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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. January 19, 1956 regon Missionary Tells of Riots Against Baptist Mission In Jordan Former Prisoner Of Red Chinese En Route To U.S. Editor', note: After 4'i vfars im prisonment in Communist China, Ir. I.evl Alton Loegren, a Baptist mis sionary from Cherry Grove, Ore., was released last September. Last week during his trip back to the L'nited States he had another close brush with death. While visiting his son 'at Ajlun, North Jordan, anti western rioters attacked a Baptist mission and burned it. Lovegren took refuge in the Israeli sector of Jeru salem where he wrote this dispatch. By LEVI ALTON LOVEGREN. PH.D. WrilJen For United Press: Jerusalem IU.R) My wife Ida and I were staying with our son, Dr. Lloyd August Lovegren and his wife" He is superintendent of the Baptist mission hospital at Ajlun. For the last two months we've stopped over there on our journey from China back to America. Tension mounted in Jordan at the beginning of last week. At 10 a.m. Thursday, a large mob from various villages ar rived at Ajlun, where it was joined by local Communists and members of the Moslem brother hood for a new march on our mtssion. Shouted Slogans The rioters shouted slogans against the Bagdad pact and American colonialism. The mob, including some women, carried sticks and axes which they used for smashing. Before reaching the mission, the mob burnt the equipment of the Baptist school on the road from Ajlun. The five policemen on guard at the mission could not guarantee to protect all sof ' its nine buildings, so we sought shelter in the hospital com pound. The mob ransacked two build ings across the road from the hospital compound,' as well as the out-patient clinic and the dispensary. They looted and smashed equipment and furni ture and then set it afire. Drugs, Microscopes Destroyed The stone buildings did not burn, but the rioters destroyed the hospital's stocks of strepto mycin and penicillin and dam aged two valuable microscopes. The arrival of police rein forcements about noon, followed at 7 p.m. by heavy Arab legion reinformements, brought the sit uation under control. During the worst riots, my son Lloyd and his assistant delivered one hospital patient of a healthy baby boy. But after 20 years in China, including 4Vz years in Commu nist jails, civil wars and Chinese robber attacks, 1,000-odd Jordan rioters at Ajlun just couldn't scare me. Anyway there was no nervous tension. In China During War During the war I served as an Air Force major attached to the OSS in China. On Jan. 6, 1951, the Commu nists arrested me at Sichang in Sikang province in far west China. The Reds didn't tell me the reason for arresting but la ter said I was an "international spy." I was never beaten, but the Reds threatened to shoot me if I didn't admit to being an Ameri can spy. I denied the charges. Finally I was brought to trial in Chungking and my Commu nist defense counsel pleaded guilty to all charges. I admitted "spying to appease the court" and received a light sentence five years, leaving six months to serve. On Sept. 11 last year I was freed. Herbert Hoover Becomes Great-Grandfather Again San Jose, Calif. iU.R) Former President Hoover became a erat-crandfather for the eiahth time Tuesday with the birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs Herbert Hoover III. The girl, named Leslie, was born in Palo Alto hospital. She weighed o pounds, 14 ounces, she is the couple's third child. Leslie is the great grand- daughter of Mr. Hoover and granddaughter of Herbert Hoo ver II, undersecretary of state. Her father is an electronics en gineer for a local firm. FIRE ENGINE UNSAFE Billings, Mont. (U.R) Fire Chief Lucian B. Smith asked the Citv Council Wednesday to re place fire engine No. 5. He said the 1916 model with wooden wheels, chain drive and two wheel brakes was "unsafe to drive." ONE-TWO PUNCH Holland, Mich. (U.R) A Holland -to - Muskegon freight train that passed the Gordon St. crossing north of town daily for years without a single mishap was hit by cars twice during a 36-hour period. ww:.mtfmiMWfl BOYS' NIGHT More than 100 boys, all sons of shriners, were guests of the Jackson County Shrine club Monday night at the organization's first Boys' Night party. The youngsters, wearing red fezzes, attended the banquet, entertainment and an address by Hillah Temple's George F. Guldager of Eugene, who attended with his sons, George Jr. and Bill. Shown above are, seated, Guldager and his son, George Jr.; Ray Frisbie introducing Gary Fichtner, and Jackson County Shrine club president, A. K. Morse. Gary Fichtner has been a patient at the Portland Shriners' hos pital for crippled children. Chester Hubbard, past president of the club and oriental guide of Hillah Temple, was chairman of the program, and Al Leighton assisted in arrangements. Included in the program of entertainment was Jack Walker's shrine band. Efforts will be made by the local club to spread the Boys' Night party throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Hawaii following Monday night's success. Upper Texas Crippled by Heavy Snowfall; Other States Covered By UNITED PRESS The Gulf of Mexico hatched a snow storm which crippled 50,- 000 square miles of Texas and swept all the way to the Great Lakes today. A near-zero freeze followed Rainfall Continues To Menace Oregon Portland U.R) The guy who wrote the song hit of the 1920s about "It ain't goin' to rain no more didn t know how wrong he could be. At least he didn't foresee 1956 in Oregon. It not only continued to rain in Oregon today, but the heavy precipitation brought more slides and highwater threats to western Oregon. One slide blocked N.W. Cor nelius Pass road about a mile west of the Lower Columbia River highway near Portland. High water near S. E. 128th ave. and Long st. in Portland menaced several homes. In other parts of western Ore gon wary officials were keeping an eye on rising streams and hillsides where troublesome and costly slides might recur. . The weather bureau forecast calls for more rain for western Oregon through tomorrow and snow or rain showers east of the Cascades. Temperatures will remain mild. Milk Sales Discussed At Cattle Club Meet Continued growth of all-jersey milk sales was discussed by Wil liam Auel, state field-secretary of the Oregon all-jersey milk as sociation, at a meeting of the Rogue River Jersey Cattle club in Grants Pass recently. Ed Parsons, president of the club, appointed committees, and discussed plans for the year. The meeting was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Neil May field. Those present included Mr. and Mrs. R. G. McCarty, Jose phine county 4-H agents, and Mr. and Mrs. Lee Smith from the Oregon Dairy Breeders service. The next meeting will be held at the home of E. B. Poyer in Ashland. Western Air Lines Remains Strikebound Los Angeles (U.R) A 10-day strike against Western Air Lines by the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks continued today with no settlement in prospect. Negotia tions have been suspended al though both sides have an nounced their willingness to re sume talks. Shutdown of the 12-state serv ice linking 45 cities came when 850 ,clerks walked out Jan. 9 in a wage dispute. John Arden was the last of the 41 signers of the Mayflower Compact to die on Sept. 12, 1687. PANEL SHOW Chicago ;U.P.i Tne weather inside the new 41-story, $40,000, 000 Prudential building is con trolled at a panel in the third basement. By setting switches and dials, the building engineer can regulate the air conditioning at any place in the building. PICTURE TUBES REJUVENATED Is your picture tube dull and weak? Most picture tubes can b restored to original brightness "at only a fraction of the cost of replacement. For further information CALL Electronic Service 18 N. GRAPE PH. 3-1971 the snow in Texas and heavy snow warnings were posted for parts of five Midwestern states. More snow hit Arkansas and Mis souri. The storm also brought soak ing rains to five bone-dry South ern states, breaking a critical mid-winter drought at least for the time being. Louisiana, Mississippi, Ala bama, Georgia, and Tennessee hadn't had any good rains for almost a month. TVA generators at Douglas, Tenn., were idled for the first time in 12 years and grazing and other winter crops in the area were in dire need of water. The storm was also a blessing to Texas, although forecasters said a lot more moisture would be needed to crack a. disastrous marathon drought there. Two Dead in Texas The heavy snows which hit yesterday crippled a 50,000 square mile area in upper Texas. Two persons were killed, at least three communities were isolated, and scores of schools were closed. At Paris Tex., there was an eight-inch snow and buses ran five hours late. Six inches of snow were measured at Bonham, home of House Speaker Sam Rayburn,- and it was so cold that an official temperature reading couldn't be taken be cause the weather observer's in struments froze. Clear, cold weather followed the storm in Texas, but forecast ers predicted snows of up to eight inches or more for South ern Illinois and Indiana and parts of Missouri, Oklahoma, and Iowa. The predictions were borne out as Charles City, Ia meas ured nine inches of snow; Mai den, Mo., five and Flippin, Ark., and Paducah, Ky four. Spring From Gulf Storm State Police in Southern Illi nois said highways were packed with up to four inches of "snow early today and it wag still com ing down. The U.S. Weather Bureau said the widespread snows and rains were springing from a storm cen ter born in the northern Gulf of Mexico. The deepening low cen ter should be over Ohio or West Virginia by tonight, it said. West of the storm, tempera tures went below zero as far south as Lincoln, Neb., where it was an icy minus seven degrees early today. And on the East Coast, a strike of fuel oil and coal truck drivers in New York City, reached the crisis stage. There were high hopes that the three-day-old strike would end today, but the city's Real Estate Board warned of a "catas trophe in the making" if it doesn't. Temperatures were , around freezing and many Manhattan buildings feared they would run out of fuel today. Contract or No Contract; Nude Singer Skedaddles London (U.R) Actresses can appear on the stage nude in Bri tain if they don't move. If they move they are breaking the law and are liable to get fired. Nineteen-y ear-old Peaches Page billed as "the delicious singing nude," broke the law Tuesday night. Her grand immo bility dissolved in a burst of speed and she was fired. Peaches appeared at the Cam- berwell Palace in shoes, a brace let and a white muff. And as she moved her lips (legal) a record player in the background gave forth with "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm." Her aplomb was shaken when a little grey mouse walked on in the middle of her song, gathered sped and zipped across her feet. Peaches and the mouse fled in different directions. Show manager Syd Elgar said the authorities would get after him if they found out Peaches was flouncing about m puoiic without her clothes. "By moving, you have broken your contract," he told Peaches. "You're sacked." But Peaches' show stopper didn't stop the show. The record kept grinding out, "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm." Then theater manager Gilbert Oscroft intervened and said Peaches could appear in the sec ond show her last. Men were posted in the wings to watch for mice. "Miss Page will not be appear ing again," Elgar announced la ter. "She is under contract to remain still while posing. If the authorities hear of this I could lose my license." , "I don't care what Mr. Elgar, the London County Council or anyone else says," Miss Page told newsmen. "Any girl would have done the same." Time and Money They're both fun to spend in San Francisco. And when you stay at Hotel Plaza, you'll have more of both to spend, because... you're in the heart of down town activity, and the moderate rates you pay for excellent service and accommodations at the Plaza make it the best value in town. So conserve time and money while seeing San Francisco in Style ! RATES: J 5 - $6 - $ 7 SINGLE $8-$9 -$10 DOUBLE mm SUIIn 1-7200 Teltyp SF 877 The best hotel value in Court Records Theodore L. Peckham, no oversize permit, Slo. Charlie A. Brunton, defective hand brake, $25. Virgil L. Brown, no signal device, $10. Alfonso V. 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