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lag Sip May tlmmi W I ; - - - o. I - : : , , . - . o o 1 J w m r -(' No Deals Suggested By Either Side for Prisoners' Release V Hopes To Maintain Established Contact r United Nations, N. Y. (U.R) U. N. Secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold said today that "no dsals of any kind" for the release of 11 American prisoners sentenced as spies were suggest- Washington (U.R) The Unit ed States today ruled out any deal with Red China to swap diplomatic recognition or a seat iii me uimea wauons ior iree- com ot jailed Americans. Officiate Q 4Vifi enrna 4i'mA u aiait unit, nowever, aid not veto the pos- siDiiuy oi letting jauninese stu- dents in the this country go home w Luramuaism u mat aione is the Communist price for freedom O oi me n American niers ana otners neia Dy tne xteas. ed by either side in his talks wun ea ninese premier viiou x-n-iai m raping. ne gave a news conference the .iiisi puui c msciosure oi aeiaus X i t-i: j: i - r w "1S "ssiwn to iree ine air- men and all other U.N. command personnel still held by the Chi- nese Communists as Korean war prisoners. venues success He refused to discuss the sub- eiani.es oi ins ov2 nours oi se- i mi i . Cret talks With ChOU but replied w a queaiiuii as 10 wneuier ills i: x i xi t-s- mission was successful: "If by successful, you mean that I brought the fliers back In the plane, I was not success ful. If you mean that I achieved "what I hoped to achieve, then I was successful. . Hammarskjold made it clear, as he did on his arrival at Idle- wild Airport last night, that the door "has been opened" for ne- gotiations with Red China and that he hoped'trr maintain "the ; contact he established With I : ChOU. -. i . Put he said he would not be specific on the time or place of the next contact with the Red Chinese. That, he said, would depend upon developments. Many Hems Discussed Chou, Hammarskjold said, gave his views on "other ques tions? pertinent to present inter- 'national tensions." He did not detail what other questions were discussed, but said "all the ques tions you could guess" were mentioned. "This part of our conversa tions was, however, entirely apart from the question of the prisoners," the secretary-general said. "No deals of any ' kind, nor any link between these other questions and the prisoner ques tion, were suggested by either side." " Hammarskjold gave a full re port on his four secret talks with Red Chinese Premier Chou En Lai to U. N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. at the secretary general's Park Avenue apart ment Thursday night. ; Lodge left the apartment in an optimistic mood and went to Washington to put Hammarsk jold's findings before Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and President Eisenhower. After an hour's briefing by Hammarskjold, Lodge said he . was "confident that progress has been made and that our fliers wyvill be free." Central Pf. Man Named . To Potaio Commission 8 Salem U.R) Gov. Paul L. Patterson today appointed Harry Dunn of Central Point to the pregon Potato Commission, rep resenting the state at large. Dunn succeeds Robert W. Miller of Boardman. Receipts in District Court Total $75,115 During . Year Receipts for the Medford dis trict court during 1954 amounted to $75,1J5.50, according to fig ures released today by Mrs. Bereth Hopkins, county clerk. Of this total, almost $52,000 went to Jackson county, while the rest was turned over to the state. During the past year, the dis trict court handled 2,875 cases, with the monthly case load rang ing from 170 in February to 345 in November. Biggest Month November also was the biggest month for the court as far as re ceipts are concerned with $9,228 being turned in. Jackson county- receives all court cost payments, which amount to $5 with each fine. Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 49th Year 18 Pages tnassSa -Telb IPDanDS To SDnaire Aiomra D on dl Washington (U.R) Russia. claiming to be ahead in the de velopment of atomic industrial nower. said tndav h. w;n cW her knowledge with the rest of the world a. brief announcement issued I -mr - i in i vi nsrnw cam a ronnrt rn Soviet operation of atomic-pow- ered industrial plants will be made nublir hefor a TT. TJ" snrm. sored conference on peaceful use 0f the atom. It is scheduled to be held later this year. AEC Remains Sileni TTlA AtnmiV Fnormr Pawwii.- L;nn . TOfhi,e1, irttm,Mai ment on the Russian ofer. However, it was noted here that th pnnfprpnrp tn " Russia referred is one proposed Dv the Uniter? States anr! that this count v mnre than a ago offered to heln other nations through President Eisenhower's atoms for peace plan. ts-;,,-, , time, evnresse the nnin,-'nn l - w""" the TTniteH Statee ic amhai.iul on a hieeer srale develnnment i ' March of Dimes Projects Slated Three projects have been scheduled for downtown .Med ford Saturday all to aid the March of Dimes campaign for x u a lo comoai lnianme paTslf 'VT-1 T V " " uocu xuuus adit?, buiiuou steer giveaway, - ana a states milk bottle will feature the sec ond Saturday of the campaign. The baked foods sale, sponsor ed by ' the Medford Jaycettes, will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m: at City Appliance store, 127 North Central ave. It will fea ture baked beans, salads, cook ies, pies, cakes, homemade bread and rolls with all proceeds going to the March of Dimes. , Medford lodge of Fraternal Order of Eagles will conduct the states milk bottle fund at the First National bank. Forty eight milk bottles, each representing a state, will be set up with parti cipants asked to drop a coin into the bottle representing .the state in which they were born. Members of the Junior Cham ber of Commerce will conduct the steer "giveaway." Tickets on the steer will be given away to anyone requesting . them. A year's locker service and cutting and wrapping will go to the win ner and contributions to the polio campaign will be accepted from those caring to donate. Parachute Sighted In Search for Flier Barstow, Calif. U.R) Air Rescue teams searching for James B. " Verdin's world's jet speed record .holder, said today they spotted "a .parachute" about 40 miles northwest of Barstow which may be that of the famed pilot who bailed, out of a plane 35,000 feet above the desert. Sheriffs spokesmen said - the parachute was sighted near Har per Dry Lake. Members of a huge posse searching for the 37-year-old speed pilot were sent to the area immediately. There were no signs of life about the. parachute, the sheriffs office at Lancaster reported.: Fines, bails, and forfeitures are divided between the county and the state, with the county get ting the larger share. Some $13,300 ' Court cost payments - during the year brought in a total of a little more than $13,300, com pared with a district court bud get for $15,515.40, whicK in cludes $6,500 salary for District Judge Rawles Moore, and $8, 340.40 in salaries for two deputy county clerks who handle office work for the court. Other funds which the county receives from fines, bails, and forfeitures amounted to about $38,640, while payments to the state from the same sources were a little less than $24,000. j MEDFORD, OREGON,. FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1955 Price5c nnsft ir o ai D ieebpinnieinifi of nuclear power than Russia, although the Soviet claims to have put into operations the first atomic power plants. Kussia s announcement was made at a Foreign Ministry press Two Court Cases Delayed by Illness Of Judge, Reporter Two .appearances scheduled for circuit court this morning were postponed due to the illness of Circuit Judge H. K. Hanna tand Court Reporter Cliff How ard, according to court sources Two men had been scheduled to enter pleas to felony charges They were Fred Warden, 31, of route 1, box 350K, Medford, and Jack Dwight McCoy, 26, of 129 Wightman st, Ashland. Manslaughter Charged Warden has been arraigned on a charge of manslaughter in the Oct. 16, 1954 death of Philip Stephen Minear, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.-Robert Minear, route 1, box 331. The youngster was fatally wounded in a hunt ing accident in the Griffin Creek district. McCoy was arraigned on "a charge of attempted rape. Both are being held in the county jail under $7,500 bail each. - - , . ,Inother ...cases-, in .Medford courts, a.l9-yeai-old St. Helens, Ore., youth ,is being returned here to .face; criminal charges', and charges against- another 19-year-old were dismissed in dis trict court. Deputy Sheriff Guy Hughes is returning Donald Biggers, 19, of St. Helens, here to face charges that he was involved in a burg lary at Rogue River High school several months ago. A Jackson county warrant charges Biggers with burglary not in a dwelling. Charges against Richard Lee Booth, 19, of 148 Ohio St., Ash land, were dismissed in district court yesterday on a motion by District Attorney Walter : Nun ley.. Booth had been charged with burglary not in a dwelling at the Varsity theater, in Ash land. A 16-year-old Ashland boy arrested on the same charge has been turned over to the juvenile department of: circuit court.' Laos Charges Attack By Communist Forces Vientiane, Laos (U.R) The government of Laos charged to day that Communist led forces have attacked and captured two small posts in Northern Laos, in direct violation of the Indo china truce. The International Armistice Control Commission immediate ly dispatched a mobile - investi gating team to the spot near Sam Neua, 187 miles -northeast of Vientiane. '. . : . : The government ; said the : at tacks took 'place last night. ; "Word "was received in Hai phong of a bloody battle between Communist forces in North Viet Nam and Catholic refugees who attempted to flee to freedom from their Red-run homeland two weeks ago. t ' - : . Cardinal Says Asia ;: Is Like 'Volcano' Los Angeles -i U.R) - Francis Cardinal Spellman said' today the Asian mainland is a volcano threatening ; to erupt - into war and he fears; for the future of the world. The cardinal, en route, to his home in New York after a 29-day tour of U. S. military bases in the Pacific and Far East, said he has "grave fears for the fu ture." "It is my personal opinion that the Asian mainland is a volcano and may erupt at any time," he said. "How, when or where I cannot say, but unless through - God - in - His " mercy, through our prayer and pen ance, we can have an enlighten ed and strong leadership, coop eration, goodwill and understand ing, I have grave fears for the future." v'--v.- -J ;. . United conference by the chief of the ministry's press department. It said the Soviet government was taking the step as a part of its efforts "to contribute to the development of international co operation" in the field of peace ful development of the atom. It was pointed out here that the United States already has offered to spur atomic develop ment abroad through the Presi dent's atoms for peace plan and through arrangements with friendly nations under the new atomic energy act. Russia Makes Claims . It. has offered 220 pounds of reactor fuel . to the proposed world atoms for peace agency, All that officials here know about Russia's atomic power achievements is what Russia claims. Russia said last June that it had put a 5000-kilowatt atomic power plant in operation and has since claimed further developments of a similar kind If that is true, Russia did beat everybody else to actual opera tion of a peacetime atomic power central station, small as if was. However, both the United States and Great Britain are embarked on more ambitious projects to speed development of atomic power on a commer cially competitive basis. McCarthy Says Senah Insincere in Pledge Washington U.R) The Sen ate today unanimously pledged itself to continue hunting Com' munists. Sen. Joseph R. McCar thy said he didn't believe it. The stormy Wisconsin Repub lican. said some signers of the resolution which contained the pledge were "trying to get some dirt off their hands" and were insincere. McCarthy was ordered to sit down, under the Senate rule which forbids questioning the motives of another senator. McCarthy then was allowed to continue his speech in obedi ence to the rule after being ad monished by Sen. Russell B. Long (D-La.), who was presiding, Roseburg Man Killed in Plane Crash Roseburg U.R) Cliff Edward Wolbert, 37-year-old local busi nessman, was killed today when his light plane crashed and bum ed near here shortly after he took off on a flight to Portland County Coroner L. L. Powers said Wolbert was alone in the four-place Stinson. Wolbert, who ran a welding shop here, took off shortly be fore 7 a.m. His plane crashed into a heavily-wooded area near Felts Flying Service airfield about two miles west of town, There was a low-hanging fog at the time of the crash. Wolbert planned to fly to Portland on a busmess trip, Powers said. Freighter Withdraws SOS Call in Atlantic Norfolk, Va. . U.R) A big freighter, a gaping hole in her side, sent out an SOS today that sent ships and planes racing to her aid 300 miles off Charleston, S.C., in the storm-tossed Atlantic but the ship's crew later pached uo the vessel. The Coast Guard said the lat est message from the Steelore had the effect of releasing all rescue vessels from further re sponsibility. Jack London's Widow Dies in California : Sonoma, Calif. U.R) Mrs. Charmian Kittridge London, widow of famed novelist Jack London, died at her ranch home in the Valley of the Moon near here last night. She was 84. - c Weather FORECAST: Considerable M cloudiness and not quite so ' cold tonight. MosUy cloudy Saturday . with showers or .. snow flurries by afternoon. Low tonight 28. Kifh Satur day 42. , :: . v- Temp. Highest Yesterday 45 Lowest this Morning .... 24 TRIBUNE Press Full .Leased Wire No. 256 State Legislators Homeward Bound For 'Long Holiday' House, Senate End First Week of Work Salem (U.R) House and Sen ate completed their first week of work in quick order this morning and the legislators were homeward bound for what was expected to be their last "long week end" of the 1955 ses sion. Sen. Monroe Sweetland of Milwaukie introduced a bill to day to reqirire privately-owned utilities in Oregon to pay taxes on the same property valuation upon which they charge their rates. - . -Set By Commission . . Under the present law, the valuation of utility properties for tax purposes is announced by the State Tax Commission, and the valuation upon which rates are -set are determined by the public utility commissioner. Un der Sen. Sweetland's bill, the State Tax Commission would de termine the valuation for both purposes. One of the bills introduced in the House today would establish Portland State College as an autonomous institution within the state system of higher learning. Another House bill would set up. a board for control and ad ministration of water Resources in uregon. Fifty Bills in Senate Fifty bills were introduced in the Senate this first week of the session compared with 32 for the first week of : the 1953 session, House bills for the first week to taled 42. The water resources bill would set up a board for. control and administration of water re sources in the state and would abolish the Willamette River Basin Commission, the Upper Columbia Basin Commission, the State Reclamation Commission and the State Irrigation Board. A second bill would repeal the Eastern Oregon ground water code and replace it with statutes for water use applicable to the whole state. Taxation Measures ; Twelve bills introduced by the taxation committee include one which would, authorize the Stafte Tax Commission to appraise principal industrial properties in the counties. , Another provides for the review by the State Tax Commission of actions taken by county assessors. The first week's work in the lower chamber resulted in 42 pieces of legislation offered for consideration. One bill was pass ed, four resolutions, were adopt ed, and one memorial was ap proved.- Every member had in troduced at least one piece of legislation or had been listed as a co-sponsor of one. Ten of the 22 House . committees were all ready at work on bills with most of the legislation so far being referred to the state and federal affairs committee and the taxa tion committee. , Some of the major portions of the governor's recommendatio had been implemented by bills now before committees,, includ ing parts of his taxation' pro gram. - ' The Dalies Salesman Victim of. Gunshot The Dalles (U.PJ Henry Shel- ton Stephens, 33-year-old The Dalles salesman, was shot through the stomach in a local cafe last night arid was uncon scious and in critical condition in a local hospital today. Police said -Harley Eugene Adams, 48, who lives at a nearby trailer court, was being held in connection with the shooting. No formal charges had been filed, and police said they still were seeking a motive. - . . - Dairymen's Decision On Milk Law Expected Bend (U.R) Members of the Oregon Dairymen's association today were expected to decide on whether to-ask the Legisla ture to-set up a milk price act at farm level. ' V Supporters of the plan con tend it will do much to protect the economic .'welfare of Ore gon's producing dairymen. ,1s- .4 feK - - tr may.vj 4 1 ' ; UNDER A BLANKET OF FOG While most of the country is blar&eted with snow, San Francisco (somewhere m the background) is completely hidden under billowing clouds of fog rolling in from the Pacific Ocean. Only the tops of the Golden Gate Bridge towers peeKing through. Prize Appointment Expected To Make Demos Attractive To Morse By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington The gift of one of the prized seats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee which the Democrats gave Sen. Wayne Morse this week is ex pected to make formal member ship in their party more attract ive than ever to the Oregon senator. - For despite his personal pref erence to remain independent of either major party, Morse has now fulfilled a long cherished desire in stepping up to the blue ribbon committee of Congress and unless he becomes a Demo crat in name, he runs the great risk of losing that seat more eas ily than he attained it. The risk for Morse stems from the time-honored custom in the Senate for each of the two major parties to take care of only its own members ' in the delicate matter of making committee as signments. So long . as Morse remains formally independent of either party, he is subject not to this custom but to the dispen sation of the party that happens to gain control of each new Con gress.' And Morse's own exper ience since his 1952 bolt of the Republican party best illustrates the insecurity of his independent status ..'when 1 it comes to getting good committee seats. - . - Two years .ago, when the Re publicans controlled the Senate Morse fought a long, losing bat tle to retain seats on the Armed Services and the Labor Commit tees. The GOP tentatively of fered to keep him on the former but not the latter, but he refused to accept any assignments from his former party. Instead, he demanded that the Senate as a whole assign him, which result ed in an unprecedented make shift balloting in which Morse took a licking and ended up on the Public Works and the Dis trict of Columbia Committees And. that's where he stayed so long as the GOP was in control This year, changing his tactics, Morse made no such demand of the Senate but agreed to take his assignments from the Demo crats Foreign Relations, Bank ing and Currency and District of Columbia, the , latter by his own choice. Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas saw West Coast Airlines Reports Best Year West Coast airlines carried more passengers last December than in any other Deceipber in the line's history, it reported to day. It flew. 13,075 passengers for a 32.4 per cent increase over the sanie month in 19o3. During 1954, the line carried a total of 166,928 revenue pas sengers. 4,000 more than the year before, for an all-time high. The airline had a 4o per cent load factor, highest ever. It re ports that West Coast carries more passengers per thousand population in its area than any of the nation's 14 jocai-service airlines. . . . : - - . ' - - Some 80 per cent of its pas sengers were traveling within the company's 44-city route, in cluding -Medford, but the line also turned ' over "a record $1,200,000 in interline fares to other airlines, most of it to. con necting lines. First Japanese, Ship ; At Honolulu Since War Honolulu (U.R) The first Japanese passenger ship to dock at Honolulu since the Pearl Har bor attack tied up here yesterday and received an official welcome. The N YK liner Hikawa Maru arrived en route from Vancou-, ver,' B. C, to Yokohama and was officially greeted by the acting governor of the island, the mayor or Honolulu and representatives of the Chamber of Commerce and other civic and consular groups. -' ,- Klamath Falls (U.R) Sale of the Klamath' Lake Moulding Co. to Coast Pacific Lumber Co. has been announced, ; - . . . , i J to it that Morse got the choicest of seats, for he thinks Morse "one of the ablest men in the Senate" and also it was Morse's vote which gave the Democrats their hairline . margin to grasp control of the Senate this year. But Johnson . accepted the re sponsibility of assigning Morse to committees because he argues that this is the duty of the ma jority party, which this year happens to be the Democratic party; Two years ago, Johnson argued, it was the responsibility of the Republicans to take care of Morse, because then the GOP held a majority. So Morse's -comittee Insecurity as far as the future is concerned lies in the possibility of the Re publicans returning to gain con trol, which could happen at any time if, say, a Democratic sen ator should die in office and be succeeded by the appointment of a Republican successor. This could lead to a reorganization of the Senate, with the Democrats becoming the minority party and giving up the chairmanships of the standing committees to the Republicans. " Such a turnover would mean that in the. reshuffle for commit tee seats, - Morse ii ne re mained an independent : would Ike Disappointed In Peiping Talks Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower today express ed "disappointment" , that Dag Hammarskjold had been unable to win release of 11 American airmen ... imprisoned by. Red China. At the same time, Mr. Eisen hower warned the American public .. against expressing thoughts of reprisal or retali ation" lest this country fall into a Communist trap" and endan ger the lives of the imprisoned fliers. . . . "We must support the United Nations in its efforts so long as ' those, efforts hold out any promise of success," Mr. Eisen hower said. - Senate Committee OKs Market Study Washington J(U.R) The Senate Banking Committee unanimous ly approved a "study" of the stock market today, but pointed ly shunned the term "investiga tion."., ' ' ' Chairman J. William Ful- bright (D-Ark.) said he hopes hearings on the booming bull market can begin about Feb. 21. He said the committee wants to avoid influencing the market "to the maximum extent possible." He said he does not believe the proposed inquiry has affect ed the market to date. He told questioning newsmen he sees nothing "to be scared of" or "get excited about." Knowland Speaks Against 'Peaceful Co-Existence' Houston, Tex. U.R) Sen. Willianv F. - Knowland, Senate Republican leader, thinks that "peaceful co-existence" with the Communists can mean playing into the enemy's hands and we shpuld have '.learned: at Munich that appeasement is "only ; sur render on. the installment plan. Peace at Any Price - The ; California Republican told a banquet of the Institute of ' International. Edcuation last night the Communists will fol low peaceful co-existence with the free world only so long as it suits them. He said "Among some of our associates abroad and in some unofficial quarters -in our own country, the term 'peaceful co existence' is becoming .synony mous with "peace at any price. Should such a condition become general, either here r or abroad, t have to look to the new major- ity party, the ' Republicans, for his assignments. In short, so long as the Demo crats hold the Senate, Morse is reasonably certain of holding this prize of his senatorial ca reer. And if he becomes a Dem- oarat, he will unquestionablv move up the ladder of commit tee seniority, assuming three elder Democratic members Chairman Walter George, who is 77, Green of Rhode Island, 87, and Barkley of Kentucky, 77 don't . outlive Morse, who is 54. But should the Senate so Re publican in a future election or sooner, and Wayne Morse is still listed as an independent, he will once more be at the mercy of the party he has scorned. British Atomic Documents Missing London (U.R) Britain's Ener gy Authority said today docu ments on industrial development of atomic energy are missing from a London office. .;-However,; thelauthority said, the .missing , documents- contain -no important military or secret nuclear information.- . t A . brief statement issued by the authority said the documents were reported missing from an office of the British Electrical Authority where they were "be ing examined in connection with long-term plans for the use of nuclear energy for the , genera tion of electric power." The documents were neither top secret nor secret and contain no military information or secret atomic information," the stated ment said. Costa Rica Troops Advance on Rebels San Jose, Costa Rica (U.R) The government is flying troops and equipment north to meet three advancing rebel columns in what may be the decisive bat tle of the four-day revolt, it was announced today. v Loyal officers believe the cru-' cial battle will be fought at Li beria, a highway center 160 miles west-northwest of here which was bombed and strafed by a rebel plane last night. Inter-American investigators . announced last night they will begin observation flights over the- trouble zone today. It was assumed Liberia would be one of the first points they visit. DOW-JONES AVERAGES ; New York (U.R) Dow-Jones preliminary closing stock aver ages: 30 industrials 396.54 off 1.80; 20 railroads 142.02 off 0.93; 15 utilities 63.0 up 0.31, and 65 stocks 147.71 off 0.51. Sales to day were about 2,630,000 shares, compared with 3,350,000 shares traded yesterday.. it would be a fatal policy. Te.ace with honor is and should be the policy . of the American people. This is certain ly far different from a policy of "peace at any price.'" ' Knowland, who advocates a blockade of China if the United Nations efforts fail to free American . fliers . held by the Reds, said that the Communists "have in mind for us a peaceful co-existence such as a Thanks giving turkey has well fed and housed until the ax falls." Britain's Viewpoint Also present at the institute's second annual banquet was Sir Robert Scott, second minister to the United States from Britain. Scott, speaking . earlier at Col lege Station, Tex., said a block ade of the China coast ' would - be an act of war arid Great Brit ain would not sanction it except as last. resort. - !.- I
