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LATINS "WITH" u.s threat E S TO mi re bulbaria Li ii mi mihiiiThIIII''' (Acme Tetephoto) STRANDED AUTOS RETRIEVED Autos In a long curving line are driven cautiously off Lake Winnebago ice and onto solid land near Calumet Harbor, Wis., after being abandoned by fishermen when the Ice cracked and the floe moved out from shore along a 30-mile front at Oshkosh. Wis. Some 250 autos had been trapped on the ice, the fishermen were rescued by small boats when the ice cracked. President Needled With Taft-Hartley Act Record By Seekers of Injunction By Lyle C. Wllion United Press Correspondent Washington, Jan. 20 (U.R) Republicans are needling Pres ident Truman with his own Taft-Hartley act record to persuade him to seek a coal crisis injunction. Mr. Truman used to find the act very handy in labor disputes. Unlike the injunction now sought by Robert N. Denham, gen eral counsel of the national labor relations board, a presidential writ would simply require the miners to return to full-time work for 80 days. During that period efforts would be made to settle the controversy between the operators and the United Mine Workers of America. Terms Said Forbidden Denham's injunction request does not argue that there is a national emergency. It charges John L. Lewis and the UMW with seeking contract terms for bidden by the Taft-Hartley act. On that basis, it would have a federal court order the men back to the pits. That type of injunction would remain in force indefinitely until Lewis with drew the allegedly illegal de mands or until the labor board ruled on their legality. A presidential injunction would plead for relief from a national emergency. There being no specific definition of a na tional emergency. Mr. Truman 'has a lot of leeway in deciding when or whether to act. A cold wave in the east and it feels to day as though such has arrived hereabouts would put some pressure on the president. Playing Politics Some of his adversaries say the president is playing politics with the coal crisis. They claim he does not want to use the Taft Hartley act because any action under its terms would reduce its value as a democratic campaign issue in this year's congressional elections. Others contend that Lewis actually is playing for a presiden tial injunction to get off an un comfortable spot. He is faced with rebellion among some thou sands of his miners who protest the three-day week and on-again-off-again schedules to which he has exposed them since last June 30. His miners have no contract as of now. Lewis may feel that it would save his face if he were compelled by injunction to call the whole thing off for a while. Johnson Calls For . Extension Of Drall Washington. Jan. 20 (U.R) Defense Secretary Louis Johnson today urged congress to extend the draft for three years as un mistakable evidence to Russia - that we intend to "keep our selves strong." ...uiw. The present draft law which expires June 24, Johnson said makes that purpose clearl understandable." . ' The need to make that mani festation of our determination continuously clear persists, he told the house armed services committee. i Road Conditions Tiller-Trail highway, which has been closed by snow, is now open, state police said this morning. They reported Siskiyou pass on highway 99 was clear but said there were tome spots of ice on highway 66 over the Greensprings and on the Red wood highway. Fog blanketed highway 99 north to Roseburg. Police stated that the Salem area was warming up and United Press reported roads there bare in exposed areas. Willamette and Santiam passes were open, according to United Press, with a llide on milepost 56 of Willamette pass necessitating one - way traffic. The coast route was blocked by water south of As i toria and Columbia River high i way was closed at Bradley Stat park and Shell rock. The snow pack was sanded at Keno. """" f .arcs.-. Legislation Would End Federal Taxes On Oleomargarine Washington, Jan. 20 (U.R) For the first time in 64 years, oleomargarine will go on sale tree of federal taxes starting July 1 under terms of legislation now being whipped into final form. But just what that will mean to prices at the corner grocery store still is the subject of hot debate between feuding oleo and butter interests. Cut On Yellow Oleo Margarine spokesmen predict ed confidently that housewives will benefit by price cuts on yellow oleo of at least 10 cents a pound the amount of the pre sent tax. Prices of uncolored oleo. now taxed at one-fourth- cent a pound, will remain about the same, they said. Butter interests argued that, in the long run, all margarine prices will climb toward the. level consumers now are paying for butter. Butter prices now are about double those of oleo In any case, residents of 14 states still will be unable to buy yellow oleo. Its sale is prohibit ed in Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, New York, Oregon Pennsylvania. South Dakota Vermont, Washington and Wis consin. Would Reoeal License Fees Two other states, California and Nebraska, ban its sale in restaurants. Six states also have their own taxes on oleo. Senate and house conferees now are trying to iron out minor differences between bills approv ed by each house. Both measures would repeal all federal oleo taxes as well as license fees required of manu facturers and handlers. Russell Weatherford Passes At Ashland Ashland. Jan. 20 Russell Kenneth Weatherford, 63, route 3, box 286, Medford, passed away this morning at the Ash land General hospital. The de ceased was born May 2Z, lean in Palmyra, 111., and was a re tired restaurant operator. In 1911 he was married to Bertha Kirkpatrick in Oklahoma Citv. Okla.. and the couple had lived the past one and one-half years near Phoenix, surviving, besides his wife, are two daugh ters, Mrs. Frances Knapp, Sa lem: Miss Elizabeth Margaret Weatherford, San Francisco: a son, Russell K. Jr.; three sisters, Mrs. Lula Hubbard. Chesterfield III: Mrs. Nellie Clevenger. Pal myra. 111.; and Mrs. Lffie Hume, Gillespie, 111., and two grand children. Private Christian Science serv ices will be conducted at 3 p. m. Saturday, at the Litwiller funer al home, Ashland. Interment will be in Mt. View cemetery. Ashland. Lebanon. Ore., Jan. 20 fU.R) Luverne Scott. 41, was killed yesterday when he fell from a 15-foot scaffold while doing some wiring in the Baptist church here. Medford 44th Year 14 'Pages Flood Threat Faces Pacific Northwest By United Presi A threat of floods menaced the storm-ridden Pacific northwest Friday when a balmy Chinook wind began melting an ice and snow pack over a wide region designated by the Red Cross as a "disaster area." One thousand power failures crippled communications in the Portland district and at least 13 communities were isolated by ice jammed highways in northwestern Oregon and southwestern Wash ington. Hundreds of buses and automobiles stalled on roadsides or skidded into ditches, and the death toll in a week-long series of blizzards, sleet storms and silver thaws rose to at least 40. The United States weather bureau forecaster said there was a ''growing concern about floods" as a heavy runoff of snow and ice water fed into creeks and rivers. First serious flooding was re ported in northwestern Oregon where the Kilchis river sent waters a foot and a half deep over U. S. highway 101. Power Lines f elled Trees and power lines were felled in many sections of Port land and other cities, disrupting telephone and power service to hundreds of homes and offices including the weather bureau of fice in Portland. Rivers in Washington and Oregon rose rapidly as suddenly warming temperatures thawed sheets of crystal ice into rivulets oi sloppy water. Quagmires of snow, ice and slush brought cross-state traffic in Washington and Oregon vir tually to a standstill, halted air traffic again, disrupted bus trav el and delayed train schedules. Hundreds of motorists were stranded in both states, but state police and highway department crews, pushing through snow and ice drifts with plows, res cued them by the scores before their situation became critical. Train Passengers Stranded About 400 Milwaukee railroad passengers were stranded on both sides of slide-choked Sno qualmie pass in Washington. British Columbia highways, rail ways and communications vir tually were paralyzed by freez ing rain. The British Columbia Telephone company said nearly all its lines to the interior of Canada were severed. A power disruption cut off 75,000 resi dents of a large section of the rrascr valley. Linemen worked through the night and finally restored par tial service to Astoria, Ore., a city of 20,000. Big Mo To Stay Put Until February 2 Norfolk, Va.,' Jan. 20 (U.R) The navy called off today's at tempt to free the stranded battle ship Missouri after 21 vessels heaved and hauled for two hours without budging her. Twenty-one tugs and other ves sels tried to loosen the stranded Missouri at high tide, but the two hours of pulling and pushing didn't move her an inch; The navy gave up until Feb ruary 2, when the next high tide peak is expected. Spokesmen explained that each' day's high tide is now a little lower than the day before, and a super-high tide will not recur for more than two weeks.- This was to have been the navy's all-out effort to free the 45,000-ton Big Mo, which plowed into a mudbank Tuesday and hasn't budged since. Six tugs on either side, three directly astern and a ship with beaching gear on either quar ter strained at the mighty Mo, alternately pulling on the port and starboard sides. Four coast guard tugs helped. Pro-Truman Forces Keep House Control Washington, Jan. 20 (U.R) Pro-Truman forces today beat down an attempt by a coalition of republicans and southern democrats to take control of the house. The test was on a proposal to give the coalition-dominated rules committee life-and-death power over most legislation. The proposed rules change was de feated 236 to 183. House Speaker Sam Rayburn rallied a majority vote against a republican motion to adjourn at once and thus delay a snow down until next week. The vote against the motion to adjourn was 255 to 160. Funeral Mourners Flee In Panic As 'Corpse' Revives Port au Prince, Haiti, Jan. 20 (U.R) The funeral mass had been said in St. Michel Catholic church in the nearby village of St. Michel and bearers approached to take the coffin to the cemetery. As they were about to lift it, groans came from inside. The bearers fled in panic. So did the mourners. Alone with the casket, a priest looked inside and found the supposedly dead occupant, Anita Souffrant, slowly reviv ing. She was rushed to Port au Prince hospital. Doctors said she was suffer ing from comatose malaria, debility of the heart and sub normal blood pressure. A country market vender and mother of a four-year-eld child, she was reported in fair condition today. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY Truman Outlines Proposed Program For Higher Taxes Washington, Jan. 20 (U.R) President Truman outlined to house leaders today a proposed tax program calling for higher corporation taxes and a cut in some excise levies. Members of the congressional group who conferred with Mr. Truman about his forthcoming tax message to congress refused to say specifically what he will propose. Excise Tax Cut It was understood, however, that the present draft of the pres ident's message, which was read to the group, contains these recommendations: 1. Reduce some excise taxes. The government now levies a 20 per cent excise tax on cosmetics, jewelry, furs, admissions and many other items. There is a 15 per cent tax on transportation tickets. 2. Increase corporation taxes. Mr. Truman proposed a $4,000,- 000,000 tax increase on corpora tions and high-income indivi duals last year, but congress ignored this proposal. It was indi cated that at the moment the president does not plan to renew his proposal for higher taxes on individuals. s 3. Increase estate and gift tax es, which were lowered by the 80th congress. 4. Close some of the so-called loopholes in the present law. One member of tne group saio. he understood Mr. Truman would send his message to con gress on Monday. The president has said his tax increase propos als will be "moderate. Ashland Chamber Ask County Fair Revival The long defunct Jackson county fair received some ac tive support today when the board of directors of the Ash land Chamber of Commerce sub mitted a resolution to the coun ty court requesting that the an nual event be restored in Sep tember of 1050.' William H. McGee, manager of the Ashland chamber, said "there is a very strong feeling in and around Ashland" that the county court should restore the fair and "use the monies re ceived from' the state for the pur poses these monies are intended." The resolution, signed By mc Gee and A. W. Wdbdward, presi dent of the chamber, stated that "whereas, for many years Jack son county held an annual fair which proved of great education al and economic value, and whereas the need for such an annual fair is now very great because of the heavy increase in population throughout south ern Oregon and Jackson county in particular," the Ashland Chamber of Commerce requests the county court to initiate the necessary action to present the fair again, beginning in Sep tember. Tokyo, Jan. 20 (U.R) Earnest Hoberecht of the United Press was elected preisdent of the Tokyo Correspondents' club to day. Central Point Provide Rural Central Point, Jan. 20 Cen tral Point volunteer firemen next Monday will begin a cam paign to secure contributions to ward purchase of a fire truck to serve the rural area surround ing Central Point, Richard Krupp, president of the volun teer fire department announced today. Krupp said that thetruck will be housed and cared for at the local fire hall and will be man ned by members of the volun teer organization. He estimated that the vehicle fully equipped will cost between $7,500 and $8,000 and that another $800 will be required to put it into service. The truck will have the latest equipment mounted on a four-wheel-drive chassis especially built for rural fire fighting. Krupp reported. $1,000 Given Firemen already have dona Law Enforcement Groups Coordinate To Solve Robbery Agencies Join Hands To Try To Crack Case Boston, Jan. 20 (U.R) New leads" in the investigation of the $1,500,000 robbery of Brinks, Inc., were revealed today at a private meeting where city, state and federal law enforce ment agencies were welded into a single unit to try to break the sensational case. Attorney General Francis E. Kelly of Massachusetts, serving as spokesman for the G-men and others after the two-hour confer ence, said in a brief statement: Lie Detector Use Seen "At this meeting every re source of the law enforcement agencies state, county and na tion have been completely co ordinated to solve this crime certain leads to the solution of this case were discussed but they cannot be disclosed at this time. ' Kelly admitted the use of a lie detector in the case was a "pos sibility." He did not amplify that statement. Break-up of the top-level con ference at the state house came after these developments: A statement by President John D. Allen Sr., of Brink's, Inc., on arrival here from Chicago, that he believed the nine-man gang would be captured "and the more dead the better." Empty Bags Found Discovery of an empty federal reserve bank of Boston money bag in a Bridgeport, Conn., mail box, and the finding of another in Dock square, Boston, only a few blocks from the scene of Tuesday's crime. A story by a New York wom an who claimed to have over heard two men apparently dis cussing the fantastic robbery yesterday on a New Haven rail road train en route to New York. Seizure of an ex-army corpo ral at a New York veterans hos pital who reportedly boasted to a girl friend a month ago he was going to make a million dollars in an "armored truck job." He reputedly once worked., for an armored transportation service. The Dalles Airport Hangar Collapses The Dalles, Ore.. Jan. 20 (U.R) The hangar at The Dalles air port on the Washington side of the Columbia river collapsed from the weight of snow on its rounded top during the night and demolished five planes, air port officials reported today. Three other planes were dam aged to undetermined extent, said A. S. Cutting, United air lines station manager. Aircraft loss was estimated at $9,000 to $10,000. The laminated wood, arch type structure without support ing columns was valued at ap proximately $15,000. Bob Dewald, airport manager, discovered the mishap while making his rounds at the field this morning. All air traffic has been suspended for a week be cause of the deep snow on run ways. Safeway Stores Denied Milk Sale Application Portland. Ore.. Jan. 20 ;U.R! Thomas L. Ohlsen, administra tor of the milk control board, has denied an application by Safeway Stores, Inc., to buy milk in the Saldm market area, process it in Portland and sell It in Salem. Ohlsen announced the denial on findings from a hearing held here December 8. Safeway pro posed to sell 3.8 per cent butter fat milk in paper containers in the Salem market in competi tion with Salem-processed milk of 3.5 per cent butterfat content. The Safeway price would have been the state minimum price while Salem distributors charge a one-half cent premium above the minimum. Firemen Plan Campaign to Fire Protection Service tion of $1,000. Other amounts will depend on individuals. Property in the area will not be taxed to support the truck, Krupp brought out. The equip ment will be maintained by a flat charge for all calls. If a resi dent has no fires, he will pay nothing for protection. Beginning at the intersection of Ross lnne and Old Stage road and running north on Old Stage road to Scenic avpnuc. the dist rict boundaries will go east to Willow Springs road, northwest to highway 99 and Kirtland road, east on Kirtland road to Midway road, south along Mid way road and the old highway 99 to new highway 99 at the Big "V" Junction, north on highway 99 to Beall lane, west to Jack sonville-Central Point road, south to Ross lane and west to the Old Stage road. The district will ex tend outward 300 yards from the RIBUNE 20, 1950 NO. 254 Madame Chiang Asks U.S. Military Mission Taipei, Formosa, Jan. 20 !U.R) Madame Chiang Kai-Shek to day asked the United States to send a military mission, but no fighting troops, to help the nationalist government in its battle against communism. Madame Chiang, breaking a week's seclusion after her return from the United States, said she herself was prepared to devote all her energies and abilities to what she described as "the spirit of resurgence of the Chinese people." For her first statement since her return from 13 months in the United States, Madame Chiang received the foreign press in her residence at the grass mountain retreat of the generalissimo out side Taipei. She said she hoped the American people would come to realize that "had it been communism alone we could have fought It but it is Russian communism we are fighting." 2 Die Near Caves Resort; Hardship Seen For Others Death of two men in the im mediate area of the Oregon Caves resort was reported today by the park service and the Jo sephine county coroner and renewed fear for the safety of snowbound personnel at the caves. Royal Johnson, 19, Grants Pass, was found dead yesterday somewhere in the vicinity of the Oregon Caves by two caves em ployees, it was reported today by E. P. Leavitt, superintendent of both the Caves monument and Crater Lake park. Bonnie McNeil who uvea in the Althouse district near the caves, was found yesterday on a trail near his cabin, several miles from where Johnson's body was found. Josephine County Coroner Virgil Hull said McNeil was frozen to death and that they will not try to recover the body until tomorrow be cause of high snowdrifts. Details Unavailable Details of Johnson's death, which was attributed to exhaus tion by Hull, were not learned because of Interrupted communi cation facilities, but Leavitt said he had learned from James A. Christcnsen, manager of the Orogon Caves, that Johnson had loft the resort Tuesday in an ef fort to reach Grants Pass to have a toothache treated. It was not known if the youth had been equipped with skis or if he had attempted to negotiate the eight-foot drifts on foot. The incident is the second In dication Leavitt has had that storms may be creating hard ships at the resort, but so far he has been forced to rely on sketchy reports and hearsay re ported by a few individuals who have made their way to civiliza tion from the snowbound caves. In addition to caretakers at the caves, Leavitt said there are some members of a contractor's crew there living in trailer houses. They are just completing installation of a fire sprinkler system in resort buildings. Ap parently some of the isolated per sonnel have nearly exhausted their fuel oil and supplies of fresh food. Reports of panic at the resort have filtered into Christensen's winter office in Grants Pass but have not been confirmed because of disrupted telephone communications and snow-clogged roads. Christcnsen told Leavitt this morning that he has engaged a Tucker Sno-Cat to make the long over-snow trek into the caves and that he, together. with former Caves Manager Richard A. Sabine, will attempt to reach the resort today. Leavitt advised that either Copco or forest serv ice personnel also will make the trip to help restore necessary services and communication lines. So far as is known for certain, four or five men have already made the hazardous tr'p out of the remote mountain area and a Mr. and Mrs. Ingram are the only cave employees still left at the resort. Names of the two men who discovered Johnson's body are not known but a complete re port on the tragedy is expect ed at Leavitt's office as soon as the Sno-Cat trip is completed. center of roads. When fires occur the Central Point telephone exchange can be called. The operator will sound the alarm. In exchange for use of the city alarm system and the fire hall, the rural vehicle will be used for city fires only in case of great emergency. It will be withdrawn from a city fire if a summons from outside town is given. Central Point firemen stated that the forest patrol does not necessarily take care oi rural fires involving private homes and buildings and that the floor of the valley Is not supposed to be served by the forest patrol at anv time. If and when the vehicle Is nurrhased. the firemen plan to provide information to help rural residents locate or Install water sources within reach of hose carried by the truck. WEATHER FORECAST: Generally cloudy with Ufht showers tonight and Saturday. Continued mild, flomt valley fog tonight. Temp. Highest Yesterday 45 Lowest this Morning 35 Tree, to 4:30 A.M. Today 21 No Troops Wanted Eloquent, and at times emo tional, Madame Chiang empha sized that any U. S. policy deci sions based on the idea that the nationalist government wants American troops sent to For mosa was a gross error. "I know the American people do not want to go to war," she said. "Nobody wants American troops here. China does not want American soldiers. That's not the question. China has not asked for American soldiers. We have enough manpower. We have made that clear." But, she said, it would be a great advantage if the United States would send technical aid to help fight the communists. "Your government says it is fighting communism," she said to the American newsmen. "So are we. So why don't they send somebody to help us do it? 1 do not want to try to ten your government what to do. They do not want that any more than we want them to tell us what to do." She said an American military mission could give needed help In technical advice such as com munications, transportation and radio development. "It should not be necessary to have to ask someone who is a real friend for help," she said somewhat bitterly. "If they are your friends that would be un necessary." Such help, she said, would add considerably to China's own ef forts in its back-to-the-wall stand against communism. Discussing the growing resur gence of the spirit among her people, Madame Chiang said they now are "beginning to emerge from the stunned paraly sis of the mainland collapse. Four Sentenced For Thefts From Airplane Charges of removing articles of value from the wrecked plane in which Arlo B. Barnes was killed January 8 have resulted in a jail sentence for one Ash land man and suspended sen tences for four others. Barnes widow, Mrs. Marjone Barnes, filed charges of grand larceny against Arthur Newton Davis, 22, of Ashland, and against three juveniles, also of Ashland. On the recommenda tion of District Attorney George Ncilson, the charge was reduced in justice court yesterday to one of petty larency and after all four had pleaded guilty they were given 90-dav suspended sentences by Judge W. P. Tucker. Louie Eugene Boatman. 24. also of Ashland, was committed to the county jail for 90 days on Mrs. Barnes' charcc of larceny of nropertv. He pleaded gulltv. The light trcoupc mane in which Barnes was killed had crashed in a winter sports area south of Ashland and was in spected by crowds of skiers aft er the two occupants had been removed. Latourette Rules In Butter Dispute Salem. Ore., Jan. 20 (U.R) In his last opinion written as a circuit judge, Earl C. Latourette of Oregon City held that a regu lation on butter grades marie by the department of agriculture, was off base. Said LaTourcttc, who had heard oral arguments on the case in Salem last Monday, the agricultural department regula tion classifying butter for retail sale on its flavor was unconsti tutional. Ralph E. Moody of Salem, representing the majority of but ter manufacturers of the state, filed the attack on the regula tion and the attorney general's office defended it. Formally the case was AlbBny Creamery asso ciation and others versus Ervin L. Peterson, director of the de nartmont of agriculture. Latourette, Clackamas county circuit judge who came to Salem to sit on the Marion county bench to hear the case, was formally elevated to the Oregon supreme court late Thursday. POST MORTEM HELD Coroner Carlos Morris said to day regarding the death of Har ry Lewis, 59, Jacksonville, yes terday, that a post mortem ex amination revealed a basal skull fracture. Lewis was hurt Satur day night when he reportedly fell at Jacksonville. Tillamook, Ore., Jan. 20 (U.R) Tillamook county's new $1,175, 000 hospital will be dedicated Saturday. Russ Satellite Asked To Withdraw Demand For Recall Position Stated In Note Handed To Envoy Washington, Jan. 20 (U.R) The United States today inform, ed Bulgaria that unless it with- u.awB na uuiuttlius ior recall OI United States minister Donald R. Heath, this nation will sever dip lomatic relations with the red Balkan satellite. The United States position was stated in a note handed fo Bul garian charge d'affaires Peter Voutov at the state department at noon. A similar note was de livered to the Bulgarian foreign office in Sofia. Contents Told The note said that unless Bul garia withdraws its demand for Heath's recall, "the United States government must conclude that the Bulgarian government does not desire to maintain normal diplomatic relations." "In these circumstances the United States government will be obliged to withdraw the United States diplomatic mission from Bulgaria and ask for the recall of the Bulgarian diploma tic mission from the United States." The United States note was a formal reply to the verbal re quest for Heath's withdrawal made here by Voutov yesterday. Charges Unfounded The United States note said "the charges on which the Bul garian government has based this demand are wholly unfounded, as the Bulgarian government it self is fully aware." The United States charged Bulgaria with pursuing a "cam paign of persecution against the legation's Bulgarian employees whose only crime has been their association with the legation." "This campaign has resulted in the execution of two such em ployees, the death of a third after maltreatment by the police, ana me arrest and torture of others. All of these employees were engaged only in such rout ine duties as is accepted as nor mal practice in diplomatic mis sions tnrougnout the civilized world," the note said. The note said that since the United States renewed diploma tic relations with Bulgaria in 1947 the Balkan country has not conducted those relations on a friendly basis. Missing Boy Spends u:-Li n: r .... myiir iii rig ren Clove Vallev. N. Y.. .Inn 2n (U.R) State police todav found seven-year-old David Berry in a pig pen on a farm near his hozne. He was alive, police said Tint suffering slightly from shock and exnosure. The boy told wearv searchers who had been hunting for him for 19 hours that he spent the night in a shed while the tem perature outside hovered at two degrees above zero. An ambulance was sent to take him to a hospital for treat ment. State police and sheriff's den- utles began calling in hundreds of searchers who had been look ing for David since dusk yester day when he wandered . away from his two brothers and went Into the densely wooded section around his homo. The hunt was concentrated in the area near the pig pen when one of his mittens was discov ered in a cornfield 300 yards north of his home. The mitten was identified as belonging to David by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dcola Berry. Wood Alcohol Fatal To Oregon Convicts Salem, Ore., Jan. 20 (U.R) Three convicts at Oregon State penitentiary died last night from effects of drinking wood alcohol, Warden George Alexander re ported today. Alexander Identified the dead as Everett Malone, 43: Edward Howell Reese, 24, and Daniel W. Rivenbark, 40. Alexander said Malone died about 6 n.m. yester day. Reese died four hours later and Rivenbark was found dead in his cell this morning. The warden said a quantity of wood alcohol was found in Rivenbark's cell. He said Reese, before he died, admitted taking the alcohol from the prison hos pital laboratory. He was a cook in the hospital. - The other two prisoners also were cooks. Malone was sentenced from Douglas county, April 27, 1948, to three years for forgery; Reese from Klamath county June 10, 1949, to 10 years for larceny, and Rivenbark from Josephine coun ty April 16, 1949, to 12 years for assault and robbery while armed with a dangerous weapon. Kduiu niyimy;iii Radio Station KYJC (1230 kc) will broadcast the Ike William-Johnny Bratton fight from Chicago stadium tonight, starting at 7 o'clock. At a p.m. nwin uuu axi will broadcast the Oregon Washington basketball game from Seattle and at 9:30 p.m. will air the Medford-Klamath Falls gam from Medford by delayed broadcast. Saturday at 7:30 p.m. KWIN will carry the Oregon State Washington State basketball gam from Pullman. v
