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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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