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Senator McCarthy
Hot Convinced
Man Really Beria
Government Officials
Express Skepticism
Washington (UJ9 Sen.
Joseph R. McCarthy said today
his Senate Investigating sub
committee is checking reports
that Lavrenti P. Beria, former
Mo. 2 man in the Kremlin, is in
a "non-communist country" and
wants to talk. -
McCarthy added howevVr,
that "at the present time I am
no convinced that the man is
Beria."
' McCarthy declined to identify
the Tion-comrmmlrt country.
Repeated Reports
The Wisconsin . Republican
told reporters his subcommittee
has received reports, some ap
parently from reliable sources,
that " a man who claims to be
Beria, who resembles Beria" has
fled from Russia and is in hiding.
Government officials express
ed skepticism about the report
Earner, a subcommittee re
port said Beria is "in contact"
with'' subcommittee agents
abroad and is eager to come to
this country to "tell all he
knows about the international
Communist conspiracy."
This source said the subcom
mittee is prepared to issue a
subpoena to bring Beria to
bring Beria to Washington to
testify before the subcommittee.
Accused of Treason
Beria, once trie No. 2 man in
the Kremlin, was fired July 9
as head of the Russian Secret
Police and charged with treason.
Western authorities have assum
ed that he was in a Soviet prison
awaiting trial but there has been
no direct word on his where
abouts. The McCarthy subcommittee
informant conceeded the possi
bility that Beria's reported es
cape may be a gigantic hoax. He
first told reporters flatly that
"Beria has been out of Russia
for more than a month and U't
subcommittee has been in per
sonal contact with him for a
considerable length of time."
No Confirmation of Report
Later, however, he said the
subcommittee is still investi
gating the matter and does not
yet have conclusive proof that
the man claiming to be Beria
is the deposed Soviet leader.
No confirmation of the report
could be obtained from govern
ment agencies which normally
would be concerned with such
an affair.
Two Small Homes
Damaged by Fire
A fire of unknown origin
caused extensive damage to two
small houses on North Elm st
at about 11:15 p.m. Sunday, ac
cording, to the Medford fire de
partment. Only one of the two houses
was occupied at the time of the
blaze. It was owned and occu
pied by Emmett H. Williams and
is located at 19021 North Elm
St.
The other house, at 1904
North Elm st, is owned by Celia
Stromberg, who is living in
Canada.
The fire is believed to have
started in a shed between the
two houses. It was discovered by
neighbors, who reported it to
the fire department.
The roofs and walls of both
buildings were damaged. Fire
men were unable to estimate the
amount of the loss.
State AA Conference Ends;
To Meet in Astoria in '54
The third annual state confer
ence of Alcoholics Anonymous
closed in Medford yesterday.
It was attended by approxi
mately 300 persons from the 42
Oregon AA groups, and by visi
tors from British Columbia,
Washington, and California.
Astoria Chosen
Astoria was chosen as the site
of the 1954 conference, which
will be held in mid-September.
"It was a very successful con
ference all the way through,"
members of the local group re
ported this morning. They added
that they were pleased with the
response to two public meetings
held during the conference.
Public meetings were held at
8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sun
day at the Medford Elks temple.
, Approximately 225 persons at
tended a breakfast given yes
terday at the Elks temple.
The invocation and benedic
tion at the public meetings were
given by the Rev George Bol
BOLTS REDS Dr. Marek Koro-
wicz. member of the Polish Com
munist delegation to the United
Nations, prepares to broadcast
over Radio Free Europe in New
York, telling the full story of
his break to the West. Koro-
wicz, 50, formerly professor of
international law at Krakow
university, bolted the delegation
and sought asylum in the United
States.
Communists Deny
Allied Charge of
Holding Prisoners
Panmunjom, Korea (U.R) -
The Communists denied today
that they ever captured most of
the 3404 Allied troops for whom
the UN command had demanded
an accounting. .
At a meeting of the Armistice
commission, the Communists
made the denial and dasked for
information about 98,742 North
Korean and Chinese they claim
ed were captured by UN troops
and never accounted for.
Informaiiaa Said Withheld -
The Allies made their request
about the 3404 missing POWs,
including 944 Americans, on
Sept 9. The UN command ac
cused the Reds of being respon
sible for the deaths or withhold
ing information about the miss
ing soldiers who were not re
patriated or listed as dead.
North Korean Gen. Lee Sang
Cho said today the . UN roster
was "crudely 'manufactured"
propaganda.
Repatriation Said Refused
He said 519 of the men have
been repatriated and 380 others
were "released at the front
early in the war, had escaped
or had died. Others refused re
patriation, he said.
The United Nations has said
that all the missing troops were
reported in prison camps either
by returned POWs or by other
means, including Communist
propaganda broadcasts.
Today's meeting was called by
the Communists.
LIGHTNING FIRES
State forest patrolmen report
ed two small fires from light
ning strikes in Josephine coun
ty todav. Thev sairf thai
from the patrol headquarters
nere ana one irom Wimer were
sent to a fire Sunrtnv in
Ramsey canyon area. It was a
noiaover xrom a lightning strike
and was about one-half acre in
size.
ster, rector of. St. Mark's Episco
pal church; the Rev. Nicholas J.
Deiss, pastor of Sacred Heart
Catholic church; and the Rev.
Hardwick Harshman, pastor of
the First Methodist church.
No Elections
There are no statewide offi
cers for the AA, and no elec
tions were held during the con
ference. There is no statewide
Alcoholics Anonymous organiza
tion. All local groups are indi
vidual units, operating under
the same set pf principles. .
The AA conference was the
fourth largest convestion held in
Medford this year. Acting as
hosts for the event were mem
bers of the five southern Oregon
groups, including two in Klam
ath Falls and one each in Med
ford, Ashland and Grants Pass.
Members of the local AA
group pointed out today that
anyone desiring to contact the
organization may do so by tele
phoning Medford 2-657.
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Vishinsky Renews
Disarmament
Proposals To UN
Russian Mouthpiece
Asks Prompt Action
United Nations, N.Y.-U.R-
Russia's Andrei Y. Vishinsky de
manded today that the United
Nations Security Council take
immediate action to prohibit
atomic and hydrogen weapons
and to order the dismantling of
military bases in foreign coun
tries.
The veteran Kremlin mouth'
piece put before the General As
sembly what appeared to be lit
tle more than a rehash of Soviet
atomic proposals previously re
jected by the west.
He presented a resolution
which would have the Assembly
note that the end of the Korean
war had created "more favor
able conditions" for internation
al measures to avert a new
world war and recommend:
Atomic Prohibition
1. "Unconditional prohibition
of atomic, hydrogen and other
weapons of mass destruction
with the Security Council in
structed to prepare "without de
lay" .an agreement to "insure in
ternational control of such pro
hibition."
2. Reduction by the Big Five
powers of their armed forces by
one third within a year with the
Security Council to convene
"within a brief time an interna
tional conference for the reduc
tion of armaments by all states."
3. That the Security Council
take measures for the dismant
ling of military bases in foreign
territories, recognizing this as a
most .important contribution to
insure lasting peace and secur
ity." 4. Cessation of propaganda
campaigns "in a number of coun
tries" designed to "stimulate
hostility and hatred" which are
"incompatible with the funda
mental principles and purposes
of the U-N."
At the same lime, Vishinsky
declared in the Assembly's gen
eral debate on policy that the
Communist demands concerning
the composition of the Korean
Peace Conference "must be met
and cannot fail to be met."
Vishinsky's disarmament pro
posals were essentially the same
as those he has presented for the
past six years.
Medford Gels 1954
'Arrow' Conclave
The Medford area will play
host next year to the Oregon
state Order of the Arrow con
ference, it was announced today
by Cliff Hanson, local scouting
executive.
Crater Lake Council was cho
sen for the site of the 1954 con
ference of the Boy Scout camp
ing honorary .organization at the
state conference which closed
yesterday at Silver Creek state
park near Salem. It was attended
by 126 boys from Portland, Sa
lem, Eugene and Medford.
Among the 14 Medford area
boys who attended, were Jim
Perry, Craig Philips, Leon Mc
Dougal and Darrell Brown, who
conducted the "ordeal" cere
mony and aided in the "broth
erhood" ceremony.
The 1954 conference will be
held at Camp McLoughlin dur
ing the third weekend in Sep-'
tember.
Girls' Names Unless
To Dean Martin, Wife
Santa Monica (U.R) Mr.
and Mrs. Dean Martin ran
through a list of names for boys
today following an upset by the
stork of their careful prepara
tions. The boy, -weighing seven
pounds, , was born yesterday at
St John's hospital and the singer-comedian
and his wife found
themselves with a list of rather
useless girl names.
MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21,
AY BECOME VICTIMS OF
COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA
Tokyo (U.R) The Bamboo Curtain effectively hides the fate
of three Americans captured by the Chinese Reds south of Hong
Kong last March. But there is a suspicion the Communists may be
cooking up another propaganda "spy" trial with the Americans
as the victims.
Such a trial would be complete with "confessions" and drum
beating against American imperialism.
The trio, newsmen Richard Applegate, Medford, Ore., and Don
Dixon and a merchant marine captain, Ben Krasner, both of New
York, with three Chinese crewmen, were seized by a Chinese
Communist gunboat while sailing in'Applegate's small yacht from
Hong Kong to Macao on March 21.
Eisenhower
Ready
To Start Campaign
For Republicans
Boston (U.R) President Eisen
hower flew here today to kick
off a White House campaign to
keep Republicans in control of
Congress during the 1894 elec
tions. '
The presidential party arrived
here aboard the government
plane Columbine. The President
will make a major political
speech tonight at a big $100-a-
plate GOP rally at Boston
Garden. -
StoDpinff off at an agricultu
ral fair at West Springfield, Mr.
Eisenhower warned a children s
and youth's day crowd of 7,000
in the Exposition Coliseum that
Communism, a "godless philoso
phy," wants to destroy our
form of government."
President Cheered
Thousands lined Boston streets
and cheered the President as he
motored from the airport to the
Algonquin club in the Back Bay
where he conferred with New
England Republican leaders and
rested until it was time to leave
for the party rally. : -
Accompanying Mr. Eisenhow
er were Sherman Adams, assist
ant to the President, and Henry
Cabot Lodge Jr., American am
bassador to the United Nations.
About 5,000 Republicans from
the six new England states, are
expected to attend tonight's din
ner. His 30-minute speech will
be broadcast by major radio and
television networks at 5:30 p.m.
(PST). ' i
Opportunity To Reply
It will offer Mr. Eisenhower
an opportunity to reply to the
anti-administration blasts loosed
at Chicago last week by former
President Truman and Adlai Ste
venson, unsuccessful Democrat
ic candidate for. President last
year.
The chief executive, who re
turned to the White House last
Saturday after a six-weeks vaca
tion in ' Colorado, finished the
final draft of the address yes
terday. Former Prisoners
Reach San Francisco
San Francisco (U.R) The
next to last shipload of former
prisoners of war scattered to
homes across the nation today
after a heartwarming arrival at
San Francisco Port of Embarka
tion. .
Three hundred and one grin
ning ex-prisoners docked here
yesterday aboard the Navy
transport Gen. A. W. Brewster.
On the dock were some 500
cheering relatives and friends.
The Brewster also brought
back 1067 other servicemen
from the Far East on regular
rotation.
Seattle (U.R) The American
Mining Congress has urged the
federal government to restore
the gold standard.
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No Authentic Word
In Past Six Months
For six months no authentic
word of their fate has reached
the outside world. Despite re
peated inquiries and official Am'
erican protests, Peiping and Mos
cow. have maintained complete
silence, refusing even to admit
that the Americans are being
held.
Even the usually effective Chi
nese Nationalist intelligence sys
tem has failed to produce a clue.
- If the pattern of Communist
efforts to make propaganda tools
of Western prisoners in both
North Korea and Eastern Eu
rope is followed, there will be
no hint of-the trio's fate until
they have signed elaborate con
fessions of espionage and the
stage has been set for a people's
court martial.
Applegate, former United
Press correspondent, and Dion
of International News Service,
both covered the Korean War.
Peiping radio repeatedly has at
tacked both agencies in its prop
aganda broadcasts.
High School Opens;
781 Start Classes
Medford senior high school
opened this morning with a first
day enrollment of 781, accord
ing to city schools officials. The
figure is above the 1952 opening
day total of 750, but below that
of 825 for two years ago.
School officials pointed out
that first day enrollment figures
are only "tentative," and that
tomorrow's totals will give a
better indication of the number
of students who will be attend
ing senior high school during
the coming year.
Enrollment figures for the
junior high school and four city
grade' schools are being revised,
and permanent totals will be
announced tomorrow.
Military Policeman
Files Damage Claim
Mannheim, Germany (U.R)
A 27-year-old U.S. military po
liceman is asking $130,000 dam
ages from Germany's largest
chemical trust because he says
it held him as a wartime slave
laborer in the Auschwitz Con
centration camp.
The suit . was filed by Pvt.
Rudy W a x m a n of Hollywood
against the I. G. Farben trust,
which has retained a half dozen
of Germany's top-flight lawyers
to fight the claim.
The German-born Waxman
said he was sent to a concentra
tion camp in May, 1940, and
was shifted three years later to
the Monowitz Synthetic Rubber
factory at Auschwitz, Poland.
The plant was administered for
the Nazis by the Farben con
cern. BARGAIN DATS END
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scriptions which are post
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reduced rates.
United Pi Full I 1 Win
1953
No. 157
President of AFL
In Verbal Attack
On Administration
Human Values
Declared Submerged
St. Louis (U.R) AFL Pres
ident George Meany today level
ed a broadside attack on the ad
ministration, charging that "in
Washington human values have
been submerged to the material
welfare of the greedy few."
Meany opened the 72nd con
vention of the AFL with a 45
minute keynote address, most of
it directed toan attack on ad
ministration and congressional
policies.
. He hit hard at the issues of
housing, taxes, Taft-Hartley and
Education programs.
Speech Material
Meany opened his criticism
of the administration with a let
ter which he said he received
from the White House in an un
stamped envelope. He said the
letter contained a message on
the Government Contracts Com
pliance committee of which he
was a member and that attached
to the letter was a weekly bulle
tin of the National Association
of Manufacturers.
He said the letter from White
House assistant Walter Williams
suggested that the NAM bulletin
could be used for speech mater
ial.
"Apparently the NAM feels
that they have taken over Wash
ington to such an extent that
they are now an official part of
tne government," Meany said.
Meany noted that the NAM
bulletin referred to a "big
change" in Washington.
Freedom of Workers
"The big change in Washing
ton is that human values have
been submerged to the material
welfare of the greedy few." he
said.
The AFL president" praised
the union's fight against Com
munism, which he said came
long before any one else knew
that the destruction of the work
ers of Russia was a threat to the
freedom of the workers of Amer
ica."
He said the outbreaks of the
workers in East Germany last
summer destroyed two "myths"
that the Soviet was "so invin
cible that no one could stand up
against them and the myth of
the workers paradise under so
called 'Peoples' Democracy."
The convention stage was set
for outright expulsion of the
crime-ridden International Long
shoremen's association from the
AFL. Meany announced late yes
terday that the AFL's 15 man
executive council had voted un
animously to kick out the ILA.
New Suspect Checked
In Soldier Slaying
Baker, Ore. (U.R) Authori
ties are checking a "new suspect
and another angle" in connec
tion with the murder of Airman
Richard D. Speicher, Lt. Lyle
Harrell of the Oregon state po
lice said today.
Harrell did not elaborate, how
ever, on the investigation of the
mysterious slaying of the Moun
tain Home Air Force base, Idaho,
serviceman, whose body was re
covered from the Snake river
Sept. 8.
The lieutenant also declined
to said is Speicher's clothes had
been found or if it had been de
termined where the body was
thrown into the river.
Speicher's nude body was
found on the Oregon side of the
river, about tO miles above
Weiser junction.
One suspect was released after
subjecting to c "truth serum"
test
Radio Highlights -
President Eisenhower's ad
dress from Boston tonight will
be heard over radio station
KYJC at t:30 patisW ttsd over
station KMED at 9:30 p.m.
OUSTED Shaking his finger,
Attorney Abraham Unger starts
to speak just before Senator
Joseph McCarthy had him re
moved from hearing room in
New York by an assistant U. S.
marshal to prevent Unger from
making a "Communist transmis
sion belt out of this room.
State CIO Favors
Cheap Power for
Region's Industry
Klamath Falls (U.R) The
Oregon CIO was on record today
in favor of cheap hydroelectric
power for Northwest industries,
but it opposed federal construc
tion of steam generation plants
to alleviate periodic power fam
ines in the region.
In the closing session of its
16th annual convention here yes
terday, the CIO emphasized the
need for low hydro-generated
power and rejected steam plants
as too costly for Northwest in
dustries. Delegates chose Eugene as the
site of its 1954 conclave and
nominated Jess A. Bell of Ore
gon City and F. J. Smith of
Forest Grove for president. Ex
ecutive Secretary George Brown
was unopposed as nominee for a
new term and was elected coun
cil delegate to the national con
vention of the CIO.
AFL Official Speaks
In the closing hours of the con
vention, delegates heard J. D.
McDonald, president of the Ore
gon Federation of Labor, first
AFL official ever to address a
CIO convention in Oregon. He
stressed the growing unity of
farm and labor groups in the
state.
The convention voiced unani
mous disapproval of State Sen
ator Warren Gill of Lebanon for
United States Attorney for Ore
gon. He was accused of being an
opponent of the rights of racial
minorities.
A bill regarding use of timber-
lands, which has been introduced
in Congress by Rep. Harris Ells
worth and Sen. Guy Cordon, was
opposed by convention resolu
tion. Chiloquin Woman
Held for Murder
Klamath Falls, Ore. U.R)
Police here today held 22-year-
old Wilma Barkley, Chiloquin,
in connection with the fatal stab
bing of her mother, Mrs. Mabel
Barkley, 65, at their home on the
Klamath Indian reservation.
Mrs. Barkley died in Klamath
Valley hospital shortly after 10
a.m today.
Police said they had learned
no motive for the stabbing. They
arrested Mrs. Barkley s daughter
after an 80-mile-an-hour auto
chase on a Klamath Falls free
way.
Florence Chad
Gibraltar Swimming Record
Algerciras, Spain (U.R)
Florence Chadwick added a rec
ord smashing swim of the Straits
of Gibraltar to her conquests
and looked forward today to her
next objective, the Dardanelles.
Bests Former Record
The 34-year-old San Diego sec
retary set a new all time record
for crossing the Straits between
Spain and North Africa yester
day, covering the 14 miles of
tricky shark infested waters in
five hours, six minutes. . The
previous record of six hours, 58
minutes was set three years ago
by Jorge Sugden of. Argentina.
It was the second world
swimming mark to be hung up
by
Miss Chadwick - in three
$IOO,OOOAward
Ordered Paid To
Communist Flier
Air Force Thought
Caught by Surprise
Seold, Korea U.R) A North
Korean pilot streaked his Russian-built
MIG jet fighter plane)
into Kimpo Air Base today in a
bid for freedom and won for
himself a $100,000 cash award.
A Seoul newspaper Quoted an
officer who witnessed the land
ing as saying the plane was
much superior to a MIG-15 and
probably was a MIG-17, a later
modeL
It was capable of carrying al
most 1000 pounds of bombs and
was armed with a 37 millimeter
cannon and two 20 millimeter
cannon, the paper said.
Surprise Landing
There was speculation that
the MIG landing caught the Air
Force by surprise. Information
given to newspapermen led to
the impression that no one at
Kimpo knew that the MIG was'
coming in until the tower oper
ator sighted it If that were true,
the MIG, which carried loaded
cannon, could have strafed or
bombed Seoul before American
interceptors could have reached
it
Payment Ordered
As soon as the news reached
Washington that one of the
crack MIGs, backbone of the So
viet .fighter plane force, was in
possession of the United Nations,
the Air Force tent orders that
the pilot to paid. .
He gets $50,000 for delivering
the plane and $50,000 as a bonus
because he was the first Com
munist pilot to hand over a mod
ern MIG.
If the North Korean seeks
political asylum, Weyland said,
it will be granted "in conson
ance with the traditional Ameri
can policy of offering asylum to
political refugees."
Washington (U.R) The Air
Force's commander was in
structed to pay the North Kor
ean pilot $50,000 and an addi
tional $50,000 for the airplane
itself. Under the original offer
for an intact MIG, the Air Force
agreed to make such payment
and said it would pay $50,000
for each additional MIG deliv
ered. .
The money to pay for the
MIG, the spokesman said, will
come from a $31,000,000 general
purpose fund included in the Air
Force budget for the current fis
cal year. This money can be
spent at the discretion of Air
Secretary Harold E. Talbott.
Five Companies Hit
By Weekend Thefts
Thieves netted a total of more
than $100 from a series of five
illegal entries in the Medford
business district over the week
end, city police reported this
morning.
The largest single amount
stolen was $50 taken from the
private law office of District At
torney Walter Nunley in the
Brophy building. The thieves
took $39.52 in cash and loo
three-cent stamps from the Na
tional Hospital offices in the
same building, where they also
got 500 three-cent stamps from
the office of Safeway Stores,
Inc.
Two offices were entered at
225 East Main st. Ten dollars in
cash was taken from Seller and
Lacy Tailoring, and less than a
dollar in small change and
stamps was stolen from Stand
ard Insurance company.
All the offices were entered
between noon Saturday and op
ening hours this morning, police
said.
wick Breaks
weeks. On Sept 4, she broke the
English Channel record by swim
ming from England to France in
14 hours, 52 minutes.
Miss Chadwick started her
swim across the straits which
separate Europe from Africa
near Tarifa, Spain. She plunged
into the warm waters at 6:57
a.m. and emerged on the Moroc
can side at 12:03 p.m.
Guarded Against Sharks
Two Spanish seamen armed
with rifles stood guard in an ac
companying rowboat during the
swim to watch for the tell tale
triangular fins of sharks which
infest the straits. Three baby
whales frisked alongside Miss
Chadwick for some distance but
did not approach her.
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