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a Ell if, MM liUUlM ilKJ V ! V. 1 5 I .i t f Medford United Pri Full Leased Wire '14 Pages Price 5c Senator McCarthy Resumes His Role As Investigator Subcommittee Called For War Plant Probe v Washington (U.R) Sen. Jo seph R. McCarthy, swinging to the offensive after his condem nation by the Senate, called his investigating subcommittee into action today to dig into alleged subversion in defense plants. - James N. Juliana, subcom mittee staff director, announced McCarthy planned to -preside at the initial closed hearing this afternoon despite a painful elbow which prevented him from filling a speaking date Sat urday. Several unidentified witnesses were summoned to testify and McCarthy warned tnat it any use the fifth amendment to balk at questions on subversive acti vities he will expect them to be fired by secruity officers at the plants involved. . Follows Changes The investigation, the first McCarthy has undertaken since , mid-August, as a follow-up to his charges early tms year tnat m suspected subversives in defense Blants "are holding a razor ' poised at the jugular vein of the nation." He later trimmed the figure to 39 after some on his list had been fired or trans ferred. Subcommittee officials said the hearings this week will con cern Bethlehem Steel Company plants in Eastern Pennsylvania. Next week's hearings will deal with Westinghouse E 1 e c trie ' Company workers near Pitts, burgh, and Buffalo, N.Y. McCarthy sought to end. the Army-McCarthy hearings last spring with the plea that he be allowed to get on with the de fense plant investigation. He finally held a brief inquiry in mid-August, ., but- never com; completed it. Piening Bound Over Jo Grand Jury; Starkey Trial Set Marion Franklin Piening, 50, of 425 South Grape st., appear ed in district court this morning and was bound over to- the grand jury on a second degree murder charge after waivmg preiimm arv hearing. Piening was arrested and placed in the county jail last "Wednesday in connection with the unsolved death of Margaret Ann Cornell, 50, here on April 19, 1949. Mo Bail Allowed The suspect was represented by Attorney Otto Frohnmayer, No bail is,allowed on the charge. In circuit court today, three criminal cases were set at docket session with Southern Oregon attorneys. One was the retrial of LeRoy (Bud) Starkey, Jr., 20, Eagle Point, set for Dec 21. Starkey was recently grant ed a new trial by Judge H. K, Hanna following conviction and -sentence to 10 years in the state prison on a charge of assault and robbery while armed with a dangerous weapon. In granting the new trial, Han na said his decision was based on an error in granting . the state's requested instruction which, he said, "did not go far enough" and was a "reversible error." He stated that the phrase rf and refused to do so within a reasonable time to comply with such request" .should have been inserted in the instruction ask ing the jury to find that the as saulted person, Philip Hensel- man, was entitled to use reason able force if the defendant was an intruder. 1 Other Trial Dates Other cases set for trial in cluded on or after Jan." 25. One involves an alleged livestock - theft in November, 1953, in v which a father, Robert Ellis Dar- rohn, 45, Laurelhurst rd., Trail and his X 6-year-old son are charged with larceny of a calf belonging to V. R. Matthews route 1, box 650, Eagle Point : The other was a traffic case appealed from the Ashland jus tice court. In it Fred Loyde Barker was charged with failure to vield the riaht of way. He was found guilty on June 12 and was fined $25. Springfield U.R) Paul H. Bell, 38-year-old Mohawk valley resident, died last night when his car plunged off the highway and went into the Mohawk river 18 miles northeast of Springfield. iJrafeTEEBUNE MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1954 Development of Character Said More Important Than Atom Energy Development Chicago (U.R) David E Lilienlhal, former chairman of the Atomic Energy commission, said the "development of character" is more important to this nation now than the development of atomic energy. ' Lilienlhal told the Chicago Sunday Evening club that America's greatness depends upon the degree to which in dividuals demonstrate sensitivity to "what is right and good, and what is wrong and evil." He said "the building of individual character is a great ; er shield against national adversity than any armament, in cluding the hydrogen bomb." "A nation of men and women who live each day with a ' concern for what is right and fair and decent, who have a deep faith in man and in God such nation has generated within itself a moral force, an energy, so great that not all the power marshalled . by science, not even the energies released by the atomic bomb and the hydrogen bomb can compare with it in might and power," he said. The "coarse, cynical, bullying type of public figure" is swept into obscurity, Lilienlhal said, when the "quiet re sponsible people show they have had enough." Lilienlhal was chairman of the Atomic Energy commis- -sion from 1946 to 1950. Moms-Por-Peace eadiock Washington (U.R) The United- States and Russia have broken a two-months deadlock and reopened their secret talks on President Eisenhower's atoms peace plan, informed sources said today. One of the aims is expected to be " to get the Soviet Union to agree to procedures for setting up the International Atomic Energy Agency which the Uni ted Nations, including Russia, approved Saturday. New Russian Note - The negotiations, broken off on Sept. 25 after a disagreement over methods, got back on the track in the last few days, it was learned,-when the -United-States received'a new note from Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov. Although the contents were not disclosed, the note was a reply to "a memorandum on peaceful atomic energy which OEA Votes To Retain Membership Practices Portland (U.R) Two reso lutions which would have placed the Oregon Education associa tion on record against the use of "punitive measures to in crease membership were over whelmingly defeated in the clos ing session of the OEA's, repre sentative council, here Saturday. Both the original resolution, as submitted by Dell RamsdelL South Salem high school teach er, and a milder substitute, were voted down by a wide margin, Ramsdell said the OEA does not need "white collar goon squads" or intimidation to obtain mem bers. ,, A second Ramsdell motion, to reduce OEA dues to one fourth of one per cent of a year's sal ary, was also defeated. A Silv- erton teachers' proposal for an "evaluation" of OEA was refer red to the board of trustees for consideration. , 10-Year-Old Girl Dies from Gunshot Colville, Wash. (U.R) A 10-year)ld girl was shot to death last night when she and some companions at a children's party teased some boys who were try ing to read. The victim was Leona Oens, who was shot in the chest by a bullet from a .22 caliber rifle fired by a nine-year-old boy, Sheriff Beryl Warren said. Warren said seven children were at the party at the Clare McMinimy home at nearby Hun ters. Two of the boys went into a bedroom to read, and the girls began to tease them. The girls fled when the boys threatened them with the rifle they found in a closet, Warren said. The Oens girl came back, how ever, and was shot as she stood in the doorway. Warren said the boy had been given the bullets by a 12-year-old companion, but that they had only attempted to frighten the girls. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 392.48 up 2.88; 20 rail roads 135.58 up 2.28; 15 utilities 61.53 up 0.33, and 65 stocks 144.35 up 1.40. Sales today were about 3,960,000 shares compared with 3,790,000 shares traded Fri day' ii i -ss- - I United iroken Secretary of State John Foster Dulles gave the Russian ambassa dor here a month ago. American officials are "uncer tain whether the talks will pro duce Russian agreement either on the International Agency or other atoms-for-peace problems. But they are convinced the Soviets are now in a position where they have to give at least the' appearance of being inter ested in helping, beiter mankind through atomic energy. For prop aganda reasons, if nothing else, they cannot afford to let the Allies take the lead. Efforts Claimed Consequently, these--officials- said the Russians backed the atoms-for-peace plan in the U.N. even though it was sponsored by Mr. Eisenhower. And in recent weeks a number of Soviet broad casts beamed outside the Iron Curtain have claimed a Soviet effort to bring atomic benefits to others. The secret U.S.-Soviet nego tiations broke up Sept. 25 when Russia insisted on disarmament promises ahead of everything and the United States insisted that the two countries first lay the grouridwork for cooperation through a joint atoms-for-peace effort. This country believes coop eration in peaceful use of the atom might eventually lead to some relaxing of tensions. But it is not willing to surrender its atomic weapons, as Moscow pro posed, with ,no assurances that Russia also will disarm. Training To Begin Washington (U.R) The Atomic Energy Commission an nounced today that it will begin training foreign scientists next spring in radioactive research as part of President Eisenhower's new program. The atomic agency proposed by the President has not yet been established but the AEC already is launching "several supporting projects" of which the training program is the first. Village in Yukon Reports Warm Weather Edmonton, Alta. (U.R) The weather office reported today that the cold snap has ended at the village of Snag in the Yukon Territory. After a low of 52 degrees below sero Saturday night , the temperature "warmed up to 35 below or so" Sunday. Fire Protection, Water Districts Cast Ballots for Directors, Commissioners Residents .of areas served by six water districts and three rural fire protection districts are casting ballots today in annual elections. A seventh water ; dis trict will hold a special election later this month. One or more commissioners will be elected in each of the six water districts where elections are being held today. Polls will be open until 8 p.m. in each dis trict. 'V . , ,. To Choose Directors One or more directors will be elected in each , fire protection district, ; and residents of the Medford Rural Fire Protection district also are voting on inclu sion of Hillcrest orchard within the district. Polling places in the fire district election! will be Press Full Leased Wire 49th Year , No. 222 Six Persons Killed And Thirteen Hurt In 'Worst' Accident Three Children ; ' . Die by Drowning St. Helens f U.R) Columbia county's "worst traffic accident in history" has ; claimed six lives. . . ' " ; Thirteen other persons were injured in the three-car collision on. Highway 30 near Scappoose late yesterday. Coroner Ben Coleman said it was the worst highway accident in the coun ty's history. Three Children Die Three of the dead were chil dren who drowned when the car in which they were passengers was knocked off the highway and overturned in a water-filled ditch. -' . ; Latest casualty was Joe Reed, 43, St. Helens, who died at 2:20 a.m. today in a Portland hospi tal. Reed was a passenger in a car driven by James Alcorn, 31, St. Helens. Coleman identified the other dead as Joe Ann Thornton, 15; Geneva Thornton, 9, and Janice Thornton, 8; Carl Reimer, 50, St. Helens, and Mrs. Maxine A. Ainsworth, Vancouver, Wash. ' State police said investigation showed that the car driven by Alcorn attempted to pass the au tomobile containing the Thorn ton children and four other chil dren and four adults when it collided headon with a third ve hicle driven by Father John Duffy, Centralia, Wash., The car containing the chil dren and driven by Nels Nelson, 46, Columbia City, was knocked off the highway into a water filled ditch by one of the careen ing cars. The coroner's office said the three Thornton children died by drowning. Mrs. Ains worth was a passenger in Father Injured in the crash were Mr. and Mrs. Nelson; their two chil dren, -Karen, 5, and Clifford, 1V; Mrs. Birch Thornton; Don na and bue Asher, Columbia City; Annie Cook, 74, St. Hel ens; Eldon Baszler, 22, Warren; Alcorn; Marvin Eaton, St. Hel ens; Ronald Kennedy, 23, St. Helens, and Father Duffy. Concert Receipts Top Mark of 1953 Though receipts for the Sun day afternoon Medford High school band benefit concert are not fully counted, those in charge say they are certain re ceipts are larger than last year. Last year's proceeds amounted to nearly $1,000, they said. The concert, originally planned for lVfc hours, was so well re ceived that it was continued for a full two hour period. Keith Mirick was guest soloist and Lillian Randolph and Walter Tetley of the "Great Gilder sleeve" show : were visiting celebrities. " John Drysdale, director of the orchestra, provided a comedy routine. I. E. Mirick is the band direc tor." '.. The proceeds will beused to help pay expenses of band mem; bers who will go to San Fran cisco to appear at half-time dur ing the Shrine East-West football game. AGENCY FORMED Salem (U.R) Articles of in corporation were, filed here to day for Fidler-MacKenzie Ag ency, Inc., Medford real estate firm. They were signed by C. Lyall Fidler,, Gordon S. MacKen zie and John R. Dellenback. open from 2 to 8 p.m. Two vacancies on the board of directors of the Medford Rural Fire Protection district will be filled.. Harper K. Hamilton, now serving under appointment, is the only candidate for a one-year unexpired term. Mrs. Charlotte E. Fogelquist is a candidate for election to a five-year-term. ' Polling place for the Medford district is Oak Grove scbooL ; Only Candidate D. L. DeArmond, the incum bent, is theonly candidate for a five-year-term on the board of di rectors of Central Point Rural Fire Protection district. Polling place is the district fire halL , ' Miller's Real Estate office at the Rogue River bridge, is the polling place for th Bogus Riv- CHINA- , s-W - - ' r r J '' I :.-..,, 2 jsr- i . !..' V REDS CHARGE "INTRUSION" Communist China charged that American planes "intruded" over Kwang tung (1) and Kwangsi (2) provinces, due west of, the Na tionalist stronghold of Formosa. A Peiping radio broad cast, monitored in Tokyo, said the planes were in three groups, totaling nine in alL . Christmas Shopping Off To Good Start; .... , i Record Year Hoped . Washington. U.R) Christ mas shopping is off to a good start around the country this year. And some merchants pre dict it will set a new record by the time the last gift is brought on Christinas Eve. This is the general conclusion of a nationwide United Press survey in which the most opti mistic reports came from New York, Boston, Atlanta and Chi cago. . - Standard & Poor's, a leading business statistical agency, pre dicted a new record peak for holiday sales across the nation. International Statistical Bureau and Dun and Bradstreet, Inc., said Christmas shopping this Season's Heaviest Rainfall Repor1e3" A "normal winter storm" brought .64 of an inch of rain to the Medford vicinity yester day and today but this area miss ed the Wunt of the storm in the Rogue valley according to weath er bureau reports. Grants Pass had 1.49 inches in a 24-hour per iod up to 4:30 a.m. today. 1 The rain was Medford's heav iest of the season since Nov. 11 when .37 'of an inch fell. Winds up to 70 miles an hour ori the coast accompanied the storm but 31 miles an hour was the greatest intensity recorded at the Medford office of the-weather bureau. Ten inches .of new snow and a total depth of 21 inches at Cra ter lake was reported this mor ning by the. national park ser vice. The road to the lake rim from Annie Spring was closed temporarily and snow was still falling at 11:30 a.m. Highway 82 through the park was still open but chains were advised. Fog or low. overcast was pre dicted for this area -tonight, breaking to partly cloudy by to morrow afternoon. .T ,'; - ' er Rural Fire Protection" district. George Nichols, Savage Creek, is unopposed for a five-year- term. Ed Schrecengast, . Foots Creek, and A. C. Range, Foots Creek, are opponents for a two year term. Range will be a write- in candidate because, his peti tion was received too late for verification of signatures. !; No Bond, Election , j, ;v: -A vote on $7,500 in improve ment bonds, scheduled in Maple Park water district, has been called off, and will be held at a later date. . . . Jacksonville Highway: water district will hold a special elec tion later this month. Details of the election will be settled at the district's regular monthly meet ing, Dec 14. year may be the greatest in the nation's history. And government economists here agree it will be either a record or near-record. , Higher Incomes ' Important factors in these opti mistic forecasts are the high level of personal income par ticularly the disposable part left after taxes, the upward trend in retail sales and a pickup in fac tory employment i n recent weeks. . .. There also is one more shop ping day in this year's Thanksgiving-Christmas period than in 1953. The Commerce Department re ported that personal income for the first 10 months this year was at ah annual rate of $285,600,- 000,000, only $300,000,000 less than In the corresponding period last year. ..A.gr eater, sense, of job security among federal employes was ex pected to help push up holiday sales here in the- nation's capital where stores have been general ly crowded most of the time since Thanksgiving. Day. i In New York, trade sources said Christmas shopping started "well ahead" of- last year with all indications that a new record will be set. The stock market rise was reflected in better-than-usual sales of high-priced gifts, such as jewelry and fur coats. COAST NON-FARM . EMPLOYMENT DOWN San Francisco U.P.) Non agricultural' employment on the Pacific Coast dropped 30,000 from mid-September to mid-October, for a total of 5,121,000, it was announced today. . ' V . Max D. Kossoris western regional director of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, said the October total was 87,000 be low that of 1953. ' He said California's employ ment total ' in October was 3, 899,300, 16,000 less than Septem ber. Oregon he said was down 11,000 for a 471,700 total and Washington has 750,000 employ ed, down 3,000. Takes Dictator Power f : Tegucigalpa, Honduras (U.R) Acting President Julio Lozano Diaz today issued a decree as suming full . dictatorial powers during a state of "emergency." The action was taken, with the backing of the Council of Ministers, because of the failure of the newly elected Congress to convene yesterday, as scheduled, to elect a new' Honduran Presi dent.. , Y . The Congress was dissolved after the . divided ; Nationalist party,, which, holds 30. of the 56 congressional seats, boycotted the session. . ' -; O, ' . MotorizedN troops ; and police were, ordered into the streets of Tegucigalpa to preserve order. Courthouse Annex Roof: Said One-Half Complete Half of the concrete roof at the new courthouse annex has been poured, according to construc tion officials, . ... . Rain and freezing weather is delaying the '. work somewhat, they added. Crews were also getting ready to install the wall studding. . ; Work - continued today ' on pouring the second floor concrete vault, which was delayed while work was done last week on the roof, 'f:"";" 1 6 HatWfis Will Join In Resolutions Asking Vote on 'Spy - Jailings United Nation, N. Y. U.R) - The United States de- -. manded today that the United Nations act "promptly and with determination" to obtain release of 11 American air men jailed by Red China on trumped up spy charges. United Nations, N. Y. XU.R) The United States and its Korean War allies agreed today on a resolution demanding United Nations condemnation of Red China for jailing American war prisoners as "spies." , : U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., met with diplomats from the other; 15 countries whose troops fought for the United Nations in Korea, for a last-minute session on the wording of the resolution before the General Assembly's Steering committee met to place the prisoners' plight on the world parliament's agenda. ' "We have reached agreement on a resolution," Lodge told news- text of it will be made public tomorrow morning and it will be sponsored by all 16 countries." Asked whether the word "coiidemnation" appeared in the text, Lodge replied in the affirmative. Latest Disclosure Given by Freed Airman The latest disclosure of tne illegal imprisonment of Ameri cans was supplied by a Canad ian Royal Air Force squadron leader, A. R. MacKenzie, who himself was freed yesterday af ter two years of imprisonment in Communist China. MacKenzie told American au thorities in Hong Kong he knows of three airmen who are being .held in addition to the 11 whose imprisonment on "spy" charges was announced by Peip ing. He said the men, whose London U.R) Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to day accused the Red Chinese of "direct violation" of the Korean armistice in jailing the 11 American airmen ii has charged with "espionage." Eden said he was speaking on behalf of "the government and all civilized nations." "We deplore this (Red China's) conduct." the foreign secretary said, v . names he supplied to Washing ton, were in the same ' prison camp from which he was releas ed. .- The cases . of the three addi tional airmen may be brought to the. attention of the General Assembly's . powerful 15-nation Steering committee when ' V it meets today to place on the- UN agenda for debate the plight of the 11 men who are under, for mal prison sentence. Approval by the Steering com mission was a foregone conclu sion. , ;.- " ' - The issue was expected to go to. the assembly by Wednesday, or perhaps late Tuesday, under an item presented by the United States on Saturday as an "ur gent v-: and important" matter headed: v - . . Violates Korean Armistice "Complaint of. detention and imprisonment of U N, military personnel in violation of the Korean armistice - agreement." " Red China announced - on Nov. 24 it had sentenced 13 Am ericans to' jail terms varying from four years to life on espio nage charges. '' : Eleven were U.S. fliers shot down in a B-29 on Jan. 12, 1953 while fighting for the United Na tions in Korea. The other two were civilians for whom the Un ited Nations has no responsibil ity. ! :-- " ' iy: ' "'- '' The Panmunjom truce agree ment which ended , the Korean war 18 months ago obligated both sides to repatriate war pris oners who desired to return to their homelands. Retribution Warning Given by Senators . Washington - U.R) Three Democratic senators have warn edthat the 13 Americans impris oned by Red China . probably would be murdered rather than released if this country slapped a blockade on the China main land, j ' v ' Sens. Walter .F. George of Georgia John J. Sparkman of Alabama, and Mike ' Mansfield of Montana, all sided with Pres ident Eisenhower against the use of blockade action except possibly as' a very last resort. Senate - Republican Leader William F; Knowland recently called for the move to compel the Chinese Reds to free the Americans, who were jailed for long terms on "trumped up" spy charges'. . . -. But the three .Democrats said there .is no assurance freedom would be the result. On the con trary, .they suggested the prob able result would be quick death for the Americans and a possible general atomic war. Weather FORECAST: ,Fof r low over cast tonight breaking to part ly cloudy by Tuesday after noon. Cool temperatures.. Low tonicht 28-30. High Friday 45. Temp. Hlrheit yesterday ' .' -61 Lowest this moraine 40 Prec. To 10:30 sjn. today 64 " . . . . . Pope Pius Shows Improvement; Will Close Marian Year Vatican City - (U.R) PoDe Pius XII ; showed further im provement today and the Vati can announced' he will close the Roman Catholic Marian Year Wednesday with a Broadcast from his bedside. xne I'ope, seriously ill witn a stomach ailment, will , recite an Ave Maria and . pronounce his apostolic benediction . urbe . et orbe (to the city and world). Vatican sources7 in reporting the Pope's progress, said his hic cups have diminished. "The slow gradual improve ment of the health of the holy fattier is confirmed," the Vati can press office announced. . Pope Pius opened the Marian year Dec. 8, 1953, with a special journey past cheering crowds. Dogma Proclaimed He is considered a "Marian Pope." His deep dedication to the Virgin was reflected in the fact that the dogma of his 16 year reign was the proclamation that Mary was assumed bodily into heaven when she died. That dogma : ws proclaimed during the 1950 holy year. Wednesday is also the 100th anniversary of the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, making it a true be lief of the church that Mary was conceived free of original sin. Two high Vatican officials consulted with the Pope at his bedside this morning. The pres ence of two officials was consid ered another sign of the Pope's improvement. vaucan sources . cauuuaea, however, that the 78-year-old Pope who last night broadcast his blessings in a weak voice to a world praying for his recovery still must be regarded as serious. CIO By V Los Angeles (U.R) CIO Pres ident Walter P. Reuther opened the union's 16th annual conven tion here today and offered an 11-point program to "remedy the ' ills" of the Eisenhower adminis tration. .-More than 700 delegates met at the opening session in' the Statler hotel to hear Reuther condemn the administration for its "failure" to correct unem-. ployment and then hail moves toward a CIO-AFL merger. mi - 1 2 4 ' rne union neaa, in nis ii point program, called for effec tive bargaining and improved wages, a tax policy designed to strengthen consumer buying power, two million new housing ' units a year, improved social se. curity, v a national health pro-! gram, extended government aid for public services, aid to small business, special assistance for. chronieallv distressed: areas, im proved agricultural support pro grams, improved unemployment compensation system and an in crease - in the minimum wage from 75 cents to $1.25 an hour. . City Firemen Accept -Toys Through Dec. 12 , Medford firemen will accept toys through Dec. 12,for repair and Christmas1- distribution- to. children of ' needy families, ac cording to Fire Chief Gordon Barker. . . i Chief Barker requested that, all toys possible be donated by; that date. The toys may be left at the main fire station, or at Mann's Department store, the J J C." Penney store, Woolworthi store, or the Medford YMCA. ? x-uructua u.r. ferry js.r Erickson told police he heard -thieves stealing his wallet con-l to do anything about it. He said he was in his bathtub, covered with soapsuds. Program
