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Mounted Police Rout Pickets at General Electric Plant Weather FORECAST: Partly cloudy with ihowert tonight and Thursday. Slightly cooler to nlcht. Temp. HlEheit Yeittrday . 41 Lowest Ihli Mornlnr 43 Prec. to 4:30 a.m. Today .33 Fortieth Year Pauley's Plea for Party Told by United Airline Head MICE OFFERED Patterson Testifies Truman Nominee told Him to Think Twice Before Refusal. Washington, Feb. 27 (U.R) President William A. Patterson of the United Airlines said today that Edwin W. Pauley and other representatives of the democrat ic national committee tried to get him to make what he con sidered to be illegal contribu tions to the democratic party in October, 1944'. Patterson testified at resump tion this afternoon of hearings on Pauley's hotly disputed nom ination to be undersecretary of navy. Told to Think Twice The airline executive testified that the first negotiations with him for campaign contributions were carried on by George Kil lion, now treasurer of the demo cratic national committee. In 1844, Pauley was treasurer and Killion was his assistant. Patterson testified that when he balked at helping raise con tributions totaling $35,000 from himself and other United , Air line officials Pauley told him on the telephone to "think this over twice." " "' Federal laws prohibit corpor ations from making political con tributions. Patterson in a state ment read to the committee in dicated Killion hoped to have the gifts appear as coming from individuals. Pauley told reporters that it was "safe to speculate" that he would not withdraw. He tried to give the committee his statement when the hearings resumed this afternoon, but Sen. Charles W. Tobey, R., N. H., objected that Patterson had 'been waiting 24 hours. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Sigurd eleven complaining that the parking meters "don't play the right tune." Fran Kemler overcome with curiosity over a promised gift and finally setting her birthday up a good six months in order to hasten presentation of same. A city employe wondering if there was any possibility of he and his fellow employes receiv ing "courtesy coins" for putting into the new parking meters. Conscientious lady dropping a coin into end of pipe standard on North Central street, on which parking meter had not yet been installed. Bumper Fruit Crops In West May Require Price Supports Washington, Feb. 27 U.R) Department of agriculture mar keting experts today foresaw a probable need for extensive price supports on citrus fruits during the coming year. They also anticipated approx imately $12,000,000 would be needed for "relief purchases" of a bumper crop of deciduous fruits from the Pacific North west. J. B. Hutson, head of the de partment's production and mar keting administration, supplied these tentative estimates for a house agriculture appropriations subcommittee during hearings rrl"ad today. The subcommit tee was told approximately $14, 000.000 would be needed to buy off the expected surplus citrus fruits. New Record Seen Barring bad weather, annual ly mounting citrus crops were expected to hit "a new record high level" in 1946-47. The department seemed par ticularly worried about pear MEDfjRD United Press Full Luh Wire Plain and Honest Talk Between Russia, U. S. Urged by Vandenberg Washington, Feb. 27 U.R) Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg, R., Mich., demanded today that the United States and Russia speak piainly and honestly to each other in the interest of world peace. SLIDE, ACCIDENT RAILS TD EAST Portland, -Ore., Feb. 27 (U.R) All rail traffic into Portland from the east was blocked by slide on the Union Pacific line near Multnomah Falls today and by a fatal truck accident on the Spokane, Portland & Seattle line near Wishram. Wash., across the Columbia river from the U. P. tracks. After the slide blocked the U. P. tracks and the Columbia Riv er highway a mile east of Mult nomah Falls, all U. P. trains were routed ever the S. P. & S. tracks on the Washington side. At 6 a. m. a truck and trailer of the United Truck Lines. Inc of Portland, skidded off the highway and onto the S. P. Se S. tracks. ... The truck line reported that the driver, Howard Bray of Port land, was pinned beneath the truck for two ,hours. He was taken to a hospital at Hood Riv er, Ore., where he died at ,10:30 a. m. Washington state police re ported Bray had swerved to avoid a rock and his truck hit a soft shoulder and plunged 30 feet onto the tracks. A signal flashed on, stopping an oncom ing freight train. VETS AT U OF 0 PROTEST! FALLS Eugene, Ore., Feb. 27 (U.R) A petition of protest to the pro posed Klamath Falls marine bar racks educational project was being circulated around the Uni versity of Oregon campus today by a student veterans group. The veterans, numbering be tween 2S0 and 300, met on the campus yesterday to draft the petition against the proposed establishment of an extension college for var veterans at the Klamath Falls marine barracks. Group leaders said the money needed to put the temporary Klamath Falls plant into opera tion would be better used for permanent and necessary Im provements on the institution campuses already established. marketing problems. During the war shortages of other decidu ous fruits combined with a high national Income to spark a de mand for rapidly increasing pear production, the statement said. "Unless this market can be maintained or a substantial vol ume of pears shipped in export channels," according to the esti mate "it is probable that the gov ernment will be called upon for assistance." Big Apple Supply Big supplies of apples, peaches and northwest Italian prunes al so were expected. The depart ment's marketing administration believed that the probable good supplies of both citrus and de ciduous fruits would work against full marketing of either. To speed the work of discov ering new means of processing and preserving both types of fruit, the subcommittee recom mended appropriation of $7,500 for field research stations at, Los Angeles, Cal., and Pullman, With MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1946 Reporting to the senate on his recent assignment as a delegate to the first United Nations as sembly in London Vandenberg appraised its achievements as generally wholesome and encour aging if not perfect. 1 But, he warned, the future of the whole enterprise depends upon mutual understanding be tween the United States and Rus sia. Harmony Possible He said the two nations with their conflicting ideologies of democracy and communism could live in reasonable harmony only if there were honesty and frankness on both sides. The United States, he said, should match Russian bluntness and vigor. And Russia, he added, should quit posing for the minds of other nations the continual question: "What is Russia up to now?" That question arose at Lon don, Vandenberg reported. It still prevails, he said, in regard to Manchuria, eastern Europe and the Dardenelles, Iran, Tripo litania, the Baltic and the Bal kins, Poland and Japan, and in Canada and even the United States, v--. i The ranking republican of the Senate Foreign Relations com mittee had high praise for the achievements of the first UNO session and reiterated his hopes for success of the new world or ganization. Sincerity Suspected At one point, Vandenberg con fessed, the Russian altitude on the particularly ticklish issue of British and French troops in Lebanon and Syria made him suspect the sincerity of Russia's search for peace. Vandenberg told the story in detail to illustrate his point. He told how Lebanon and Syria de manded the simultaneous with drawal of British and French troops. He said an amicable settlement seemed in sight until the Russian delegate intervened. Vandenberg accused the Rus sian delegate of pouring salt in dpen wounds and needlessly pro longing debate with "unwar ranted rebukes" to Britain and France. Despite it all, Vandenberg gave Britain and France credit for voluntarily accepting terms of an American proposal for ne gotiation which Russia defeated by exercise of her "veto" power. "It seemed to me the dis tinguished Soviet delegate . . . seemed to be less interested in helping Lebanon and Syria than he was in baiting France and Britain, less interested in peace at this point than he was in fric tion," Vandenberg said. IN WARLORD TRIAL Nuernberg. Feb. 27 (U.R) i The United Nations war crimes prosecutors closed their case against the surviving leaders of Nazi Germany today and court officials indicated the defendants would open their final fight for life on Monday. Russian Prosecutor Smlrnov wound up the United Nations case with a summation of nazi crimes against humanity in east ern Europe. One of the last prosecution witnesses called by Sinirnov, a refugee from a Lithuanian Ghet to, told the court that the Ger mans forced Jews to crawl on the ground and bark like dngs, then dance naked ground bonfires un til they collapsed. PEARL IN STEW Los Angeles, Feb. 27 U.R) Vernon Steele, editor of the Pa cific Coast Musician, reported today that he found a pearl in his oyster stew. Steele said the pearl was about one-eighth Inch in diameter. Funds L Enough Lumber Cut To Build 190 Homes Since Resump tion of Work After Strike To provide for the annual re pair period ar.d to install a qaun- tity of new machinery and equipment, tht Medford corpora tion mill has closed for the last week of this month and for most of March according to B. L, Nutting, manager. Operations ceased last Friday, Nutting pointed out that ordi narily the concern takes the last days of December and early days of January for this repair and clean-up operation, but that due to the strike which closed the plant from Sept. 24 until Jan. 9, the mill was kept in opera tion for a period to provide var ious types of lumber! critically needed for new homes in the val ley. Huge Output Since operations began in Jan uary, the manager said, the mill has turned out 2,438,000 feet of lumber of all different types. Of this amount, enough was channeled into the Wedford dis trict to build 162 medium-sized homes, Nutting stated.; Counting lumber sent to Grants Pass, Medford and Ashland retailers, enough was provided for about 190 medium sized dwellings in the area, he said. In this connection the mana ger pointed out that the mill ships all lumber by railroad car and that many of the cars seen while being unloaded from sid ings in Medford came from the Medford corporation plant and not from distant points. A great many Inquiries have resulted through the belief that lumber was trucked from the plant to town, Nutting declared, and that all the cars unloaded In town came from outside points. Log Hauling Hampered Originally the annual shut down had been planned for Mar. 1, Nutting said, but heavy snow In the Butte Falls area weaken ed the company' logging rail road tracks and after a number of minor and one major derail ment, the latter resulting in a badly wrecked bridge which pre vented further use of the track for the time, operations ceased last Friday. Logging operations will con tinue, however, and while the mill Is out of operation logs will be decked along the tracks. Aft er draining and cleaning of the pond here is completed, It will b- refilled with water and logs will then be stored against re sumption of mill operations. New equipment to be installed includes a Sumner Iron Works 10-Inch by 84-Inch stub edger, Prescott 3-block electric "dogs" with taper devices and a 82-inch opening, and a new all-steel car riage for the right-hand side of the mill. In the power-house a new cylinder will be Installed for one of the steam turbines which furnish power for the 1000-kilowatt generators and in the planing mill two American Manufacturing company "break down lifts" will be Installed. One will be installed on a six-inch by lS-inch Stetson-Ross matcher and one on a' six-inch by 20-inch Stetson-Ross sizer, the manager said. Tamborini Leading Argentina Returns Buenos Aires, Feb. 27 flJ.PJ Dr. Jose Tamborinl took a lead of nearly two to one over Col. Juan D. Peron in the Argentine presidential election today on the first returns from rural pre cincts. Partial returns from two northern rural provinces put Tamborinl, the democratic union candidate, off to a substantial load. Political observers said the returns were too scanty to show naliousl trend. ATT Cardinal Denies Political Angle In Spanish Visit Vatican City, Feb. 27 (U.R) Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York, obviously irritated by rumors and speculation over his projected visit to Spain, re emphasized last night that the trip would be "wholly without political implication." He denied radio reports that he would carry a papal letter to Generalissimo Francisco Franco. "I have no message to Franco and I will be carrying no mes sage from anyone," he replied to a question at a press confer- IN RECENT YEARS Snow at Crater Lake Park headquarters, measured yester day, is the third heaviest re corded since 1930 and has an unusually heavy water content according to figures released from the Medford park office this morning. Snow at head quarters measured 1S5.4 Inches and had a water content of 68.4 inches, the report states, as compared to 92.4 inches of snow with a water content of 32 inches at the same time last year. At Annie Spring snow meas ured 148.3, with a water ton tent of 63.1 inches as compared to 72 inches with a water con tent of 24.2 last year at the same time. At the rim there was 15 feet and eight inches of snow. . 'Deepest (February snow re corded since 1930, when rec ords were started, was In 1938 when the snow measured 164 inches, at park headquarters, It was said. In 1936 the February recording showed 162 inches. Deepest snow ever recorded was In March of 1938 when 208 inches was recorded at park headquarters on March 29. It is pointed out that much snow usually falls at the park in March and April. Park representatives who made the snow measuring trip were Raymond A. Stickler and Darryl Palmer. They were ac companied by four unofficial companions, including A. P. Butler, Lt. John B. Cook and Lt. Edmond Packecho of a com bat engineer troop at Camp White and Capt. Dunne S. Fitz gerald, Medford officer on ter minal leave from the army. The men made the trip into the park with thp sno-cat, going up Monday and returning Tuesday. They reported the lake "calm and beautiful" with no strange smoke or gas clouds visible. , now Islii FOR SAKS GOP LEADER Washington, Feb. 27 (U.R) House Republican Leader Jo seph W. Martin, Jr., Mass., urg ed the United States today to use Its "great world-wide in fluence" to gel all nations to reduce armaments and abolish peace-time conscription. "Either the governments of the world want peace and do not need the regiments and hard ware of war," he said, "or we must conclude that they want huge armaments because they expect to use them. In either event, now Is the time to find out." Martin expressed his views before the house military affairs committee. It Is conducting hear ings on his resolution to direct the president to seek a world agreement outlawing peacetime military training. In an apparent reply to Presi dent Truman's recent statement that his plan would not work, Martin said: "I know you will not know how practical i Is until you try !'. and the least It can do is to test the good faith of the world powers." Florida has the longest coast line ot any stale 1,197 mUei. Tribune OF E ISMPOSAL Notes to Britain and France Urge Establishment of Caretaker Government. London, Feb. 27 (U.R) The United States has proposed to Britain and France that the' three powers join in a denuncia tion of the Franco regime in Spain and recommend the estab lishment of a "caretaker gov ernment," to . succeed it, high sources reported today. The British foreign office an nounced the receipt of an Amer ican note recommending that an interim Spanish government be set up with a view to taking over from Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Fully reliable sources in Paris said a U. S. note was handed to the French and British embas sies in Washington at noon Mon day proposing a three-power condemnation of the Franco gov ernment. Competent quarters in Paris said Franco would accept the United States proposal in prin ciple. The note now Is being studied by the French govern ment, the informants said. The disclosure followed by a day a French cabinet meeting at which leftist elements In the government clamored for a clear-cut French break with Franco. Foreign Minister Geor ges Bidault and his followers held out for joint action by France, Britain and the United States. The cabinet agreed to press Britain and America for Joint action. .. .1: , ... , Washington, Feb. 27 (U.R) Authoritative sources said today that the United States has sent notes to Britain and France ex pressing disfavor for continua tion of the Franco regime In Spain and suggesting that the U. S. would like to see a tem porary government set up there. More than one source con firmed the transmission of the United States notes although Secretary of Slate James T. Byrnes said yesterday at a press conference that no note on Spain had been sent In some time. Improvement of the road to Lake O' Woods from the east side has been taken under con sideration by the state highway commission, according to Frank Hull, manager of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. Frank J. Newman, represent ing the chamber, William Perry of the Jackson County court, and T. S. Neeley, co-owner of the Lake O' Woods resort, Joined a group from Klamath Falls to present their brief to the high way commission at Portland yes terday. . Hull said the Jackson and Klamath county groups were pleased with the reception they received from the commission. The highway body was agree able that Improvement of the road was necessary for removal of timber and to make for bet ter use of recreational facilities, Hull said. ED Klamath Falls, Ore., Feb. 27 (U.R) Regional officials of the federal reclamation bureau an nounced plans today for a com plete mountalns-to-thc-sea survey of the Klamath basin's land and water resources. The survey was formally plan ned In meetings held here Tues day. Purpose of the survey will be to Inventory the basin's re sources from the standpoints of power, recreation, irrigation, fishing and flood control. Reclamation officials said they realized the urgency of the Klamath basin situation and had set it ahead of other surveys of ltti immediate Importance. United Press Full Lease Wit NO. 288. James H. Owen TRAFFIC INJURY FATAL FOR OWEN; As the result of a motor acci dent on South Central avenue Monday afternoon, James H. Owen, well known Medford resi dent, died in a local hospital yesterday at 7:30 p. m. and facts concerning the accident will be placed in the hands of the county grand Jury District Attorney George Neilson stated today. Joe Elson Kingsley, driver for the Rogue Valley Transit company, residing at Route 2, Box 236, was reported by Traffic Officer Clyde Flchtner as driver of the bus which struck Owen. This is the first fatal accident to take place within the city limits since the first of the year, police report. Owen was said to be crossing Central avenue from the poslofflce sub-station to the CrRterian, theater when the ac cident occurred. Flchtner is now preparing a complete report ofl the accident, with statements from witnesses, and Neilson stat ed that the grand Jury would be called together to consider the information as soon as possible. Funeral arrangements for Owen are being made at the Perl Funeral Homo and it was stated that details of the funeral and an obituary would be an nounced tomorrow. Owen, who resided at 15 Kecne Way drive with his wife, retired In 1941 as manager of the Medford Cor poration. SYLVIA SIDNEY SHEDS M00DY.ACT0R HUSBAND Hollywood, Feb. 27 (U.R) Exotic Sylvia Sidney, stage and film actress, today was granted a divorce from Luther Adler aft er she testified the actor declar ed he was a bachelor at heart. Miss Sidney, 34, informed Su perior Judge Raymond Mcintosh that Adler, 41, New York stage Lactor now appearing in pictures, told her frequently that "mar riage is not for me." She said his moodiness depressed her and made her nervous. The actress' maid, Madlyn Lesesne, corrobor ated the testimony. -.a " t. V sf Bob Schenck Found Guilty of Goose Murder in Disappearance of Junior Bob Schenck, assistant man ager of the United States Na tional bank, was found guilty of "goose murder" at a special trial held at the Junior Cham ber of Commerce meeting last night. A Jury composed of Jay- Cee members found Schenck guilty of killing Junior, Junior Chamber membership goose. Junior was presented to Ger ald Latham in a JayCce mem bership campaign, to be passed on among the members as each person holding the goose took a new member into the organiza tion. Latham got a member and passed the goose on to Schenck in the bank's lobby, he testified at the trial. Schenck claimed the goose broke a leg and had to be destroyed. Bones As Evidence Bones and by-products of the goose, which Prosecuting Attor ney Hugh Collins said were found in Hie neighborhood of the bank building and Schenck residence were presented as evidence that the goose had been murdered. Dr. Henry Krause, upon examination of the bones, said they were goose bones and showed no evidence of any broken bones. A Jury of 12 JayCeo members deliberated but a short time and returned t verdict of guilty of 1,000 STRIKERS DISPERSED AFTER BRIEFJFLARE-UP Officers Carry Out Court Order Prohibiting Mass Picketing at Philadelphia. By United Press Mounted police broke up mass picketing at a Philadel phia plant today In a brief flare of violence as the government spread Its new wage-price pol icy to packinghouse and ship building workers. Philadelphia police, carrying out a court order prohibiting mass picketing outside the gate of the Eastwick General Electric Co. plant charged and dispersed more than 1,000 strik ers. Six strikers were held for questioning after scuffles. ' Idle Since Jan. 15 The strikers, members of the CIO united electrical, radio and machine workers union, have been idle since Jan. 15. They demanded $2 more a day, A 16 cents an hour boost for AFL and. CIO meat workers was expected to be put into ef fect Immediately on the basis of a IVi per cent price advance allowed by the WSB to help cover higher labor costs to the packers. Officials in the shipbuilding Industry showed no inclination to grant an 18-cent hourly raise for their workers, however, leaving the prolonged wage dis pute still unsettled. In the major disputes, idling an estimated 789,000 workers: 1. Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach scheduled a meeting today with officials of the American -Telephone & Tel egraph Co. to discuss means of averting a nationwide tele phone strike, scheduled for March. 2. Engineers and trainmen of the Texas Sc New Orleans Rail road, a branch of the Southern Pacific, were ordered to strike at 9:30 a.m. Saturday. 3. The Ford Motor Co. and CIO auto workers union signed a contract, providing dismissal penalties for workers partici pating in unauthorized work stoppages. 4. The U. S. Conciliation Ser vice met with longshoremen union and waterfront employer officials in attempt to head off a strike of 22,000 Pacific coast dockworkers. Quartet Tangled In Vangrancy Law James F. Martlndale, 30, and Charles W. Kimball, 25. were given a 90 dey suspended sen tence in Justice court yesterday after their arrest Monday morn ing by sheriff's officers on a charge of vagrancy. Two women arrested with the men, Anna Wilson, 20, and Rosella Thomas. 21, of California, are being held In the county jail pending fur ther court action also on vagran cy charges. MONTEREY FAVORED FOR NAVAL SCHOOL Washington, Feb. 27 (U.R) The Monterey area in California Is the navy's first choice for a proposed post-craduate training school, lt was learned today from a responsible cong resslonal source. goose slaughter. Judge Vincent Smith, In pronouncing sentence, said Schenck must produce new member, whereupon charg es would be dropped. Schenck produced Jack Crawford and in so doing was absolved of blame in the death of Junior. Dick House was attorney for the defense. Arrested on Warrant Schenck was arrested shortly after the meeting started, on a warrant issued by the JC mem bership committee and present ed by City Police Officer Dick Baize. He was handcuffed and taken from the room, to where he was returned a short time later for his trial E. H. Hedrick, city school superintendent, spoke on the proposed remodeling of city schools. Hedrick traced the pop ulation trend of Medford and explained tho necessity of pre paring ahead of time for growth of the city. The superintendent stated the needs of each school and told what was planned in the way of Improvements and enlargements. Guests at the meeting were Richard Wright, Dale Erickson. Bert Thlerolf, Jr., Norris Por ter, Bob Sherwood, Dick Finch, flay Sims, Dirk Arniond, Hugh Collins snd Wallace league.
