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President Mixes
ork and Play in
Quiet Holiday
' Traditional Turkey
Feast Due Tonight
Augusta, Ga. (U.R) Presi
dent Eisenhower mixed work
and play todav to iuietly ob
corvine? Thankseivina Day at
the famed Augusta National
Golf Club.
He eot the work out of the
way early, doing paper work in
a special office over the club's
pro shop. .
Mr. Eisenhower sent tele
grams to relatives of 13 Ameri
cans held prisoner Dy nineu
Reds, assuring tnem mai uie
government is doing everything
"feasible" to secure meir re
lease. '
Railroad Dispute
He also named the three mem
bers of an emergency fact-finding
board in a wage dispute be
tween conductors and brakemen
and most of the nation's rail
roads. f "
.The President then stepped
onto the golf course for a round
of his favorite - sport. Before
starting to play the 18 holes, he
Sharpened up his, game with
some practice shots under the
guidance of Ed Dudley, the club
pro.
; The weather was perfect for
golf, sunny but bracing with the
temperature in the 50s. .
Turkey Tonight j
. Mr. Eisenhower planned to
top off the day with, the tradi
tional dinner of turkey and all
the fixin's this evening in the
. trophy room of the main club
house. He assured his guests that
. will do the carving on the
large 43-pound turkey brought
from Washington.
White House Press Secretary
James C. Haaerty conveyed to
reporters and news photograph;
ers accompanying Mr. Eisen
hower here an invitation from
the President to play the Mas
ters course tomorrow.
- It will be the first time that
reporters have been permitted
to play the course while Mr.
Eisenhower was there. This is
his sixth vacation at the club
-since he became President.
Oregon Dampened
By Pacific Storm
: . Br UNITED PRESS
: A high pressure ridge which
had been protecting Oregon from
rain flattened tut last night. As
a result the state got some show
ers today from a storm system
movinff in from the Pacific.
2- Portland got more than half
an inch of rain during a six-hour
period starting shortly after mid
fiieht. Astoria had .60 and New
port .30. Light amounts of rain
fell in central Oregon.
Precipitation was heavier up
north where Seattle had 1.08
inches and Tatoosh Island 1.41
inches.
? The storm front ended, for the
most part, the heavy fog that has
blanketed Oregon this week.
Only Medf ord was reported
cocked in this morning. How
ever, more fog is expected in
some areas by tonight. .
1 Owosso, Mich. U.R) Gov,
Thomas E. Dewey of New York
arrived today for the funeral of
his mother, Mrs. Anne Dewey,
who died in her sleep Tuesday
night at her home.
Fog Halts Regular Flights;
MF Takes Two to Portland
"Resumption of scheduled
flights at the Medf ord munici
pal airport was expected -today
after the local field had been
closed for more than 36 hours
by heavy fog.
Mercy Flight
Only plane to leave Medf ord
yesterday was a Mercy Flights,
Inc., air ambulance plane which
took two infants to Portland for
treatment there. Because of the
"fog, Pilot George Milligan land
ed the plane in-Ashland on the
return trip.
Patients on the flight were
Frank William Lewis, 10-day-old
son of Mr. and -.Irs. S. B. Lewis,
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1954
Fatal Tmffie
teifate Mount
By UNITED STATES
A sudden spurt of fatal traf
fic accidents today dampened
hopes that the nation was on its
way to a safe and sane Thanks
giving.
A United Press survey since
6 p.m. last night showed 26 per
sons had died in auto accidents.
No other types of accidental
deaths were reported.
An early lag in accident re-
norts encouraged experts to
hope the nation's drivers were
practicing life-saving caution.
But the toll climbed sharply
during the early morning hours.
Three auto crashes accountea
for 13 of the deaths. Two headon
collisions in Illinois killed five
and four persons, respectively.
Four more persons were killed
in an Indiana smashup.
Train Leaves Tracks
A far greater tragedy was
narrowlv averted when eight
cars of the crack Sante Fe Chief
jumped the tracks in the Mojave
Desert 50 miles from .Needles,
Calif., last'night. Police and am
bulances rushed to the scene, but
officials said there were no fa
talities or serious injuries.
Thousands of motorists jam
med the highways as they
journeyed to join their families
in the traditional turkey dinner
and to give thanks.
The weather was lair, ana
driving conditions were good in
weather made travel 'hazardous
most oiioe natwuv?i))h r
. 1 L' 1 Y?
in the Northern Midwest ana
parts of the Northeast.
Wind-whipped snow iiurries
swept the area west of the Mis
sissippi river and north of the
Ohio river.; Boston naa .ox.
inches of rain and a snow blan
ket covered much of Wisconsin
and Minnesota. '-
Fog shrouded much of the Pa
cific Coast area, cutting visibil
ity to zero at Los Angeles and to
one sixteenth of a mile at oaK-
land, Calif. Further north, ram
pounded Western Washington,
Sprague Named To
Fact-Finding Board
Augusta, Ga. (U.PJ Presi
dent Eisenhower today named
the three members of an emerg
ency fact-finding .board which
he set up' Tuesday to study a
wage dispute between conduc
tors and brakemen and most of
the nation's railroads.
They are Judge Edward M.
Sharpe, Lansing, Mich., chief
justice of the Michigan supreme
court; Charles A. Sprague; Sa
lem, Ore., newspaper publisher
and editor, and John T. Dunlop,
Harvard economics professor.
Acting under the railway la
bor act, Mr. Eisenhower prevent
ed a strike for at least 60 days
from establishment of the board.
The board has 30 days from
Tuesday to report its findings
and the union, the order of rail
way conductors and brakemen.
is prohibited by the law from
striking for another 30 days.
Eureka, Calif. U.R) Two
major Humboldt county lumber
mills employing some 2100 per
sons scheduled shutdowns today
as a result of the strike against
the Northwestern Pacific rail-
1 road.
Jr., Rogue River, and the 11-
month-old son of a Mr. and Mrs,
Doss, of Glendale.
In Oxygen Tent
The Lewis infant was sched
uled to undergo nasal surgery at
Portland, and the Doss child,
who made the flight in an oxy
gen tent, is scheduled to receive
treatment for a blood ailment.
Fred Hale, of Grants Pass Air
service, who made the trip as
co-pilot, brought the babies to
Medf ord from Grants Pass ' by
car. The children were the 301st
and 302nd patients carried by
the non-profit air ambulance
service.
and it was drizzling in Eastern
Washington and Northern Calif
ornia. '
. In New York City Thanksgiv
ing Day .dawned cloudy and
cold, snow flurries expected to
whip northern suburbs. '
However, ' thousands of chill
ed youngsters turned out - to
watch the 28th annual Macy's
parade down Broadway. The
traditional giant balloons and
spectacular floats filed by.
Heavy Fog Blamed
For Numerous Auto
Crashes in County
Heavy fog, which cut visibil
ity to less than 50 feet at times
yesterday afternoon, was blam
ed for numerous automobile ac
cidents in Jackson county, state
police reported this morning.
Most serious of the accidents
was a five-car collision on High
way 99 just north of Ashland at
about 5:15 p.m., police said. It
involved a pickup truck operat
ed by Dorman Ray York, Mon
tague, Calif., a coupe driven by
Lavina Wiggins, Ashland: a se-
ri, -neraterf " hv .Tav Cochran.
A,Bnland, and two other cars
which left the scene before the
- .
state police arrived.
Stopped To Turn
All of the vehicles - were
northbound, when one of the
unknown drivers stopped for a
left turn. The Wiggins car
stopped behind it, and the pick
up truck struck the back of the
Wiggins car, pushing it . ahead
into the first vehicle. The Coch
ran car struck all three, and in
turn, was sideswiped by the
fifth vehicle, whose driver was
not listed. . :
Mrs. Margaret Cochran, a pas
senger in the car driven by her
husband, and their three , chil
dren, Karen, Diane and Steven,
were taken to Ashland General
hospital by Litwiller ambulance
for treatment of cuts and bruis
es.
Woman Injured -
In another accident, Mrs. Mar
gie Busbee, Lorenzo, cam., re
ceived neck injuries, and was
hospitalized .overnight at Ash
land General. She was a passen
ger in a car driven by her hus
band, Lloyd, who received minor
face cuts. Their three children
were uninjured. Busbee was the
driver of a car . which went out
of control south of Ashland on
Highway 99 and slid broadside
into a vehicle operated by Rob
ert Lewis Ferguson, Hilt, Calif.,
at about 10:40 p.m.
A Talent school bus operated
by Bruce 'Hitt Jr.," Medf ord, was
involved in a collision on High
way 99 south of Talent at about
4:30 pjn. Police ' said' the bus
stopped to discharge passengers
and was struck from the rear by
a coupe operated by William H.
Stabler, Ashland. There were no
injuries, and only minor dam
age was reported
A fourth accident involved a
sedan operated by Carl J. Koes-
ter, Portland, and a vehicle driv
en by Frank Joseph Hart, At
lanta, Ga. Both " were, south
bound on Highway 99 at Talent
junction at about 9 p.m. when
the Hart' car slowed down and
was struck from behind by Koe-
ster's car. There were no injur
ies and damage to the vehicles
was said to be minor. .
Two minor crashes were re
ported by city police, and state
officers said numerous cars were
reported in ditches. Most of
these mishaps involved little or
no property damage and no in
juries, they said.
Weather
FORECAST: Mostly cloudy with.
m few showers this afternoon.
Partly cloudy tonight and ;
. Friday.' Low tonight 35. Huh
Friday 35.
. Temp. -Highest
Yesterday . 43
Lowest this Morning 35
Prec. to 4:30 .m. Today -.i
Price 5c No. 213 1 . j
KufD
Commission Said
'Stacked;' Solon
Not Surprised
Idaho Power Wins
First Round in Fight
Washington. U.R) Sen.
Wayne Morse today attacked a
Federal Power commission law
yer's recommendation for pri
vate development of Hells. Can
yon water power, saying it fits
in with i Eisenhower administra
tion proposals for "a giveaway
of the people's power resources
to private combines." :
The Oregon Independent said
the FPC is "stacked" and he ex
pressed no surprise at commis
sion counsil John C. Mason's
arguments that the Idaho Pow
er Co., and not the federal gov
ernment, handle power and wa
ter development in the vast can
yon on the Idaho-Oregon bord
er. ' . , - "
The power company a private.
ly owned utility, won the first
round in the , politically explo
sive fight to see who will devel
op the Hells Canyon reach of
the Snake river when Mason
filed his opinion yesterday.
Commission To Decide
Mason, who represented the
commission in the year - long'
Hells Canyon hearing before
one of its examiners, submitted
a 200-page legal brief recom
mending a license for Idaho Pow
er "to builcf three low dams in.
the reach. He opposed a single,
high, federally financed dam; ad
vocated by the National Hells
Canyon association, Inc., and
other public power bodies.
Idaho Power and the high
dam advocates also filed briefs.
Reply briefs are de Jan. 10
and a final brief by the power
company on Jan. 31.
Then hearing examiner Wil
liam J. Costello must make a
recommendation to the commis
sion, and the commission itself
must make a decision. Mason's
views, the first formal endorse
ment of the private project by
a government official, undoubt
edly will carry weight with both
Costello and the commission.
Congress May Act -
Three Congresses already have
kicked around the various pro
posals for developing Hells Can
yon, and the new Democratic
controlled 84th Congress may
do some more. , :"
Mrs. Evelyn N. Cooper, rep
resenting the high dam interests,
said Idaho Power's plan would
deprive the Pacific Northwest
of "a block of power equivalent
roughly to the output of ' the
Bonneville Dam," and would
jeopardize the comprehensive de
velopment of the entire Colum
bia River Basin, t
She said the commission
should ask Congress to author
ize the. high dam. : ' -
Idaho Power's brief agreed
with Mason's findings.
Widely Viewed as Test
The Hells Canyon case has
been widely viewed as a test
of the Eisenhower administra
tion's public power policy. Mr.
Eisenhower has said repeatedly
he favors more participation by
local and private, groups in de
veloping the n a t i o n's water
power.
Early in his adninistration
Interior Secretary Douglas Mc
Kay withdrew the Interior De
partment's opposition during the
Truman administration to the
Idaho Power Company's applica
tion. The long and heated FPC
hearings on the case followed.
Kerr Gifford Firm
Announces Merger
Portland 0J.R) Merger of
Kerr Gifford and Company, pi
oneer West Coast grain firm,
with Cargill, Inc., of Minneapo
lis, has been completed, accord
ing to Thomas Kerr, president of
Kerr Gifford. ,
Kerr said the Pacific Coast
nnerations of both firms have
been merged into the new Kerr
Gifford division of cargm.
Kerr becomes manager - of . the
new division.
" All Kerr Gifford capital stock
was acauired by Cargill in
June, 1S53.
Watkins Declares
Petitions Not To
Influence Censure
Public Opinion
Not To Guide Conduct
Washington (U.R)-- Sen. Ar
thur V. Watkins (R-Utah) said
today he is not paying any at
tention to the battle of petitions
for and against censure of Sen.
Joseph McCarthy.
Watkins, chairman of the spe
cial Senate committee which rec
ommended the McCarthy cen
sure, said he does . not intend
to guide his conduct by public
opinion in this "judicial" kind
of proceeding.
' Senators should settle the Mc
Carthy question, on the basis of
"the facts and the law," he said
in an interview., .'
McCarthy was expected to
hve his Thanksgiving turkey at
the Naval hospital in nearby
Bethesda, Md., where he has
been confined with a bad elbow
since last week.
Mass Meetings Called -
Hospital officials said he would
get the special turkey-day dinner
prepared for all patients. :
From his hospital, bed, Mc
Carthy sent a message yesterday
to one of the groups whose peti
tions Watkins said he is ignoring.
McCarthy - praised the group,
"Ten Million Americans," for
planning a public demonstration
in his behalf next Monday night
at Madison Square Garden in
New York. ' . ' "...
"Ten Million Americans," un
der directorship of Rear Adm.
John B. Crommelin (ret.), has
been- circulating petitions
throughout the country, seeking
10,000,000 signatures of persons
opposed to Senate censure of
the Wisconsin Republican. It also
has planned other mass meetings
in Chicago and Los Angeles next
Monday; night.
New - Organizations A- v. S -'-
Another .new organization,
"Citizens Committee to Inquire
Into the Personal Finances of
United States . Senators," an
nounced it is asking all senators
to answer 57 questions about
their finances "before a vote is
taken on the McCarthy censure
resolution."
One of the McCarthy censure
counts cites his failure to appear
before a Senate Elections Sub
committee investigating his af
fairs in 1952. -
Symington Sees
,lnadequafer Budget
Washington U.R) - Se n.
Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) said
today Air Force Secretary Har
old E. Talbott has apparently
admitted the present budget
level for the air force is
"inadequate." i
Symington, former Air' Force
Secretary under, the Truman ad
ministration, based his assertion
on a major speech by Talbott
yesterday calling for a bigger
Air Force to bolster the- Ameri
can deterrent to World War III.
Symington said he found it
"an interesting talk, especially
the apparent admission during
the question period, that the
rate of present appropriations is
inadequate." . t
Spreckles Released
From California Jail , .,
Santa Ana, Calif . U.PJ Mil
lionaire Adolph Spreckles .- H
got out of jail today five, days
early and drove away in a long
black limousine to a Thanksgiv
ing dinner. '
Spreckels, convicted of beat
ing his ex-wife, Kay Williams,
was sentenced to, 30 days and
began his term Nov. 1. He got
five days off for good behavior.
Jailer Clyde L. Gathright said
the sugar fortune heir was a
"model prisoner." i
Oregon City Woman
Found Dead in Home
Oregon City U.R) Nellie
May Fisher, 82, was found dead
in her home here yesterday by
an alert newsboy who noticed
smoke coming out of the wo
man's residence, ilc .' -.
Clackamas county coroner
Lester Peake said the woman
apparently died of natural
causes while lighting a fire in
her oil stove. The fire, which
produced a great deal of smoke.
was confined to the stove.
Algiers, Algeria U.R)
French warplanes hit a terrorist
supply base with 100-pound
bombs in the first full scale air
raid of the Algerian rebellion,
French author itie. said today.
BENT STEERING WHEEL, shattered windshield,' are mute evi
, dence of terrific Impact when car driven by Iowa's Got. W. S.
Beardsley crashed into rear of pickup truck near Des Moines. He j
was killed instantly, wife was seriously injured. (Intbmatimal)
s1 0,000,000 Program
Announced by Copco
: The' board of directors of Cal
ifornia Oregon Power company
has authorized a $10,000,000
construction program for 1955,
it was announced today by A. S.
Cummins, Copco president.
Cummins said that $5,000,000
has been allocated for focal ad
ditions and improvements, and
$5,000,000 for hydro plant con
struction. Of the amount budget
ed for plants, $1,275,000 will be
spent to complete Lemolo No. 1,
planned for operation by mid
1955, . and $3,665,000, will be
spent in building- Lemolo No. 2,
which will be ready for service
in late 1956. ' . ;
Expansion Program
The proposed , 1955 expendi
tures represent part of an ex
pansion program started by
Copco in mid-1945, according to
Cummins. This program so far
has resulted in expenditures of
some $94,000,000 for additional
generating capacity and other
service facilities.
Six units : of the company's
projects on the North Umpqua
river have been completed and
are now in operation. Lemolo
No. 1 is the seventh, and Lemolo
No. 2 will be the eighth and last.
First unit to be completed
Remington Death
Probe Scheduled
Lewisburg, Pa. U.PJ Auth
orities made plans today for an
extensive investigation behind
the walls of Lewisburg Federal
Prison to determine a. motive in
the bludgeon slaying of William
Walter Remington. ' '
Remington, a former $10,000-
a-year government .. economist
imprisoned for lying about his
Communist associations, died
yesterday, r two days after he
was found dazed and bleeding
in the cell he occupied as an
honor prisoner.:
Authorities said the fatal as
sault on Remington may have
been instigated through prisoner
resentment over the scheduled
release of Alger Hiss from the
same prison on Saturday.
Norman H. McCabe, . special
agent in charge of the Philadel
phia FBI office identified the al
leged killers as George Junior
McCoy, 34, of Grundy, .Va., and
Robert Carl, Parker, 21, of Wash
ington, D.C. '
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Liberace Breaks
With Night Club Girl
Hollywood U.R) Liberace,
who recently 1 professed his . af
fections for night club show girl
Joanne Rio, has stopped seeing
her because ; of a , newspaper
article she "wrote" on their ro
mance, the attractive brunette
said today. - - : - - v
The "tell all" article, a three-
part series whieh appeared in a
Los Angeles newspaper several
weeks ago, "embarrassed" the
curly-haired piano player, she
said. But, - Miss Rio said both
Liberace and his agent had ap
proved the story before it 'was
printed.' .V '-' 'VV':
Hospital Patients
Get Holiday Feed
' Patients at the Medford hos
pitals were served Thanksgiv
ing day dinners of turkey and
other traditional dishes for the
day.- r ; ;-..
. The Gideons furnished Sa-'
ered Heart, Community and
Osteopathic hospitals with
, place cards with an appropri
ate quotation, for each of the
patient's trays. '
At Community hospital fa
vors for each tray were fur
nished through . the hospital
auxiliary project and youth
work chairman.
Devotions were held at 8,
a.m. at Sacred Heart hospital
and benediction will be held
at 3 j o'clock this afternoon.
Tray covers and napkins in
the Thanksgiving day theme '
were used for patients at that
hofpital, . ,
was Toketee, finished and plac
ed in operation in March, 1950.
It is located near a falls on the
North Uumqua river, and the en
tire complex of units takes its
name from this falls. Toketee
was followed by Slide creek, in
July, 1951; Soda springs, in
March, 1952, Fish creek in June,
1952; Clearwater No. 1, in June,
1953, and Clearwater No. 2, in
November, 1953.
For Dr. J.C. Hays
Funeral arrangements are
pending at Perl' Funeral home
for Dr. James C. Hays, 72, who
died about noon Wednesday at
his home near Eagle Point. :
' He was born Feb. 7, 1882, at
Shell City, Mo., and was gradu
ated in 1904 from the University
of Oregon medical school. Earlier
this spring he was one of six
doctors who were honored - at
the school for 50 years pf prac
tice: 1,- . . ' . --
Dr. Hays practiced in Portland
from the time he was graduated
until 1919 when he moved to
Medford and practiced here un
til several years ago when he re
tired. He was president of - the
Oregon State . Medical society
for 1947. .
. In addition to his widow, May,
he is survived by three sons,
Raymond and J a m e s, of the
Rogue valley, and Robert, Sacra
mento, .Calif.; and four daugh
ters, Miss Mary Hays, at home,
Mrs, William Ehrman, Mrs.
George Smith and Mrs. Ralph
Bockmier, all of Portland. A sis
ter, Mrs. J. K. Pratt, Eugene,
also survives.
Perori's Drive on
Clergymen Backed
Buenos Aires. Areentura flJ.PJ
P r o-government organizations
called a mass meeting today 'to
support President Juan D. Pe
ron's drive against Roman Catho
lic clergymen accused of med
dling in political and labor
affairs. . : -
The call came as police1 an
nounced that the Rev. Rodolfo
Carboni has been sentenced to
a 30-day jail term for preaching
a sermon wnicn criticized re-
ron's regime. ..
Police arrested the Reverend
Carboni three days ago after it
was reported he contrasted Nazi
persecution of German Catholic
to present conditions in Argen
tina. ; '': p
Father Carboni'. reading of
a oapal encyclical on Nazi per
secutions and his subsequent
comments on the Peron govern
ment were said to have caused
a ' disturbance in which three
women were hurt.
Ten GermansKilled
When Struck by Train '
Baden-Baden, Germany (U.R)
Ten . railway ; workers were
killed near .here today when a
passenger train ran -them down
as they were filing to work in
a heavy' fog. -
Two other workers in the
group jumped aside at the last
moment and , were unhurt. :
Services Pending
3,000,000 Servicemen Feast
Royally on Turkey
Washington CJ.R) . Some
3,000,000 servicemen feasted
royally today on dinners built
around .the traditional turkey,
but for most there was no pump
kin pie. Just mince.
Unification .came unstuck at
the dessert line. The Army and
Air Force followed the Penta
gon's "master menu," striking
pumpkin pie and: giving the
troops just mince pie and ice
cream. : ' '
The Navy let its commanders
decide what holiday pie to serve
and at last count had prepared
ing
Plan To Present
Matter Before UN
Several Possibilities
Claimed Under Study
Washmgton-(U.R) The Unit-
ed States today considered ap- ;
experts Muoy
pealing to Russia for help to win .
the release of 13 Americans im-'
prisoned by Red China onr
"trumped-up spy charges. '
Experts also were studying a -
move to place the matter before
the United Nations.
Several Possibilities
The two courses of action were -
among several possibilities under
study at the State Department
snuh of Franklin C. (Viwpn. thm
American consul general in;
Geneva. The Chinese Commu- L
nist representative refused to "
meet Gowen immediately Wed
nesday. , , - .
Gowen had demanded a meet-
ing with the Red official on.
neutral ground to deliver a blis-
tering protest again Red China's ;
"tir r n n a 9 ,1 1 foAvi4-f 11 -
American airmen and two civil- -ian
employees of the Army. Pel-
ping said Tuesday that the 13
had been sentenced to terms ;
ranging from four years to life '
for espionage activities in Com-:'
munist China. -
Men Shot Down, U. S. Says , . f
The united States claimed the !
airmen were shot down during ;
u rr -
rea but never were repatriated
and that the two civilians, both
emolovees of the Armv. had Kosn
oeiieved lost at sea.
The United Press in Tokyo '
loo nA4 fliat ;..:is
..u uia, uic L W LI VVJIItlllii
John T. Downey, 24, and Richard ?
G. Fecteau, 27 were hitch-hik-i :
ers aboard an airplane which dis-'
appeared two years ago between ' ' '
Japan and Korea.
A U.S. .Far East Air Force
spokesman - at Tokyo, said
Downev and Fecteau boarded a x
Civil Air Transport plane leas- :
ed bv the. Air Force at Seoul.'
The plane never was heard from
after it crossed? the Korean east;
coast.
Attempt at Justification
The Chinese Communists, in
a flimsy attempt to justify im
prisonment of the Americans,
saia the laal , mutual security
V.i11 z : j x it
was designed "to organize sabo- -tage
and subversion." '
WednesHav the R) fhl-na
dio said it had either killed or
imprisoned 212 Nationalist Chin-
ese and 18 Americans since 1951
on charges of A spying for the
United States. The 18 included
the 13 sentenced to prison terms
plus five who had been killed.
Angry Outbursts ' , ' -
The broadcast touched off
angry outbursts from congress
men. Sen. Milton R. Young (R-
N.D.) suggested the possibility
of blockading - Red China and
sinking a few of their-ships."
"The action by the Chinese
Communist nation is one of the
most damnable, contemptible
and provocating thing's that has
happened in recent . years," he
said.
Rep. Thomas J. Lane (D-Mass.)
urged the State Department to
warn Red China that National
ist Chinese forces will be
strengthened and unleashed for
attajeks on the Communist main- .
land unless the 13 Americans
are released. - : '
"Voice" Takes Up Theme -
The Voice of America picked
up the theme and told its audi-;
ences on both sides 'of the Iron
Curtain a "wave of indignation
and anger is sweeping America" ,
as a result of the Communist
action. ;
The State Department mean
time declined to say what it
would do if it failed to win .
speedy action from the Red
Chinese representatives : in
Geneva. -y .
Home Damaged by
Blaze Wednesday
A fire which originated in tne
kitchen and extended to the
back porch resulted smoke and
heat damage throughout tne
tinuce at the L. B. Nelson resi
dence, 1720 Prune st. last night.
;ama i ' maiA tio4- V . - -
started from a coffee not which
was left on and which ignited
a table, two trucKs were dis
patched and firemen were called
about 10:40 o'clock. . j
44,000 mince and 39,000 pump
kin. The Marines had both.
Statistics attested to the cele
bration under way at military
posts at home and abroad. The
Navy dispensed 14 freight car
loads of turkey, 25 tons ; of
shrimp, 100 tons of'potatoes.
The Air Force stuffed 600,000
pounds of turkey with 150,000
pounds of oyster dressing and,:
gave its airmen 112,500 mince
pies and 30,000 gallons of coffee
to top off the repast.
The Army, staid old senior
service, toted up no figures.: