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Recommended Weather FORECAST Shower teday with partial clearing and lightly colder Monday. High today 48, low tonight 35. High Monday 45. ,. . Temp. Highest yesterday 46 Lowest yesterday 38 A feature story on establish ment of the Lone Pine mbstatfon . as the central dis patching agency for California Oregon Power company appear on Pate 14 of today' Mall Tribune. United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire 49th Year 30 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1954 Price 5c No. 221 Stevenson Declares Ike Should Make Pact with Knowland days censure LinKea With Foreign Policy New Orleans' U.R) Adlai Stevenson said Saturday night that President Eisenhower should conclude a ""non-aggression pact" with Sen. William Knowland and find a means of "peaceful co-existence" with a large part of his party to achieve harmony with the Democrats. ' The 1952 Democratic presi dential candidate denounced the "cruel, unjust and foolish" . things said in the recent cam- paign and warned the victorious Democrats to "resist the provo cation of retaliation in kind." Never Easy ; This, Stevenson told a "vic tory" dinner of the Democratic National committee, "is never easy and the results are not al ways reassuring." But the Democrats, he said, fmust match evil with good, falsehood with honesty." . Stevenson warned that "do mestic politics" 'must be remov ed from the conduct of foreign affairs if a bi-partisan policy is to emerge in the Democratic 84th Congress. j '. Stevenson' linked this week's! censure by the Senate of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.), with foreign policy. Will Restore Respect "The act of the Senate this week in reaffirming its dignity and the simplest principles of conduct will go a long way in restoring not alone our self-confidence and esteem, but also the respect of our friends," he said. "And I am glad that among the Democrats there was no confu- havior of the Senate of the Un ited States." His speech to the 1,200 com mitteemen and other party leaders at the $100-a-plate din ner celebrating gains" iritEe" No vember election was devoted al most entirely to foreign policy. West Berlin Vole Tests Rearmament Berlin U.R) West Ger man rearmament faces a new and crucial test today in West Berlin elections. In advance of the voting East German puppet Premier Otto firotewohl voiced new veiled threats of Communist military action 'if the West ratifies the Paris rjacts for rearming 500,- 000 West Germans. And, he- warned at a news conference, Communist China has pledged to fight side by side with the Soviet Union in the event of war in Europe. The East German radio also quoted Grotewohl as saying that if the new West German army takes one step on Communist German soil it "would mean the oDenine of the third world war.! Grotewohl's warning was made at a reception given by East German President Wilhelm Pieck to the delegation which attended the Moscow Security conference, according to the broadcast. The West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and Socialist nnnnsition leader Erich Ollen- .f x auer have called on Berliners to give a clear-cut "yes" or "no" vote on Adenauer's pro-Western rearmament policies. Severe Earthquake Rocks Trinidad City Port of Spain, Trinidad (U.R) -A severe earthquake rocked Port of Spain Saturday, causing considerable property damage, but there was no report of cas ualties. The quake hit at 2:30 p.m. The worst in recent history, it caused heavy damage to the Trin ity church, the Anglican Cathe dral, and the Roman Catholic cathedral. .A number of other buildings also suffered some damage. J Santa Claus Suffers Embarrassing Moment Key West, Fla. U.R) Santa Claus' britches dropped as he stepped from a fire en gine Friday before a crowd of children and mothers. Bystanders reported Santa quickly hitched up his trous ers, covering what appeared lo be a regular pair of street pants. Paul M. Butler New Chairman of Demo National Committee New Orleans (U.PJ The Dem ocratic National committee Sat urday night elected Paul M. But ler, 49-year-old South Bend, Ind., attorney, as its new chairman succeeding Stephen A. Mitchell. Butler won out over three other candidates as a move to postpone the election collapsed. The Indiana National commit teeman received almost solid support from Southern states in piling up 70 of the 105 votes. Avert Open Fight Observers credited behind-the- scenes maneuvering by Demo cratic leaders in Caucus before the crucial committee meeting with averting an open fight over a move to postpone the election. The other candidates were Mike TJisalle, former Price Ad ministrator, who received 18 votes; James Finnegan of Phila delphia, 16 votes; and F. Joseph Donohue, Washington, D. C, lawyer who got one vote. "Not Political Issue": Butler is an alumnus of Notre Dame and won the Indiana Na tional committee post in 1952 by defeating Frank McHale. He attributed his support from the Southerners to "my understand ing and attitude toward the af fairs and problems of the South." He said he does not consider segregation a "political issue." 'Butler, father of five children and an organizer in politics on the state level for 27 years, has never before held any elective political office. (See Story on Page 8) Three Plead Innocent To Contempt Charges Portland (U.R) Three Port land men pleaded innocent in federal district court here Satur day to charges of contempt of Congress.' The men are Donald M. Wol lam, John R. MacKenzie and Herbert Simpson. They are ac cused of refusing to answer cer tain questions before the House Un-American Activities Subcom mittee in Portland last June. Judge George Boldt of Ta coma, Wash., who is presiding in the cases, set January 17 as open ing date for the trial. The judge granted defense attorneys 20 days in which to file motions in regard to the indictments. The men were arrested by federal officers earlier this week after, secret indictments were re turned by a federal grand jury. West Coast Shipping Strike Deadlocked ' San Francisco (U.R) At tempts to settle the three-day-old West Coast shipping strike were broken off in a deadlock Satur day and Gov. Samuel W. King of Hawaii announced plans to appeal to Washington for gov ernment transportation of food stuffs to the Islands. Federal Conciliator George Hillenbrand reported at the con clusion of Saturday's three-party negotiations with the CIO radio operators and the Pacific Mari time association that no new joint meetings were scheduled. Mass DispersaJ Test Slated Oregon; Logistical Support Salem (U.R) Problems in re ceiving and caring for thousands of evacuees from the Portland area and the effect that mass dis persal would have on cities throughout Oregon will be studied by the state civil defense staff Tuesday in a regional exer cise, "Operation Second Phase,." Officials from medical, emerg ency welfare, police and trans portation departments will meet at the estate office building, Ore gon Civil Defense Director Arthur M. Sheets said, as part of the exercise. He said: First Test Last June The impact of a sudden mass movement of an entire urban population will ba especially gnmrrm i irtiv iiitfi.riirrititir-tiii.ngflrniiMr.Trf iTilf TBiuT 1 1 1 zJf .,7 XW&sCr J WAIT AND PRAY--Anxious Romans keep an all-night vigil outside St Peter's awaiting word on the condition of Pope Pius XH, seriously, ill with heart and stomach ailments. Cordo n Kills Card's Recount Proposals; Wants Change in Law Portland (U.R) Sen. Guy Cordon said Saturday he hoped the . Oregon Legislature would revamp its election laws to per mit a recount of votes in close races. The Senator, who was defeat ed in his bid for reelection by Richard L. Neuberger, Friday killed an effort by Jesse Gard, Oregon 1 Republican National Committeeman, to get a recount of the Cordon-Neuberger vote. , Not Enough Proof Cordon refused to join Gard s petition to the Senate Elections Subcommittee because there was not enough proof of any irregu larity for either a Senate recount or a contest of the vote through the Oregon courts. The Gard petition made no allegations of fraud. Bandits Escape With $100,000 in Jewels Washington (U.R) Two bandits, held up a fashionable jewelry store Saturday and escaped with $100,000 in gems in a 10-minute daring robbery. The bandits, brandishing nickel-plated pistols, carried off the precious stones in a blue, zip per airline overnight case. The two men tied up five store employees , with picture frame wire in a rear room of the Bartz G. King Jewelry store. Then they scooped the gems into the case, brushing aside watches and other pieces of jewelry.. They did stop to take $100 in cash, police said, and then fled. One of the employees man aged to get free after the robbers had left and untied the others. great in adjacent counties, but it will affect all counties and some adjoining states. Our first ex periment in dispersal was con ducted June 14 when in-bound traffic was stopped in an eight county area surrounding Port land. Operation block-out was a form of dispersal in reverse. We can prevent people from enter ing the danger zone. Now the emphasis is on completing plans for receiving and caring for peo ple who leave this zone during an air-raid warning. If given suf ficient warning, people would have little choice but to evac uate. It is either dig, die or get out." -:. ;-. Conference Slated On the same day, a confer eoc " AV? ?HK w tMi im? MsP ikfr if S3 The subcommittee declined to accept the petition. ; In a statement Friday, Cordon said, "although importuned by a great number of my friends and supporters in Oregon to file a contest of the recent election, be cause of many unusual situations which developed therein, I feel that there is no legal ground for such action . . ." Unusual Situations Cordon 'said, "I hope''.'. . the Legislature will give considera tion to overhauling our election law and provide for recount in the future solely in the interest of accuracy where the majority is less than one per cent of the vote cast." - ' : : V Neuberger branded the re count effort as "an attempt by a small group of embittered men to besmirch my Senate career at its start." . To Republican Gov. Paul Pat terson went the duty of making official the Democratic control of the United States Senate. He signed Neuberger's election cer tificate on the final day for the signing. He said he had nothing to - with the recount move instigated by Gard. Justice Department Wants Suit Dismissed Washington U.R) The Justice department Saturday asked Federal District court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by five West coast railroads trying to stop transportation of first class mail by air. The railroads have asked for a court, order to halt the' practice. Saturday the department filed opposition and asked that the suit be thrown out. - Tuesday in Meeting Set on logistical support of mobile civil defense . teams, staging areas and 1 problems : occurring on the first and second day after an enemy attack will be held in the state highway ; building in Salem. Civil defense departments to be represented are engineer ing and heavy rescue, fire,, po lice, and utilities. Second phase is a continuation of the June 14 operation alert when hypothetical atomic strikes were made against Seattle, Port land, San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles and San Diego. The exercise has been termed "X plus One" meaning it. will cover a period of 24 to 48 hours following the attack, to test re- Leoverr ability. Pope Pius Out Gf Danger Results Said Good Vatican City (U.R) Pope Pius XII is out of the immediate danger of death, his doctors dis closed Saturday night. Intravenous feeding is begin ning to rebuild the strength sapped by the 78-year-old Pope's grave illness, the Vatican an nounced. His doctors added that the Pope had overcome a crisis that caused fear for his life only three' nights ago. ' j But, there still was an urgent and "imperative" necessity to provide the enfeebled pontiff with nourishment. - An allustri- ous team of four Italian doctors today began giving the . Pope intravenous injections. ' The Vatican press office an nounced that the first day's treatment brought good re sults." The press office at 8:35 p.m said: "The improvement in the con dition of the Holy Father is still continuing. The prescribed treatment has been administer ed with good results. Rests Well "In the afternoon the Holy Father rested better than usual. it is nopea xnat me im provement in his health condi tion will allow the Holy Father to impart his blessing over the Vatican radio tomorrow to the faithful attending the after noon ceremony of the beautifi cation of Father Placido Riccar di." The beatification ceremony is to begin at 5 pjn. (8 a.m. PST) today in St. Peter's, basilica. The fact the Pope may be strong enough to give his bless ing to the crowd showed the great improvement in his con dition. : 700 Seek Missing Man Near Hillsboro ; Hillsboro (U.R) Some 100 sheriffs deputies : combed ; a densely-wooded area of Bonny Slope near here Saturday searching for a man Sheriff Ter ry Schrunk believes "possibly met with foul play." John J. Tomlinson 86, - dis appeared from his Cedar Hill home Oct. 2. On Nov. 22, a shoe with a man's foot in it was found near Bonny Slope. ' The foot has not been iden tified - as Tomlinson's, ; but his shirt was found . nearby and Sheriffs men are now looking for more clues in an area closer to Portland. . ' . .. . , Hollywood (U.R) Night club and television entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., Saturday sought $150,000 damages for an automobile accident in which he lost hk left eye. DeGaulle Declares France Must Lead Talks wijh Russia Says Nation Qualified . To Bridge Differences Paris (U.R) Gen. Charles De Gaulle called on France Sat urday to lead the Western allies in seeking an understanding with Russia before the German rearmament pacts are ratified. The 64-year-old World War II Free French leader spoke out on the German rearmament issue just two weeks after his secret meeting . with the Russian am bassador to France. Must Take Initiative In a speech before 3,000 of his followers at the Paris Exhibi tion palace De Gaulle said France must take the initiative in talks with Russia because it is "historically, geographically and politically" qualified to bridge the East-West differences. De Gaulle has a great personal prestige among Frenchmen. His speech Saturday favoring delay of the Western European union pacts may decide the fate in the French Assembly of the new joint West European defense plan. Mendes-France Wins , He spoke only a few hours after Pierre Mendes-France had eked out a confidence vote in the National Assembly which indicated he would win ratifica tion of the Paris and London German rearmament . and sov ereignty pacts. The premier has promised his Western allies the French would ratify the pacts before Christmas. i Mendes-France indicated in the Assembly early Saturday that he would step down as for eign minister and concentrate his attention on his post as pre mier after the French ratify the WEU treaties. De Gaulle's speech had been awaited with great interest by Western observers because of the general's huddle two weeks ago -with; VySoviet Ambassador Serge A. Vinogradov. "The agreements concluded in London and Paris are in them selves much . better (than the French rejected European De fense Community),". De Gaulle said. : No Perjury Charge On Witnesses Seen Washington (U.R) The Jus tice Department has . decided against perjury prosecution of any witnesses in tha Senate's televised Army-McCarthy hear ings last spring, it was learned Saturday. The Senate Permanent Inves tigating subcommittee " which conducted the sensational 36 day hearings had asked the Jus tice Department to review the transcript to see if T anyone should be charged with lying under oath. The action was tak en after members of the sub committee called attention to numerous conflicts in sworn testimony. ' Informed sources said that, after a long study of the bulky hearing record, department ex perts ruled that it would not be legally sound to submit the tes timony to a grand jury and ask for indictments. San Francisco (U.R) Two Coast Guard planes scanned the ocean from Monterey 80 miles northward to Point Reyes Sat urday for a trace of the fishing boat Joe Jr., which disappeared Wednesday with four men aboard. Portland (U.R) Paul Kortge, Dufur, Ore., was named "Con servation man of the year" Sat urday at the concluding session of the 1954 Oregon Wheat Grow ers' league convention here. Attorney General Planning Inquiry into Gifts Charge Salem (U.R) Attorney Gen eral Robert Y. Thornton said Saturday he would conduct an independent investigation into charges that certain officials and employees of the Oregon Liquor Control Commission had accept ed gratuities and gifts from dis tillery representatives. He said he will begin the in vestigation immediately upon his return from a flying trip to West Virginia Monday, where he is slated to speak at the Na tional attorney, general's confer ence: : Thornton said: "Contrary to general assumption and several statements made in the past few days, there is a specific provision of Oregon law which prohibits all public officers and employees .-. J.' EMs Meepjg(M3 of Truce&r United Nations, N. Y. (U.R) The United States, acting as the unified command for United Nations forces in the Korean war, , Saturday accused Red China of violating the Panmun jom truce agreement by impris oning 11 American fliers as "spies." U. S. Ambassador Henry Cab ot Lodge Jr., presented to U. N. Secretary-General Dag Hammar skjold a request for urgent ac tion by the General Assembly to obtain the release of the 11 American fliers and "all other captured personnel of the U. N. command still detained." Asks Committee Meeting He asked that the General Assembly's steering committee be convened "at the earliest possible moment" to put on the Assembly's agenda the plight of Communists Give $1,027,600 Payment For Downing Plane London (U.R) Communist hina gave Britain $1,027,000 Saturday as compensation for shooting down a British com mercial airliner. The money in cludes compensation for three Americans killed in the attack. Ten persons died when the British-owned Cathay Pacific airliner was shot down without warning off Hainan island last July 23 by Red Chinese fighters, . A foreign office spokesman said, the check, no enroute . to London, covers compensation claims for the American victims. He said an unlisclosed amount will be allotted to their families, Accept Responsibility Peiping surprisingly accepted full responsibility for the attack. It issued a formal apology to Britain, saying the plane had been mistaken for a Chinese Na tionalist aircraft, and agreed to pay the British compensation claims. At the same time, however, the Peiping regime rejected three American "protests in con nection with the attack and lev eled counter-charges against the United States. American carrier-based planes shot down two Red Chinese fighters while searching for sur vivors from the downed airliner. Egyptians Sentence Six To Be Hanged Cairo, Egypt . (U.R) A Peoples Court Saturday senten ced the would-be . assasin of Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser and five members of the out lawed Moslem brotherhood 4 to be - hanged for attempting to overthrow the Egyptian govern ment by violence. - The court also sentenced Mos lem Brotherhood Supreme Guide Hassan 1 Hodeibi to death, but the revolution com mand council commuted his sentence to life in prison at hard labor. The council confirmed the other sentences. Seven other members of the Brotherhood's Supreme Guid ance council were sentenced to 15 years in prison and three others acquitted of treason char ges. The Revolution council " also issued an order officially dissolv ing the Moslem Brotherhood. from accepting gifts and gratu ities from persons, firms or cor porations contracting or dealing with the state." At the recent Civil Service Commission hearing here in the suspension of Thomas J. Sheri dan, assistant administrator for the liquor commission, ' George Woodworth, attorney for ir the commission, said in response to a question by Glen 5 McCarty, Sheridan's attorney, that .be knew of no '-. provision in the liquor , laws or of no regulation by the commission against " ac cepting a gratuity. Back in 1951 Sheridan had received $40 from a distillery ' representative as part of the cost of bringing his wife to a convention of monopoly state liquor administrators at Se attle. ' mmmu the . prisoners as an additional item entitled: . : "Complaint of detention and ATOMS FOR PEACE PLAN -RECEIVES APPROVAL United Nations, N.Y. (U.R) The United Nations Gen- eroi Assemoiy Assemoiy un animously .approved President Eitenho war's "Atoms for Peace" plaui HL .mm n Assemoiy, repealing the unanimous vote given the Eisenhower plan in the politi cal committee on Nov. 23, also voted down two Russian amendments which had been re-introduced by the Soviet delegation after being killed in committee. One would put the Interna tional Atomic Energy Agency, proposed to govern the plan, under the veto-ridden Securi ty Council. The other would open to all countries includ ing Communist China the International Scientific Con ference planned for next sum-. - xner. . -----------) imprisonment of U. N. military personnel, in violation of the Korean armistice agreement." The U. N. scheduled a meeting of the steering committee for early Monday morning to de cide on putting the item on the Assembly's agenda. Its approval was a foregone conclusion. Meets With Van. Kleffens After presenting the item to Hammarskjold, Lodge conferred briefly with General Assembly President Eelco N. .Van Kleffens of The Netherlands in the lat ter's office. As he newsmen asked him .whether he had anything "to add to the" formal : statement he had sub mitted to the U. N. "No," he said. "It speaks for itself." Two Civilians Communist China last week that 13 Americans had been sentenced to jail terms varying from four years to life on espionage charges. Eleven of these were war prisoners who had been captured by the Reds in Korea. The others were civil ians over whom the U. N. had no special jurisdiction. . ... -X The Panmunjom agreement which ended the Korean war 18 months ago obligated both sides in the conflict to repatriate all war prisoners desiring repatria tion. The Geneva 1949 conven tion on treatment of war nrisnn. ers bars imprisonment of prison ers taken in conflict. Hew Gales Battering Britain, Cause Flood London (U.R) New galea battered the British Isles Sat urday endangering ships at sea and causing floods and extensive wind damage to property in coastal areas. A British Coastal steamer in the English channel radioed for help and a 1,404 ton Norweigian cargo ship radioed the storm had smashed her electrical steering gear in the North Sea. Officials of the old folks home at Fleetwood in Lancashire county ordered 130 persons evac uated from the institution at dawn tomorrow as av "precau tionary measure" after high seas breached the coastal sea-wall. Band Benefit Concert -r Scheduled for Today . The annual Medford High1 school band benefit concert will be held at the high school audi torium at 2 p.m. today with num bers , by. the band, choir and soloists, and appearances by two guest stars from Hollywood. The concert will help to raise funds for the band's trip to play at half-time activities during the Shrine East-West game in San Francisco New Year's day. Sports Bulletins t Medford high outplayed Eureka high 67 to 35 here last night in its first full length , basketball action of the sea- ' son. The Tornado held quart- .: erly margins of 20 to 7, 38 to 20 and 58. to 28. Jerry Kalapus led Medford scoring with .17 points, while Frank ' Rector had 12 and L a r r y Copple 10.: Lars Frederickson ' : got 13 for Eureka. - f " ' Eagle Point 41, Oakridge 38 California 64. Oregon 52
