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ir MM UVU Uvll JQUV, j to El Pill New York To Try Cloud Wringing To Obtain Water . Undertaking Slated For Next Wednesday New York, Mar. 15 U.R One week from today, if the heavens are ripe, New York City will gently nudge a cloud. It may rain. Snow may fly. Mayor William O'Dwyer and the city fathers came up today with a $50,009 appropriation in a sly plan to urge rain clouds over Rip Van Winkle's Catskills into new and greater efforts. Might Be Answer City officials decided yester day that scientific cloud-wringing might be one of the answers to the city's critical water short age. In a six-month "noble exper- iment," the city will sow the seeds of cloudburst or, at least, of April showers into every likely lonely cloud that floats over a 1,000-sauare mile area that comprises New York City's watershed. Mayor O'Dwyer decided on the program with the help of a six- man advisory committee on rain making, composed of scientists. The man they hired to tickle clouds with dry ice and silver iodide smoke is Wallace E. How ell, research meteorologist at the Harvard Blue Hill observatory. Dr. Howell planned to go af ter some man-made rain or snow fall in one week. In an inter view after the board meeting, he said it was entirely possible some man-made moisture might fall next Wednesday. To Get Warning Dr. Howell will command an outfit that includes air crews, two police department amphib ian planes, a ground-control ra dio station in the Catskills, ra dar capable of "seeing" rain de veloping in a cloud, and two ground units with cars operat ing silver iodide smoke genera tors. Dr. Howell said he expected to have four to 12 hours warn ing from his weather department that the clouds are ripe for "the art of rain stimulation." The planes, operating from Floyd Bennett field in New York City, will reach the likely clouds in about an hour. Each plane will - arry about 60-pounds of dry .ice and one gallon of silver iodide. The dry ice will be crumbled in a hand-grinder to cakes one fourth to one-half inch in diam eter. Miner Killed At G.P.; Family In Air Mishap Grants Pass, Ore., Mar. 15 (U.R) A placer gold miner was crushed to death under four feet of rock following a dynamite blast here yesterday, and five of his family escaped death at the Grants Pass airport when their plane overshot the field and made a pancake landing. John Henry Brunswick, 50, of Hillsboro, Ore., was killed when four feet of mud and rock buried him after a blast was set off by his two companions, Leslie and Earl Picren of Grants Pass. The brothers said they did not know their partner was near the section of bank they had blasted. None Injured Last night a twin-engined, five passenger Cessna piloted by Ruth Wikender overshot the air port landing strip, but none of the craft's five passengers from Hillsboro was injured. They flew here to claim Brunswick's body. The passengers included Brunswick's widow, Myrtle: two brothers. Paul and Neil; ann Neil's wife Miss Wikender said I rfhe misjudged the field in the f'arkness despite the portable 'ights and automobile headlights that were used to partially il' luminate the field. 15 Persons Hurt As Plane Hits Snack Bar Las Vegas, Mar. US (U.R) A P-51 Mustang smashed into snack bar at the Las Vagas air base while attempting a landing today and 13 persons were injured. Air force officials said no one was killed but 10 of the 15 in jured, including the pilot were in serious condition. Ihe air force said no names were avail able immediately. The plane tore a big hole in the side of the snack bar in which "many" air base person nel were eating, according to an air force spokesman. The pilot was trapped inside the plane and had to be cut out, but there was no fire. Zoo Keepers Injured By Maddened Polar Bear Melbourne, Australia. Mar. 15 (U.R) Two keepers were in jured today in a running fight with a maddened polar bear in the Melbourne zoo. A third attendant finally killed the beast with a rifle bul let through the head. V The bear escaped from an In '."if cage and attacked a keeper cleaning its outer pit. The man was dragged through an open door into the zoo's garden's. MEDF0R& 44th Year 18 Pages Five Desperate Federal Prisoners Escape At Atlanta Two Others Seized Inside Boundaries Atlanta, Mar. 15 (U.R) Five "desperate" federal prisoners were hunted today after they slugged and gaged a Fulton tow er guard .slid four floors on sheets and scaled a 30-foot wall to freedom. Two others were captured be fore they could make it over the wall. The five escapees manhandled a motorist in an attempt to com mandeer his car. but three of them finally fled to a nearby parked taxicab and threatened the driver into taking them to an outlying area. Escapees Armed Police said all armed them selves with pistols' after escap ing. Fulton County Sheriff A. B. (Bud) Foster said the five, all held at the county jail on federal firearms possession charges, were Eston Anderson, 33; Joseph L. Mauldin, 23, and his brother Roy J. Mauldin, 28, and Luther Mas ters', 28, all of Atlanta; and Earl Curtis Taylor, 22, of New Or leans. Foster said TayliS asked Dep uty Jailer J. C. Williams about 8 p.m., if he mighT use a tele phone. Williams lettfcim, and was returning the prisoner to the cell when Taylor turned on him and knocked him down. The others were hiding near by, Foster said, and joined lay lor. in the assault on the guard; - Death Feared "I thought they were going to kill or smother me," Williams said. The men then stuffed a rag into Williams' mouth and tossed him into a cell. They hastily fashioned a rope of bedsheets, sawed through their cell-window bars (how, officers did not know) and let themselves 75 feet to the ground below. A Negro trusty sounded the alarm after noticing the dang ling rope. Deputies Frank Davis and Paul Lambert caught Mal colm Rudd and Harold Echols as they tried to follow their five fellows up the wall on crude steps made from piled-up oil- drums. Absentee Voters Can Cast Ballots In May Members of the armed forces, students, travelers, invalids or others who will be unable to go to the polls in their home pre cincts May 19 for the Oregon Primary election, were reminded today that they may cast absen tee ballots by applying for them at least 60 days before the elec tion May 19. The deadline is March 20. Mrs. C. L. Hopkins, vice-chair- man f ,ne rePub.llc?n county leuirai cuiiiiiuuee, lunay ouereu to assist persons needing absen tee ballots or information about registration for voting by mail. Students who are away from home, she said, may register at the county clerk's office nearest them and cast an absentee bal- yot. Invalids, by securing a doc tor s certificate, are not required to travel to the polls and absen tee voting arrangements can also be made by workers unable to reach the polls on election day and by travelers outside their home counties at election time. They should contact the coun ty's clerk's office before March 20. Defendants Ordered Sold Or Destroyed Salem. Ore., Mam 15 (U.R) The Marion county circuit court has solemnly ordered a group of defendants partly destroyed and partly sold. The defendants included 24 decks of playing cards, some poker chips, a light globe and some furniture confiscated in a recent raid at Detroit, near the site of the Detroit dam being built on the North Santiam river. The state has sued the equip ment, asking court authority to sell it. Judge George R. Duncan or dered the playing cards and poker chips destroyed. He ruled that the furniture and light globe can be sold by the sher iff's office. The proceeds will go to the county common school fund. t MEDFORD, OREGON, itchev TO SAIL ii i wm i "M maun mi u. .... fAcme Tflepholo) FORGIVE ME Kneeling over the man he struck down In Detroit, Mich, with his car. John Carrol asks forgiveness ol Lebrun Nelson. The victim, wrapped In blankets and raincoat, suffered minor cuts and bruises, and refused to sign a complaint against Carroi, Nation's Coal Bill To Be Higher Due To Union Contracts Pittsburgh, Mar. 15 U.R) The nation s coal bill will climb more than $84,000,000 this year as a result of new labor con tracts signed with John L. Lew- ..us,, -a. coalindustry -spokesman said tort JJ. .--.. Price 4-icrcases by producers include M estimated $72,000,000 for bituminous coal and $12,000, 000,000 for anthracite at the mine. Additional Boosts Additional boosts by coal re tailers to cover higher shipping and labor costs were expected to push the total cost to consumers millions of dollars higher. The industry spokesman said price boosts will average 20 cents a ton at the mine on an estimated 1950 production of 360,000,000 tons of soft coal and 60.000,000 tons of anthracite. Both hard and soft coal pro ducers signed contracts with Lewis early this month providing a 70-cent a day wage boost and a 10-cent increase in royalty pay ments to tne united Mine work ers welfare fund. 'Captive' Price Up The price of 90,000.000 tons produced by "captive" mines owned by steel companies also will be increased, but the effect will not be felt directly by the consumer. The first major price boost was announced by George H. Love, president of the Pittsburgh Con solidation Coal company, the world's largest commercial i producer. Morse Tells Stand Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse is not suffering from "Potomac fever." At a meeting sponsored by Jackson County Republican Women last night, the senator said there are too many other lipids of public service outside the senate for him to stand for reelection if it means sacrificing his intellectual honesty. About 400 persons gathered in the high school auditorium to hear the junior senator explain in unequivocal terms just where he stands in regard to republi canism, his relations with his constituents, and on numerous domestic and foreign issues. Denies Bolting Party Morse classified himself as a "constitutional liberal," saying "the liberalism of the constitu tion is good enough for me." Denying that he has bolted his party on the floor of the senate, he declared his voting record would prove that he has fought actively for the principles em bodied In the republican party platform that was drawn up at Philadelphia in 1948. The senator declared he is con ducting a political experiment in Oregon to determine if voters in this state are Interested in sending to the congress men who will vote on the basis of facts In stead of at the whim of political expediency. Reiterating his of ten-stated assertion that the in ternational situation is "extreme ly seriously.. Morse declared. "I will not traffic in political e oe- diency in this campaign." He I WEDNESDAY, MARCH Child Braves Pistol; Fails To Halt Death St. Joseph, Mo., Mar. 15 (U.R) A brave nine-year-old girl said today she tried to wrest a pistol from her enraged ex-convict cousin as he shot to death a 15-year-old baby sitter because she wouldn't leave her eight charges to go to the movies with him. Ljittle. Patsy Spccr said .she -watched in horror as Clarence Speer, 23, fired five bullets last night into pretty Caryl Johnson of Rea, Mo., who had been hired to tend Patsy and her seven brothers and sisters. Pushed To One Side Patsy said Speer pushed her to one side, scratching her face, when she tried to defend the Johnson girl. Then, she told po lice, he fired six bullets, five of them hitting their mark. "Caryl was bleeding all over," Deadline For Income Tax Filing At Midnight "Beware the Idei of March," according to the poet. "They have come but have not gone." The Idet of March have in deed come, and ihe deadline to render unto Caeiar those things which are Caesar's is midnight tonight. In other less complicated words, your federal income tax payment must be in the mail today, postmarked be fore midnight, or you will be subject to a penally, Seattle, Wash., Mar. 15 (U.R) Coast guardsmen today reported they had exploded two Japan ese floating mines off the Ore gon coast. does not wish to sit in the sen- ate of the United Stales, he con tinucd, if it means telling his constituents things they want to hear rather than facts that they ought to know. Attacks Tariffs Again attacking proposals heard in some quarters for high tariff walls against competition in foreign trade, Morse said the minority of republicans who "at tempt to sell you this brand of economic isolationism are break ing faith with the Philadelphia platform." The senator drew the applause of his audience when he branded the administration's deficit budg et as "an outrage in this year of 1950." The "false economists" who claim that a national dcbl is an inconsequential thing and no cause for alarm were blamed (or the tendency of many private individuals to take a lax and spendthrift attitude toward their personal debts. Urges Economies For constructive alternatives to Ihe administration's program, Morse urged republicans to fight for the adoption of the major economies of the Hoover com mission report and for t revision of the tax structure as proposed by the committee for economic development. These can be the republican annvrr to the admin istration's deficit spending and "sonk-the-rich" tax policies, he said. The address concluded Morse s heavv two-dav schedule in the Mcdford and Ashland area. Yet- Tribune 15, 1950 NO. 300 ON Palsy, who called police, said. "I knew she was still alive be cause she was moaning. She looked awful. She had blood all over her." Caryl died in an ambulance on the way to a hospital. She had five bullets in her head and neck. -.,.,, . - Speer, who has a long crimi nal record which includes nine jail escapes, gave himself up to Railroad Ticket Agent Burt E. Miller an hour after the shoot ing. Dale Requested i Detective Chief V. V. Starm er said Speer, who was jailed On murder charges, arrived as the home of his uncle, Ed Frank Speer, about 6 p.m. The uncle and his wife had gone to Kansas City to visit another of their children, a triplet, seriously 111 in a hospital, leaving the rest of the children in Caryl's care. Starmcr said the slightly built youth, asked Caryl, whom he had dated previously, lo "take In a movie," but she told him she couldn't leave-the children alone. Speer went to his home and returned with his pistol. He again asked Caryl to go to a movie. Patsy Awakened In the argument that followed, Patsy, the eldest of the children and the only one awakened by the fight, tried to knock the pis tol out of her cousin's hand. "Caryl threw her rings at Sneer and told him she was through with him' and didn't vant to go out with him again. btarmer said. "It was then that he shot her." , On GOP, . terday noon he addressed mem- Kin ul lilt; mcuiiriu iiuimjr viuu, speaking with emphasis on de fense and nationalized medicine. "Defenses of the United States are never any stronger than the economy of the nntion. It is high time to balance the budget and get a decent tax program we cannot continue spending in the red." he said. Medical Aid Needed The Junior senator from Ore gon delved into the problem of ' socialized medicine, and empha sized the need for some kind of nation-wide aid to those who cannot afford medical services. ' The administration's compulsory health legislation simply cannot be reconciled with traditional American procedure. Senator Morse staled. In registering his strong opposition to this ap proach to the problem on a fed eral level. i The Hill and Taft health bills are part of republican strategy to forestall the administration's legislation, and these proposals open avenues for careful long-! range studies of the whole mai ler of health, the speaker point ed out. What the administration proposes is another step down the road to statism, according to Morse. This same lnbcl was pinned upon the CVA bill. "I will not emphasize this Issue In the pri mary election because republi cans generally arc in agreement against the CVA. If the demo cratic candidate in the general ' election favors this bill I will , certainly welcome it as an is- j sue," the senator promised. 1 WEATHER FORECAST: Incrtailng cloudi ness tonight. Generally cloudy Thursday with tome light rain. Warmer tonight. v Temp. Hliheat Yesterday 43 Lowest this Morning 29 Switch In Plans Told By Attorney In Federal Court Rights Of Appeal To Be Lost By Move New York. Mar. 15 (U.R) Valentin Gubitchev will leave the United States for Russia next Monday as originally planned, his attorney announced today. Attorney Abraham L. Pomcr antz told Federal Judge Sylves ter Ryan that the 33-year-old Russian has agreed to the gov ernment's stipulation that he re nounce all right of appeal from his espionage conspiracy convic tion when he leaves the country under a suspended 15-year sen tence. Second Reversal It was the second abrupt re versal of plans in less than 24 hours. Pomerantz announced late yesterday that Gubitchev would slay in the U. S. and fight for a reversal of his conviction. The attorney was accompanied in court today by Yuri Novikov, third secretary of the Soviet em bassy at Washington, who sat through the trial as Gubitchcv's official interpreter. Pomerantz told the court that when he refused yesterday to accept the government's condi tion to the Russian's departure he was without authority to ac cept or reject for his client. Mind Not Changed ' "I have since received authori zation from Gubitchev lo accept this further condition," he said, "and I hereby communicate to your honor that Mr. Gubitchev has- not -changed- his- mlndi that he proposed to accept this new condition and to sail tor ine so viet Union. March 20. 1950." Gubitchev was convicted with former government girl Judith Coplon on charges of conspiracy 10 sleal government secrets anu send them to Russia. Both were sentenced to 15 years in federal prison. Plane Crashes Claim 11 British Crew Men London, Mar. 15 (U.R) Three royal air force planes crashed on training flights over Britain today, killing 11 crew men and injuring three others. Two of the planes were fmir engincd Lincoln bombers. The third was a twin-engine Anson trainer. The pilot and co-pilot of the Anson escaped with injuries when the plane crashed In flames in Wiltshire. Farmhands dragged the men from the wreckage. One of the bombers crashed 2,000 feet up on the slopes of Carncdd Llewellyn, one of the highest peaks In Wales. The air ministry said all six men ahnnrd perished. Their bod ies were recovered by an RAF mountain rescue unit. Medicine I Tells Strategy Referring again to the strat egy of "bottling up" Ihe admin istration's health proposals with the Taft and Hill bills as back fire measures, Senator Morse emphasized the need for estab lishment of some sound and sen sible health legislation, with five years of congressional hear ings and exhaustive research In dicating the need. The back-fire parliamentary strategy, under taken bv highly conservative senators, provides ample time i for doctors to present their views, and continued delaying action should mean that a final ! bill will emerge safeguarding Ihe private practice of medicine with state authority, he said. Federal aid can be handled through the states without over-: all federal control, Senator Morse claimed, adding that it has been proven that federal aid for states can be given with the government's control limited to generalized standards of proce dure It Is high lime for action, not Just talk, on the matter of gov ernment economy, the speaker said in concluding his address, which was followed by a ques tion period, John Nicdermcyer, Jackson County Republican com ml t tee chairman, Inlroduced Morse. Senator Morse left Medford this morning for appearances In Grants Pass and Klamath Falls. He will return here May 19 and 20, when he will open the Armed Forces day observance as a mem ber of the senate armed services committee. EMMY U.S. TO ASSIST ASIATIC LANDS San Francisco, Mar. 15 (UP) Secretary of State Dean Achest bluntly warned communist China and the Soviet UnflSn today to keep hands off the rest of Asia. In a forthright enunciation of United States policy in the Far East, Acheson said that the Chinese "can only bring grave trouble on themselves ... if they are led by their new rulers into aggressive or sub versive adventures beyond their borders." In a major address before the Commonwealth club of California, Acheson declared : "We now face the prospect that the communists may attempt to . . . use China as a base for probing for other weak spots which they can move into and exploit." Acheson referred to southeast Asia, where com munists are engaged in guerrilla fighting, and appar ently to south Korea, which is being subjected to in creasing red pressure. Acheson promised the free nations of southeast Asia that if they undertake to resist communist ag gression this country will In some situations it will be military assistance, he said. "In others, it may be tnants or loans, such as the recent $100,000,000 credit to the Republic of the united btates of Indonesia. In stili other cases, the need may be for technical assistance." Help To Reinforce Efforts Others Prepared To Make Acheson said "these are not new principles nor is the appli cation of them to the Far East a new departure." But he empna sized that "our help can only reinforce the efforts which others are prepared to make on their own behalf." He lamented the fact that United States help "on a massive scale" did not bring recovery and peace to China, whose conquest by the communists he blamed on failure of Ihe nationalists. "As old friends, we say to the Chinese people that we fully understand that their present unhappy status within the orbit ol the Soviet Union is not the result of any choice on their part, but has been forced upon them," Acheson said. At the same time, Acheson said that the Chinese soon would see the aid promised them by Russia under the Russian-Chinese treaty won't meet their needs. United States Trad. Important He said that American trade with China Is far more Important than Soviet economic help to China's needs, but he set forth con ditions under which the United States could trade with red China. "Trade requires certain standards of conduct," he said. "Ships, planes, and traders must be received under conditions of security and decency. Contracts must be honored. There must be some medium of exchange reasonably regulated." Under those conditions, he said the United States would sanc tion trade with China. However, he warned that the United States "does- not propose that 'Americans should sell goods that may be used to harm us. 'Nor does this government he added, stand for.' to mose wno acciHre Americans Rush To Beat Tax Deadline l-hli.nim Mar. 15 .(U.R) Americans rushed toclQ to file Ihnir inpnmn taxes buore the midnight deadline but few In dividuals and groups risked im prisonment by defying the In evitable. The law requires that tax re turna Ki In Ilip hands of collec tors or postmarked by midnight lonigni except in chscs wiii-ic taxpayers have received exten sions. Race Against Deadlln. The government, meanwnuc. was also racing a midnight dead- Service To Be Ordered To Visit Loyalty Board Washington, Mar. 15 (U.R) Slate Drnartmcnt Official John Stewart Service a target of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy will be ordered to return from India to appear personally before a de partment loyalty board. The state department said to day that Service will be In structed to return here as soon as he land" In India. He sailed from San Francisco March 8 to lake a new foreign service post Ihere. The department disclosed that (he civil service loyalty review board yesterday asked It to take further steps in the Service loy ally case. The civil service agency re turned the case to the depart ment several hours atter McCar thy, Wisconsin republican, had charged yesterday that he "un derstood the agency had done so 10 days ago. Salem, Jefferson Win Tourney Games Kugene, Ore., Mar. 15 (U.R) Salem and Jefferson of Portland today won their opening round games in the 32nd annual Ore gon state class "A" high school basketball tournament at Univer sity of Oregon's McArthur court. Salem's Vikings, bidding for their seventh tournament title, beat a game Scappoosc quintet, 48 to 42, In the second morning game today. Jefferson previous ly walloped Dallas high. 51 to 34. Salrm was playing Scappoosc In the other morning game today. Seaside met McLoughlin of Mil-ton-Freewater at 1:45 p.m. and Bend plays Grants Pass at 3 p.m. In games tonight defending champion Roosevelt of Portland is pitted against LaGrnnde at 7:.10 and Kugene faciV'entral Catholic of Portland arf 43. help them. propose lo give credits or gifts," ' ineir nosiiuiy 10 us ana an w line to get legal action started against the last of 1943 tax evad ers before the statute of limita tions bars prosecution. Throughout the country, Amer icans by the thousands found the annual day of reckoning at hand and hurried to get their Veturns filed. In New York City, the rush was greater than last year. New York's second tax district col lected $100,000,000 yesterday and will take in $250,000,000 by tonight. In Chicago, an unmarried woman filed her return. She had an income of $1,65.1,293. She paid $1,164,656 In taxes. She was left with $486,637. Collec tors did not identify her. f Indictments Expected ' At Washington, the justice de partment revealed it expected to have Indictments by tonight's deadline against 149 persons for trying to evade $10,000,000 in wartime taxes. There Is a six year statute of limitation In tax cases. A federal grand jury In New York returned indictments yes terday against five persons and two corporations for failing to report an Income of SI. 091. 231 and avoiding taxes of $805,717. Nevertheless, some people an nounced today that they would refuse to pay taxes at the risk of poing lo prison. Sentenced During War At Des Moines, la., a Quaker couple and an engineer told the lax collector they wouldn't pay because they were pacifists. Both Ihe Quaker husband and the en gineer were sentenced as con scientious objectors during World War II. An organization calling Itself "Peacemakers" planned a noon time picket of the Internal reve nue bureau In New York City. The signs said "your taxes pay (or the H-bomb" and "refuse to pav taxes for war purposes." Arthur Sternberg of St. Paul figured out for himself that 32 ner cent of his tax goes for de fense and he withheld that amount $51 from his pay ment. Soil Meetings Slated Today, Thursday For those not yet sure what a soil conservation district is de signed to accomplish or how It would work in this area may hear a full explanation of the proposed district at the Central Point Grange hall at 8 p.m. to day or nt the Eagle Point Grange hall at the same time Thursday. Films will be shown and mem bers of the state soil conserva tion committee will be on hand lo clear up questions. A referendum to pass on the district proposed for Jackson county will be held March 22. K
