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-
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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
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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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