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terieaws .Held Berlin (U.P.) German politi cal prisoners freed today by the Soviets said they had met six Americans in Communist slave labor camps in the Arctic. Five of the Americans were listed by name. The sixth was not identified, but the returnees aid he was 23 years old, short and slender, and was seen at the Soviet transit camp at Potma, near Moscow. - The five named were listed as George Green, Los Angeles; Vladimi Goltwruski, San Fran cisco; Pvt. Sydney Sparks, Ten nille, Ga., who fled to East Ber lin from Cn Army stockade in West Berlin in '1951; find Jack Gorolski and Bud Goldsman hometowns unreported. Sparks, reported held in the lave labor camp at Potma, a French Assembly Turns Attention To Algerian Job ., Paris U.R) The National As sembly turned today to Premier Edgar Faure's handling of the touchy Algerian problem the second front of a legislative bat tle to topple him and his North African policy. The assembly gave him a re prieve , this week end when it voted approval of his handling of Morocco. But it was clearly understood in the parliamentary corridors that, if he failed to complete his : reforms there in the next three days he was fin ished. The issues in Morocco and Al geria are much the same the Arab natives' demand for inde pendence. Morocco is a colony with the status of a protector ate. - Algeria, legally, is a part of metropolitan France but the cries for independence are just as loud there. raced With Two Plans , Faure was faced today whether to press forward with his plan -for complete' integration of Al geria inp France or to back up- and consider some other form such as a federal association, or a dominion status that would leave Algerians free to work out their own internal affairs. The assembly takes'uplormal debate of Algeria this afternoon in the first of six sessions that will end Thursday night. Deputies already were lining up party motions on Algeria and speakers included Communist Party Secretary Jacques Duclos and Socialist Edouard Depreux. ThrM-Man Council The key .to Faure's success in Morocco still appeared to be for mation of a three-man regency Copco Contract Discussed at KF e Klamath Falls (U.R) A decis ion as to whether objections to a proposed contract between California Oregon Power com pany and the Bureau of Recla mation will be dropped will be mad. at meetings here tomorrow and Thursday, Nelson Reed, chairman of the Oregon Klamath River Commission, said today. ' The Oregon and California commissions will meet here both . days. Also on the agenda are thealgae study of upper Klam atlrlake and the Klamath inter state compact, revised last month , , at Sacramento. In a letter from John Boyle, .' - vice-president and general man- ij ager of Copco at Medford, the power company offered to agree that no Klamath river water would be used by Copco when needed or required for domestic, municipal or irrigation purposes in the upper Klamath basin, pro vided objections to the contract were withdrawn. Sen. Vayne Morse Arrives in Medford Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) ar rived in Medford yesterday to begin a week-long series of pub lic appearances and talks in southern Oregon. He was the speaker this noon at the Medford Rotary club luncheon, and yesterday noon lunched with local Democratic leaders, later visiting the new E. H. Hedrick Junior High school. , Other appearances early in the week will be in Josephine, Coos, Curry and Douglas counties, but he will return here ? nday for a non-partisan talk before the Medford chapter of the United Nations association, and on Saturday he will address a Demo cratic dinner meeting after an afternoon meeting with soil con servationists of the area. Salem (U.R) Gov. Paul Pat terson bagged his buck, a four point, on . week-end hunting trip in the Ochoco forest. camp from which prisoners are usually taken before their re lease, escaped from the Berlin guard house Dec. 4, 1951, while awaiting trial on charges he at tacked and robbed, a German taxi driver. Since then the Army has ac cused him of being absent with out leave and breaking arrest. The East German Communists reported on Dec. 28, 1951, that Sparks had asked for political asylum in East Germany. A prisoner who talked with Sparks said the Georgia ssldier had received a 25-year sentence on espionage charges. Now, he said, Sparks told him: "I want to return to the United States, no matter what punishment I get." The German Red Cross said council to replace Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa The council would include a rep resentative of the nationalists who seek Moroccan independ ence. The fighting in Morocco con tinued, and more French troops poured into the protectorate to fight the "Little Riff war" on the Spanish Moroccan border. In France itself, a French gen eral and two colonels were sus pended as result of Friday's mu tiny of 600 reservists on their way to North Africa. The mutiny precipitated violent riots. The two officers were ousted on the grounds that they were partly to blame for the mutiny because they failed to explain to the re servists the urgency behind their call-up. . Pyfhians Elect New Officers as State Conclave Hears End Harry M. Wood. Cosmopolitan Lodge No. 1, Portland, was to be installed ' this afternoon" ""as grand chancellor of the Kniehts of Pythias Grand Lodge of Ore gon. Wood was elected yesterday to succeed J. Paul Mvers. . St. Helens, , who was named a trus tee. The conclave, the lodge's 71st annual state meetine. oDened Sunday and is to conclude today. More than 100 delegates are at tending. . Other officers chosen yester day were Earl F. Ward, Eugene, grand vice-chancellor; G. H. Welch, Grants Pass,, grand pre late: Walter G. Gleeson. Baker. grand secretary; Jack R. Demp- sey,. Cosmopolitan Lodge, Port land, grand treasurer; LeRoy Cline, Medford, grand master at arms; Clarence P. Roberts, Cor vallis, grand inner guard; Al Holton, Ivanhoe Lodge No. 1, Portland, and Robert A.' Ben nett, Calantha Lodge No. 21, Portland, representatives to the supreme lodge. Gleeson and Dempsey were re elected. During business sessions yes terday, Central Lodge, Salem, was announced as winner of the visitation contest for the year, having made a total of 26 visits to other lodges. Avon Lodge, Portland, and Talisman, Med ford, tied for second. Annual Banquet More than 225 Knights and Pythian Sisters attended thhe an nual banquet at the Ashland Elks lodge last night, at which Harry Bryant, Medford, was master of ceremonies. Retiring Grand Chancellor Myers made introductions for the Knights and Grand. Chief Willie Zacker for the sisterhood.' Entertain ment consisting of local talent groups was provided. Today's business sessions dealt largely with inter-lodge affairs, and was to culminate with in stallation of officers at 4 p.m., followed by final adjournment. Matthews Sentencing Scheduled for Friday Sentencing of Ralph Bernard Matthews, Evergreen Bus lines, on a charge of hiring an unlic ensed chauffeur, has been set for 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 14. Matthews was charged with hiring Elbert Ray Young, 512 Pennsylvania ave., driver of a bus involved in a Camp White accident Sept. 15 in which one person was killed and 16 in jured. Matthews' attorney moved twice to dismiss during the trial Sept 29, once at the con clusion of the State's case and again at the conclusion of the trial. Both motions were revers ed by District Judge Pro Tern, George W. Rohde. in Soviet the latest transport of prisoners totalled 527 persons, including 110 women and 11 children. Of these, 58 women, five children and 132 men were repatriated to West Germany, the remainder to East Germany. Most of the women were Red Cross workers, nurses or attach ed to women army auxiliaries. But a few, like Sonya Pristolik, Medfok United Ti Full Leased Wire 50th Year 24 Pages Diplomats Warn on Soviet Overtures To Arab States Major Offensive Against West Seen London (U.R) Western diplo mats warned today that Soviet overtures to the Arab states marked the start of a major dip lomatic offensive against the West just two weeks before start of the Big Four, foreign minis ters conference in Geneva. At the same time, Soviet prop aganda organs were spreading the theme that the Geneva "acid test" conferences may be a fail ure and that only the West would be to blame. The official Communist party organ Pravda accused the United States of try ing to "bury the spirit of Gen eva." The Kremlin diplomatic offensive-was tied to a 'sweeping offer of economic and technical aid to the Arab nations, a de termined bid to gain a foothold in the strategic area from which it has so far been excluded. Agents Also Promised The offer of economic and technical aid carried with it the promise to send in agents to see that the aid was carried out actual arms to Egypt and other properly., It followed offers of Arab states and sharp Moscow rejection of Anglo-American pro tests against beginning an arms race in the troubled area. American and Soviet diplo mats were giving the closest study to the economic and tech nical aid offer, made by Soviet Ambassador Daniel Solod in Cairo. They said a first appraisal showed it was a calculated So viet step toward penetration of the Middle East. The latest development coin cided with reports of a Syrian- Lebanese joint defense plan for an all-Arab pact. This could pro vide for an Arab military force armed from Communist sources. Specter of Rival Alliance Poised opposite this was the specter of a rival alliance of Arab nations within the four power defense pact linking Tur key, Iraq anJ Pakistan with Britain. Iran may also be added shortly as a fifth member. A defense pact between Tur key and Iraq has accused strong Egyptian opposition and has threatened to split the Arab world because of continued re sentment from Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria the targets of the new. Soviet offer. The West was believed con sidering possible counter-moves, but thus far there have been no concrete steps. Western policy was laid down as determination to avert a Middle East arms race. But, with Russian insistence on arming Egypt, a solution appear ed remote. Israel has warned that it will not sit by and watch the Arab nations arm. Weather FORECAST: Mostly cloudy with occasional light rain tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight .42, high Wednesday 60. - Temp. Highest yesterday 56 Lowest this morning 34 Prec. To 4 JO a.m. today 1 02 Government Delays Settlement Payment on.Dixon-Yates Contract Washington (U.R) The gov ernment will delay paying set tlement costs on. the cancelled Dixon-Yates power contract until it decides whether the contract was legally valid. unairman J-ewis l. Strauss. of the Atomic Energy Commission said Monday "there may be. a question" as to the contract's va lidity stemming from the "con flict of interests" issue raised by a Senate investigating commit tee. He said the government is studying the matter. His disclosure was contained in a letter to Chairman Clinton P. Anderson (D-NJM.) of the Joint Congressional Atomic En- Labor were arrested in East Germany years after the war ended, on espionage charges. The women were dressed in rags and tatters but had made a pathetic effort to improve their appearances with lipstick and cosmetics sent them in gift pack ages. Thr- --- - Hnrn in slave cam were brou pj c C " C3 O PJ ! P3 O - tr S 03 o 3 5 ! MEDFC Investigators Call Interior Officials; On Power Policies Witnesses Scheduled By House Committee Washington- U.R) House in vestigators called Interior de partment officials today for what is expected to be a rough and tumble hearing on the ad ministration's power policies.' . Assistant Interior Secretary Fred G. Aandahl, Bonneville Power Administrator ,s William A. Pearl, Southeastern Power Administrator Charles W. Lea- vy, Southwestern Power Admin istrator Douglas G. Wright and H. T. Nelson, reclamation bureau regional director for Idaho were scheduled as witnesses. Chairman Earl Chudoff (D.- Pa.) has charged that the admin istration," in the sale of federal 'poweris favoring -private utili ties at the expense of coopera tives, municipalities and other customers which by law are supposed to have preference. The Democratic controlled subcommittee, in hearings across the country, has been gathering ammunition 'for attacking the administration on its power poli cies in the coming election year. Department' officials were called today to answer com plaints from cooperatives and other preference customers who told the subcommittee of their troubles at hearings in Spring field, Mo., Atlanta, , Denver, Idaho Falls, Ida., and San Fran cisco. t "The poor people i are being deprived of electric t power by the shenanigans of 'the Eisen hower administration" Chudoff said at a San Francisco hearing. Rep.v Clare E. Hoffman (R. Mich.) countered with the charge that Chudoff "has been giving us this left-wing propa ganda all across the country.": Chudoff and Hoffman clashed bitterly at the cross-country hearings. Murder Victim May Be Oregon Woman Riverside, Calif. -4U.R) Sher iff's officers said today they were investigating the possibility that a woman found murdered near here Sept. 18 might be a missing Oregon woman. ' Officers said they received in forma'tion from Portland and Milwaukie, Ore., police that a Mrs. Cecil Mae Gormely, also known as Mrs. Henry J. Seymour and Mrs. Cecil Mae Alford, had been missing from her home , in Eugene since Sept. 3. Officers here said relatives of the woman apparently believed dentures of the unidentified vic tim ' resemble those of Mrs. Gormely. ' ergy' Committee. . The "conflict of interest" is sue concerned the role played by New York investment banker Adolphe H. Wenzell in the con tract negotiations. The Senate committee. had charged Wenzell acted as both consultant to the government and as an executive of the firm which handled the Dixon-Yates financing arrange ments. , Strauss said the AEC has been talking with Dixon-Yates, offic ials about terminating the con tract. Experts have estimated that the money the AEC would have to pay to. Dixon-Yates as cancel Samps, and spoke only that language. The children were returned to their mothers when the women were firmed. ' - ' The Berlin prisoners said George Green's father was Leon Green of Los Angeles. They said Green told them ' he went to Moscow in 1948 as a newspaper man accompanied by his sister. Green said 'both brother and DAY, . OCTOBER 11; 1955 dilles Minimis m . - - ' ADOPTING A WHOLE family of Korean otr phans eight of them Oregon farmer Harry . S. Holt of Cresswell, make a "dry run" of departure at Seoul airport.-Miss. Katherine UMC Drive Reaches 39 Per Cent Mark; $42,387 Collected The United Medford Crusade fund drive hit 39 per "cent of its $109,000 goal at Monday's report luncheon. The total so far is $42, 387, or 513,943 more than last week. The weekly total is $2,500 more than at the same time last year, volunteer Crusade workers were told. - The Lion Hearted division of the drive, with Elliott Becken as chairman, was the body at the luncheon, with 73 per cent'of its goal achieved. The Valiant di vision, with Ray Johnson as chairman, was low with 25 per cent. Lions Sponsor Luncheon The luncheon, at the Medford YMCA, was sponsored by the Medford Lions club, and served by Lady Lions with Mrs. Alan Jewett as chairman. Cliff Hanson, Boy Scout exec utive, provided the stunt of the day by passing out balloons for those attending to blow up. The first one to break a balloon, and thus qualify as the one with the most hot air, was Lou Cranston, newspaper publicity chairman. Others who found slips with "UMC" written on them inside the balloons also received cigars. : Next week's luncheon wil mark the half-way point in the month-long drive, and Drive Chairman M. M. Huggins is hop ing for a 55 per cent report. - U.S. Said Still Ahead In Air-Atomic Power New York (U.R) Gen. Na than F. Twining- said today the United States is "still ahead" of Russia in the kind of long range air-atomic power which the So viets respect: . -1 lation damages would run into the millions of dollars.-, - The contract provided that Dixon-Yates, . a private utility group, build a steam generating plant at West Memphis, Ark., which would feed power into the Tennessee Valley Authority sys tem to replace power furnished by TVA to AEC installations. President Eisenhower ordered the contract cancelled last July after the city of Memphis, Tenn decided to build a municipal power plant to meet the area's needs. The contract provided that Dixon-Yates receive settle ment payments if the contract were. cancelled. -. . . . . . . Kelisas sister were arrested in 1948 and sentenced to 25 years imprison ment for espionage, the prisoners reported. The Germans said the sister had been released and they did not know her whereabouts. They reported Green at pit No. 8 at Vorkuta, the Soviet slave labor complex in Siberia. The Germans said Green told Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 172. S I i g ht Rise 1 Fq r ecast For Willamette; New Storm Said Coming By UNITED PRESS "'The weather bureau forecast further slight rises in the lower Willamette river but the Sanliam river at Jefferson was back be low flood stage today. . ' 1 The Santiam went over a foot above the 13-foot flood level yesterday,' flooding some low-lying pasture land, but had dropped to 11.3 feet today. . . - -'. : : -Warnings of another ' intense Tree Tax Hearings To End Saturday Hearings on the taxable valu ation of orchard trees in Jack son county probably will be com pleted by late Saturday, it was reported today. The hearings are being conducted in three shifts, and one night session may be held this week. . In Salem, State Tax Commis sioner Sam Stewart said the commission will start consider ing transcripts of the hearings as soon - as ' possible, and hopes to start making decisions on in dividual cases early next week. Tax commission hearing offic ers are conducting the sessions in the place of the county board of equalization which was super seded by the commission -when it found revaluations had been made without opportunity for hearings on the part of orchard ists. Some 225 complaints are be ing heard. ' ' The commission s order this spring, which neid tnat orcnara trees, never before taxed in' Jack son county, should be placed on the tax roll, resulted in a series of actions which concluded in the present - hearings. The tax commission has" indi cated it hopes to have the -situa tion cleared up in time to get the orchard ' trees' on the rolls before bills are sent ta out November. Salem Deer Hunters . Reported Missing Salem-i-(U.R)--Two Salem deer hunters were reported missing today west of Falls City Ore., and bloodhounds joined the search for them. The missing men were identi fied as Bill Zunck and Fred"Gap hardt, who went hunting yester day and failed to return to their car at nightfall. ' - - i Silver Lake, Ore. (U.R) Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) will speak here Oct. 28 at an observance marking completion of electric power lines into north Lake county from the Midstate Elec tric Cooperative of La Pine. them the Soviets refused to rec; cgnize his American citizenship and ruled he was stateless. ' Sparks has been reported in Soviet hands by other prisoners returning from Russia in the past. The Army announced in Berlin this year that Sparks es caped from the Berlin guard house Dec. 4, 1951, while await ing trial on charges he attacked and robbed a German taxi driver. The East German Communist press reported on Dec. 28, 1951, that Sparks had asked for po litical asylum in East Germany. The Germans said Sparks told them the ' Soviets held him at Bautzen in the East zone until 1952 and that he secretly return ed to West Berlin then for a two week visit with his girl friend. Cowan, a purse, will help tend the kids on the way home.. Typhoon Nora has delayed their actual departure. - -' ' ' . (International Soundphoto) storm came from forecasters and storm warnings were flying off the coast for southerly winds up to 50 miles an hour tonight. Mountain areas above 4000 feet probably will get 'snow. Portland had rain all day yes terday and a heavy hailstorm, accompanied by thunder and lightning, yesterday afternoon. Eastern Oregon got freezing temperatures early today with the mercury dropping to 22 de grees at Burns, 26 at Baker and Klamath Falls and 27 at Lake view. ' The . five-day outlook called for recurring rain throughout the Northwest. ' Ellsworth Slates Visit to County Congressman Harris Ellsworth (R-Ore.) will be in Jackson and Josephine - counties Oct. 24 through 29, he announced this week. No definite plans for speaking engagements have been set up, Ellsworth said. - ' - The congressman's visit to the two - southern Oregon counties will be part of a trip through the seven counties which make up his-district. ' The trip is not in the nature of a speaking tour, he declared. ' ' - . . - While in Jackson county, Ells worth plans' to inspect govern ment projects and contact local offices of government agencies. The congressman and Mrs. Ells worth plan to leave for Wash ington, D.C., early in December. Two Inches of Snow ' Falls at Crater Lake Two inches of new show fell at Crater Lake National park in the 24-hour period ended at 8 ajn. today. Rangers said . low temperature at the park early .today was 26 degrees and High way 62 through the park was icy and motorists were caution ed to drive with care. . Portland (U.R) Restrictions on use of Salk polio vaccine have been eased in Oregon to permit inoculation of children up to the age of 15 and expect ant mothers, the State Board of Health said. v. .- . Say oneirs He returned to Bautzen, he said, and the Soviets sentenced him to IS year-for espionage and shipped him to the slave labor camffc""-". ' v The prisoners had few details of Groloski except that he is an American in Pit No. 40 at Vor kuta. They said he told them he was born in Russia but left with his father who lives in San Fran cisco and is a colonel in the U.S. Army. They said Goldsman told them he was an American with ' an American mother and Estonian father. They said Goldsman told them he had been arrested in Estonia in 1946 when he "drop ped in by parachute." The re turnees could not explain the statement. 25-Minute Meeting Drafts Letter on Disarmament Plan Doctors Approve Extended Visit Denver (U.R) President Eisenhower in the longest busr iness session since he suffered a heart attack today collaborat ed with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in drafting an in terim reply to the disarmament proposals of Soviet Prime Min ister Nikolai Bulgamn. The letter, drafted in a 25- minute conference in Mr. Eis enhower's hospital suite, will be sent to Bulganin tomorrow or Thursday and released for pub-, lication once the American gov ernment knows the Soviet lead er has received it. . : ' Dulles originally was sched uled to spend only 15. minutes with the .-Pre4denttbut..wite..the approval of the doctors, he i mained in Mr. Eisenhower's room for 25 minutes. After the meeting, doctors checked the President's pulse and blood pres sure and found that the extend ed conference had produced no change in Mr: Eisenhower's con dition. . Discuss Eight Subjects , Dulles, who is returning to Washington by air this after noon, took up ah eight-point ag enda with the chief executive. Because of the security nature of some of the points, the entire agenda was not released. But Dulles said the topics he cover ed with the President included the reply to Bulganin, prepara tions for the Oct. 27 meeting of the Big Four foreign ministers in Geneva, and recent Russian activities in the Middle East, in volving Czechoslovakian supply of arms to Egypt. . According to Dulles, this was the first time since his illness that Mr. Eisenhower has dealt with substantive matters, al though he has handled a light volume of routine work. Lauds Miami Speech - , Dulles reported the President in tneir bedside conference ex pressed satisfaction and approv al of the secretary's speech to , the American Legion in Miami yesterday in- which Dulles said the United States would not re duce its armed forces until it could be sure that other nations were doing the same. '-. ' The mid-day bulletin on the President's condition continued to be optimistic. ) Mr. Eisenhower awoke after eight hours 6f sleep "refreshed and in a cheerful mood" and he told his doctors he was looking forward to his- meeting with Dulles. ' ' 'f City Planners Study ; ; Proposed Annexation The Medford planning com mission will consider annexa tion of several hundred acres of land southeast of Medford at a special meeting at p p.m. today. ' City Manager Robert Duff said five petitions requesting annex ation of the area have been sub mitted, and that several more are expected to be presented at this afternoon's meeting. The area requesting annexa tion includes the Rogue Valley Memorial hospital site and an area along Barnett rd. An election in the area will be held if the planning commission and city council approve the re quest. . J ' - V I The land being proposed for annexation to the city is in cluded in an area brought up for annexation earlier this year and turned down by the voters at that time. - . , i
