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cort AHioriGfin By RUTHERFORD PO ATS United Press Corres pondenr Tokyo (U.R) Crack Ameri can Sabre jet fighter planes are now escorting reconnaissance planes over Northern Japan, ready to give battle to encroach ing MIGs of the Soviet Rusian air force. . Long standing orders to shoot down invading Red jets have ' been forcefully restated. It is indicated that both the United States and the Russian air forces now ere operating on a "shoot first" basis in the event of any contact over or near the North Japan area. A high American tofficer said that reconnaissance flights of US. Air Force planes, and map ping flights by B29s near the ex plosive' frontier would continue. The new situation was dis closed less than 24 hours after President Eisenhower said in a press conference in Washington that if a fighter escort was neces sary in any area where planes of this Country had a right to go, the escort planes ought to be used. The new situation arises from the shooting down by the Rus sians Sunday of a B29 mapping plane over Northern Japan. In "that instance, the captain of the B29 did not give orders to shoot back.- In the future, it is indicated, there will be no' such failure to meet a Red challenge. -1 surveyed the situation over Northern Hokkaido Island on 'a recent visit, before Sunday's at tack. There always has been a con stant watch for the MIGs. ' ; A handful of lonely American radar men watch the MIGs go through their paces every flying day. - - If the MIGs get too close, U.S. fighter bases 200 miles to the west and southwest are alerted.' If the. Soviet jets nose over Japanese territory, American fighter pilots scramble with orders to shoot down the MIGs or chase them out. x The Russians have their bases Qn the Kurile Islands, and Sakha lin Island,; 20 to. 40 miles from the' Hokkaido Island coast.. American airmen believe the MIGs which shot down the B29 Sunday came from en airdrome on Kunashiri, southernmost of the Kuriles, whose volcanic mountains can be seen even on cloudy days from Hokkaido's shores. On clear days the Russian air base, where scores of MIGs are stationed, is visible from a plane flying over Hokkaido. In addition to the contsant watch for invading MIGs, the Sabre jets are now escorting re- waiting to go up when it might be too late. , One reason for the American determination to continue flights in the area is that there are gaps in the giant Air Force pho tographic maps of Hokkadio, due to bad weather which pre vented earlier completion of a mapping project. If this frontier ever became a battlefield, the .maps would be useful. , . But a high officer made it clear that stubborn defense of American rights , is the bigger reason for continuing the dan gerous flights. "If we can't fly where we have : a perfect right to fly, we're in bad shape," he said. Veteran airmen predict that there will be no more iRnlnttuf -clashes so long as the planes on both sides are jets, v In all the clashes so far, Amer ican propeller-driven planes have been dumped by the MIGs. j connaissance planes instead of Ms ran HoBhern Japan anes ass Ceremonies live Citizen Oath To About By UNITED PRESS v Some 50,000 persons, of every race and more than 50 nations, became American citizens today at public celebrations of natur alization across half the world. ; Bands played. The flag flew for salute from Maine to the is land of Guam, from Internation al Falls, Minn., to Puerto Rico. Parades disbanded and stood at solemn attention for the unique ceremony of a national holiday that celebrated together- the strong arm of the nation's war veterans and the welcoming hand of a peaceful America. Courts Convene Federal courts convened in two New York ball parks, in San Diego's Balboa park, on the deck of the battleship Missouri, to administer the oath of citizen ship to refugees from war and Communism, to those who fled poverty and to those who travel ed for adventure and for love. , Only about 15,000 American citizens will be born today. The mass ceremony, coinci dent with the first celebration of Veterans Day, renamed from World War I's Armistice Day, was conceived by the Depart . ment of Justice. Application Log Jam Immigration officials said the large number of persons attain ing citizenship at this time was caused in part because the law prohibits naturalizations for the two months before election day. Increased applications had fur ther caused a log jam which was broken by intensive work toward today's ceremony. : Morse Predicts McCarthy Censure - Durham, N.C. (U.R) Sen. Wayne Morse predicted today the Senate will vote to censure Sen. "Joseph R. McCarthy by a three to one margin. Censure of McCarthy will be on the basis of his conduct as an "agent of the Senate," the Ore gon Independent said in a speech at Duke Woman's college audi torium last night. Morse said he and the Demo cratic party are willing to be "very bipartisan" as.far as the administration is concerned. Morse said prior to the election that he would vote with the Democrats to help them organize the Senate. "The President has not been bipartisan himself," Morse said. ?He has not asked for minor party consultation in advance of policy." . -: Morse, said that "when, the full facts are known, the Dixon-Yates contract will make the Teapot Dome look like an honest trans action." - The 54-year-old senator said he intends to run as an Inde pendent in 1956 but that he would run as a Democrat if he thought in that way he could "better help a sound liberal cause. - Washington U.R) Soviet Premier Georgi Malenkov has voiced to the United Stales his concern over the intensity of the East-West cold war. highly reliable sources said today. Two Hospital X-Ray Units Planned by Health Association . Permanent chest x-ray centers will be installed soon at Com munity and Sacred Heart hos pital, it was announced today by the Jackson County Public Health association. Installation at Community hospital will begin shortly, and work at Sacred Heart hospital will begin about the first of the year, "according to Mrs. Chester Guches, association president. . The project, financed through the sale of Christmas seals, "is designed to save lives and pro tect the welfare of Jackson county residents," Mrs. Guches said. The association undertook the project when it became known that the mobile x-ray un its would no longer be available in Jackson county for the detec tion of early cases of tuberculosis. The contract with Community 5ft, 000 At Puget Sound Navy yard, Bremerton, Wash., six Japanese were among the 92 persons re ceived as citizens on the quar terdeck of the battleship Mis souri, where their countrymen surrendered after World War II. . Portland (U.R) Some 35 men and women were sworn in here today as United States citi zens as part of a national observ ance of Veterans Day which saw some 50,000 others in the nation receive the oath of citizenship. Ceremonies here were con ducted by U.S. District Judge Claude McColloch. Local natu ralization officials said they be lieved it was a record for the state. Cornelius Town Marshal Seriously Injured in Attack Hillsboro U.R) Darrell Francis Goeden, 22,. off North Plains, was held in Hillsboro city jail today on a charge of asault with a deadly weapon after he attacked the Cornelius town marshal with a whisky bottle, inflicting serious injuries. The victim, Marion Thompson, 46, was taken to Jones hosDital in Hillsboro where attendants said he suffered severe head in juries, concussion, broken nose and face cuts. Goeden .was arrested by-state police and Hillsboro city offi cers two hours after the attack on Thompson. Routine Questions State police said Goeden and five other young men had parked their automobile in front of a Cornelius cafe last night and all but Goeden went inside. Thomp son, ' seing that Goeden was a stranger, approached him and started asking routine questions. Thompson" said that Goeden, without warning, pulled out a whisky bottle and began hitting the marshal about the head and face. Two Producer Groups Seek Milk Price Floor Portland U.R) Repeal of Oregon's milk control law by the voters in the recent election today led to producer groups to take the initial step toward ob taining some sort of price floor for milk at the producer level. The Grade A Milk Producers and Oregon Milk Producers As sociations wired the U.S. Depart ment of Agriculture at Washing ton asking a preliminary survey of the Portland milk shed to see whether a federal marketing or der or agreement is justified. Since Nov. 2 when the milk law was repealed, milk prices generally have gone down two cents a quart for store-purchased milk and most distributors have said home-delivered milk will go down about one-cent a quart in the next week or so. Roseburg U.R) The 59th an nual convention of the Oregon Wool Growers Association opens here tomorrow with some 250 sheep raisers expected for the two-day meeting.- hospital, signed this week, opens the way for the taking of chest x-rays of all persons admitted, using the association's equip ment, which has already been purchased. The program at Sacred Heart will be similar. Equipment for this installation is due shortly before Jan. 1. ; Under the program, all pa tients entering both institutions will be given x-rays as a matter of routine. In addition, a sched ule will be set up for voluntary x-rays for other persons, as in dividuals or as members of groups, under an "out-patient" arrangement. -V , " This phase of the program will get under way Dec. 1 at Community. "Mrs. Jack Walker, tuberculos is case-finding chairman for the Vets' Day Parade Held This Morning In Spite of Drizzle ' Many Units March In First Observance i Several hundred people lined downtown Medford streets at 11 a.m. today to watch the city's first Veterans day parade. Many stayed in parked cars, or looked on from open windows, in an effort to escape the drizzle of rain which fell throughout the parade. Veterans day, which super sedes the Armistice day observ ance held in Medford every year, since the end of World War I, opened this morning with vet erans' breakfasts sponsored by the local American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars posts. Guard Companies Today's parade was led by United States and American Le gion flags, followed by Medford's two National Guard units, Headquarters company and Com pany A, 1st battalion, 186th in fantry. They were followed by the Medford High school band, under the direction of I. A. Mi rick. Next in line were flags of the United States and various veterans organizations, and vet erans of the Spanish American war, World War I, and World War n. Daughters of Union Veterans, followed by members , of the 'American Legion auxiliary, were next in the line of march. The 40 et 8 "locomotive" followed these two groups. DAV Float Only float, in the parade was sponsored by the Medford chap ter of Disabled American Vet erans. Those on the float, which showed a group taking a blood donation, included members of the DAV auxiliary, The float was followed by the Red" Cross," the Medford Junior High school band, the Medford Civil Air Patrol squadron, two trucks from the Medford fire de partment, and representatives of Medford's many-Boy and Girl Scout organizations. Chiropractor Slain In Oregon City Office Oregon City (U.R) Dr. H. Hudson Judd, 42, a chiropractor here,- was shot and killed in his office yesterday by the former husband of his office receptionist who then shot himself through the temple, police said. . Mrs. Faye.Webb, about 28, said Hurshal Willard' Webb, 39, her ex-husband, had been emo tionally unstable for some time. "He made threats to everybody," she told police. . r - Mrs. Webb said her ex-husband entered the office at about noon and spent some 20 minutes talking with Dr. Judd. After he had .been there for about an hour, she related, Webb pulled a .22 automatic from his pocket and shot the doctor. He then took his own life. Mrs. Webb said she divorced her husband recently. The cou ple's two children live with their mother. . Study of Northwest Power Needs Slated Portland (U.R) The Col umbia . Basin Interagency com mittee yesterday authorized a group to look into the future power .needs of the Pacific Northwest and the region's cap ability of meeting them. , The group will operate under the CBIAC's Power Planning Subcommittee and will include at least five full time engineers. association, praised the hospitals for their cooperation, and the county medical society and pub lic health department for "an outstanding contribution to Jack son county's health resources." The installations follow a pattern of permanent chest x ray centers throughout the country, according to Miss B. J. Larson, administrator of com munity hospital. It has ' been found that those being admitted to hospitals have a much higher rate of active TB, as well as other abnormal chest conditions, than the public generally. About 10 per cent of Oregon hospital admissions have unre ported tuberculosis or other chest ailments, compared with only 2 per cent revealed in mass x-ray surveys. -Lung r cancer, heart conditions, tumors and MEDFORBfcTRIBUNE United Pre full Leased Wire 49th Year 22 Pages Gold Reserve Act . Validity Attacked : In Portland Suit Arbitrary Price Affects Operation , - , Portland (U.R) A civil dam age suit attacking the validity of the 20-year-old gold reserve act and the $35 per ounce price standard was filed in U.S. Dist rict Court here yesterday. The action against the federal government was brought by Gladys Laycock, Prairie City, who owns 65 per cent of the Dixie Meadows gold mine in Grant county. . Operation Unprofitable Mrs. Laycock's suit contends that the arbitrary gold ? price does not permit economical pro cessing of gold ore. She said the Dixie Meadows mining interests have some 243,000 tons of ore which it cannot afford to process profitably. Representing Mrs. Laycock is Norman Easley, Portland attor ney, who represented Woodrow Wilson Atwood and Stephen G. .Crippen, Medford, who were charged with illegal possession of gold. v The suit sets forth 'that the 1935 presidential" order: -fixing the price of the precious metal at $35 an ounce has substantial ly destroyed the gold mining in dustry, because the federal gov ernment has "deliberately con ducted a policy of inflation and depreciation of paper currency. Emergency Doesn't Exist The plaintiff also contends that the state of emergency on which the legislation was based no longer evists.'The constitu tionality of the gold act and presidential order were attack ed as unlawful delegation of au thority, direct interference with the right to own and use private property, exceeding me powers given Congress by the constitu tion and depriving the plaintiff of property without due process of law. former Sister Superior At Hospital Passes Funeral services will be held Saturday morning at Seattle, Wash., for Sister Rosanna '89, former superior of the Medford Sacred Heart hospital, sne aiea at the Seattle Mount St. Vincent- home for sisters who are no longer able to work. The sister was superior here at two different times, from 1922 to 1928 and from 1934 to 1940. She came to the United States from Canada as a youthful mem ber of the order of the Sisters of Providence of Charity. Washington U.R) The Post Office Department has announc ed an examination will be held in . McMinnville, Ore., for the postmastership of Carlton in Yamhill county. Boston (U.R) Former actress Anita Colby says middle-aged American women should find better use for their time and tal ents than wasting both on the pursuit of entertainment. other illnesses have .been . re vealed by the x-rays. Other . Oregon communities with such service include Sal em, Eugene, Portland, The Dal les, Dallas and Hood River. There are an estimated 100 undiscovered cases of tubercu losis in Jackson county. About 100 are now under, treatment Fifteen victims have been re ported this year r alone, includ ing several far-advanced and highly infectious cases. "Because tuberculosis can be prevented and cured, early dis covery .through . regular checks could eventually eliminate a dis ease which costs the taxpayers $15,000 per ease," according to Dr. A. Erin Merkel, county health officer. The control of TB throughout the United States costs some $600,000,000 ut MEDFORD, ORP - Tr i i i m . i - i i , ii . - i , i i- i , i - i mmm Knonland Feels Senate Should Act Boa oh Censure of McCarthy ' i READY FOR BATTLE against censure, Senator Joseph R. Mc :; Carthy (Rj Wis., is cheered by presentation of 250,000 signatures proteg.censure resolution pending in Senate. Vincent Ferrari, v past Queene Coun,ty N. Y., commander of Catholic War Veterans asked McCarthy to present names to Senate. (International). Unr An ta rctic B Washington (U.R) The Unit ed States . today flatly denied a report that it plans to test H bombs in the Antarctic. The Atomic Energy Commis sion said there was no truth in the reports. Later the State de partment also issued a denial Legion Will Distribute Flag Etiquette Booklets Portland U.R) The Oregon department of the American Le-" gion will begin distribution this week of a pamphlet on flag eti quette to the state's elementary public schools. " 1 ' George Nelson, the depart ment's Americanism chairman, said the distribution of the pam phlet has approval of State School Superintendent Rex Put nam. ' -- ..;-r -' ; The booklet contains informa tion on proper, observance and display of the American flag. . Air Force Plane Sets Flight Mark to Germany Frankfurt', Germany U.R) A U. S. Air Force C118 trans port broke a record today in flying here from Westover Field, Mas., in 11 hours and two min utes. . ?-v; V. J The f our-engined plane, a mil itary version of the commercial DC6, carried 30 pasengers and an Air Force crew of the Mili tary Air. Transport Service on the 5,500 mile flight. nually. he said. : A minimum charge, covering the actual cost of the x-ray film, will be made at both hospital in stallations, Mrs. Walker report ed. To begin with, the charge will be $1.75, although it . is hoped the cost can be brought down eventually, particularly for groups getting x-rays. Indig ent patients, as in the past, will receive x-rays without cost through programs of the assoc iation and of the health depart ment. Purchase of the two machines has been financed through the sale of TB Christmas seals, and proceeds of this year's sale, to begin Nov. 22, will also go into the x-ray program; The hospit als will provide technicians o operate the equipment, in addi tion to providing the spactvf ol AY, NOVEMBER 11,1 954 oni b Tests and communicated it to the U.S. Embassy in New Zealand for de livery to the New Zealand gov ernment. Concern Expressed ; Walter Nash, New Zealand Labor party leader, has been quoted as expressing concern over reports , that the United States might be thinking : of shifting its H-bomb proving ground to the' south Polar c6n tinent from - the Marshall .Is lands in the Western Pacific. A. U.S. icebreaker will leave Boston for the Antarctic Dec. 1 in advance of an expedition planned ' for later on. Fortune magazine has suggested that one purpose of the expedition is to find out whether the Russians have been using Antarctica as a nuclear testing ground. - ' Asked whether this , country plans any H-bomb tests in that part of the world, the AEC is sued a one word reply: "No." ; Springfield Alcohol u Plant Sold to SF Firm '- . Seattle -J(U.R) General Serv ices Administration officials said today the Willamette Valley Wood Chemical Co. alcohol plant at Springfield, Ore., had been sold . to the Learner Investment Co., San Francisco, for $227,000.. The plant was constructed by the federal government in 1942 at a cost of $3,093,000. low-up medical attention will be carried out ) by physicians and the health department, 5 which will have charge of the records and files. Clerical work and out patient assistance will be pro vided by volunteer workers in the health association. Mrs. Walker credited , the med ical society's x-ray , committee with outstanding help in getting the project started. Members are Drs. C. I. Drummond, Earl Law son and A. E. Merkel. - She added that the health as sociation feels it to be its job to make it known that "every case of tuberculosis must be dis covered before a community is safe from the disease, and that early discovery through period ic x-rays is the most successful, as - well as the most practical, way to do this job." - United Freaa uU .eased Win Price 5c No: 202 Going Home Before Problem Settled Supporters Drive for Compromise Formula Washington (U.R) Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland said''today the Senate should dispose of the censure move against Sen. Joseph R McCarthy before going home. As . the Senate rolled into its second day of full dress debate Knowland , told newsmen, doubt very much whether sena tors on either side of the aisle or either side of the question- want to delay final action." Knowland s remarks came after Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R-Ind.) proposed that the Senate call off the temper rattling cen sure debate until January to re move the issarfrqm the present atmosphere of post - election fatigue. ' McCarthy's supporters drove hard behind the scenes to whip up a compromise formula to blunt or at least soften the ap parently unbeaten censure move. But Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R-ni.), a floor leader of the Mc Carthy forces, denied any intent by his side to filibuster. Dirksen agreed with Knowland that the Senate is "almost compelled to take action" before adjourning its special session, which was called specifically to debate the censure issue. - Knowland, questioned by re porters about Capehart's , pro posal, said, "The Senate was call ed for this purpose. It should be disposed of in the 83rd Congress" which will end when the special session adjourns. By previous agreement, the session must end by Dec. 23. . : --.:-7 -Theatrical Atmosphere "I have found no evidence of any desire to filibuster this or delay it until Dec. 23," Know land said. "I don't believe any filibuster is seriously contem plated or that it would , suc ceed. There is no indication that it would be desirable or ad vantageous." !' V . Dirksen said he was "distress ed at the theatrical atmosphere" in which spectators were stand ing in line in the Capitol. corri dors for admission to the gallery. By 11:30 a.m., half an hour be fore today's Senate . session began, some 450 seats in the gal leries were filled up and several hundred more prospective spec tators were lined in a main Capi tol corridor and stretched back to the main rotunda. Canadian Girl Held For Immigration Men 'Anita Louise Gladu,18, Van couver, B.C., was arrested this morning by state police south of Ashland, and was charged with soliciting a ride on a public high way, according to Sheriff How ard Gault. " - The Canadian girl was lodged inthe Jackson county jail,' and is being held for action by immi gration authorities, Gault said. She apparently had hitchhiked all the way from Vancouver to southern Oregon. Cowes Sees Bright Future for Nation Columbus, Ohio (U.R) John Cowles, president of the Minn eopolic Star and Tribune, today predicted that the next 10' years will be the brightest of any past decade in the history of Ameri can newspapers-. Cowles praised the progress made by American newspapers over the past 30 or 40 years, saying they have become more responsible. - Opposes FORECAST: Cloudy tonight - with Intermittent light rain.. Partly cloudy- with scattered showers Friday. Low tonight 40-42. High Friday St. - - : Temp. Highest Yesterday . , M Lowest this Morning - 45 Prec. to 10:30 ajn. Today . 04 mm AEC Bound To Buy Combine's Power For 25-Year Period - - ... - Committee Resumes ; i Contract Hearings Washington 0J.R) The . Atomic Energy Commisison today Wrote into the contro versial Dixon-Yates power con tract a provision "in th light of the recent election" . which would enable the gov ernment to lake over the proj ect within three years. Washington (U.R) Chairman Sterling Cole (R-N.Y.) of the House - Senate Atomic Energy Committee said today that the controversial Dixon-Yates power contract has been signed. Cole called a meeting of his committee for 2 3p.m. (EST) to resume hearings on the contract. Memorandum Signed The contract is between the Atomic energy Commission and the Dixon-Yates utilities com bine. It was signed at the AEC today, along with a memoran dum of understanding between the parties, Cole said. " The Contract binds the AEC to buy 600,000 . kilowatts of ' power over a 25-year period. The power is to be generated by a $107,250,000 steam plant 'the Dixon-Yates group contracts to build at West Memphis, Ark. The power will be fed into the Tennessee Valley Authority sys tem at Memphis' to replace a like amount of TVA power used by the AEC Rep. James E. Van Zandt (R Pa.) said he would call for a . showdown vote on the contract tomorrow. French Socialists Back European Union 1 Paris (U.R) France's pow erful Socialist party formally threw its support behind the new Western European union today in an Armistice Day vote that practically guaranteed ratifica tion by the French National as-, sembly. . The Socialist party, largest hv France, has 104 votes in the As sembly. This means Premier, Pierre Mendes-France almost certainly has enough support to -win ratification of the London Paris accords rearming a free; West Germany. , V The Socialists split their vote ', on the European Defense com-, munity project and EDC was de feated. . C?s . Northwest Building May Establish Record . Portland U.PJ Building is' booming in . the Pacific North--west and there is a chance that 1954 might become the record building year in the region's his- tory, Equitable Savings & Loan , Association reported today. Money for Northwest con-, struction to date amounts - to $290,276,278, the association's; statistical analysis showed. This : is within $43,825,390 of 1950, the all-time high year, the associa tion said.' ' , .: . New Model of Sea Dart Plane Being Speeded ; San Diego (U.R) The Con vair Division of General Dynam ics Corp. said today it is speed ing work on a new model of the ' Sea Dart, the supersonic sea- i plane which exploded over San Diego Bay last week, killing the , pilot. . Convair President Gen. Joseph McNarney said Model No. 3 of the Sea Dart was being com pleted as rapidly as possible. , Model No. 2 exploded. ' Salem KU.R) T. J. Fry, formerly of Portland, has been appointed as apprenticeship sup ervisor for the Salem area, the State Bureau of Labor said this -week.
