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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
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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.
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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.
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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.