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U.PJ . r,Alger Hiss walked to freedom in the crisp morning sunshine Saturday after 44 months in pri son and promised a new fight to clear himself of charges he gave U- S. secrets to a Russian spy ring. : Hiss, who once was adviser to President Roosevelt at the Yalta conference, made it clear as soon as he passed through the prison gates that his case , was far from closed. He will, he said, seek to "vindicate my name." Will Renew Efforts : He went to prison in . 1951 ; declaring he was a victim of "forgery by typewriter" and he announced to newsman who waited for him Saturday that he would renew with "enthu- siasm" his efforts to prove his innocence of the perjury charg es which grew out of his denial of accusations made by Whittak er Chambers. " "I plan to renew my efforts to dispel the deception that has been foisted upon the American people,"; Hiss said. : "I shall renew those efforts with more enthusiasm because I am confident that their success not only will vindicate my name and relieve- my family of har rassmentbut will assist in the allaying oi ' the hysteria - and; fear of these days." - Hiss drove with his wife and son to the walkup apartment, in New York's Greenwich village they, have occupied for the last IP years. They arrived at 4:20 p.m., accompanied by two at torneys, - und went into seclu sion. : He answered reporters ques tions about his plans by saying: - "I am not running for office, I am returning home. "I imagine you all had your thanksgiving with your families the day before yesterday. This is my Thanksgiving. I want to Spend mine with my family." Chambers, at his Maryland home, said he saw only a hard "ordeal of daily living ahead for Hiss, who as a convicted felon has been banished from the legal profession and govern ment service,' the only kinds of work he knows. '. - (See Story, on Page 7) Milk Production Pools, Quotas Seen Portland U.R) The gen eral manager of the Dairy Co op Association ' said here Sat urday that production pools and quotas will be established by the association to replace state controls over milk production killed by the voters in the Nov ember 2 elections. -:' Will W. Henry, manager of the co-op, said in a policy state smen t that the industry pools and quotas are designed to ; govern association affairs in the absence of a state milk control law. Principal action adopted by the association, to be effective Jan. 1, is establishments of pro ducers quotas on Grade A milk and a limit on Grade A produc ers memberships. New Feature Starts In The Mail Tribune . Clay R. Pollan's the "Star Gaser." a daily astrological ' feature, will now be published la The Mail Tribune, begin ning with today's issue. , . The first publication an " pears on page 14 of today's - issue. ". Pollan was born and reared 'in the foothills of the Oaark ; mountains and studied astron- my, geology and meteorology at the University of Michigan. He followed this with post graduate courses at Sorbonne . university in France, majoring in astronomy. While in France, he was the protege of the world-famous astrologer Trouve. The daily feature will in clude six 'and seven-word mes- , sages derived from the Zodi acal signs. 'v--":.-'- Charge as ALGER HISS ' Freed from Prison Nine Young People Arrested by Police On Liquor Charges Nine persons, five young men and four girls, were arrested on liquor charges Friday night and early Saturday, according to re ports of state police and county authorities. , , A district court ' report" said that William Howard Groves, 18, Box 9, Murphy rcL, Grants Pass, and Daniel Neal Dimmick, 19, of 909 N. W. C St., Grants Pass, were each fined a total of $40 and assessed $10 court costs on charges of illegal possession of alcoholic beverages. A 18-year- old Grants Pass girl with them was turned over to juvenile au thorities. Arrested Twice They were arrested by" state police at Rogue Valley ballroom and again later on Highway 99 near Talent. The other six were arrested at the entrance of the Rogue drive- in theater. The three men of the group were lodged in the county jail and the three girls, 15, 16 and 17 were turned over to rela tives with instructions to appear before the county juvenile offi cer. Deputy sheriffs made the arrests. ' Charges Slated v v 7 District Attorney Walter D. Nunley said Joseph Minor, 29, 324 Vancouver st., and Robert Dale Talbot, would be charged with giving liquor to minors and Leslie Howard Jamison, 19, Port land, with illegal possession of alcoholic beverage. Two of the girls were from Medford and another from a Central Point rural route. Sports Bulletins 'Dallas, Tex. (U.PJ Geor gia Tech has accepted an in vitation to play Arkansas in the Cotton Bowl football game New Year's Day. Corvallis U.R) Union and Monroe became co-holders of the Oregon: State high school Class B football title here Saturday night as the two teams fought to a score less tie in a rugged exhibition of defensive powes before 1200 chilled fans. . - . ' if:.-'.: -y . ..J.y.:-JJI 9 Demand for Lumber Expected To By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail-Tribune Correspondent Washington Domestic con struction work is expected to keep the demand for lumber during 1955 at a high level, per haps even topping the 1954 de mand, according : to estimates made by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association at its annual meeting here. Brightest spot in the lumber picture for the coming year is the prospect of a near-record home building year that may re quire upwards of 10,000,000,000 board feet of lumber.-The lum ber producers I estimated next year's total demand would about parallel the 39,000,000,000 board feet which is the indicated figure for this year. ; One , significant factor, the manufacturers pointed out, is that Defense Department orders Jensen's Attorney Says Venue Change Improperly Denied Claims Some Jurors Held Opinions on Case Contention that a change of venue was improperly denied de fendant : James Norman Jensen in the Hile murder case and obli gated acceptance of "many jur ors who professed previous opin ion" is stressed in a reply mem orandum prepared and signed by Defense Attorney Edward C. Kelly for submission to. the cir cuit court. " . - The memorandum is a reply to a memorandum submitted by District Attorney Walter D. Nun ley on Kelly's motion for a new trial for Jensen. Circuit Judge H. K. Hanna has been out of town and reportedly has seen neither the defense nor prose cution document. Kelly's memor andum was given to the county clerk's office to hold for the judge and a copy was placed in the hands of the district attor ney's office Friday. Convicted in October Jensen, 25, Larkspur, Calif., was convicted in October of the April 24 robbery killing of Mrs. Fern Hile at her home here. He was sentenced to die Jan. 7 in the state's lethal .gas chamber at Salem. Jensen is now at the state penitentiary. In the memo Kelly maintains that state of public opinion was such here that the defendant could not obtain a fair -trial He pointed to defense grounds that Circuit Judge Charles H. Foster, who denied the venue charge, was a stranger to the county and had not acquainted himself with the state of public sentiment other than that in conflicting affidavits. - . Put Burden on Defense ' Feeling in the county prevent ed a fair and impartial trial "no matter-how-"much the -jurors chosen may have attempted to set aside previously formed opin ions," according to the memoran dum. It continued with a state ment that, where public preju dice exists, a defendant in the case of some jurors, is placed in the position of attempting tq prove matters beyond a reason able doubt rather than the state's bearing such a burden. . "In the case of some jurors, in such a condition," the docu men goes on, "it is the feeling of some that is is proper to con ceal the true state of their feel ings in order that they can in voke their own peculiar idea of justice J . . These people in effect lie their way onto a jury in order to wreak personal vengeance, where a state of feeling and prej udice exists, it is impossible for a defendant to protect himself against people who lie their way onto juries, and receive a fair trial at their hands." , Didn't Use All Challenges : Kelly says in the memo that failure of the defense to use all preemptory challenges came about not because of belief that a fair and impartial jury were guaranteed but because of belief that those in the jury box were probably more air and impartial than some who might have been excused or might have been called. Earlier last week Kelly filed a motion for the circuit court to order the court reporter to provide a transcriptof all pro ceedings for an ; appeal. The transcript would be provided at the expense of the stae. Kelly also filed an affdavit setting out the money the state has spent in prosecuting Jensen at an esti mated $6,000. ' ' for lumber, which tan to some 600,000,000 board feet this year, will drop off to about 80,000,000 in 1955. : v " '.''.?'?"'". But while defense . procure ment tapers off, increased con struction on projects deferred during the recent years of the Far East (mostly Korean) con flict is expected to pick up. "Schools and hospitals promise to become even more important markets for lumber manufactur ers in the new year," the associa tion reported. "There has been an appreciable increase in the use of wood for modern one story school buildings as con trasted to the expensive, monu mental type of stone and con crete structures." -. Here is what the manufactur ers agreed was the building out look: ; ' "Hut dsmaad for lumber by mm ff ? - 1 7 " ; i rlti&K 111 aVBsaaVaVBSt , .-Zii. vaaaVaVBsslBV :aaillllllllllllllllllVBHBSa' RUSSELL DEFOREST ' New Deputy DA Russell DeForest Appointed by DA To Serve as Deputy Appointment of Russell De Forest as a deputy district at torney for Jackson county was announced Saturday by District Attorney Walter Nunley. State Compsensated DeForest will be the state compensated deputy on the staff, A. E. Piazza, the other deputy, is employed by and compensat ed by Jackson county. ' Civil practice on a part-time basis in Medford will be con tinued, by DeForest who in March of 1954 formed a law partnership with Donald Han sen. His private omces are in the Franklin building. DeForest received his LLB degree at Un iversity:- o..Micbigan-. law-school in 1952. He was admitted to practice in Oregon courts .on Nov. 25, 1952 and was associa ted with the firm of Roberts, Kellington and Branchfield for 16 months. The new deputy is married and has one child. The family resides at 1319 Stewart ave. Aids Civil Work Nunley said the addition of DeForest to the district attorn ey's staff will enable the office to ." devote more attention and time to the various civil matters in which the county is involved and to the processing of non-support cases. . -: .7 ;".- ; Ike Orders Special: Augusta, Ga. (U.PJ Presi dent Eisenhower ordered a spe cial -cabinet meeting Saturday to make an immediate seurvey of narcotics addiction in urban slum areas so that if necessary new laws can , be .proposed, to stamp it out. ' " "We should orsit no practical step to minimize and stamp out narcotic ; addiction," ; the Presi dent said in a directive from hs Thanksgiving holiday retreat to the attorney general, and the secretaries of state, defense, treasury and health, education and welfare. Narcotics bureau officials in Washington said that a big in crease in narcotics use started in 1950 when sources opened up that , had been closed ' -during World War H. The main trouble spots-now are New York, De troit, 'Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Texas cities and sou thern California.. the construction industry should continue brisk. , This is one of the most significant and encour aging signs on the sales horizon, since more than 70 per cent of the lumber consumed in the U.S. goes : int. oconstruction of one form, or another.' : .' -:m '" ' "From all present indications, it seems reasonable to assume that the total volume of new con struction in 1955 will equal and possibly exceed the peak level of 1954. Home building, a very important segment of the con struction market, is the brightest spot in the lumber picture. "Recent studies indicate that the average U, S.' dwelling unit contains - approximately 10,500 board feet of lumber. The con sensus among forecasters is that 1955 non-farm housing starts will equal and perhaps exceed the 1,100,000 to - 1,200,000 figure) Surveys MM Desperate Effort Conducted To Save on Seven Cling To Bow . In Storm-Swept Sea . London U.P.) ' Seven seamen, too weak to help them selves, clung desperately Satur day to the half-sunken bow end of a 20,000-ton tanker split in two in the storm-swept Irish sea by Britain's worst gale of of the year. A lifeboat manned by nine heroic Irishmen and a sea-going tug famous for its rescue of Am erican Skipper Capt. Henrik Kurt , Carlson two years ago were foiled by mountainous seas, fog and driving rain in attempts to save the men. Line Falls Into Sea The British tug Turmoil eased near the bow end of the tanker arid shot, a line aboard. . But the men were too weak to tie the line and it fell back into the sea. The tanker, the World Concord of Liberian reg istry, was broken in half last night A life boat rescued 35 of the crew from the stern half of the ship after the tanker was snap ped in two. But the master and six men-were stranded in the bow end. J v -i ', Ships Stand By The storm foiled the Turmoil just as it had the nine man crew of the little lifeboat from Ross lare on the Wexford county coast of Ireland and other res cuers. A fleet of ships, including the British aircraft carrier Il lustrious, stood by helplessly last night. , The Turmoil's attempt to put a line on the tossing hulg fol lowed the try by Coxwain Rich ard Wals and his eight man crew to, hold jheii liffiboat Alongside the half-sunken vessel to pull off the seven men. . s . Wals and his crew gambled their lives, but were forced by the raging sea to pull away from the hulk. On the other side of England seven crewmen of the South Goodwind lightship were en tombed in their vessel w h e n gales drove her ashore on the Goodwind sands she guards in the English channel. Adenauer Appeals To German Voters V Frankfurt, Germany (U.R) Chancellor Konrad Adenauer ap pealed to West Germans Satu day to return a resounding vote of confidence in his pro-Western rearmament policies in t today's elections in Bavaria and Hesse. The elections are the first major popular test of the Paris agreements on West German re armament and . the disputed Franco-German Saar settlement. More than one-fourth of ihe elec torate in West Germany will par ticipate. . In a final call to the 9,300,000 registered voters, Adenauer warned that the alternative to his ; policy of rearming in al liance with the West would be for West Germany "to disappear behind the iron curtain as half of Europe already has done." The voters will elect new state legislatures in Hesse, for years a traditional stronghold of the anti-rearmament socialists, and in Catholic Bavaria, largest in are of the nine West German states. - Stay at High; Level which it appears will re recorded for 1954. "If as many as 1,350,000 new dwelling units are started next year, as some have predicted, 1955 will be second only to the record-breaking year of 1950 when new starts totaled 1,396,.- 000."....,, - " Another factor engendering optimism among the lumber pro ducers is the new housing law which is expected to boost home repairs, alterations and additions to existing dwellings.: Census Bureau figures indicate 'about $12,000,000,000 is being spent this year to improve and mod ernize residential structures or about the same amount being spent on new housing construc tion. "The do-it-yourself movement will continue to figure promin ently in the home repair and im Elnorjland IProposes Prisoners Washington (U.R) Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland - proposed Saturday that the United States blockade the China coast alone if nec essary to force Red China to release all Americans held pris oner there. Sees Slight Risk Knowland told .reporters he believes such a naval blockade "would get results" without a grave risk of war. Bennett To File New Censure Count Against McCarthy Washington (U.R) SenWal lace F. Bennett1 (R-Utah) said Saturday he will file a stiff new censure charge Monday against Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy for his treatment of the Senate and its Censure Committee. ' Republican Leader William F. Knowland predicted, meanwhile, that the censure debate which re sumes Monday after a 10-day re cess will wind up in two weeks. Somi Democrats want rount-the-clock sessions to speed a vote. Will Return Monday McCarthy's lawyer, Edward Bennett Williams, said the Wis consin. Republican, will be back on the Senate floor Monday, though he said McCarthy's sore elbow, which caused the 10-day lull in debate, was "giving him hell" Saturday. Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R 111), a backstage general of Mc Carthy's defenders, was expect ed to offer! a compromise or a substitute censure motion Mon day. He had not disclosed its details, but one version reported ly aimed at reforming Senate rules for investigations, without specifically condemning :: Mc Carthy. -:, - ;'-" ". -. . -.V Will Save Thunder Bennett, former president of the National Association of Man ufacturers, said he will file the new charge soon after the Sen ate reconvenes (9 p.m. PST) but will not debate it until later. "I'll save my thunder until we reach the point in the debate where we can vote on it," be said. Bennett did not immediately disclose - the wording of the charge. But he had . announced earlier that he would file, the new count against McCarthy's . criticism of the censure session as a "lynching party," of the censure committee as "unwitting handmaidens" of . Communists, and Chariman Arthur V. Wat kins (R-Utah) as cowardly. French Troops Close 1 Pincers on Outlaws - Algiers, Algeria (U.R Five battalions of French para troopers and Alpine Chasseurs closed the arms of a giant pin cers on the desolate badlands of the Aures mountains of south eastern Algeria Saturday in a move to root out the outlaw "Army of God." - provement picture," the Associa tion forecast. . " , , . e - Only blue note in the manu facturers outlook was the pros pect of; being crowded out. of some markets by producers of wood's ; competing materials, especially plastics. To meet this competition, the Association said the lumber industry can be ex pected to (1) continue to improve their product; (2) make it avail able at prices that are competi tive with substitute materials; and (3) accelerate their research, product publicity and merchan dising programs. The association, noting the re cent lumber strike in the Pacific northwest, took a crack at labor unions which it said may jeopar dize the industry's competitive position by demands for higher waev. M To Force se The California also said the Senate should be devoting more time to consideration of foreign relations instead of the proposed censure of Sen. Joseph R. Mc Carthy (R-Wis.). "I. think developments have takea place in the last few weeks require the Senate to give more time to the honor of the country than . to the dignity of tne benate, Knowland re marked. Could Go It Alone . He said he would hope other countries would support a block ade of Red China but that he would favor it "with or without the support of the United Na tions if the American citizens are not released. ' - The State department declin ed comment on Knowland's pro posal. A spokesman pointed out that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles is spending the Thanksgiving holidays at his Duck island retreat irf Lake On tario. However, the Voice of America included Knowland's remarks in the news programs being beamed around the world. There was no accompanying edi torial comment."?' Program Already Strfrted - Knowland said lie did not "purport to be speaking' for the administration which already has launched a program to free 13 Americans recently sentenced in Red China on trumped up spy charges. ' . . He also made it clear he feels the proposed blockade should be used as a weapon for freeing all Americans held in China, includ ing missionaries, businessmen, and travelers as w til as cap tured servicemen. -: . DeGaulle Meets With Red Envoy Paris U.R) A secret meet ing between . Gen. Charles ' De Gaulle and the Soviet Ambassa dor to France posed possible new threat today to the Western agreement on German rearma ment. - - j': ;- .vv' ' The World War U fighting French leader and Russian Am bassador Serge Vinogradov met last week, it was revealed Satur day. French political experts said that De Gaulle may be plan ning a . break with ..Premier Pierre Mendes-France and a fight for high level East-West talks before the French national assembly ratifies the German re armament treaties. --! Mendes-France in a nationwide broadcast last night repeated his call for a Big-Four conference next May and suggested the Allies and Russia set the date of the talks immediately. He also proposed that Russia could make the new Western Europ ean Union the basis for a wider continental security , system. ; . SATURDAY SCORES WEST "V. ' San Jose State 26, ttew Mex ico 14 -fo- -a 5 ' Arixona 42, Wyoming 40 ; r SOUTHWEST Rice 20. Baylor 14 r Oklahoma 14. . Oklahoma ' A&M o r'-;!;.::-v.:'-'. Arkansas 19,' Houston 0 Texas Tech 61, Hardin-Sim-"mons 19 Southern Methodist 21, Texas Christian 6 MIDWEST Notre Dame 23, Southern California 17 SOUTH ; ' ' ; ; - South Carolina 20, Wake Forest 19 . Georgia Tech 7, Georgia 3 i West Virginia 14, Virginia 10 ' :! V. Duke 47. North Carolina 12 Clemson 59, The Citadel 10 Miami (Ha.) 14, Florida 0 Louisiana State 14, Tulane 13 Mississippi 14, Mississippi State 0 v Auburn 28, Alabama 0 ', Vanderbilt 26, Tennessee 0 : "EAST - Navy 27, Army 20 ' Boston College 31, Holy Crew 13 VUlaaov 4UFdhaa.0 mm Communist Radio A - Inside Red China Claims Prisoners Admit Espionage .Tokyo, Sunday (U.B Radio Peiping today rejected a UnltecT States protest of the sentencing of 13 Americans as alleged spies as "hysterical outbursts and de nials." - . The rejection' was contained in an editorial by a Red news ag ency "commentator and broadcast by Radio Peiping. It had to have Red China's approval to be broadcast on the Communist ra dio. - '- -'- '-;-;'-r; Hysterical Outbursts'" Peiping said the American protests of two U. S. civilians and 11 Air Force men were "hys terical outbursts and denials" and charged that the two plane United Nations, N.Y. CU.B The United States circulated to all the United Nations Sat- viasr . wbub uu cwa China release 13 Americans Jailed in violation of the Ko rean truce agreement and in ternational law. rarrvinff that 13 man vara Viot down inside Communist China. "Since American planes carry ing U. S. spies were shot down inside v China and since these spies- have admitted that they were engaged in espionage," the broadcast saidi "Washington pro-, tests that these persons were merely POWs in the Korean war are a smoKesgreen. : "Even the' - American war mongers can 'offer no plausible spies were allegedly 'POWs of the Korean war. " O Questions Complaint The broadcast asked, "how can there be any - complaint about the punishment of these spies by the Chinese govern ment?" It derided American protests. "Now these , bellicose ele ments," Peiping said, "are shout ting that since China has -punished the American spies, she is . even less entitled to enter the United Nations. Some of these warlike gentlemen are . even clamoring for the use of force against China.". The Red radio voice said the ventiohs and "provide : supple- U.S. protests prove U.S. war in mentary evidence of the espion age activities.". Elmer Fred Lewellyn, one of the 13 Americans imprisoned by the Chinese communists, is the son of Mrs. Lynn Stiter, Vista, Calif ., formerly Mrs. Mamye Jo Brown of 236 South Central ave. Medford. Mrs. ? Laura " Albertz, with - whom Mrs. Stiter lived when she made her home here; reports that Mrs. Stiter had not heard from - her son since his plane was forced down in Man churia in the early, days of the Korean war. According to Mrs.. Albertz, Lewellyn was a captain and a bombardier in the USAF. His wife and young son, who had been living in California, recent ly returned to the wife's home in Montana, Mrs. Albertz said. . the Veterans' administration at Mrs. Stiter was employed by Camp White before leaving for California. . : r i Report Rebukes Lumber Operators Portland U.R) The first report to be filed on a Nation--al Labor Relations, board hear ing into union charges made against Oregon lumber firms last summer was released Sat urday and it contained a stiff rebuke for the operators. ; NLRB Examiner David Doyle, author of the report, criticized lumber; operators in the Coos Bay-Reedsport area :, for : their conduct of negotiation with lum ber industry unions on the eve of the lumber strike. -: Doyle said that "upon consid eration of all evidence, I find the employers 'did not bargain in good faith,, but engaged in av course of sham or surface bar gaining designed . to frustrate and thwart the efforts of the employees to enjoy the rights guaranteed to them by the NLRB act , SaysPlanesDovned
