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Friday morning. Low tonight
ZcHigb Frttay 48-50.
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Highest yesterday 56
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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
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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
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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-
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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.
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