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Newspaper Page TextSubscribers To report Improper or bob delivery of the Mall Tribune phone 2-8141 before 8:45 p.m. dally and 10:30 a.m. Sunday. ir regular delivery arrive! hortly after you call, please notify office, thus eliminating apeclal meiienger service. WEATHER Medford Tribune Forecast: Increasing cloudiness tomorrow with light rain or snow beginning lat Mondaj afternoon. Warmer tempera tures tomorrow. Temperature!" Highest yesterday tr..M, " Lowest yesterday .t ?5 Precipitation To 10 p.m. yesterday .04 United Press Full Lease Wire United Press Full Lease Wire 44th Year 16 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 15, 1950 NO. 249 Severe Cold Wave Blankets Region In Wake Of Storm ' 1 1 Persons Dead, Four Missing In Wasteland Portland, Ore., Jan. 14 (U.R) A severe cold wave, dipping oc j casionally below zero, blanketed the Pacific northwest today in the wake of a furious blizzard that virtually isolated cities and left at least 11 persons dead and 4 more missing in a snowy waste land. One of the worst storms in half a century gave way to a blast of cold air that sent the mercury plunging to sub-zero marks in some sections of Washington, Ida ho and Oregon and turned deep snow drifts into treacherous banks of ice. Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, northern California and western Nevada were hit by the full impact of snowstorms whipped by gales ranging from 50 to 70 miles per hour. Children Frozen Donnie Stumpf, 8, and his sis ter, Irene, 9, Odessa, Wash., were frozen to death when they tried to walk home from their stalled car. Mrs. Charlotte Warner, 20, Titusville, Pa.; her son, Ronald, 2, and her daughter, Marcella, 1, were drowned when their car skidded off the Pacific highway near Kalama, Wash., into a road side pond. William F. Hayes, 45, crane operator, was electrocuted when he attempted to loosen a frozen trolley wheel at Kelso, Wash. Lyle B. Wheeler, 41, Spokane truck driver, was struck and killed by a passing car as he stood by his snow-stalled car near Hartline, Wash. Merle L. Martin, Corvallis, Ore., collapsed and died of a heart attack as he tried 'o put chains on his light truck. Tyler H. Thompson, Tooele county, Utah, was killed when he was blown into the path of a passen ger train near Warner Junction. Din Of Cold Miss A. M Alexander, 86-year-old recluse, died of cold and malnutrition in her fuelless home at North Vancouver, B. C. A baby died at birth at Chilli wack, B. C, today, after the mother, Mrs. Berryl Penner, was carried on a stretcher through the blizzard after a taxicab was stalled en route to a hospital. Portland, Seattle, Tacoma, Re no, Spokane and other western cities virtually were isolated from the outside world. Snow clogged roads halted almost all cross-country motor travel. Main highways through Oregon, Washington, northern California and Idaho were severed. Bus schedules were thrown out of gear or cancelled. The few trains still running were de layed hours. "Whole gale" winds ranging up to 70 miles an hour whipped against the Pacific coastline from British Columbia south to Fort Bragg, CaL Manufacturing Jobs In California Off San Francisco, Jan. 14 (U.R) Manufacturing employment in California fell off by about 6,000 between November and Decem ber, but rose in the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas, it was announced today. The statewide decline in em ployment reflected seasonal losses in canning and lumber and decreases in apparel and most heavy goods industries, the state department of industrial rela tions said. Director Paul Scharrenberg said factory employment during the same period in the Los An geles industrial area rose by more than 3,000; and by more than 2,000 the San Francisco bay industrial area. Discussing unemployment in surance activities, Paul Bryant, director of the state's depart ment of employment said the number of Bay area workers re ceiving unemployment insur ance benefits was 32 per cent greater than in December 1948. FLUE FIRE Firemen reported a flue fire about 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the M. S. Cobb residence, 715 King street. Demos Feel Fight To Halt House Action On FEP Won Washington, Jan. 14 (U.R) Conservative democrats believed tonight that they have won their fight to block house action on a fair employment practices bill, the most controversial of Presi dent Truman's civil rights pro posals. The conservative democrats and their republican allies feel also that they have maneuvered themselves into a position to gain voting control of the house. If they are successful in their man euver, they can kill for this ses sion of congress what remains of Mr. Truman's already-sagging "fair deal" program. Leaders in the southern demo cratic revolt against the admin istration program are Reps. E. E. I Jr -2 CANDIDATE E. H. Mann, above, Saturday announced that he is a candidate for the republi can nomination in the primary election for the state house of representatives. E. H. Mann Seeks Nomination For State Legislature E. H. Mann, 61, proprietor of the E. H. Mann company, build ers of truck bodies here, Satur day announced his candidacy for the republican nomination for the state house of representa tives. Mann was a candidate in the primary election in 1948, when Ben Day, Gold Hill, and Frank J. Van Dyke, Medford, were nominated. A native of South Dakota, Mann was engaged in fruitgrow ing in the Yakima valley, Wash ington, for a number of years before coming here about 20 years ago. Two Children Married and' residing at 47 Rose avenue, Mann is the father of two children, Mrs. A. B. Jona son, Bremerton, Wash., and R. E. Mann, Medford, who is associat ed in the truck body firm with his father. The candidate is a member of a number of fraternal and civic organizations, and has long been active in public affairs. He is a veteran of World War I, when he served in the field artillery. Mann is the first in Jackson county to announce his candi dacy for the house of represen tatives. Day last week announc ed that he will seek the Oregon senate seat from this district. Siam Gold Bullion Sent To New York Oakland, Cal., Jan. 14 (U.R) A heavily-guarded transfer of more than . $40,300,000 in gold bullion bearing the Siamese gov ernment seal has passed through here by air from the Far East, destined for safe keeping in the federal reserve bank at New York, it was revealed today. The extremely hush - hush transfer, said by New York Trans-Ocean airlines to be un der contract to the government of Siam, so far has brought 48 tons of gold across the Pacific on seven separate flights of four engined DC-4s, manned by armed crews of six men. A curtain of secrecy was laid over the entire operation and airline officials in Oakland re fused to confirm a report out of Anchorage, Alaska, tnat an eighth plane-load of the precious metal, carried in steel ingot boxes was due in Oakland Janu ary 17. Another load would bring the total to nearly $50 mil lion. The transfer was insured for $45 million. Eugene Visions Great Electricity Demand Eugene, Ore., Jan. 14 U.R) Utility officials tonight said they expected the greatest peak de mand in this area's history and said the demands of electric blankets might equal the normal industrial load during the cur rent cold wave. Power supplies from various points which feed this city's municipally owned distribution system were hooked into one loop so power could be easily diverted to overloaded sections. Cox (D., Ga.), Howard W. Smith (D Va.), and William M. Col mer (D., Miss.). They predicted that they will have the votes to carry out their intentions. While they declined to reveal their strategy, it was learned that they believe they can head off a house vote on FEPC by one of two methods: 1. Getting the house rules changed to make it impossible to consider the FEPC bill with out their approval, or 2. Persuading Speaker Sam Rayburn not to recognize Chair man John Lesinski (D., Mich), of the house labor committee on January 23 when the FEPC bill is tentatively scheduled for consideration. One Of Two Trapped Miners Said 'Okay Mahanoy City, Pa., Jan. 1 (U.R) Rescue workers started blasting with dynamite charges through a wall of solid coal to night after one of two entombed miners reported through a tube that he was "okay and believed his brother also was alive. The grimy rescuers, tired af- ter 28 hours of constant digging through rain-soaked earth, sank a metal tube horizontally through a caved-in gangway 60 feet underground and talked with Joseph Burda, 30. Joseph said he was "holding up okay but that he was weak and in need of nourishment, State police sped immediately to Mananoy city ana returned with a supply of liquor, which was sent to nim through the 25 foot tube together with some milk Joseph said he was sure that his brother, Edward, 25, trapped at a lower "chute" in the col lapsed hard coal mine, was still alive. Rescuers, however, doubt ed that Edward had survived the entombment. After talking with Joseph, the rescue crews ran up against a solid coal bed, which they be lieved anywhere from 15 to 30 feet thick. Cause Of Glider Crackup Sought Fort Benning, Ga., Jan. 14 (U.R) An investigation commit tee sought without conclusive re sults today the cause of a freak ish glider crackup which killed 13 men and critically hurt four others. Maj. Richard O. Johnson, Law son air force base' commander, said the committee went into action immediately but had no finding to announce as yet. First reports of the crash which scattered wreckage over 700 feet of runway here yester day indicated a strong gust of wind may have tipped the glider sideways as it soared in for a landing. The paratroopers killed were identified as: Pvt. Alfonso Romero. 18 Berkeley, Cal.; Pvt. Alvin F. Rummell, 19. Creekside. Pa.; Pvt. Gordon A. Smith, 23, Co lumbus. Ga.: Pvt. Robert Snell Jr., Nashville, Tenn.; Pvt. James H. Stacey, 23, Helen s, Lee coun ty, Ky.; Pvt. Rodney R. Tocppel, 18. Wisconsin Rapids. Wis.: Pvt. Townsend E. Tomlinson, 19, Do ver, Del.; Pvt. Norman H. Vi ands, 18, Holly Oak, Del.; Pvt. Richard L. Wedeikis, 18. Keno sha. Wis.; Sgt. First Class Eugene S. Jones, 25, Clay, W. Va.; Sgt. Frank C. Rathberger, 23, Port land, Ore.; Pvt. Charles M. Roth rock Jr., 18, Delle Vernon, Pa.; Second Lt. Robert D. Henley, air force, the pilot, Columbia, Mo. ... The four survivors, all seri ously injured, were listed as: Pfc. Paul F. Romero, 19, Fres no, Cal. (not related to Alfonso Romero, who was killed); Pvt. Victor E. Root, 18, Fort Wayne, Ind.; Pvt. Robert.O. Shaffer, 19, Sea Breeze. N. Y., and Pvt. Law rence D. Stuehlmeyer, 18, Cen tralia.' 111. Restrictions Asked On California Citrus Alamo, Tex., Jan. 14 (U.R) The president of Texas' biggest shippers organization tonight asked for restrictions on Califor nia citrus coming to the Lone Star state. Charles Rogers, head of the Texas citrus and vegetable grow ers and shippers, said he felt cer tain Texas Agriculture Commis sioner J. E. McDonald would "find ways and means to handle the California situation." California yesterday announced Texas citrus going inside its boundaries must either be fumi gated with cyanide or treated in oil emulsion. Rogers said the order, effective Jan. 23, virtually amounts to barring Texas oran ges and grapefruit from Califor nia. A year ago California per mitted the entry of Texas citrus provided it was treated in oil or with cyanide or methly bromide. Texas shippers claimed cyanide was too deadly and the oil bath clogged their packing plant brushes. They used the methyl bromide fumigations. New TidaTWaVe Wall At Hilo Considered Los Angeles, Jan. 14 (U.R) Dr. Walter Munk, 36, associate professor at the Scripps Insti tute of Oceanography, La Jolla, Cal., boarded a plane for Hilo, Haaii, here today to advise U. S. army engineers on the feas ibility of constructing a new tidal wave retaining wall in Hilo har bor. The wall was badly damaged In a tidal wave which struck there with a great loss of life in 1946. Munk has been studying tidal incidences in the Pacific for the last four years. A thesis he pre pared on the subject attracted army attention and resulted in the requested conference. Dynamite was brought In and half-stick charges were used to blast away the coal, which was then carried by a bucket brigade to the surface. The rescuers cleared away two to three feet of the coal wall an hour by the blasting and expect ed to reach Joseph some time before dawn. Although few persons were at the scene during the day, more than 100 gathered after dark at the mouth of the mine, illumin ated by spotlights. Two doctors and an ambulance were kept In readiness. The eight five-man rescue crews worked in three-hour shifts. They had been at the mine since 2 p. m. Friday. Joe Becker, a crew leader, was the one who made contact with Joseph through the tube. He said the entombed man's, conversa tion was "muffled" and that he was unable to make out every thing he said. Buses Sideswipe On Icy Curve Of Michigan Highway Gaylord, Mich., Jan. 14 (U.R) Two big buses, one carrying the Michigan Tech college hockey team, sideswiped on an icy curve today, killing five persons and injuring about 25. Eleven passengers on the hock ey bus and the Greyhound vehi cle, bound from St. Ignace, Mich., to Detroit, were hospital ized. Sgt. Harold Moore of the Michigan state police said at least 14 others were given first aid at the scene or treated in doctors' offices. The dead included a 21-month-old baby, two members of the hockey party en route home to Houghton, Mich., after a victory over Michigan State last night at East Lansing, and two Grey hound passengers. Moore said the southbound Greyhound was following a snow plow and "apparently" nudfied to the left to see wheth er it was safe to pass. He said, .however..-that a sla e police; in vestigation was continuing. Troopers said "about 20 pas sengers were riding in eacn ve hicle at the time of the crash, which occurred five miles north of here during a snowstorm. Drivers of both buses Steve Honner. 26. Bav City. Mich., and Albert Colombe. 29, Houghton, were among the injured. Victims were strewn in snow banks along the highway when the force of the crash sheared off sides of both buses, but neith er overturned or caught fire. The injured lay in sub-freezing tem peratures while authorities used make-shift ambulance facilities to take them to hospitals in this sparsely - settled winter sports area. The dead, identified by Coro ner Glen Smith, were: Richard L. Loutit, 20, Battle Creek. Mich., and Robert Gitzen, 1, of the hockey team. George Anderson, oi, fox, Mich. Waino Peterson, 43, Mohawk, Mich. Cvnthia. 21-month-old daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kamp fe. Royal Oak, Mich. Supplies Running Low In Dunsmuir, Weed The California highway patrol last night reported that food supplies and accommodations are "running very low" at Dunsmuir, Mt. Shasta and Weed and asked Oregon state police to advise southbound motorists not to pro ceed past Yreka. One-way traffic from Weed south, however, had been estab lished by convoy. State police reported a hard snowfall on the Siskiyou and Greensprings mountain passes at p. m. yesterday. Highway 66 was blocked be tween Pinehurst and Keno. Chains were needed on both highway 99 south and high way 66. The Hedwood nignway was open to motorists but chains were required and conditions were bad. Travel over Sexton mountain and Canyon Creek passes on highway 99 nortn was said extremely dangerous. Police warned of snow and ice on valley roads. Rain, Snow Drench Southern California Los Angeles, Jan. 14 (U.R) Scattered rain and mountain snow pelted southern California tonight as the U. S. weather bu reau predicted a low tempera ture in the mtd-zos in the early morning hours. A new storm moved into south ern California and brought Inter mittent showers all day. wettest point recorded by the weather bureau was San Pedro, with 1.05 inches for the day, with down town Los Angeles getting ,04, Riverside .07, San Bernardino .08, San Diego a trace and Santa Barbara .32. I Miners Split On Lewis' Suggestion Of Return To Work Some Reported Ready For Return On Monday Pittsburgh. Jan. 14 U.P- The ranks of the United Mine Workers were split today as striKing son coat miners voted on whether to follow John L Lewis' "suggestion" that they re turn to work Monday. In the Uniontown district, hub of the captive steel company mine area, a union official said he did not believe any of the zu.uuu miners in that area will work Monday. Men Not Ready John Ozanich, president of the Dig 2,uuu-man local at tne ho bena mine of the H. C. Frick Coal company, said the miners teei tnat we should slay out until we get a contract." In UMW district five, around Pittsburgh, International Repre sentative Denis Harshall said all miners are expected to report for work Monday morning. Harshall said he had assur ances from eight locals that their 3,500 members voted to return to work Monday. Asked whether locals voting to remain away from work Monday were doing so in defiance of Lewis. Harshall said: "The United Mine Workers would be better off without any man who would refuse to return to work Monday. All miners in district 5 will report for work." In northern West Virginia, striking miners of the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal company split on whether to return to work. The 420 union miners em ployed at the company's Osage pit voted to continue the strike they organized last Sunday be cause oi the company s refusal to meet the United Mine Work ers contract demands. Airplane Crash Kills Chico Flier Red Bluff, Cal.. Jan. 14 (U.R) Donald Metzger, 45, owner of the Berlinger Construction com pany in Chico. Cal.. was killed today when his Beechcraft Bo nanza airplane crashed and burned near Vina, Cal. Deputy Coroner George Hoyt said Metzger was practicing landings. He gunned his plane into the air, banked left, stalled and crashed, Hoyt said. It was a sunny, windless day, Holt said. sportsbDlletins Medford high bowed to Grants Pass 48 to 43 here last night in a see-saw Southern Oregon conference basketball encounter. The Cavemen forged in front after trailing 38 to 36 at the third period Intermission. First quarter score was 13 to 13. Grants Pasi was ahead 27 to 23 at the half. Medford chances faded in the final ttania as Connie Holzgang and Bob Shores went to the show ers with five fouls apiece. Pat Ford and Vernon Craft paced the Cavemen scoring with 14 and 13, respectively and Jack Morris put in IS and Shores 11 for Medford. Grants Pass featured a two platoon syiiem. The Tiger Cubs in the prelim won their 13th in a row, dumping the Grants Pass sophomores 34 to 11. In church league games at the Medford YMCA last night. Foursquare beat St. Mark's Episcopal 44 to 8, Si. Mary's Catholic tripped First Chris tian 21 to 8, Central Chris tian downed First Methodist 18 to 9 and First Presbyterian whipped St. Peter's Lutheran 23 to 10. Monmoutrl, Ore.. Jan. 14 Southern Oregon college of Ashland evened its basketball series with Oregon College of Education here tonight by downing the Wolves 56 to 50. Pullman, Wash.. Jan. 14 (U.R) The University of Wash ton went back into the north ern division basketball lead tonight with a 52-37 victory over Washington Stale Col lege. Missoula. Mont.. Jan. 14 (U.R) The Montana State uni versity Grizzlies outlasted the Idaho State Bengals to take a free scoring 81 to 74 victory here tonight. Honolulu. Jan. 14 (U.R) An aggressive team of main land All-Stars, led by Cali fornia's Bob Celeri, closed the curtain on the 1949-50 foot ball season here today with a crushing 63 to 21 victory over an "All-Hawaii" squad. Chico. CaI7jan7 14 (U.R) Defending league champ Chico State walloped Humboldt State college 98 to 48 here tonight and set a new school scoring record. Reno, Nev., Jan. 14 Port land University squeezed out a 69 to 86 basketball victory over University of Nevada here tonight to even their two game series. mm mm seize ALrVtlCJUa OIFFIOE '&ML V V j . j mill BjraraM.".iMmi, airn mn,mmmmmmmmmi:Mikmtii MARCH OF DIMES' GIRL HERE Frances Mozingo, two and a half, pictured above as she is today, has been chosen as the theme girl of the Jackson county March of Dimes campaign of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis which opens here to morrow. The flaxen-haired youngster, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eurl Mozingo, 3250 Pacific highway north, is the next-to-youngest of eight children. She was taken ill last March, and was moved to the Sacred Heart hospital in Eugene, where the disease paralyzed -both arms and legs, and also affected some internal organs. She was prougnt home, somewhat improved, on June 1, still unable to walk. After intensive training and therapy, she took her first steps on June 16. A musical child, she delighted in dancing to radio music before she became sick, and still tries to do so but usually falls down, and then refuses help getting back on her feet. Doctors believe she is gradually improving. Her parents, who put all their savings in a motel, were unable to stand the extraordinary expense of the polio treatments which were all provided by the Jackson county chapter of the national foundation. (Braiherd photo). March Of Dimes Has Greatest Demand In History; Drive Opens Is there anyone in the Rogue valley who doesn't know what the March of Dimes is? Ask the parents of- Frances Mozingo, whoso picture appears on this page. Ask the parents of 18-month- old Shelley Cross, whose pic ture was published in The Mail Tribune last week. Ask Mrs. Paul Lowery, mother of three, now receiving treat ment for polio in a Portland hos pital. The March of Dimes Is the weapon with which the Nation al Foundation for Infantile Par alysis fights the crippler polio. The annual appeal for lunds for the March of Dimes begins in Jackson county tomorrow with Dick House as chairman. There is no set quota for the drive, but by putting a few facts together lt us not duticult to see what the requirements will be. Expenses High Last year the Jackson coun ty chapter of the national foun dation spent $10,240.94 in direct assistance on 12 cases. In addi tion, the chapter spent $2,000 in assisting three hospital groups, which are treating polio cases from Jackson county without making direct charges. These groups include the Uni versity of Oregon's Crippled Children's clinic and the Doern becher and Shrine hospitals. House reported that to add to the financial plight of the local chapter, commitments made to assist current cases exceed by at least $3,000 the amount which the chapter has on hand at pres- t. In Portland, Dr. E. T. Hcdlund, state chairman of the Dimes drive, reported that 1949 was the third heaviest polio year in Ore gon's history, afflicting some 325 residents, and leaving virtually every chapter of the foundation in the state with funds depleted. Only Two Years Worse The only two years which were worse than 1949 as far as polio incidence is concerned were 1927 and 1943. Nationally, the year was the worst in history, with a final figure for the year in the neighborhood of 50,000. The eventual cost of treating our 325 cases for the year just passed will be about half a mil lion dollars," Dr. Hcdlund pre dicted. The national cost will be between $60 million and $90 million. The epidemic emergency fund of the national foundation "has been under heavy pressure all year, and Is now reduced to al most Its last cent," he revealed. Twenty million dollars has been paid to local chapters, in addi tion to many millions of dollars which the chapters spent from their own treasuries. Intensive Campaign The drive which begins here tomorrow will be the most in tensive campaign against polio in the 12-year history of the na tional foundation, leaders said Saturday. An unusually high number of civic and social or ganizations have united to car ry the annual drive for funds through its most crucial test, ac cording to House. Last year $40,000 vas raised by the drive throughout the state. Leaders in the county drive Include House and Vcrn Smith, Ashland, chairman of the execu tive committee whose members include Harry Chipman, Med ford, vice-chairman; Marie Ul rich, Medford, treasurer; Arden Pinkham, Central Point, secre tary; Blanche Frisblc, Medford, chapter nurse supervisor; Dr. A. Erin Mcrkel, Medford, med ical supervisor, and Mrs. Elwood Hedberg, Medford, women's ac tivities. State Of Siege In Bolivia Proclaimed La Paz, Bolivia, Jan. 14 (U.R) A stale of siege was proclaimed today in Bolivia and police an nounced they had arrested 14 persons in a move to forestall a revolt by the Nazi-like national revolutionary movement. Bolivian Chief of Police Col. Nestor Valdes said the uprising plane apparently were headed by retired army Gen. Bernardino Bilbao Rioja, backed by mem bers of the disbanded Radepa Lodge of Nationalist Officers and members of the NRM. Valdes said all was quiet in the country. He credited speedy police action for upsetting plans for a revolt. Ten former military men were arrested in Cochabam ba province. Russia Said Planning To Use A-Bomb-Carrying Subs London, Jan. 14 (U.R) The British editor who correctly pre dicted Russia's first atomic ex plosion said today that the So viets plan to use long-range atom bomb-carrying submarines as a terror weapon against the west. Kenneth De Courcy, editor of the Intelligence Digest, said In a telephoned statement that bombs exploded by such vessels could shower hostile coastlines with a Bikini-style atomic rain, "making any large city ... in the vicinty unntiabitable for a considerable period of time." De Courcy said also that Rus sia is seeking secret submarine bases in Central America. Chance Of Early U. S. Recognition Killed By Action Acheson's Resignation Asked By Republicans Washington, Jan. 14 (U.R) Chinese communists invaded and took over the U. S. consu late general at Peiping today and the United States moved at once to clear all our consular officials and citizens out of red China. The seizure killed any chance of early U. S. recognition of the Chinese communist regime and undoubtedly will add new fuel to the blazing China policy now raging with U. S. senate. Orders Flashed With the aDDroval of Presi dent Truman, who had been alerted in advance, the state de partment flashed immediate or ders to the four other consulates in China to close down. At the same time, it prepared to bring home the 135 official employees of the consulate and to offer the same repatriation ar rangements to some 3,000 pri vate American citizens in communist-held China. State department officials were plainly angered by the red action, but tempers were pop ping even more loudly In the senate. Two republican critics of the administration called for Secretary of State Dean Ache son's resignation. The democrats praised his retaliatory action. Both sides seemed to agree, however, that the Chinese reds had lost whatever chance they might have had of obtaining American diplomatic recognition."- . "! '. - . ' Acheson Supported ' The demands for Acheson's head came from GOP Senators William F. Knowland ,Cal.) and Styles Bridges (N.H.). Knowland called for "a new and non-defeatist team" in the state depart ment. Bridges said "It is time to change our officials" in charge of China policy. But Acheson was supported vigorously by Chairman Tom Connally (D., Tex.) of the senate foreign relations committee. Connally said the Chinese reds would not get American diplo matic recognition until they make amends for the Peiping Incident. Connally made that statement without qualifications, and he usually reflects adminis tration views on foreign policy. Southern Oregon Men Rescued Klamath Falls, Ore., Jan. 14 (U.R) Sheriff Jack Franey of Klamath county today said six men lost overnight in a snowy wasteland of blizzard-strlckep southern Oregon were rescued to day. The six, Franey said, were lost in separate pairs. All were spotted by an air rescue plane and were brought to safety by volunteer skiers and a tractor. The rescued, suffering from some exposure but otherwise in good shape were: Lloyd Hard, 28, his brother, Bob, 22; Sherman Waldrip, 28, his brother, John, 21, of Merrill, Ore. The first lost pair found was William Hammond, 50, and his son, James. All of the lost men managed to build fires during the night and were sighted in sunny weather from the air. GOP ELECTS Los Angeles, Jan. 14 (U.R) The republican state central com mittee elected Philip Boyd, Riv erside county rancher, as its chairman today after Ed Shat tuck resigned to campaign for attorney general. "There is already at least one secret submarine refueling base in Guatemalan waters," the ed itor said. "Very large funds have been sent to Guatemala, where Rus sian agents are working with the assistance of certain Guatemalan officials." he added. "Russia has also established a powerful short wave transmitter there which Is sending direct Intelligence re ports to Moscow." De Courcy repeated his so far unconfirmed report that a sec ond atomic blast occurred re cently in Russia, and indorsed Soviet propaganda reports that atomic energy may be used for large-scale engineering projects there.