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Newspaper Page TextVeaihsr Recoiiimended Fetnr atariaa tha Maa- fara Proa Nat elaa, artta farai aaadt," a w caaatrac Moa awt-aa asd at Bear Crack rrkari aaa ather Ject aapcar aa Fata 14 af tay iataa af Tha Mall trtaaaa. FOKBCAST CMdml fair t-raafh M toy. Hlfk Mif n t is, tow u. ruga MMttf M. Tma. lfknt yartar-a ts Lawaat ymUraar SS United Preae Full Leased Wire United Prcas Full Leased Win 48th Year 30 Pags MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 13, 1953 No. 150 Oatis ITitKoiit Beatings (Editor's aetot Following Is the first 1st a saris of Of arrlclas tailing af William Oatis experiences ia Csachoslo vaUa prior to and during tha time ba was bald ia prisoa ea espionage charges). New York U.R William N. Oatis, Associated Press corres pondent who was imprisoned ia Czechoslovakia for more than two -a-, aairf twtav nrisoners make "fantastic" confessions to the WILLIAM N. OATIS Released News Correspondent another prisoner that would say any signs of it NO DRUGS USED . "As for the Injections' reputedly used in Communist countries, I was given no injections of anything besides what was described correctly, I believe as a sugar and vitamin solution for my health. I heard of no other prisoner that was drugged. "Prisoners make fantasic confessions primarily, I think, be cause they feel tnat is what the unless they do what the police want them to, they are lost. "They are left in little doubt them to say. On that score, the system is practically foolproof: The police simply write it out for them and they sign it, and then, in court, they recite it. It is a gesture SIGNED FAKED STATEMENTS In his case. Oatis said, the he had done "unofficial reporting." This consisted of gathering information on an informal basis, largely as background data, ha said, but the Czech police regarded such activity as espionage: "So I signed a statement to the effect that I had gathered mili tary information in Czechoslovakia, and that .thereby I had com mitted espionage," Oatis wrote. " This was a low-level crime, however, so in order to lodge a more serious charge, the Czech authorities trumped up an accusa tion that he had given military information to the military attache at the U.S. embassy in Prague. ' The police wrote a statement for his signature, Oatis said, and "I haggled about it and rewrote it." "... Though I had been awake for something like 42 hours," he said. "Al I could think of was that I must sleep. They would not let me sleep till I had signed it, and so, I signed it." RECITED 'CONFESSION . The "confession" was re-written into a "weird statement" that wound up with Oatis saying he had given the attache information because be knew he was a spy, fused he did not realize the statement was a "boobytrap." "I signed that statement," Oatis said. "Then they rewrote all my previous factual statements, hopping them up, needling fact with fancy, painting me as black as they cculd. i "And by now I was so used to signing papers, so conscious of my absolute helplessness, so convinced that my only hope lay in - playing their game, that on every page I wrote, 'I have read this. I have approved it. I have signed it. William Nathan Oatis." Finally, he said, he got up in court and recited nearly all of it, "just the way they wanted me to recite it." "That is how the police got me," Oatis said, 'and how they stuck me." (Next: How bo gathered news). 1907 Paper Oldest Entered In 'Bargain Days' Contest Mr. and Mrs. Dixon Saltsgrav- er of Willow Springs District, Route 1. Box 524, Central Point, turned in the oldest issue of The Medford Mail Tribune, January 4. 1907, which was the 243rd is sue of the first year of publica tion. They win a year's free sub scription to The Mail Tribune. Mr. J. M. Potter began pub lishing the Medford Daily Trib une March 22, 1906. The equip ment was moved from Ashland, as Mr. Potter believed Medford would become the hub of Jack son County. Man Issues Saved The issue turned in by the Salts gravers had been mailed to O. S. Blackford, father of Mrs. Salts graver. Mrs. Saltsgraver's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John W. McKay, settled under the Donation Land Claim Act in 1852. Mrs. Salts graver reported that many back issues had been saved which contained items of inter est to the family, and were stored in various places. George Marino, 718 Pennsyl vania, had the oldest copy of the MEDFORD MAIL, published February 1. 1905; followed by Fred Luy, 101 Crater Lake Ave., with a copy of the MEDFORD MAIL, published March 9, 1908. Mrs. George Carter, 821 East Jackson, entered a copy of the Medford Daily Tribune dated July 3, 1909, which contained a story regarding her marriage to George C Carter. Other entries were submitted by the following persons: Louis Oliver, 415 Woodstock, Medford mm communis in an enon to the "save . sometmng wreckage." out of. Oatis told the story of his arrest and imprisonment in the first of series of copyrighted disoatches written for the AP. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for espionage on July 4, 1951, 72 days after he was arrested. He was pardoned and released last May. After 42 hours of questioning by police following bis arrest, Oatis said he confessed to the chargest against him. "It is through such interroga tions that prisoners are induced to make the fantastic .confes sions that are the hallmark of a propaganda trial," he wrote. "They confess, most of them, not because confessions are beat out of them. I should hesitate to say no suspect ever was beat en in Czechoslovakia. But never in my two years in prison was I beaten, and never did I meet he had been beaten or showed " police want them to do, and that of what the police would like for of despair, a grab for a straw, police easily established the fact Oatis said. He said he was so con Mail Tribune, Nov. 2, 1909: Laura Livingston,. 513 King, Medford Mail Tribune, April 28, 1910; H. J. Court, 134 So. Ivy, Medford Sua, July 11, 1911; Ed ward Jones, Box 54, Central Point, Medford Mail Tribune, Aug. 4, 1911; R. H. Singler, 27 Rose, Medford Sun, April 7, 1912; Edward Leach, Rt. 2, Box 391, Medford Mail Tribune, Jan. I, 1914; Charles D. Wiley, 712 W. 2nd. Medford Mail Tribune, Nov. II. 1918. Many copies bearing dates 1920 through 1940 were submit ted. A few copies dated 1940 to 1950 were entered. One copy with date January 13, 1952, was sent to. In most cases the papers had been saved because of items of personal interest, although few copies contained news of world or national interest Thre? Persons Hurt In Martinez Blast Martinez (U.R3 At least three persons were reported in- lured last night as a blast rocked the Shell Oil refinery here and blew out the lights of the city. Injuries were undetermined at the county hospital for the injured three. " - All of the city's fire-fightinc equipment was rushed to the 1 mile square refinery which is at the tip of Suisin bay and is about 10 miles from Port Chicago, which was levelled by a cisantic explosion in 1944. , tell IS ; ft fciS i tMWWW N A SOLDIER COMES HOME President Eisenhower clutches arm President's wife, Mamie, looks on at right after John and his wife, by plu from San Francisco. John returned recently trom Korea. Glasses Set To Start At Grade, It will be school tomorrow for Medford boys and girls, with the exception of the high school, which will open Sept. 21. Students for grades one to six will report to their respective grade schools for registration at 8:55 a.m. Junior high school will open at 9 a.m. Classes for the handicapped will also -open at Washington school. Following completion of reg istration of elementary students. they will be dismissed until 1 p.m., when they will be given permanent room- assignments, textbooks and orientation pro cedures. Regular classes will start Tuesday. Abbreviated Program The Monday junior high, pro gram-will be abbreviated, with regular classes starting Tuesday, Students have been registered previously. ' .V Both' elementary and junior high school cafeterias will, begin serving - lunches Tuesday. Textbooks are furnished to elementary and junior high boys and girls and will be distributed at the time of registration. In the high school a rental system for textbooks is maintained. Medford city schools provide Gold Star Mothers Reeled Eugene Woman President Mrs. Elizabeth Gimpi, Eugene, was re-elected president of Ore gon state department, Gold Star Mothers, during a state conven tion of the group held here Sat urday. Mrs. Mildred Curtis, Grants Pcss and Mrs. Marion Cech, Med ford, were elected first and sec ond vice-presidents respectively, Re-elected to the office of record ing secretary was Mrs. Leona Baker, Springfield, and reelected S3 treasurer was Mrs- Ruth Lick- lider. Elkton. Mrs. Sadie Pro, Salem, is the new chaplain. Color guards elected are Mrs. Alice Shober, Medford and Mrs. Rose Decker,1 Portland. Mrs. Vesta Banton, Albany, is his torian; Mrs. Irene . Hamilton, Albany, custodian of .records. Appointed to office were Mrs- Lyda Jensen, Eugene, corres ponding secretary; Mrs. Barbara Brumbaugh, Toledo, state hos pital chairman; and Mrs. Artis McChesney, Springfield, parliamentarian.- , - Thirty-nine delegates and four alternates registered and 12 vis itors. During a business session the department adopted new 'de partment bylaws as revised at a national convention of the Gold Star Mothers held June 8 at Chi cago, ILL - -. " The group pledged to continue their hospital work which in cludes work at Camp White' domiciliary, Medford, and Rose- burg veterans hospital, both state projects of the department At Camp White women visit vet erans, do mending, give parties and do other work. The department Saturday also was awarded a certificate for faithful work at, Camp White. The department has received the certificate for two previous years and now is in permanent posses sion. . Two hospital workers were awarded individual certificates Saturday, Mrs- Cech, Medford for giving, over 1,000 hours of service at Camp - White; and Mrs. Minnie Noyer, Roseburg, for over 100 hours at Roseburg veteram hospital. -: . , Junior High several forms of special educa tion to serve the needs of the handicapped boys and girls of the district. The room for the physically handicapped at Wash ington school serves the entire city and those unable to walk are transported to and from the center. Three other special ad justment rooms are operated, one at junior high for grades seven through nine, one at Lin coln and one at Jackson for grades one through six. Those not in walking distance are transported. Transport Students Two elementary school dis tricts will transport their chil dren to Medford. The . primary grades in the Dewey district will be placed in Jackson school this year. Those of the same district iq grades four through six will probably continue to. attend Roosevelt Kenwood will deliver firsthand second grade students to Jackson school, with grades three through six scheduled for Lincoln school. The Evergreen bus will run a line to El Rey, picking up stu dents at the junction at Char lotte Ann rd. and South Pacific highway at 8:15 a.m. Transporta It - f v MORSE DECLINES BID TO BIG DEMO RALLY By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Sen. Wayne Morse, the Oregon Independent snd four Northwest Democratic senators have each received in vitations to' the Democratic ral ly in Chicago Monday and Tues: day but none has plans to at tend. Those who sent regrets were Washington state's Warren Mag- nuson and Henry Jackson and Montana's James Murray and Mike Mansfield, as well as Morse. The three other senators from' the Northwest Guy Cor don of Oregon, and Idaho's Hen ry ' Dworshak and Herman Walker are all Republicans. ' The five who supported Adlai Stevenson s bid for the presi dency last fall, but are now turn ing down invitations to welcome him home from his recent round- the-world trip, are not staying away in any fit of pique, as is Gov. James Byrnes of South Carolina and other Dixiecrats. - But it is clear that the four Democrats and Morse place less importance upon cheering for Adlai in the Windy City than cultivating their own political gardens. a ' a Senator Morse is on a speech- making itinerary which will take him into Oregon the latter part of September for talks already announced at Baker and Port land. In recent-weeks he has ap peared on rostrums in Wisconsin Ohio and Montana. Senator Magnuson anticipates a new waterfront probe by the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee at Seattle, Portland and California ports this month, after which he may go to Europe to find out how foreign nations subsidize their merchant fleets so successfully as to undercut the U- S. merchant marine. Senator Mansfield, ' too, is planning an overseas journey, on his own, if no congressional duties can be found to conduct on foreign soil. A veteran who hat Men tha world as sailor. V af: of son, Haj. John Eisenhower, as Barbara (above), arrived at Denver Tomorrow ... i Schools tion is furnished at a student rate of 10 cents when tickets are purchased in books of 10. Rbosevelt, Lincoln, Jackson and Washington schools will house grades one "through six. Roosevelt serves a 1 1 - territory east of Bear Creek. Lincoln will serve that portion of the city west of Bear. Creek and east of the Southern Pacific railroad track. Jackson serves the north west part of the city, including the part which lies west of the SP tracks and north of the cen ter line of West Main st. and the Jacksonville highway. Washing ton will take in the southwest part of the city, the portion ly ing west of the railroad tracks and south of the center line of West Main and . Jacksonville highway. Serves Entire City The junior high school serves the entire city for grades seven, eight and Whey1. The senior high school' serves- all the 'ity -pjcJ grades 10, 11 and 12. ' AH elementary students should report to their own schools tomorrow morning as determined by their residence. No regular pupils living inside the school district are transport ed by the district. soldier and marine, Mansfield just loves to travel. . Senators Jackson and Murray aren't going anywhere. . Both have recently returned from statehood hearings in Alaska and have speaking engagements lined up in their respective home states. In the absence of these top politicos, the region will be rep resented only by the Democratic national committeemen and com mittee women. Oregon's part in the rally will be played by Mon roe Sweetland, national com mitteeman; Howard Morgan, state chairman; Mrs. Lilian Bur ton, national committeewoman; and Mrs. Gladys Last, state vice- chairman. While the speeches by Steven son and former President Tru man have received notice, the two-day activities at Chicago are to run as follows: Monday closed door regional conferences; women's division workshops; discussion of rules and by-laws at which the south ern and northern wings may have another go a one another over the so-called loyalty oath which was a controversial issue in last summer's national conven tion. At the main dinner Monday night Stevenson will speak only briefly- Truman will deliver the main address, which one tele vision network and another radio network will carry. '. Tuesday discussion of agri cultural policy; meetings of the executive committee and the na tional committee; conference on political problems at the state, county and city level. The climax will come Tuesday night when Stevenson makes his full-dress appearance, which is to be carried on all TV and radio networks. Sports Bulletin Central Point . Phoenix high defeated Jacksonville 40. to 0 in a football game here last night The Pirates lad 20 to 0 at half -Una. Dugllinidl Clhiiirge-B Philbrick Asserts Seven Clergymen in Secret Commie Cell -. Second Witness Swears 600 Pastors Are Reds Washington (U.R) Herbert Philbrick, former FBI under cover agent, said in testimony published Saturday that seven or eight .clergymen were "dedi cated, hardened, steeled Com munists" in a supersecret cell in Boston. He was not sure of their exact identity because, "operating in a completely, deeply under ground way," they used code names to conceal their real iden tities, even from othea Commun ists. v : The House un-American Ac tivities committee released his testimony. It also released testi mony by Archibald Roosevelt, son -of the late Theodore Roose velt who said he was "horri fied" by the extent of Commun ist infiltration of the churches. "I am prepared, with the help of some others, Roosevelt said, to give you documentary and testamentary proof that there was a deep laid plot, which has been quite successful, to poison the minds of good people, un suspecting and fine people, in furthering the Communist pro grams." . The testimony was based on closed committee hearings in New York last July: It supple tnentad that-of four other wit nesses all past party members who said the Communists have infiltrated the churches with "great success." Joseph Zack Kornfelder, who broke with the Communists in 1934, said in sworn testimony published Friday night that 600 American ministers are "secret" Communists and 3,000 to 4,000 others are in the "fellow-traveling category." Van Fleet's Son Among Prisoners Held by Chinese Washington (U.R) The Air Force said Saturday it hasan un verified report that Capt James A. Van Fleet Jr., son of the former Eighth" Army command er, survived the crash of his B-26 bomber in North Korea and may now be a Chinese prisoner. The United States has de manded that the Communists account for 944 missing Ameri cans whom it believes to be in Red hands but who did not show up in the prisoner of war ex change. Young Van Fleet's name was on the list. He was the pilot of a two-engine bomber which took off on a night combat mission at 1 a. m. on April 4, 1952, from Kunsan airdrome, not far from his father's headquarters in Ko rea. The Air Force said his plane reached its target but ran into, unfavorable weather. Van Fleet was ordered by radio to aban don that target and attack sup ply routes between Haeju and Changnyon, North Korea. Acknowledgement of that mes sage was the last contact with the plane. An extensive, but futile, search for Van Fleet fol lowed. Saturday, however, the Air Force revealed it later received an unverified report which a spokesman called "a 'very ques tionable item" that the plane crashed at dawn near Haeju, and that one of the three-man crew perished. Two Fires Put Out By Two grass and brush fires brdke out on the North 'River rd. along Rogue river yesterday and were brought under control by state forest dept. crews, ac cording to Ted Maul, district warden. -. , " The largest, about four acres west of Rogue River, was con trolled by crews from Grants Pass, Wimer and Medford. The other was about one-tenth of an With moratoon OH ILoiLaDTKSlfD t-vy ... I .) . EVELYN AY Takes Top Honors ma New Miss America; Oregonian Finalist Atlantic City, N. J. (U.R) - Miss Pennsylvania, Evelyn Ay, was named "Miss America of 1954" Saturday night at the. an nual beauty pageant here. The green-eyed, ash-blond beauty won over 51 other con testants. In second place was Joan Cecilia Kaible, Miss New York City. Third was Miss Virginia, a polio victim, Anne Lee Ceglis, of Norfolk. Fourth was Virginia McDavid, Miss Alabama, of Birmingham. In fifth place was Susanne Dug- ger. Miss Mississippi. The competition in the final night was rough, but the winner had what the judges ordered. The coy Miss Pennsylvania carried her 132 pounds with trained bearing. She is 5 feet, 8 inches in height, and from top to bottom measured 37-24-36. Those specifications made the bathing suit competition a snap for her. She was a preliminary bathing suit winner earlier in the week. Evelyn picked up a $5,000 scholarship. The rest of the kids in the first 10 get scholarships, too, not to mention awards for Miss Congeniality and the talent award for a girl that finished out of the big money. Miss Oregon Finalist The non-winners went home with a $100 bill, plus a couple of evening gowns, a suit case and memories. x The five finalists were: Miss Pennsylvania, Evelyn Ay; Miss Alabama, Virginia McDavid; Miss New York City, Joan Kai ble; Miss Virginia, Anne Lee Ceglis, and Miss Mississippi, Su sanne Duccer. The eliminated five other fi nalists:. Miss California, Patricia Johns; Miss Delaware, Lois Alava; Miss Oregon, P a 1 1 i Throop; Miss South Carolina, Miriam Stevenson, and Miss Wy oming, Elaine HoiKenorinx. Forest Patrolmen acre in size near uoia nm. Cause was not yet verified, but there was some indication they had been' set by smokers, Maul said. Also yesterday, state crews put out two sleeper fires from last Saturday's electrical storm, he noted. One was aboufan acre,, west' of Shady Cove, and the other, reported late last night was a spot on Roxy Ann butte. ' Pennsylva Lenient Attitude Toward Red China Ended by Britain Communists Silent On Unprovoked Attack London (U.R) Britain dropped her lenient attitude to ward Red China Saturday with a blistering note accusing the Peiping government of a "Wanton" attack on a Royal Navy launch off Hong Kong. The gloves-off note handed to the Communist Chinese Foreign Ministry this morning protested "most strongly against the wanton attack on one of her majesty's vessels" on Sept 9 in waters adjacent to Hong Kong. Responsible for Deaths "Her Majesty's government hold the Chinese government re sponsible for the tragic ap propriate compensation," tha note said. - Seven members of the crew of the motor launch were killed and five wounded in the attack wnen the Chinese vessel opened fire with "weapons of heavy calibre," it said. The foreign office said Red China has remained silent so far on the unprovoked attack. Nor mal Communist propaganda broadcasts would try to put tha blame on the British vessel. Further moves were expected to follow when Britain may state the nature and extent of compen sation demanded from the Com munist government for the losses of First Acts Ironically, the protest was oW of the first acts of office per formed by Britain's new charge D'Affaires in Peiping, Humphrey Travelyan. He arrived there last month as a goodwill gesture oa part of London. Some diplomats had antici pated an improvement in rela tions with Peiping to follow the appointment of Travelyan. His arrival last August was ac companied by unofficial specu lation he might attempt to es tablish full diplomatic relations with Red China. Peiping has no representation in London. Four More County Polio Cases Listed Jackson county health de partment Saturday reported four more cases of polio, bringing the total in the county to seven so far this year. Only one case is severe, the office reported. A 4Vi-year-old Phoenix boy has the bulbar type of the disease. His 6-year-old brother also is ill with the dis ease but the case is not paralytic, so far. The younger boy became ill about September 7. A Prospect man and his daughter became ill with slight cases about September 1, it was said. Those two .cases have just been reported. Morse Asks Probe of General Motors Pacts Washington (U.R) Sen. Wayne Morse (Ind-Ore.) urged Saturday that Congress look into the latest contracts awarded to General Motors Corporation by the defense department The Army announced Friday it had ruled out bids of Chrysler Corp., and awarded GMC and its Fisher Body division $285, 000,000 of tank and truck contracts- "Apparently," Morse told, re porters, "these new contracts demonstrate once again that the tisenhower administration feels that what is good for General Motors is good for the country. A thorough investigation is needed to see how wrong the I administration may be." Panmunjom, Sunday (U.R) The U.S. Army announced today it would court martial an American soldier accused of striking a Swedish member of a neutral nations inspection team ia Korea.