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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tutsday, Demb 14, 1954 far'Vfg Fraean"fcBDB' ..off MDisher IFsu Ism. Welter Hones Senator Expresses Views Following One-Day Hearing San Francisco (U.R) -Sen. Herman Welker (R-Ida.) hopes the government will "vigorous ly prosecute" former Shanghai publisher John W. Powell for acting as a "traitor" during the Korean war. Welker expressed this hope yesterday after conducting a one day hearing into the activities of Fowell and his wife, Sylvia, while they were in China. The Powells now live in San Fran cisco. The senator as acting as chair man of the Jenner Senate Sub committee on Internal Security. It conducted a previous hearing into Powell's activities last Sep tember. At the time, Powell took refuge in the Fifth Amend ment to the Constitution and re fused to answer many questions.' Wife Testifies He could not be found yester . day to testify, but his wife an swered a subpoena. She too cited the Fifth Amendment and said only that she loved her husband and that she admired Mme. Sun Yat-sen, a supporter of the Chi nese Communists. Powell was formerly pub lisher of the China Monthy Re view. Witnesses at both hear ings said it was required read ing matter for American prison ers in Korean prison camps. Other witnesses. included eight officers all former prisoners of war in Korea, who testified that Powell's .magazine was the principal propaganda vehicle used by the Communists. The witnesses were: Lt. Col. Carl Aubrey, Santa Ana, Calif.; Maj. Raymond Dal try, Breeding, Fla.; Maj. Clar enca L. Anderson, Creston, la.; Maj. Robert J. Burns, Columbus, O.; Capt. Paul O'Dowd Jr., San Francisco; Maj. Lawrence. B. Bach Jr., Grand Fork, N.D.; and Lt Col ' Carl E. Kopischkie, Chippewa Falls, Wis. Another witness was Mr. Dol ores Holmes Gill, whose hus band starved to death in a prison camp. She told how Powell had sent her assurances that her hus band was in good hands at the . time he was dying. One result of yesterday's hear ing was that the National Foun dation for Infantile Paralysis fired Mrs. Powell from her job as a secretary in the San Fran cisco office. The foundation said the grounds for the dismissal were "embarrassment to the foundation," its many volunteers and its staff' members." LIQUOR CHIEF Col. Ken neth H. Leitch, 49, Califor nia State Selective Service Director, has been named by Governor Goodwin J. Knight to head the new Department of Alcoholic Beverage Con trol in Sacramento, CaL Communicable Disease -Cases Total 28 in Area Twenty-eight cases of commu nicable disease were reported to the county public health of fice last week. Among them were six cases of infectious diarrhea, all in Med ford. There were four cases of Walfonians To View Alaskan Hunting Film The Jackson county chapter of the Izaak Walton league will meet at 8 p.m. today at the Med ford hotel with the . new presi dent, Col. Paul H. Weiland, presiding. Colored motion pictures taken by John Day on a hunting trio to Alaska will be shown, and Day will discuss and explain the pictures as they are shown. ' Those interested in seeing the films will be welcome as guests of any member of the chapter they can contact, the meeting announcement said. H igh way Safety Depends ora Public; Declares Speaker Three Men Taken To Prison by Sheriff Three men have been taken to Salem by Sheriff Howard Gault to start terms in Oregon state prison. They are: Frank LeRoy Rector, 33, Co lumbus, Ohio, sentenced to four years on a bad check charge. Clark D. Freeman, 22, Okla homa City, Okla., sentenced to three years on a burglary charge. William Newton Elhart, 32, Doris, Calif., sentenced to two years on a sex crime charge. chicken pox, also all in ; Med ford; seven cases of influenza, four in Medf ord, - two in Ash land and one in Phoenix; four cases of pneumonia, two each in Medford and Ashland. Other cases, scattered through the county, included one of in fectious hepatitis, two of trench mouth, one of scarlet fever, two of german measles and one of measles. The efficiency of a traffic con trol program and highway safety depends upon the support and approval of the public: you can have as much safety for your family and community as you want to work for and pay for. This was the message of James A. Pryde, chief of the Washington State Highway pa trcl, who spoke last evening for Rogue Valley Knife and Fork club at Rogue Valley Country club. The state of Washington has the lowest traffic accident rate of any state in the union,-an ac complishment which the Datrol head says was brought about by education of drivers and the public, and an .efficient traffic control program. Defines Problem . The speaker defined the basic traffic problem as beinz the rapid and safe movement of people and commodities from place to place," pointed out that motor freight and . passenger traffic is one of the most import ant economic factors of modern- day living, and stressed that the number of cars on highways is increasing daily. He. then analyzed, the Wash ington program, saying that since people caused. the traffic problem, the solution lay with the people. Once the citizenry and officials both recognized the problem, they started "to do something," and with efficient police, the confidence of the pub lic and the proper tools, Wash ington's traffic death rate was brought down to about one-third of the national average, he said. Broad Program The state's safety .education program is broad, repetitive and continuous,, he said, ; and de clared that the patrol had had excellent cooperation from every medium of communication in the state. Speaking of education of the public, he mentioned the patrol's radio program, "Could This Be You," which has been considered an effective part of the campaign. Chief Pryde said that not only had the citizenry of the state been educated to the point where they realized there must be no indifference. .; to respon sibility if '.laws are .to be en forced, but .that tourists had been cooperative. An adverse re action from the touring public to a tough traffic . enforcement program had been predicted by some, he said, but this had not proved to be true. He . stressed that "driving is not a right, but a privilege," and added "all you have to do is to obey the law." He declared that the solution of the traffic problem in Wash- iijgiuu was cui example ux guuu democracy," and added "people are part of the problem and peo ple are the solution of the prob lem. It is a matter of right, decency, honor and character, of friendliness, consideration and helpfulness applied to the traf fic problem." In Courts The effect of the campaign ex tends to the courts, he said, and added that civic groups had aided by visiting and bringing pressure upon courts which had not followed' the law. Chief Pryde stated that "only dedi cated people" make Up the Wash ington highway patrol that no one is ever asked to join, they must seek to join. During the question period. Chief Pryde stated that penalties for drunken driving must be strong enough to deter; that radar control is more effective as an administrative device than as a punitive one since it is most accurate for gathering informa tion for traffic pattern records; that the increased power of cars has not greatly contributed to highway speed. He praised the "SD day" idea, saying it would bring greater awareness of traffic control, problems. He also discussed driver licensing, saying compet tent driver licensing was one of the greatest single factors in traff c control. Asked about ar rests for trai' ? violation, Chief Pryde said "the traffic problem will not be solved with it, but neither will it be solved with out it." -- Dunbar Carpenter, club presi dent, introduced the speaker. Teenage Youths Held in Shady Cove Theft Three" teenage youths have been arrested by Jackson coun ty sheriff's deputies and have been booked into the county jail on a charge of burglary not in a dwelling, according to reports in the sheriff's office.' .The charge involves the Dec. 4 . burglary committed at the Shady Cove variety store. Arrested were Wendell Frank lin Holder, 18, Box 23, Shady Cove, and Gilbert Wayne Cooper 18, Trail, and a 17-year-old Trail youth. , Taken in the Sunday after noon r burglary were a case of whiskey and a bottle of vodka. A hippopotamus has a stom ach over 10 feet in length so large that it can hold 400 or 500 pounds of food. . 'I RECUPERATING IN HOSPITAL from emergency surgery on left foot, Crooner Johnnie Ray is visited by former wife, Marilyn Morrison. Friends said the Hollywood meeting was no indication , of a reconciliation. He injured foot at Las Vegas. 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