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Eisenhower Submits Broad Housing Program Tureatening Phone Calls Said Made In Dickenson Case Court Martial Plan Cause of Controversy Washington (U.P)-An Army colonel said today he has received threatening telephone calls since he announced the arrest of Cpl. Edward S. Dickenson, the Korean war prisoner who chose and then rejected Communism. Cpl. Norman E.

Sprowl reported that three callers sharply criticized the Army's handling of the case and made what he described as threats. "One man thought we had promised to free these men and said he didn't like what we were doing," Sprowl reported. "The general idea was 'we'll get you for Dealing With Enemy Sprowl, public information officer for the military district here, announced Friday that Dickensun was being held for court martial on charges of dealing with the enemy and seeking "favorable treatment" as a POW. The colonel said he considered his callers cranks and did not ask for police protection. Timing Starts Debate The threats came as a storm raged between Defense and Army officials over the timing of Dickerson's arrest at the Army's Walter Reed Hospita here.

A Defense spokesman calle1 the Army's action "something be tween discourtesy and insolence and said it "probably ended for all time any likellhood" the 21 remaining pro- Red American POWs will decide to returr. democracy. Must Resist Enemy Assistant Defense Secreta John A. Hannah denied the I tense Department ever promired to exonerate returned prison re who formerly said they wanted to stay with the Reds. "We don't want to encour 'ge people in time of war not to resist the enemy.

It would cause very bad military morale if the notion became widespread that a man should go. ahead and Aurrender, and he might come lack a hero." Unrepatriated Yanks To Stay at Panmunjom Munsan, Korea (U.P.) The Communists intend to kemp 21 unrepatriated Americans da the neutral zone at Panmunjom until a Korean peace conference has discussed their status, Ult diplomats believed today. It was believed that the Reds, as a propaganda move, would refuse take away the Americans, one Briton and about 325 South Koreans. They wire expected to insist that the "progressives" who refused to g0 home are technically still prisoners. The Reds hold that all prisoners should have been held until a peace conference had discussed their fate for 30 days.

Weather FORECAST: Snow, mixed with rain in valleys tonight Varied cloudiness with snow Showers Tuesday. Continued cool. Low tonight 30-32. Highs 'Tuesday 36-38. Temp.

Highest yesterday Lowest this morning 22 Prec. To 4:30 a.th. today trace Poet Laureate Succumbs Ben Hur Lampman Dies After Lengthy Illness Ben Hur Lampman, poet laur-, eate of Oregon, associate editor of the Portland Oregonian, and onetime Jackson county newspaperman, died yesterday in Portland after a lengthy illness. He was 67 years of age. Mr.

Lampman came to Oregon in 1912 from North Dakota, moving to Gold Hill, where he served as editor and publisher of the weekly Gold Hill News until 1916. He was associated with his brother, Rex Lampman, in operation of the paper. Mail Tribune Correspondent During the same period from 1912 until 1916 Mr. Lampman also was Gold Hill Tribune. correspondent In 1916, for he The moved Mail to the Oregonian as police reporter Foreign Butter Import OK'd by Government eral government is permitting New, York (U.PO The fedthe import of 707,000 pounds of foreign butter this year in spite of its vast program of buying surplus American butter to supfarm prices, the New York world Telegram and Sun reported.

The Scripps Howard newspaper said that although foreign imports will be only "a dribble" compared to federal purchases of 1,500,000 pounds of butter a day, merchants feel nothing should be brought in "which will have an adverse effect on domestic production, on marketing storage, and on price support programs." More Snow Expected Over Oregon Tonight By UNITED PRESS A new storm front was expected to bring more snow to Oregon tonight as slides and their after effects caused trouble in several areas, including one that knocked out the main water line at. St. Helens. Mixed rain and snow was expected in western Oregon today with snow over much of the state tonight. The temperature dipped to eight degrees below zero at Klamath Falls early today and near or below freezing readings were reported all over the state.

Court To Call Election on Future of Grazing District The Jackson county court, settlement based on past particiacting as the board of the Pilot pation. Rock Grazing district, stated Ben Lombard, Ashland attoday that it would call an elec- torney, representing the Greention in the near future on dis- springs Cattle corporation, stated solution of the grazing district, that there was no dispute over according to Mrs. Bereth Hop- the grazing problems as all the kins, country clerk. cattlemen affected, except Fox, Judge J. B.

Coleman and the had joined the corporation or county commissioners believed another body, the Camp Creek that the action was necessary as Cattlemen's association, which a result of private associations includes California members. being formed by cattlemen who Dennis Hess of the BLM stated formerly used the district's lease that the two groups had filed apwith the federal government. plications for 10 year leases. The court, acting as the district's Peterson indicated that the aphoard, had made a petition this plications by the corporation morning to the Bureau of Land and California group would be Management under the same approved, except for a portion leasing terms as the past, but contiguous with Fox's holdings the petition will be rejected as which will be leased to him on a Indicated by enc Peter- private basis if he desires. Peterson, district forester of the BLM.

son explained that the former Judge Coleman. lso stated that dispute over permitees in Orelive board would not app al the gon and California had been forester's 1 rejection, althoush At- settled by dividing the former torney Ervin Hogar, reprosent- grazing district at Soda mouning H. H. Fox, requested them to tain and leasing it to the groups do so. Hogan contended the the in both states.

Other portions of rights of Tax, who is the inly the former district have been cattleman affected who is not a leased under arrangement with member of two new groups, wire the Keene Creek Cattleman's asderived from the board and that sociation and other private perFox: was entitled to a reasonab sons, he added. PULITZER AWARD 1934 TRIBUNE United Press- -Full Lassed Wire United Press- -Full Leased Wire 48th Year 14 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1954 No. 265 Gives Up Jne-Man Rule of Probe Committee West Offers Peace Molotov Asks Big Five seting Foreign Ministers Open Conference In American Zone West European Army Plan Told at Parley London (U.P.) The West laid down a blueprint for peace at the opening of the Big Four Foreign Ministers Conference today and Russia replied with a demand for a Big Five conference including Communist China. Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov warned the three Western foreign ministers that the Soviet Union might organize an Eastern defense bloc if they persist in ratifying the European defense pact which is to bring German troops into Western defense.

Atom Plan Adoption Asked France and Britain, speaking for the Western allies, told Russia that they will go through with their plan for a West European army, including German troops. They called for adoption of President Eisenhower's atomsfor-peace plan as offering the first solid hope of avoiding an atomic war. They called for' free all-German election, step toward German unification. Molotov replied by calling formally for a Big Five conference, including the Red Peiping government, to discuss world tensions. It was the French foreign minister, the first speaker the conference, who gave, the backing to Mr.

Eisenhower's toric plan. Speaking for the foreign ministers of the United States, Britain and France, French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault said: "Peace is urgent everywhere. The bold offer of the President of the United States offers, for the first time, the possibility of envisaging progress, toward a solution of the problem of the atomic Appeal To Soviet Bidault was addressing an appeal directly to dour Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslay M. Molotov as the ministers met around a hollow square table in the former Allied Control Authority building in the American sector of West Berlin. It was the first meeting of the Big Four foreign ministers since the summer of 1949.

Molotov was expected, as his big move, to explode a "peace bombshell" in the form of an offer to end the cold war and give sweeping security guaran1 ed tees in Germany exchange and for the a of the Western Defense alli. ances. Three Local Youths Enlist in U.S. Navy Claire Montgomery Cooper, third son of Mr. and Mrs.

Loren Cooper of Star Ranger station to enter the Navy, has arrived at San Diego, for basic training. He hopes to later join his two brothers, Loran Cooper and David R. Cooper, who are serving on a destroyer squadron ship. Loren Cooper is a fire controlman second class and David Cooper is a seaman. Also entering the Navy, Jan.

20, at the same time as young Cooper Henry Ogle, route 3, box Medford; and Orville Jefferson, Camp, Selma, who also are at San Diego. Ex-State Legislator Passes at Prineville Prineville (U.P.) James Oakes, former member of the Oregon Legislature, died yesterday of a heart attack here. He was 69. Oakes came to Oregon 50 years ago and settled in the Powell Butte area of Crook county. He was president of the State Barber Board for many years.

Eleven Residents Escape Early Morning Hotel Fire Tacoma (U.P.) Fire gutted a downtown residential hotel here early today but the fire department said the 11 residents, including two invalids, escaped uninjured. Major Proposals Include Longer Repayment Period Renovation Funds Would be Included Hemingway and Wif Survive Two Crashes 6 In African Jungles Entebbe, Uganda Ernest Hemingway came out of the lion country of Uganda today with only an injured arm to show for two jungle airplane crashes he survived in one week end. The American author who often has made the African jungle the background for his tales of rugged life and violent death went to a doctor at Butiaba on Lake Albert, on his way back. The doctor advised an x-ray of the injured arm. But Hemingway, who lives as dangerously as his hairy chested heroes, apparently thought he was not that badly injured.

Wife Was Unhurt With his wife, who like him escaped two crashes either of which might have been fatal, Hemingway left Butiaba for Entebbe by automobile. She was unhurt. Mrs. Hemingway is the former war correspondent Mary Welsh of Chicago. The first accident occurred Saturday when the single-engined Cessna plane the Hemingways had chartered to ferry them over Muchison Falls crash landed in jungle scrub near the banks of the Nile within three miles of Victoria Falls.

Hemingway, his wife and pilot Roy Marsh walked to the river and hitch hiked by tourist launch to. Butiabacon Lake Albert, Arriving yesterday afternoon. At dusk they boarded De $1.25 a Pound Coffee Prices Predicted New -Housewives may be paying as much as $1.25 pound for coffee by the end per of February, the National Coffee association of the United States reported today. The outlook for the consumer is bleak and apparently will stay that way for some time to come, members of the association said here at a press conference. "The association views with grave concern the recent steady increases in green coffee prices, the reason for which is a tight situation of supply brought on by drought and frost conditions in Brazil where about 50 per cent of the world's coffee is grown," it said.

Eugene Transportation Firm Has Money Trouble Eugene (U.P.) Another Oregon mass transportation firm today reported financial troubles stemming from reduced patronage. The Eugene office of City Transit Lines, which holds franchises for service in Eugene, Salem and Springfield, said some Eugene schedules would have to be dropped unless business improves. Havilland Rapide aircraft sent by the East Africa Charter Corp. to return them Entebbe. On takeoff, the Rapide hit bump, bounced, hit another bump and careened off the runway.

It ground looped into a sisal (a hemp-like plant) plantation and burst into flames. The fire destroyed the airplane but again the Hemingways caped in a run of luck unrivaled in the writer's array of fiction. Approximately 700 Mothers to March Thursday Night Approximately 700 mothers will hold the spotlight Thursday night when they join forces annual Mothers' March on Polio, to be held from 7 to 8 p.m. The mothers, who have been assigned to blocks direction of Mrs. Earl Leever, Medford chairman, will call only at houses where an invitation is Youve got MARCH ON POLIO THURSDAY, JANUARY 28 extended by a lighted porch light.

Persons residing apartment houses, or those in hotels or motels, may extend an invitation to the marching mothers by hanging a shoe or other object on a door knob. Nearly every community in the county plans to hold its own Mothers' March and Mrs. Leever said all Medford suburban areas will be covered by the mothers. No mother is being asked to cover more than a block and the entire march is scheduled to be over by 8 o'clock. Mrs.

Leever, herself the mother of a polio victim, today pointed out the terrific cost of hospitalization, doctors' fees and other costs in urging every house in Medford to have a lighted porch light between 7 and 8 p.m. Thursday. "Now that the National Foundation for. Infantile Paralysis is on the threshold of arriving at a solution for dreaded polio, it would be a shame our contributions to fall short. If that should happen, some portions of the Foundation's four fronts will have to be curtailed, and right when a streak of sunshine is coming through the dark cloud of polio," Mrs.

Leever said. The "four fronts" to which Mrs. Leever referred are tient care, professional tion, research and prevention. Washington (U.R) Sen. Joseph R.

McCarthy, today gave up his man" rule over hiring and firing stat! employees of his Senate Permanent Investigation Subcommittee in an effort to bring Democratic members back to the group. who resigned the subcomThree Democratic, senators, mittee last July in protest against against the rule, were present at a subcommittee "conterence" when McCarthy and three other Republican members voted unanimously to rescind the rule. "Hereafter, the hiring and firing will be done by a majority of the subcommittee," McCarthy said. Democrats Deliberate The Democrats, Sens. John L.

McClellan of Arkansas, Stuart Symington of Missouri and Henry M. Jackson of Washington, declined to say immediately if they will rejoin the subcommittee. The Democrats asked for "a couple of hours to talk over some things," McCarthy reported. The Democratic boycott of McCarthy's subcommittee flared after J. B.

MattHews, the group former chief investigator, wrote -magazine article last summer charging that the protestant clergy was Communist infiltrated. Move Seen Effort To Lure Democrats Mexicans Patrol International Border Calexico, Calif. (U.P)- Mexican troops today patrolled the international border to prevent thousands of their job hungry fellow countrymen from pouring into the United States. Soldiers, border patrolmen and reserves declared a block wide no man's land along the boundary here to keep 6,000 Mexican farm laborers out of U. S.

territory and other troops patrolled the Rio Grande at Eagle Pass, Tex. The Mexican authorities hoped to prevent any re-enactment of violence which flared along the border Friday when S. officials began admitting workers under a unilateral recruitment plan adopted by the U. S. departments of State and Labor but not agreed to by the Mexican government.

DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York- -Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 290.40 up 0.75; 20 railroads 100.41 up 0.09; 15 utilities 53.88 unchanged, and 65 stocks 110.37 up 0.18. Sales today were about shares, compared with 1,890,000 shares Friday. Washington- (U.P) -President Eisenhower today submitted to Congress a broad new housing program aimed at helping American families of all races, creed and income levels acquire "decent homes in wholesome neighborhoods." His major proposals included 1. Provision of a new kind of government mortgage insurance, with very long repayment riods and token down payments, for homes costing under $8000. 2.

Setting aside nearly $1,000, 000,000 in federal aid funds tor "renovation" of run down neighborhoods and elimination. slums. Public Housing Projects 3. More liberal loan terms toe purchase or remodeling of old homes. More vigorous federal tion to Insure that "minority groups have a fair opportunity to acquire adequate housing, 5.

Construction of 140,000 new low rent public housing units over the next four years at rate of 350,000 a year, compared to the present rate of 20,000 year. 6. Raising the present $16,000 celling on Federal Housing Administration guarantees for pew home mortgages. Lower Interest Rates 1. Standby authority for the administration to reduce interest rates and lengthen ment schedules on government guaranteed.

loans, if necessary, as an' economic pump priming device. 8. Reorganiaztion of the Federal National Mortgage association to substitute private capital for much of the $2,500,000,000 in treasury funds now tied up in providing a "secondary market" for mortgages, Mr. Eisenhower also disclosed he son will submit reorganizetion plan designed to bring the present "loosely knit federation" of government housing agencies into a single organization, under firmer central controk and in 1922 became an editorial writer for the Portland newspaper, with which he was iated for 35 years. In 1947, Mr.

Lampman was feted Gold Hill by western iates and friends, and Ben Hur newspapermen, literary Lampman park Gold across Hill the Rogue was dedicated. Speakers who lauded Lampman at that event included Palmer Hoyt, editor and publisher of the Denver Post, Gov. Earl Snell, Author Ernest Haycox, M. J. Frey and Philip Parrish, associates of Mr.

Lampman on the Oregonian: Marshall Dana, editor of the Portland Journal, and Writer Stewart Holbrook. On Feb. 20, 1951, Mr. Lampman was named poet laureate of Oregon by Douglas McKay, then governor. Perhaps best known for his writings on nature and wild life, Mr.

Lampman received many honors. His works were included in the O. memorial prize story volumes; the University of Portland gave him in 1947; in 1951 he was recipan honorary a doctorate of laws ient of the Freedom Foundation certificate of merit, and in 1943, the University of Oregon awarded an honorary master of arts degree to him. The late Alexander Woolcott called Mr. Lampman "the greatest writer of Americana today." And Editor John Finley of the New York Times listed him as one of the five greatest editorial writers in the United States.

After leaving the Rogue valley, Mr. Lampman made brief and infrequent visits here. How. ever, he liked to recall that when he came here in 1912 he thought this "was the loveliest country I had ever seen" and that the fishing "was magnifi- cent." Visited Medford Mr. Lampman's most recent visit to Medford was about three years ago, when he stopped here days after a trip to California.

Mr. Lampman's mother, Mrs. Viola Lampman, lived in Central Point for many years before moving to Portland, where she now lives, about three years ago. Mr. Lampman had been under care in a Portland nursing home for the past two years following a series of cerebral hemorrhages.

Cause. of death was listed as arterial sclerosis. Survivors include his wife, Lena Sheldon Lampman, two daughters, Mrs. Carolyn Cooper, Portland, and Mrs. Hope his Fisk, Los Alamitos, and mother.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow in the Morninglight chapel of J. P. Finley and Son, Portland. Spanish Students March on Embassy thousand shouting students marched on ed the British embassy and stonmounted police defending building as Spain's diplomatic quarrel with France and Britain over Morocco and Gibraltor erupted into a new crisis.

The chanting mobs converged from two directions on the embassy, which already bore marks of earlier demonstrations. A cordon of mounted police stood firm at the approaches to the embassy and drove the students back with rubber clubs. The students then turned on the police, hurling rocks and insults. Newport, Ore. (U.P.) The body of an unidentified man has been found washed up on the beach about three miles south of here.

Temperature Drops To Seasonal Low The thermometer reading. at the Medford station of the U.S. Weather Bureau dropped to 23 degrees this morning, registering the lowest temperature SO far this year and the lowest of the season. A low of 23 degrees was re corded in December. But weather here was "warm" compared to Klamath Falls where the mercury fell to eight degrees below zero last night.

The weather forecast is for continued cool but the low temperature tonight is expected to be somewhat higher than this morning's 22. A 30 to 32 minimum is predicted tonight. Snow, mixed with rain, in anticipated tonight and showers are foreseen for Tuesday. No snow fell in mountains in this area yesterday, and state police reported that, with the exception of packed snow on the Greensprings and Siskiyou highway routes, roads were clear. Spots of ice were reported at Prospect.

Spokane (U.P.) An atomic age organization was born here as 11 Pacific Northwest physicians and physicists formed the Society of Nuclear medicine. "Don't worry about what the critics say. There are always two sides to every question and some people make up their minds after hearing only one side." "We are fortunate to have a man of his background, integrity, ability and training. I also want to say that he has courage and patriotism for taking this job," McKay declared. Adm.

Hyman Rickover, the navy's atomic expert whose brains and tenactly paid off last week in the launching of the world's first atomic powered vessel, the submarine Nautilus, came up to Capitol Hill with his wife a few days ago to thank Sen. Henry M. Jackson, (D- for helping make it all possible. Rickover was almost retired last year by old line superiors whose toes he had stepped on in cutting red tape to get going on atomic propulsion experiments. Jackson and Sen.

Estes Kefauver, teamed up last year to get Rickover promoted from captain and see that he was allowed to continue his pioneering work. Spotlight on Alleged Graft in Alaska Said Designed To Persuade Everyone Sen. McCarthy To Be Good Boy By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Turning the spotlight on alleged graft in Alaska, according to qualified observers, is a political maneuver designed to: 1. Persuade everyone that Sen.

Joseph R. McCarthy, is going to be a good boy and root out corruption instead of quarreling with President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles over foreign policy. 2. Stimulate doubts among members of Congress that Alaska is ready for statehood, adding support to the administration's drive to gain statehood only for Hawaii. 3.

Keep the old political pot boiling as far as "cleaning Democrats" up the is mess left by the concerned. natural cooked up by an old newshand, William C. Strand, formerly with the Chisago Tribune and Washington Times-Herald but now serving in the administration as Director of Territories. Strand and McCarthy are buddies. Turmoil in the House UnAmerican Activities Committee stemming from a shakeup in the investigative staff may disrupt plans that were in the works for the committee to open hearings here in a month or two on alleged subversive activities in the Seattle and Portland areas, among other western cities.

Chief Investigator Louis J. Russell, who told this reporter he was working on the West Coast probe, was fired last week by Chairman Harold Velde, Bonneville Administrator William A. Pearl got a warning the day he was sworn into his new office last week that "his char. acter- will be attacked and he will be sniped at." But, added his boss, Secretary I of Interior Douglas McKay, Forest Service officials say Japanese efforts to get into the lumber business in Alaska have thus far gone for naught. Japanese interests have incorporated the Alaska Lumber and Pulp Co.

and have been shopping around for a sawmill. Next they are due to send some pulp experts over from the home islands but as of now they are "not in position or won't be for some officials say. Secretary McKay, who isn't keeping a dairy, has finished reading the published diary of Harold Ickes, one of his Democratic predecessors. Conclusion: Ickes' frankness in appraising his New Deal colleagues offers good political campaign fodder for the GOP..