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a o Dr. John Aware o Afrest, Bonn, Germany (U.R) Former West German Security Chief DjfTjOtto John who return ed to the West after 17 months in Communist Germany, fled from the Reds knowirjj that pos sible arrest on a treason charge awaited him in the West, a Bonn government spokesman said to day. The spokesman refused to say how the master spy was aware of we fact. But his statement tended . to confirm earlier re ports that John made contact with WesPGerman government security agents before he evad ed Communist Secret Police and slipped back . across the border to the West, p QMinister of Interior Gerhard Schroeder made a lengthy sec ret report on the case to the Cabinet iis morning. The gov ernment spokesman refused to reveaOwhat Schroeder said. Questions Unanswered "The government can make no further statement in the John affair as long as it is in the hands of the federal Supreme Court," the spokesman said. Every question pertaining to the cloak and. dagger case was turned aside by government of ficials on grounds that the court inquiry into John's defec tion and return still is proceed ing. q However, Federal Press Chief Edward Forschbach confirmed that an arrest warrant for John exited at the time he crossed the West Germany border Mon day night. He said John was aware of this. Forcbach refused to say whethmj a charge has been made or whether the onetime West Grmab equivalent of the FBI's QT. Edgar Hoover actually is Ounder arrest. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's West German government had anticipated his double defection for weeks, but he was under 24- : . . Medford Man Fined For Cuflinq Trees Paul 'LeClair,35, &4 West Jackson st., was fined $55 in dis trict court Tuesday on a charge of harvesting timber without a permit. He also received a 30-1 Qlay jail sentence which was sus pended on condition that he pay the fine and make restitution. . LeClair was arrested Sunday by the state forestry department and was charged with cutting 200 Christmas trees on Medford corporation property. He paid the company $128 damage!, according to the court. Forest Patrol Warden Ted Maul pointed out that those cut ting Christmas trees commer- ciallymij have (1) permission of landowner, preferably m Q writing, and (2) a state cutting permit, available from patrol office on (Table Rock rd. Maul said indiscriminate cut ting is damaging to planned re forestation and while companies "often desire to have small trees thinned, they must be consulted to plan for good forest manage ment practices. A state permit is not needed family cutting of .individual trees, but landowners' permis sion is needed in all cases, Maul said. DOW-JONES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 480.84 off 3.43; 20 rail roads 161.42 off 1.36; 15 utili ties 65.04 off 0.31, and 65 stocks 171.08 off 1.22. Sales today were about 2,670,000 shares compared with 2,430,000 yesterday. Salem (U.R) Chief Justice Harold J. Warner of the Oregon Supreme Court has assigned Cir cuit Judge David R. Vand en berg of Klamath Falls to De schutes county to hear the case of Rollins vs. Rollins. Dulles in Paris To Join in Sweeping Review of Western Defense Policies Paris (U.R) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles arriv ed here today to join in a sweeping review of Western de fense policy to meet the Soviet revival of thecold war. Critical Session . Dulles was ,-pne of the first leaders of NATO's top-level min isterial council to arrive for the meeting to study the suddenly revived cold war. All 14 foreign ministers will have with them their defense and finance ministers or depu ties for the critical session that opens tomorrow. The meeting is the first by the Atlantic alliance nations since Soviet Foreign Minister Returned f Possible Is Claim hour surveillance by Soviet Se cret Police and had to wait for one of the rare moments when he was not being shadowed. Drugged and Kidnaped While Schroeder gave a top secret briefing to the Adenauer Cabinet on the how and why of John's dramatic return, reports circulated in Bonn he had been drugged and kidnaped when he first went to East Berlin. John was reported to have told his questioners that a phy sician friend, Dr. Wolfgang Wohlgemuth, must have slipped a drug into his coffee or cognac before the doctor drove him into the Russian sector on the night of July 20, 1954. John was reported to have claimed he was half -conscious for the next two days and that he recovered his senses in an East Berlin hospital with armed Russian soldiers standing outside his door. The report was not officially confirmed. VICTOR WOLF 7-Year Parole Possible Wolf Receives Life Sentence Portland (U.R) Victor Laur- ence Wolf today faced a life im prisonment sentence with a pos sibility of parole after seven years for the dynamite-slaying of Portland attorney Kermit Smith last April 21. A jury of five men and seven women yesterday saved Wolf from the gas chamber by return ing a verdict of second degree murder. Wolf smiled and talked quietly with his attorneys after the verdict was read at his un usual murder hearing. The jury had the case about iVz hours and deliberated about 2Vz hours. Wolf confessed the dynamite murder April 22, the day after it happened. He implicated Smith's widow, Marjorie, but she was exonerated by a jury in McMinnville. Wolf's hearing was held under an obscure Oregon law of 1865 which permits a guilty plea to murder. The law requires that the court hear evidence to de cide degree of guilt and punish ment. . New York (U.R) Handy and Harman, bullion dealers, have raised the price of silver 0.59 cent to 90 cents a fine ounce. Weather FORECAST: Increasing high cloudiness tonight. Chance of a few light showers Thurs day. Low tonight 38. High Friday 52-55. , Temp. Highest Yesterday 51 Lowest this Morning 36 Vyacheslav M. Molotov blew away the "Geneva Spirit" with a refusal to consider Western proposals for the reunification of Germany through free elec tions. It also marks the first time that West Germany took her full part in the defense planning of the West. To Discuss Middle East Outside of the conference hall, Dulles plans to meet with Brit ish Foreign Secretary Harold MacMillan and French -Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay to dis cuss matters of mutual concern, including the explosive situation in the Middle East. The Atlantic council meeting climaxed a week-long series of WmHKgmm MEDFORD United Press Full Leased 50th Year Benson Will Ask Congress To Back Soil Bank Program May Include Plan To Limit Size Washington (U,R) Secre tary of Agriculture Ezra T. Ben son will ask Congress to approve a multi-million dollar "soil bank" as part of a 1956 pro gram to give farmers a bigger share of the nation's prosperity. The farm program also may include a plan limiting the size of federal price support pay ments to individual farmers. Benson announced the pro gram yesterday after it was ap proved by his special Farm Ad visory Commission. He said GOP congressional leaders with whom he has discussed the pro gram received it very favorably, Five Basic Proposals He said the commission which advises the administration on farm policy, approved five "bas ic proposals." It also favored the limiting of price support payments to individual farmers, but Benson said he will make a "further study" of the proposal before including it in his 1956 program. High administration officials are said to favor some cut-off which would prevent the big farm operators from collecting $100,000 a year or more from the Treasury in price support payments. The five proposals which Ben son said will be submitted at the next session of Congress are: 1. The "soil bank" plan under which farmers would be paid for diverting land planted in sur plus crops to grass and trees. Benson said the program which would cost an estimated $400 000,000 the first year, would combine "immediate aid for farmers with a long range con servation goal to benefit all citi zens. .Participation would be voluntary. Reduction of Surplus 2. Liberalized farm credit. 3. New ways of disposing of surplus crops including more donations of surplus foods to low income groups at home and abroad. This plan also provides for expanded foreign marketing and barter programs, heavier spending for surplus perishable products, and stepped up use of surpluses in school luncheons and the armed forces. 4. New commodity programs. This would include relaxing controls on corn and wheat which is fed on the farm where it is grown. It envisions reduc ing cotton surpluses by raising the grade on which price sup ports are based. 5. Increased spending for re search aimed at developing new; markets, new crops, and new uses for old crops. A. E. Orr Named To National Commission A. Eugene Orr, Medford busi nessman and prominent Ameri can Legionnaire, has been ap pointed to the executive section of the Legion's national rehabil itation commission to serve through 1958, it was reported today. Orr is a past commander of Medford Post 15 of the Legion, is now commander of District 13, including southern Oregon, and has served in Legion re habilitation work on both the state and national levels. . The appointment was made by J. Addington Wagner, na tional commander of the Legion. conferences among the Western nations, including a meeting of the Council of Europe and a ses sion of the Western European Union. Thursday the foreign, defense and finance ministers of the 15 member nations of NATO will begin their annual review meet ing to set the defense goals for the coming year. Report To Warn Ministers Informed sources said a re port of the military experts will warn the NATO ministers that Russia is stronger than ever and that the West should push ahead quickly with the atomic stream lining of their defense forces approved last year. Wire 24 Pages Two Sentenced In Circuit Court; 19 Make Appearances Six Others Enter Pleas of Guilty Two men were sentenced to terms in the Oregon state peni tentiary today bv Circuit Judee H. K. Hanna. Six other persons pleaded guilty, five pleaded in nocent and trials of six were continued. Allen James Brydon, who pleaded guilty Dec .5 to charges of grand larceny involving auto theft and to uttering and pub lishing a false check, was sen tenced to the penitentiary. He was given an indeterminate term not to exceed four years for grand larceny, and a term not to exceed three years on the check charge. Terms will run concurrently. Johnny Andrew Hood, 24, of 217 South Riverside ave., was sentenced to an indeterminate period not to exceed 18 months in the penitentiary. He pre viously pleaded guilty to bur glary charges. Innocent Plea Jerry Yates Sparling, 26, of 724 Oak st, and John Butler Childress, 25, of 430 DeBarr ave, pleaded innocent to a charge of entering a motor vehicle with intent to steal. Trial date will be set Monday by Circuit Court Judge Pro tem Barnett H. Gold stein. Kenneth A. Sheldon, Central Point,- 'pleaded innocent to a . charge of rape and sodomy, in volving a minor. Paul L. Jacks, 20, Gold Hill, pleaded innocent to a charge of rape. Earl R. Schneider, 56, and Roy L. Thurman, 58, of 1728 North Riverside ave., pleaded guilty to charges of burglary not in a dwelling, bentencing was continued pending receipt of federal bureau of investiga tion reports. Pleads Guilty Florence Emaline Doney, 46, pleaded guilty of concealing stolen property. Sentencing was continued pending FBI records. Clifford Ray Lowry, 35, of route 3, box 53V4, pleaded guilty to a charge of forgery involving a check. Ralph A. Fennemore, 59, a transient, pleaded guilty to a charge of larceny from an office. Ralph A. Pearson, 31, 30 South Central ave., who previously entered a plea of innocent to a charge of grand larceny, ap peared with his attorney, Robert Boyer, to change the plea to guilty. A co-defendant, Roy B. Armstrong, 21, Medford, who previously pleaded guilty, was arraigned Dec. 12. Both cases were referred to the court pro bation officer. Case Referred Also referred to the proba tion officer was K. R. Murphey, Spokane, who entered a plea of guilty to a charge of forgery. Jerry Leander Stewart, 18, of 716 Pine st., entered a plea of innocent- to concealing stolen property. The case of Denzil Louis Dye, 46, of 116 Lincoln st., asked the court for leniency. He had prev iously pleaded guilty to a charge of contributing to the delin quency of a minor. The case of Frank P. Lee, who pleaded guilty to a charge of obtaining money under false pre tenses, was continued for an FBI report. Livestock Case The case of Hubert and Mae Bruton, Brawley, Calif., who appeared for sentencing was con tinued. They previously pleaded guilty to a charge of larceny of livestock. The case was con tinued pending extradition from West Virginia of James Hahn, who also is charged with the crime. Richard D. Akins, Canyon ville, who was arraigned Dec. 12, entered a plea of guilty to a charge of grand larceny involv ing the theft of well drilling testta of in teirshi- : 1 : " equipment. I Vktoho vat Q V, .' MEDFORD, OREGON, Wim0 JiiM lllilllllllllll BLAZE SWEEPS TENEMENTS Firemen battle five-alarm fire which swept two tene ment houses in South Boston, Mass. At least 24 families were rescued Ijv ladder in frigid temperatures and a dozen persons, including a family of six, were overcome by smoke. Origin of the blaze has not been determined. Lauscheof Ohio Demo Nomination Columbus, O. (U.R) Gov. Frank J. Lausche today an nounced he would be a candi date for the Democratic presi dential nomination next year I he rive-term governor an nounced he would seek Ohio's 56 delegates to next year's Demo cratic National Convention. He would not say if he would per mit his name to be entered in contests for delegates in other states. Admiration for Ike Lausche, who often has ex pressed publicly his admiration for President Eisenhower, thus became the second person to an nounce for the country's highest office. Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic standard bearer in 1952, has announced he will seek the nomination again. Lausche, 60, a Catholic, had been expected to announce he would be Ohio's "favorite son" candidate. His announcement came the day before Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) was expect ed to announce he would be a candidate and seek delegates from Ohio. Lausche, who has constantly ignored the Democratic organiz ation, has been a consistent win ner in a state which elects Re publican senators, state officials, and a GOP controlled Legisla ture. Communists Outlawed By British on Cyprus Nicosia, Cyprus (U.R) Brit ain today outlawed the Commu nist Party on this strategic is land in the Mediterranean and arrested 130 of its members, including the Red mayors of two major cities. Also seized was the Commu nist "strongman," Party Secre tary Ezekias Papaioannu. It was the first time the Brit ish indicated openly that the Communists were fomenting un rest on Cyprus, scene of in creased disorders by pro-Greek islanders. Cyprus is headquart ers for Britain's Middle East Command and a vital link in the NATO defenses. Gov. Field Marshal Sir John Harding sent British troops and security police in a series of sud den and unexpected raids on Communist and leftwing head quarters across the island throughout the night. (See story on Page 1, Sec. 2) Salem (U.R) Hugh L. Taylor, assistant plant chief -for the State Department of Agricul ture, has been named regional representative for the National Seed Control Officials Association. -CEMBER 14, 1955 " ; IIIMWIBIJii.lli.!jllWMMMIMIWiWIlIJiiyi HI I n II I . HL 1 I'M uest Zone Study i nnexation A The Medford planning com mission last night requested the city engineering department to prepare a land use map.. of the proposed annexation area south east of the present city limits for use in zoning the area if resi dents vote for annexation Jan. 16. The commission also . author ized City Manager Robert Duff to negotiate with Howard Bu ford, director of the Lane Coun ty Planning commission, to make a study and recommenda tions for zoning within the area, which comprises some 1,190 acres. ' Survey Requested Earlier this month, the city council requested the commis sion to survey the area for pos sible zones and to make recom mendations.' The area, if an nexed, will come into the city as single family residential zone. The annexation election will be held in two areas. One is about three and a half blocks in Siskiyou Heights extension just north of Verde Hills, and the other is the larger area south east of the city. limits. . Duff pointed out that there are several residences, three stores, one crematory, two maus oleums, one radio station, a golf course, two churches, and a few farms. Farming Permiiied Members of the commission pointed out that farming is per mitted under present ordinances. They stressed that residents own ing small acreages may carry on farming operations as usual in the city, and that the city was not trying "to interfere" with farming. Duff pointed out that ordin ances governing residential areas includes a section which states that "farming and truck farming" may be carried on "so long as no retail business is con ducted on the farm." Members of the commission agreed, however, that an agri cultural zone is desirable, and Don Root was appointed to con tact representatives of the coun ty extension service to discuss Help Fight TB - i n St -Buy Christmas Seals - Tribune Price 5c rea aspects of agricultural zoning. Council Recommendation The commission recommend ed to the city council that the ity's policy regarding city ser vices in areas adjoining . Med ford should be that "city facil ities are available only to those areas that are within the city limits of the City of Medford." The recommendation follow ed a discussion on supplying ad jacent areas with water and san itary services in the future. Most members of the commission be lieved that areas wishing to use city facilities should be annexed. They pointed out that if the areas were annexed, the cost of organizing water and sanitary districts would be less for such districts with the services of city engineering, public works and legal departments. Commission members believe encouragement should be given residents in developed areas ad jacent to Medford to start legal procedures for annexation. They added that a program should be initiated to explain fully city facilities which would be avail able to residents in an annexa tion. Among such facilities, beside water and sanitary services, would be additional police and fire protection, street lighting, storm sewers, sufficiently wide streets, street improvements, and zoning regulations to pro tect investments in homes and businesses commissioners point ed out. (See story on page 16) JUDGE ASSIGNED HERE Salem (U.R) Barnett H. Goldstein of Portland was ap pointed judge pro tem by the State Supreme Court and as signed to Jackson county for 33 days beginning Jan.. 3. ' "I inn ii Hi mihiii i I ii in n President Takes if Easy; No Dates Until Saturday Gettysburg, Pa. (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower followed his doctors' orders today and took it easy. - He planned to stay away from his Gettysburg office and to see no callers even members of his staff if at all possible. Flies To Farm The president flew to hisGet tysburg farm Tuesday after two days of important conferences with congressional leaders in Washington. Mrs. Eisenhower returned by car, preferring not to fly in the President's unpres surized, two-engine plane be cause of a valvular heart con dition she has had for many years. The President has no engage United Press Full Leased Wire No. 227 Sources Speculate Soviet Might Drop Outer Mongolia Spain, Japan Also May Be Left Out of Deal United Nations, N.Y. U.R) Russia today demanded an im mediate meeting of the U.N. Se curity Council to reopen the membership question and dip lomatic sources speculated that it might propose dropping Out er Mongolia, Spam and Japan from the "package deal" killI yesterday. . Soviet Delegate Arkady A. Sobolev asked for a special meeting of the council this af ter noon or this evening. The surprise Russian move came less than 20 hours aer the council, through 15 Soviet vetoes and one from National ist China, killed a package deal for the admission of five Com munist countries and 123 Western-backed candidates. Soviet Union Blamed Resentment was strong against Nationalist China for using its veto, but cooler heads among U.N. diplomats put the major share of blame on the Soviet Union for wrecking the mem bership deal with its 15 vetoes. There was some talk, especial ly among the Arab-Asian bloc, of retaliatory action against the Formosa government in the form of a resolution ousting them in favor of the Chinese Reds. Yesterday's action came as no surprise.. . The Nationalists vetoed Outer Mongolia as- 'they had threatened for weeks to do. Russia had said it would kill the whole package deal if the Asian Soviet satellite country was not approved. Russia first vetoed the Re public of Korea and free South Viet Nam, proposed by the Na tionalists ' for UN membership. Then the Nationalists killed off Outer Mongolia's application. That was the end of the deal. The Soviet Union proceeded to veto all 13 free nations recom mended for membership by the General Assembly. The coun cil approved, but later cancell ed, applications of four other Soviet satellites. Both the Soviet Union and the United States expressed hope the membership question could be revived in another effort to solve the 10-year-old deadlock at this session, due to end Fri day. But some Arab nation dele gates were openly threatening action to oust Nationalist China from the world body and seat the Chinese Communist regime iri its place. Indian Delegate V. K. Krishna Menon called a meeting of Arab- Asian delegations to consider what could be done. It was understood that some delegates were demanding a meeting next spring to give them a chance to vote out the Nationalists. It was agreed at the beginning of the present session that the question of Chinese representation would not be considered this year. (See Story on Page 11) ments on his schedule for the rest of this week except his Sat urday examination date with Dr. Paul Dudley White, Boston Heart specialist. To Light Tree On Sunday he will make a live telecast from Gettysburg, click ing a telegraph key which will light the national Christmas tree on the White House grounds in Washington. He will speak briefly. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty, under ques tioning by reporters, said the very quiet schedule for the Pres ident this week was "not neces sarily" dictated by the doctors but had been arranged for some time. O edford Will Remain unen for Shopping Until
