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is 0 mm mm UK 9 1 Medford 44th Year 12 Pages FOOD DOLED TO Pittsburgh, Jan. 25"J.S) Government agencies set mach inery in motion today for re lieving the hunger of striking Pennsylvania miners, described as "starving" by their union of ficers. But despite hunger and speci fic orders from John L. Lewis, the miners pushed efforts to spread the wildcat strike which has idled more than 80,000 of the nation's coal diggers. Pickets Roving Caravans of pickets roved through the soft coal fields of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The pickets added 15,000 men to the idle ranks yesterday. Five steel companies started to bank furnaces or announced plans to lay off workers because of inadequate coal supplies. At the focal point of the strike Hearings Slated Thursday To Talk Soil Conservation Jackson county sentiment re garding the formation of a soil conservation district will deter mined tomorrow when represen tatives of the stale soil conserva tion committee hold public hear ings on the question in Rogue River and Phoenix. The Rogue River hearing is scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday in the Live Oak Grange hall and the session in Phoenix is set for 8 p.m. in the Phoenix Grange hall. Petition Signed The hearings are the result of a petition signed by 55 Jackson county landowners and submit ted to the committee November 10. The conservation committee has announced that "every per son, firm, corporation, state, county, or municipal agency holding title to more than 10 acres of land lying within Jack son county, and all other inter ested parties are invited to at tend and will be given oppor tunity to be heard. A soil conservation district is a legal subdivision of the state but is not authorized to levy taxes or assessments. It is auth orized by law to do everything that needs to be done to achieve "the prevention and control of soil erosion and the conservation of soil and soil resources." New Storm To Bring Snow To Oregon Portland. Ore., Jan. 25 U.R) A new storm moving south from the Gulf of Alaska, will produce more snow for Oregon and Wash ington tonight along with slight relief from an intense cold wave. the weather bureau reported to day. Intermittent snow was fore cast for most of Oregon begin ning tonight or early tomorrow morning. Temperatures remained below 20 throughout most of the two states today, after hitting as low as 11 below zero at Spokane. The Mercury dropped to 12 degrees at the Portland airport at 6:30 a.m. today. A slow rise in temperature throughout the day was expect ed but the fact remained that the northwest was in the grip of another arctic cold wave. Bend was the coldest recorded point in Oregon with four below. Barns reported two below. La Grande two above, Pendleton three above and The Dalles 11 above. NLRB Bargaining Agent Election Here Thursday Non-seasonal workers at Bear Creek orchards and Southern Oregon Sales, Inc., will vote to morrow in an NLRB-supcrvised election that will determine whether Teamsters, Cannery and Fruit Packing workers, local ' 962-A, AFL. will be recognized as bargaining agents in the two plants. Ballots will be cast in the courthouse auditorium from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. nnd 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Road Conditions Greentpringt and Siikiyou mountain passe were slick this morning, and motorist! should carry chains, itate po lice said. Chaini were alio ad vised over Sexton mountain on highway 99 north where ix inches of new snow wai reported. The Redwood highway was icy and the the coast highway wai closed by a slide 13 miles outh of Port Orford. United Press laid motorists should carry chaini on Wil lamette and Santiam panes. MEDFORD, OREGON, in southwestern Pennsylvania, government officials laid plans for giving surplus potatoes, and possibly other commodities, to families reduced to near-poverty by the Walkout. The potatoes" were released Truman Will Enter Coal Dispute, High Government Official Claims Washington, Jan. 25 (U.R) - A high government official laid today that President Truman will step into the soft coal dispute "before the week end" unlet! John L. Lewis get! 80,000 striking miner! back to work "quick." Thii official laid that even if the linker! return to work on a three-day week. Mr. Truman still may act becauseVof the growing coal shortage. This disclosure came loon after Jamei Boyd, director of the bureau of minei. told the lenate labor committee he hat notified the White House that coal supplies are near a "danger point" which loon may require preiidential action. Mail Routes In Area Due For Reshuffling An extensive changeover of rural mail routes to city "mount ed" routes has been started at the Medford post office in a long range program to improve mail service in fringe areas and to make designations of rural resi dences more definite. Superintendent of Mails Otto DeJarnett said today the latest change-overs would go into ef fect February 16 or shortly after, depending on completion ot house numbering and plotting by County Engineer Paul Rynning and his staff. Areas Affected Territories to be affected by the redesignations next month are: Jacksonville highway be tween Western avenue and Wine-ma way, transferred from star route to city mounted route; Buckshot Hill road "and part of the Lone Pine road, rural route to city mounted route; Morrow road, renamed Biddlc road, city mounted service; and Jackson ville-Phoenix highway between rungs highway and Urillin Creek road, and part of Crooked Creek road, to mounted service. Crater Lake highway, as far north as the domicilliary center, will be changed from a star route to a rural route. A city mounted service is de livery by automobile to the curb; a star route is contracted mail delivery in areas between two post offices, and a rural route is one servicing mailboxes not necessarily adjacent to the own er's home and operates out of one central post office, DeJarnett explained. To Use Street Number! After the change-over is ae complished, rural residences on the routes affected will be desig nated by street and house num bers rather than by route and box numbers. As soon as the county en- Senate Approves Equal Rights Bill Washington, Jan. 25 (U.R) The senate approved today a proposed constitutional amend ment that would guarantee equal legal rights to women. The required two-thirds sen ate vote was obtained with eight votes to spare. The tally was 63 to 19. Members accepted. 51 to 31. a provision safeguarding all spe cial rights, benefits or exemp tions given women by law, now or in the future. This was done after some senators expressed concern that the proposed con stitutional amendment would destroy industrial and social safeguards now afforded wom en. The constitutional amendment now goes to the house for ac tion. If it is approved there, it must be ratified by 36 states to become effective. The ratifi cation must be finished in seven years. MacArthur Observes 70th Birthday Tokyo, Thursday, Jan. 26 iUR) Gen: Douglas MacArthur will cut a big birthday cake at the American embassy today to celebrate his 70th birthday. MacArthur is in good health and high spirits, but there will be no big party or celebration Instead, his wife, Jean, and his 12-year-old son, Arthur, and a small group of friends will be on hand to wish him happy birth day. Meanwhile, birthday greetings have been arriving here from all parts of the world. Many Japa nese who admire the supreme commander have sent greetings. Washington. Jan. 25 UR Housing Expediter Tighe E. Woods today announced local option rent decontrol in West Linn, Ore, , - WEDNESDAY, JANUARY HUNGRY yesterday by the agriculture de partment to the Pennsylvania department of properties and supplies, which ordered distri bution by county commissioners. White House intervention to help the miners had been asked gineer's staff has assigned house numbers. DeJarnett urged house holders to put the new numbers on their houses as well as on their mailboxes. Eventually, he said, every house in rural areas within the jurisdiction of the Medford post office will be num bered. In effecting the change-over, the engineer's office will re name some roads in the area and give new names to formerly un designated roads. Eugenean Picked As First Citizen Portland, Ore., Jan. 25 (U.R) A committee of three today named 30-year-old" Dave Knox, president- of the Eugene Cham ber of commerce, as Oregon's junior first citizen-for 1949. . The distinguished service award committee of the state Jaycee nicked Knox from 15 candidates. The committee was composed of Chief Justice Hall S. Lusk of the state supreme court, state senator and Pendle ton wheat rancher Carl Eng dahl, and Dr. George H. Swift, Salem Episcopal church pastor. The award will be presented Knox' in Roscburg on February 18 during a banquet of the state Jaycee winter board meeting, said Bert Nennis of Baker, Ore gon junior first citizen of 1948 and chairman of this year's se lection committee. California CIO Charter Revoked Washington, Jan. 25. (U.R) CIO President Philip Murray to day revoked the charter of the California Stale CIO council be cause, the CIO said, the council followed the communist party line. Murray acted on the unani mous recommendation of a three man committee which heard the charges last December 19. The committee found that the state council: "Defied and op posed CIO policy," "publicly allied itself" with communist politics, "recklessly interferred" .with CIO local affairs and used its newspaper, The Labor Har ald, to oppose CIO policy and create disunity. Murray's action was made known in a letter to James L. Daugherty, president, and Bjorne Hailing, secretary-treasurer of the council, at San Francisco council headquarters. Pan American Clipper Loses Engine Over Sea San Francisco, Jan. 25. IU.R) A Pan American clipper lost an engine over the Pacific ocean to day but landed safely at Tokyo airport, the airline reported. ine piano carried 1U civilian passengers and was piloted by Capt. Murray H. Stewart of Menlo Park, Calif. Pan American said it' under stood the engine fell out of the airliner about 80 miles from its destination. ' The airline identified the plane as a Boeing Stratocruiser. Triplet Boys Born To Washington Couple Tonaskct, Wash.. Jan. 25 (U.R) Triplet boys, all red-haired, were born within a few minutes of each other in this Okanogan valley town today. The parents are Mr. and Mrs. Roy Walker of Okanogan. The triple birth occured by Caesarian. The attending physician re ported mother and sons "doing fine." The 36-year-old mother never had a child before. The father, a mechanic, said he saw only one of the babies. "but I guess that if I've seen one, I've seen them all.'V I Tribune 25, 1950 . NO. 258 MINERS by Rep. Anthony Cavalcante, (D.. Pal The agriculture department said surplus eggs may be re leased to the miners later, but tnat it nad no authority to give away other surplus commodi- ties held in government ware houses. They include pork, flour, larci ana canned goods. Violence Breaks Out Picketing by the rebel min ers, who ignored pleas by union officers to return to work last Monday, broke into ouen vio lence yesterday in the Clarks burg, W. Va., area. Loaded coal trucks and loading bins were upset. In Pennsylvania 44,300 men were out. In West Virginia 19,000 men were idle, in Ohio 10,000 in Alabama 6,000 and in Kentucky 1,000. Sen. Morse Raps Administration On China Policy Salem, Ore., Jan. 25 (U.R) Sen. Wayne L. Morse of Oregon today criticized the administra tion's handling of our policy in China. He said "for many months the state department failed to dis cuss with the bipartisan leaders of the foreign relations commit tee of the senate its plans and policies in China, if it had any." Issues Warning The Oregon republican, vigor ously declaring himself in fav or of continued bipartisan for eign policy, warned against any return to "narrow nationalism and isolationism." Sen. Morse made his biparti san policy address at the Salem Rotary club. Earlier, he stopped at the, capital to file his candi dacy for re-election as U. S. sen ator. . He will ' seek the republi can nomination in May. About the China' situation, Morse said: "Warning slenals of dissolu tion and criticism were raised in debate in the senate many times during this period. On one occasion, during the 80th con gress, the Republican chairman of the foreign relations commit tee and the man who is per haps more responsible than anv other living American for a will ing acceptance on the part of republicans, and for that mailer Americans generally, of the need for national unity in sup Dort of a bipartisan foreign nol icy admitted under question ing on -the floor of the senate that the state deoartment had not consulted with the foreign relations committee for many months on any phase of the China problem." Crack Developed Morse said: "At that time, which was the fall of 1947, a serious crack developed in the seams of America's foreign pol icy. It should have been ce mented very quickly by a mu tual exchange of points of vipw and information between the state department and the senate foreign relations committee. In stead, the misunderstandings and criticisms in respect to the American policy In China be came greater through 1947, 1848 and 1949." He added: "those of us in the senate who strongly supported the idea of maintain ing a bipartisan foreign policv were both grieved and handi capped on many occasions over the failure of the state depart ment to take the bipartisan lead ers of the congress into its con fidence and consultation in re spect to Asia." RANGER ARRIVES District Ranger Harold C. Chriswell took over his new duties with the Rogue River Na tional forest at the Union Creel; ranger station today. Chriswell was formerly ranger with the Gifford Pinchot National forest in Washington and replaces Ranger Robert Appleby who is now serving with the Siuslaw National forest with headquart ers at Corvallis. if--. BOULDER DERAILS TIM W-This Southern Pacific freight train hit ne" ' '' - - : ''.eir.an was only persm injured In the ripj.ed up J00 feet of tract Mj;e tf.jn -700 iRrr. ;cr! were removed ed around the break by bus. it sfni "Ti in ii mill mi n.ii iiiiilf i rdtmamr f l ii " mnisiii inn (Acme Telcphotot CALLS ON PRESIDENT Angus Ward (center), former Consul General In Mukden who was imprisoned by the Chinese Reds, confers with President Truman at the White House. Me was accompanied by Secre tary ol State Dean Acheron (right). Alger Hiss Term Of Five Years For Perjury New York, Jan. 25 (U.R) Al ger Hiss, the bright young state department adviser to President Roosevelt at Yalta, was sen tenced to five years in prison today for lying to a grand jury about his help to a communist spy ring. The 45-ycar-old secretary- gen eral of the United Nations char ter meeting in San Francisco, protested his innocence to the last moment. Then he stood un flinching as Judge Henry W. Goddard ordered him to prison as a "warning to all that a crime of this character cannot be com mitted with impunity. Judge Goddard sentenced Hiss to five years on each of two counts of perjury, but ordered tne sentonces to run concur rently. Hiss was allowed to remain free on $10,000 bond pending a ruling on his appeal from Ihc conviction which was filed im mediately with the court clerk. Just before Goddard pro nounced the sentence, Hiss re quested the opportunity. to make "a brief statement." "I would like to thank your honor for the opportunity lo deny the charge against me," he said. "I am confident in the Attorney On Stand In Bridges Hearing San Francisco, Jan. 25 (U.R) A well-dressed, scholarly lawyer took the place of a lough-talking longshoreman on the witness stand todi;y in the Harry Bridges perjury-conspiracy trial. J. Everett Houser, Long Beach, Cal., attorney, was the fifth wit ness called by the defense in its effort to disprove government charges that the CIO Longshore union president lied when he denied he was a communist. Houser replaced Bruce B. Jones, a veteran dock worker, who yes terday called one of the key pro secution witnesses a " . . .liar!" Houser, a wartime immigra tion department examiner, was called to offer testimony about his examination for naturaliza tion of Henry Schrimpf, another government witness who admit ted he was once a communist. Russians Tighten Partial Blockade Berlin, Jan. 25 (U.R) The Russians tightened their partial blockade of Berlin today by im posing slowdown restrictions on trucks bound for the western zones. Restrictions placed on west bound traffic on the Berlin sup erhighway were the same as those Imposed on eastbound traf fic into Berlin last Saturday minute inspection of documents. The new slowdown cut truck traffic both in and out of Berlin by 80 per cent. Reports from Holmstedt, Soviet checkpoint on the zonal border west of Berlin said three or four trucks an hour were going through each way compared to a normal traffic of 15 to 20. Longview, Wash., Jan. 25. (U.Rl-The Longview city attorney today ruled illegal the renting of advertising space on parking, meters. $s?wt Receives Prison future the full facts as to how Whittaker Chambers was able to carry out forgery by type writer will be disclosed." The lanky defendant then stood facing the judge to hear the sentence. He did nol flinch as the judge pronounced sen tence. His attorney, Claude B. Cross, filed appeal papers immediately. Hiss received the maximum five year sentence on each of the counts. He also could have been fined $2,000 on each count. Goddard ruled that Hiss could remain free under $10,000 bail, twice the amount he had been at liberty under since his in dictment. Cross made two motions im mediately after the court opened one for a new trial, and the second for arrest of judgment. Both were denied. Physicians Testify In Anti-Trust Suit - - Portland, Ore., Jan. 25. (U.R) Threo Oregon physicians testi fied here that it was llieir own decision to stop accepting com mercial hospital association tick ets. They are among the eight doc tors, slate and county medica.1 societies, and the doctor-owned Oregon Physicians Service charg ed in a federal anli-lrusl suit with attempting to monopolize prepaid medical care in Oregon. The three men testifying yes terday were Drs. Thomas E. Griffith and Paul R. Vogt. bolh of The Dalles, and Frank E. Fowler of Astoria. Dr. Fowler said he accepted all association tickets before he entered the service, but began refusing them when he returned to civilian life on the advice of his partner-brother, Dr. Vernon E. Fowler. Iron Lung Fails To Save Life Of Child Grants Pass, Jan. 25 A six-year-old girl died here at about 1:30 p.m. today after an opera tion for a brain tumor. The child was placed in an iron lung to assist her breathing during the last few hours of her life. The lung, which was present ed to the Jackson county chap ter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis only this week, was transported from Ashland to Grants Pass this morning, under city and state police escort, ine lirst can ior the lung came at 10:25 a.m. and it was sent to Grants Pass im mediately, through the efforts of a local Businessman. The child had been uncon scious since 2 p.m. yesterday, and had been kent alive with oxygen until the arrival of the lung. WINTER CONTINUES Winter weather will slay with the Rogue valley at least for a few days more, the weather bureau here Indicated this morn ing. Snow flurries tonight, with more cloudiness tomorrow and snow turning to cold possibly freezing rain, was forecast. two boulders, the size of garnnes. derailment c! Jl-:-ar trs'M that Irom stalled trains and Irawuun- - $w ay mif W iesa After hearing a statement from Cross on behalf of Hiss. Goddard asked the government if it nad anything to say. Assistant U. S. Attorney Thom as F, Murphy, who prosecuted Hiss, said tnat the government "now moves for judgment." Reports Of Plans For Second Brink's Holdup Is Denied Cleveland, O., Jan. 25 (U.R) Detective Inspector James Mc- Arthur, discounted today reports that another Brink's Inc., hold up was planned here and broken up by a raid last night. He said there arc a lot of publicity hounds in the police department." Uniforms Found Detectives last night raided a suite of rooms near the police station and found seven gray uniforms similar to those worn by Brink's guards, some burglar tools and a roll of friction tape. They issued statements after the raid to the effect that seven men fled the building and es caped and that at least part of them wore believed to be mem bers of the notorious Detroit Purnle gang. . The detective inspector said "there are some big mibllcitv hounds in the police department. This was not a Dlot to knock out Brink's here or anywhere else." Pair Sought The detectives made the raid on a tip from a police informer while searching for Sam Nor bert. 40, of Detroit, and Edgar Heald, 39, of Cleveland. They said both were being sought for questioning in connection with the Boston robbery. Both have police records, they said. Detroit police sent Detective Sergeant John Cronnenwett here yesterday to search for Nor bcrt. He is wanted for question ing in the robbery of a restau ant in Detroit last October 17, that netted $1,200 and jewelry. Heald is wanted for questioning in a Cleveland robbery. Cleveland police refused to comment on reports that plans to the ground floor of Brink's offices here were found in the raid. New Minimum Wage Law Now In Effect Washington, Jan. 25. (U.R) Some 1,500,000 workers got a raise today by order of the government. No one stood to get much rich er from the boosts, which av erage between 5 and 15 cents an hour. In all, the raises will cost employers an extra $300,000,000 a year. The wage increase stemmed from a recently-enacted law re vising the wage-hour act which lifted the legal minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour. In terms of the 40-hour week, that's an increase from $16 to $30. The law .signed last October by President Truman, goes into effect today. ' Killer Of Wife Uses Daughter, 3, As Shield Tucson, Ariz..Jan. 25. (U.R) A 38-year-old stone mason who used his three-year-old daughter as a shield when officers at tempted to arrest him was held for investigation of murder to day in the slaying of his ex-wife, Mrs. Claudia Marie Keller, 27. Sheriff's deputies said Ernest Zips, divorced by Mrs. Keller two months ago, shot and killed the woman while three of their children watched with horror. A fourth child, Albert Ray, 10, was at school when the shooting oc curred. Mrs. Keller died In her front yard after Zips shot her. He claimed she refused to allow him to see the children. , 89,000 Automobile Workers Quit In Welfare Dispute Crews In Six States Idled By Walkout Detroit, Jan. 25. (U.R) Eighty nine thousand automobile work ers began a nationwide strike against Chrysler corporation to day when around-the-clock ne gotiations stalled over pensions and welfare benefits. Detroit. Jan. 25 (U.R) The Chrysler strike in a nutshell: Number of itrikers, 89.000. Number of plants, 25. Approximate car and truck loss (daily) 6.000. Estimated wages lost (daily) $1,200,000. Last strike. 1948. Days duration. 17. The strike call for 89,000 CIO auto workers in six states came when UAW President Walter Reuther stalked out of the smoke- v iiuea Dargaming room. Picket Lines Form Workers in Motor City plants walked out in droves. Picket lines formed quickly. The strike choked off produc tion of 6,000 cars a day by the nation's third largest automaker. "The arrogant and insuffer able attitude of the Chrysler cor poration has forced this strike upon its workers," Reuther de clared. "The issues are simple, clear and sensible." Picket lines formed with mili tary precision. There was no violence, but hundreds of Detroit -police stood at company gates. Benefits Demanded Negotiators had met for 24 hours in continuous session to try to avert a strike. The UAW demanded a 10-cent welfare package for $100 pensions and health and hospitalization bene fits. The company agreed to- pay pensions, but refused to pay into a trust fund a set cents-per-hour sum. It wanted to pay retirement . out of current assets. Sound trucks roared strike orders to pickets. Soup kitchens went up . quickly, and picket signs reading "Just 10 Cents" showed among the shuffling workers. Strike Starts Early The strike startecy IS mlmito'; before the 10 a.m. deadline set by Reuther. Workers in other states were ordered to join the walkout when the deadline came In their time zones. State and federal mediation ef forts failed. Noel Fox, chief Michigan mediator, said he would "let both sides cool off for two or three days" before attempting talks again. Six Roads To Get Load Restrictions Load limit restrictions are to be imoosed on six additional county roads Friday, County En gineer ram Kynning announced today. Restrictions to forestall damage bv heavy trucks were placed on eight other roads in the county last Monday. Roads affected Dy tne laiesi order are: the entire length of tne Sardine Creek road; the Sterling road from the Jackson-ville-Ruch highway to Buncum: the entire lengths of Ulrich road. Lewis road. Galls Creek road and the Forest Creek road. Limits The Same Restrictions will be the same as those placed earlier on other roads 11.000 oounds maximum load on a single axle and 20,000 Dounds on dual axles. Weather conditions have not improved sufficiently to permit removing restrictions on any road yet, but Rynning has said the reduced limits wilfremain in force only so long as necessary . to prevent costly damage to road ' beds. Two Persons Dragged . t From Fire In Portland Portland, Ore., Jan. 25 (U.R) ' Neighbors dragged two persons to safety late last night when lire gutted an apartment In a ' two-story flat In southeast Port land. Ralph Fulkerson, about 45, was taken to Providence hos pital with severe burns on his back, hands and feet. Mrs. Molly McHondrick, also about 45, was treated at the hospital for less severe burns. Both were pulled from the flaming apartment by C. W. Ber green and Ben Guile, neighbors. Firemen blamed the fire on smoker's carelessness. GEORGE CSTEP DIES George Estep died in Portland last night, according to word re ceived here today. Perl funeral home will have charge of fu neral arrangements and a com plete obituary will be published later. WEATHER FORECAST: Snow flurries to night. Thlrkentnf cloudiness Thursday, with snow thanitnl lo rln by nlihb ConUnued cold. Temp. Hltbcst Yesterday 31 Lowest this Mornlnf .. . 25 Prec. to 4:10 A.M. Today, Trace
