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Recommended A feature itory mi eonitrue- Veaiher Forecast YariaMe Ucm cloudiness today and Monday. Hifh today 65, low tonight SJV High Monday . . Temp..' Hlghert yesterday ft ' Lowest yesterday St ttoa f bride m fai JaeV; tountj appeari w Fi; todty'f Uue of 11UI1 Tri bune. United Press Full Leased Wire United Press full Leased Wire 49th Year ,;" 30 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1954 Price 5c No. 209 r I - r Gen. T?lor Takes Far Edit Command Of Aped Forces Retains Leadership y Of 8th Army Troops Camp Zama, Japan U.R) Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, who led . the' 8th army in the final stages of the Korean war, took over Saturday as commander of United States army forces in the Far East." -:: Taylor-assumed command of all American ground troops on guard against Communist ag gression in Korea; Japan and Okinawa in a five-minute, cere mony in this former Japanese imperial army training camp. . Succeeds Gen. Hull The command had been held ' by Gen. John E. Hull, who will continue as the United Nations military commander and com mander of all American army, navy and air units in northeast Asia. Hull was unable to at tend the ceremonies because of "unforeseen circumstances." - A spokesman said his helicopter was grounded at Tokyo by rain and fog. ; ' Taylor," who will retain com mand of the 8th army, moved his headquarters from Seoul to Camp Zama, 15 miles south of Tokyo, and assumed the formal title of comander, army forces Far East (AFFE). ; A drizzling 1 rain forced the change of command ceremonies indoors and cancelled a 600- man parade. Huge Redeployment ' Taylor's appointment follow ed a huge redeployment of Am erican ground and air strength in the Far East designed to give toe U. S. a.more mobile striking zorce . against possible Commu nist aggression. ; ; ; Six of the eight American di visions which fought in Korea have been moved to Japan, Ha waii and the United States, ann" air force combat units have been shifted from vulnerable Korean fields to bases in Japan and the Philippines. State's Bee Keepers Schedule Convention The Rogue River Valley Bee Keepers association will be host to the Oregon State Bee Keep ers association Dec. 3 and 4, ac cording to Delmar Smith, RRV BKA president. . , . . - -; f- The Medford hotel will be headquarters for the annual con vention. The meeting will be T)pen to the public, Smith added. Convention plans will be an nounced later. SATURDAY SCORES WEST . Oregon 33, Oregon State 14 UCLA 34, Southern Califor nia 0 Washington State 26. Wash ington 7 California 28. Stanford 20 -Idaho 7, Brigham Young 0 Lewis and Clark 38. Eastern Washington 13 Utah 41. Montana 20 SOUTHWEST , Oklahoma 55, Nebraska, 7 Baylor 33, SMU 21 Rice 6. Texas Christian 0 Wyoming 28. Tulsa 27 Texas Tech 61. Houston 14 , ; MIDWEST I Ohio State 21, Michigan 7 i. Notre Dame 34, Iowa 18 ; Colorado 38, Kansas State 14 : Northwestern 20, Illinois 7 v Wisconsion 27, Minnesota 0 ' Michigan State 40, Marquette 10 ; - Purdue 13. Indiana 7 ? Missouri 41. Kansas 18 ' SOUTH . LSU 7, Arkansas 6 William and Mary 13, Wake Forest 9 Duke 26. South Carolina 7 Kentucky 14, Tennessee 13 North Carolina 26, Virginia 14 Maryland 48, George Wash ington 6 u ; Auburn 27. Clemson 8 Vanderbilt 34, Villanova 19 ? EAST . ' ; Harvard 13. Yale 9 ' Syracuse 20, Fordham 7 Rutgers 45. Columbia 12 J Wesl Virginia 28. .North Car - olina State 3 : ! : ! -, 3 .Holy Cross 46, Connecticut v 25 . Penn State 13. Pittsburgh 0 Princeton 49, Dartmouth 7 L Boston U. 19, Tempi 7 - 300TH MERCY FLIGHT PATIENT Six-year-old Ruth. Alexander, Dunsmuir, Calif., Friday was the ,300th patient carried by Mercy Flights, Inc.-, Jackson ; county's non profit air ambulance service, since it first started service in January, 1950. The little girl is now at Community hospital for treat ment of a head injury, and Saturday was re- MORSE ATTACKS CASE'S STAND ! Washington (U.R) Sen. Wayne Morse (Ind.-Cre.) Satur day accused Sen. Francis Case (R-S.D.), who switched his posi tion on part of the McCarthy censure report, of "ahbing . . . without an iota of justification." Case retorted that Morse Pro-McCarthy Forces Attempting To Make Morse Co-Defendant By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington . An effort is being made by McCarthy forces,, in the Senate to drag Sen. Wayne "Morse into a position of being, in effect, a co-defendant of the Wisconsin senator who is! on trial for his past conduct in public, off ice. , f. This move, which has so far fallen flat, has been sparked by Idaho Republican Sen. Herman Welker, whose role in the cur rent debate - over the censure move' is that of McCarthy's floor manager. - ' Morse is one of three senators who brought specific charges against McCarthy last , summer. He is expected to vote for. the findings of the Watkins' commit tee, which recommended censure on two. counts; that McCarthy abused Gen. Ralph Z wicker,, who was a witness before . his , com mittee; and that he obstructed the legislative process by refus ing to testify before a committee investigating his past financial dealings. Digging into Senate records, Welker discovered the 1947 ac count of the near fist fight be tween the late Sen. Kenneth Wherry (R-Neb.). On that oc casion Wherry was acting as pre siding officer and gaveled the Senate into recess while Morse was trying to make a speech. When tempers flared, the two lawmakers came near to blows, "I am afraid," Morse later told reporters, "that since the sena tor from Nebraska had his pic ture ' published in a national magazine a few weeks ago wear ing boxing gloves he is laboring under the delusion that the way to win arguments in the Senate is to try to beat up his colleagues However, neither his 1 pugna- ciousness nor his fits of temper will fill me with fear and trem bling or cause'me not to defend myself when asaulted. Welker sought to get a mem ber of the Watkins committee Sen. Francis Case, (R-S.D.), to concede that this incident was in a class with those for which Mc Carthy is being "tried." Case ack nowledged that if such an en counter had actually come off, "I should like to have been there to see it."' But he said the test of conduct is whether it obstructs or endangers the official busi ness of the Senate. He said the Morse-Wherry scrap - iidn't do ' -Welker opened this attack against Morse last August when he referred to past, remarks of the Oregon senator which he im plied might be considered as atmeive as those- of McCarthy. Snofifipallv. h mentioned the phrase "little ham actor' which Morse once applied to Fresiaenx Truman. Also, he said Morse had suggested in apoacbM lamenting seems ; ; unwilling to i r consider "new evidence." ; , f Morse blasted Case, a member of the- special subcommittee which 'unanimously .' reconv mended censuring Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, for withdrawing his support from the. charge that the administration that President Eisenhower was misleading the "little neonle' and therefore was lying to them;- - Also "on WelkerV list of "en. defendants" is ex-Sen. Tom Con nally (D-Tex.), -who in 1952 spit out vinegar at tne late Sen. Bob Taft by saying: . . . J'There is a small lizard called a chameleon which changes color according to the necessities of the occasion. There are chameleon politicians. I know one chamel eon senator who changes his color according to his' surround ings and his necessities." The purpose of Welker in cit ing these past incidents was to argue that any censure of Mc Carthy would be inconsistent with the failure of the Senate to censure Morse and Connally. : Sen. Case said the committee had not taken into account either of these incidents in its deliber ations over the McCarthy cen sure resolution, and he dis missed any thought of reconsid ering in light of them. "If they were not challenged at the time, but were passed over, I do not think the failure to invoke a rule or the failure to exercise a right would destroy either" the 'rule or. the right," Case declared. ; ,. ., Washington (U.PJ Undersec retary of State Herbert Hoover Jr., said Saturday the forthcom ing Inter - American ' economic conference will mark a new era in "good neighborhood" and will help to "improve the social and economic well-being - of all our peoples." Milk Marketing Groups Vote To Representatives of 9 or 10 milk marketing groups through out western and central Oregon meeting here Friday' night, voted to support and expand the exist ing Oregon Milk Producers com mittee in a move to stabilize the dairy . industry ..in Oregon, y Nearly 40 men voted that producer groups' representatives be sent to -meet with members of the OMPC board of directors to work out changes in that organization's by-laws. These would change the manner' of representation to retain the identity - of ' milk marketing groups throughout the state, and would open the membership to all producer groups in Oregon. The OMPC, which was organ ized last June and which spear headed the fight against the re peal of the Oregon Milk Control law in the general election, or iginally was composed of both producers and distributors. But according to Lester Adams ex ecutive secretary, the distribu tors on the OMPC board have indicated they plan to resign so ttLifc thy fffllOTlltttT -MB bflfflflM ported to be. in good condition. Shown, with her as she was unloaded from the mercy plane at the airport are Dayle Waltermire (left) and Perry M. Johnson (right), of the Medford Ambulance service, and George Milligan, chairman, founder -and chief pilot of Mercy Flights r ; J . ' -' i - (Brainerd photo). McCarthy abused Brig. ' Gen. Ralph W. Zwicker. ; - "Without Justification'' y; : "Sen. Case's speech was an in teresting rationalization of the position he has taken but with out an iota of justification," Morse said in an interview. , "The Watkins committee re port recommends the censure of McCarthy because of the bull dozing,, verbal bludgeoning which he welted upon the per son of a great American Gen eral," said Morse. : "Case's alibing his own fail ure to stand by his own signa ture, signed to the Watkins re port, .left "the Senate cold and, I'm - satisfied will be - as unac ceptable to the people of the na tion as a whole,'? said Morse." Debating Delayed Debate on the McCarthy cens ure resolution has been called off until Nov. 29. McCarthy is in the Naval Medical center at Bethesda, Md., for treatment of an injured elbow. ' . Meanwhile, Sen. . Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.) said that the Senate has the obligation to set tle the McCarthy censure issue finally. He noted that McCarthy also desired a final, vote on the issue. .. ' : - ,T-,..: Viet Nam To Allow Saigon, Indochina J(U.R) The International Armistice Control commission for Indochina said Saturday that the Communist Viet Minn have announced they will allow evacuation of all Catholics who wish to leave north Viet Nam. Some Held Back .Howeverj reports from Haip hong, French-held port at the mouth of . the Red river delta said , the Communists are hold ing back many of the Catholic refugees.. - ...! The reports from the Seaport on Tonking bay said that the Reds in' the Minh'Binh area of the Red river delta had forbid den refugees to go to Phatdiem where a control commission team is evacuating Catholics at the rate of about 600 a day. ' exclusively a producer organi zation.' ' i ' . ' - The decision was hammered Portland (U.PJ A commit tee of three men was named Friday night to start studies , for proposed state legislation aimed at re-establishing , con trolled milk prices at the pro ducer level. 1 : The committee, named at a meeting of milk producers hero, consists of Joe Rogers of Independence, Harry James of Strafford and Rex RoSs of Mount AngeL' Members will meet with consumers, retailers and others and also will continue study of a possible federal milk marketing order. y Oregon voters Nov. 2 re pealed.the state's milk control law. - ' " .;- out in a long night session at the Jackson hotel. T h e dairymen first voted to work for solidar ity and unity among all the (tett's milk pwduccJ.thjou4li Top Officials Take- Uarl in Atnm War Part in Atom War Tests in Capital President, Cabinet Check Communications Washington (U.PJ President Eisenhower, sitting at a desk in the underground White HoUse bomb shelter, Saturday flashed orders" to top administration officials who had "fled" the cap ital to secret emergency head quarters in an atomic war pre paredness exercise. ; The exercise began during the night when some 2,000 key fed eral . employees, including cabi net members and agency heads, slipped quietly out of Washing ton to about 30 widely-dispersed sites where complete emergency headquarters have been set up. Communication Net ' The secret headquarters, some of them as far as 30 (X miles from the capital, have been linked in a complex system of radio and telephone communications to en able the government to continue functioning without interruption in the event that Washington is reduced to radioactive rubble by an A-bomb or H-bomb raid. Test ing this communications network was the principal feature of Sat urdays exercise. A simulated atomic attack was not involved. Mr. Eisenhower's participation began about 10:30 a.m. EST, when he left his White House of fice and went to the bomb shel ter deep underground. He was accompanied by hid naval aide, Cmdr. Edward L. Beach, press secretary James C. Hagerty, and Hagerty's assistant, Murray Sny der.' - ::,, Ike Issues Orders 5 V Thev President . was promptly connected with high point," the code name for the headquarters of defense mobilizer Arthur S. Flemming. The actual "orders" which he gave to Flemming, Hagerty related, were to the ef fect that the President wanted all participants to enter into the spirit of the exercise "so that they could become fully familiar with the . operation ' should we ever be required, in any emer gency, to use it." - ' f Florence Youih Drowns On Duck Hunting Trip Florence W.R)-Keith sRad- key, 19, Florence, Ore., drown ed Saturday in Woahink lake near here while duck hunting. Radkey went, hunting early Saturday morning, ' apparently intending to quit in time to go to work' as usual. An alarm was broadcast by his employer when Radkey did not report to his job.. The youth's car was found parked near the lake, and his body - was .' recovered several hours later. f7 v .: -Ex-P resident Hoover V Leaving for Germany ? ew York (U.PJ Former President Herbert Hoover leaves today for Germany on the in vitation of West German Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer. Mr. Hoover will take off from Idlewild field at 3:15 p.m. in President Eisenhower's Constel lation, the Columbine. The plane will fly by way of The Azores. some widespread organization, and later voted to work with and through the OMPC rather thanattempting to set up a new organization. . The dairymen were agreed that they . wanted, as soon as possible, an organization mod eled on the Tri-County Milk Sales of southern Oregon,' which they say, has had notable success in protecting its own markets in the uncertain period since the repeal of the milk control law, which did away with minimum milk prices, pooling arrange ments and other restrictions. Dick Westberg, Ashland, of the Tri-County group, told the dairymen that the repeal of the milk control law could turn out to be "the gift of God in dis guise," giving the milk produ cers a chance "to show we're all of age now, and can run our own business." ' ' . - Ray Hobson, Klamath Falls, also a member of the Tri-County group, presided at the meeting, which was swelled , in attend ance by the fact that today was ttu last day M taa Oregoo rnn VJolOtOV . Moscow (U.R) Russia offered Saturday to postpone - its pro posed Nov. 29 European Securi ty conference if the West will put off ratification of the Paris German rearmament agreements. Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov proposed the deal on the agreements to free and re arm. West Germany. . He warned that the "danger of Reds Renew Efforts To Win Veto Over 'Atoms for Peace' United Nations, N. Y. (U.R) Soviet Russia made a new at tempt Saturday to , win veto power over Ppresident Eisen hower's ''Atoms for Peace" plan Andrei Y. Vishlnsky, Soviet Chief delegate to the U.N. vis ited U.S. Ambassador ' Henry Cabot Lodge and then asked that the proposed International Atom ic Energy agency "be established as an agency responsible to the General Assembly lind, in the cases provided for by the charter of the U.N., to the Security Council." , i Vishinsky's proposal was made in the form of an amendment to a resolution now before the U.N. political committee in which seven Western atomic powers lay the basis for putting the Eis enhower plan into effect. V ' The Soviet delegate repeated alsoas- part of his amendments, his bid to get not only U.N. mem bers and members. of U.N. agen- ies but "all othlr states which express their desire" to attend, invited to a scientific conference on the President's plan. ; , -Vishinsky by this means is trying to get Communist China invited to the scientific confer ence.', ' : ' - Field Makes First Zurich, Switzerland U.R) American architect Hermann Field in his first statement since he returned from five years of unjustified imprisonment i n Communist : Poland said Satur day he plans to remain in Switz erland and rest. . The 44-year-old Ohioan flew from behind the Iron Curtain and immediately? went into hiding with his wife, Kate. Last night he telephoned his mother-in-law Mrs. Oliver Thornycroft in Lon don with a message for the press. It said:: :y ;; .:. .: "We were happily re-united yesterday in Switzerland. - This moment was so overwhelming for us both that we were unable to meet the press, and we ask them to understand this. "Now it is essential for us both to have a complete rest, and we shall therefore remain quiet ly in Switzerland for, the pres ent" : , . Support Producers Committee Bureau Federation's state con vention in Medford. Unanimously supporting the decision of the meeting were producers- from Jackson, Jose phine,; Washington; .Deschutes, Yamhill, Klamath, Lake; Doug las, Coos and Lane counties. They represented in all an esti mated 1,200 to 1,500 dairymen. Alternative proposals consid ered early in the meeting - in cluded the possibility of obtain ing a federal milk marketing order for the state, and a more limited type of organization, excluding ;:Portlarfd,- . - At first the producers were talking in terms of a temporary organization, to work for stabil ity in prices only until the leg islature met to consider . some sort of , new legislation control ling milk production." But as the evening progressed, the tenor of the meeting indicated that it should be a permanent, tightly knit and widespread ; organiza tion, perhaps also taking in southwestern Washington produ cers who sell milk in the Port land area.' '! , a no Offeirs 31(31 war" would be increased If the Paris agreement were" ratified ana uermany drawn into "null taristic groupings of the West ern States." ; Such a situation would mean "peaceful European countries will be forced to consider new measures to ensure their securi ty," the Foreign Minister said in a statement read to Western correspondents by 'Foreign Min istry Press Chief Leonid Ilyichev. Molotov said it appeared the Western Powers planned to turn down the Soviet invitations to a European Security : Conference. He accused the Western Nations' parliaments of attempting to block the proposed talks. ' Places Responsibility - r. - The Foreign Minister warned that the responsibility for speed ing the arms race and increasing military spending would "lie on those who today reject organiz ing of collective security in Eu rope."' -a :-;::- "As far as the Soviet Union is concerned," Molotov's statement said, "it considers it necessary to warn that the Paris agreements will prepare a new war in Eu rope." . . ":; 'The ; statement was read . by Ilyichev at a press conference; Molotov was not present His statement consisted of answers by Molotov to questions by an unidentified correspondent, for the Soviet Communist party newspaper pravda at a press con ference not attended by Western correspondents. . j Farm Bureau Names Two New Officials " Harris Higgins, Parkdale, was elected ; first vice-president of the Oregon Farm Bureau Fed eration at the conclusion of the 23rd annual convention here Fri day afternoon. He succeeds Fred Rueck, Bonanza. Barry Brownell, Oregon City, was reelected second vice-presi dent. The OFBF president, Ben Robinson, Imblerr has another year of his term to serve. , Directors for five regions were elected,' including Lester .Van Blokland. Imbler. for Union-Wal- lawa-Baker counties; Lloyd Hau- kias, Bonanza, for Klamath-Lake counties; Waldo Arens, Hood River, yfor Wasco -Hood River counties; Art Johnson, Astoria,, for Clatsop-Tillamook-Columbia counties, and Gerald Deterin, Harrisburg, Linn - Lane-Benton eounties. . ! ! . Directors in the other regions have another year to serve. Before the 300 or so delegates concluded the business session Friday, the finished action on a large number, of resolutions. A resume of some of the most im portant appears on Page 5. . Portland (U.PJ Some 3,250, 000 cubic yards of sand were dredged from shoals in the Columbia River during he dredging season just ended, ac cording to Col. James U. Moor- head, Portland district engineer. Adams warned the producers against the danger of violating the federal anti-trust laws in seeking too 'tight statewide con trol of milk prices, but the dairy men felt that price structures should be separate in each mar keting area, and that cooperative control should extend only to mutual protection against deal ers who. tried to "play off one area against another. ' 1 One of the biggest problems facing producers, and one which could be solved by a strong or ganization, is that of usage audits, the ; checks on distribu tors which show producers just what they have coming, it was pointed out. Another problem which an organizatin would ease is the problem of the disposal of surplus milk, and keeping the "market for Grade A milk stable. 1 ' T Bill ' AueL manager of t h e Jackson County Milk Producers league,' described the action ta ken last week when It was voted to maintain the going price to producers, and members agreed not to sell lor less. The action In) hi lliioi Spurn By Soviet Leaders Agreement Reached On Aid to Indochina Washington (UJO The United States and France Saturday firm ly slammed the door on any "peace"negotiations with Russia until after the Paris agreements -on West German rearmament are ratified. ; . .;i The two nations spurned a ' new conditional bid from Soviet . Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov for a European Security confer ,. ence. ' ' . ; " '. French Premier Pierre Mende France and Secretary of Stat John Foster Dulles asserted in ' a joint communique that East West talks must wait "until the Paris agreements are ratified and the West can negotiate from strength. They brushed ; aside Russia's last-minute maneuver to prevent ratification of the Paris agreements. They jointly urged all coun tries concerned" to ratify th agreements as quickly as possi ble to "strengthen the unity of the Western world." I - The - communique, issued at the . conclusion of M e n d e s France's three-day visit here, also announced U.S. - French agreement on joint action to help the three associated states of In dochina "maintain their free dom and independence." Express Deep Concern i While the 300-word commun ique gave no details, diplomats who attended the conference said the Indochina situation occupied a major place in the talks. Lead ers ' of both nations expressed deep concern about intelligence reports that the Communists have sent three divisions into Northern Viet Nam since tho Geneva Armistice was signed. The informants said the con ferees felt that the reports were not yet conclusive enough to charge the Reds formally with violating the - truce, and that both countries agreed to step up their efforts to collect precise information on the situation. They also agreed to tontinue "high level"', consultatibns on Indochina, probably between tho French Ambassador here and an assistant Secretary of State. Question Not Decided '. . The question of American of ficers training native t defense forces in Indochina was not de cided, informants said. Gen. J. Lawton Collins Is in Saigon on assignment by Presi dent Eisenhower. He : has said the United States soon may as . sume ''principal responsibility" for training native troops. But officials said the problem re quires further recommendations from Collins and French High Commissioner- Gen. - Paul Ely. Officials said any agreement reached between the two would be acceptable to the . United States. ..' '-' "' Dulles was ; reported "very pleased" with the outcome of the talks and Mendes-France, who : left by train for New York Sat urday afternoon,' told reporters he was "satisfied." : : ''caused a little trouble,' he re ported, with some threats being made to the producer group, but he said the threats, "backfired," and the distributor who "had threatened' to bring in outside milk now bad agreed to buy nothing but Rogue valley milk. This shows a firm' stand can be successful, Auel said, but only when there is close cooperation among producers.. - C Ray Nickerson, Grants Iass, of the Southern Oregon 'Milk Producers association, cautioned that the milk industry is depend ent on its various segments, and that the problems of the distrib utors must be taken into consid eration in any action the producers-take. ' : . As an example of the type of distributor cooperation applaud ed by the producers, a letter to the local league front John Sni der, of Snider's dairy here, was read in which he pledged his full assistance in working out muteal problems, and said bis plant and books would be open for inspection by all producers associated with him, -
