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pg MEDrORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, December 20, 1954 v THEY KNOW TOO MUCH Cheng-Sen-Lin (left), a chem ical engineer, and Hsing-Chien, a metallurgist, both of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Cambridge, ! voiced a hope that thev might be returned to their native i China in exchange for Americans in Red captivity. They have been refused permission to leave the United States on grounds that they have acquired technical knowledge ; in this country that would be of value to the Communists. Coast Guardsmen Jailed for 'Postman's Holiday' Cruise warehouse-to-you IP 03D(SE on home appliances (kmm XAPPLIANCEiT Open Till 9 Till Christmas Eve SPECIALISTS IN. HOMEWARES CENTRAL POINT MEDFORD Bead line tor Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday. Oakland, Calif. (U.R) Three Coast Guardsmen from Wash Jngton state were in jail Satur day following a moonlight cruise on the Oakland estuary in a "borrowed" cabin cruiser. The three apprentice seamen, all stationed at Treasure Island, were Richard Oros, 18, Seattle; Phillip Oestreich, 18, Ritzville, and William Barton, 20, Rainier. They told police they had a "sud- jden urge" to go for a cruise. Officers said they .took the 18-foot cruiser from the Alame da waterfront and proceeded without lights along the estuary. iellow Coast Guardsmen in a cutter spotted the blacked-out craft and pursued it. The cruiser hit some rocks 40 feet from shore in west Oakland and the Coast Guardsmen aban doned ship. They waded through the slimy water to shore, leaving an easily-followed trail. Officers followed the trail to two large garbage cans and, lifting the lids found Oros and Oestreich curled , up inside. Barton was picked up later when he drove up to the garbage cans to call for his buddies. All three were booked on suspicion of grand theft. Weyerhaeuser Plans New Paper Mill Longview, Wash. (U.PJ The Weyherhaeuser Timber Com pany says it plans to build a new paper mill here in a joint ven ture with Rhinelander Paper Company of Rhindelander, Wis. The firm will be called the R-W Paper company. Wood pulp will be supplied by Weyer haeuser's plant here. The announcement followed a disclosure by Weyerhaeuser Wednesday of plans to build a chemical plant here to produce chlorine and caustic soda for use in pulp mill operations. Construction on both projects is planned in the near future. Eastern U.S. Hit By Snow Flurries BY UNITED PRESS Sharply colder temperatures accompanied light show flurries in the eastern third of the nation today, with freezing weather extending as far south as Florida. Most of the rest of the coun try, however, reported slowly rising temperatures, with read ings well above normai in the Northern Plains states and the Rocky Mountain region. Weekend snows turned high ways slick and were blamed in part for a high traffic toll. In Illinois alone, 17 were rer ported killed in auto accidents, the worst record in the nation. Snow .was' piled five to ten inches deep over most of Wis consin, Minnesota, and Michigan, and the rest of the Midwest was blanketed with one to two inches. UN CHIEF INVITED TO CHINA Red China's Premier Chou En-lai (right) invited UN Secy. Gen. Dag Hammars kjold (left) to Peiping, presumably to discuss the case of 11 U. S. airmen imprisoned there as spies. Chou bitterly attacked the UN for condemning the imprisonment, but extended Hammarskjold a cordial welcome to visit the Chinese capital. Hammarskjold announced . he will go. Western Nations IHIaDl VM. SessooDn as ne off (Great Success Author James Hilton Reported Near Death . Long Beach, Calif. (U.R) Author James Hilton, 54, in criti cal,' condition and near death from an unidentified infection,. was reported in "an even weaker condition" today. A spokesman at Seaside Me morial Hospital, where Hilton has been hospitalized since Nov. 21, said .the author "grew worse during the night." The novelist, who wrote such famed books as "Lost Horizon" and "Goodbye Mr. Chips," was in an oxygen tent and in a semi conscious state. United Nations, N. Y. (U.P.) Western democracies today hailed the United Nations gene ral assembly for starting Presi- dent Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace plan on the road to reality, trying to -free 11 American air men jailed in China and setting up disarmament negotiations. . The 9th annual meeting of the assembly was one of high dra ma and personal- tragedy, cap ped by Secretary. General Dag Hammarskjold's proposal to go to Red China and the death of Andrei Y. Vishinsky, the Soviet Union's venom - tongued chief delegate. Allies. Solidly. United The. western allies were more solidly united than ever before? From the . viewpoint of the western democracies, the succes ses of the 9th annual meeting of tho 60-nation world parliament which ended last night were many. Its failures were few. The high point of the entire assembly was the debate on the prisoners, with thirty-four-year- old British Delegate Anthony Nutting making what delegates a MOLLY COFFEE CAKE Made With a Rich Delicious Sweet Roll Dough ... Filled With Diced Fruits and Generously Topped With Chopped Red and Green Glazed Cherries. TASTY MILLS For Your Christmas Dinner Potato Rolls . . Dinner Rolls . . Parker House . Flake Sesame Seed Double Raised Biscuits. IF YOU LI KE A HOT ROLL - - - - Try Our Cloverleaf Brown N' Serve Rolls They're Tops! Al CA Don't Forget, We Have Stuff in' Bread Too, Plain or Spiced AbJV SLICED FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE - - ASM Y GIBl(D)Cm agreed was the greatest speech of this meeting and one of . the best of any. assembly. "These airmen are not just members of the American Air Force," Nutting said. "They are soldiers of the world organiza tion sent to fight by the will of the U. N. "Though'they can not hear us, we can and must speak for them. Their lives, their freedom, their future, their safety,, is our re sponsibility the responsibility of each and every one of us present here today. t " . ., "They went fourth to uphold our cause. We must uphold theirs." ' Vote Climax of Debate The debate was climaxed by a vote instructing Hammarsk jold to do all he can to release the men. He promptly arranged a Christmastime meeting with the Chinese Reds in Peiping. . From the Communists viewr point, this assembly was practi cally a disaster. United States Chief Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., said, in a statement after , the assembly closed: . "... the U. N. knocked down decisively all the various So viet bloc items, most of which were strongly anti-American. Their score of accomplishment was zero. . ."A wonderful session for lov ers of freedom throughout the world." There were 72 items on the assembly's agenda. They ranged from the atoms for peace plan to a committee re port on "customs, ancient laws and practices affecting the hu man dignity of women." . Machinery Started On the atoms for peace plan, the U. N. got ' the machinery started toward forming an inter national atomic energy agency and arranging for a scientific conference on the peaceful use of atomic energy to be held next summer. - A disarmament proposal pass ed ; unanimously also delegates the five leading atomic powers to negotiate secretly for reduction of conventional arms and even tual banning of nuclear wea pons. , Baker Resident Dies In Automobile Mishap Baker, Ore. (U.R) A one-ve hicle accident yesterday claimed the life of Howard W. Bogue, Baker. Bogue's truck skidded "off Highway 30 four miles west of Baker; He was apparently thrown out of the vehicle and crushed when it rolled over him, police said. CONFIDENT of acquittal of charge he slew wife, Marilyn, Dr. Sam Sheppard awaits ver dict of Cleveland, O., jury after lengthy trial. (International) Inquest Slated Into Train Crash Death Ontario, Ore. (U.R) Malheur County Coroner George Beech ler has scheduled an inquest for 2 p.m. - today into the traffic death of Albert Roy Barnes, 40, of Nyssa. ' Barnes was killed instantly Saturday morning when the car he was driving was struck by a westbound Union Pacific mail and express train at a crossing three miles ; north of Nyssa, Beechler said. Barnes was enroute to so duek hunting with his son, Jimmy, 14. jine Doy was thrown from the car by the impact, but was un injured. Police said Barnes' vis ion was apparently obscured by a string of freight cars narked on the Arcadia siding. it - Christmas Cards . v All Types and Kinds Singles and Boxed Assortments o . Wrap and Ribbon HE To Buy or Sell - Use Tribune Classified Ads At Leon's: "Tots-to-Teens" You Will Find . . . 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