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If M inss ffl Hirst SessntniirQ Weather FORECAST: Cloudy with occa ional light rain through Fri day. Patches of valley fog Friday morning. Low tonight ZcHigb Frttay 48-50. Temp. Highest yesterday 56 Lowest this Morning 35 Free, to 10 a.m. Today, Trace. Tour Made To Show American Determination Vehicle Equipped With Radio-Telephone Rprlin fit PI A TT.S ron- gresSman Soured East Berlin in a radio telephone-equipped Army sedan today in a show of American determination to re gain th right of free movement -ThroQhout this divided city. Rep. Ed Edmonson (D-Okla.), drove into the Soviet sector only after Soviet Ambassador G. ttk- Pushkin had rejected an Allied protest against the arrest of two congressman, under the ne circumstances in East Ber lin. Pushkin asserted the sov ereign" East fiermans have the right to arrest Westerners for - having radio and telephone equipmeSri in vehicles. . Edmondson was accompanied by Capt. Peter Bennett, Army escort officer from "Sebastopol, Look for War Dead - Despite Pushkin's rejection of Allied insistence that four pow er occupation rules still apply, the Soviets suadenly decided to day to allow 12 American sol diers to enter the Communist Zone of 'Germany to search for American war dead. The soldiers entered peace fiiUy and" with full military courtesy extended by Russian border guards. The Edmondson tour of East Berlin also was without inci dent. Q "There -was no trouble at all," Army authorities said. The Army sedan entered the Communist sector at 2:30 p.m. and returd to West Berlin at 3:45 p.m.', Berlin 'lime. Arrested by Reds Edmondson and Bennett stop ped off at the Soviet War Me- ,-jnorial where two other con gressmen, JJae wife of one and their escort officer were arrest ed at pistoUpoint by East Ger man police&'ov. 27 for violating the law against using radio tele phone-equipped vehicles. The soldiers entered the Sov iet zone from West Berlin in a convoy of five Army sedans and four trucks. Tke Americans will split into four teams of three men each to investigate graves reported to contain American bodies in the Cottbus, Rostock, Potsdam, Megdeburg, Halls and Chemnitz areas. American authorities believe 131 American victims of World War II are buried in East Ger many, most of the men fliers killed in plane crashes. Annexation Voters Must Register Today Deadline for registering to .vote in two Jan. 16 annexation elections near Medford is 5 p.m. today, according to election off! cials. As many residents as possible of the two proposed annexation areas have been notified of the deadline, it wa reported. One election will be in a small area in Siskiyou Heights exten sion north of Verde Hills, and the other is in some t; ,190 acres 1ftutbwtst of the city limits. It includes the Rogue Valley Coun try club, the Rogue Valley Memorial hospital site, and a proposed subdivision around Barneburg hill. The registration deadline is theatutory 30 days before the electiotej O o I Uruguay President Forced To Discontinue U.S. Tour Chicago (U.R A sudden stomach attack today forced Uruguayan President Luis Batlle Berres to -discontinue his tour of the United States. The president suffered an ap parent bleeding ulcer attack at a private dinner Wednesday night and was rushed to a hos pital. Doctors at Wesley Memor ial I;pital said his condition was "excellent" but advised him d)to stay in bed for at least a few days, cutting short his 10-day-old tour of the U.S. Sources close to tk Medford 50th Year 26 Pages Eisenhower Will Miss. Met. Salute Given by People of Gettysburg, Pa. i(U.R) The town of Gettys-bury- will sing a Merry Christmas salute to President Eisenhower An the town square to night, but the President will miss his neighbors' Yuletide greetings. Because of his doctors' orders to slow down for a while, Mr. Eisenhower is accepting no out side social invitations for the rest of this week. Mr. Eisenhower also is keeping his work to a minimum. He planned brief conferences with his staff today but otherwise will spend his time resting and walking around his farm. Town Square Decorated for Event Gettysburg has decorated Lincoln Square in the center of town with a colorful Christmas scene that includes a "Santa Shanty" where St. Nicholas arrives during the evening. The idea that the President might be a par ticipant in the Christmas celebration started when Leroy E. Smith, vice-president of the Gettysburg Chamber of Commerce, wrote Presi dential Press Secretary Hagerty on Dec. 9: "The combined choirs of Gettysburg will Dulles Warns NATO Of Russ Cold War In Middle East Paris U.P.) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles warned the North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization today that the Soviet Union has launched a new cold war offensive in the Middle East and Asia. In an address to the opening session of the North Atlantic Council, Dulles said the riew Soviet ' strategy is a serious threat. Speaking for nearly an hour to the assembled foreign, defense and treasury ministers of the 15 NATO nations gathered to re view "the West's military, politi cal and economic policies in the cold war, Dulles noted that the Soviets have '.he potential to act decisively. He said the Soviets were of fering both aid and technicians in the Middle East and Asia. He pointed out that Russia has huge stocks of obsolescent arms to of fer, even though it lacks many consumer goods. The Dulles speech reviewed in their entirety the Soviet's zig zags of policy for the past year. He said the year started and ended with the cold war. He re called that last year's annual NATO council meeting met un der growing Soviet threats of what would happen if the West approved the Western European Union. This crisis came and went,, he noted. But the past 12 months, he added, had made up a "kalei doscopic year" which posed a' "lot of puzzles." o Dulles said the Soviet posi tion became clear during the second Geneva conference of foreign ministers. At that time Moscow refused to unify Ger many by free elections and re jected Western proposals for more contacts between East and West. Coos Bay Bank Merger Approved Washington (U.R) The office of Comptroller of the Currency today announced approval of the merger .of Coos Bay, Ore., Na tional Bank and the U. S. Na tional bank of Portland, Ore. The action is subject to ap proval by a two-thirds, majority vote of stockholders of both banks. They will vote in mid January. The comptroller's office also announced it has denied an ap plication by the U. S. National of Portland to open a branch bank at North Bend, Ore. old president said he fainted while attending a dinner in his honor at the exclusive Chicago Club. Batlle - Berres recovered con sciousness and refused to . be carried to an ambulance. But, while walking- to the door he became ill and vomited some blood, the sources said. Hours later at the hospital, at tending physicians issued a state ment saying "there is apparent ly a bleeding ulcer. The presi dent's condition is excellent." A3 MEDFORD, OREGON, THUR?' COMES BACK Dr. Otto John, 46, West Germany se curity chief who plunged the Allied world into crisis when he went over to the East Berlin German Reds in July, 1954, has slipped back through the Iron Curtain in just as mysterious a manner. He was flown to Bonn, Ger many, for questioning by in-, telligence agents. Thornton Reiterates Blind Worker Ruling Salem (U.R) Attorney Gener al Robert Y. Thornton today reaffirmed his earlier ruling that t)lind workers in the Oregon Industries for the Blind at Port land are not "state employees" within the terms of the Oregon Public Employees Retirement law. Thornton ruled that while these workers can .be protected against accidents under provi sions of the state's Workmen's Compensation law, present re strictions in the Retirement act and Social Security law would not permit these workers to re ceive benefits of the state re tirement fund and the Federal Old Age and Survivors Insur ance law. In an opinion written for the Oregon Blind Commission, Thornton said the term "inmate of a state institution" as used in the exclusion clause of the state Retirement law was "used by the legislature in its broad est sense. Gloria Swanson Enters Paintings In Rome Rome (U.R) Screen actress Gloria Swanson, who recently became a newspaper columnist, has launched still another ca reer. A group of her paintings is on display in a Rome gallery. Three of her heavily daubed paintings, a landscape and two still life paintings of flowers, made an immediate hit. Five others were added to the exhibi tion today. Miss Swanson, who writes a twice-a-week column for United Press, recently landed a major role in an Italian movie. She said painting was not new as a hobby with her but until now she had never bothered to show her work in public. Portland (U.R) A stock div idend of 34V4 cents per share of preferred stock has been voted by directors of Portland Transit a B c if mas ysburg sing a Merry Christmas salute to President and Mrs. Eisenhower, the White House press secre tary and his wife, and the White House press corps at 7:30 o'clock Thursday evening, Decem ber 15th, in front of the Hotel Gettysburg, Lin coln Square. The salute is an expression of our appreciation for the world-wide recognition all of you have given Gettysburg." Ike Foregoes Social Season The people of Gettysburg should not feel too badly about the President's " inability to attend their celebration. After all, he has been' forced, because of his- illness and recuperative period, to forego the winter social season in Washington, a source of distinct pain for the diplomatic corps and many of Washington's more prominent hostesses, who pace their social plans to those of the White House. If Gettysburg residents want to see the Presi dent any time soon, they can watch him on television Sunday afternoon. He will push a button which will light the national Christmas tree in Washington and make a short, televised talk to the country on the spirit of Christmas. BLM Proposes To Withdraw Public Land Along Rogue A proposal to withdraw 5,482. 14 acres of public land along the Rogue river and its tribu taries for recreational purposes has been announced by Virgil T. Heath, state supervisor of the bureau of land management in Portland. The land is supervised by BLM district foresters in Coos Bay and Medford. Detailed de scription of lands involved will bo published in the "Federal Register," and posted in the Portland land office, district for esters'' offices in Coos Bay and Medford, and court houses in Gold Beach, Grants Pass and Medford. The application for withdraw al was filed by BLM, and record ed on public land records in the Portland land office. Heath said the proposal was recorded' rto ban temporarily prospecting and location of min ing claims, leasing under min eral laws, and entry and dispo sition under public land laws pending action on the applica tion by tlje department of interior.- ' A 30-day period is provided for submitting written comment or objection by" the public, Heath said. Withdrawal Object The object of the withdrawal is to protect and preserve scenic, aesthetic and recreational uses for the general public. 'The lands consist of Oregon and California revested railroad and public domain lands, most of which are within powersite reservations made during 1917 and 1926, Heath said. Republican Votes Predicted by Mitchell Washington U.R) Secre tary of Labor James P. Mitchell predicted today that a lot of union members and other work ers will vote Republican in the 1956 elections. Mitchell told a news confer ence he agrees with Presidential Assistant Harold Stassen,' who said yesterday that he thinks Re publicans will get a large por tion of the labor vote next year. Mitchell said he also does not agree with the views of Sen. Barry M. Goldwater (R-Ariz.) that Republicans will lose labor votes because of influence ex erted by union leaders on their membership. "The working man has never had it so good," Mitchell said. "He is employed at higher wages and he is certainly going to think about the reasons for that high prosperity." Liner Queen Mary Arrives 30 Hours Late New York U.R) The liner Queen Mary arrived 30 hours late today after battling huge waves and high winds. . Capt. Donald W. Sorrell said the ship encountered waves 50 feet high. He said 75 mile an hour winds drove spray over the bridge. 97 feet above water level. Portland (U.R) Directors of Pope & Talbot, Inc., have an nounced an extra dividend of 40 cents per share of common stock. Tribune Price 5c No. 228 w Russia Rejects American Offer Of Surplus Food Refusal To Lower Trade Barrier Cited Moscow (U.R) Russia said today it has rejected an Ameri can offer to sell the Soviets sur plus American farm products because the West refuses to low er its barrier on trade in stra tegic goods.' A statement by the Official Soviet news agency Tass con firmed that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Soviet Foreign' Minster V. M. Molotov discussed the sale of American surplus farm products last Nov. 13 at Geneva. But it said Molotov told Dulles it was not necessary to discuss selling farm products but rath er to eliminate- barriers at all in ternational trade. Refers To Statement The Tass dispatch referred to the recent State Department statement "concering trade be tween the USA and the Soviet Union" in which the Nov. 13 Dulles-Molotqv discussion was mentioned. Then, the Tass dispatch said of the Dulles-Molotov conver sations: "It wa spointed out by the Soviet side that there was a generally- recognized necessity for the development of contact between the countries, especial ly concerning the restoration of normal conditions in interna tional trade, and that it was necessary to discuss not the par ticular case of selling farm pro ducts but about the elimination of barriers put up in recent years and the task of develop ing international trade specifi cally between the US and the USSR." The Soviet statement pointed out Russia is trading with many countries on a . "mutual basis and on the basis of mutual bene fit." (See Story Page 1, Section 2) Local Girl Flown To Seattle Today Rebecca Heisel, 12 -day -old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Man ville Heisel, 1808 Thomas rd., was. flown to Seattle for emer gency surgery early today. The flight was made in a twin Beech craft plane recently acquired for use by Mercy Flights, Inc. The baby girl was the 428th patient carried by the non-profit air ambulance service in the past six years. The trip left the Medford airport at 2:30 a.m. and returned at about 8 a.m. to find the airport fogged in. The plane landed at Ashland, and was to be returned to Medford later in the day when the fog lifted. Mrs. Lester Gilman was the nurse on the trip. The little pa tient was taken to Seattle's Or thopedic hospital. The pilots reported exceeding ly bad leather conditions on both legs of the flight, with freezing rain in the north. The flight could not have been made with the smaller and older planes of the ambulance service Clerk's Office Moves Into New Annex Area Personnel and equipment of the county clerk's office was being moved today into the adjoining office space of the new court house annex, according to Coun ty Clerk Bereth Hopkins. Movement of the recorder's office from the first floor to the new quarters is awaiting com pletion of phone and electrical outlets, she said. - Help Fight TB - ..Buy Christmas Sali-, BERl ANOTHER TURNCOAT RETURNS American turncoat Richard Tenneson (center), who changed his mind about living in China, crosses the border into British Hongkong ending a two-week wait for his return. U. S. Red Cross Representative Richard Tomlin (left) and British Police Superintendent Al Gordon (right) escort The ex-GI joined 22 others to choose Communism while a prisoner in Korea. edford BLM Flans 30 Per Cent Sales Increase Next Year The Medford district of the bureau of land management hopes to advertise for sale about 129,000,000 board feet of timber in 1.956, an increase of 30 per cent above 1955's volume. E. K. Peterson, district fores ter, said this volume can be pro cessed only if there is an in crease, in available funds. The 1956 timber sale plan was rec ommended by the district ad visory board, which also has asked for increased appropria tions, Peterson said. Vary in Size The sales, he added, will vary in size from approximately 200, 000 to 8,000,000 board feet, and will average about 2,500,000 board feet. Sales will be held at monthly intervals during 1956. The Medford district includes lands in Jackson and Josephine counties, southwestern Klamath county, Southern Douglas coun ty and a small poition of east ern Coos and Curry counties. Peterson said timber tracts of fered in 1956 will be distributed over the entire district as much as possible, considering timbep condition and access. Master Unit Sales About 51,000,000 board feet will be sold from the Jackson master unit, Peterson' said, with 63,000,000 from the Josephine master unit and 15,000,000 from the Klamath master unit. The first sale in 1956 will be held Jan. 5, and will be a spe cial sale of about 180,000 board feet of fire-killed timber on Blackwell hill near "Medford. The timber was killed in fire last Labor Day week end. The first regular sale, Peter son said, will be held Jan. 19, when 2,281 board feet of timber killed in the Sykes Creek fire, near Wimer last September .will be offered for sale. The last sale in 1955 will be held Dec. 29. Nine tracts with an estimated 19,164,000 board feet of timber appraised at $546, 080.50 will be offered for sale. Additional information regard ing the December and January sales may be obtained from the district forester's office in the Medford city hall. Funds Requested Funds to process the larger volume of timber are needed for Prince Aly Khan Under Hospital Knife Paris (U.R) Prince Aly Khan was operated on today at the American Hospital in suburban Beuilly, informed sources said. Hospital officials confirmed he was there and said he was "doing well." But they refused to describe the reported opera tion. A hospital official said. "I am sorry, but we cannot give any information to the press. Taff's Brother Elected May i or of Cincinnati Cincinnati (U.R) Charles P Taft, elected mayor of Cincin nati by the charterite minority in City Council, today called for the body to show "imagination and gumption" in solving the city's problems. Taft is a brother of the late senator. Parents Urged To Keep Aspirin Out of Reach New York (U.R) The New York City Health Department today urged parents to put as- pirin bottles out of the reach of their children, pointing out that aspirin overdoses caused the deaths of two New York- chiL dren and the poisoning of 102 others in the last five months. additional forestry personnel to cruise and mark timber for cut ting in accordance with accepted forest management practices, and to supervise the cutting of the timber after it is sold. The local advisory board has requested the added funds in the hope that the cut from the dist rict's timber lands can be brought up to the full cut allow able under sustained yield prac tices. The district has never be fore had sufficient personnel to process the full available cut. Open House Set For Repaired Toys Medford Lady Lions and Med ford city firemen will hold an open house Friday for persons who"wish to see the quantity of toys and dolls on which work has been completed for distribution to youngsters of needy families. : The open house will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the old Mason Ehrman warehouse at Third and Fir sts. Mrs. Alan Jewett, president of the Lady Lions, said more than 300 dolls have been cleaned and repaired. Firemen have repaired and repainted 135 tricycles, 55 wagons, 28 pedal cars, 25 wheel barrows and some 23 scooters, Assistant Chief Earl Harrison reported. In addition they have fixed up many smaller toys and games. The women, with the aid of their Lion husbands, will sort and box Christmas gifts for the various families Sunday after noon and Monday. Families will pick up gifts Tuesday and Wednesday between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. . Firemen will serve coffee and Lady Lions cookies during to morrow's open house. The toy and doll project is un dertaken annually by the fire men and Lady Lions. Oregon's Net Farm Income $130,500,000 Washington (U.R) Oregon's net farm income for 1954 was about $130,500,000, according to figures released today by the Agriculture Department. The department released the figures with a report which pre dicted the nation's farmers would suffer an overall 10 per cent drop in income this year and that their keep-home pay next year is likely to be less. The net farm income for Washington for 1954 was listed at $247,400,000 and for Idaho $99,300,000. . Portland (U.R) Mrs. Madge S. Peterson, 75, retired city treasurer of Hoquiam, Wash., died in a local hospital Tuesday. Farm Bureau Brushes Off Southern Secession Threat Chicago (U.R) The American Farm Bureau Federation today brushed aside a Southern threat of secession and tentatively, ap proved a resolution for continua tion of the administration's flex ible price support program. The annual convention of the nation's largest farm organiza tion was expected to approve flexible supports formally later today and also to provide a unique soil bank program de signed to slash farm surpluses. Southern delegates led by H. L. Tiny Wingate, president of the George Farm Bureau, waged an unsuccessful two and oca- I" I ' t II II mpiomais unaoie To Make Trip on Such Short Notice Pressure on Russia For Japan Apparent United Nations, N.Y. !U.R) The U.N. General Assembly met for the first time today as an organization of 76 members with a minimum of pomp and circum stance. Five of the 16g countries elected to membership last night were not present when As sembly President Joze Maza of Chile gavejled theworld parlia ment to order. Desks marked with the name . plates of Albania, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Laos and Nepal were vacant. These five coun tries had been unable to get dip lomats here on short notice to take their place as full fledged members of the United Nations. Japan Turned Down Conspicuously absent was Ja pan, barred from membership by Russia's veto for the third time yesterday. Delegate after delegate, however, regretted the omission of Japan from the slate of new members and 'appeared to be developing pressure on Russia to agree to admitting the Japanese next year. Represented officially for the first time in the Assembly were Austria, Ceylon, Finland, Hun gary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Libya, Portugal, Romania and Spain. The U.N. staff had made hasty arrangements to accommodate? the Assembly membership, en larged when Russia reversed its position and agreed late yester day to admit 12 Western-backed candidates and four Communist countries, dropping Japan and Outer Mongolia from the ori ginal 18-nation package deal. Pressure on Russia As the speeches droned on, it appeared that the movement to pressure Russia on Japan's ad mission was growing. But informed sources believed that Russia, in doing a 1rn about on the membership ques tion, would try to use admission of Japan as a political lever to gain admission of Outer Mon golia and possibly Communist China. ' - V-:. - - Japan was excluded by Soviet veto from the group of 16 new U.N. members which took their seats as the Security Council met in plenary session this morning. The Security Council was to vote this afternoon on an Amer ican resolution recommending that Japan be elected to mem bership at the assembly's 11th session in 1956. Electrical Union Discloses Wage Offer Pittsburgh (U.R) The. In dependent United ' Electrical Workers disclosed today it has offered to send its striking Wes tinghouse Electric Corp. mem bers back to work for an em mediate 3 per cent wage in crease and the promise of fur ther negotiations. James J. Matles, UE director of organization, said the propos sal had been made in negotia tions several weeks aga and still was under company considera tion. The six-cents an hour pro posal was the same immediate increase offered by the firm prior to the walkout, but tied to a five-year' contract. Matles said the union "will not take" a five-year agreement and said the. return to work of fer was under the terms cf the present one-year agreement- In addition to the UE's 11,000 Westinghouse workers, 44,000 members of the International Union of Electrical workers have been on strike against the company 60 days. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 480.72 off 0.12, 20 rail- roads 161.00 off 0.42, 15 utilities 64.62 off 0.42 and 65 stocks 170.75 off 0.33. Sales today were about 2,260,000 shares compared with 2,670,000 yesterday. half hour floor fight to put the federation on record in favor of 90 per cent support prices on any commodity in any year in which marketing quotas are in effect. Wingate told delegates South ern cotton farmers would have to sell their products below cost of production and said they were dissatisfied with flexible sup ports on cotton. "I don't even know whether we will be in the farm Jjureau next year," he said. But by an overwhelming stand ing vote the 163 official delegates rejected the 90 per cent substi tute motion. o
