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Newspaper Page Textm tea -I v"N r-N i i r . ii ii -. ills v I K'T , 'A- A I'M f.,. -J,. - ....v.,...... ...J 1 ABANDONED Mrs. Betty Lou Crockett, 25, (right), is fed at General Hospital in Los Angeles after she and her two children, Kathy, 4, and Deborah, 15 months (left), were found starving in a motel Mrs. Crockett said that her husband, James, 34, had aban doned them Nov. 17 and that they had not eaten since Thanksgiving Day when they had a can of sardines. Her 5-year-old-son, James Jr., died of leukemia last Christmas. Four-Year Draft Extension Faces Fight in Congress Washington (U.R) The ad ministration's call for a four year extension of the draft plus a modified Universal Military Training program will ' meet strong opposition in Congress, Senate specialists on military af fairs said today. One veteran senator, a sup porter of Universal Military Training in the past, said the military manpower proposals will pass only if President Eis enhower throws his "full pres tige" behind them. Even then, the President may be forced to accept a compromise cutting the four-year extension of the draft to two years, the senator said. He declined use of his name. Defense Secretary Charles E. Wiison announced at his news conference late Tuesday that the new combination draft and re serve program will call for: Provisions Not Enforced ; 1. A four-year extension of the draft act which expires next June 30. Under the draft, induct ees serve two years of active duty and six years in the re serves although the reserve pro vision - has ."hot"" been enforced About 276,000 young men would be drafted each year. 2. A new reserve program un der which an additional 100,000 men a year would be given six months of basic training and then placed in organized reserve or National units. Wilson did not specify how many years of re serve service would be required. 3. Contmued emphasis on voluntary enlistments to funnel another 450,000 men a yenr into the armed services. . The plan as Wilson outlined it means universal military service. Edith Green Sees Morse as Democrat Washington (U.R) Mrs. Edith S. Green, new Democratic Congresswoman from Portland, Ore., predicted yesterday that Sen. Wayne Morse, the Indepen dent, will run as a Democrat in 1956. Mrs. Green admitted face tiously to a news conference that she based her prediction on "wo man's intuition." She said Morse's support was one of the major factors that enabled her to win in November over Repub lican Lawson McCall. Multno- man county nas not Deen repre sented by a Democrat since 1938. She said Democrats in Oregon would welcome Morse "with op- - en arms." " Morse said recently he intends to run 1956. as an independent in Bulletin ' United Nations, N. Y. (U.R) The United Nations xefused by a 39-9 vote with 10 absten tions today to give a seat to Red China and North Korea in its debate on Korean uni fication. CXGi LC fHftlBT; fflgtSTMftS SEfttS Majority of Seen Lined McCarthy Washington U.R) The Senate to its time of decision on censure McCarthy. Republican Leader William F. Democratic ' Leader Lyndon B.v general debate. Although a final vote was not to two-thirds of the Senate seemed Republican despite Knowland s statement and two llth-hour com promise proposals. The compromises were suggested by Sens. Everett M. Dirksen (R.-IU.) and H. Alexander Smith (R.-N.Y.). After a quorum call which ended at 2:59 -pm. (EST) Chairman Arthur V. Watkins (R.-Utah) of recognition to offer a minor amendent to the first censure count, that McCarthy was contemptuous of a Senate Elections subcom mittee in 1951-52. McCarthy Supports Knowland Demand For China Blockade Washington (U.R) Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy today back ed Republican Senate. Leader William F. Knowland's demand for a blockade of Red China to free imprisoned Americans. But McCarthy said an effec tive blockade possibly could be established ; without ships. He said a blockade could be en forced if the United States would refuse aid to , its Allies .when they ship material of any sort to Communist China or permit ships under their" flags to carry on such trade. Should Use Navy McCarthy said the United States should use its Navy to en force 'the blockade if hon Communist nations persist in keeping up the China trade, i He said this country should demand the return of not only the 13 Americans imprisoned on spy charges in Red China but of other Americans held behind the Iron Curtain., "The military tells us the Communists hold over 500 Amer icans," he said. "We should make every effort to make sure they are returned." Stabbing Suspect V Bound Over fo Jury Samuel Gene Bell, 22, Ash land, charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, appeared in district court this morning;: and was bound over to the grand jury after waiving preliminary hearmg, according to court records.:''-, -1 Bell is alleged to have stab bed his former wife, Stella Bell, Ashland, inflicting flesh wounds. In another district court hear ing today, Ronald Arthur. Nel son, zo, Butte Falls Star route, Box 49A, charged with ' grand larceny, also was bound-oyer to the grand jury." The charge in volves thereof i five 1 batteries from the Medford Irrigation dis trict on Nov. 26. Two juveniles, aged 18 and. 17 were arraigned earlier on the same case and transferred to. juvenile court for disposition. ' Parrot-Type Birds Qua ran ti Twelve , parrot-type birds in the Ashland area .have been found to be infected with, or have been exposed, to psittaco sis, Dr. A. Erin Merkel, county health officer, said today. , e v -f He warned county residents that the disease can be trans mitted -to humans, and is a ser ious respiratory infection type of illness. He said non-certified and out-of-state, birds should be avoided. ; . ; County Sanitarians B. R. Hart Senate Against in yre at mid-afternoon today came charge against Sen. Joseph R - . , . Knowland opposed censure and Johnson favored it in the final . : : expected until tomorrow, close lined up against the Wisconsin the Special Censure committee got Words Eliminated In ' First Count watKms explained he was eliminating from the first cen sure count the words "in failing to cooperate with a Senate com mittee in clearing up matters affecting the honor of the Sen ate" because they "semed to place a limitation" on the scope of the first count. As soon as it was adopted, .Washington (U.R) The Senate refused today to throw out censure- charges against Sen.' Joseph Rr McCarthy. The action' indicated that eventual censure is almost certain. Dirksen stepped in with Ms sub stitute proposal. Only one hour of debate was allowed for any amendment. Before today's session began, a top McCarthy leader said" he could not count more than 33 votes for McCarthy. In another development, Sen. Carl Hayden (D-Ariz.) confirmed McCarthy's charge that a senate Elections Subcommittee checked McCarthy's mail during its 1955 investigations of his finances. The substitute resolution on which the McCarthy forces hoped to muster their peak vot ing strength was introduced early this afternoon by Dirksen. Doubt Exists The long promised substitute would have the Senate "de plore" the use of "abusive or in temperate language" by " any member, but would hold that such language "does not in the light of precedent warrant for mal censure or condemnation." Dirksen's resolution, which mentioned McCarthy only once by name, also said that a "reas onable doubt" exists whether the Senate has legal authority to rebuke a senator now for "lan guage or conduct in a prior ses sion of Congress." Cement Overload Blamed For Sinking of Ferry Salem (U.R) An overload of cement was blamed today for sinking half of Marion county's ferryboat fleet. The Buena Vista, one of two Willamette river ferries operated by the county, sank Monday under a heavy truck load of sand. The county1 court said a bulldozer and other heavy equip ment would be used to pull the vessel to shore for repairs. Salem. U.R) Gov. Paul L. Patterson has appointed H. H. Harrison of Portland as a mem ber of the State Apprenticeship Council, representing employees. and Walter Sutherland have been checking birds in Jackson county since infected parakeets were found in the northern part of the state. , ' - r - It is believed that none of the county's bird breeders purchased any of the infected birds which were involved in a -sale in Port land, when uninspected para keets were brought into the state. Local sales of exposed birds ap parently were made door-to-door. . . Cens MedfordTribune United Pri 49th Year 22 Pages Planes Searching English Channel For Five Vessels Death Toll of Storm Expected To Reach 111 London (U.R) French naval planes searched the stormy English Channel today for five fishing boats missing with 60 men aboard. Forty three persons were dead or missing in three shipping ac cidents in the, waters around Britain and eight persons were killed on land. French officials feared the missing fishermen also perished in the storms. ; High Death Toll Feared It was feared the toll of dead in the storm might rise to 111. The missing fishing vessels are the Alain-Yvon, Tourville, Ber- ceau de Moise and Perle d'Arvor from the ports of Concarneau near Brest and the Tendre Ber ceuse from the nearby port of Donarnenez. The little coastal steamer Ard glen docked In Milford Haven, Wales, today with the body of Capt. Wililam. Winters, 59, who survived three World War II sinkings only to drown in a gale yesterday with 23 of his men. Captain Winters' ship Tresil- lian foundered in a 90-mile hur ricane. He gave the order "every many for himself" and then plunged into the sea. Other Missing Men Sought " ; The Royal Navy searched raging seas today for- 20 missing men, but the Admiralty said there was little hope they would be found. Four bodies were re covered and 16 men ; were rescued. " Winters, who planned to retire at the end of his voyage, was almost in sight of home when the cargo of grain aboard the Tre- sillian shifted and sent the 7300 ton ship to the bottom. Light Snow Reported On Mountain Highways Snow was reported on high way mountain passes in tms area today, but a south wind kept temperatures top warm for snowfall on the valley floor. Light snowfall was reported this morning at Neil creek and at Montague, Calif., on the Sis kiyou mountain route, and on Sexton mountain north of Grants Pass. The snow was not sticking. The weather bureau had a re port of four inches of snow at Mt. Shastal Calif., this morning. Windy weather with snow above 4,000 feet, and with occa sional light rain in the valley is anticipated tonight, according to the Medford office of the weath er bureau. i Dulles Says Blockade Might Be Considered t Washington (U.R) Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles said ' today the United States might consider a blockade of Red China if peaceful means fail to free Americans imprisoned there. But he expressed confi dence that peaceful methods would, not faiL - DOW-JONES AVERAGES ' New York (U.R) - Dow- Jones final stock averages: 30 in dustrials 384.04 off 2.73; 20 rail roads 19.80 off 1.67; 15 utilities 60.73 off 0.02, and 65 stocks 140.60 off 1.05. Sales today were about 3,100,000 shares against 3,440,000 shares yesterday. ned; Doctor Warns of Psittacosis Danger Dr. Merkel said anyone who is offered a parrot-type -bird for sale by a door-to-door salesman should report to him. Certifi cates of health should be de manded for each bird purchased, he said, although birds raised locally are not required by law to have such certificates. ' The danger of psittacosis (pro nounced sit-a-ko-sis) ; is rising throughout the country, . Dr. Merkel said, adding that 450 cases of the disease in hu em Full Leased Wire United Frees MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1954 Antarctic Boston (U.R) The stubby nosed icebreaker Atka cast off lines and sailed for "the bottom of the world" today. , With a crew of 220 men, 14 officers and 35 passengers, the Atka headed south for the first U.S. Antarctic exploration in seven years. Ships Whistle Salute ' Ships in the harbor whistled a salute as Cmdr. Glen Jacobsen of Seattle, Wash., headed down the channel past Castle Island on the five-month voyage. It will take him to ' the frozen wastes where years ago Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd built Lit tle America on the icy shores of an uninhabited 6,000,000 square mile continent. Jacobsen's mission, as public ly announced, is merely a recon naissance to prepare the way for a huge new expedition next year. ; " ' V ' But his crew of scientists in cludes cosmic ray experts, geolo gists and an electronics engineer lending credence to persistent rumors that the explorers will Christmas Opening Of Merchants Set; Parade Scheduled Medford merchants' official opening of the Christmas season will be this evening, and the event will be opened with a downtown parade. , . Stores .will be open after the parade, which . will start "at "7 pjn. so that spectators can view the Christmas merchandise on display. Floats, bands ' and marching groups will make up the parade, which will be east on Main st. to Riverside ave., north to Sixth st., west to Central ave., south to Main, and west to the breakup pomt near. Ivy st. .. Christmas Themes Biblical and fairyland themes, appropriate . for the ,; Yuletide season, will be featured in the parade, and the floats will be sponsored by groups, organiza tions or individuals, all of a non-commercial nature. Nineteen prizes, totaling $400, will be awarded to adult and young people's floats. The Junior Chamber of Commerce is the parade sponsor. Christmas street decorations, sponsored jointly by the city of Mqdford and the- Jackson Coun ty Chamber of Commerce, have been put in place in recent days. Iowa Girls Reign As Exposition Champs Chicago U.R) Two teen-age girls from Iowa reigned today as queens of the International Livestock Exposition. ' , ; ' : " The best cattlement in North America had' to take a back seat to Janice Hullinger, 16, of Man ly; and Barbara Slausen, 15, of Spencer, who walked off yester day with the two top prizes of the world's biggest agricultural show. V Janice's. 1080-pound jet black Aberdeen Angus was selected as the grand champion of the show while Barbara's 1120-p o u n d Shorthorn won the . runnerup award. Portland ' (U.R) A Japan ese firm, Hitachi, Ltd., .Tokyo, is lowest of four bidders for the design, manufacture, test and de livery, of 14 main turbine gov ernors for The Dalles dam pow erhouse. The firm's offer was $931,540. " . mans have been reported 't o far. this year, compared to 48 in 1953. Birds of the psittacine family subject to the." disease include parakeets, parrots, am a z o n s , mexican double heads, cockatoos, macaws, lovebirds, loriketts and others. ' - Some can . become infected without becoming ill and, in ef fect, are disease carriers. White the state will issue health "certi ficates for psittacine birds after two years under certain' condi Expedition hunt uranium, oil, and keep a weather eye out for Russian Ant arctic activity, if any. ' Fortune Magazine said this fall that Jacobsen had been giv en the task of determining whether Russia is using the Ant arctic continent as a testing ground for nuclear weapons and inter-continental missiles. The Navy denied the report when it was published. 1 Y Once Part of Russian Navy The Atka, incidentally, once was part of Russia's navy on loan during World War II. , Two helicopter "Whirlibirds" were parked on the .. tiny aft flight deck of the Atka as she sailed.. Crowded into the tons of supplies in her holds was a "weasel" .truck specially de signed for use in ice. They will give the ship's men far more safety and mobility than Scott, Amundsen and Byrd dreamed of as they used dog sleds and skis fighting the bit ter cold of the south polar re gions. v In the Atka's holds were 100 Churchill' London (U.R) Prime Min ister Winston Churchill confes sed to the House of Commons to day that his memory may have played him false last week when s iThe Christmas kettles of the Salvation Army were placed on the streets of downtown- Medford today. . Donations ..; dropped' Into the kettles will be used by the Sal vation Army for those who de pend on it for whatever Christ mas cheer they receive. Lt. George Johnstone of the Medford corps pointed out that they have come to be as much a part of the American Christmas scene as trees and stockings over the fireplace. The kettles were first used in 1894 in San Francisco during a time when many seamen and longshoremen were out of work and in need of food. A Salvation Army officer, told he could set uj5 a soup kitchen in he provided funds for it himself, spied a soup kettle in a ship chandler's office. He obtained the kettle, put up a tripod, painted a sign saying Keep the pot ' boiling," and shortly was able to finance his kitchen. Since that time the idea has spread throughout the United States, and , is the Salvation Army's chief source of funds for its Christmas time charitable work. Wholesale Food Prices Unchanged During Week New York (U.R) Whole sale food prices as measured by the Dun & Brandstreet index held unchanged this week at $6.85, the exact level Where they started the current year, it was announced today. The index for week ended Nov. 30 compared with $6.52 in the comparable 1953 week and was 14.9 per cent above the $5.96. pre-Korean level. - tion's,' sanitarians : expressed doubts that a two-year period is sufficient to show lack of the disease, which is highly . con tagious. . "" 1 :" ""' ' ' : Among humans the disease is like, pneumonia and is particu larly hazardous to elderly peo ple.. It is contagious from human to human, particularly by-cough-ing.: ' The sanitarians noted there has been a laxity in'keeping re quired shipment records of psit Ma king Statement on Wea po ns ff or Ge rm a ny Army Yule Kettles Up full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 218 Sets Sail tons of food, including frozen vegetables and meat. Pemican and hard tack ' provided the meals for earlier explorers like Scott, who perished after be coming the first man to reach the South pole in 1912. "We've had all the benefit of other men's hardships," Cmdr. Jacobsen said. "Admiral Byrd spent days with me pouring over charts. Paul, Siple who started as a Boy Scout on a Byrd trip years ago briefed me for hours." Civilian Scientist Aboard Aboard, too, , were men like Amory H. Waite of Long Branch, N.J., a civilian scientist who ac companied two earlier expedi tions. Waite was one of the three men who fought their way through gales to reach and res cue Byrd when he became ill while making observations at a tiny, lonely camp 100 miles inH land from Little America. Another man aboard who will be returning to his "home", in the ice is Army Maj. Murray Weiner, . a specialist in . testing cold 'weather equipment. he told how he ordered captured guns , stacked ready to - hand back ' to the defeated Germans if Russia advanced too far west in 1945. He made his admission in a remancaoie expression of Te- grets." .;-.A Starts Controversy. Churchill's remark at, a small meeting at Woodford, touched off a storm of controversy and criticism in Britain and brought a propaganda blast from Mos cow. He said a check of his records has not, as yet, turned up a copy of the order and lie agreed with his Laborite critics that it might not have been sent at alL He promised to continue the search for a record of the order. Regrets Expressed "I express my regrets to the House for what I said last week," Churchill said with rare humility. - Thejow in Commons over the Churchill statement returned the Prime Minister to the rough and tumble of political life after yesterday's emotional celebra tion in which friend and foe alike paid tribute to his great ness. (See Story on Page 14) Love-Crazed Oregon . Man Takes Own Life Los Angeles (U.R) A love- crazed Oregon man shot himself to death today when police tried to arrest him in a gunfight as he stood on the stage of a deserted burlesque theater and kissed pic tures of a dancer his "red headed angel face." v Police identified the man from his driver's license as ; Roger Wing Whittier, 26, North Bend, Ore. . . 'V-v , Chief autopsy surgeon Frede rick Newbarr reported Whittier apparently shot , himself in the head with, his 32 automatic and then was struck in the abdomen by a police .38 caliber slug. (See Story on Page 10) Salem (0.FJ Bert E. Doss, maintenance foreman for the State Forestry Department since August, 1939, has retired. in County tacine birds "b"y dealers "in" the area, although they added that generally, both dealers rand breeders have cooperated. The only way to determine definitely whether or not a bird has psittacosis is to have its spleen examined in a laboratory in Georgia. Because of this, the sanitarians recommend that if any bird has been a part of an infected shipment, or is other wise suspected of having the dis ease, it would be safest to kill it and dispose of the body. Regrets Suspect Jailed On Suspicion of 2nd Degree Murder Woman's Death Listed Unsolved for 5! Years Marion Franklin Piening, 50, of 425 South Grape st., was ar rested and lodged in the county Jail this morning. He was book d on suspicion of second degree muxaer m connection wun mo death here of Margaret Ann Cornell, 50, on April 19, 1949. Mrs. Cornell's death has been listed as an unsolved crime for more than 5V4 years. She was found dead on the doorstep of 131 Almond st., fatally injured by some unidentified object. . District Attorney Walter Nun ley said - Piening has signed a ion euiu ucuuiea vuiucsaiun vi, the assault which resulted in her l. .11 J : - death. He was questioned last night by state and city police officers, and voluntarily sub- mitted to a lie , detector test, Nunley reported. . - At first, under questioning. he denied connection with the Cornell crime, but officers said that when the lie detector, used as an aid to interrogation, indi cated he was not telling the truth, he changed his story. Under further questioning, h admitted the assault and describ ed it in detail, and the lie de tector indicated this story was - correct, officers said. ' Piening was picked up aft about 7 p.m. yesterday by city police officers in- connection with a complaint made Nov. 14 to police by a woman who said she had been sexually mistreat ed by a man she identified as Piening. He was questioned ear lier in connection with the case and signed a waiver which per mitted officers to test him with the lie detector. He was placed under formal arrest early today after making his confession regarding - the ; Piening was also arrested In July, 1946, on the complaint of a woman who said she had been assaulted and mistreated, and he entered a plea of guilty at that time. Later, however, he chang ed his plea to innocent and was never Drosecuted. according to records in the district attorney's office. - The Cornell killing was char acterized at the time by police officers as a particularly brutal and savage one. A number of suspects were questioned by officers, but all were either cleared, or there was not suffi cient evidence to bring them to trial. . " Nunley said Piening's account of Mrs. Cornell's death was in accord with the known facts of the case, and could not be known by anyone not familiar with what had happened. Pien ing was not held as a suspect at the time of the Cornell slaying. Trucker Acquitted; Acts as Own Lawyer . A Medford log truck driver was acquitted by a district court' jury on an overweight charge yesterday afternoon after acting as his own attor ney.;'' c-h,,;,. : -v Dan William Favor, 41, Box , 444, Medford, received a cita tion from the state weighmas ter at the Camp White scales on Highway 62, accusing him of driving a log truck which was 1,300 pounds overweight.' Favor then drove to two. privately-owned truck scales in Medford, and weighed his truck. Each time the' scales showed a different weight, one of them only a few pounds over the maximum, the other well under the maximum per missible weight. Favor told the Jury about the differences :in the scales, and they brought in a verdict of innocent. If he had been convicted, he could have been fined 3 cents per pound of overweight, or $39. The case Cost him more than that to de fend, he said, ; but he added that it was "the principle of Deputy District Attorney Gene Piazza was prosecutor. LI FORECAST: Cloudy and windy -with snow above 4.C00 feet and occasional light rain in valley tonight. Variable ' cloudiness with showers , Thursday. Low tonight 35-40. High Thursday 48-50. :Iemp. Highest. Testerday ' ' 48 Lowest this Morning 31 mimm fwwm Jiiglt; $im n.