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