in the U. 8. A." Tell all hello," the Wil Hams' wire said, "and thanks . for all the prayers ef bis friends. Will se you later. The Williams met the Mavr transport Can. William F. Cas at the dock in Saa Fran cisco. to risk our freedom for on of those guys." A light sprinkle fell from leaden skies as the big gray transport passed under the Gold en Gate bridge and tied up at Fort Mason" pier at 4:f0 p.m. PST. The Hase was the second transport to return ex-POWs to the United States since th start of Operation Big Switch. Cheering GI's lined the. rails of the ship, searching the jam med piers for relatives among the more than 500 persons on hand to greet them. One 15-year-old girl fainted in the crush and was carried out. GI Near Tears First repatriate off the ship was Sgt. Harry E. Borie, Phila delphia. His face was twisted with emotion and he appeared on the verge of tears as he strode down the gangway, threw a snappy salute at waiting Army officers and entered an am bulance. First ex-POW to be greeted by relatives was Marine Pfc Bil ly Brown, 21, of Houston, Tex. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Otis W. Brown, embraced the young Marine, who said only, "Man Oh man!" over and over. The 178-piece Sixth Army band blared martial tunes as th ship warped into the pier.- Elsi Norwood, lovely soprano. sang "My Hero" and "You're Mine" and the returnees howled with joy. Soviet Troops, Police Clash With Civilians Berlin (U.R) Soviet troops and Communist police Saturday occupied several East German factories to crush anti-Commun ist demonstrations and arrested at least 100 workers, the West Berlin newspaper, Telegraf, said Saturday night. The newspaper also said that 200 workers protesting the Com munist ban on picking up Eisen hower food packages clashed with police in East Berlin'! Oberschoenweide electric equip- fment factory. Fifteen . workers were arrested. The newspaper did not say this plant was occupied by So viet troops. Earlier, the northwest German radio said that hungry East Ger mans clashed with police in four Soviet zone cities when the Reds enforced a ban on travel to West Berlin to pick up the American food parcels. FIREMEN CALLED Firemen were called at 8:37 o'clock Saturday evening to ex tinguish an awning at Leon's Tots to Teens shop, 105 East Main st., which apparently had caught fire from a cigarette. Firemen also were called at 5:25 a.m. Saturday to put out a fire in a used car on the Stevens Kaiser-Frazer lot. North Central ave. and Jackson st., thought to nave neen caused ny a cigarette left by someone who used the car as a shhelter. The car was extensively damaged insid.