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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1956)
IS MARINES BOOT OUT McKEON SSgt. Matthew C. Mo Keon consoles his wife who burst into tears a few min utes after verdict was announced in McKeon's court martial at Parns Island, S. C. The 31-year-year former orill instructor was sentenced to a bad conduct dis charge from the Marine Corps, forfeit of $30 a month pay for nine months, a prison term of nine months, and was broken to the rank of private. He was tried for the April 8 "death march" he led into Ribbon Creek in whicn six men were drowned. Medford United Press Full Leased Wire Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1956 Page 1-6 Story of Refugees From Europe Ashes One of Greatest Stories of Post-War New York U.R) One of the great untold stories of the post war decade is how the United States opened its arms to half a million refugees from the ashes of Europe. It is the story of the great melting pot boiling again, of how those displaced persons found a home in a strange new land. They settled in every state of the union. They went into al most every trade and profession. One became a millionaire within live years. Others remained im poverished. Some raised chil dren as American as doughnuts and cider. Others clung to their own ethnic groups here, have not yet learned English. Some went to farms, far more to cities. They found adjusting to American customs more diffi cult than learning the language or making a living. Many meek ly reported to police. That is what they would have done at home. Most at first avoided join- BUY THE FINEST BUY- Frigidaire AND IT'S HERE! ' . t r" ' " ' " Model UW-82 Model BW-M Those Wonderful New FOLD-BACK SURFACE UN IIS FRIGIDAIRE from in 24-inch and 48-inch sizet Got a counter-space problem? Youll love cooking on a handsome Frigidaire Fold-Back assembly." 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The first boatload of 800 sail ed past the Statute of Liberty into New York Harbor on May 20, 1946, aboard the S.S. Marine Flasher. They were the tvanguard of some 42.000 who came into the United States under President Truman's executive order of De cember, 1945, and the 508,180 more who entered under the Displaced Persons Act of 1948. The vast majority came from Europe, only 2,863 from Asia. Immigration Department fig ures show the greatest number came from Poland 139,436. Others came from Germany, 68, 420; Italy, 49.859; Yugoslavia, 41,700; Soviet Union, 38,241; La tavia, 36,489. Only 1.125 came from France, giht from Fin land, seven from Norway. Many, regardless of the nation they left, were of German origin. Of the total, 154.463 stayed in New York State. But they scat tered across the nation 53,690 to Illinois, 34,743 to Pennsylva nia, 25,004 to Michigan, 23.432 to California, 24,075 to Ohio. Nevada got only 214, Wyoming 422, Utah 428. Survey Made The United Hebrew Immi grant Aid Society made a sur vey of 102 on that first boat. It showed that 98 have, become citizens, three have died and one could not take the exam ination because he had become blind. It showed that of 56 who ar rived single, 48 had married and borne 88 children. Their avnrage earning is now $100 a week. The classic success story is that of Leon Jolson. He was 36 when he came here in Feb ruary, 1947, a refugee from Poland who had survived two Nazi concentration camps. He spoke no English and owned only the clothes he wore. Jolson settled in New York's Bronx with his wife, Anna, and began selling needles and thread door to door. He volunteered to oil and adjust sewing machines and studied their intricacies. Money was so short he and his wife lived for days on a diet of oranges and cornflakes. Then he wrote the Necchi Sewing Machine Co. in Italy, and, with $2,000 borrowed from the Hebrew Society, set up an agency here. Within five years he was selling 5,000 models per month and had become a mil lionaire. Few Return Home Others were helped by other vast refugee organizations such : as the Catholic Relief Services, ! the Protestant Church World: Services, the Lutheran Refugee j Service and the American Fed-' eration of International Insti-; tutes and International Refugee ': Committee. I Few have even thought of return to their native land and even fewer have done so. Yes, it is a tremendous story of the heart of America and a fulfillment of the words of the great statue that go: "Give me your tired, your i poor, your huddled masses : yearning to breath free. "The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. 'Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me. "I life my lamp beside the golden door!" Attention Packers and Orchardists Packing CIV 7 c Aprons..... J J and J Bear Creek $1 70 Bucket Bottoms fl Bucket QAc Straps 7U Yakima $J75 Apple Bag O urks S&H Green Stamps With Every Purchase 314 E. 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