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wr"s fi r A' !, - fe.-' f8 w ...... waMiiit a ' f Acme Trleithnlo TRAPPED Rescue workers unload sheet tin from truck flatbed as ambulance stewards stand by to extricate William Taylor (arrow), 32, trapped In the truck's crushed cab. The 2200-pound load of tin slid forward and crushed the cab when the truck crashed into support girders of a viaduct In San Fnnclsco, Taylor suffered Internal in juries and two broken legs. Cold Weather Marks Shattered By United Press A band of Arctic air from the north cracked weather bureau records across the Pacific north west Tuesday in a bitter cold wave. Weathermen said little relief was in sight. - Seventeen reporting weather stations in Oregon had sub-zero temperatures, including a record tying two degrees below at the Portland airport. This equalled the previous all-time cold record ed Jan. lo, looo, lur wie area. " rtDlrntaa Cold Only in the Dakotas were tem peratures any colder than those of interior Oregon where ther mometers dropped to the lowest official readings in 31 years lor a 31 below at Madras ana ju ue low at Prineville. Baker reported 97 holnw. Bend 26 below and Pendleton 25 below. The Willamette valley had its first minus readings in decades and in some instances Druse ai. time records: Salem's 1- below was the coldest on recora iur me Oregon capital. Forest Grove had minus 18 for a new mark. under zero in- ninrfprt Redmond with 22, The Dalles 18, La Grande 16, Lake view 12 Ontario and Meacham .11, Klamath Falls 9, McMinnville 8. Eugene 2 and Oregon City 1. Spokane Minus 19 Vancouver. Wash., had 15 be low and Salmon creek station, six miles north of Vancouver, had 20 below. Spokane recorded Mao Tse-lung May Be Detained In Russia Hong Kong, Jan. 31 (U.R) In formed sources said today that Mao Tse-tung's long stay in Mos cow indicated he was taking an uncompromising stand against Soviet demands. These sources said that Mao is a realist and knows the Chi nese people would not accept any loss of sovereignty, especially af ter the Chinese communist re gime's denunciation of "unequal treaties." One observer believed that Mao's stav mav have been ex tended so he could be put through an indoctrination course de signed to convince him of Mos cow's infallible omnipotence. The conservative South China Morning Post expressed the opin- ion that the survival ot ooin iau f and Chou will depend on the tvpe of treaty they bring back ' to Peiping. Two Children Die In Rear Seat Of Auto Hiattville, Kan., Jan. 31'U.R) Joint funeral services were planned today for two small chil dren who burned to aeam in mc rear seat of their mother's auto mobile as she tried to save them. The victims were Murrell Leon Koppa, six. and his sister, Thelma Nadine. five. Mrs. Goldic Koppa, 22. the children's mother, was treated for serious burns and severe cuts on her hands but rescued her two other children. Billy Eugene, three, and Marv Ann, two. Sheriff Carl Graham said Mrs Koppa was driving from Fort Scott to her home near Hiatt ville when a five-gallon can spill ed and poured gasoline on the exhaust Dioe. The car turned over in a ditch as she tried to stop. Film Actress Charges Cruelty In Divorce Hnllvwood. Jan. 31 (U.R) Motion Picture Actress Mar guerite Chaoman accuses Attor ney G. Eentley Ryan of cruelty in her suit to end their one-year marriage. The divorce action filed yes 7 terdav said thev were married Dee. 29. 1948. and separated last December 18. Miss Chapman asked court approval of a prop erty settlement. 1 In Oregon minus 19 and Seattle had two above. The extended cold froze the Columbia river solidly above the Vancouver railroad bridge. Pre viously, the solid freeze had ex tended only to Bonneville Ham, 40 miles upstream. Frequency of the northwest power pool dropped to 59.62 cycles from a normal 60 during the peak load late Monday, the Bonneville power administration announced. To conserve power, 88,000 kilowatts were dropped from the interruptible aluminum power load for about 43 minutes. Highways Open The absence of high winds and only light snow made the cold more tolerable in the Columbia gorge area where snow drifts had piled as high as 22 feet Monday. The Columbia River and Ever green highways were opened to traffic for the first time in more than a week to permit regular bus schedules, but Union Pacific, Great Northern and Northern Pacific .trains from the.past. con tinued to arrive hours late be cause of wintry midwestern weather. Miss Bergman Denies Hospital Report Rome, Jan. 31 U.R) Actress Ingrid Bergman confirmed by telephone last night that she is at home in her Rome apartment and in fine health despite re ports that she had been rushed to the hospital. With her in her apartment was Italian Film Director Rob erto Rossellini. It is understood that Rossellini and Miss Berg man will marry as soon as she has received her Mexican divorce from Dr. Peter Lindstrom of Hollywood. Rossellini answered the tele phone in Miss Bergman's apart ment and said that she was in good health. The report said she was hospitalized presumably tor ine oirtn 01 a oaoy. "But you do not have to take my word for it," Rossellini said. "I will ask Miss Bergman to tell you herself." Miss Bergman came to the telephone. She laughed heartily when told of reports that she had entered a hospital and said: "That's crazy. Lew Wallace Suggests Campaign Donations Portland. Ore., Jan. 31. (U.R) Lew Wallace, twice-dafeated democratic candidate for govern or, has written a letter to Mate Party Chairman W. L. Josslin suggesting that all candidates for the nomination agree to sup port the winner and contribute 5250 to the campaign. "If I should become a candi date, 1 shall be happy to agree with the other candidates to sup port the successful candidate with all the vigor I have, and also with a contribution to his campaign of $250," Wallace wrote. Wallace said his name, along with those of Josslin, Richard L. Neubergcr, Walter J. Pearson and Austin Flegel, had been "mentioned in the press and otherwise" as possible candidates for governor. Chrysler Corporation Strike Picture Gloomy Detroit. Mich., Jan. 31 U.R Chances for settlement of the CIO United Auto Workers' strike against Chrysler corporation are "verv black." labor conciliators admitted today. Federal Conciliator E. Marvin Sconvers said that "Frankly. I'm gloomy." State Conciliator Philip Weiss said both sides were "stub born." It looks very black," Scon vers said. "We're keeping close touch with the situation, but nothing has indicated that a new meeting would produce any re sults." Medford 44th Year 10 Pages Arctic Air Mass Drops Mercury To One Above Zero Temperature Lowest In Thirteen Years Here The weather ganged up on the Rogue valley last night, and sent the temperature plunging to the lowest mark recorded here for 13 years. The minimum last night was one degree above zero, the same as the 1937 low. The bone-chilling minimum broke no records, however. The previous January minimum was a three below registered on Jan. 11, 1930, and the all-time low was 10 degrees below zero on Dee. 13, 1919. The minimum came, oddly enough, after the sun was up, be tween 8 and 8:30 a.m. It was six above at 4:30 a.m. Cold General The cold was general through out southern Oregon and north ern California, as the south end of the arctic air mass over north ern Oregon and Washington fin ally got this far southi Two de grees below was recorded at Ashland, where winter weather is usually a little more severe than in Medford. At Grants Pass, the minimum was five above. Klamath Falls had 14 below, Lakeview 18 below, and Monta gue, just over the Siskiyous to the south, nine below. The Rogue valley has been pro tected against such chilling weather so far this winter by clouds, weather bureau officials explained. But clear weather last night, and the ground blan ket of snow helped to radiate heat from -the-viilleyt M,cw:t recent comparame temperature was on Jan. 24, 1B49, when a minimum of five above was noted. May Be Warmer It may be slightly warmer to night, the bureau said, but not much. The forecast calls for minimum temperatures of five to fifteen degrees. Some light snow may fall tomorrow, the bureau predicted. At Crater lake, the tempera ture during the past 24 hours ranged from. 10 below 'to 12 above, with five and a half inches of new powdery snow. All roads are open. Yesterday's snowfall in Medford-brought the total amount which has fallen during the month up to 20.1 inches the second greatest monthly snow fall on record here. The largest was during January, 1930, when 22.6 inches fell during the month. This month was third wettest in the record books, with a total precipitation of 5.96 inches, com pared to 6.67 in 1936, and 6.44 in 1943. Russ Film Director Receives Suspension Moscow. Jan. 31 (U.R) So viet Film Director Y. M. Bliokh has been suspended for two years for an irresponsible and inaccu rate production of a scientific documentary film, the commun ist party newspaper Pravda re ported today. Pravda said the ministry of cinematography charged the di rector with making a false por trayal of actual fishing in the film "Caspian Fishermen." Bliokh was accused of filming previously caught sturgeon in stead of actual fish as they were caught, thereby misleading the Soviet spectator, according to Pravda. He gilso filmed only primitive manual methods of fishing, thereby failing to show the ad vanced state of mechanization in the fishing industry, Pravda said. Premier Bidault Gets Votes Of Confidence Paris, Jan. 31 (U.R) The na tional assembly gave Premier Georges Bidault three skimpy confidence votes today in tests on his 1950 budget, and on a fourth ballot deadlocked in an unprecedented tie. The fifth and last of the sched uled votes on which the coali tion cabinet staked its life was put off until late today.. The tie vote threw the assem bly in confusion. Constitution ally it meant the assembly had rejected the motion setting total civil expenses for 1950 at $3.- 128,580,000. But experts said it did not mean that the assem bly had voted misconfidence in the government. Washington. Jan. 31 U.R) Henry A. Wallaces progressive party has scheduled a national convention in Chicago February 24-26 to map plans for the No vember congressional elections. re MEDFORD, OREGON, fo)fo) Woman's Suit Seeks To Recover Money Lost In Bingo Game Vancouver. Wash., Jan, 31 (U.R) Mrs. Marie Young. 62-year-old widow, has filed suit to recover $72,000 in losses from the Hollywood Quito, a bingo house here, it was an nounced today. Owners of the game named as defendants were! Sonny Heath. John McGillivray. John Doe and Richard Roe. The last two. according to Mrs. Young's attorney, Walter Robinson, were included to lake care of any undisclosed owners of the house. Robinson said the suit filed in Clark county superior court, is based on a Washington state law which provides for the re payment of gambling losses. He said Mrs, Young lost $72,000 over a period of sev eral years, including property she sold in order to play "quizo." Russians Hold Up Highway Traffic In Vesf Germany Berlin, Jan. 31 (U.R) The Russians held up highway traffic between Berlin and west Ger many again today and warned that railroad service might be cut "temporarily." The possibility of reimposing of the full-fledged Berlin block ade, which forced west Berlin to depend on the airlift for a year, appeared stronger than ever. May Halt Trains Soviet controlled east German railway officials 'served notice that the railroads linking Berlin and the west might be put out of business for a time because they had been "sabotaged." Repairs ' will take some time," the warning said. The report sounded ominously like the one given by the Russians 18 months ago when they blocked off land communications with Berlin. The restrictions on highway traffic were, rcimposed today as suddenly as they had been lift ed yesterday. To Search Cars The Soviets announced they would search German railroad cars crossing Into west Germany from Berlin for illegal shipment of furniture. Job Priorities At Potash Plants Aired Carlsbad, N. M., Jan. 31 (U.R) Negotiators in a 74-riay-old strike at three huge polash plants here today argued whether striking workers should be given job pri ority over non-union employees. A spokesman for the Interna tional Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers' union (CIO) said after a meeting last night that the un ion agreed to waive wage in crease demands, provided that new negotiations be opened next May. Union representatives told management that no contract would be signed by them unless all of the 1.246 striking union members were guaranteed their old jobs, and that the new men who were hired in their stead two weeks ago were fired. Yaquina Bay To Get Freighter Service Washington, Jan. 31 (U.R) The interstate commerce com mission announced today it has authorized the Isthmian Steam- ship company. New York, to tend its freighter service to ra-i quina bay, Oregon, and Fensa- the uolumbla Paper aox com cola. Fia. Ipany here. Stuck-ln-The-Mud Again Resists Removal Efforts Norfolk, Va Jan. 31 !U.R) The battleship Missouri resisted a tremendous attempt to refloat her today, and a few hours later a navy tug and a mercnant snip also ran aground in Hampton Roads. It was not ascertained immedi ately whether the tug was one of 14 which ha'd tried in vain at dawn to pull the. 45.000-ton bat tleship frorrr the sandbar where she ran apround January 17. In Dense Fog The tug and merchantman came crooners while groping in to Norfolk harbor through a dense fog. The 7.886-ton United States Lines freighter Steel Navigator went on a shoal about three miles from the Missouri on the opposite side of the channel. At about the same time, the tug ran up on a shoal near the TUESDAY, JANUARY Mfo) iruio) Mediators Seek To Avert Telephone Strike February 8 Workers Poised For Nationwide Walkout Washington. Jan. 31. (U.R) Federal Mediation Director Cy rus S. Ching hurried back to the capitol today to take over govern ment peace efforts in the threat ened February 8 nation-wide telephone strike. Ching has been on a month long tour of mediation service offices out west. His top aides, William N. Margolis and Peter Seitz, planned a meeting with President Joseph A. Beirne of the communication workers of America (CIO). Contract Deadlock Beirne announced yesterday that 100,000 phone workers who have been poised to strike for weeks will be called out eight days hence if there is no change in their contract deadlock with Bell system companies. The union expects another 150.000 workers to refuse to cross their picket lines. The strike would start at 6 a.m., local time. Immediately after Beirne's an nouncement, Margolis ordered mediators in the field to try to bring the union and companies together. In most cases, nego tiations broke down long before the strike threat was. raised. Settlement Eyed The government's strategy is believed to be aimed at arrang ing a settlement between the union and a company like West ern Electric which is close to the parent American Telephone & Telegraph company. Such an agreement would be used as a pattern for the industry. . Beirne contends that indivi dual companies are powerless to bargain with the union Because A. T. & T. calls all the signals. A. T. & T. denies that it controls the entire system. Medco Postpones Mill Reopening To Feb. 8 Medford corporation and plan ing mill' and shipping depart ment, which shut down on Janu ary 17, will not resume activity until Wednesday morning, Feb ruary 8, General Manager B. L. Nutting said this morning, He said it was previously planned to start up again on February 1. Nutting reported that the two departments halted work because of ice and snow conditions. Logging stopped on January 13 The sawmill cut the logs on hand in the pond and on January 19 closed for general repairs. The firm planned to start log ging again yesterday, according to Nutting, but new snow pre vented operations. He said the corporation hopes to open the sawmill again about February 20. Container Corporation I Will Build At Portland Portland, Ore.. Jan. 31 U.R) The Container Corporation of America today said It would would build a plant in Portland to produce paper cartons and corrugated shipping containers. The announcement was made through a CCA subsidiary, the California Container corporation. Plans for the Portland plant call for the employment of 100 men and women when the new plant is complete. Since June i, !, me com ex-'pany has manufactured folding cartons at a plant leasee) irom navy's Norfolk piers. Neither of the two freshly stuck vessels was believed in serious trouble. The tug was expected to float clear unaided at high tide late to day. The freighter's master radioed for a commercial tug to help haul her off the shoal near Wil loughby Spit. The two latest, groundings oc curred after the navy failed again to yank the mighty Mo from her muddy trap. A navy official said that the battleship appeared to be partly "hung up on a rock." Navy salvage crews gave up for the day after almost two hours of futile tugging and haul ing by 14 powerful navy tugs on the early tide. The Mo refused to budge and another try was scheduled for tomorrow. Tribune 31, 1950 No. 263 Aira PRESIDENT GIVES OK SIGNAL FOR BUILDING HYDROGEN WEAPON Washington Jan. 31 (UP) President Truman ordered the atomic energy commission to go ahead with its work on the hydrogen superbomb. The president said gram would continue until a satistactory plan for international control ot atomic energy is achieved. He said in a special statement that it is his re sponsibility to see that this country is able to defend itself "against any possible aggressor." AEC Conducting Research On H-Bomb The president's order lication ot an atomic energy commission report which disclosed that the AEC already has been pushing re search into the nuclear processes for making a hydro gen bomb. This research work has been carried out in large part at the Los Alamos bomb science laboratory in New Mexico, at the Argonne national laboratory near Chicago, at the University of California radiation laboratory in Berkeley, and at a host of other private and public research institutions. There have been no official statements on how much more powerful than conventional atomic bombs the hydrogen weapon might be. Private scientists have made estimates ranging from 2 to 1,000 times more powerful. The more conservative ones believe, in view of all the technical factors involved,' that the better guess would be 2 to 10 times. Not That Much More Destructive That does not mean the new be that much more destructive. The AEC recently pointed out that doubling a bomb's power would increase the area ot devastation only oy auout one-quarter. Still, that much of a boost The bombs which destroyed two and Nagasaki also killed more than 100,000 persons and Injured about that many more. Those bombs were officially described as comparable in blast power to more than zu.uuu tons in 1945, the uranium-plutonlum power 6 to 10 times. Double their power and you to izu.uuu to zuu.uuu tons ot tmt. May Turn Out To Be 'Absolute' Weapon If the hydrogen bomb turns out to be many times more potent than "ordinary" atomic bombs, it may turn out to be the "absolute" weapon military men have talked about but hardly expected to sec. A hydrogen bomb, scientists have said, would use the multi million degree heat of the fission bomb to set off an atomic chain reaction in some substance like lithium hybride. The form of hydro gen most' likely to be used is the twice-as-hoavy kind called deu terium. Deuterium, or heavy hydrogen, nuclei would react with each other and with the lithium to set off energy releasing reactions. Plane Crash Victims Resting In Whitehorsc, Y. T., Jan. 31 U.R) A crack mountain troop combat team guided by a pain fully hurt pilot today returned his five injured companions from a wrecked United States air force C-47 search plane to the base here. All six men. brought here by sled on stretchers, were in good condition in the hospital. Survivors Named In hirer! were Pilot 1st Lt. Charles R. Harden, Graham, N. C; co-Pilot Capt. Peter Bury, Springfield, Mnss.; Sgt. Eugene Cole of Centrahoma, Okla., as sistant crew chief: Tcch-Sgt. For rest W. Hudson, 33, Three Riv ers, Tex., crew chief: Sgt. Bruno Przydzlal, 20, Philadelphia, Pa and Jack Borges, 33, announcer for the Midnight Sun broadcast ing station, representing radio station KEN I of Anchorage. The C-47. participating in the Joint Chiefs Of Staff Meet With MacArthur Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 31 (U.R) The Joint chiefs of staff of the United States arrive here today to discuss with Gen. Douglas MacArthur manv Far Eastern problems, Including China, For mosa and the defense of occti pied Japan in event of war. MacArthur, supreme com mander of allied powers in Japan, made one of his rare pub lic appearances at Hanedn air port at 11 p.m. (9 a.m. EST) to greet the four top-ranking United States military leaders. The military planners are Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chairman; Gen. J. Lawton Collins, army: Gen Hoyt Vandenberg, air, and Adm. Forrest Sherman, navy. Salem, Ore., Jan. 31 (U.R) Merle A. Long of Albany, Ore., today filed his candidacy with the secretary of state's election bureau here for district attorney of Linn county. CITY FIREMEN CALLED A flue fire In the home of J. B. Doss. 845 West 12th street, called city firemen at 1:04 p.m. today. WEATHER FOKKCAST: IiicrtAililK tloudt tonight and WrdneuUy with fume light mow Wednesday. Slightly warmer tonight and Wednesday. Highest yesterday ...,-...... 40 Lowest Uilt morning 1.3 that this development pro came two hours after pub weapon. If it can be made, would would have tremendous effects to four square miles of Hiroshima oi TNT. bince they wore dropped bombs have been stepped up in would have a weapon equivalent Hospital gigantic search for a missing C-54, crashed on a tree-studded slope of 6.610-foot Mount Lome 20 miles south of Whitehorse. Search Continues While the rescue team pushed through waist-high snow drifts and thick brush to the crash scene, a two-nation air armada continued the far-flung search for the United States air force transport. lost with 44 persons aboard, including an expectant mother and her baby son. Mental Home Escapee Located In Stockton Stockton, Cal., Jan. 31 (U.R) Marlon Wnlson. 21-ycnr-old es capee from the Oregon State hos pital, was recaptured after a struggle with sheriff's deputies last night and held for Oregon authorities. Undersheriff Mike Canlis said Watson was approached by of ficers while he worked in a garage of a Manteca, Cal., home. He apparently had been living there since his escape from the Oregon hospital last December. Canlis said. On seeing the deputies. Wat son fled the garage and officers gave chase. He finally was dragged from beneath an auto mobile in a nearby parking lot, officers said. Watson was committed to the hospital as a "dangerous maniac" after a series of fights and burg- lanes, authorities said. German Vessel Sinks Off North Sea Isle Hamburg, Germany, Jan. 31 (U.R) The 740-ton German freighter Diamus sank near the North sea island of Longerons to day. Eight crew members were reported missing. The Hamburg signal station said the British tug Rumania res cued an undetermined number of survivors. The Diamus was en route from Wismar, Germany, to Antwerp, Belgium. Cause of the sinking was not determined immediately. Normal Production For 70 Days Sought In Note To Lewis Dispute To Be Put Up To Fact-Finders Washington, Jan. 31 (U.R) President Truman today called for resumption of normal coal C reduction for at least 70 days eginning Monday. During that time he would put the coal dispute before a fact-finding board named outside of the Taft-Hartley law. The president telegraphed his proposal to John L. Lewis, pres ident of the United Mine Work ers, and leading coal operators. National Policy Mr. Truman stressed hit be lief in "voluntary action" rather than compulsion. He said this was not only his personal con viction "but the national policy." "The government can no long er stand by, however, and per mit the continuance of condi tions .which have now come to have such a serious effect upon the public interest," he said. The president asked for assur ances from both sides by noon Saturday that "normal produc tion" would be resumed on Mon day. He said that If this assurance is not forthcoming by noon Sat urday, he wanted a reply to his fact-finding board proposal by 5 p.m. Saturday. Acceptance Urged "I urge your acceptance in the national interest." the president concluded his telegram. 1. That normal production be maintained for period of 70 days beginning February 6 un der the last contract agreed to by union and the employers.. 2. Tiat built sides cooperate with a fact-finding board which would be empowered to inquire into the 'current disoute and make findings and recommenda tions within 60 days after Feb ruary 6. He specified that each side In the coal dispute would be free to accent or reject the recom mendations of the fact-finding board as it saw fit. United States Steel Declares Dividend New York, Jan. 31. (U.R) United States Steel corporation today declared a dividend of 65 cents a share on the common stock, a rise of 15 cents over the payments made, in the last two quarters.. ... Net Income oi the corporation was reported at a new high since 1929 at $165,958,806, equal after preferred, dividends to $5.39 a share on common stock. This income compared with $129,627,845 or $4 a share in 1948 on a comparable share basis. Fourth quarter net income was whittled down sharply by the steel strike which idled big steel's plants for more than a month. It amounted to $32,735, 397, or $1.01 a share on common stock, and compared with $39, 171,144 or $1.26 a share in the third quarter and with $41,585. 685 or $1.35 a share in the fourth quarter of 1948, calculated on current shares outstanding. Corof Paight's Mother To Jake Witness Stand Bridgeport. Conn.. Jan. 31 (U.R) A 51-year-old mother, who has said she would have done the same thing if she "had the courage," defends today her 21- year-old daughter, who killed her father because she couldn't bear to watch his suffering from an incurable cancer. The mother. Mrs. Mary Nolan Paight of Stamford, Conn., was scheduled to be the second de fense witness in the superior court murder trial of Carol Ann Paight. She was to be called aft er the state ends cross-examination of the Paight family doctor. The blond, six-foot detenaani killed her father. Stamford Po lice Sgt. Carl W. Paight, 52, as he lay in an anesthetic sleep on his hospital bed last September 23. Brannan Plans To Dump Potato Stockpiles Washington. Jan. 3l.-lU.fi' Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan told congress today that he plans to dump some of the government s swelling storKS of surplus potatoes and let them rot. Sen. Clinton P. Anderson, (D., N.M.) replied that congress should do something "at once" to control the amount of potatoes produced, not Just the number ot acres planted. FILES CANDIDACY Salem. Ore.. Jan. 31. W.r.t Charles R. Smith of Baker, Ore., today filed his candidacy for state senator from the 23rd sen atorial district comprising Baker county. He will seek the demo cratic nomination in the May 19 primary election. PhilaHnlnhia. Jan. 31 (U.R) Mielwpl F. Hanson. 82. retired newspaper publisher, died at his home yesterday after a long ill ness. Road Conditions Major highways leading ' lng from the Medford area were all open today and pack ed ice and snow In spots on the mountain ro'utes is well-sand-, ad. state police reported thil morning. Chains should be carried although most trafiie was moving without them. 1
