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0 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON q THURSDAY. MAY 17. 196 g Retired Navy Strategist Sees Heed To Stop Reds in Southeast Asia B 3 By CHARLES R. MOORE I Charles M. Cooke Jr.. USlf Sonoma, Calif. -fl!PD - Adm.(ret.), former commander of THIS WEEK ONLY 161 FALCON 4 Door Sedan Doluxe trim. Radio. tieih air Owner. A teal Bargain. . .White. 101 k.p. engine, heater, straight atick. One RUN, DON'T WALK $1699 LEA MOTORS 5th and Bartlett 12th and Riverside the U.S. 7th fleet and a military-political strategist with a remarkable record of accurate prophecy, said today that if the Communists are not stopped in Laos and South Viet Nam they will continue toward conquest of all Southeast Asia. And that conquest, he said, is just part of their overall plan to communize the whole world. Cooke said he approved of President Kennedy's action in sending U.S. Marines into Thailand but that the move came late and still was not in sufficient force. "I would put at least a Ma rine division i.'O Thailand," Cooke said in an exclusive in terview with United Press In ternational. "At the same time I would put a guerrilla-trained division of Marines in South Viet Nam and on a fighting rather than merely advisory basis." "Our decision should be to stop and turn back Commu nist aggression and we should use forces sufficient to do it. We did it in Lebanon. And we did it in Korea, although we did not carry through to victory." Retired Unwillingly Cooke was commander of the 7th Fleet from June, 1946 to February, 1948. Retired un willingly at the mandatory age of 62 in 1948, he contin ued military activity as ad viser to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and frequent con sultant to Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur during the Korean War. It was at his California ranch that he talked with this correspondent about the latest Far Eastern crisis. Cooke recalled that in May, 1945, Fleet Admiral Ernest King asked him for a memo on the Navy's role in the post war years. Cooke told him that: -Unless the United States prevented it, Russia would ex pand too fast and too far. -Unless the United States prevented it, the Communists would take over China. -In order to carry out U.S. policy, all services must be prepared to carry out local war. "Nobody believed that," he said today, "until Korea." Order Incredible Cooke said that in 1948, when the U.S. government ordered its troops out of South Korea, he found it in credible, and'said so in an interview with Frank H. Bar tholomew, former president and present chairman of the board of United Press Inter national. He said he considered it "disastrous" in January, 1950, when U.S. government policy put Korea outside U.S. de fense lines. The North Ko reans, with Russian and later Chinese Communist backing, attacked in June. Warm of Threat When the Korean cease fire talks began, Cooke warn ed that if the Chinese Com munists were let off without a decisive defeat they would move into North Viet Nam. In 1955 North Viet Nam sur rendered. Cooke said he did not be lieve the Communists intend to attack Thailand immediate ly, but that with Laos prac tically lost the Reds have a pathway to new atacks iq South Viet Nam and for threats to Thailand. "Each time we let them get away with something," he said, "we weaken ourselves. Other countries figure the United States is never going to do anything. As we con tinue to retreat, we are weak- See What 88c Buys This Weekend at Your Friendly Neighborhood Safeway Store Mar Deisms Frozen Pies ans Down Coke Mixes, 6 flavors. Reg. 39c. a uce game wages Town House, finest tomato sauce. Reg. 327e value. Coldbrook. Fin quality. Spreads smoothly. Reg. J9e Cragmont. 12 sparkling flavors. Plus bottle deposit. Reg. 6 for $1. Banquet, frozen, A varieties. Quick, easy to fix meals. 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Southern Pacific Earnings Increase n First Quarter Wilmington, Del. - The. general Improvement in busi ness conditions this year over those of early 1961 has pro duced more traffic for South ern Pacific and resulted in better first quarter earnings, J. Russell, SP president, reported at the railroad's an nual meeting here, today. First quarter rail revenues for the system totalled $190, 363,000 - up $14,970,000. Net income of SP and its subsidiaries for the three month period was $17,733,000 equivalent to 65 cents a share, compared to 55 cents share a year ago. Auto Shipments Lead Traffic gains were register ed in nearly every category of freight, Russell said. Lead ing increases were in ship ments of automobiles and parts, lumber and plywood, iron and steel manufactures, ores and concentrates, and canned goods. Last year's heavy movement of steel pipe for gas line construction on the West Coast was not dupli cated and this traffic showed decline. Russell said that Southern Pacific this year will invest about $93 million in capital improvements - bringing ex penditures for modernization of plant and acquisition of equipment to one-quarter bil lion dollars In just the past three years. Morse Proposes Limit on Imports Washington - (UPD - Sen, Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) Wed nesday proposed an amend ment providing tor limitation of exports to the U.S. from foreign nations to cover tim ber and timber products. The amendment was co sponsored by Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.). Morse said the amendment was a substitute for an amend ment offered by Sen. Karl Mundt (R-S.D.) on a bill auth orizing final ratification, of President Kennedy's textile agreement. The agreement was negoti ated with several countries to limit textile imports into the nation. The Mundt amendment would prevent the textile agreements being put into effect until similar agreements had been negotiated by Presi dent Kennedy for several other commodities. 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