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Newspaper Page TextRecommended Weather FORECAST: Fair uaday. ta creasinc cloudiness uaday Bight. Light rain Monday. High Sunday SI. Low Mon day, 50. High Monday 74. Temp. Highest Yesterday SO Lowest Yesterday Morning 4S Prec. To It p-m. Yesterday A aeries of questions and answers on the proposed an nexation to the city of approxi mately 3.000 acres west, south and east of the present city limits appears on Page 10 of today's Issue of The Mail Trib une. United Press hull Leased Wirt United Presa Full Leased Wire 50th Year 26 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 1919 Price 5c No. 77 xsillk' Progiroinn) Coinmpleooini AppirovoB Committee Backs Vaccine Use During Peak Polio Season Says Hazards Less Than Delay to Fall New York fo-R) A com mittee of family doctors and public health officials Saturday gave the green light to comple- Washinston (U.R) The administration is seriously considering the need for weeping new federal powers over mass Taccinations in view of the troubles encount ered in the S a 1 k anti-polio program, informed sources said Saturday. tion of the national polio vac cination program during the peak polio summer "season." Thirty doctors called together by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis said after a six and one half hour meeting that the hazards of giving Salk inoculations - during the polio season were smaller than the hazards of calling off the pro gram until next fall. The doctors had been called here to consider whether an in jection of the polio . vaccine would bring on paralysis in a person who already has been in fected with poliomyelitis virus but who has not yet become sick. Their conclusions were dis closed in a six-page statement containing recommendatiops the committee will submit to the U.S. Public Health Service. There had been some talk of calling off the program as a pre caution to protect the still un vaccinated children among the 9,000,000 included in this year's inoculation program. Some Will Be 111 "It must be emphasized that when poliomyelitis vaccine is given to large numbers of indi viduals during epidemic periods, a small proportion receiving the vaccine will, subsequently ex perience paralytic disease," the statement released by the doc tors said. -:;:j:. ' "This is because the vaccine is not 100 per cent effective." The doctors said that it should be emphasized that the "small risk" in giving the injections during the summer probably can be reduced still further by not giving injections to persons with minor illness, especially fever, sore throat, or gastro-intestinal upsets. Peak periods vary in different areas. The polio season began in the south in April and May. Then it moved slowly north and will hit the northernmost states in August or early September. Sergeant Sentenced To Two-Year Term Fayetteville, N.C. (U.R) Authorities said Saturday M-Set, William H. Olson will be sent to Camp Gordon; Ga. to serve a two-year sentence for collabo rating with Chinese Reds while a prisoner in Korea. The sentence and dishonorable discharge imposed upon the lean-jawed career soldier from Youngstown, Pa., was approved Friday by Maj. Gen. Joseph P. Cleland, Fort Bragg commander. Olson, a veteran of 20 years service, was convicted of mak ing statements and speeches and of writing articles "calculated to aid the enemy" while a prison er of war between Dec. 25, 1950 and Oct. 15, 1951. He was tried in late February and early March by an eight man court martial. His sentence will be reviewed by a special board in Washington, D.C. the sentence can be cut but not raised. New Traffic Light To Start Operation A new traffic light at the cor ner of Eighth st. and Central ave. will be put into operation Monday. Five other signals installed along Central and Riverside aves. recently on request of state highway department engineers will be put into operation at a later date. Inconnections between pres ently operating signals and new lights are being made. All six lights will be synchronized with signal- now operating. Thieves Take Works, Even Kitchen Sink Thieves didn't stop with the kitchen sink in thefts report ed Friday to the sheriff's of fice. They also took a toilet and a door. Stuart Edgar Dilworth, Phoenix, reported the three articles missing from a shed at the old Dave Pence ranch on Elk creek. He said they ap parently were taken between November 1. 1954 and April 20, 1955. Also missing were a close couple pump unit and a single phase General Electric motor. Pump controls apparently were taken after April 20, the sheriff's office was told. Molotov Arrives In San Francisco For U.N. Session Oakland, Calif. (U.R) Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov, flanked by 50 Rus sian aides, arrived at the Oakland terminal of the Sou thern Pacific roalroad at 2:20 p.m. PST Saturday and was quickly whisked away to the headquarters of the delegation across the bay. The balding foreign minister stepped from his private car, waved to a crowd of about 200 persons and was immediately guided into the Soviet's awaiting Cadillac. Molotov spoke briefly through an interpreter from inside the car. "I want to thank you for the welcome you have given the Soviet delegation here," he said. "I wish to express cordial greet ings to the people of San Fran cisco, the city where the U. N. was born." As he stepped from the train, he took a few steps towards photographers crowded behind a cordon of security police. He appeared willing to talk to news men, but security agents, appar ently concerned for his safety, turned him around and guided him into the car. The foreign minster arrived at the delegation's headquarters at 3:05 p.m. PST., and an immedi ate police line was thrown up around the estate to prevent any sightseers from entering. News men and photographers milled about the gates for a while but were not allowed entry. The stocky diplomat, wearing a blue-gray, double breasted suit, with a blue shirt and blue tie and brown shoes, was greeted by an orderly quiet crowd. The only sign of a demonstration came from the Estonian society of northern California who stood behind the police -barricade and displayed signs with slogans that read: "Mr. Molotov, ,do ghosts of millions haunt you," and "Soviet Union Press is a puppet of Communism," and passed out pamphlets that said "Molotov dictated the occupa tion of the Baltic states 15 years ago." Washington (U.R) Rep. Owen Brooks (D-La.), an influ ential legislator on military affairs, 'predicted 'Saturday the House will get another' chance to vote on creation of a military reserve force. 4 i : . Government Planners Agree U.S. Not Ready for Attack Washington U.R) Govern ment planners are agreed that the .nation isn't ready for an enemy atomic attack such as they pretended hit the country this week in the grimmest peace time civil defense exercise in history. President Eisenhower' said the mock attack demonstrated the need for passage of his proposed compulsory military reserve bill which is now stalled in Congress. He said that in the kind of "disaster" the exercise pretend ed "one trained reserve battalion in the proper place would be worth five divisions located a thousand miles away." Backs Reserve Plan Defense Mobilizer Arthur (S. Flemming said the nation is not prepared from a manpower standpoint to cope within atom ic attack at this time. He back ed the President's plea for the reserve program. Be said the (Govern) Plot to Overthrow Peiping Officials Declared Broken Up Monarchy Restoration Said Aim of Leaders Tokyo (U.R) Peiping radio said Saturday Communist China had broken up a plot 'by a group of religious sects to overthrow the government and restore the centuries-old monarchy. The broadcast said leaders of the group were sentenced to death, but the Chinese language broadcast was vague as to de tails. It did not say how many persons were involved or when the arrests were made. Peiping said the anti-govern- ment group was organized into a number of religious sects with such names as "G r e a t Budd hism," "Clairvoyance Religion," "Basic Principle of the Heavenly Way" and "The One Prevailing Way." The Communist radio said the anti-revolutionaries operated in underground shelters in central China near Peiping and that one of the shelters contained a forge for manufacturing "murderous weakons." - Peiping said 27 shelters ap parently natural underground caves were raided and that one of them was big enough to ac commodate more than 30 per sons. The Communist broadcast said the religious-monarchist plotters carried on subversive activities among Thincese farmers in the Changchiakow sector of Hopei Province northwest of Peiping where many farmers are Bud dhists. - - Peiping said 30 Jollowers of the sects infiltrated farm co operatives and that two . of them became cooperative chairmen. The broadcast Indicated the anti- government group based its ac tivities on the Buddhists' oppo sition to Red China's religious policies. ' " ' Announcement of the ."plot" followed by a few hours a Com munist broadcast announcing the arrest of a group of saboteurs on charges of derailing trains and setting fires in Manchuria. Diplomatic observers in Tokyo said the two announcements were significant if apparently unrelated since Peiping rarely reports any internal discord. Demos lose Vfopes of Hiking Defense Funds Washington (U.R) Senate Democrats virtually abandoned hope Saturday, of beefing up President Eisenhower's defense budget. ' This prospect' of defeat was conceded in authoritative quar ters even though moves are planned to try to provide more funds than the administration asked when the $31,800,000,000 military appropriation bill cames before the Senate Mon day. Democratic hopes for enlarg ing the .Defense budget were punctured when the appropria tions committee rejected pro posals to vote the money to avert planned manpower cuts in the Army and Marine Corps. Dem ocratic defections on the com mittee made these actions fairly decisive. best way to deal with interna tional Communism is through strength. Federal Civil Defense Admin istrator Val Peterson concluded that: - "America cannot be destroy ed by a nuclear attack. We can survive. But, we had better pray to God we are never subject to such an attack." Closed Circuit The President, Flemming and Peterson broadcast their re marks over a' closed circuit radio channel from one of 31 secret relocation sites from which the government tested its ability to continue to operate if Washing ton was bombed out. In the simulated attack on 61 cities, including Washington, there were supposed to have been 14-milIion "killed" and "in jured" and another 25-mUlion Americans theoretically left homeless. 17 Per Cent Drop In Fire Protection Assessments Slated Change to Become -Effective July 1 A 17 per cent reduction in fire protection assessments for 1,000,000 acres of forest and brushlands in this area will be come effective July 1, according to Ted Maul, district warden for the state forestry department. The charge this year has been 13.3 cents per acre. The new assessment will be 11 cents. The amount is collected by the coun ty at the same time as other taxes in November, and applies to the fiscal year starting next July 1. Money Saved In 1954 The areas involved are in sec tions protected from fire by the state forestry department, and other private lands in national forest areas. The decrease repre sents money saved last year be cause of low fire losses, and ap plied to the new fiscal, year budget. The land involved is in Jackson county will receive ties. Another 140,000 acres of land in ackson county will receive an even greater reduction, from 13.3 cents to 4.7 cents per acre. These lands were recently , re classified as grazing grass lands by the county land reclassifica tion committee, and are in areas surrounding the floor of the val ley in the Eagle Point, Sams Valley, Tolo, Antelope Creek, Little Butte Creek and Bear Creek areas. To Have Protection Another change announced by Maul will involve unimproved lands which formerly were in non-patrol protected areas. Un der reclassification made follow ing a public hearing by the coun ty committee, these will now be under forest patrol protection effective July 1. They will begin paying the 4.7 cent per acre assessment, and will be ubject to patrol fire regulations, in cluding the necessity of burning permits. . Several sections of the county between Ashland and Eagle Point are involved, all outside organized fire protection dis tricts. Loyalty-Security Reviews Urged Washington (U.R) The Senate Government Operations committee Saturday urged a "careful and comprehensive" re view of the administration's loy alty security program in a report which avoided any criti cism of the program itself. The report recommended enactment of a bill to set up a bipartisan 12 member commis sion to make the study. The committee approved the bill yesterday by the unanimous vote of 10 of its members. Three others did not vote. The committee's report, made public Saturday, outlined the special powers and functions which would be given the pro posed commission. But it care fully steered clear of commenting on criticisms of the loyalty security program which, were made in hearings on the com mission proposal. Family Quits Shelter After Three-Day Test Houston, Tex. U.R) The first American family to live three days in a tight, under ground H-bomb shelter came out Saturday night and told civil defense officials their worst problems were humidity and odors. The four "members of the Christmas family crawled through an escape hatch into the back yard of their home at 7:30 pjn. to be greeted by Dr. W. P. Bonin. The doctor examin ed them closely, -just as he did when they went into the shelter Wednesday. John R. Christmas, 36: his wife, Dorothy, 40, and their children, Stanley, 13, and Mary Louise.ll, were in excellent physical and surprisingly good mental condition, Dr. Brown said. He noted only minor irrita tions of the eyes and a little change in their blood pressures. Leon, Mexico (U.R) An American four - engined plane loaded with Mexican laborers en route to jobs on U.S. farms crashed and burned here Satur day, killing two and seriously injuring at least 10 of its 42 occupants. WW Headers did Argentine EevoDt JaiiM; sie Takes (Dwnloffe eT i Priests Released After Being Held 'For Own Safely' Peron's Opponents Remain in Custody Buenos Aires (U.R) Two of the three principal leaders of Thursday's revolt have been ar rested, and the third committed suicide when the uprising failed, it was reported Saturday. The independent newspaper La Razon said police have cap tured Anibal Olivieri, who was dismissed as Navy minister be fore the smoke had cleared, and Rear Adm. Samuel Toranzo of the Argentine Marine Corps. Marine Vice Adm. Benjamin Gargiulo shot himself in this of fice in the Navy ministry shortly after loyal forces crushed the revolt, the newspaper said. Earlier, federal police had an nounced the release of an undis closed number of priests ar rested "for their own safety' after the revolt. President Juan D. Peron's principal political op ponents were reported still in custody. Peron said in a radio speech Saturday night that the rebels killed hundreds and wounded thousands and accomplished nothing." He said his regime prefers to reason with Its oppon ents rather than force its beliefs on them. "We have the law, and we obey it," he said. "We are in the right, and we seek to impose it by truth . . . the force of- the people's conscience and the force of law is always superior to the force of violence." Theaters Reopen Lights glowed in downtown Buenos Aires Saturday night for the first time since a blackout was clamped on the city ThurS' day, and theaters and movie houses reopened their doors. A few blocks around the plaza De Mayo remained cordoned off while repair crews worked to restring trolley lines and other wires knocked down by rebel bombardment. The official radio repeated government assurances that the nation is "completely calm:" But the chief opposition party to President Juan D. Peron an nounced that its leaders, includ ing Dr. Arturo Frondizi, party president, had been arrested and still were being held. The party, union civica radical, disclaimed any connection with the revolt. Only One Candidate For School Board Job A poll will be open in the girls' gymnasium of the Medford High school from 2 to 8 p.m. to morrow, in the annual board election of School District 49. Only candidate for the five year, term which will become vacant at the end of the current term is William (Bill) Barker. The post is now held by Mrs. Moore Hamilton, who is not seeking reelection. Elections in all the other school districts of the county will also be held from 2 to 8 p.m. tomorrow. Polling places in most cases are the schools of the dis tricts. Second and third class districts will be voting on candi dates for two additional board vacancies. The 1955 legislature changed the number of directors from three to five. Wiley Says US Should Invite Reds to Tests Sheboygan, Wis. (U.R) Sen. Alexander Wiley proposed Sat urday night that the United States invite, Russian and Red Chinese observers .to its next hydrogen and atomic bomb tests. The Wisconsin Republican, ranking GOP member of the Senate Foreign Relations com mittee, also suggested a United Nations general assembly meet ing, "formally or informally, at a weapon testing ground, to see at first hand the absolute im portance of an all-out effort for peace. .iTSKSi Onrift-tfisfi ppp -. " 'Z ROSE SHOW WINNERS City Councilman Harold Frye is pre senting the grand sweepstakes cup which Miss Florence Bain won in the first annual show of Medford Rose society Friday. Miss Bain's entry was a Charlotte Armstrong rose. Runner-up was Roy Gilbertson who took the award for an Ena Harkness rose blossom. The show, held at the cafeteria of Medford High school, attracted hundreds of visitors.- (Brainerd photo) ' Florence Bain Wins Rose Sweepstakes Miss Florence Bain, 848 West McAndrews road, won the grand sweepstakes award at the first annual show of Medford Rose society, held Friday in the cafe teria of Medford High school. The award went to a Charlotte Armstrong rose. Roy Gilbertson, 315 Vancouver ave., took the runner-up award for his entry of an Eria Harkness rose. The awards were presented by . City Councilman Harold Frye, acting for Mayor Earl Miller. More than 100 ribbons were .awarded in several divi sions, in addition to 14 special prizes. More than 700 visitors at tended the show, registering from several states. ' (See story on Page 3) . Schedule Announced For Hawthorne Park Schedule for Hawthorne park playground this summer has been announced by Miss Beth Eskew, supervisor. She reported that the wading pool will be open daily at 1 p.m. Monday through Saturday the wading poor will close at 3:30 p.m. for a half-hour activity period. The pool will reopen at 4 p.m. and close at 5 p.m. for the dinner hour. Evening hours for the pool will be 6 to 8:30 o'clock. ' ; Activity time plans call for stories on Monday, coloring on Tuesday, stories on Wednesday, clay modeling on Thursday, games on Friday and stories on Saturday. , Equipment available at a J times includes swings, sandbox, teeter - totters, merry-go-rounds, slides, bars and rings. The sup ervisor must be asked for horse shoes, tether ball, croquet equip ment and baseballs and bat. Adenauer Has Agreement of West on Talks With Russia New York (U.R) West Ger man Chancellor Konrad Ade nauer had full agreement from the Western powers Saturday that he should go to Moscow next fall for diplomatic and trade talks with Russia on his own carefully stated pre-conditions.- V Give Approval The foreign ministers of the United States, Britain and France gave their approval to Adenauer as they concluded a two-day strategy session here. " They also agreed to consult their partners in the North At lantic Treaty Organization be fore the start of the July 18 summit meeting"- at Geneva among the Big Four heads of government. And they assured Adenauer, who oooaulted with them for 99 Sharp Bandits Foil Barefoot Pursuers Inglewood, Calif. (U.R) Two bandits were sharp as tacks when they robbed a finance company of $319, po lice reported Saturday. Manager Don Knox, 47, said no one tried to pursue the two gunmen. They scattered carpet tacks on the floor after mak ing three employees hand over their shoes. . h Three U.S. Officers Ousted by Russia Washington U.R) The State Department finally admit ted ' Saturday that three U. S. Army officers attached to the American embassy in Moscow have been expelled by Russia. The incident first was dis closed "Friday by sources here and in London. But the depart ment had persistently refused to say anything about the case until yesterday when a spokesman said of the three assistant mili tary attaches: "The story is true that they were asked to leave and they have left." The spokesman refused any further information. But another ' source said pre viously that he understood the Americans were accused of espi onage activity , and declared per sona non grata unacceptable by Moscow two weeks ago. Al Loucks Appointed Portland (U.R) Al Loucks, a former, mayor of Salem and currently a state legislator, was appointed liaison officer of the state Republican party Saturday by Wendell Wyatt, chairman of the State Central committee. . Wyatt announced the appoint ment at a meeting of the party executive committee here. He said Loucks would try to work out a closer relationship between Republicans in the legislature and the party's central com mittee -r , minutes, , that'' West Germany would be included in any Euro pean security system set up as a result of the "talks at the sum mit.". ' ; Two-Day Meeting Secretary of State John Fos ter. Dulles,. British Foreign Sec retary Harold MacMillan and French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay held three meetings in two days to plan the strategy they should follow in next week's San Francisco meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Vyache slav M. Molotov. ? . , But the most important devel opment of their two-day session was the disclosure to them by Adenauer of a set of terms for the trade and diplomatic talks with West Germany proposed by the Kremlin that his trip to Moscow may never be made. Two American GIs, Belgian Request To Be Sent to U.S. William Cowart Asks To, Go to Japan Tokyo (U.R) Three Ameri can and two Belgian Korean War prisoners who elected to stay with the Reds rather than be repatriated have changed their minds and will leave "econom ically backward" Red China, tha Communists announced Satur day. The men had trouble adjust ing themselves in China and "of their own free will" asked to leave the country, a Peiping radio broadcast announced. One of the Americans had a "mar riage problem" the broadcast in dicated. Two of the Americans and a Belgian asked to be sent back to the United States. The third American, William A. Cowart, asked to be sent to Japan while the second Belgian chose to go to Laos, the Communists said. The 17 other Americans, a Briton and a Belgian who chose to stay in Red China held a news conference to express their sor row that five of their group were leaving. "The 19 former U.N. soldiers who are staying in China said they felt sorry that the five men were leaving," Peiping . said. "They had ' been their . friends when they were in China and -they still consider them friends although they were leaving.". The broadcast also said that one of the 21 Americans who stayed behind had died and that another, Samuel D. Hawkins, of Oklahoma City, Okla., now a student at a Red university, would be married in a few months. ' ; . .". The statement by Vice-Secre tary of the Red Cross Society of China Lin Shin . Huiao gave no indication how or when the five former POWs would be repatriated. United Nations truce officials in Korea and American consular officials in Hong Kong had received no official word from thcCommunists. Panmunjom Possible Site However, observers in Tokyo said that the turncoats might be handed back by the Reds at Panmunjom, Korea, the scene of the big prisoner, exchange after the Korean War and the point at which the former United Nations soldiers refused repatria tion and chose Communism. Those now quitting the Com munists are: Lewis W. Grigg, 23, of Jack sonville, Tex., who was born in the , tiny farm community of Neches, 120 miles from Dallas. He enlisted in the Army when he was 17, leaving high school to do so. He was captured April 25, 1951, and the Army reported . that prisoners returning from Chinese prison camps said he tried to influence other POWs and preached Communism. He also wrote articles for Red pub- lications. ; ' Otho G. Bell, 24, of Olympia, Washington, s who - has a wife, Jewel, and a four-year-old daugh ter, Paula, he has never seen. Mrs. Bell wept Saturday when she heard her husband was to return home. It was believed to be her letters which persuaded Bell to leave the Communists. He has repeatedly written re cently that he wanted to come home even if he were hanged. Bell had heard that two other Americans who returned from Communism had been hanged, his wife said. But, he wrote: I'm not afraid to face the price for what I've done It would be better to be bung than to have to stay here." William A. cowart, 22, Mon- ticello, Ark., who was only 17 when he was captured July 12, 1950. A member of tne vs. 24th Army division Cowart was one of the first American soldiers in the front lines in Korea; He was one of the first Americana taken prisoner and had a long period of semi-starvation before rations were increased in the prisoner camps. But he was one of the first American "progres sives" in the Red camps and Army reported he volunteered to make propaganda recordings and to write for the Red publi cation "Toward Truth Peace."