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Rfldras Cites 8ff MAW M 1 Its -C Rli "v .a.: PI) Ktesj CHARGED WITH TREASON Army Major Ambrose H. Nugent (Lett) of Merrill, Wis., 44-year-old career soldier, was charged with committing treason while a prisoner of war for 38 months in North Korea. Nugent said he thought and hoped the Army would give him a fair trial. "That is all I ask," he said. At right is his wife, Olga, and his two children by former marriage, Frances (left) and Marsha. 1 ; Case Withdraws Support in One Count of Censure Washington (U.R) Sen Jancis E. Case (R-S.D.), a mem ber of the Senate's Censure Com mittee, today formally withdrew his suport for one of the two counts on which the committee recommended censure of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy. " Case announced his switch in a letter to Sen. Arthur V. Wat kins (R-Utah), chairman of the Censure Committee. It was made public shortly after Senator Wil liam E. Jenner (R-lrid.), had urged the Senate to shelve the committee recommendations. In an impassioned speech, Jen ner said the move against Mc Carthy was Communist inspired and should be killed.. Quits Zwicker Incident Case was one of six members of the bi-partisan committee, which recommended unanimous ly that McCarthy be censured for his attitude toward a 1951-52 Senate Elections Subcommittee and for his treatment of Brig. Gen. Ralph W. Zwicker. The South Dakotan's letter said he would not vote in the Senate for the count against Mc Carthy in connection with the Zwicker incident. Case referred to a letter from Army Secretary Robert T. Stev ens to Watkins, responding to questions rwhich. Case -had sub nutted during a conference in Watkins office Saturday. Would Be Wrong He said that letter, together with two other letters which Stevens brought to the confer ence and prior evidence, con vinced him "that it would be wrong to censure Sen. McCarthy on the second count, the Zwick er affair." "'Therefore, I shall not vote for it," Case wrote Watkins. ' The Stevens letter to which he referred was not made public. McCarthy was accused of abusing Zwicker at a closed hear ing last Feb. 18. Zwicker took the position that Army orders forbade him irom answering nupstions about who was respon sible for the promotion and dis rharpp of Mai. Irving Peress, an Army dentist described by Mc Carthy as a "fifth amendment Communist." Chairman Watkins said Case s withdrawal of support from the zwirkpr charge "doesn't affect me, and I understand that it doesn't affect otner memoers oi the committee either, mamas Communists In the Senate chamber, mean while, Jenner said "the strategy of censure was initiated by the fnmrrmnist COnSDiraCy." . In a table-thumping, thunder ing speech, Jenner urged his col leagues to table the censure reso lution and "counter -attack against the Communist conspir acy." ' The attacks against McCarthy, -including the censure motion, jenner saia, snouiu uc vwcu lieht of the "continuous Com munist efforts to sabotage the legislative process in the last 16 years. -- Cordon Blames Vote Defeat On 'Not Being Portland (U.R) Sen. Guy Cordon says he lost the recent U. S. senatorial contest to Rich ard L. Neuberger,, because he had "never been in any sense a politician." Cordon said he had not intend ed to seek reelection after 10M -years in the senate and had fail ed to keep his political fences mended. He also said he "didn't know much about Multnomah county politics" and felt his time could be better spent upstate. Deciding Factor . Neuberger's margin in Mult nomah county proved to be the deciding factor in the hotly contested race. , Cordon also said he had in oruitA to return to Oregon in July to be'gin his campaign. But the deatn or sen. tiugn uuuer elevated Cordon to the head of the senate interior . and insular McCarthy Co mm ittee Said Holding Answer To Peress Question Washington U.R) Sen Arthur V. Watkins (R-Utah), told Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy today that th files of McCarthy's own Investigation Subcommittee con tain the answer to "who promot ed Press?" . As Watkins spoke, McCarthy held in his hand a document stamped in red "confidential" which was apparently the ma terial to which Watkins referred. Watkins told McCarthy that A r m y Secretary Robert T. Stevens furnished a list of 30 names, "beginning with a gen eral" to the Army-McCarthy in vestigation last spring and ask ed that the document be kept confidential. Watkins said the list "contain ed all the names of those who Grand Hotel Sold To Portland Man; Plan to Remodel Purchase of the Grand hotel, 202 ' North v Front st, by Otto Schulz, P o r t land,; apartment house owner, w as announced here today by his son, Harry Schulz. The amount of money involved in the transaction was not revealed. Harry Schulz is co-owner, with his brother, Robert Schulz of Brownie's Plumbing and Heat ing, Inc., Medford. The brothers will not be associated in opera tion of the hotel. Second Recent Sale Schulz purchased the hotel from E.B. and Hazel D. Serruys, who bought the Grand only a few months ago from August Zattlin. The latest transaction, which- was handled through Weisbrod Realty company, in eludes three lots in addition to the hotel. v . The new owner, according to his son, plans a longterm re modeling and renovation pro gram, scheduled to begin in the next three or four months with remodeling of the lobby. No future plans have been an nounced by Mr. and Mrs Serruys., - Industrial Section In Honolulu Burns Honolulu U.R) A fire swept over , three, acres of industrial property' in ' the ' southwestern section of Honolulu last night, causing damage estimated at $1, 000,000. . - The fire broke out in the Tong Publishing Company shortly be fore 8 p. m Exploding materials sent flames into nearby houses belonging to Hawau builders. A half dozen small industries and businesses were gutted be fore eight fire companies brought the blaze under control. Politician1 affairs committee and the re sulting press of business delay ed the campaign. The senator said he intended to practice law once his senate affairs are settled, but he didn't know whether that would be in Oregon or in Washington, D.C., or both places. Power Issue Complex He said he had not reached any conclusion about the effect of the power issue in the elec tion. People were more interest ed in getting power than in what agency built the dams was his impression, But Cordon pointed 'out that the power issue was complex and not understood by many people, which "left them open to the type of presentation that Neuberger made, one that was wholly without foundation in fact." had anything to do with" the promotion and honorable dis charge of former. Maj. Irving Peress, a dentist whom McCar thy has called a "fifth amend ment Communist." i McCarthy promptly told Wat kins he was "wasting" his sub committee's time. Sometimes Watkins and Mc Carthy exchanged bitter words at a hearing before McCarthy's investigating subcommittee. The hearing was held shortly before the Senate - resumed de bate on the McCarthy censure resolution. . - . i At one point, McCarthy de clared that Watkins was "dere lict in his duty" as a senator. Watkins replied that McCar tney would never be satisifed in the Peress case until "someone was shot or hung" regardless of the facts of the case. . Watkins said that if he might give some "advice from an old er man," McCarthy should ques tion the 30 persons on the list in closed session in an attempt to find out who was responsible. Watkins told McCarthy that if he would follow this "reason able procedure," it would "help a lot in pinpointing who was re sponsible ' . ; .' ... z, : DA Ready To File Answer to Motions District Attorney Walter Nun- ley reported today that the state will file a brief within the next two days on the defense motion for a jnew trial for James Nor man Jensen, 25, Larkspur, Calif., convicted of murder here. Circuit Judge H. K. Hanna re ported earlier that he was with holding a decision on the motion until a brief for the state is filed. The court has 60 days upon which to rule on the motion from the filing date,, otherwise it is considered denied. Jensen, convicted of the April 24 murder of Mrs. Fern Hue, has been sentenced to die Jan. 7 in the lethal gas chamber at Salem. A similar motion is also pend ing in the case of LeRoy (Bud) Starkey Jr., ' 20, Eagle Point, who was convicted of assault and robbery while armed with a dangerous weapon. Nunley said the state's answer to the new trial motion would be filed to day. Starkey has already Deen sentenced to 10 years in tne stated prison on the charge, but is now out on bail, pending the motion. " '' He was convicted of the April 30 knifing of Philip Henselman, Jacksonville, well-known Kogue valley artist and interior decor ator. ' Midnight Deadline For Tax payments Property taxpayers have until midnighi today in which to have their payments post maxked for acceptance under the percentage refund system in Jackson county. Any tax payments post marked on or before the dead line will be subject to the fol lowing refunds: payment in full, 3 per cent; three-fourths payment, 2 per cent and half payment in advance. 1 per . cent. , -.. The line of those paying their taxes in person had shortened . today from the large number, of persons standing in it last week. Fishing Trade Formula For Tuna Said Possible Portland U.R) Japanese Ambassador Sadao Iguchi says he believes a formula can be worked out whereby Oregon fish packing plants can continue to import raw Japanese tuna without hurting the Japanese canned tuna -industry. - Iguchi said he was confident a fishing trade formula would "protect both the industry and the American consumer. Waste and Poor Administration , Declared Visible Senator Plans To Run as Independent r Washing to n (U.R) Sen. Wayne Morse, (I-Ore.) today said that one reason he broke from the Republican party was that President Eisenhower, then a candidate for President, had mis managed the North .Atlantic Treaty Organization. Morse, who split from the GOP during the 1952 campaign, said a trip overseas showed "waste" and poor administration. The senator said many military officials said to him in off-the-record conversations that "they knew the administrative setup of NATO was wasteful but the re sponsibility for it was Eisenhow er's. They said he was not7 a good administrator and that his idea of a compromise was to give each group what it asked for. Eye on White House" Morse reported that "Many of them also said that they thought one of the reasons for the inef ficient administrative setup of NATO was because Eisenhower had his eyes on the White House and was trying to please every? one." ; ... ' Morse said he told Harold E. Stassen in 1952, now foreign op erations administrator, that "I was shocked by the expediency and political immorality of the Eisenhower campaign and that they could count me out." The Independent senator add ed that he was shocked when Mr. Eisenhower "castigated the State Department for taking the troops out of South Korea" when "there was no dbubt that Eisenhower was a party to the recommenda tion" to remove the troops as chief of staff of the Army and "later as the chief civilian ad viser to the President." , Won't Join Democratic Parly Morse also said, in a copyright ed interview published in the weekly news magazine, U. S. News anJJVqrld Reppr,,thahe will vote with the Democrats to organize the next Senate but he does not intend to join the Demo cratic party. Morse, whose vote helped the Republicans organize the closely-divided 83rd Con gress, said he decided two years ago he would vote with the Dem ocrats m the 84th Congress re gardless of this year's election outcome. Morse said he thinks the Demo crats will restore his seniority which controls his committee as signments and which the Repub licans denied him after he quit the GOP. "I don't think the Democrats will make the historic mistake the Republicans made," he said. To Run as Independent But, he said, "my present in tention is to run as an independ ent in the next election." He said he thinks "party machines have perverted the original pur pose of the parties into policy controls." ' ... "Time after time the majority of the Senate of the United States are with me on a point, but they are not free to vote with me," Morse said. ' Madras Motel Cabins Destroyed by Blaze - Madras - (U.R) Fire, touch ed off by a propane gas explo sion, destroyed five cabins of the Rainbow Court motel here yes terday, but guests who occupied four of the units escaped without injury. The explosion occurred about 6:30 a.m. and the fire spread rapidly. Some of the tourists lost part of their personal belong ings. The Madras fire department fought the blaze for four hours, pumping some 60,000 gallons of water on : the flames before bring the fire under control. Fire- Chief Glen Nelson said if the firemen had arrived 10 min utes later the five remaining cabins, a store, cafe and service station would also have been lost. - Owner 1 Cecil Acteson esti mated his loss at between $15, 000 and $20,000. Downey, Calif. U.R) Song writer Johnny Mercer, 44, today pleaded guilty to a drunk driv ing charge and was fined $200. Weather FORECAST: Decreasing elondi - ness and colder tonight Low tonight 35. Partly cloudy Tuesday with high 55. - - Temp. Highest yesterday 59 ; Lowest this morning : lo 18:3Q iJn. today - a Prec. IS MEDFORD&TRIBtJNE United Press Full Leased Wire 49th Year 14 Pages Economists View 1955 as Another Second-Best Year Gradual Improvement Expected To Continue Washington (U.R) Govern ment economists predicted to day that 1955 will be another second-best "year for business, a little better than this year but not quite as good as 1953. - ' They said they expect the gradual economic improvement which started last month to con tinue without any serious set backs. But they expressed con fidence that President Eisen hower will step in with requests for emergency- measures, such as tax cuts and a greatly ex panded public works program, should the optimistic forecast go wrong. ' Income To Stay High These economists based their prediction mainly upon belief that the construction boom will continue, personal income will stay high, and that manufactur ers, wholesalers and retailers will begin to build up inventor ies which they have been using up for the last year. The government economists' forecast' concurred with one made recently by business and industrial leaders making up the government's business advi sory council. - Advance predictions that this year would be a second-best one for business were borne out by a Commerce department report made public last night It esti mated gross national product er-.theTthird..quarter-.at an an nual rate , of $355,500,000,000, about the same as the two pre ceding quarters. Below 1953 Record It indicated the gross national oroduct for the entire year of 1954 would be about $356,000, 000,000, some $8,000,000,000 less than the record prosperity of 1953 but about $10,000,000,- 000 more than in 1952. Gross national product, the total of all goods and services produced, is considered the best business barometer. The economists said indica tions are that new construction, which has been rising to new records nearly every month this year so far, will continue on its sensational upsurge with ! housing maintaining its posi tion as pace setter. Blazes, Vandalism Keep Firemen Busy An awning fire, a blown-down power line,, two acts of vandal ism, two flue fires and a trash fire kept firemen busy here yes terday. Firemen reported that one awning was destroyed and- an other damaged dbout 8:45 a.m. at the Allen hotel. A cigarette dropped from a-window of an upstairs room was the apparent cause, firemen said. Firemen were called about 3:10 p.m. to South Keene way where a power service line had been blown down in the high wind. They stood by until a Cal ifornia Oregon Power company repair crew arrived. Fire hydrants in two widely separated areas in Medford were shut off last night. Firemen were told that the hydrants were turned on by boys who were riding in an old model coupe. , The flue fires were about 4:50 p.m. at the D. A. Runyard home, 2748 Jacksonville high way, and about 6:50 p.m. at the L. L. Whiteside residence, Glen wood st. No damage was re ported in either case. The late night trash fire was extinguished in a vacant lot near the high school shop building. Fred Meyer Store . Robbery. Suspects Held Portland 4U.PJ Police in As toria and Portland today arrest ed two of four suspects in Satur day's $5700 robbery of a Fred Meyer store here. Arrested at Astoria was Max Eugene Morrow, 19, Portland. Morrow is stationed with the Coast Guard at Astorja. - In custody in Portland was William R. Booster, 19, Portland, an employee of the store. r MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY NOVEMBER 15, 1954 Navy Patrol Plane Ditches in Ocean; Four Men Rescued Rescue Craft Missing With Two-Man Crew . Norfolk,' Va. (U.R) Four survivors of a Navy patrol plane that crashed off the North Car olina coast were plucked from the water today but a fifth man perished and .two ; members of a search crew were missing. A Coast Guard seaplane land ed on the water and rescued four of the Navy plane's crew who had managed to get aboard their life raft. They were spot ted in the cold gray morning mist, floating on Pamlico sound northwest of barren Ocracoke island. Survivors Identified In Washington, the Naval Air Station at Anacostia identified the survivors as Lt. Robert Law ton Mallonee, Towson, Md.; Lt. Cmdr. George S., Smith, Fair fax, Va.; Lt. Albert W. Funk house, Edgewater, Md., and an enlisted seaman, Dimitrius D. Sotiropoulos, Washington, D.C. Still missing was Seaman Richard Garlenski, Washington. The body of the fifth crew man was not recovered. The Coast Guard said it understood the plane sank after a forced landing. Mechanical Trouble - -The- P V2,- a twin-engined sea plane, was on a flight from Mi ami to the Anacostia, Md., Naval Air Station when it radioed that it - would attempt a forced landing at sea 30 miles off Cape Lookout, N.C. ' . The plane had reported mech anical trouble. There was no word from an F3D fighter plane from the near by Cherry Point, N.C, Marine Air station Which was diverted to search for the PV2 while on a routine training flight. The fighter, carrying a two-man crew, was listed as missing. Democrats Other Power Deals ."-...- Washington (U.R) The Democrats may dig into other administration power deals when they launch their promised in vestigation of the Dixon-Yates contract in the next Congress, it was learned today. A key Democrat said the in 'quiry may embrace Atomic Energy Commisison contracts with Electric Energy, Inc., and the Ohio Valley Electric Corp. Both are private power groups supplying AEC installations. Administration spoke sm e n justified some of the terms of the Dixon-Yates agreements during hearings before the congression al Atomic Energy Committee last week by citing the precedents of the other two agreements. Demo crats were understood to believe they can show that these con tracts, too, have had bad fea tures..; ; AFL Subcommittee Lists Changes Wanted From New Congress in Taft Washington (U.R) An AFL subcommittee wants the new Congress in January to raise the wage minimum and repeal part of the Taft-Hartley labor law in an effort to curb the movement of businesses from high-wage to low-wage areas. The AFL's legislative coun cil's; subcommittee - listed these actions in a five point program revealed last night in the AFL NeWS -Reporter, official AFL publication. Requests Listed The program, labeled the "minimum to staunch- the in dustrial hemorrhage in many communities,'' calls for: . ;; L- Raising the federal mini mum wage under the Fair Labor Standards Act from 75 cents to $V.25 an hour. a proposal pre viously endorsed by the AFL and CIO. The Labor department J now : if . preparing . recommenda n r r rt n a - ;i UUUU BANQUET SPEAKER Pic- tured above is George Wilson, president of the California Farm Bureau association Wil son will be the featured speaker for a Thursday banquet of the Oregon Farm Bureau Federa tion convention, which opens in Medford tomorrow. Headquar ters for the convention, which will run through Friday, " will be the Medford hotel. Phoenix Man Hurt In Knife Attack by Unidentified Pair Jack Dempsey Fitzsimmons, as,, i'noenix, was reported in good" condition today at a local hospital after suffering multiple knife. wounds. early, yesterday morning just north-of the. Big Y market on Highway. 99, ac cording to attendants and city police. . Fitzsimmons was wounded about the face, arms and right knee, attendants at Community hospital reported. Police said the knee wound was the worst.. . The man told police that he was attacked by two unknown assailants ' apparently without reason." He had been attempting to get a ride to Central Point when the attack occurred, police added. An investigation was contin uing today by both city and state police officers. . . . Work on Court house x Annex Progressing Construction officials , at the new courthouse annex site re ported today that welding on the steel framework can' continue if -the rain does not get any heavier. . ' . ;:, U' -:; Most of the connecting joists are now installed, and work is expected to begin tomorrow on installing the wall studs, they said; When the latter is complet ed, the roof will be put iri place. -Workers hoped to pour the concrete walls of the first floor vault tomorrow and its top on Thursday. ' DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 376.74 off 0.36; 20 railroads 126.88 off 0.77; 15 utili ties 60.24 off 0.36, and 65 stocks 138.08 off 0.45. Sales today were about 3,080,000 shares, compar ed with 3,720,000 shares traded Friday; . ; tions to Congress that may call for some increase in the mini mum wage and certainly will call for expanding its coverage. The ' AFL subcommittee also asked that the work week be cut from 40 hours to 35 hours under the same act: : Would Repeal Provision ' 2. . Repeal of the Taft-Hartley provision that permits states to enforce the so-called "right to work" laws that ban all forms of union '.. security, including maintenance of membership and the union shop which requires new ; employees to join unions where they already exist This proposal also has been recom mended by labor leaders and stems from one of their most bitter criticisms of the Taftr Hartley law. ",; . 3. Repeal of the provision in the Walsh-Healey Public Contracts-act that. permits employ - I - ! ..:" -.. ...... , I; United Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 205 Nationalist China ' Military Leaders Discuss Emergency 28 Crewmen Said V Lost in Attack Taipei, Formosa (U.R) ;, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's , military chiefs met today to cope with an emergency caused by the sinking "of a U.-built Nationalist warship by four Communist Chinese torpedo boats. . ; said Nationalist warplanes and seaplanes had picked up all but 28 of. the 200 crewmen who were - aboard the destroyer-es- . cort Tai Ping when it was at tacked early yesterday. Third Spectacular Move . The Tai Ping, formerly the U. S. S. Decker, - went down north of the Nationalist- held Tachen Islands, 200 miles north of Formosa, which have been under Communist artillery fire for several weeks. Sinking of the Tai Ping was the third spectacular Commun ist move in the recent outbreak ' of fighting around Chiang's out post islands. Earlier the Reds had heavily shelled Quemoy is land, 115 miles west of Formosa and bombed the northernmost Tachen islands. Nationalist naval authorities puuiicu vui.uiuic ulna a year ago that fast motor torpedo boats would seriously threaten Nation alist naval supremacy in the Formosa straits. Military Circles Surprised Action of the Red torpedo boats surprised military circles in Taipei, even thought it had been reported that the Russians were handing over these craft to the Red Chinese in increasing ii mutters. Nationalist. newspapers angri ly demanded "massive retalia tion" against the Chinese and denounced the attack on the Tai t: . f C1U aa a ucuuciau; wuuiiuuui attempt to strain Nationalist re- . lations with the United States. Reliable sources said they be lieved Washington's views pos sibly were being sought by the Nationalists before retaliating against commumst aeienses. Christian Science tnurcn 10 duiiq T nJn.r 1., 4Via Chairman' of the Board of the First Church of C h r i s t, Scientist," Medford, that due to the growth of the congregation and the Sunday school and the need for expansion, they have purchased approximately three" and a half acres at Windsor ave. and Oakwood dr., on the East Side, and are planning to build a church to meet these require ments; and to provide off-street parking.- Ben' H. Todd, Medford archi tect, is designing the new building.:-;, i .-J - -. ' . - Hartley Law ers or unions to Dring court suits against labor .department orders setting minimum wage levels in plants holding govern ment contracts.. Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell has indicated that the administration may take a position on a legislative proposal by Sen. Frederick G. Payne (R.-Me.) to do this. Tax Exemption Repeal . , 4. Repeal of federal tax ex emption for local government bonds issued, for the purpose of "subsidizing and luring .indus trial enterprises . to new loca tions." . . .; 5. Disallowance as legitimate business expenses rentals paid by migrating concerns.' . The subcommittee said the five actions are needed because of the "drastic migrations'' of business firms, particularly to the South,; to cut ' their labor costs.'.. - - '.- . VxX rrK W&YKT TF .. u
