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EIGHT MEDFORD (CREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, November 1, 1955 UniversaS Dlsarmamen Way To There is only one real issue in the world today that of war and peace, and only one sute way to avoid another war universal disarmament. This was the theme of the talk which Norman Thomas, noted political leader and long-time head of the Socialist party, gave for Rogue Valley Knife and Fork club last night. Fear of the awful results of another world-wide war will not necessarily keep us from ethat war, cThomas stressed. He said fear alone had never stopped wars in the past, Shd added that either nations are led into war by "mad men" or "stumble and bumble" into wars which spread to the rest of the world. "Our only hope is disarma ment," he fsaid emphatically. We must bring out in public the necessity of disarmament, discuss disarmament from all sides, discuss the role of the United Nations that ufiperfect but necessary instrument work ing for peace we must take every step now to eliminate the possibility of another war." World Leadership The speaker said that Presi dent Eisenhower's atoms for peace plans, his appointment of Harold Stassen to take charge of disarmament planning and his arms inspection plan had put this nation once more in the position of world leadership for peace and heightened our prestige abroad. Thomas added that Stalin succeeded very well iik, making many believe that this country was war-mongering and declared "if we should ap pear to be against the liquida tion of weapons, there would be a great revulsion of feeling against U6; we must make it ' plain to even the most illiterate that if peace plans fail, it is be cause other countries cannot agree on controls." Thomas said that "we are the only nation which seems to be helped by war" and stress ed that in the eyes of the rest of the world, we emerged strong and rich from World War II. He declared that to a great extent, our present prosperity is due So spending for past wars and for arms thought necessary because" of the cold war and added "it is a mad world when it takes a war to end, temporarily at least, a nation's unemployment." Thomas discussed the coming presidential campaign and. de- 1 3 A 1 t J j; twieu ujai niajur uisuussion dur ing that campaign should be on how to end the cold war and not on domestic issues. He discussed various proposals for disarmament, saying most plans call for disarmament on the level of conventional weap ons first, with action on atomic weapons to follow later. This is a reversal of the first proposals which followed World War II, he noted. Thomas opened his talk by saying that at the turn of the century people of this nation believed "life was just a ramp on which we just moved up ward," that man was motivated solely by economic motive! and that we would keep out of war War.Th t Only because "wars don't pay." It was soon learned that certain con flicts raised passions which transcend economy, he pointed out, and this nation, after two worldwide wars and the cold war, now views democracy in a negative light. The speaker traced events of the .past 40 years, pointing out how incredible they are in many respects, and said he did not feel they necessarily polntedto "in evitable doom." "Man is both noble and ignoble," the speaker declared and added that man has made "incredible progress in solving the deepest secrets of nature, and has proved that life need not be all war, hate and destruction." Thomas pointed to man's-progress in the field of civil liberties, noting however that civil liber ties always suffer severely -in this nation during wars, prog ress in the field of suffrage, Jn education and in race relation ships, where he added that progress was slower than it should be. Amplifying his ideas on civil liberties, Thomas said too many are stampeded into giving up their civil liberties in the belief that this is necessary in order to preserve national security and added "the gap between civil liberties and national se curity is not so wide that we cannot serve both." It was here that he referred to McCarthy, Cohn and Schine, and said there was a "marked deterioration" of United States prestige abroad at that time and that "this materially weakened our nation al security." Thomas stressed that man should turn his entire attention to "a transfer of conflict out omas says of war and to a mechanism for settling conflicts other than by war." He said conflict in itself would not endconflicts such as that between justice and in justice, democracy andtotali tarianism, but that war" must not be the result of these con flicts. He ended his talk by declar ing that man should turn his in genuity and power to such mat ters as controlling poverty and disease and said "can not man meet this new challenge and find ways of dealing with con flicts on some other terms than war, which can serve only as a minister of death?" During the question,.period Thomas said it is "not out of the realm of possibility that Rus will accept Eisenhower's peace plans" and earlier had said there were signs of changes in Russia and that leaders were apparent ly trying to conciliate the peo ple of that nation. He said the Middle East "is the most anxious spot in the world" because of the need to resettle some 800,000 Arabs and to end boundary dis putes in that part of the globe. Asked if he thought China would restrain Russia, he said "it is wrong" to assume that China is a mere satellite of Rus sia" and added that while he deplored the triumph of Com munism in China, he believed theUnited Stales should work toward settling problems which would lead eventually to entry of China into the United Na tions. "It is the existing govern ment in China" he said and "it is easier to deal with China in the UN than out of it." Thomas was introduced by Eric Allen Jr., president of the club. Slain Millionaire's Wife Telle Questioned ri Private 'Eyes' To Check Mate's Love Life itors for her husband's affections DeteetSVes continued to ques-only a few hours before the trag- RV Retirement Home Organization. Picks Executive Director New York (U.R) Investi gators were expected today to question Mrs. William Wood ward Jr. about private detectives she hired to learn about the love life of her slain sportsman hus band. Mrs. Ann Crowell Woodward. 32, killed her turfman husband with a close range blast from a shotgun early Sunday morning at their Oyster Bay, Long Island, estate following a party for the Duchess of Windsor;. She told Nassau County Dis trict Attorney Frank Gulotta that a "reflex action" set off by" fear of burglars caused her to fire into a darkened hallway where Woodward, 35-year-old heir to a $20,000,000 banking fortune and owner of the famed racehorse Nashua, was standing. Treated for HysiMria Gulotta said he probably would question Mrs. Woodward, the blonde "Cinderalla" daugh ter of a Midwestern street car conductor, again today in Doc tors hospital where she is being treated for intermittent hyster ia. Gulotta said he is of the op inion that the slaying was "ac cidental" although subsequent developments might change Lis mind. He has announced that he will submit the case to a grand jury because "the citizens of this community should pass on all the facts rather than I as an individual." The district attorney and the Nassau chief of detective, Stuy vesant Pinnell, have been in formed that Mrs. Woodward hir ed private detectives to get in formation on her husband's "love life" for a period of months every year since 1948. One of the operatives said the society beauty gave the detec tive-agency a list of women Tuesday of each month at Jef- whom she suspected as compet- ferson school. but no evidence of dalliance on his part was ever turned up. Paid ia Cash Last June Mrs. Woodward, who met the detectives on street corners and paid them in cash, was quoted as telling a detective: "Recently my husband has be come very independent with me. He doesn't tell me anything any more, where he goes or when tie s coming home. The shooting apparently took place under certain circumstanc es," Pinnell said. "Unless we find out that something happened to directly create the urge to kill, we must go along with the story as we have it now." Mrs. Ingeborg Sorensen, who was employed as cookby the Woodwards until three ' weeks ago, told Pinnell the couple slept behind locked bedroom doors all summer although other doors in the house remained unlocked. She said Mrs. Woodward "would sometimes get up in the middle of the night and pound on his door, screaming for him to open up." 'Vry Suspicious Woman' "She was a very suspicious woman," Mrs. Sorensen said. j Friends of the Woodwards in ; the "Duchess of Windsor" set said the couple had separated temporarily on several occasions. tion the 58 "blue book" guests who attended the party given by Mrs. George F. Baker, one of America's wealthiest women, for the duchess at Locust Valley, Long Island, Saturday night. The guests and Mrs. Baker's servants have concurred in describing the Woodwards as "lovey-dovey" edy occurred. Mrs. Woodward's physician, Dr. John M. Prutting, said his patient probably would remain in the hospital for several days. This would mean she will not attend her husband's funeral Wednesday morning at St. James Protestant Episcopal church. Nationalist Chinese Economic Chief Resigns Taipeh, Formosa (U.R) Premier O. K. Yui today accept ed the resignation of Economic Minister K. Y. Yin after a court acquitted the financial expert of scandal charges. A Taipeh court yesterday ab solved Yin and industrialist M. P. Hu of charges that they were involved in the embezzlement of government funds in a ship building scandal. Boy Scouts Cub Pack-5 The first meeting of Pack 5 was held Thursday, Oct. 27, in the Jefferson school auditorium The meeting was attended by about 120 Cubs, parents and friends. A, moving picture on Cubbing was shown, and plans were made for future Cub acti vities and meetings. All future pack meetings for Pack 5 will be held on the third Walter M. Higgins, formerly associate administrator of Will amette View Manor in Milwau kie, Ore., yesterday was retain ed as executive director of the newly-formed Rogue Valley Re tirement Home, Inc., which is making plafls for the establish ment of Rogue Valley Manor. Higgins met yesterday noon with the board of trustees of the organization, and will be in charge of plans for the retire ment manor organization. He plans to open an office soon at the First Methodist church here, and will work full time on pro motion and (development. The Rogue Valley Manor will be organized along- lines similar to those employed at Willamette View Manor, which is a cooper ative living organization for re tired afid semi-retired individ uals who have purchased apart ments. It will be build in the Medford or Ashland area, ac cording to present plans. Member of the executive board include M. N. Hogan, chairman; the Rev. Meredith Groves, Eugene, district Metho dist superintendent, vice-chairman; Dr. Raymond Balcomb, minister of the Medford First Methodist church, secretary; George Flanagan, treasurer; Dr. D. K. West, minister of the First Presbyterian church; the Rev. George R. V. Bolster, rector of St. Mark's Episcopal church, and the Rev. Ross Knotts, minister of the Ashland Methodist church, clergy members, and Herb Sam pert and Walter Garner, both Medford, lay members. New members of the larger board of trustees were elected at yesterday's meeting, and will be announced when all have been notified of their election. A meeting of the full board of trustees is scheduled for next Monday. Higgins will make his home here, and will be joined soon by Mrs. Higgins and their three children. 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