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TEH MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE 2 Yanks Sentenced by Vanished Dec. 2,1952, Tokyo (U.R) A Far East Air Force spokesman revealed today that two of the 13 Am ericans imprisoned as "spies" by Red China disappeared the night President" Eisenhower landed in Seoul on his post-election "end the war" mission. The spokesman said the two men hitched a ride on a Civil Air Transport plane that disap peared mysteriously. Dec. 2, 1952, between Seoul and Tokyo. Their plane never was heard from after it crossed the Korean east coast, the spokesman said. Communist China claimed, how ever, the plane was shot down over northeast China and that the pilot and co-pilot were kill ed. The two passengers were id entified by the Tokyo spokesman as John T- Downey 24, and Richard G. Fecteau, 27. . Although the Air Force said it did not know the two hitch hikers, they apparently were traveling on high military pri orities. Seoul's military airports were White Russian Survivors Reach North Bend Port North Bend. Ore. (U;R) Five White Russians who survived a death march and a Communist prison camp in North Korea passed through the Port of North Bend this week en route to new homes in the United States. The five arrived here aboard the SS Young America, which docked here from Tokyo Tues day. They are Evan Kilin, 40; his wife, Maria, 30, and their three children, Olga, 12; Nikolai, 9, and Giorgi, 6. The family was exchanged in March of this year and stayed in an American refugee camp while trying to find a place to live. Mrs. Kilin said Major Gomer James an American- sol dier, suggested that the Kilins come to the United States. - Maj. James became the fam ily's sponsor, and the Kilins are now headed for his home town of Falls Church, Va., where the major's wife "is going to help us get settled." Maj. James is still in Korea. The Kilins were taken pris oners at Seoul, Korea shortly after the start of the Korean conflict. With 900 other prison- ' ers, the . family was forced . to walk north to the Communist prison camp near the Yalu riv- ; er.. Giorgi, the youngest child, was one year and nine months " old at the time. Christmas Christmas Christmas TREES! TREES! TREES! TELEPHONE or 2-7915 - WATSON'S STEAK HOUSE 3310 N. Pacific Hwy. Ph. 3-1678 SERVING SPECIAL OLD-FASHIONED Turkev Dinner With all the Trimmings . . ALSO Our Famous $ DINNERS 8 A.M. TO 9 P.M. WHISTLE STOP CAFE 226 N. Front - Across from S.P. Depot -' Phont 3-2969 Open Thanksgiving Day! THANKSGIVING DINNER Al Si f With All the Trimmings. A 11 1 y I.3U Including English Plum Pudding, Mine, Pumpkin or Apple Pit - OPEN 7 A.M. to 8 P.M. ' ' : X. O DINE at - - - - WORLD FAMOUS MICDM MESIIIE Dinners Served from 6 p.m., Till 11:30 p.m. . Closed Tuesdays. For Reservations Call Central Point 122 under the heaviest guards of the war at the time the CAT plane left because of Mr. Eisenhower's visit. Only authorized persons with proper orders or credent ials were allowed on the air fields that night. If the Communist report is true, the plane carrying Down ey and Fecteau turned 90 de grees off course after reaching the Sea of Japan and flew north toward Manchuria rather than east toward Tokyo. The Air Force spokesman said he could give "no explanation" for what happened to the cargo plane after it vanished from ra dar screens over the eastern Korean coast. Air and sea rescue teams scoured the Sea of Japan for two davs after the plane dis appeared but found no trace of wreckage. The plane was flown by Capts. Bob Snoddy and Norman Swartz, who both lived in Tok yo. It was flying at night and may have been ordered onto an unfamiliar course because of soecial security measures in force. ;' ' Mysterious Passengers "The plane had flown Air Force cargo to Seoul and dis charged it," the FEAF spokes man said. "The passengers asked permission to board the plane and fly back to Tokyo." At the time the plane vanish ed, CAT officials revealed only the names of the pilot and co pilot and for some still-unex- Daily Weather Report FORECASTS Medford and' vicinilvr Mostly cloudy with a few showers this after noon. Partly cloudy tonight and -Fri day. XiOW tonight 35. High Friday 55. Western Oregon: A few showers and periods of clearing today. Partly cloudy tonieht with considerable foe late tonight and Friday morning. Partly sunny Friday afternoon. Little temperature change. Low tonight 35 43. High Friday 30-56. - LOCAL DATA Temperature - a year ago today: Highest 37; Lowest 47. Total monthly precipitation .68 inch. Deficiency for the month 1.40 inches. Total precipitation since September 1, 1954. 2.43 inches. Deficiency for the season, 2.21 inches. Relative humidity 4:30 pjn. yester day 100; 4:30 a.m. today 100. High Low Prec Boise ...... 57 33 Boston - . Chicago . 44 .. 39 .. 56 58 .... 40 59 71 -J 47 .45 82 53 65 S8 52 58 40 34 35 48 33 23 49 35 42 22 48 44 24 43 30 47 49 38 31 40 1.60 .10 Denver Eureka Havre Klamath Fall'. Los Angeles ... Medford New York Omaha Phoenix Portland Reno . Eugene .. .10 .47 .21 bait Lake San Francisco Seattle 56 1.08 .01 .06 T Spokane 41 Washington. D.C. 40 Yakima 42 Tomorrow Sunrise 7:14 a.m. Sunset 4:42 p.m. PHOENIX LIONS CLUB Will Again Have A Christmas Tree Lot Order New for Your Special Tree ... Will Cut to Size & Species 3-1412 $1175 V : J 1 OO ROSE SCHMIDT ''VV Cooking Formerly with Big Y Thursday. NoTtmbtr 23, 1934 Red China FEAF Says plained reason did not say the craft was carrying passengers. Defense officials in Washing ton said Downey and Fecteau were civilian employees of the U. S. Army in Japan, but the Far East command headquar ters said it had no record of the men in its current or retired civilian employees' files. . Radio Peiping charged the two men were agents of Ameri ca's super-secret counter -intelligence agency. Downey, accused by the Reds as the "chief criminal" among the captured Americans, re ceived a life sentence and Fec teau was sentenced to 20 years in jail. Britain Denounces Red China's Act Of Imprisonment London flJ.R) Britain offic ially denounced today Red China's imprisonment of 13 Americans on trumped up spy charges. Red 'China's Peiping Radio, meanwhile, trumpeted new "charges" about "American spies." It quoted the Peiping Peoples Daily as declaring edi torially: ' "The fact so many air-dropped spies ' have been caught on China's mainland is a severe blow to the schemes of the Amer ican agressive clique. - "The depositions of the cap tured American spies and the material evidence have . fully exposed the criminal schemes of the U. S. aggressive . clique against the Chinese people. Defend Sentences l he depositions ... prove that it is not China but the reac tionary ruling clique of the United States that is conducting subversive activities against oth er countries." The newspaper said conviction of the Americans was "absolutely necessary and correct," and said that American denials of the charges are "futile" against the "iron clad proof." A British Foreign Office spokesman said Britain regards Reu China s action as a violation of the Geneva convention on treatment of war prisoners. "The arguments put forward by the Chinese government to justify different treatment for these men is nothing more than a legal quibble. Request Ignored j "Our future course of action will naturally depend on what request if any is made by the U. S. Government." - In Geneva, Red Chinese Con sul General Shun Ting continued to ignore U. S. Consul General Franklin C Gowen's request for a meeting on neutral ground bo Gowen can deliver a verBal U, S. protest. Gowen asked for the meeting yesterday. Support Reported For Buff Donelli For Beaver Post Portland U.fi) The Oregon ian, in a story from Boston, Mass., said today tWat Buff Do nelli, Boston University football coach, is being supported for the head coaching job at Oregon State, vacated this week by Kip Taylor.' , ; . -- The newspaper quoted . the Boston Traveler as saying Do nelli was being boosted by an unnamed Los Angeles real es tate - broker described as "a leading member of the south ern California alumni club of the ; Oregon institution." ' However, Aaron Funk, presi dent of the Southern California group, of the OSC alumni asso ciation, told the Oregonian last night he had "no idea of who the mysterious OSC booster for Boston's Duff Donelli could be." UCLA Dominates OSC Foe Team ; Corvallis (U.R) UCLA, the powerful football team which gave Oregon State the worst licking in the school's grid his tory, landed six players on the Beavers' ' all-opponent- team. California placed two men and Oregon, Minnesota and Wash ington each had one player named. v ' - ij - Jack Ellena, UCLA's great tackle, was chosen on 41 of the 42 Beaver ballots to become the strongest selection. End Rom mie Loudd, Guards Sam Bogho sian and Jim Salsbury, center Jon .Peterson, and back Primo Villanueva were the other UCLA choices. Other members of the squad were end Jim Hanifran, Calif ornia; tackle Fred Robinson, Washington; - and backs George Shaw, Oregon: Bob McNamara, Minnesota, and Jerry Drew, Cal ifornia.: , - ' '? Dead line SunoaT Classified ai at ftOOn SatUTdaV t 10 a TT1. Vnnrlav fnr Monday; other daya 5:30 previous day. SPORTS VA To Pay The Veterans Administration today anonunced it will pay regular dividends next year on National Service Life Insurance, which originated in World War II, and on U.S. Government Life Insurance, which originated in World War I. . The NSLI dividend will amount to $2,000,000,000, and will be payable to holders of ap proximately 5,000,000 partici pating term and permanent plan policies. ' The USGLI dividend will amount to $26,000,000, and will be payable to holders of ap proximately 380,000 permanent plan policies only. In both the NSLI and USGLI payments, eligible policy holders will receive a dividend for each month the insurance is on a premium paying basis during the policy year ending 1955, with a single check covering the total payment due policy. Starts in January Payment will be made shortlv after the anniversary date of each policy beginning in Janu ary and ending in December, 1955. The VA announced - changes will be made in several thou sand individual-NSLI dividend rates .for, the 1955 payment. On term, the dividend scale will be approximately 10 per cent high er at ages through 40 than for the 1954 dividend. ;For ages above 40,. the increase will be somewhat greater except at age 55 for which the rate. will, re main unchanged. - , . On permanent plans of NSLI, the total amount to be distribut ed in 1955 will , be about the same as for 1954, but there will be small increases at some points and small , decreases at others. The , VA. said these increases Army Enlistments Open To Men With Dependents A change in Army recruiting policy was announced today by Sfc. Warren M. Long, local Army recruiting sergeant. The ;changa is effective immediately, and prior , and non-prior service ap plicants with; dependents will be permitted to enlist. .Heretofore, single men only were permitted to volunteer for enlistment;-.The Army recruiting office is located in the post office building, in Medford. - . To carry , on r carrier, pigeon racing in England this year 3,000 special pigeon trains on British railways transport over 25,000, 000 birds to the starting points of hundreds of races. . Dead Hrie Sunday Classified is at nooir Saturday; 10 a.m.. Monday for Monday: other daya 5:30 previous day. enjoy. ' f ssgg -1 WESkKTAJaa, AT Hotel 8 A.M. TO 11 txi T FRIDAY SPECIAL OUT OF SCHOOL MATINEE Two of the Greatest Children' Features Eyer Made Shirley Temple in her finest Film "The Little Colonel" Doors Open at 12:30 - Show Starrs ar 1:00 Dividends and decreases are due in large ( part to recent changes m the mortality and disability ex perience. For USGLI permanent plan policies, a nominal increase gen erally will be made for those policy-holders who presently are under age 4(60 and a slightly larger increase generally will be made for those policy-holders who presently are over age. Reflect Changes The VA said the USGLI in creases also reflect Tecent changes in mortality and dis ability experience. VA officials emphasized that the 1955 divi dends will be payable only to eligible participating policies. They will not be payable to the nonparti cipating post-Korea policies issued under the indem nity and insurance acts of 1951, nor will they be payable to the 900,000 NSLI and USGLI parti cipating policies for the months ior wnicn premiums were waived during the 1955 policy Soviet Citizens sTo -; Moscow -4I.R) Soviet citi zens of all groups gathered to day to pay their final respects to Andrei Vishinsky, at a flower decked . bier in the Hall of Columns. The hall, where the late Josef Stalin had lain in state in March of 1953, was decorated inside and outside with black-bordered red banners and massive flags of the. Soviet Union and the 16 So viet republics. " Citizens began "forming out side the House of Trade Unions at 7 a.m., seven hours after Vish insky's body arrived in Moscow from New York. They stood four abreast in a line which reached a length of more than half a mile when the hall was opened at noon. . 4 : Portrait -Flanked A huge portrait of 'the late chief Soviet delegate to the United Nations was placed be tween the two central columns outside the hall. It was flanked by red banners bordered at the bottom by broad black bands. Autumn flowers almost hit the heavy . copper-lined coffin which was' open,, showing the silver-haired Vishinsky .in an attitude of peaceful sleep. Mrs. -Vishinsky and her daughter, Zinaida, sat weeping nearby. A symphony orchestra continuously played dirges. 8:30 P.M. Pay Respect Andrei Vishinsky Medford morrow Bud Abbott Lou Costello THEIR FUNNIEST "Jack Bean Stalk On Service year under the same acts. ' ' Term USGLI policies also are excluded from the 1955 divi dend declaration, as in the past. 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