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1 M 1 in 0 Medford United Pr Full Leased Wire 49th Year 12 Pages mt FnimdlDini Vi Cents Hourly Boost To Settle Strike Suggested Peace for 15 Months Seen by Acceptance Portland ' Ju.R) "Wage in crease for Pacific Northwest lumber workers of 7 cents an hour, effective Jan. 1, 1955, was recommended today by a gov ernor's fact finding panel fol lowing a three-month study of issues involved in last summer's 84-day lumber strike. - Justice Frederick G. Hamley of the Washington Supreme Court, chairman of the seven- man panel, said "if the recom mendation is accepted it will mean peace in the industry for the next 15 months." The pro- . posed pay increase would extend until April, 1956. ' .. . . Ovtr 100,000 Affected "; Upwards of 100,000 CIO and AFLi workers in the northwest and northern California were affected by the strike which started over demands for a 12V4 cent hourly wage increase. Scat tered settlements, some which involved wage increases and some pinned on agreements to , accept any industry-wide settle- " ment, cut this number to ap proximately 45,000 who return ed to their jobs under the gov-, ernor's plan. T- Today's action, .only a recom-t mendation, would affect those employers and union locals who agreed to the governor's plan or who agreed to accept an industry-wide settlement. To Resume Talks Management and labor were expected to meet in the near future to consider the panel's report and resume negotiations. A. F. Hartung, president of the CIO International Wood workers of America, said he "was both "surprised and disturbed" that the panel had not made pay increases retroactive to the date the lumber workers return ed to work in mid-September. ' Walter A. Durham, represent ing a large group of employers as secretary manager of the Lumber Industrial Relations Committee, said the report "is going to be quite a shock to a great number of employers." Unanimous Report Judge Hamley said the deci sion on the strike settlement formula was unanimous, with one member reserving the right to comment on it. The report is not binding on either , labor or management with the excep tion of the Coos Bay Lumber Company which agreed to accept -the board's findings when its 1600 men went back to work. ; The seven-man panel was formed by Gov. Paul Patterson of Oregon and Gov. Arthur B. Langlie - of Washington. .Two members represent management, two represent the two big un ions and the public was repre sented by three members. Judge Hamley also said the panel recommended improve ments in future negotiation procedure. Youngsters in Search for Presents Perish in Flames . Austin, Minn. (U.R) Three . curious children who couldn't wait until Christmas were burn ed to death last night when a flash fire swept through the clos et where they tried to get a peek at the gifts. , Matches or a candle held by one of the children apparently started the blaze. Bodies Found in Closet Firemen found the bodies of five-year-old twins, Donald and Darrell Bottleson, and their sis ter, Janice, 9, -in a corner of the . "attic closet. "There . was no 'light in the .Tcloset. They had to use matches "or a candle to find what they MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, h Former Code Clerk Faces Jail Term, Fine on Spy Count Washington U.R) Joseph S. Petersen Jr., the former gov ernment code clerk who pleaded guilty to spying for a foreign power, today faced a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison plus a $10,000 fine. Petersen, 40, was employed by the State Department as a code clerk in the top-secret Na tional Security Agency until his arrest by the FBI last October. He had been in government serv ice for 13 years. Entered Guilty Plea The $7,700-a-year code clerk pleaded guilty Wednesday in -Federal --Coert- ixt- Alexandria Va., . to a charge that he used government secrets "in, a manner prejudicial to the safety and in terests of the United States." The State Department disclos ed that Petersen passed the in formation along to a man identi fied as J. A. Verkuyl, a Nether lands civil servant and former officer in the Dutch army. . . The Dutch government ad mitted it had exchanged "secret intelligence" with Petersen dur ing and after World War II but was under the assumption that Petersen's superiors had author ized it. , Dutch Faith Unquestioned - The United States said it had "no reason to question the good faith" of the Dutch but added that Petersen's actions . were "completely - unauthorized and carried out under his own per sonal responsibility" in violation of U. S. law. r City's First 1955 Baby To Be Honored The Mail Tribune radio sta tion, KYJC, in cooperation with a number of local merchants, is planning' to welcome Medford's first baby of 1955 with gifts and a recorded interview with the parents. Scaie of the presents which Miss or Mr. Medford of 1955 will receive include an electric bottle-warmer, 50 quarts of milk, anew bank account, a supply of baby oils and powders, gift cer tificates for clothing, an en graved silver drinking cup, baby food and even. cigars for papa to pass around. were looking for. It was ap parently Christmas gifts," said Fire Department, Capt. Scotty Blowers. .... "The matches or candle must have brushed against some of the gifts while the kids crawled around the closet," Blowers said. "They didn't have a chance. The fire spread too rapidly." Forced Back by Fire Mrs. Bottleson was preparing dinner in the kitchen when she smelled smoke. She grabbed up two-year-old Chris in her arms and ran outside. She returned and tried to get upstairs, . but the . smoke and flames forced her back. - ' , Unite : : : . : J Death of European Union Sought by Rearmament Foes Mendes-France Calls For Ail-Night Session : Paris U.R) Opponents of German rearmament moved to day to kill the Western Euro pean Union in the same way they killed the European De fense Community. They introduced a motion de manding that the National As sembly postpone ratifications of the Paris treaties until France and Germany reach absolute agreement on how the pacts should be interpreted. Mendes Backs Down Premier Pierre Mendes-France immediately announced.he would call for three confidence votes. But he backed down un der Assembly pressure, and call ed an all-night sitting to reach . Rome . (U.R) The Cham ber of Deputies today ratified the Paris agreements to re arm Germany. The vote was one' of the biggest majorities in the history of the Italian Republic. The vote was 335 to 215, a margin of 120. the final decision on German rearmament. Theiotion4r was -introduced by a member of the Premier's own Radical Socialist party while Mendes-France was hold ing an extraordinary series of meetings with leaders of non Communist parties. Mendes - France - appealed to the party chiefs to try to keep" balky deputies from "going fish ing" when the vote on the WEU comes up in the Assembly. Vole Refusal Expected The scrappy Fsench Premier was convinced about increasing evidence that many , of the doubtful assemblymen will re fuse to cast their votes on, the controversial issue. Mendes-France hoped to con vince party leaders, and through them the rank and file of re luctant deputies, that France must show a united front to the world on the rearmament agree ments made at Paris and Lon don conferences. He took the unusual step as the ratification debates went into the fourth day and it was becoming " apparent that many French lawmakers would ab stain from voting in an effort to sidestep responsibility; V 84 Chest X-Rays Made At Outpatient Clinic Eighty-four persons had chest x-rays taken yesterday after noon at Community hospital, through the out patient program of the Jackson County Public Health association. All expenses other than for operation are paid out of funds raised through the annual sale of Christmas seals. , A number - of those having x-rays were . school children whose tuberculin sensitivity tests have reacted positively. - X-rays are read the day after they are taken, and reports are prepared and results made known to those having the x rays by the Monday following in most cases. ,' Hours for the x-ray outpatient program are 2 to 6 p. m. each Wednesday at Community hos pital. A similar program will be instituted at. Sacred Heart hospital early next year. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York OI.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 397.15 up 0.08; 20 rail roads 144.76 up 0.65; 15 utilities 61.51 up 0.56; and 65 stocks 148.06 up 0.36. Sales today were about 3,310,000 shares, com pared .with 3,460,000 shares traded yesterday. ." iE No. 237 CoMift off Appeals UpDnoMs Ruling odd (CoBirainniiuiiniDsfi Washington U.R) The U. S. Court of Appeals by a 2 to 1 vote today upheld the constitutionality of the 1950 internal security law clamping tight controls on the Communist party, its members, and its front organizations. Ruling that the party is dominated and controlled by the Soviet Union, the court majority approved an order issued by the govern ment's Subversive Activities Control Board last year. The order requires the Communist party to register with the Justice Depart ment, listing all of its officers, members and financial transactions. The Communist party is expected to appeal the case to the Supreme Court. If it does, the registration order will not become effective until the high tribunal acts. Hammarskjold Sets1 Trip Next Week; Won't Beg Release ' United Nations, N.Y. (U.R) UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold planned today to leave for Peiping between Christmas and New Years' to seek freedom for 11 jailed U.S. airmen without begging for their release. Hammarskjold made it clear on Wednesday nignt ne would not bargain with the Red Chin ese Premier Chou En Lai on Red China's bid for a seat in the United Nations. ...-. Two Major Issues The secretary general said he would discuss two major issues under a mandate given him Dec. 10 by the UN General Assembly. 1.' The release of the 11 air men jailed as spies . and four other Americans later listed by the United States as being de tained by the Peiping govern ment in violation of the Korean armistice. t 2. The release of all other personnel of whatever nation ality still not freed by Red China after their capture as Kor ean war prisoners. Census Tabulation Of Students 18,422 Final unofficial tabulation of the Jackson county school census shows a total of 18,422 young sters in the 4 through 19 age bracket, according to officials in the county schools office. This total compares with 17, 639 last year. Of this year's total, 9,522 are boys and 8,900 are girls. Last year, the figures were 9,131 boys, and 8,508 girls.. This year, there iare more seven-year-olds than any other age group," with 802 boys and 730 girls. Last year, the largest group was the six-year-olds, with 810 boys and 762 girls. The smallest group both years is the 19-year-old division. Last year, there were 360 boys and 285 girls in the 19-year-old classi fication, compared with 430 boys and 328 girls this year. Jolly Saint Nick's Christmas Spirit Dampened by Police New York U.R) A street corner Santa Claus bunt into bald song in Times Square to day and lost his Santa Claus suit in a police station. Police placed no charge against him. -' Police were notified by tele phone that the Santa, some what the worse for Christmas cheer., was using bad language and singing dirty songs at the : corner of Seventh Ave. and 50th St. When a patrolman ar rived, a large crowd had gath ered. To the clanging of his bell he was singing loudly a bawdy variant of "Santa Baby." Weather FORECAST: Variable cloudiness with a few light showers to night. Partly cloudy with scattered showers mostly in the mountains Friday. Snow above 3,000 feet. Valley fog patches Friday morning. Low tonight 32-34. -High Friday 45. .. Temp. Highest Yesterday 48 Lowest this Morning 30 Judges E. Barrett Prettyman and John A. Danaher signed the majority opinion. Judge David L. Bazelon, in a dissenting opin ion, argued that the entire reg istration machinery of the in ternal security act is unconstitu tional. He said forcing Commu nist organizations to disclose their members and finances can not be "reconciled" with "the Fifth Amendment's command that "No person . . shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself." Quoting Dean Griswold of Harvard Law School, Babelon said the Fifth Amendment "is a clear and eloquent expression of our : basic opposition to collec tivism, to the unlimited power of the state. It would never be allowed by the Communists and thus it may be regarded as .one of the signs which sets off from Communism. However, Prettyman and Danaher said "the right to free expression ceases at the ( point where it leads to harm to the government." "When danger to government is- clear and present, the right of unrestricted speech gives way as do the other basic rights of liberty and life," they said. The Justice Department has been trying to force the Com munist party to register since Nov. 22, 1950, two months after the internal security act was passed. ' On that date, it filed a petition with the cbntrol board asking that the party be ordered to reg ister. After 15 months of in termittent hearings, the board on April 20, 1953, issued the order. '.. ' State police said that a 16-year-old Medford juv enile was in custody this afternoon after allegedly holding up two men and forcing them from, their cars. The youth was cap tured in one of the two cars about 1:10 p.m. on Highway 238 east of Ruch, officers said. State officers first got word : f rom , city police at 12:16 p.m. that a Wallace Stearns. Grants Pass, had beept forced from his car at gun point and the car taken at McAndrews rd. and J ackson st. Road blocks were set up. At 12:49 p.m. they were in formed that Allen Guches of the Griffin Creek dis trict had been held up and his car taken in the vicin ity of the Seventh Day Adventist academy on the South stage rd. ' . An officer closing in from the Grants Pass area made the arrest. State po lice said that the Stearns car was left in the area near the academy. -fAl SOUTHERN SNOW As gredicted by the Weather ureau, snow flurries fell on Atlanta, Ga., to lay a thin sheet of snow, over the city. Tliefe was ; enough for 18-year-old Carolyn Lee to scrape snowballs off her car. Elsewhere in Northern Geor gia, snow and ice caused the closing of portions of nine highways. Thefts From Autos Take Christmas Christmas will be a little less merry than expected for two Medford area families. City police reported this morn ing that gifts valued at nearly $200 were'stolen last night from two cars parked on Riverside ave. . ' Lester M. Hanson, Box 641, Central Point, told officers that gifts, including toys and clothing valued at $145, were stolen from his car last night while v it was parked on Riverside ave, be tween Eighth and Main sts. 1 ,; Toys Taken' Alv.is Mertis BelL 819 Pine st., Medf of drrepof ted that toys and other gifts valued at more than $40 were taken from his car last night while it was parked in the same area. : '. In another theft from a parked car, David M. Hoffman, Spring field, told officers that women's clothing, valued at about $7, was taken from his car while it was parked on Bartlett st. between Sixth and Main sts. Another theft of lights from an outdoor Christmas tree was reported to city police by Ger ald A. Cottingham, 1329 Queen Anne ave. About 10 lights were taken from his tree, Cunning ham said. . , . s yirgil H. Conner, route 1, box 70, Gold Hill, has brought suit against David Joseph Mor ris, 39, of route 1, box 78, Gold Hill, seeking $10,250 damages for injuries allegedly received July 20, according to records in the county clerk's office. Conner seeks $10,000 gener al damages and $250 special damages for, doctor and dentist bills.- . ; ' ; The complaint charges that "the defendant assaulted and beat the plaintiff," and adds that Conner "was wounded and suf fered great bodily pain and lost several teeth." , Morris was arrested and jailed briefly July 22 on an assault and battery charge after Conner had signed a complaint. Morris pleaded guilty to "the charge July 24 in district court and was fined $35 and $5 court costs.; Clothing Complaint Seeks Assault Damage European Storm Passes 72 - Toll of Dead, Amsterdam (U.R) ' Europe's worst storm in recent years raged past the 72-hour mark to day, i with a . steadily' mounting toll of dead and injured. Evacuation Planned ' .More than 40 deaths were at tributed, directly to high winds and savage seas and to ice and snow which clogged highways and cut communications. The storm raged from the tip of Scot land in the north, through the Lowlands and into Austria and Italy. V :: Dutch authorities made plans to evacuate residents from parts of two islands where dikes just as Supply ueqgds (DM As Ciraffft Appiroaclhies Oregon Servicemen Listed Among Missing, Survivors Dravosburg, Pa. flJ.R) Federal investigators tried to deter- mine today why a chartered airliner, carrying 23 servicemen home for Christmas, apparently ran out of gas after flying only 300 -miles and crashed into the Monongahela river here with a loss of 10 lives. The twin-engined DC3 took before taking off from Newark Airport at 8:40 p jn. for the West Coast with a load of happy GIs, just back from Europe and due for holiday furloughs and. discharges. - The plane, operated by a five-man civilian crew, flew only , about 300 miles on its cross-country trip and was approaching Pittsburgh when the pilot radioed the Allegheny County Airport -Control tower "I'm out of gas.".. - ? All but 10 of the 28 men aboard either swam through the icy- cold water to the river bank or were pulled out by their buddies - and civilian rescuers. - iiie, ltt survivors were latien to the McKeesport, Pa., hospital where they were reported suf fering mainly from cuts and bruises and, exposure to the wa ter and near-zero tenjperatures. Police and firemen began dragging operations for the bod ies of the 10 missing men, nine servicemen and a pilot Harold Poe. Divers and river barge and tug men worked all night' to raise the fuselage, which . was virtually intact' despite its crush ing pancake smack into' the wat er in mid-stream, 200 feet off shore. A barge derrick ; hoisted out the wreckage at about 8 a.m. No bodies were found in the plane. The Civil Aeronautics Board opened an immediate investiga tion along with local, county, and state officials. . ' William Burton, CAA safety agent at Greater Pittsburgh Air port, said the plane was a C-47 converted into a DC3 and ac commodates 26 passengers. i The plane came down at about 11 p. m., about 12 miles up stream from Pittsburgh. The craft began to settle in the water almost immediately but all the men apparently got out before it submerged less than 30 min utes later. 1 The plane, chartered "by the Army from the Johnson Flying service of. Missoula, Mont., took off from Newark, N. J., and was carrying the servicemen to Ft. Carson,. Colo.; Ft. Lewis, Wash., and Ft. Ord, Calif. Back From Europ i The servicemen had returned from Europe late Wednesday, reported to Camp Kilmer, N. J., and then boarded the plane at Newark for the trip west. They were to have received furloughs at their, destinations so . they could spend Christmas with their families. . ' . . . .... ' ,'. '"' ; All the missing soldiers were believed to live on the West Coast. : - The crewman and nine soldiers missing in the crash are: Pilot Harold A. Poe. Seattle: pre Harry D. Moss. Palisade. Colo.: CdL Robert S. Wilder, Denver: PFC. lis ter W. Donahue. Sterling. Colo.: Cpl. Elmer A. Diercks, Jeffetson. Ore.; Cpl. Carl O. Thim. Hermosa Beach, Calif.; PFC. Joseph R. Harkima. Myrtle Creek, Ore.: Cpl. Joseph Selvaggio, Los Angeles; Cpl. Donald T. Seitzinger, Bellflower. Calif.; Cpl. Bob D. Whip ple. Redondo Beach.- Calif. Survivors, confined to McKeesport hospital, are: Cpl. Robert Norgren, 24. Pueblo, Colo.; Cpl. Frank Kusumi. 22. Los Angeles; Co-pilot Robert P. Walker. Seattle. Wash.; Cpl. Philip F. Wheeler. 22, Ririe, Ida.; Pfc. Duwain J3. Crow, Kellogg. Ida.; Pfc. Robert Gill. 23, Granville, Ida.; Cpl. Charles L. Lutoe, 22, Eugene, Ore.; Cpl. John J. Freehl ing - III, 22, Denver; Cpl. Roy G. Phelps. 24, Mae. Wash.; Col. Olev Adamson, 22, Portland. Ore.: Set. Paul D. Middleton. 21, Granger. Wash.: Cpl. Ronald E. Johnson, 22. Hawthorn, Calif.; -Cpl. Robert D. Schaefer, 22. Salem, Ore.; Cpl. Tony L. Toftemark, 22. Eugene, Ore.; CpL James F. Everly, 24, Rockwood, Calif.; Crewman Clar ence Chapman. 25. Tacoma. Wash.; Crewman Charles Carter. 35. Tacoma, Wash., and Crewman Joseph Greko wicz, 26, Seattle. Wash. TO CALL GRAND JURY The Jackson county , grand jury will be called into session early in January, District Attor ney Walter Nunley said today. He indicated that several crim inal matters "will be presented to the jury for consideration.". Injured Mount Steadily repaired after the - disastrous storm of two years ago threat ened to give way again. The eastern part of the island of Terschelling in the north and possibly part of the island of Goeree in the southwest were among the worst hit in the catas trophic floods two years ago. Dike Guards Ordered Out Special dike guards were or dered out today and thousands of soldiers and civilians were prepared for duty if the storm smashes defenses against the sea. :; Elsewhere in Europe, people were buried in the, debris of houses and burned to death in ; - . j ' - : on a quantity of fuel last night - , . , Pilot of Plane To Save Victims . D? avosburg, Pa. (y.R) Pilot Harold Poe, missing since his soldier-laden plane ditched in i the Monongahela river here, reached shore safely after the crash but heroically waded out- again to save other victims, sur vivors of the crash said today. Co-pilot Robert , P. ; Walker, Seattle, said he was the last man off the sinking DC-3 transport ; and knew Poe, also of Seattle, had made it to the river bank after he ditched the plane. Seen Going Back But other survivors told res cue workers they saw Poe slush , back into the icy, swirling wat er in an apparent effort to haul other men to- shore. Seen Going Back Poe disappeared in the dark- ; ness and was not seen again.. Walker, in the rear of the plane, when the crash came, said . he too swam to shore and pad- died back out to the craft "two or three times"; before it sank, l to bring other victims into shore. ; "I didn't have the least idea what happend," the airman, one of five civilian crew members, said. "Everything just got quiet. Somethng went wrong I , don't know what." Heard Plane's Engines ' . Stephen Barna, a fireman at i nearby McKeesport, said he was getting ready to go to work and j was in the kitchen of his home, ; about a mile and a half from ! the river, when he- heard a I plane's engines "cough and sput- j ter." v - i He, said then "there was dead silence that gave me a shiver up my spine." Barna said he ; knew there was a hill in the': ' plane's path and that the pilot j could never make it. ' . "He went out of my view and I knew he was done, Barna said. Mill Accident Injuries j Prove Fatal fo Man j .Norman A. Dunford, Eagle Point, died ; at a local hospital i yesterday .after suffering - in- juries in an accident at the ! Medford corporation mill where j he was employed. '. ; ( He was hospitalized shortly after noon. . Mr. Dunford, an edgerman, was working at an edger when i a piece of wood struck him in '. the chest, accordng to Medco J officials. First aid was admin- ; istered by the company nurse before arrival of an ambulance. Mr. Dunford had been a resi- dent of Jackson county for the ' past 14 years. Funeral services, with Perl funeral home in charge, are pending, i , , Hour Mark; fires out of control because of wind. Some were lost with ships or swept overboard, killed on icy roads or hit by falling ob jects." Highways were clogged in Austria and Scotland and winds drove river and harbor waters above normal, flooding harbor areas in Hamburg, Germany, and Ostend, Belgium. Hope for Ship Abandoned ' Hope was virtually abandoned for .the Belgian freighter Henri 19, which reported it was sink De Weert, carrying a crew of ing yesterday off . the coast of Holland. , y H Ml MI1M AW? inppoig lot wmm
