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U.S luildjng Fleet: of Hydrogen Jet leiiis names By CHARLES W. CORDDRY United Press Correspondent Washington U.R) The United States is building a $4 13,000,000,000 fleet of giant jet aircraft capable of delivering H-bombs, defense authorities re vealed today. . Pentagon sources indicated the awesome new "retaliation" .force will comprise about 350 B52 bombers, which fly more than 600 miles an hour, and 200 tankers for inflight refueling. - The all-jet fleet will be or iDslfoops ditd ,iregDi) CDoomro 'Three Youths Die In Auto-Truck Wreck Hear Albany Passenger Killed , ; As Car Leaves Road By UNITED PRESS , Traffic mishaps in Oregon claimed the lives of at least five persons and injured eight others during the week end. A sixth accidental death was attributed to drowning. . John H. Gemetti, 32, of Cor- vallis, was killed last night when the car in which he was a pass enger left Highway 20 some . three miles north of Corvallis and rolled over twice. William E. Wilkinson Jr., 28, Philomath, , driver of the car, suffered a back .injury when thrown from the .par against a tree. Gemetti was also thrown from the car and . suffered a skull fracture. . v Three teenaged boys died :arly yesterday when their au tomobile crashed into a large truck four miles south of-. Al bany. Two youths were injured in the wreck, which demolished the car. "; The dead were Willis LeRoy -3ould, "19,- and Albert Edward Bear, 16, both of Deadwood, and Burrel R. Ownes, 18, Swisshome. Emil Max Brainard Jr., Dead wood, was in critical condition at an Albany hospital with a fractured skull, broken leg and other injuries, and Gary Lee Gib bons, 14, Swisshome, suffered a broken leg. Florence Man Dies . , A two-car collision on High way- 36 three miles west of Mapleton yesterday morning re sulted in the death of one man . and serious injuries to five other persons. Donald G. Smith, 29, Flor ence, who was driving alone, died some 10 minutes after he was taken to Sacred Heart hos pital at Eugene. Smith's car struck one driven by Robert Mc Cain, 24, Tiernan. McCain suf fered a concussion and multiple cuts and bruises. I Riding with McCain were Iris Berry, 29, who received frac tures, facial lacerations and bruises; her husband, Clarence, 37, back injuries: Wayne Kelly, 22, concussion, back injuries and lacerations, and Harry Swan, severe head, face and leg cuts and a fractured jaw. All are from Mapleton. The death by drowning occur red in the north fork of the Santiam river near Stayton Saturday afternoon. The victim was Ricky Hunt, 3, the son of , Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hunt, Suth- erlin. . The child and a 12-year-old companion were swept down stream and over a small dam when they fell from a log while crossing the river. The older boy, Roger Garland, managed to swim to shore. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow- Jones final stock averages: 30 in dustrials 388.51 up 0.72; 20 rail roads 133.04 up 0.77; 15 utilities 60.87 up 0.12, and 65 stocks 142.52 up 0.42. Sales today were about 3,300,000 shares, compared with 3,010,000 shares traded Friday. Central Point Following Accident, Fracas A young Central Point man was sentenced to 60 days in jail today in city police court on charges of resisting arrest and being drunk in public, follow ing a Saturday night hit and run accident and destruction of jail property. Glenn Buster Jones, 22, 10th and Maple sts, pleaded guilty to both offenses. He was the occu pant of a car which struck two cars and the Hawkins All-Night garage, 616 South Riverside ave., police said. The driver is feeing sought by officials for fail ganized into 11 wings in the Air Force's Strategic Air Command. Designed for immediate counter attack from American bases if a global war starts, those wings now fly much slower B36 super bombers. The B36s now are America's chief means of de livering the H-bomb. ? Officials emphasized that it will take several years to build the new multi-million dollar jets and forge them into a fighting force. They .will be long-range Loves Snow Possible In Area Tuesday It's a bit early to think of sleigh rides and snow men, but snow is a possibility here .Tuesday. " Prediction of the Medford office of the weather bureau is for increasing cloudiness to morrow with mixed rain and snow showers by afternoon. 18 Nominated for Board of Directors Of County Chamber - Eighteen members of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce have been nominated to serve on the chamber's board of directors, it was announced today by Don McNeil, chamber secretary-manager. , . Those nominated were chosen by popular ballot. From the group, nine directors are to be selected. The eight receiving the highest number of votes will serve for a period of three years, and the ninth will serve for one year. Final ballots have been mail ed to all members of the cham ber. Members of the elections committee are William Barker, Otto Ewaldsen, and L. W. Bates. .Those nominated are: Reese-Alexander, Alexander and Brown. Agency; Eric AJlen, Medford Mail Tribune; E. L. Bartholomew, Wahl - Bartholo mew agency; N. B. Bender, Bear Creek Orchards; M. O. Besson nette, Bessonnette and Graff; W. B. Brill, Brill Metal Works; B. E. Budge, Crane Company; Hugh Coleman, Crater Lake Mo tor company; Sam Colton, Of fice Stationery and Supply com pany. George C. Flanagan, Elk Lum ber company; Ronald Gandee, Mailwell Envelope company; B. L. " Nutting, Medford Corpora tion; Eugene Orr, Weeks and Orr Furniture; Mrs. Bert Pree, Bert Pree's Fashions, Fred Rob inson, Robinson Brothers; Paul Selby, Selby's; John Snider, Pepsi-Cola .Bottling company and Snider's Dairy, and Frank Van Dyke, Van Dyke and Del lenback. . Three Burglaries Reported to Police Three burglaries were report ed to sheriff's deputies and city police over the weekend. . About $12 in currency and an undetermined amount of. silver was reported taken from the residence of the Rev. Clarence William Frost, 901 North Cen tral ave., sometime yesterday evening, police said. Entry was gained . through an open rear door and by breaking a glass pane in an inner door. The sheriff's office stated that the LeRoy L. Lowell cabin on the Tiller-Trail highway was broken into and - numerous household items and furniture removed. A nearby cabin, own ed by Otto Neilson, ' Vallejo, Calif., was also entered and the owner is now being contacted to determine what - is missing. Locks were pried off both plac es. Man Gets 60 ure to stop at the scene of an accident. . t After the accident, the two men left the car and were chased by a mechanic and Wil bern Franklin ; Hammers, Eu gene, owner of one of the two struck cars. The other car was owned by Ed Montgomery, route 2, box 167C, Central Point. .- r - The two abandoned the chase after they lost the fugitive in the fog. Police stopped the two men later and before help could arrive, the two men ran off big brothers of the B47 stratojet medium bombers, of , which the Air Force now has 1000 with another 1000 to come. Medford H United Press Full Leased Wire 49th Year 12 Pages tf Owe Soviet Satellites Urged To Build Up Military Position Molotov Tells Need ' For Stronger Defenses Moscow U.R) Soviet Rus sia tonight, called upon her Communist sattelites in Europe to build up and consolidate their military front if the West rearms West Germany. Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov told delegates from seven European Communist countries and Comunist China that "to firmly ensure the se curity of the peace loving states of Europe" they should "con solidate their forces, and strengthen them " considerably in event that the Paris agree ments for West German rearm ament and creation of a West ern European union are rati fied and implemented." r Molotov said the European Communist countries must "prepare sure measures to strengthen their defenses ac cording to the necessities of the present moment. "This demands on the parts of the.- governments participat ing in this conference that they carry out, in common, meas ures in the field of the organiz ation of military forces and command and take such other measures as necessary to . . . guarantee the integrity of their frontiers against possible ag gression," Molotov said. ElkCreekClubhouse Destroyed by Blaze Shady Cove The Elk Creek Social clubhouse, an old land mark situated about seven miles up Elk Creek from the Crater Lake highway was destroyed by fire early Sunday morning. The building, which was owned by a group of residents of the vicinity was uninsured. . ' Sheldon Hughes, a neighbor, discovered the fire and called the Shady Cove Volunteer fire department at 2:30 a.m., but the building was too far gone for anything gto be saved. State police and sheriff's dep uties investigated the fire Sun day as the possibility of arson was indicated due to the fact that the clubhouse had not been used for several days. Enrico Fermi, First Atom Splitter, Buried Chicago (U.R) Private funeral services were held to day for Enrico Fermi, the Ital ian born scientist who unlocked the gates through which the world entered the atomic age. Fermi died yesterday at 53 of an incurable and spreading can cer, a disease, ironically, which he had once predicted would be controlled through by-products of atomic science. , His experiments and work with radioactive materials were not contributing factors in his death, physicians and associates said. -Day Sentence in City Jail again, with Jones being appre hended later. ' About 10 minutes after Jones was jailed, he was found to have smashed three windows .with his fist, and upon treatment struggled with two attending physicians and officers before his hands were bandaged. He was placed in the solitary cell, runway for the night. Besides damage to the cars, two large plate glass windows at the garage were knocked out as a result of the impact. mm ,The B52 Stratojet, an eight- jet monster estimated to cost $8,- 000,000, is in production at I Boeing Airplane Company's Se-1 eJiflTRIBUNE MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1954 Knowland Receives List of Additional Yanks in Prisons Dulles Expected To . Blast Red China Washington (U.R) Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland said today that the State Department has given him the names of 26 more American civilians imprisoned in Com munist China. . The names are in addition to those of the 13 Americans, 11 military men and two civilians, who have been imprisoned by Red China on "trumped up" spy charges. Knowland, who Saturday ad vocated a naval blockade against Red China if necessary to free the 13, said he believes all the American citizens are entitled to the protection of this govern ment. China Rejects Note Peiping yesterday rejected a U.S. note protesting the impris onment of the 13 and demand ing that they be freed "forth with." . "I think we're going to have to do something other than to send notes or act through the United Nations," Knowland told reporters. "If they ignore a note from this government, they're not going to pay any more at tention to one worded a little differently from the United Na tions." .; Knpwland did . not elaborate -Secretary of State John Fos ter Dulles, in a major foreign policy speech from Chicago to night at 7:30 p.m. (PST) is ex pected to lambast Red China for refusing to free the 13 im prisoned men for alleged spy ing. ' Knowland revealed Saturday that he had asked the State De partment for a lists of all U.S. citizens in Red China prisons in addition to the 13 accused of .being spies. Two Die In Prison Knowland said today the de partment had submitted a list of 26 other civilians, some of whom were on a similar list of 32 giv en him in December, 1951. He reported that the State De partment memorandum said that 15 on the 1951 list had been re leased and that two others had died in prison as a result of Communist "mistreatment." Washington (U.R) The State Department today issued the list of 26 persons held in Red China which was submit ted to Sen. William F. Know land, (R-Calif .). v . The list, giving the latest ad dress available and date of im prisonment, included: Lawrence R. Buol, Stockton, Calif., January, 1950; Rev. John William Clifford, San Francisco; Rev. John Alexander Houle, San Francisco; Levi A. Lovegren, Seattle. January, 1951; Robert McCann, Altadena, Calif., June, 1951. Rev. Charles J. McCarthy, San Francisco; Rev. Thomas L. Phillips, San Francisco; Mr. and Mrs. William A. Rickett, Seattle. July, 1951. Knowland placed the names of the 26 in the Congressional Record and told the Senate that. many of them were imprisoned "with no semblance of a trial." He also said this government does not know how' many . Am erican soldiers, listed as missing in action in Korea, may be in Communist prisons or slave la bor camps. Mercy Flights Takes Patient to Portland Mrs. Earl Woodley, Dufur, Ore., who has 'been at Sacred Heart hospital since Oct. 20, be cause of injuries suffered when a logging truck dumped its load onto the car in which she was riding near Cascade gorge, was taken this morning to Portland by Mercy Flights. She will re ceive further treatment . in a Portland hospital. The - patient's .husband and father-in-law were killed in the same accident. Mrs. Woodley is the 304th patient to be flown in the Mercy Flights plane. George Milligan -was. pilot for. the trip today. . attle. Wash., plant and will be coming later from Boeing's second line at Wichita, Kan. The first jet tanker, the Boeing 717,1 United Pre M j' 't j. ' FIRST X-RAY County Judge Rodney Keat ing, left, became the first county resident to have a chest x-ray under the new tuberculo-, sis case-finding program of the Jackson Coun ty Public Health association, the Jackson County Medical society and Community hos pital in Medford. Keating had his x-ray in a Medford Officials To Attend Meeting About 28 Medford city offic ials will ' attend the regional League of Oregon Cities meet ing tonight at 6 p.m. in the Phoe nix Community hall, according to city officials". The meeting will be a joint affair with the Jackson county members of the Oregon High way Lifesavers association. The latter group will organize and elect officers. v Medford's delegation will be headed by Mayor-Elect Earl Mil ler. Mayor D. L. Flynn, newly elected president of the League of Oregon Cities, is representing Oregon at the national conven tion of the American Municipal association ' at Philadelphia, Penn., and will be unable to at tend. ', Phoenix will be host city at tonight's meeting, to which 12 incorporated communities in Jackson and Josephine counties are invited to attend. Reports on the recent state LOC conven tion will be made. No Answer Expected Soon in Damage Suit No answer is expected for at least two weeks from the Talent Irrigation district on , two civil complaints filed against it Nov. 22, seeking combined damages of $21,351.40, according to Frank Farrell, TID attorney. The suits were filed by W. R. Mayfield and Walter F. Monroe, who both allege that waters from a collapsed spillway extension last May 5 at Hiatt , reservoir flooded their properties at the Green Springs summit on High way 66. Mayfield stated in the complaint that he had truck garden crops, while Monroe claimed soil and erosion dam age. . ' ' Named in the suits were . R. M. Kent, district secretary and manager; and directors, Homer Moore, Joe H. Meyer and Henry A. Owens. Farrell said Kent would not be in the area until about a week as he is on vaca tion. - TRUCK OVERTURNS City police said that a panel truck, operated by Donald Ora Garner, 2583 Howard ave., was turned on its side in a collision at Third and Front sts., at about 9:10 a.m. today. The car was righted by a wrecker and was driven away. Officers stated that the driver of the other car, a coupe, Emerson Glen Wolfe, 801 North Central ave., was cited for failure to yield the right-of-way. Parma, Ida. (U.R) Mrs. C. Ben Ross, wife of Idaho's late Democratic governor, died at her home in Parma today. . She was 78. is some months away. Contracts for a larger tanker are expected to be placed soon with one of several bidders. The tankers -Full Leased Wiro Price 5c No. 216 First of Two Centers Ope The first of two permanent chest x-ray centers will go into operation this week at Commu nity hospital, according to Miss B. J. Larson, administrator of the hospital, and officers of the Jackson County Public Health association. Purpose of the x-ray units is to discover unkown cases of tuber culosis, lung cancer, tumors, heart trouble and other chest diseases, according to Dr. C. I. Drummond, Dr. Earl Lawson and Dr. A. E. Merkel. They are members of a committee appoint ed by the Jackson County medi cal society to work with the health association and the hos pitals on the project. " ' Starts New Plan Monday, morning Community hospital "began a routine pro cedure of giving a chest x-ray to all patients upon admittance to the hospital. Wednesday, Dec. 1, from 4 to 6" p.m., will see the first of the out-patient clinics when the public may go to Community hospital for x-rays. Included in this will be referrals from doc tors, from the health department, special groups such as teachers and food handlers and those who have had contact with a tuber culosis patient. Children who have a positive reaction to the tuberculin test? now being given in the schools will also be asked to go to the x-ray center for a chest x-ray; , Small Fee Charged . - A small fee to cover cost only bf . film and materials will be made for this and anyone desir ing to have an x-ray may go di rectly to the hospital on Wed nesdays between 4 and 6 p.m. No appointment is necessary. Purchase of two x-ray ma chines for the" county's largest hospitals, Community and Sacred Heart, was announced recently by the Jackson, County Health association. Funds de rived from the sale of this year's Christmas seals will go ' toward the purchase of these machines. Installation of the machine at Sacred Heart hospital will be made shortly after the first of the year, according to Mrs. Jack Walker case-finding chairman Weather FORECAST: Fair and cold to . night. Foe patches Tuesday morninf. Increasing eloudi-. neu Tuesday with scattered mixed rain and snow showers by afternoon. Low tonight 25 . 28. High Tuesday about 46. . " Temp. Highest yesterday 45 Lowest this moraine 28 will cost an estimated $4,000,- 000 each. : Defense sources reckoned the cost of the B52 program at more than $3,500,000,000, taking into account the costs of tooling and instructing the labor' forces at Wichita and Seattle. The tanker program adds at least $800,000, 000 more' to the cost of build ing the new intercontinental striking force. ''- The Stratofort, which later may be built in reconnaissance as well as bomber versions, is reported slightly faster than the test run in preparation for the "out-patient" clinic for chest x-rays which opens at the hos pital Wednesday afternoon. Shown with Keat ing are Robert Sutton, head technician at the hospital, and Mrs. Jack Walker, case finding chairman of the Health association. Christ mas seal funds are financing the program. . (Brainerd photo) s Set ration for the health association. "We fee. sure many lives are going .to be saved by this new program, Mrs. Chester Guches, president of the association stated, "and everyone purchas ing Christmas seals will be hav ing a part and as well will be helping to , protect their family from tuberculosis." '. Will Save Money, It-is felt the new case finding will also be saving the county money 'since each advanced case of tuberculosis cbsts the taxpay ers of the community $15,000. According to Dr. Merkel, county health officer, there are 200 cases of tuberculosis in Jackson county, 100 ; of which are un known even to themselves. Each advanced case is estimated to have infected nine other persons. The county health association began work on this new x-ray program when it was learned mobile units provided by the Federal government would no longer be available. Roof Lathe Installed At Courthouse Annex Steel lathe was being instal led today on the roof of the new courthouse annex and concrete will be applied tomorrow, if the weather is not freezing, ac cording to construction workers, t Work was also continuing to day on the last of three vaults to be placed on the new annex. The concrete rooms will be lo cated in the basement, first and second floors. " " Lack, of ' steel materials has held up construction on the buil ding, which i$ primarily of met al construction. ' - Adena uer's Pa Rav By Vote in Hesse Province Frankfurt, Germany U.PJ Chancellor Konrad Adenauer s Christian. Democrats suffered a punishing defeat by the power ful Socialists in Hesse province in a Sunday ; election that showed the rearmament issue still a big question mark. , At the same time, Adenauer's party scored an impressive vic tory in crucial state elections in neighboring Bavaria. Hopes Wrecked By emerging again as the top party in Hesse, the Social ists wrecked Adenauer's hope of ousting, them decisively from a state they have ruled since 1945 ; But once more the Socialists failed to gain absolute control of the Hesse legislature and won with fewer votes than in their 1950 landslide but .re smaller six-Jt B47, Gen. Alfred m. Orruentner, supreme allied commander in turope, has said repeatedly that Russia has no defense today against a plane of the B47 type. BS2s can carry either "ordin ary" atomic weapons or H bombs, but are intended chiefly for the latter. Their range is estimated at more than 6000 miles, much less than the 10 engine B36s. But with jet tank ers they can strike targets any where on the globe, operating from U. .S." bases. Surprise Proposal For Showdown Vole Wednesday Heard Senator Admits To ; Being 'Extremely Blunt . - ': -' - . i . ' ' -y : i Washington U.R) Sen. Jo seph R. McCarthy apologized to the Senate today for using "ex tremely blunt" language - at times, but emphasized that he was not backing down on any of the opinions he has expressed. He made the statement in a short dramatic speech proposing that the Senate cut off its de bate on censuring him and brine xne issue to a snowaown vote Wednesday, " His surprise proposal for an early vote got an immediate fa vorable response from Republi can and Democratic leaders and from Chairman Arthur V. Wat- kins (K.-Utah) of the special committee , that recommended censuring McCarthy. But formal action was witheld pending dis cussion of the details. Elbow Bandaged McCarthy, his right arm ban daged to the knuckles and car ried in a sling, read his six-minute speech from a prepared text when the Senate reconvened after taking a 10-day recess to give him time to recover from an elbow injury. . The Wisconsin Republican said he is "prepared for whatever action the, Senate may take" on' the censure - resolution, but wants to set it over with auick so that senators may give their attention to more important matters, such as recent hostile acts by Red .China. He said the charges against him "boil down simply to the accusation that I have used dis courteous and offensive words." He admitted having been "ex tremely blunt in expressing my opinions," and said he wished to assure any senators "who feel they have been offended, that I had no intention. in the words that were used of hurting the feelines of anvnne." "But in facts and opinions that I held, I am unchanged, he said. V After McCarthy read his pre pared-speech. Sen. Karl E. Mundt (R-S.D.), told the TSenate that he regarded it as a "re traction or apology" for words TT"l""i vVitt In etc -. 4. w.-J UBfl WOWtw 'Bad Choice of Words McCarthy replied that he conceded if was "a hail phniiv of words" to Call Sen. Robert C. Hendrickson (R-N'-J.) "A liv ing miracle . . . without brains or guts." But he said he still feels strongly that Hendrick son did wrong in signing a 1951-52 Elections Subcommit tee report which questioned' McCarthy's finances. McCarthy said he also ad mits using the . wrong word when he called the Censure Committee an "unwitting hand maiden" of , the Communist party, "because a handmaiden is a female servant and nhiH. ously they aren't female ser vants." "That word handmaiden could be stricken and some oth er word substituted," he said. McCarthy, spoke after Sen. Wallace F. Bennett (R-Utah) had formally filed a third cen sure charge against him. rty Rebuffed gained most of the losses they suffered in last year's general election. Neither the Socialists nor the Christian Democrats were in a position to form a new Hesse government without a coalition of their allies. Hoped for victories Adenauer had hoped to score victories both in Hesse and Ba varia as a sweeping popular en dorsement of both German re armament - and his agreement for temporary internationaliza tion of the Saarland. - The chancellor had stumped for these issues in a whirlwind campaign in ' Hesse, where ha thought the ' Christian Demo crats might win, considering the Socialist-' Door ebjowins in 1953.
