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patching agency for California
Oregon Power company appear
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Tribune.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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-.
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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. -
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Eagle Point 41, Oakridge 38
California 64. Oregon 52