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1 Ifl o) I) irk . rh A HA r 51st Year Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 20 Pages resident itatement Men Who Joined Guard Couldn't Be 'Slackers' No Intent Seen To Darnage Guard Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower said today tha: De fense Secretary Charles E. Wil son's "draft dodging" statement about the National Guard was very unwise. ' Mr. Eisenhower told his news conference that the men who joined the National Guard cer tainly could not have been slack- ers when they entered the guard under poper provisions of law. Didn't Stop To Think He said he did not believe that Wilson wanted to damage the .National Guard, but he thought his secretary of defense certain ly made a very unwise statement without stopping to think. Wilson told a House Armed Services Subcommittee Monday that the National Guard was a "sort of scandal" during the Ko rean war; that some young men were using it as a "draft dodg ing business." Wilson stuck to his charge Tuesday after a conference with Mr. Eisenhower. Wilson told re porters his language may have been tough but that it was an accurate account of the situa tion. Defends King's Visit Other highlights at the Presi dent's meeting with reporters today: 1. He strongly defended his conferences here with King Saud of Saudi Arabia and the possible visit of Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia to this country. He said he deplores any discourtesy shown to visitors who come here as representatives of govern ments and in an effort to ameli orate difficulties. This was a ref erence to New York Mayor Rob ert F. Wagner's snub to Saud Tuesday. 2. He said he would not run again even if Congress changed the 22nd amendment which lim its a President to two terms in office. 3. He was unrestrained in his praise of Secretary of ' State John Foster Dulles. As for Dem ocratic charges that Dulles' ac tions in the past had contribut ed to Middle East difficulties, the President said vehemently that Dulles never had taken any action that he had not approved in advance. No Proposals Submitted 4. He said that Democratic critics of administration foreign policy those who talked about great blunders had failed to his knowledge to submit pro posals of what should have been done in the Middle East, even with the benefit of hindsight He said generalized attacks were easy to make. 5. Mr. Eisenhower indirectly rebuffed a statement by his dis armament adviser, Harold E. Stassen. that the Republicans might have won control of Con gress if former Gov. Christian A. Herter of Massachusetts had been GOP vice presidential nom inee instead of Richard M. Nix on. The President when asked about Stassen's assertion, re plied that he was frequently amused during World War II when American forces had ach ieved results in battle that no one though possible. Invariably, he said, someone would come along after the battle to show how they might have von an even bigger victory. Mr. Eisenhower's discussion of Wilson's remarks about the National Guard largely support ed the defense secretary's posi tion that the National Guard needs a more rigorous form of basic military training. But he openly quarreled with Wilson's choice of language. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York IU.P.) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 480.53, up 3.61: 20 rail roads 149.59, up 1.14: 15 utili ties 71.05, up 0.30; and 65 stocks 170.45, up 1.17. Sales today were about 1.950.000 shares com pared with 1,800,000 shares Tuesday. 1 MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1957 Savs 'Very IP"' NT1 . 1 if Jis-'-tr o&sz f l Sftfi CHARLES E. WILSON Remark Starts Furor Stale Senator Calls on Wilson To Make Apology Salem (U.R) State Sen. Dwight H. Hopkins today called upon Charles E. Wilson to apol ogize to the National Guard for implying it was used for draft dodging, or resign as secretary of defense. Sen. Hopkins, whose brother, Frank Hopkins Jr., went from the Oregon National Guard into World War II and lost his life in action, wrote Secretary Wil son: "I was shocked, amazed and surprised at your statement, as reported in the press, before the House Armed Services commit tee, that, and I quote, 'It was sort of a scandal, during the Korean war, a draft dodging business. A boy 17 to 182 could enlist in the National Guard, and not be drafted to fight in Korea.' Direct Insult "It is my humble thought that such a statement is a direct in sult, not only to the men who gave up so much to serve in this second line of defense for our country, but to those who have served in the National Guard in peace time and emergency." Sen. Hopkins concluded: "I firmly believe. Mr. Secre tary, that such a statement should be retracted, and an apology made, otherwise, what loyalty will the members of the National Guard have for the secretary of defense? If this is not done. Mr. Secretary, a resig nation would be very much in order." New York (UP Roger M. Blough, chairman of U. S. Steel Corp.. said on the whole, things look "pretty good" for the steel industry this year. "Don't Be Discouraged Wilsons Wilson To To Explain Charges To Subcommittee Washington (U.R) Rep. Overton Brooks (D-La.), said to day he will invite Defense Sec retary Charles E. Wilson to ex plain his charge that the Na tional Guard was a "draft-dodging business" during the Korean war. Brooks, whose Armed Ser vices subcommittee starts hear ings Monday on National Guard reserve problems, told a report er he would ask Wilson to give the subcommittee the "benefit of his studies and his convic tions." "Apparently he has convic tions," Brooks said. Wilson told the House Armed Services committee Monday that he thought that the Guard became "sort of a scandal" dur ing the Korean war. He said youths joined the Guard to av oid being drafted for combat duty in Korea. Starts Furor The statement started a furor across the nation, out Wilson stuck to his guns Tuesday when queried by newsmen at the White House aiter a visit to the President. He said he knew of "no rea son to apologize." "If any one thinks I am against the National Guard, of course they are wrong," he add ed. "I'm trying to get the Na tional Guard efficient and train ed." Angry National Guardsmen, state legislatures, and members of Congress continued to fill the air with resolutions, telegrams and statements demanding that Wilson resign or apologize. The Georgia Senate adopted a resolution demanding that Presi dent Eisenhower fire the defense chief. The South Carolina House of Representatives branded Wil son's statement as an "insult" to that state. Governors Join Attack A resolution calling on Wil son to apologize cleared the Rhode Island Senate but was stalled in the House. Several governors joined in the attack. Some sample comment: Gov. Frank Clement of Ten nessee said he would try to shift his Army reserve commis sion to the National Guard "to show my faith" in the Guard. Gov. James E. Folsom of Ala- Salem (U.R) The House State and Federal Affairs Committee has approved a memorial urg ing Congress to start immediate construction of John Day dam. Salem U.P.) Ioannis Peri cles Boutos of Athens, Liberal party member of the Greek par liament, was a guest of honor at the Oregon Legislature today. I'll Put You Over Yet" Price 10c Tribune United Press Full Leased Win No. 267 nvise Be Asked bama said the Alabama Guard went into federal service "100 per cent" during the Korean conflict. He said Wilson should apologize. Sen. Herman Talmadge (D- Ga.), said Wilson had demon strated again that he has "the worst case of foot-in-mouth dis ease in Washington. Dragging Continues On Rogue for Body Of Grants Pass Man State and city police, sheriff's deputies and sportsmen in the Rogue River-Grants Pass area were still dragging today for the body of Charles J. Howe, 60, Grants Pass, who is believed to have drowned when the station wagon he was driving plunged into the Rogue river Monday night. The unoccupied vehicle was recovered from the water near Miller's Gulch bridge Tuesday morning. Search Hampered Dragging operations started shortly before noon yesterday. The search was halted when it became dark, then resumed early this morning. State police said it seemed unlikely the body would be recovered very soon It was explained that sub-freezing temperatures cause a body to remain near the river bottom rather than rise to the surface. Ice and silt in the water also hampered the search, officers said. Investigation revealed the sta tion wagon was registered to Cecilia Cochran, Grants Pass. Police said she apparently regis tered the car in her name before she married Howe. Mrs. Howe is reported to have boarded a bus for California last week. Ray Holmes, 57, Rogue River, who fell into the river during dragging operations Tuesday afternoon, was reported still in "fair" condition at Sacred Heart hospital today. He sustained a severe head cut and other in juries in the fall, it was reported State's Bitter Cold Expected To Ease By UNITED PRESS Old man winter's icy grip on western Oregon eased today with the word "rain" again ap pearing in forecasts. It also was getting warmer in eastern Ore gon but readings down to zero were expected in that region to night. The weather bureau said a storm front was moving south eastward from the Gulf of Al aska and that rain was falling this morning on the Washington coast. The front follows an ear lier disturbance of lesser inten sity which brought a few snow flurries to Washington and northwest Oregon. The second storm front is ex pected to bring in warmer air aloft. Mixed rain and snow was expected in western Oregon, changing to rain Thursday. Snow flurries were forecast east of the mountains. Victim of Gun Shot Reported Improving Burse H. Cathey, 105 G st., Eagle Point, is improving satis factorily according to Rogue Valley hospital officials today. Cathey was shot late Saturday evening when he and another highway department employee arrived on the scene of an over turned car when they were out operating a snow plow. State police arrested Clarence Edward Michel III, Dillard, who they said admitted the shooting, and is being held in county jail on $10,000 bond on charges of assault with a dangerous weapon. FROM JAPAN Mr. and Mrs. Allen G. Rol lins of Eagle Point were on hand at the San Francisco airport Saturday, Jan. 19, to greet their newly-adopted Japanese-American chil dren, Rebekah, 5, and Danny, 8 months. They flew in with nine other children who have been adopted by American families. The adop tion was made by proxy through the World Mission to Children. Above, Mrs. Rollins helps the children open gifts they received at a shower last Friday at the Berean Baptist church in Camp White. Standing behind Re-1 House Approves Mid-East Doctrine By Big Majority Washington 4U.R) The House today overwhelmingly approved President Eisenhower's "fight if we must" plan to protect the Middle East from Russian ag gression. Passage was by a roll call vote of 355 to 61. Approval came after the House rejected, by a standing vote of 191 to 45, an attempt to kill the resolution by sending it back to the House Foreign Relations Committee. The measure now goes to the Senate where it faces a stormy course. Mr. Eisenhower requested the measure to strengthen his hand In dealing with the crisis in the oil-rich Middle East and the dan gers of Communist penetration of the area. The House voted him substan tially what he asked: 1. Authority to use U.S. mili tary forces, if necessary, to re sist Communist aggression against any nation in the Middle East which seeks our help in meeting such an attack. 2. Authority to spend an ex tra $200 million of U.S. econo mic aid for the area before June 30. No specific projects have been proposed, and virtual ly the only limitation on use of the money is that no Middle East country can receive more than $30 million of it. The House action came soon after Mr. Eisenhower, at a news conference, stoutly defended Secretary of State John Foster Dulles against Democratic charges that Dulles diplomacy has failed in the Middle East Low of 73 Degrees Registered at Airport A low of 13 degrees above zero was registered at the Med ford weather station at the air tort this morning, tying the rec ord low here for Jan. 30. A 13-degree low reading was reported for this date in 1950. Forecast for tonight is for continued cold but with the an ticipated minimum up to 20 de grees. The five-day outlook of the weather bureau is for tem peratures much below normal but with a slowly rising trend. Weather FORECAST: Variable cloudi ness but continued cold to night. Increasing cloudiness with chance of mow flurrie Thursday. Low tonight 20. High Thursday 38. Temp. Highest Yesterday 32 Lowest this Morning 13 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 7:2 a.m. 5:23 p.m. Sunset New Moon 1:24 p.m. ALGOL, the most remarkable of the periodic variable stars, fades out tonieht, reaching Its minimum of brUliance at S P-m. when it win be only one fourth as bright as it normally is. Berrydale Residents To Begin Campaign A new "all-out" campaign to annex the Berrydale area to the city of Medford will be made by residents there, it was de cided last night. - - Fifteen members of the Berry dale Sanitation committee, elect ed by their neighbors to con duct a study of ways and means of obtaining sanitary services, voted unanimously to work for annexation to the city, as the "only feasible solution" to the district's problem. At last night's meeting, held at the home of Walter H. Froh- reich, 303 Berrydale ave., the committee members reviewed the studies they have made of the problem and its possible so lutions. They have been at work since shortly after the Nov. 6 election, when voters of the area turned down annexation by a vote of 487 to 240. The committee agreed to con duct a house-to-house and block-to-block canvass of the area, with four objectives in mind. They said these are to keep in terest in the problem alive, to provide residents with pertinent information about annexation and its alternatives, to assess the chances for success in an other annexation election, and to set realistic boundaries for an annexation area. . . Invited to Join Areas adjacent to the Berry dale district have been invited to join in the attempt, if they so desire, and residents on Elk St., and Elliott and Connell aves., will be invited to another meet ing next Monday, and will be asked to serve as "block cap tains" in the renewed campaign. Nick Gier, chairman of the committee, said the group will get these activities under way immediately. After the prelim inary data is gathered, the next step will be to present it to the city planning commission, which can then set boundaries and recommend the city council call another annexation election. Annexation of Two Districts in Effect Thp secretary of state's office has notified City Treasurer Dar ell Huson the annexation of the Kenwood-Grandview districts to Medford became effective Mon day. The districts were annexed by city council after a public hear ing earlier this month. The area is about 1,506 acres, bringing the total acreage of the citv to about 5,002 acres. Pop ulation in the Kenwood-Grand view area has been estimated at 1.300, bringing the total popula tion of Medford to about 21.350 Kenwood - Grandview, along with 1,191 acres in southeast Medford, which was annexed last summer, almost double the number of acres now within the city. f bckah is David, 4, another of the Rollins' adopted children. Another child, Tommy, 6, was in school when the picture was taken. The Rollins own the all-Jersey Long Moun tain dairy in Eagle Point. Arriving at the same time as Rebekah and Danny but unable to be in the picture were two other Japanese Amer ican children, David, 9, and Mary Lou, 2, who were adopted through the same organization by Mr. and Mrs. Sherril Cuddy of Prospect. The children will automatically become citi zens after two years in this country. Gier declared he believes one of the reasons the annexation proposal was defeated last No vember was because of mislead ing information about taxation for areas before and after they join the city. He said .facts on taxation will be given wide spread distribution in the next few months. Rampaging Walers Hi! Several Towns ' By UNITED PRESS Colder and clearing weather today was expected to ease the torrent of rampaging river waters that killed at least one person, and left three others missing in four Eastern states. The flash floods in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee swamped some 13. communities and caused dam ages of several million dollars. Heavy rains were blamed for the floods. Pound, Va., in the Cumber land valley, was flooded by a 16-foot wall of water, and flood waters at Barbourville, Ky., reachei a depth of 20 feet. The floodwaters isolated Lo gan, W. Va., a community of 5.000 persons, and Hazard, Ky., during the night. A seven-year-old boy supped and drowned while crossing Mud Fork Creek in Logan county, W. Va., and three persons were missing. An elderly couple was missing at Pound, and a man was reported carried away by floodwaters near Harlan, Ky. A radio operator in Hazard, Ky., sent a distress signal stating the community was completely isolated by water. Other floods hit Welch, W. Va., isolating that community and forcing evacuation of some families. A power failure blacked out the Welch emer gency hospital. King Saud Receives Hearty Welcome From Eisenhower Washington U.P.) King Saud of Saudi Arabia arrived here for a state visit today and received a "hearty welcome" from Presi dent Eisenhower. The President personally greeted the bearded, bespecta cled monarch of six million Arabs as he stepped from the plane which flew him here from New York. Great Leader "Your Majesty, on behalf of the American people, I heartily welcome you to the United States," Mr. Eisenhower said. "We recognize in you a great leader of the Arab people and the custodian of the cities most Welding Torches , May Have Started Fire on Tanker Nearly 50 Injured; Dead Badly Charred Alameda, Calif. (U.R) Weld ers' torches may have touched off petroleum lumes aboard the oil tanker S. S. Jeanny, causing a series of explosions and a fire that killed nine men and injured nearly 50, a spokesman for Todd Shipyards said today. The spokesman said the fumes may have been trapped in a tank next to the boiler room of the 10,000-ton ship, which was be ing readied for use in the Mid- East oil crisis. Probably Fed Fir That tank may have con tained fuel oil," the spokesman said. "If it was the first to blow up, as we suspect, the fuel prob ably fed the fire that followed the initial explosion." Six of the dead were found huddled in a corner of the boiler room, their hideously charred bodies resembling the victims of an atomic blast. The bodies of three others were removed from an adjacent hold. Many Injured Critical Many of the injured were in critical condition. They suffered terrible agony. The limbs of some were nearly ripped off by the force of the explosion while others were so badly burned that skin was falling from their faces and arms." The accident took place Tues day at 3:10 p.m. while nearly 250 workmen were aboard. It was like being hit in the face with a giant fist," said Lee Kilpatrick, 46, of Oakland, one of the injured workmen. "The explosion sounded like a bomb. It knocked me down on a catwalk on the bottom deck of the ship." Lights Went Out Eugene Fitch, 37, Oakland, an. electrician, said "there must have been a hundred of us" in the engine and boiler rooms. "I was standing with- two or three other men. All of a sudden there was a boom and 1 was knocked down. The lights went out and my glasses and face were covered with oil." It was discovered later that the force of the explosion hurled a worker against the light panel, wrecking the switches. "We hung on to each other and beaded for tiie ladder about 40 feet away," Fitch continued. "It was the only one in the place and people were milling around in the dark, hollering. The smoke was so thick you could hardly breathe." Five minutes later, a second explosion ripped through the boiler room, trapping and killing both workmen and rescuers be low decks. With the explosion, a brilliant sheet of flame rose to the sky. It could be seen in San Francisco seven miles distant. Then an enormous cloud of black smoke welled up, blotting the ship from view. Two smaller explosions followed. Peddicord Loses In Appeal To Court Salem (U.R) William Clar ence Peddicord, the blind Port land chemist who was sentenced to not more than 20 years for bombing Meier and Frank De partment store in "Portland, to day failed in an appeal to the State Supreme Court to reduce his sentence. The court has the power to review a sentence claimed to be excessive. But Chief Justice Willitm C. Perry said that in order to use this power intelligently, the court should have before it records of relevant evidence as to circumstances of the crime and all other facts bearing on the reasonableness of the pun ishment. sacred to Islam. We are honored by your visit." The welcome was in contrast to the snub the visiting monarch received Tuesday from Mayor Robert F. Wagner of New York. . Before he went to the airport, Mr. Eisenhower alluded to that snub by telling his news confer ence he deplored any discour tesy shown official visitors. Government Hopeful The U.S. government is hope ful Saud's visit here will help pave the way to Arab under standing and support of the President's Middle East doc trine. Saud is a key figure in the Mideast Arab block and re cently conferred with leaders of I Egypt, Syria and Jordan. i . Jt
