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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.
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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"
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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.
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