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(above), 20)-year-old daughter ot
Japan'! Emperor Hlrohito, Is en
gaged to marry Toshlmichl Taka
sukasa, 26, a 20-o-month clerk at
the National Railway Museum in
Tokyo. No date has been set for
the wedding.
Good Results In
FitjtWeekOf
Fife Truck Drive
Central Point, Jan. 28 Dur
ing the first week of their cam
paign to raise funds for a fire
truck to serve the rural area
around Central Point, the Cen
tral Point volunteer firemen
have had good results, according
to President Richard Krupp.
Pledges have averaged $20 per
property owner, he reported. On
ly pledges are being secured now.
Bonded collectors will .pick up
donations when sufficient prom
ises are received. Krupp said
that about $1,600. of the $8,500
required to purchase the truck
and equipment and put it into
service has been pledged.
Favorable Opinion
Volunteers have found opinion
of rural residents for the most
part "very favorable" toward
the fire district plan, according
to Krupp. A considerable portion
of the southwest area has been
covered and firemen hope to go
into the northwest section this
week. Krupp estimated that the
solicitation will take six weeks.
The truck which volunteers
plan to buy is a 300-gallon pump
er built up by Amcrican-La-France.
It will have a four-wheel
drive, will carry chemical ex
tinguishers, will have 1,000 feet
of hose and will be equipped to
fight grass and grain field fires
as well as building blazes.
Central Point volunteers will
man, maintain and house the
vehicle. Not all volunteer fire
men who answer an alarm will
he sent. on s( rura run, Krupp
stated. ' -' "
Kenneth A. Lowden
Guilty U.S. Charge
Portland, Ore., Jan. 28 (U.R)
Kenneth A. Lowden, 26, Med-
tnrA KharonH with flltPring A
form of the U.S. veterans ad
ministration with intent to ob
tain money unlawfully, was
found guilty late yesterday by a
jury in the court of Federal Dis
trict Judge Alger Fee.
Medford Grocer G. F. Britt
san testified he paid Lowden
CQ9 loci .T,mn li wae nllpppH
Lowden altered the form at that
time.
John E. Wells. U.S. secret
told him he had made changes
in me iorm ana naa uoiameu
money irom the grocer.
Portland Man's Death
Cause Said Unknown
Tucson. Ariz., Jan. 28 !U.R
A coroner's jury was unable to
decide today whether Civil i,n-
cineer Robert Turner, 53, was
a murder victim or a suicide.
Jurors ruled that Turner, of
Archorage, Alaska, and Port
land, Ore., died of gunshot
wounds inflicted by person or
persons unknown.
The body of the well-dressed
man was found Thursday in his
parked car 15 miles northwest
of here.
Sheriff's Deputy Emmett New
land told the coroner's jury that
he found Turner dead, his hand
"in a natural position" resting
on the steering wheel, and a .38
caliber pistol in his lap.
Depth Charge Planned
To Move 'Battlewagon'
Norfolk. Va.. Jan. 28 U.R)
The navy will resort to a depth
charge of TNT tomorrow in a
preliminary effort to get its only
active battleship out of the mud.
The operation, latest in a ser
ies of discouraeine attempts to
get the battleship Missouri off
her muck anchorage, may not ac
tually get her afloat. The navy's
main objective is to soften up her
sticky berth so that a scheduled
big heavc-hn on February 2 ab
solutely will not miss.
Ski Conditions
Fifteen inches of new mow
on a packed run at Sky Trail
in the Siskiyoui and excellent
skiing conditions were report
ed yesterday. The coffee cabin
and rope tow are operating.
The lunch counter and ski
tow at Crater lake were
scheduled to operate today.
The park ranger's office said
ixiing wouia De gooa it weath
er cleared and the new pow
dery mow became packed.
Yesterday's light ovnrcati ap
peared to be clearing last
night.
Traffic Bottleneck
In Berlin Reported
Back Near Normal
Russ Ease Blockades
After Week And Half
Berlin. Jan. 28 (U.R) Truck
traffic through the Helmstedt
bottleneck was close to normal
today as the Russians eased their
never-explained "little blockade"
of Berlin after a week and a half.
Accustomed to rapid switches
In Russian policy, Americans in
Berlin adopted a patient "wait
and see" attitude but they
pointed hopefully to these other
good omens:
Two Good Omens
1. The communist east German
government has been authorized
to issue travel permits in and out
of Berlin. Until now the Soviets
reserved this power for them
selves. The Germans promised
the permits will be issued with
out delay.
2. The east German govern
ment withdrew, without explan
ation, its announcement of Fri
day night that permits will be
needed to go from Berlin's west
ern sector to the- eastern zone
and back. This restriction was in
effect during the big blockade
that led to the air lift.
West-bound German track traf
fic at Helmstedt oh the super
highway, where the Russians
clamped down, was back to nor
may this afternoon. For the first
time there was no blacklog, no
waiting line of trucks.
10 Trucks An Hour
East bound trucks were pass
ing the barriers on the Soviet
British zone border at the rate of
10 an hour. Although the normal
rate is about 20 an hour, for the
last week and a half the Rus
sians have held it to between two
and four.
The line of trucks on the west
side of the barrier was down to
about 100. Trucks carrying milk
and perishable food were moved
to the head of the line.
The east German ministry of
interior, disclosing it had taken
over the job of issuing travel
permits, said they, will be given
out "without special formalities.
Plane, Army Weasel.
Seek Snowbound Pair
Port Angeles, Wash., Jan. 28
(U.R) A coast guard helicopter
pilot and an army weasel were
trying to reach a seriouslv ill
couple marooned at a snow
bound resort high in the Olym
pic National park mountains to
day. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Naud, 53
and 51, have been bedridden
since Thursday with a virus in
fection. A physician said the
couple, caretakers of Staircase
resort, need immediate medical
treatment for what he diagnosed
as a virus infection.
The resort is siolatcd to all
land transportation by deep
snowdrifts and slides and is sur
rounded by high peaks, sheer
cliffs and thick forest, making
it inaccessible from the air ex
cept perhaps by helicopter.
Seattle, Jan. 28-U.R Henry
Ellsworth Vines, 60, father of
the famous golfer, died here yes
terday of a heart ailment.
Late Sports
Central Point, Jan. 28 Med
ford beat the Central Point
high hoop five for the second
time this season in the South
ern Oregon conference, emerg
ing 31 to 25 in a ragged, tough
struggle here Saturday night.
It was Medford's fourth win
against one loss in the league.
The Black Tornado was in
front 10 to 5 at the quarter
and 14 to 9 at the half. Cen
tral Point pulled up to a 22
to 22 deadlock at the third
quarter breather but Medford
pulled away to 27 to 22 by the
automatic rest.
Mike and Herb Trautman
led the Pointers' scoring with
12 and 10 markers, respective
ly. Connie Holzqang tallied 10
for Medford, Don Denman 9
and Bob Shores 8.
Medford controlled the ball
most of the time but had trou-
ble hitting the hoop,
Kerby, Jan. 28 Eagle Point
high won its fifth J-D-J league
and third district 4 basketball
game of the season here Satur
day night by battering Illinois
Valley high 43 to 16 with a
sharp attack. The Eagles led
at the half 24 to 9.
Pat Simmons and Bob Do
heriy with 10 points each
paced the Eagles.
Church basketball league
games Saturday night at the
YMCA saw First Presbyter
ian dump First Christian 22 to
3, Foursquare top First Meth
odist 29 to 25. St. Peter's Luth
eran edged St. Mary's Catho
lic 25 to 23 and St. Mark's
Episcopal edge Central Chris
tian 22 to 20.
New York, Jan. 28 'UP.)
Don Gehrmann, the skinny, be
spectacled star from the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, lunged
ahead at the tape to beat out
Fred Wilt and win the Wane
maker mile Saturday night in
the Millrote games.
Medford
44th Year 18 Pages
Auto Workers Union
Moves To Build War
Chest, Press Strike
Detroit, Jan. 28 (U.R) The
CIO United Auto Workers union
moved today to build a $10,000,
000 war chest with which to
press its paralyzing strike against
Chrysler corporation.
The union's international' ex
ecutive board, acting under new
powers granted at its last con
vention, voted an emergency as
sessment of $1 a week on each
working member, p a y a b 1 e for
maximum of 12 weeks.
The levy becomes effective on
February 9 unless the pension
insurance dispute which sent
89,000 Chrysler workers on
strike Wednesday morning is
settled by that time.
Offer Called Insult
In a bristling statement, the
board described Chrysler's offer
California Storm
Brings Rain, Snow
And Seven Deaths
By United Press
California's latest storm of an
increasingly wet winter moved
into the sourthern portion of the
state Saturday night after
drenching the northern and cen
tral sections with rain and snow
and causing seven highway
deaths.
The U. S. weather forecaster
in San Francisco predicted clear
skies and colder weather for
northern California Sunday and
Monday. Increasing cloudiness
was in store for southern Cali
fornia with showers on Sunday.
The storm blanketed mountain
ranges with a deep mantle of new
snow over an already-thick pack
and .soaked valleys and coastal
areas with a heavy amount -ofi
rain.
Train travel between San
Francisco and Portland was sus
pended by blizzards and the de
railment of a treignt train in tne
Cascade mountains south of
Eugene, Ore. Service was re
sumed Saturday.
The drenching brought rainfall
figures to normal or better in
virtually all sections of northern
California, adding 1.25 inches to
the San Francisco area, 1.54 to
Santa Rosa, 1.39 to Salinas and
.75 Inches to Stockton.
Police and highway patrol re
ports, however, gave a grimmer
side of the picture with seven
highway deaths attributed direct
ly to the stormy weainer.
. Long Beach, Cal., Jan. 28
(U.R) A '72-foot fishing boat,
Johnny Boy, was damaged ex
tensively today by flames at sea
but her crew of 11 escaped
safely.
Bulletins
Phoenix, .Jan. 28 Talent
high dropped Phoenix 33 to 28
in the new high school gym
Saturday night after the Pi
rates had come within two
points of tying the score late
in the last quarter. Talent led
most of the way, including 18
to 14 at the half.
Furry with 11 points paced
the Phoenix attack and Cow
drey got eight to lead Talent
high.
Ashland. Jan. 28 Klamath
Falls high made it two week
end district 4 and Southern
Oregon conference victories
when it dumped Ashland high
50 to 39 here Saturday night.
Ashland. Jan. 28 Chieo
State took its second Far West
ern conference victory of the
week-end over Southern Ore
gon college by edging SOC 53
to 47 here Saturday night.
Medford junior high varsity
kept its undefeated record in
tact Saturday night by down
ing Roseburg's ninth graders
35 to 18 on the local floor in
a ragged game. Ned Landers
paced Medford's attack with
12 points.
Local eighth graders downed
Roseburg 26 to 21 with George
Huber getting 10 points and
the Medford seventh grade
quintet won 36 to 28 as Lorin
Jacobs tallied' 10 local points.
SATURDAY'S RESULTS
USC 46, Si. Mary's 41.
Montana State 51. Montana 46.
W. Montana 78. Carroll 55.
Oregon 63. Washington 60
WSC 63, Idaho 40
Utah State 43. Wyoming 37
Oklahoma A It M S3. DePaul
45
Duke 65. Wake Forest 55
Kentucky 88, Georgia 56
North Dakota 73, South Da
kota State 72
Baylor 60. Arkansas 49
Vanderbilt SO, Tennessee 44
Penn SUle 67, Syracuse 61
MEDFORD, OREGON,
of $100 monthly benefits at B5
years of age with 25 years ser
vice as "insulting."
"This cheap and chiseling cor
poration 'offer'," the resolution
Said, "met with unanimous re
jection." the union wants a 10
cent "package."
The strike assessment, levied
as the "fireside strike" moved
through its fourth day, does not
immediately apply to Canadian
UAW members because of finan
cial restrictions on sending funds
outside Canada.
Negotiations Stalled
There was little to indicate an
early resumption of negotiations.
State and federal mediators
worked quietly behind the scenes
attempting through exploratory
talks with each side to find a
basis for possible agreement.
The strike levy was authorized
last July at Milwaukee. It pro
vides that each working mem
ber can be assessed $1 a week
when a strike affecting more
than 50,000 auto workers moves
into its third continuous week,
with the approval of the execu
tive board.
Bert Simmons Demo
Sheriff Candidate
Party Meet Hears
Bert Simmons, Medford, for
mer Talent policeman, an
nounced at the Jackson county
democratic central committee
meeting here yesterday that he
will be a candidate in the May
primary election for the demo
cratic nomination for sheriff,
pa.rty leaderajaid last, night.. .
" Hets the (i,rst person to file on
the democratic ticket this year
for the sheriff post.
Pearson Speaker
(speaking on "What a Demo
cratic Victory Means to the
People." State Treasurer Walter
J. Pearson was principal guest
at the meeting held at the YMCA.
His talk was open to the pub
lic and approximately 100 per
sons attended the session.
Pearson declared that a demo
cratic triumph in the Oregon
elections would return the gov
ernment to the people and that
the people's interests rather than
special interests would be served.
He pointed to one-party rule for
many years.
The treasurer was' Introduced
by Robert Maclean, stale tax
commissioner. Other guests in
cluded Elwood Hussey, Cave
Junction, and Mrs. Isabel Small,
president and vice-president re
spectively, of the Josephine coun
ty democratic central committee.
Urges Full Ticket
Mrs. Moore Hamilton, com'
mittee candidates chairman,
urged a full democratic ticket in
the primary and said several per
sons were considering seeking
office.
- Pearson is scheduled to attend
a breakfast at the Cave shop in
Grants Pass this morning and
may appear at two meetings at
Roseburg later in the day. His
visit here was his first since he
was elected.
Two Children Dead
Back Nebraska Car
La Grande, Ore., Jan. 28 (U.R)
Two children were found dead
of carbon monoxide poisoning in
the back Beat of their parents
car. Coroner William Arrivey
said today.
Robert. 3, and James l',4, the
sons of Mr. and Mrs. R. Edmis
ton, Lincoln, Neb., apparently
died from fumes concentrated in
the back seat from a defective
muffler.
The Edmistons were driving to
Biloxi, Miss., from Spokane,
Wash., when the tragedy oc
curred. A third child was un
harmed. He was riding in the
front seat with his parents.
The death of the two children
was discovered when the Edmis
tons stopped here for groceries.
Whittaker Chambers
Offers Undergo Test
Washington, Jan. 28 'U.R)
Ex-communist Whittaker Cham
bers offered tonight to take an
FBI lie detector test to reiute
scuttblcbutt rumors that there
was something "peculiar" in his
relations with Alger Hiss.
Chambers made the offer dur
ing a radio interview.
Chambers said he wants par
ticularly to "spike the rumor
that Alger Hiss is shielding some
one.
'He is shielding nobody but
himself," Chambers ' asserted.
SUNDAY, JANUARY
Sharp New Co1
Wave Drops )L a
Dakota Mercury
Motorists Warned Off
Highways In Dakotas
Chicago, Jan. 28 (U.R) The
sharp edge of a new cold wave
cut South Dakota temperatures
as much as 42 degrees in 10 min
utes today in sweeping out of the
Pacific northwest and into the
northern plains states.
Light snows swirled in the
frigid air in Montana, Idaho,
eastern Oregon and northern
Nevada, but in the Dakotas, bliz
zards erupted with winds up to
oa miles an hour and heavy
snow.
At Rapid City, S. D., the cold
blast hit 46 degree weather at
6:d0 a. m. and dropped the read
ing to 4 above in 10 minutes.
From 21 To 1 Below
Within five minutes at Huron,
S. D., the temperature plummet
ed from 21 above to 1 below.
Motorists were warned to slay
off highways in the Dakotas.
Drifts built up on highway just
being opened after a blizzard ear
lier m the week.
The cold wave knocked torn
pcratures down to 10 and 20 be
low in the northern KocKies ana
great plain states.
"Spring" Vanishes
A normal January chill snuffed
out the last traces of a premature
springtime in the cast. Overcoats
were again in style In New York
City where flowers had bloomed
during the week.
Florida was the exception to
the colder weather gripping the
nation. Miami ' had a nighttime
low of 61 degrees. Chilly rains
swept California and it was 35
during the night at Los Angeles.
The weather bureau at Chicago
expected the new cold wave to
hit the Great Lakes area by to
morrow night.
Downtown Building
Gutted In Big Fire
San Francisco, Jan. 28 (U.R)
A six-story downtown office
building was gutted today by a
spectacular four-alarm blaze
the worst of the year for San
Francisco.
Fifteen firemen suffered minor
injuries or smoke inhalation.
Damage was set at "in excess of
$200,000" by City Fire Chief Ed
ward P. Walsh.
Smoke pouring out of the
Mcrritt building on lower How
ard street attracted an estimated
1.000 spectators, some of them
"winos" from along that "skid
row" street, who watched as
flames ate all around the main
floor warehouse of the Franzla
Bros, winery but never reached
the stored stocks.
Warehouse Damaged
The winery warehouse was
damaged only by water and
smoke. No one was in the struc
ture at the time of the fire.
Flames broke out in the second
floor rear and within 15 minutes
mushroomed through the five
floors above street level, ulti
mately breaking through the
roof. Twenty-eight fire rigs were
called out and 125 firemen
worked an hour and a half be
fore the blaze was brought un
der control.
Missionary Watches
Wolves Devour Dogs
- Anchorage, Alaska, Jan. 2B
(U.R) A missionary of the far
north thanked God to be alive to
day after watching wolves de
vour his sled dogs and trail him
through the snow.
The Rev. Everett Bechelder of
the Wasilla. Alaska, children's
home kept fires burning around
his bogged dog team for five days
before he was forced to abandon
all but two of the huskies to the
encircling wolves.
Clear Skies, Cold Predicted
Portland, Ore., Jan. 28 (U.R)
Clear, cold skies but with some
intermittent snow, were forecast
tonight for the Pacific northwest
after 15 days of snow, sleet, rain
and silver thaw.
The Oregon air national guard
dropped 11 bales of hay and 900
pounds of grain and groceries to
stranded cattle herder eight
miles west of Goble. He and the
stock were snowbound in eight-
foot drifts for two weeks.
A C-47 flew the mercy mis
sion, piloted by Brig. Gen. Rob
ert Dodson, commander of the
lZ.trd fighter squadron.
The forecaster said the domi
nant force In the weather was a
stream of cold air from western
Canada which would keep tem-
perauires rjeiow freezing
through tonight.
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NEW STRIKE SCENE Guard stands alone at gate of Chysler Corp.
plant In Detroit, Mich., after 89.000 auto workers struck the firm
without setting up picket lines as a reminder of their walkout. Com
menting on the "boycott," C. I. o. United Auto Workers President
Walter Reuther said, "We're growing up." The strike was called
when negotiations over pensions and welfare benefit broke off.
House GOP Leaders
Ask Acheson Resign
Washington, Jan. 28 (U.R)
Several republican members of
the house, including two on the
foreign affairs committee, de
manded tonight that Secretary
of Slate. Qcan Acheson resign.'!
Hep. Lawrence H. Smith (R.,
Wis.), n high-ranking GOP mem
ber of the foreign affairs group,
said that Acheson 'has outlived
his usefulness" to the govern
ment. If he refuses to resign. Smith
said, Acheson "at least owes the
committee a word of explana
tion" for his defense of Alger
Hiss.
Hiss, former state department
official, was sentenced to five
years' imprisonment for perjury
in denying that he gave secret
slate department papers to Whit
taker Chambers when Chambers
was a communist spy. Achcson's
comment on the conviction was
that he would not turn his back
on Hiss.
Forced Down Plane
Probably Not Hurt
Seattle, Jan. 28 (U.R) The
Coast guard in Seattle reported
Saturday night a plane was
forced down in the Pacific ocean,
but Inter said the alert had been
cancelled.
Officers said radio distress sig
nals had been picked up by the
Kodiak, Alaska, coast guard sta
tion. Federal communications di
rection finding equipment was
set up in an effort to locate the
craft.
But within an hour the Ko
diak station cancelled the alert.
Officers in Seattle said this in
dicated that the aircraft was safe
but had no further explanation.
13 Tokyo Persons Die
In Explosions Of Gas
Twkyo, (Sunday) Jan. 29 (U.R)
Thirteen persons were dead, 10
Injured and 1 missing today fol
lowing a gas explosion in a
coal mine in Hokkaido province,
national police announced.
An investigating party from
(he mine safety control office at
Sapporo, near the scene, was sent
to establish the cause of the
accident. The mine where the
explosion occurred is at Akahira,
in Hokkaido.
Snow still blocked the Ever.
green and Columbia gorge high
ways, and the Pacific highway
was reported reopened near
Weed, Cal.
The weather bureau said the
storm-stricken Willamette valley
will keep its blanket of snow
for a while.
A snowy cover from Eugene
to Portland will be added to by
new but light flurries through
Sunday, the bureau said, and
cold temperatures will prevent
any appreciable melting. .
Between a half and two inches
of new snow fell over the Port
land area early today on top of
four inches which fell the pre
vious night.
Albany and Eugene felt the
sling of winter in one of their
heaviest snowfalls of the lea-
WEATHER
FORECAST: Genenlly fair iktot
taut cooler Umpvraturti today
and Monday
Temperature . .
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Loweit yeiterday -....M
S. P. Trains Moving
Again After Trouble
Eugene, Ore., Jan. 28 (U.R)
Southern Pacific trains, delayed
since Frid.ay afternoon, were
moving again today after a de
railed freight car in tunnel No
7 near Cascade summit in Wil
lamette, pass- ;was ..cleared. Jfotp
the tracks,
The southbound Shasta Day
light was held up at Oakridge
and the northbound Shasta Day
light remained in Klamath Falls
until the derailed car was re
moved early today. ,
Both Saturday daylights, north
and southbound, were cancelled.
A car left the tracks inside
the tunnel No. 7 near Cascade
summit in Willamette pass. .
Minister Convicted
Of Statutory Rape
Benton, 111., Jan. 28--U.R
A middle-aged former minister
was convicted Saturday night of
the statutory rape of a 14-year-old
girl who said he told her sex
relations are "a matter, of the
flesh, not the soul."
A Jury of 11 men and 1 wom
an recommended that James L.
Pettit, 52, balding former min
ister of the Baptist church at
Thompsonville, 111., be sentenced
to two years in prison.
The sentence is mandatory.
The date for his committment to
prison was not set. '
Stunt Flyer Postpones
Record Plane Attempt
New York, Jan. 28 (U.R)
Stunt Flier Paul Mantz post
poned his attempt to set a new
speed record from New York to
Burbank. Cal.. today when his
P-51 Mustang fighter plane de
veloped a flat tire just as he
was readying for a takeoil.
Mantz said a spare tire was
being flown from the west coast
and hu will make the flight "as
early as possible" tomorrow.
Mantz will be attempting to
break his own non-Jet record of
7 hours and 4 seconds set In 1947.
HEALTH INSURANCE
Washington. Jan. 28 (U.R)
Sen. Lester C. Hunt lD.,.Wyo.)
tonight proposed a voluntary na
tional heBlth Insurance program
lo provide medical, dental and
hospital service for families with
Incomes of $5,000 or less.
For Oregon
son. The weather bureau aia
nearly 16 Inches fell at Albany
in 16 hours.
A storm to the south of Oregon
was expected to keep most rain
in California over the week-end,
although North Bend on the cen
tral Oregon coast reported two
Inches of rain in the last 24
hours.
Bend was the coldest spot re
porting in Oregon with 11 below
zero early today.
Three days remained for cold
air and clouds to better the all
time monthly snow record of 33
inches set In January, 1880. The
weather bureau said 21, inches
had fallen in Portland since the
first of the month.
Meanwhile, roads remained
hazardous, some schools were
closed and utilities were dis
rupted at scattered points,
Searching Aircraft
From Two Countries
Prowl In Far North
Light But Persistent
Snowfall Hurts Hunt
WhitehOrse. Yllknn Torritn
Jan. 28 U.R Search planes of
iwh nations maintained a night
long vigil over the vast, barren
stretches of the far north Sat
urday night for flares or fires
that may be set from a trane.
port plane missing with 44 pas- I
sengers aboard.
MOSt Of the 40 Csnnriisn anrf
United States army air force !
planes that searched the area to
day returned with the same re
port: "Nothing sighted."
Better Weather Seen
But more than a dozen nth.
era kept up the search in dark
ness from the Alaska border to
nonnern British Columbia.
A light but nersistent
fall hampered the search in the
Whitehorse area today but the
weather was expected to im
prove tomorrow, enabling a more
thorough search of the region
where a forest ranger's report
gave searchers the best clue to
the whereabouts of the missing
transport.
Ranger L. Requa, posted at the'
small town of Minto on the
route over which the C-54 would
pass, said today that he had
heard a crash which shnnk hi.
house shortly after he saw a
large plane pass overhead Thurs
day afternoon, the day the plane
disappeared.
operation Mike'
The gigantic two-nation wnrph
already had been dubbed "op
eration mike." Officers of both
the U. S. air force and the RCAF
described the search as "an all
out effort."
The missing plane had aboard.
a woman and her small son, a
crew of eight and 34 U. S. sol-,
diers coming home from Alaska
on furlough or being moved to
another assignment. The C-54
was heading for Great Falls,
Mont.
Its last message was radioed'
at 3:09 p. m. PST Thursday as
it was passing over Snag. Re
qua's post is about 125 miles
southeast of Snag. ' . ,
Bad Weather Defied ?
. The new report came as rescue --.
craft defied barf weather 1otlyAjr"'
over the 10,000-foot, saw-toothed
ranges of the Rockies but found
no track of the missing plane.
Time, distance and the weath
er made the search a desperate
one.- '
The temperatures In White
horse dropped to 30 below zero
last night and, even though the'
C-54 carried Arctic clothing, the
survivors of a crash probably
could not endure for long.
Among the passengers on the
missing plane the air force listed
S.-Sgt. Jack E. Dickerson, Duns
muir, Cal.
Alaskan Bases Easy
For Russ Jo Capture
Washington, Jan. 28 (U.R)
Russia easily could capture '
America's Alaskan bases and
strike "a death blow" at the '
united States, Alaskan Delegate -E.
L. Bartlett said today.
Bartlett addressed the 24th
women's patriotic conference
which 1 meeting here.
"Our main military installs- -tions
today are at Anchorage and -Fairbanks,"
Bartlett said. "It is '
no secret that today they could -be
captured without the expendi
ture of any considerable effort,
1 "In all candor, I must say to .
you that there confronts us the
dreadful possibility that a death
blow could be aimed at the Unit
ed States were our airfields in
Alaska captured and turned
against us.
He said Fairbanks and An
chorage could fall "before one
parachute division or at most '
two."
Education Discussion
Postponed To February
A discussion of modern trends
in education, which was sched
uled for Tuesday evening, Janu
ary 31, has been postponed un
til February 9, officials of the
Medford city council of the Parent-Teachers
association said yes- .
terday. '
They said that Don A. Emer
son who was to have represented
the Oregon state board of educa
tion at the meeting will be un
able to be In Medford for the
session on the advice of his phy- ;
stcian.
Time and place for the Feb
ruary 9 study group will be an
nounced later.
Road Conditions
Packed snow on Green
springs and SUklyou moun
tain passes was reported last
night br state police along
with the advice that motorists
should carry chains.
Police said California offi
cials reported that chains were
no longer mandatory on high
way 19 in the Yreka area but
were still needed in the Weed
Redding section.
Police had no report on Sex
ton nounUinpass on highway
It north but it was thought
conditions were Improving.