Hitler
Death
And
' Desperate Nazi Scheme
Told in Book About FBI
Washington (U.R) Hitler's Germany plotted to assassinate
Dwight D. Eisenhower and Franklin D. Roosevelt during the clos
ing months of World War II.
The desperate Nazi planned to kill Mr. Eisenhower, then su
preme commander of Allied forces in Europe, by dropping para
chutists behind Allied lines and on London and Paris in late 1944
when Hitler's crumbling regime was in its last days,
i The attempt on the late President Roosevelt's life was to have
been set up by a mass breakout of 400,000 Axis prisoners interned
in this country.
- Both plots failed partly through the efforts of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation.
Enemy Intrigues Rerealed in New Book
. The thwarting of these and other enemy intrigues is told in a
new book, 'The FBI, Story," by Pultizer prize-winning reporter
Bon Whitehead, chief 'of the New York Herald Tribune's Washing
ton bureau.
Whitehead, who had access to closely guarded FBI secrets, also
tells of the agency's relentless war on two domestic evils Com
munist subversives and gangsterism.
J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director since. 1924 under five presidents
and 11 attorneys general, began the attack on home-grown Reds
in 1936. He did so at the direction of President Roosevelt who had
become disturbed by the extensive travels of a Soviet embassy
official.
Full Approval Giren by Cordell Hull
But before the investigation could begin, it was necessary to
.obtain the approval of Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Roosevelt
' threw back his head and laughed as the dignified secretary snapped
to Hoover, "Go ahead and investigate the ."
Whitehead traces Hoover's battles to keep the FBI free of poli
tics. But despite these efforts. Hoover and his agency were'brought
Close to political controversy in the case of the late Harry Dexter
White, former treasury official accused of being a Soviet spy.
In November, 1953, Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr.
charged in a speech that former President Truman had promoted
White from his post as assistant secretary of treasury to the inter
national monetary fund despite FBI reports to Mr. Truman on
White's alleged "spying activities."
Mr. Truman replied that he kept White in the government to
permit the FBI to keep him under surveillance without tipping off
other Red suspects.
Heorer Denies Agreement to Truman Plan a
After turning down two invitations to appear before a congres
tional committee on the case. Hoover denied categorically before
the Senate Internal Security subcommittee that he had agreed to
the plan.
Whitehead takes the lid off the hitherto secret activities of the
FBI in Central and South America during World War II. Axis of
ficials thought they had discovered a "soft underbelly" of the
United States to work on.
Using the big German colonies in nations to the south, Ger
many embarked on an ambitious espionage program aided par
ticularly by the anti-American government . of President Pedro
Ramirez of Argentina.
: With characteristic thoroughness, the FBI formed a special team
of agentr-Ihey used a number of business- fronts to conduct coun
ter espionage and organize a system of informants to report on
the activities of German spies.
In addition to presidents and prime ministers, the book also
chronicles the doings of the hoodlums that terrorized whole com
munities in the 1930s the American gangsters.
Oregon Slash Fires
Fanned Out of Control
Br VNITED PRESS
Drying winds and a lack of
rain sent several forest fires
out of control in Oregon today.
Guy Joheson, "Forest Service
fire dyispatcTier in Portland,
fcrmed the situation noh-criti-eal
at present but said there is
a "potential that could become
serious."
Most ef the fires were report
ed to be slash burnings whipped
up by the wind.
Two fires burned out of con
trol jp. the Astoria watershed
early today and about' 250 men
and all available fire fighting
equipment were dispatched to
the sceree about 15 miles east of
Astoria. Fire broke out last
night niar Wickiup mountain in
the same area- where a Thanks
giving day fire blackened some
60 acres, and at a spot two miles
south of last week's fire near
Wickiup lake. A dry east wind
whipped flames into second
growth timber and threatened
the home of the water-shed care
taker. In Salem, the State Forestry
- Department said an additional
60 firefighters would be thrown
into the battle against a 600
acre fire west -of Nehalem in
Tillamook county. The blaze
was located near the headwaters
of Cronih creek on lands of the
Oregon American Company. The
fire was confined largely to
Plans for 'Great Decisions'
In Jackson County Are Well Under Way
Flans for' the "Great Decisions
. . . 1957" program, to be con
ducts in Jackson county soon,
as well under way, it was re
ported toqy by Mrs. John Oust
erhout, Eagle Point, county
chairman.
The program, which is a co
operative endeavor to stimulate
discussion and thought about
foreign problems facing the
United States, will begin Jan.
20, and will continue for eight
weeks, she said.
Three Phases
There are, three phases to the
program. Mrs. Ousterhout re
ported. They include the for
mation of volimteer discussion
groups considered the most im
portant segment'of the project;
Plotted
for Ike
Roosevelt
slashings and second growth tim
ber. '
Four blazes were reported
east of Portland, between Sandy
and Bull Run, near Eagle creek,
east of Colton and south of Mo
lalla. The blazes were in slash
ings. A blaze was reported in the
Willamette forest about 30 miles
southeast of Eugene in slash.
Small fires were reported in
Clark county. Wash., one of
which covered 30 acres.
Two Oregon Attorneys
Permanently Disbarred
Salem (U.R) The State Su
preme court today permanently
disbarred two Oregon attorneys
upon recommendation of the
State Bar.
They were Elmer G. Baldwin,
Roseburg, and David C. Pickett.
Portland. Neither disbarment
was contested.
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the dissemination of information
or foreign affairs through radio,
television and newspaper co
operation, and the distribution
of "fact sheets" covering the
topics of discussion, to supple
ment the other two phases.
Groups and organizations par
ticipating this year include the
temporary county committee
headed by Mrs. Ousterhout,
which serves as the focal point
of the program in Jackson
county; the Foreign Policy as
sociation, a non-profit organiza
tion formed to stimulate public
awareness of foreign problems;
the county extension office, and
through it the general and ag
ricultural extension units of the
state university and colleges,
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Eisenhower Names
Ellsworth Bunker
India Ambassador
Recess Appointment
For Ex-Red Cross Head
Augusta, Ga. (U.P) Presi
dent Eisenhower today named
Ellsworth Bunker, retiring presi
dent of the American Red Cross,
as the new ambassador to India.
Bunker was given a recess ap
pointment, subject to later Sen
ate confirmation, to succeed John
Sherman Cooper, Republican re
cently elected to the Senate from
Kentucky.
Earlier, the President an
nounced the appointment of Dr.
Lawrence Grid ley Derthick,
Chattanooga, Tenn., to be fed
eral commissioner of education.
White House Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty declined to
comment on press dispatches
from London reporting increas
ing British concern over differ
ences between this country and
the United Kingdom over Middle
East policies.
Confidential Briefing
Told that British Acting Prime
Minister R. A. Butler had called
a special Cabinet to avert a
formal break with the United
States over the Mideast, Hagerty
said glumly, "I haven't any com
ment on it."
Mr. Eisenhower was in his
temporary White House office at
the Augusta National Golf club
at 8:30 a.m. and received a high
ly confidential briefing on over
night international developments
from Col. Andres Goodpaster,
White House staff secretary and
presidential liaison for Defense
Department matters.
Mr. Eisenhower -planned to
take advantage of sunny crisp
weather and play golf later in
the -day. He also was expected
during the day to confer by tele
phone with Acting Secretary of
State Herbert Hoover Jr.
The, President will send the
White House plane, the Colum
bine III, to Key West, Fla., to
pick up Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles arid fly him to a
Sunday conference here with
Mr. Eisenhower.
The White House announced
two weeks ago that Bunker had
resigned from his Red Criss'post
to be succeeded by Gen. Alfred
M. Gruenther, retiring NATO
defense force commander.
Hagerty said today that Bunk
er, before going to New Delhi
in early January, would partici
pate with the President in con
ferences next month with Indian
Prime Minister Nehru who ar
rives in Washington Dec. 16.
Bunker, a Democrat, has been
head of the Red Cross since Jan
uary, 1954. He was the ambassa
dor to the Argentine in 1951 and
envoy to Italy from April, 1952,
to April, 1953. Before he entered
government service, he was a
director of a number of big
American corporations.
Rev. Kroon Leaves
For Seattle, Wash.
The Rev. Paul O. Kroon,
pastor of the Central Point Com
munity Bible church, and family
left this morning for Seattle to
attend funeral services for his
father and sister who were killed
in an automobile accident six
miles south of Canyonville
Saturday.
Enoch Alexander Kroon, 72,
and his daughter, Anna Kroon,
43. both of Seattle, were killed
and two other passengers were
injured when the car in which
they were riding skidded on an
icy spot on Highway 99 and
went over a 188-foot bank.
Injured in the accident were
Mrs. Agda Kroon. 48. of Seattle,
and Earl Evers, 22, Shady Cove,
son of the Rev. and Mrs. Ernest
Evers.
Funeral services will be held
in Seattle Thursday at 1 p.m.
Program
and a number of organizations
which are joining in on a vol
unteer basis. ,
Library Cooperation
Mrs. Ousterhout announced
today that she has received the
cooperation of the Medford Pub
lic library, which will serve as
a place where the fact sheets
issued for individuals and dis
cussion groups can be obtained.
A preliminary list of the areas
to be covered in the eight-week
program include Russia, Eur
ope, the Middle East, Red China,
Colonialism, Neutralism, mili
tary strategy, and trade and aid.
This is the second consecutive
year the program has been pre
sented in Jackson county. It
has also had success in other
areas throughout the nation.
Hungary Puppet Regime Offers
Amnesty To Fleeing Refugees
No Thought Given
To Acceptance
Of Proposal
Return Stipulated
Before January 1
Vienna (U.R) Hungary's
puppet government offered an
amnesty today to the 92,000
Hungarian refugees from Com
munist terror if they return to
their homeland by the end of
this year.
The offer was broadcast over
Budapest Radio to a nation still
crippled by a bitter general
strike. The thousands of refu
gees crammed into emergency
camps in Austria received the
offer cynically, with no thought
of accepting it.
No Action Planned
Radio Budapest, citing the
government organ Nep Szabad-
sag, said the amnesty law had
been ' approved by the govern
ment of Soviet sponsored Pre
mier Janos Kadar. It said the
text of the decree would be pub
lished "shortly."
The announcement said no ac
tion would be taken against any
of the men, women and children
who fled across the Iron Cur
tain to freedom in the wake of
the Hungarian rebellion, provid
ed they return to Hungary be
fore Jan. 1.
Still Fleeing Country
Kadar obviously hoped to play
on the traditional homesickness
of Hungarians who have left the
land of the Magyars. ,
But the sunge of refugees into
Austria continued. In the past
24 hours, another 4,800 crossed
the Austro-Hungarian frontier.
This was a slight increase after
two days in which the numbers
decreased.
At the same time. Radio Bud
apest kept broadcasting reports
of the alleged return to work of
striking miners and factory
workers who have kept the
country tied up economically for
weeks.
United Press Staff Correspon
dent Russell Jones reported aft
er a tour of Northern and East
ern Hungary Tuesday that the
claims of the Kadar government
that the strike has ended were
far from true. .
Parade to Start
A! 6:30 Tonight
The weather bureau .has pre
dicted "half-way decent" weath
er this evening for the fourth an
nual Christmas parade, which
starts at 6:30 p.m. at Hawthorne
park. There will be little fog,
but the air will be chilly, it was
forecast.
More than 20 floats have been
entered in the parade, according
to the Medford Junior Chamber
of Commerce officials. The Jay
cees are sponsoring the parade
in conjunction with the Retail
Merchants association.
The parade, led by Santa
Claus, will start at Hawthorne
park, go west on Main st. to
Holly St., north to Sixth st., east
to Central ave., s .th on Central
to Eighth st., east to Bartlett St.,
north to Main st., and east to
Hawthorne park.
The annual Christmas parade
marks the "official" opening of
the holiday shopping season, and
Medford stores will remain open
until 9 p.m. each Wednesday
until Christmas. During the week
of Dec. 17 through December 22,
stores will remain open until 9
p.m. each night.
Bill Kramer, parade chairman,
said he expects attendance at
the parade this year to exceed
the 8.000 who lined the streets
last year for the parade.
Salem (U.R) Oregon will
have an officials float in the
Pasadena Tournament of Roses
Darade on New Year's day to
match the appearance of Oregon
State college in the Rose Bowl.
MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1956
HOSPITAL FRAMEWORK Structural steel
framework for the new Rogue Valley Memor
ial hospital, is nearing completion at the
Barnett and Murphy rds. site. The overall
cost of the new hospital has been estimated
at 52,555,218. The contract for providing and
erecting structural steel was .awarded to
West Angered by
Refusal for UN
Look at Hungary
United Nations, N. Y. (U.R)
France said today press re
ports that French tanks were
being sent into Port Said in a
new buildup were "high fanci
ful." United Nations, N.Y. (U.R)
Western delegates grew increas
ingly angry today at the refusal
of Soviet and Hungarian offic
ials to admit UN observers into
revolt-torn Hungary.
The General Assembly has
voted overwhelmingly to de
mand the withdrawal of Soviet
troops, the end of deportation of
Hungarians and the admission
of UN observers.
The Hungarian puppet regime
has ignored UN Secretary Gen
eral Dag Hammarskjold's at
tempts to get an explanation
for the non-compliance.
Cuba Demands Report
Hammarskjold had hoped to
report to the General Assembly
Tuesday, but no answer was
forthcoming. The result was an
angry murmuring among dele
gates that new action on -Hungary
should be started.
Cuban Ambassador Emilio
Nunez - Portuondo demanded
Hammarskjold give a report
"forthwith" on the compliance,
or lack of it.
It was believed Hammarskjold
may interrupt the general de
bate today to give 'an interim
report.
After the assembly adjourned
Tuesday night, Israel - Foreign
Minister Mrs. Golda Meir re
leased a letter to the president
of the general assembly charging
Egypt has ordered more than
30,000 Jews deported.
Egypt Denies Order
It asked assembly President
Prince an Waithayokan "to ap
proach the Egyptian government
in order to cause it to desist
from the inhuman policy which
it is now pursuing."
Egypt has denied issuing any
such order and it was likely the
assembly would ask Hammar
skjold to try to clear up this
conflict also.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York (U.R) Dow
Jones final stock averages: 30
industrials 466.10, off 4.08; 20
railroads 151.15. off 1.83; 15 ut
ilities 65.93, off 0.15, and 65
stocks 165.50 off 1.36. Shares to
day were about 2,190,000 shares
compared with 2,130,000 shares
Tuesday,
Better Than Average
Pear Crop Reported
In Valley This Year
A better than average 1956
pear crop has been indicated by
a final tabulation of growers'
and shippers' reports in the
Medford district, according to
Cliff Cordy, county agent for
horticulture.
Despite considerable loss from
wind late in the season, the crop
totaled about 3.500,000 boxes,
Cordy said. The average is about
2,750,000 boxes.
About 42 per cent of the total
crop was bartletts. Of the bart
letts, about 45 per cent was sold
to the canning industry, slightly
more than the percentage sold
Christmas Preview,
Show at Ashland
Ashland The annual Christ
mas preview and gift show will
be held Thursday and Friday,
Nov. 29 and 30, in the Ashland
Armory between 7 and 11 p.m.
each evening.
The show is sponsored by the
Ashland merchants and the
Lions club, and includes several
entertainment acts in additions
to displays by merchants in
booths.
Dan Engle, president of the
Lions club, said 23 out of 24
booths available have been sign
ed by merchants. Entertainment
will include the high school
band and chorus, the high school
tumbline team. Rex Clarke,
soloist. Thurston Dance studio
performers, and a Dixieland
jazz band. -
Santa Claus will distribute
candy to children, and prizes
have been arranged.
Weather
FORECAST: Forre tonight and
Thursdav mnrnlnn in valleys,
otherwise fair throurh Thurs
day. Low toniiht 23-25. Hish
Thursday SO.
Temp.
HlrheU Yesterday 42
Lowest this Morning 25
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrite 7:1 a.m.
Sunset 4:41 p.m.
Moonrise Thursday.... 4:38 a.m.
New Moon Saturday night
PROMINENT STARS
Capeila, low in north- '
east S:4 p.m.
Aldenaran. In the east 7:29 p.m.
VISIBLE PLANETS
Mars, in the south
west 9:49 p.m.
Jupiter, In the south
east 531 a.m.
Venus, near the Moon.
Tribune
Gate City Steel company of Boise. The firm
bid $99,200 for the work. A. V. Peterson and
company, Portland, was low bidder for gen
eral construction. Peterson's bid was $2,040,
404, but through negotiations with the board
of directors price of $1,938,000 was estab
lished. -. . .v. i
to canners last year.
All winter pears, Cordy said,
are sold on the fresh fruit mar
ket. It has been estimated that
more than 16 per cent of the
total national consumption of
fresh pears is produced in the
Medford district.
Harold Holmes, president of
the Rogue River Valley Traffic
association, noted that the larg
er crop prompted additional ef
forts to expand the industry
market promotion to sell the
crop. Excellent quality this year
sustains the high demand for
Medford pears on the national
and world markets, Holmes said.
Additional advances in pack
ing and storage techniques in
the past few years have extend
ed the marketing season of
pears, with a resultant increase
in consumption and better con
trol of .supply reaching the mar
ket in an orderly fashion, he
noted.
Cordy stated two reasons for
the increase in the total crop.
They are the large size of bart
lett fruit this year, and the sub
stantially greater amount of
D'Anjous.
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Arms Shipments
To Syria Viewed
With Concern
Syria Advised
Of Displeasure
Copenhagen, Denmark
(UP) Russia's For
eign Minister D. T. Shepi
lov said tonight he has "in
contestable information"
that Britain, Trance and
Israel intend to attack Sy
ria, , Lebanon and .other
Mideastern countries.
Washington (U.R) The
United State? accused Russia to
day of creating tensions in the
Middle East by sending arms
into the area.
The charge was made by State
Department Press Officer Lin
coln White.
He said Russia has sent "sub
stantial shipments" of weapons
into Syria in recent months,
some of them after hostilities
brought on by the invasion of
Egypt.
Sources Well-Known'
The United States, he said,
takes the view that the Soviet
move is doing nothing toward
relaxing tension in the Middle
East. On the contrary, he said,
"it is adding to these tensions
in. the area." -
Asked whether Russia or
Syria was creating the tension,
White said:
"The source of the material
is certainly well known."
He added that a close reading
of reports put out by Pravda,
Radio Moscow and other Soviet
organs would show "who is at
tempting to create further ten
sions in this area."
White said the United States
has advised Syria of its displeas
ure over the Soviet arms ship
ments.
Discussions Carried On
U. S. diplomats In Damascus,
he said, have been carrying on
discussions with the Syrian gov
ernment about the Middle East
crisis for the past few days.
The U. S. diplomats, he said,
emphasized in these talks "the
need for support for the United
Nations of its efforts to restore
peace in the area and the need
to reduce prevailing tension
through the cooperation of all
states concerned."
White said he did not know
whether the United States has
complained to Moscow.
Although it has been unable
to do anything more than com
plain orally, the United States
has become increasingly con
cerned about such pro-Soviet
moves as these made by Syria:
Buying Russian arms, recogniz
ing Red China, relying almost
entirely on the Russian news
agency Tass for outside news
and the censoring of the U. S.
information bulletin.
Tito!" "You And Your
Stalin!"