Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 28, 1954, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Textt -5 0 TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) Cautious Optimism Shown by Officials On Vote by French Washington (U.R) The State Department, the President and senators were cautiously optimis tics today over French Premier Mendes-France's latest victories in the French debate over West European defense plans. Officially, the State Depart ment had no comment. But offi cials privately admitted encour agement over the vote to admit Germany to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and approv al of West European Union by the powerful Foreign Affairs British Papers Play Up Churchill Visit London (U.PJ British news papers front paged reports from Washington today that Prime Minister Winston Churchill may fly to the U. S. capital next month to confer with President Eisenhower. The Daily .'Telegraph ; and Daily Express said the meeting is a "possibility" 'whether or not France . approves German rearmament. . . Other : newspapers said, the meeting hinged on the French Assembly vote. The News speculated that Mr. Eisenhower might fly to London. ; The only ; immediate, official comment , was the statement by a Foreign Office spokesman who said he had "not heard" plans for any such trip. . Pope Pius Given Blood Transfusion Vatican City (U.RX Pope Pius XII received another blood transfusion" today as part of his "regular cure,"- then left his bed to resjime work t on his Christmas message, a high Vat ican . source reported.' ' This: Christmas message was delayed ed by the Pope's illness. He hopes to broadcast - part of it in person some time this week. The source said the 78-year-1d! pontiff, who suffered- a -near-fatal collapse Dec. 2, was still improving. . - . Pittsburgh . (U.R) James G.. Thimmes, . 60, international vice-president of the CIO United Steelworkers union, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage Christmas day in his suburban Los Angeles home, union headquarters dis closed here today. BIGGEST 21 m wainui, 'ft MAIL TRIBUNE Committee of the '. lal As sembly. But the key provision of the defense program German re armament still has not been approved, spokesmen cautioned, and there can be little jubilation here until it is. At his Augusta, Ga., holiday retreat, President Eisenhower was reported by his press secre tary, James Hagerty, to be "gratified", over the vote to ad mit Germany to NATO. But Hag erty said the - President wUl make no formal statement on the French debate "until action has been completed on all the measures." , - - -, . State Department sources said French indecision over rearming Germany has left a "bad taste" in other West European-nations because it indicates France is "playing politics with a matter of life, or death to the .Western alliance." v" - -Impact on Germany Bad ' But department sources said they have received no evidence that the indecision -will affect the willingness of other mem bers, particularly Germany, lo ratify the defense, agreements.: . The impact on Germany. has been bad, they said but not to the extent of endangering ratifi cation, . . . Chairman Alexander Wiley of the Senate , Foreign . Relations Committee said the? vote to ad mit Germany to NATO was "wel come news. . to all the free world." , : . - :;; r: : " . ;: .. ' But he added:. - r. ".. 5 "We can be sure:, that -the Soviet Union is. not going . idly to accept . the assembly's . deci sion," he said. "The .Reds will continue to use : every sort of stratagem in order to try ; to sabotage :the pacts.' We may ex pect a new Soviet diplomatic of fensive." ', . ' : : ' New Guided Missile - Washington U.R) Northrop Aircraft, Inc., hints that its inter-continental' guided missile may be in. early .test stages . at the Air Force's Missile Test cen ter at Cocoa,' Fla.It:' The missile, being developed for the Air Force, is the B62 Snark. A pilotless bomber with sharply swept-back wings and jet engine, the Snark is unoffi cially reported to be able to fly 5000 miles with an atomic war head.' - The Air Force never has giv en official information on the B62. ' ' I Da Mont WIDE HORIZON BRADLEY - inch! Contemporary styling A3 mahogany tr limed oak grain finish. DaMmrt IDE HORIZON CLIFFORD BIGGEST 214nchl Traditional styling in gtnuint mahogany hardwood tenters. ' sW0 W h ry- y -0- - Al - .-.! Im i. . - r-t Ml ' !- .1; fsA ft VI lr t it it t-44 hjHHEH8teia . ... .. Tuesday. December 28, 1954 Martha Raye Showing 'Great Improvement New York (U.R) Comedi enne Martha Raye, who col lapsed in Miami just before she was to appear as a holiday head liner, was reported today "com ing along great" in her recovery. The energetic Miss Raye was recuperating at the home of friends in Cincinnati, her. press agent, Jack Tirman, said. He said Miss Raye would do her TV show Jan. 18, but was considering giving up club dates because they were too much of a strain. Pilots Identified In Crash of Jets San Jose, Calif. (U.R) Navy officials have identified two en listed pilots who were killed yes terday when their F9F Panther jets collided at a height of 30,000 feet, scattering wreckage "over a two-mile area. . .. , - They were identified as Chief Air ,. Controlman. Willard D. Rease, 31, Los Angeles, and Chief Aviation Mechanic Robert E. Messer, 37, Hayward,. Calif. The planes were '. attached to the overhaul and repair depot at Alameda Naval Air Station, Witnesses to the crash said the planes were looping at about 30,000 feet when the suddenly met head on. "Then there was a blinding flash,'- one witness said. "I saw a speck falling to earth. I imag ine it was an engine.' .Rease is survived. by his wid ow, Doris Jean, and three small children residing in Alameda. " Messer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Messer of Birmingham, Ala., is survived by his widow, Marie Janet, and four children living in Hayward.. ( . Reed Praises Ike's World Peace Efforts Washington i(U.R Rep. Dan iel A. Reed (R.-N.Y.) congratu lated President Eisenhower to day f or promoting world peace and predicted that attacks on the President's foreign policy will be ; "overwhelmingly repu diated by the next Congress." Reed at the same time warned Mr. Eisenhower against trying to push a liberalized foreign trade program through the next Congress. The President already has anounced that this will be an early objective. , Reed, senior GOP member of Congres and outgoing chairman of the House Ways and Means committee, said in a statement he will oppose any trade pro gram "which does not protect the interests of our American workers and producers." ... i V SV r iit. I Vj) )) UWtMMM4 If W r J r I 'i Fiveteage Suits Filed; Accidents Cited as Cause Five personal damage suits totalling more than $65,000 were filed in the county clerk's office yesterday. Named as defendant in three of the suits which total more than $50,000 is Jess Wade Mc Cormick, driver of a truck which collided Jan. 7, 1953, near Siski you summit with a vehicle driv en by Alberta E. Johnson. Says Vehicles Collided Mrs. Johnson asks $20,000 general damages and $500 spe cial damages for injuries which the complaint says she received in the , accident. The complaint charges that McCormick's truck collided with the rear of the vehicle. Mrs. Johnson was driv ing. - - Two passengers in the John son car also seek damages for injuries allegedly received in the collision.; August E. Johnson asks $15,000 general damages and $300 special damages, and Jane Edtl seeks $5,000 genera damages and $250 general( dam ages. All three plaintiffs are repre sented by the Medford law firm of McAllister, Brophy and Dun can. ' In another complaint filed yes terday, Andrew J. Tkach seeks $10,000 general damages and $401 special damages for in juries which the complaint says he received Aug. 12, 1954, when the car in which he was riding was forced from Highway 62 by a lumber truck driven by David R. Clement near the intersection with East Wood Park driveway. Plaintiff in the fifth lawsuit is Ben H. Schmidt, route 3, box 3 75 A, Medford, who seeks dam ages from Leo Edwin Osborn, 441 Ray lane, Ashland. Schmidt's complaint charges that he was injured the morning of Dec. 18, 1953 in an accident on Highway 99 three miles south of Medford. Schmidt asks .$15,000 general damages and $792.05 special damages. Klamath Reservation Woman Hurt by Gunshot Klamath Falls (U.R) Mrs. Doris Lugo, 38, was hospitalized here today for treatment of a gunshot wound in the leg and juvenile authorities were ques tioning her 16-year-old son, Leon ard. Police said the shooting oc curred last night on the Klamath Indian reservation. Quito, Ecuadot (U.R) Presi dent Jose M. Velasco Ibarra says the army officers accused of try ing to overthrow him last week are "traitors" who will be dealt with by- the military courts. , r.w)' can have a Du Mont for as little as Stronger Japanese Economy Needed Los Angeles ' (U.R) Japan may be lost to the free world if the United States fails to take the lead in strengthening the fal tering Japanese economy, ac cording to a church leader. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, president of the National Coun cil of Churches, warned of pos sible "revolt to communism" in Japan when he arrived here yes terday from a trip to the Far East. ' "In all the Communist propa ganda, Japan's economy is al ways exhibit A," Dr. Blake said. "I was told in Tokyo that only "40 per cent of all next year's col lege graduates will be able to find jobs. "This is "just like asking a big intellectual group to : revolt to communism," he said. As partial solutions, he recom mended a cut in American tar iffs and a general freeing of world-wide trade. Social Security for Teachers Suggested Portland (U.R) Possible leg islation to permit teachers to share in social security benefits was suggested last night by the Portland school board. . The board authorized drafting of such a bill for submission to the 1955 Legislature. If approved in final form by the board and passed by . the Legislature, the measure would allow teachers to retain membership in the local Teachers Retirement Fund Asso ciation and, if they so voted, per mit them to obtain social secur ity benefits. , However, the board added it wanted to investigate possibil ities of integrating the TRFA plan with the state program for public employees State Public Employees Retirement System. Air Force Instructors Die in Jet Collision Valdosta, Ga. (U.R) Three Air Force instructors, two of them decorated Korean veterans, were killed yesterday, when two jet- planes collided while T ap proaching Moody Air Force Base. - . The air base, where the men were stationed, identified the victims as 1st Lts. Albert Dickey Jr 24, Booneville, Ark., Rex Allen Van Camp, Kearney, Neb., and Henry George Keene, Cot linsville, 111. A T33, piloted by Dickey, and an F89 all-weather interceptor, piloted by Van Camp, smashed together about four miles west of Moody as they neared the en try leg to the base traffic pat tern. Keene, a radar instructor, was in the F89 with Van Camp. DDW BIGGEST 21-inch! Da Mont WIDE HORIZON WENSTED Contemporary styling in walnut, mahogany - - or limed oak grain finish. British Union Plans , ;;, ' National Rail Strike London (U.R) Britain's big gest railroad union rejected a government plea for delay to night and decided to go' ahead with plans for a nationwide rail strike of 400,000 men Jan. 9. But the 24-man Executive Committee of railwaymen also decided to cooperate with a fact finding board set up by Labor Minister Walter Monckton. - - Ceylon Official Raps Aid Program of U. S. Singapore U.R) Prime - Muv ister" SirJohn"T Kotelawala", of Ceylon today criticized the" U.S.' giveaway aid program because he 'said it made .the country re ceiving it "look like a stooge" of the United States. He urged . instead that the United States join the Colombia plan. . Sir John made the statement at a news conference shortly be fore leaving for. Bogor, Indone sia, for a two-day meeting of the five Colombo powers, India, Ceylon, Pakistan, : Burma and Indonesia. -. The Prime Minister, "who just concluded a round the world trip, said "giving away aid is making it worse because it makes the country receiving it look like a stooge of the United States." He said he thought the best formula, to save Asia for the free world is to help under developed countries raise their standards of living. SNOW IN PORTLAND Portland (U.R) A sudden snow, storm blanketed the Port land area late last night, piling more than two : inches of the white stuff in higher elevations. The snow later turned to rain in lower areas. She's blond, blue-eyed and beautiful. See how Diane Macom turned herself from a dowdy fatty (160 lbs.) into a tiny-waisted beauty (110 lbs.) and gained an active modeling career. 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