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IMl Washington's Door Always Open For Any Chief Of State Truman Would Welcome Stalin In America Washington, Feb. 16 (U.R) President Truman said today that the United States is ready to discuss at any time with any country any plan for world peace. But he made it clear that such discussions will have to be through the United Nations or regular diplomatic channels unless Russia's Josef Stalin or any other chief of state wants to meet with the president here. Door Always Open Mr. Truman said at his news conference that: 1. He does not believe it Is time to send a mission to Stalin. 2. But he has always said the door is open, here in Washing ton, any time to any head of state. That was as close as he came to commenting on Winston Churchill's proposal for ' highest level" atomic control talks with Bussia. 3. This is not the proper time I to press as proposed in a pend ing congressional resolution for creation of an Atlantic un ion of Atlantic pact nations. Mr. Truman said there are more Important things to discuss. 4. This country (unlike Russia) has never walked out of any meeting and has never used its UN veto to block anything lead ing to peace. Evoked By Question The president's statement that it is not time to send a peace mission to Moscow was evoked by a question based on his ex clusive interview with Arthur Krock of the New York Times. Krock quoted Mr. Truman as caving he would have sent Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson to Mos cow in 1948 if a presidential campaign had not been going on. A reporter asked if he thought the time has now come to send such a mission. Mr. Truman replied that he docs not think that time has come. Asked about the new 30-year pact between communist China and Russie, the president said Secretary of Stale Dean Acheson covered that subject adequately yesterday when he said China's w. troubles with Moscow are just , beginning. Bids Opened On New Eagle Point School Eagle Point, Feb. 16 General contracting firms of Ausland and Dodson and R. H. Puddycomb were low and second low bid ders respectively on a grade school building project here, Superintendent Glenn Hale an nounced today. Bids were open ed earlier this week but final acceptance is not expected until next week. Bids were received from M. E. Bessonette, K. C. Wernmark, N. K. Porter, Parish and Crum. Donald M. Drake, H. Barnhart and Howard Wirtz, in addition to those from the two low bid ders. Hale said the project Involves construction of a four-room unit for the use of the upper grades of the Eagle Point school. It will contain its own heating plant. A $15,000 bond issue was pre viously approved by voters of the district and a portion of that amount has already been used to add two new rooms to the high school. The remainder will be used for the new grade school unit. Reed College Picked ffor Teacher Training Portland. Ore., Feb. 16 (U.R) Reed college and five other schools have been picked to give teacher training courses in tech niques for dealing with the ef fects of atomic attack. Announcement of the Port land college's nomination came from the national security re sources board in Washington, D. C. ' I tit? Vf-h-r . .. . .. f '. 1 Arm. Ttlrphnta) CHICAGO SPLASH Tnls tne scene ln Chicago as the worst day ot the winter brought the "Windy City" wet snow, sleet and an over-supply of rain. Many homes and buildings were deprived of light because of the estimated 1000 power lines snapped by the storm. Medford 44th Year 18 Pages 12th Crewman Located On Island Cries For Spur Hunt Seattle, Wash., Feb. 16-!U.R) The 12th crewman of 17 who bailed out of a crippled B-36 supcrbombcr was found injured today and landing parties spurred on by a man's cry for help and several shots pressed on through slush for the five remaining reported on the British Columbia island. A 55-man search party separated into three groups. One lo cated the 12th survivor, another reported hearing a man's cry for help and a third set out to investigate shots. A terse radio message at 11:30 a.m. (PST) from the royal Cana dian navy destroyer Cayuga to RCAF headquarters in Vancouver, B.C., said: "Injured survivor located on Princess Royal island." The man's name or extent of his injuries was not immediately learned. March Of Dimes Nearing Close As Record Broken The 1950 March of Dimes is nearing its close, Chairman Dick House said today. He added that on the basis of incomplete re turns, the fund raising drive this year raised more money than any previous campaigns. Net proceeds so far amount to $14,500, compared to the pre vious high in 1947 of $14,440.15 net. House said he expects total net receipts this year to reach $15,000. A number of "dime cards" arc still outstanding, House said, and a few of the honor scrolls, dis tributed earlier to Medford busi ness houses, still have not been turned in. Returns from Central Point, Talent, Jacksonville and Rogue River are completed, House re ported. Additional returns are still expected from Gold Hill, Butte Falls, Phoenix and Shady Cove. Response Generous "The people of Jackson coun ty have responded generously to the greatest polio fund need in the history of the state." House said, "and every cent of it will be vitally needed. We hope those who have forgotten to make their contributions will do so. "There are still four active cases of polio from Jackson county," he added, "and the county chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paraly sis is still carrying the heavy ex pense of the care of these cases. In addition, expenses for rehabil itation work remain high. "The success we have had in this drive can only be attributed to the fact that every commu nity in the county increased its quota this year," House con cluded. Final results will be an nounced when outstanding col lections have been turned in, he said. Truman To Interview Whenever He Pleases Washington, Feb. 16 (U.R) President Truman told a news conference today that he will grant exclusive interview; when ever he pleases. The president conceded that there was a White House tradi tion against such interviews, but he said he will do as he pleases about breaking it. Reporters tried to get from the president some of the same information he imparted in an exclusive interview with Arthur Krock published yesterday in the New York Times. Reporters did not mention the Krock interview until the president brought it up. I - iiiaffltrtr- Mtl) MEDFORD, OREGON, Help, Shots For Others Believed On Island Before he was found, RCAF officers said "indications are that the remaining crewmen are on the island . . . the rest of the crew seemed to think for sure the other six are there." The RCAF said that with a helicopter and 12 other planes criss-crossing the island and Canadian American ground crews searching the underbrush, "we should get them today." The survivor located today will be brought to the island's shore or to a lake where he prob ably will be taken aboard the Cayuga, officers said. Eleven Evacuated Eleven aboard the six-engined plane, lost Monday night on a flight from Alaska to Texas, were evacuated from the craggy island yesterday by a 25-man ground party. One, a Brooklyn radio oper ator, still was aboard the Cayu ga awaiting a flight to McChord air force base, Washington, where the other 10 were recov ering from their ordeal. In the air search, one plane scanned rivers and lakes, an other was assigned to the shore line, two helicopters landed in the interior, qnd a C-82 "flying boxcar" with a para-rescue team aboard, flew over the island. The other planes circled near by islands looking for wreckage, (See story on Pag 3) Southerners Travel To Higher Ground Chicago, Feb. 16 (U.R) Southerners plodded to higher ground before rising floodwaters today while northerners dug out of an icy crust and southern Californians basked at the beaches. Raging streams and rivers drove 50,000 persons from their homes in an eight-state zone stretching from Ohio and Indiana southward to the Gulf of Mex ico, and in many areas the worst was yet to come. The crippling ice and snow storm which pushed across the northern states from the great plains to the Atlantic dwindled away in New England today aft er claiming at least 30 lives. In Los Angeles, residents wel comed a forecast of "slightly cooler" weather today. The mer cury soared yesterday to a balmly 79, highest of the year, forcing downtown office work ers to shed coats and sending big crowds to the beaches. San Bernardino reported a high temperature of 80 and Indio 82. Committee Again Blocks FEPC Bill Washington, Feb. 16 (U.R) The house rules committee, by a 6 to 6 tie vote, declined again to day to clear the controversial FEPC .bill for a vote in the house. ' The vote was taken in closed session after two members pro tested Chairman Adolph J. Sab- :oth's demand for a public ballot ion the issue. Sabath described the decision as "unfortunate." But he said he understands that Speaker Sam Rayburn will let FEPC come up in the house next Wed nesday under an alternative pro cedure. While there was no formal announcement, it was learned that four democrats and two re publicans voted to clear the FEPC bill for house action. Four democrats and two republicans voted against it. Grand Jury To Hear Criminal Cases Monday Jackson county grand jury will be called into session next .Monday to hear seven or eight criminal cases, several of them ape or other sex crimes. Dis trict Attorney George Ncilson said today. He said he will seek indictments against three men arrested last week on rape and statutory rape' charges and against about five others being held on different charges. The present term of the Jury expires February 27. Tribun THURSDAY, FEBRUARY (Acmt Telephotot B-36 DITCHED - Map shows where an Air Force B-36 bomber "ditched" 1 n the windswept waters of Queen Charlotte Sound (1) off the coast of British Co lumbia after three of the plane's six engines failed. Canadian ma-i rine station at Prince Rupert, B. C. (2), asked all points to watch for flares and wreckage In the area between Queen Charlotte Island and Vancouver Island. The plane with 17 aboard was en route from Elelson Air Force Base (3) to Ft. Worth, Tex. Patrol cutters were sent on search for the B-36 from Port Angeles, Wash. (4, Sitka (S) and Ketchi kan, Alaska (6), Mystery Angle In Coplon-Gubitchev Conspiracy Trial , New York, Feb. 16 U.R) Federal Judge Sylvester Ryan dismissed the Coplon-Gubitchev espionage - conspiracy trial jury for the week-end at the opening of today's court session, explain ing that a "situation has arisen in this case" which would re quire lengthy discussion in chambers. The judge declined to discuss the "mystery" development. He refused even to divulge it to Abraham L. Pomerantz, attorney for Russian engineer Valentin Gubitchev, who asked its nature in open court. Apparently the development concerned government girl Jud ith Coplon and her attorney, Archibald Palmer. Judge Ryan, Palmer and Miss Coplon arrived in the courtroom 30 minutes after today's session had been scheduled to start. "A situation has arisen in this case in which I feel the best in terest of justice will be served by adjourning until Monday," the judge said. "What are the circumstances, your honor?" Pomerantz asked. The judge, looking very sol emn, said in a low voice, "I don't think that I can tell you." Marshals cleared the court room quickly and the govern ment prosecutors and both de fense attorneys followed Judge Ryan into his chambers. The judge told the jury not to attach any undue significance to the development. But he cau tioned them not to read news papers over the week-end, or to discuss the case among them selves or with anybody. He told them to return at 10 a.m. Mon day. Far East Conference Of Diplomats Quits Bangkok, Thailand, Feb. 16 !U.R) The Far East conference of American diplomats broke up today after holding out the lure of United States aid to all Far Eastern countries opposed- to Moscow's domination, including communist China. P ALASKA (' QUffNTjL JUNEAU tfijg CANADA yMTCHIKAN OCf AN, 1 VANCOUVER 'SV-j QyOKT ANGELES J SEATTlt. I MILES T .. - t 400 U5- Seven Workmen Killed In Chemical Plant Explosion Midland, Mich., Feb. 16 (U.R) An explosion ripped through the latex plant of the Dow Chemical company today, killing seven workmen and injuring several others. The Dow public relations of fice said seven men were killed by the blast and at least the same number injured. Roof Torn Off The explosion ripped the roof and one side from the structure. Flames shot through the gaping hole. The blast shattered windows for a wide area around the sprawling plant and rocked buildings in the center of town. One unidentified body was re- 1 moved from the wreckage. The 16, 1950 NC Air Force Rapped For Suppression Of News About Plane Paper Editorially Attacks Attitude Seattle. Feb. 16 (U.R) The Seattle Post-Intelligencer today editorially attacked the United States air force for "unwar ranted and stupid officiousness" in suppressing the original news of the disappearance of a B-36 in the Pacific northwest Monday night. "Newspapers and news serv ices which tried to confirm in official circles the details which already were known to hundreds of persons were given the brush off or the run-around," the ed itorial said. Confirmation Refused (The air force refused to con firm that the B-36 superbomber, from which 17 men parachuted and survived, was missing until long after scores of planes had been sent into the search from several United States and Cana dian air force bases and after commercial radio outlets had confirmed that the crew had radioed it was abandoning the plane.) "Whatever military security originally attended the mission of the B-36 was certainly not in volved in news of the accident which befell the plane," the newspaper commented. "News paper readers and radio listen ers were entitled to a prompt official version of the incident. Persistent In Policy "Air force brass has been flag- rnnllv nnrcl ct nnt in n nnlir'v which frustrates the good work and good intentions of public in formation pfficpjs of the armed forces." " wu.-.-.-,. Suppression of news of the dis appearance of the B-36 "is an other instance of unwarranted and stupid officiousness o f armed service brass, the ed' itorial said. Lone Bandit Robs Bank In Denver Denver, Feb. 16 (U.R) A lone bandit entered the Mountain States bank shortly after 1 p. m. today, flourished a nickle-plat-ed revolver at a teller and es caped with an undetermined amount of money. Bank officials said they could not determine immediately how much monev was taken., The robber, described as dark- complexioned and of medium height and wearing a green army jacket, made his getaway in a late-model sedan. Police said a second man was driving the car. He also was de scribed as ot dam complexion with dark hair." Five police cruisers were sent to the vicinity of the bank lo cated on busy East Colfax ave nue about one mile from the downtown business district. Jap War Criminals Due To Get Releases Tokyo, Feb. 16 U.R Allied headquarters announced today that nearly 100 Japanese sen tenced for minor war crimes by Netherlands military tribunals in Indonesia will be released from orison this week. The Japanese, who Include three former generals, were re patriated recently from the Netherlands East Indies. Headouarters said they had completed their sentences under regulations allowing time off for good behavior and for periods of imprisonment prior to their sentences. The Dalles, Ore., Feb. 18 (U.R) Huge chunks of ice floated down the Columbia river here today as the ice jam began breaking up. injured were treated by the plant first aid station and at Midland General hospital. All available fire equipment and ambulances in this city of 10,000 were rushed to the plant. Hospitals as far away as Sag inaw, 26 miles distant, were alerted to care for casualties. Ten injured were reported on their way there. Causa Undetermined The blast occurred at 11:25 a. m. The public relations office said the number of casualties might mount as rescuers finish probing the wreckage. The dead were working In a building where latex, a rubber substanre, was being made. No cause of the blast was immedi ately determined. 1CKETS, NON-UNION COAL MEN CLASH AT WEST VIRGINIA MINE PittsburEh. Feb. 16 (U.R) clash between 100 pickets and non-union miners at Junior, W. Va. Four of the wounded men, including the brother of Joseph Sirdich, president of West Virginia's largest United Mine Workers local, were admitted to Myers Clinic hospital, Philippl, W, Va. with shotgun wounds. State police identified the other wounded man as Bill Wil liams, owner of the Williams Coal company which operates a 27 man drift mine near Junior. The latest outbreak of violence came as the growing coal short age brought forecasts of a national catastrophe. The nation's coal supply dropped to an average nine-day supply and more than 55, 000 railroad and Industry workers were idled. No report was available at the hospital on the condition of the four miners. The wounded men were Iden tified as Arnold Moore, 36, Simp son; Roy Hoffman, 37, Everetts ville; Merline Sherdich, Grant Town, and Wayne Martin, 23, Grant Town. Stale police said the pickets had been driven off the mine property north of Elkins earlier this morning when company of ficials fired warning shots over their heads. The men retired to the highway but remained in sight of the mine property. lucre was no immediate report on what touched off the last shooting. State police said 10 men had been sent to the trouble spot but that no official report on the outbreak had been received. Meanwhile industrial plants and utilities announced that new cutbacks were in the making as coal supplies dropped steadily under the impact of more cold weather. Washington, Feb. 16 (U.R) John L. Lewis and soft coal op erators resumed contract talks today under pressure of an in creasingly grave coal crisis and were reported to have started talking specific terms. Lewis was understood to have made a number of specific pro posals, including one that would guarantee the miners 200 days of work a year. New Lions Club Formation Is Plan Formation of a second Lions club in Medford was forecast to day ln reports that some 20 per sons have signed applications to become charter members of a new irrniin.. An organizational ' meeting will be held in the Medford ho. tel tonight with Gordon Smith, a representative of ijions inter national, and Larry Necly, who has been active in formation of the new organization. Larry N. Schadc, president of the present Lions club, said that discussions have been under way for some time about the second club. According to present plans the two Lions organizations will not be divided on a sectional basis. He said that the present club has grown so large that some members were losing interest. It will probably be a noon meeting club, he said. Following tonight's meeting, it is thought that the membership rolls will be kept open for a sufficient length of time for those who wish to be charter members to sign up. 31st Oregon Press Conference Slated Eugene, Ore., Feb. 16 (U.R) About 175 delegates from news papers throughout the state are expected here tomorrow and Sat urday for the 31st annual Oregon press conference. Main attraction will be Mar quis W. Childs, United Feature syndicate columnist, who will speak tomorrow in the Univer sity of Oregon theatre on "the role of the interpretive report er." Childs also will be honor guest tonight at a buffet dinner given by Eugene members of Sigma Delta Chi, national pro fessional journalism honorary. Marshall N. Dana, editor of the editorial page of the Oregon Journal, will speak on "Ore gon's newspaper stalwarts" at the annual banquet tomorrow night in the Osburn hotel. Alton F. Baker, publisher of the Eu gene Register-Guard, will preside over the banquet. The press conference Is spon sored 'jointly by the Oregon Newspaper Publishers associa tion and the University of Ore gon school of Journalism. Tydings Sees Bigger Explosive For Future Washington, Feb. 16 (U.R) Sen. Millard E. Tydings (D., Md.) todav forecast an "X-bomb" of the future which he said could destroy mankind. He called on Secretary of State Dean Acheson to start working immediately for world disarmament Acheson already has thrown cold water on such meceslions. Tydings, who is chairman of the senate armed services com nutteo, did not say whether sci ence even now is at work on the X-bomb. But he told the senate "The development of the first hydrogen bomb is not the end It will not be the most decisive weapon maniiii'd will ever con struct. No soonci will the hycro- pen hnmh he a reality than a new bomb the X-bomb will be on its way." . Five men were shot todav In a ! (Arm Trtcphota) MASKED BANDIT - Ex-convict Kendall Morris, 26, wears the mask he wore when he tried to rob and attack a St. Louis, Mo., college stu dent and his date who were parked on a lonely street. The student downed the bnndlt, tied him up and delivered him to St, Louis po lice. President May Draw Demo Battle Lines Washington, Feb' 16 (U.R)- President Truman may draw the battle lines for the 1950 con gressional election campaign to night when he addresses the Democratic party's $500,000 fund raising dinner. Feature attraction and main speaker before the huge Jefferson-Jackson dinner at Washing ton's national guard armory, Mr. Truman is expected to give more than 5,300 democrats who paid $100-a-plate for their steak din ner a hint about his own inter est in the coming political cam paign and election. He may say, some democratic sources suggested, that he will wage a vigorous campaign to help the democratic party main tain or increase their present majority in the house and senate. Surh campaigning, of course, would be in such critical states as Ohio and Illinois. In Ohio, re publican Sen. Robert A. Taft Is seeking another six-year term. Senate Democratic Leader Scott W. Lucas may have a tussle on his hands in Illinois. Tokyo, Feb. 18 (U.R) Sixteen Japanese communists left the party today, saying they were convinced the communists were working for revolution by vio lence. Ontario, Ore., Feb. 16 (U.R) The Oregon Cattlemen's associa tion holds its first range bull show and sale here tomorrow and Saturday. New Names Given to Many Rural Roads In New Plan The rural house numbering program being carried out In Mcdford's fringe areas by the Jackson county engineer's staff at the request of the Medford post office has resulted in new names for several rural roads in this area. County Engineer Paul Rynning said he has been re luctant to tamper with road names that have become ac cepted through long use but that in some cases the new designa tions have been unavoidable. When the project is com pleted, the Medford post office will inaugurate city mounted service in a number of areas now receiving rural motor route mail service. The new system will also . provide more accurate ad dresses for rural residences now designated only by a route and box number. Soma Names Changed In cases where road names have been confusing and non-descriptive or in instances where a road bearing the same name jogged in several different di rections names have been al tered, changed, or added. The Phoenix Jacksonville highway, from Jacksonville to the Griffin Creek road, is now to be known as Stage Road south, as distinguished from the Old Stage road from Jackson ville to Gold Hill. Union Fought To Get Troops Home, Bridges Maintains Show For Return Of U. S. Troops Denied San Francisco, Feb. 16 U.RJ CIO Longshore Leader Harry Bridges insisted today that his union fought to get American troops home quickly after the war, rot because the Russians wanted them sent home but be cause the boys wanted "to get back to their girls and milk shakes." Under cross - examination at his trial on perjury and conspir acy charges, the union leader . denied that the CIO Internation al Longshoremen s and Ware housemen's union staged a one day work stoppage in 1945 to demonstrate for the quick re turn of United States troops be cause that was communist policy. Telegrams Ractivad Bridges told F. Joseph Dono hue, chief government prosecu tor, to "net the whole storv" about the work stoppage. "mere were thousands of GI's sitting on those islands. Mr. Donohue," he said, "and all tha while the shipping companies were taking their ships back. In the same period, the troops were told 'too bad, we'd like to bring; you back for Christmas, but we'll ship you a little turkey.' " He said he received thousands of telegrams asking him to help get the troops home. "You knew at the time, the Russian government was anxious to get our American trooos out of Germany, didn't you?" Dono- nue asked. Brass' Can Be Wrong Bridges replied: "I didn't, know then. I don't know now. All I know Is that the boys wanted to get back to tneir girls and milk shakes." Donohue asked him If that de cision should not have been left to the joint chiefs of staff. "Not necessarily," Bridges re- ' plied. "They can be wrong." Then Donohue asked him If he had no trust In the joint chiefs. "Not all of them," Bridges said. He added that he could remember one army general on the west coast who worked for the America First committee. Bridges said he thought the com mittee was a nazl organization, N Congress May Get Rogue Basin Report Washington. Feb. 16 (U.R) C. Girard Davison, assistant sec retary of Interior, today advised nop. Harris tuswortn in., ure.i, that the Rogue river basin re port Is unlikely to be ready for submission to this congress. The report, outlining poten tial water development projects in the basin, is being studied in the department. Davison said he believed the report plus re quests for several project auth orizations may be ready to sud mit to the next congress. WEATHER FORECAST: Partly cloudy to night. Fof patchei early Fri day. Increasing cloudlneai Friday with rain by night. Cooler tonight. Ttmp. . Hlgheit Yesterday M Lowest this Morning 43 Prec. to 4:30 A.M. Todiy ...... .33 Buckshot road, from the old Crater Lake highway to the Lone Pine school, will continue with, that name but that portion that runs ln a northerly direction will bo known as Springbrook road, including a small section form erly known as Crestbrook road. The name Biddle road will cover the entire length of the road running from Medford to the airport, doing away with that portion now called Morrow road. Only the east-west street running into Biddle will con tinue to be known as Morrow road. A new quarter-mile stretch of Biddle road will be con structed from the Crater Lake highway connecting with the dead end of what was once Mor row road just north of McAn. drews road. Rynning expects it will be of particular value to) east side residents. Now Craws Road Part of the old Biddle road In the vicinity of Mcdford's form, er sewage disposal plant has; been renamed Crews road. At the end of Beall lane, two previously undesignated roads will now be called Freeland road and Sunnyvale road. New addresses, for home own ers on the roads involved in the program, are now being mailed out by the Medford post office.
