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z J 4 i h Subscribers WEATHER Medford Tribune FORECAST: Variable eloudlntu with light showers tonight and Tueidiy. Tamp- Hlgheit Ynterday Loweit tbii Morning 33 To rtport Improper or Bon delivery of the .Mall Tribune phone 2-8141 before 6 MS p. m. dally and 10:30 a. m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you rail, please notify office, thus eliminating special meuenger service. i Unitid Press Full Lu Wirt United Press Full Lease Wire 44th Year 10 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, MAR( 1950 No. 304 A if Government Asks Mine Union Held For Civil Contempt Only Token Efforts Made, Is Claim Washington, Mar. 20 (U.R) The government asked the U.S. court of appeals today to hold John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers union in civil contempt for its failure to call off the re cent coal strike. , In a brief filed by Assistant Attorney General H.G. Morison t and U. S. Attorney George Mor ris Fay, it argued that the union officers made only "token" ef forts to comply with back-to-work injunction issued by Fed eral Judge Richmond B. Keech. Defiance Unproved jf Keech dismissed the govern ment's contempt citation on grounds it failed to prove the union was in "wilfull" defiance of the order. Keech issued the restraining order in an attempt to get the 370,000 soft coal miners to call off a walkout that plunged the nation into the worst coal crisis in history. Despite two orders from Lewis that they return to work, the miners refused to dig coal. During the trial before Keech. the UMW argued that Lewis' two orders proved that he acted in good faith in trying to per suade them to return to work. But the government, in its brief asking for a reversal, said Lewis' back-to-work messages were short "lacklustre" dis patches that made it clear he "was acting at pistolpoint." Eagle Point Girl 12, Dies Following Hang ing Accident Zoe Dell Wolgamott, 12-year-old Eagle Point girl, accidental ly hanged herself yesterday morning while practicing as a drum majorette at her home, ac cording to Coroner Carlos Mor ris. . , , He reported that the girl, in order to hold her back straight while she practiced high kicks, had evidently climbed up on the erice of a small lug box and placed her head through a rope loop attached to the door. The box apparently tipped over, hanging the youngster, Morris said. No one witnessed the fatal mishap, the coroner said he was told, but the girl was found by her father. Elvin Wolgamott, presumably a short time later. A doctor and Conger-Morris am bulance service were called and artificial respiration applied. Conger-Morris attendants tried to revive the youngster with a resuscitator but to no avail. The remains are at Conger Morris funeral home. Czech Skater Takes Asylum In England London, Mar. 20 U.R) Beau tiful Aja Vrzanova, the world's champion woman amateur fig ure skater and daughter of an important Czecholsovakian com m u n i s t government official, ioined the parade of political ex iles from behind the iron curtain today. The tall, 18-year-old brown eyed successor to Canada's Bar bara Ann Scott as women's in ternational skating titleholder announced she would not return to her homeland as long as her ikther and other communist of ficials run the country. "I have been dreaming of this freedom for two years, ever since I have been traveling in western Europe with the Czech team," Aja said. "But I had to bide my time until I was 18. which made me 'of age' in my country." PLANT DESTROYED Vacaville, Cal., Mar. 20 (U.R) Fire early today destroyed the Diamond Match company plant here. Firemen estimated dam age would run between $100, 000 and $150,000. Edgar Rice Burroughs Dies At California Ranch Home Tarzana, Cal., Mar. 20 (U.R! Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of modern fiction's most famed character Tarzan the apeman died quietly while reading In bed yesterday. The 74-year-old Burroughs made Tarzan an international legend. The apeman's tree-swinging antics were known to mil lions everywhere and only the Bible exceeded Tarzan stories in sales. Burroughs, a shut-In for the last few years, was reading the Sunday comics as he ate break fast in bed. Suddenly the news- Japcr dropped from his hands, us eyes closed and the famed novelist died almost instantly. ,IPr. Herman Seal, the writer's physician, was in the ranchhouse when Burroughs died. He said drath was caused by a heart ail ment and harucuing of ike ar 'SAUCER' BLUEPRINT Thls- accordinc to Dr. Craig Hunter of Berkley Springs. W. Va., is what a flying disc or saucer looks like. He claims he saw the "real thing while driving on a highway near Clearfield, Pa. The Air Force flatly denies that such things exist. Sailing Delayed By Chinese Communists Tokyo, Mar. 20 U.R Failure of the Chinese communist gov ernment to grant clearance for the evacuation of some 1,400 for eigners from Shanghai today de layed the scheduled sailing of an American rescue ship. Consul - General James B. Pilcher said that no clearance was received by the American president lines for two LST's the small craft that were to make the run through the mine sown Yangtze into Shanghai. Liner Delayed The American President Lines General Gordon, which was to meet the smaller craft well off the mouth of the Yangtze, de layed its scheduled sailing from Hone. Kong, Pilcher said. The two LST's, however, left early today on the 800 mile trip from Yokohama, Pilcher said. A spokesman for the shipping line said the LST's were still in Japanese waters and had not been ordered to return to Yoko hama. He said it was hoped clear ance would be received while the craft were en route to Shang Political Scientists Seen In New Rider Clarcmont, Cal.. Mar. 20 (U.R) Scientists would be chosen for jobs on a political basis instead of on their ability if legislation pending in congress is approved, says Dr. Lee A. Dubridge, Cal ifornia Institute of Technology president. Dr. Dubridge referred to the loyalty oath rider' on the na tional science foundation bill pending in congress. "Nuclear energy has now be come the business of every American citizen." he told Po mona college students here Sat urday. "Secrecy measures will result in the wildest sort of speculation. An informed pub lic opinion cannot be built on the basis of misinformation." Eugene Sisters Die When Struck By Auto Eugene. Ore.. Mar. 20 (U.R) State police said today that two small sisters. Marlcne Joyce Myers, 11, and Bonnie Jean My ers, 5. were struck and killed in stantly Sunday on River road, about a mile north of Eugene. Officers said the driver of the car which hit the girls in front of a roadside market was a 16-year-old youth who was charged with reckless driving and re leased to custody of his parents. His name was not released. teries. Burroughs had been crit ically ill for 10 days. He was first stricken about three months ago. Also present were his three children. Mrs. Joan Pierce. Hul bert Burroughs and John Burroughs.- Funeral arrangements will be announced today. Burroughs explained in brief terms why he created his fabu lous jungle man who captured the fancy and imagination of the world. He was an unsuccessful sales man for a pencil sharpener man ufacturer when he suddenly felt he could succeed as a writer. "If people were paid for writ ing such rot." he said referring to pulp magazine stories, "I fig ured I could write stuff just as bad." Burroughs was 35 when he tarted out in his new career. (Acme Telcnhoto) hai. Otherwise, he said, the en tire operation may be called off. Cleared By Nationals Pilcher emphasized that the consulate was not negotiating the clearance. He described it as strictly an arrangement be tween the line and the commun ist authorities. The Gordon has already re ceived nationalist Chinese gov ernment assurances of non-interference. The nationalists are blockading the China coast and have fired on several American ships attempting to run the blockade. Washington, Mar. 20 (U.R) Chinese communist authorities have refused to let two Ameri can LST's enter Shanghai to evacuate 2,000 Americans and other foreigners, the state de partment reported today. The LST's, operated as com mercial craft . by the American President lines, were en route to Shanghai when the Shanghai foreign trade bureau disclosed they would not be allowed to enter the port. The state de partment said the Shanghai authorities apparently feared the vessels were warships rather than commercial boats. The slate department said it is instructing its representatives in Shanghai to try to get the com munist authorities there to re consider. Meanwhile, the LST's will anchor outside Chinese ter ritorial waters. Probe Conducted In Fatal Plane Crash. Portland, Ore., Mar. 20 (U.R) Officers of the Oregon air na tional guard were conducting an investigation today of the fatal crash of an F-51 fighter at Port land airport Sunday. Capt. John J. Haley, 29, Port land, was pronounced dead on arrival at Providence hospital shortly after the crash which de molished his plane. He had just taken off on a routine flight and was gaining altitude when the engine faltered and the craft whipped into the ground. Capt. Haley had lived in Portland about two years. He was a University of Utah grad uate and lived in Salt Lake City prior to coming to Portland. During the war he served in the Pacific theater. His parents. Mr. and Mrs. Carter Haley, are en route from their Salt Lake City home. His widow, two young sons and two sisters also survive. Funeral arrangement have not been announced. Earthquake Rocks Sacramento Valley Sacramento, Mar. 20 (U.R) An earthquake shook the Sacra mento valley today but there were no reports of damage. Residents of valley towns call ed police and newspapers to re port rattling windows but there were no reports of so much as a crackPd dish, although it was re corded in Berkeley as a fairly strong quake. University of California seis mograph officials said the quake should have centered around Chico. However, officials there said they received only a few calls. The weather bureau In Sacra mento said the quake failed to set off an alarm on a sealed seis mograph here. The alarm Is set to sound when a quake serious enough to take reading occurs, officials said. There were no reports of the quake at Red Bluff at the north ern end of the valley. Bridges' Lawyer Hurls Charges At Federal Bureaus Hallinan Continues Final Argument San Francisco, Mar. 20 (U.R) Attorney Vincent Hallinan, de fending Harry Bridges on perjury-conspiracy charges, lashed out today at the FBI, the immi gration department, the govern ment's witnesses and the prose cution in a final effort to save the labor leader from prison and possible deportation. Waving his arms and shouting to the jury and the packed courtroom, Hallinan continued his final argument which he fircdicted may last all week ong. Previous Proceedings Bridges, chief of the CIO Longshoremen's and Ware housemen'! union, is on trial for perjury as an outgrowth of his naturalization hearing in 1945 when he swore he was not a communist. Two of his union lieutenants. J. R. Roberston and Henry Schmidt, are being tried on conspiracy charges. Hallinan dragged into his ar gument all of the previous legal proceedings against Bridges, in cluding two unsuccessful govern ment attempts to deport him and and a 1945 supreme court decision which held Bridges was not deportable on the strength of the evidence at his second de portation hearing before a spe cial naturalization examiner. "I'm going to point out to you soon, my friends," he told the jury, "that the testimony of each government witness has been falsified." Packing Firm Will Cut Box Price 15 Cents This Year A slash of 15 cents per box In fruit packing charges will be placed in effect here this year by the American Fruit Growers' Oregon division, it was an nounced today by E. A. Pringle, manager of the. firrrty Medford office. Pringle returned last week from Los Angeles, where he at tended a conference with top of ficials of the organization. The situation of Medford fruit grow ers was discussed at this meet ing, he said, and he added that "present returns to growers hardly meet production costs." "Unless drastic economies are effected the situation can deteri orate further," Pringle said. He explained that he first proposed the cut in packing charges, and that company officials, including General Manager Charles Brown, agreed that "it was up to the company to go along with the producers." Price Below Costs The new price will be well be low present operational costs, Pringle said, adding that in creased output and "rigid func tional economics" already in effect will, it is hoped, result in bringing packing expenses down to a "breakeven" level under the new price. Pringle said that there will be no increase in other fixed charges which would "defeat or nullify" the advantages of the cut. The packing price decrease will affect all varieties, he said. Committee Continues Spending Bill Work Washington, Mar. 20 (U.R) The house appropriations com mittee today reached agreement on all but the defense section of a S29.000.000.000 omnibus spend ing bill for fiscal 1951. Chairman Clarence Cannon, (D. Mo.), called the committee back into session for 10 a.m. EST tomorrow when he said he ex pects final action on the measure. The committee was reported to have cut some $1,200,000,000 off President Truman's budget requests which anticipated a de ficit of $5,133,171,382, Cannon said the committee hold a "harmonious" two-and-a-half hour session and went through the bulk of the bill with out making substantial changes from the form reported by sub committees. The measure is the first omni bus bill of Its kind in 150 years. It is designed to impress upon congress the need for saving money. Switchmen's Strike Delayed By President Key West. Fla.. Mar. 20 (U.R President Truman delayed for at least 60 days today by execu tive order a strike called for to morrow bv the Switchmen's Union of North America against 12 western railroads. The strike, set for March 21. threatened, according to the, president's order, to Interrupt interstate commerce "to a de gree such as to deprive the coun try of essential transportation service." . He set up an emergency board and called for board recommen dations and 'irdings under the i railway laUr act within 30 days. MARSHALL, EISEHHOttER GO TO DEFENSE OIF JESSUP RESCUED Prt of the crew of the D. 8. 8. Elder. Navy net tender disabled tn the Pacific when an engine room lire raged out of control, is pictured before the ship when she stopped at Luzon In the Philippine 18 months ago. Twenty-six of the crew were picked up from life rafts and the remaining 14 were found aboard the ship a few hours later some 660 miles east of Eniwetok Atoll In the Marshall Islands. All were in good condition. The Elder was bound from Hawaii to Eniwetok to take part In the spring atom bomb tests there. Murder Charged to Sawmill Worker In Eugene. Ore.. Mar. 20 (U.R) A murder charge was made to day against John Lloyd Thomp son, 27, sawmill worker, who shot to death Clyde Dubelle, Oakridge, Ore., police chief, ear ly Sunday. Gubitchev Sails For Iron Curtain Country New York,' Mar. 20 (U.R). Valentin A. Gubitchev, a Rus sian diplomat given a 15-y.car suspended sentence for spying against the United States, sailed for home today with a word of "good luck" for Judith Coplon, his co-defendant in the espion age case. The stocky, 33-year-old Rus sian sailed at 12:11 p.m. aboard the Polish liner Batory, the ship used by Communist Gerhart Eis ler when he fled the United States. Handcuffed and in custody of U. S. Attorney Irvin H. Saypol, the smiling Gubitchev was hustled aboard the Batory at 11:59 a.m. He was taken to a first class room just off the ship's main lounge where he was greeted with a kiss on the cheek by his wife, Lydia. Two hours before. Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan had suspended Gubitchev's sentence on condition that he go back behind the iron curtain "never to return to the shores of the United States of America." One of Gubitchev's last state ments to newsmen concerned Miss Coplon, a former govern ment worker who was sen tenced to 15 years in prison on a charge of conspiring with him to steal U. S. secrets. Asked by a reporter if he wished Miss Coplon luck, he replied: "Yes, luck I wish her luck." Miss Coplon at present is free on $40,000 bail pending an ap peal. Marshall Plan Cash Reduction Requested Washington. Mar. 20 (U.R) The house foreign affairs com mitlpp voted today to cut $1,000,000,000 from next year's Mnrthail nlan cash and send Europe, instead, an equivalent amount of surplus farm crops. The committee broke party lino, (n nush through the food- inainnrl-nf-rash amendment. ' Us John M. Vorys. (R. hi nod it would spare the $2,950,000,000 Marshall plan bill from further drastic cuts when the measure reaches the house floor. . , Committee Chairman John Kee, (D., W. Va.), disagreed. He said he opposed the Vorys amendment because he thought it would "hamstring" the foreign aid program and "cripple" the domestic farm price aupport system. Crommelin Willing To Be Alabama Senator San Francisco, Mar. 20 (U.R) Navy Capt. John G. Crommclln said-todav he ia willing to run for United States senator from Alabama to help shape the na tion's defense policies. "I thought I could be of more service to my country in the navy," he said, "but if I am not going to be In the navy, then I !ecl that pt:-: mis I could be of more tervice in congress," Oakridge Thompson faced arraignment here and if he waives prelim inary hearing he will be taken before the Lane county grand 'u!7' Thompson was captured Sun day night near Kitson Springs, four miles east of Oakridge. He surrendered meekly to two state policemen after 14 hours of free dom. Chief Dubelle was called to Thompson's Oakridge home early Sunday by Herbert Looncy, a neighbor, at whom the mlllwork er had fired two rifle shots dur ing an argument. According to police. Thomp son met the policeman at his door and engaged in a scuffle. Dubelle's service revolver High Dams Opposed By Izaak Waltons Salem, Ore., Mar. 20 (U.R) Objections to high dams such as proposed for the Rogue river were voiced here Saturday by members of the state executive committee of the Izaak Walton league. The committee, holding Its quarterly meeting here, ap proved plans to establish state headquarters in the new Salem league clubhouse on Pringle creek when it is completed this spring. The committee members pro posed pollution in the Willam ette river and other streams. It approved construction of dams on the upper Columbia that will not materially inter fere with the salmon and steel head runs, but opposed construc tion on the lower Snake river. The committee heard reports that such construction would destroy 50 per cent of the sal mon fishing. President Planning Three Oregon Stops Klamath Falls, Ore., Mar. 20 (U.R) President Truman plans three and possibly four brief stops in Oregon when he makes his western rail tour In Mav Monroe Swcetland, national democratic committeeman for Oregon, announced Mr. Truman's itinerary for the state here yes terday at a party rally. The presi dent is coming west to dedicate new facilities at Grand Coulee dam. Sweetland said Mr. Truman would make stops at Huntington, Baker and Pendleton and pos sibly La Grande, all in eastern Oregon, according to Informa tion received from Washington. The Grand Coulee dedication is scheduled for May 11, which would put the president In Ore gon en route to the dam on May 10. Fred Vinson Not To Take Acheson's Place Kev West, Fla., Mar. 20 (U.R) The White House today de nounced as "a complete fabrica tion" recent broadcast and pub lished reports that Chief Justice of the United States Fred M. Vinson might replace Dean Ache son as secretary of state. In-an unusually strong denial. President Truman, through his press secretary, gave Acheson a big boost and said he had no idea of taking him out of his post. Vancouver, Wash., Mar. 20 (U.R) Vancouver'! 125th anni versary celebration opened here Sunday with re-dedication of the Tacific northwest's oldest per manent white settlement. Slaying dropped to the floor. Thompson scooped it up and fired five rounds into the chief. Four pierced his arm. A fifth, entered just below his heart. Looney said he returned to the scene as Thompson headed for Hie brush, carrying the gun. When State Policemen Kenneth Scripter, Salem, and Kenneth Moore, Albany, took Thompson into custody he said he forgot wnal ne aid witn the weapon Looncy described the events preceding the slaying as follows: Been To Dance He, Thompson and their wives had been to a Saturday night dance. They went to Looncy's home and both wives retired. Then Looney accompanied Thompson to his home and left him there. A short time later Thompson returned to Looney's home with a rifle. He fired two wild shots at Looney who then called Chief Dubelle. Bloodhounds and mobile radio equipment posses totaling more than 50 men were called into play early Sunday after the shooting. Heavy Snowfall Hits Park; Skier Injured Pat Winkler, 310 Laurel street, was the only accident case reported from Crater Lake na tional park Sunday. She suffered a sprained left ankle while ski ing on Knob hill, and Was re moved from the park by mem bers of her own pnrty after rangers administered first aid. An unusually heavy snowfall Saturday night kept roads in the park closed until 3:30 p.m. Sun day and travel was held to a minimum. Beginning In the early evening Saturday, 17 inches of snow fell before morning and last night an additional two and a halt inches fell, making a total pack on the ground of 156 inches. Reports from the park this morning said there are 40 inches of powder snow over a wet pack and it is still snowing. A total of 189 visitors, inciud . mE 77 members of the Eugene Obsidian club, managed to gci into the park over the week-end in spite of weather conditions. Roads today are open but nar row. Chains are required from Annie Springs to the rim of the lake. Washington. Mar. 20 (U.R) President Truman today pro claimed Aoril as "Cancer Con trol month' and April 14 as Pan American day. Hatred Drives Sister to Murder 14-Year-Old Twin Fresno, Cal., Mar.. 20 U.R) Preltv 14-year-old Alice Richard said today she wasn't sorry she killed her Identical twin sister Sally whom she had "hated" since the sixth grade. "I'm not sorry she is dead," she told Deputy District Attor ney Dan B. Eymann. "I'd do the same thing over again, but I didn't like to hurt my parents and family." The grief stricken parents. Mr. and Mrs. Edgard V. Rich ards, said they would stand be hind Alice when she is ar raigned on first degree murder charges for firing a .22 caliber rifle bullet into the head of her sleeping sister early yesterday. The girl will not face a death penalty because of her youth. The slender, shy brunette told authorities she "hated" her viva cious and popular lister tince Statements Read Into Record 01 Senate Inquiry Views Contained In . Personal Letters Washington. Mar. 20 (U.R) Gens. George C. Marshall and Dwight D. Eisenhower today de fended U. S. Ambassador-at- Large Philip C. Jessup against charges that he has an "unusual affinity" for communist causes. Their defense of J e s s u n against charges made by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R., Wis.) were contained in statements read Into the record of a senate foreign relations sub-committee investigating the accusations. In Personal Letters Marshall, former secretary of state, and Eisenhower, wartimt supreme allied commander in Europe, stated their views in personal letters to Jessup. Sub-Committee Chairman Mil lard E. Tydings read the letters after Jessup himself told the sub committee that McCarthy's pro--communist charges are "utterly irresponsible and damage the interests of our country" and its foreign policy. Tydings interrupted a cross examination of Jessup by Sen. Bourne u. Mickenioopcr IK., la.) to read the letters. Marshall Shocked Marshall, now president of the American Red Cross, said he is "shocked and distressed" by Mc Carthy's attack on Jessup. He recalled the days of the Berlin blockade by the Russians and de scribed Jessup as a "great source of strength in those critical days." Eisenhower, now president of Columbia university, noted that Jessup is a member of the fac ulty of that school. ."I am writing to tell you how much your university deplores the association of your name with the current loyalty Investi gation in the United States sen ate," Eisenhower wrote. Two Couples Injured When Car Hits Pole Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Fields, Jacksonville, were seriously hurt and Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Jones, Jacksonville, received lesser in juries yesterday in an auto ac cident on South Oakdale avenue near the senior high school, ac cording to police and doctor's re ports. Police said a car operated by Fields went out of control, jumped the curb and hit a pow er pole when he attempted to care for a sick dog in the car. The front end of the vehicle was demolished and the pole broken, It was said. Mr. and Mrs. Jones were passengers in the car. According to the attending physician, both Fields and his wife suffered chest injuries and she received f a ce lacerations. Mrs. Jones had head and chest Injuries and her husband leg Injury and scalp wound. The Fields are still confined to Sacred Heart hospital where the four were taken by Conger-Morris ambulance. Local Men Attend Dock Dedication On Coast A delegation of Medford men attended the dedication cere monies held over the week-end at Crescent City, Cal., for the new $135,000 municipal dock there, which was turned over to the city dock commission by the group of volunteer workers who sparkplugged the construction. The ceremonies and accom panying crab feed drew repre sentatives from a number of northern California and south ern Oregon communities. Includ ing Medford, Ashland and Grants Pass. the time they were In the sixth grade. The twins were sopho mores at a parochial high school. "She was stupid and noisy and acted like a nut in school," Alice told Eymann. "She aggra vated me for a long time " "I thought about killing her several times in the past, but I never had Ihe guts." "I killed her because t hated her." she told Eymann. "I hated her for a long, long time, ever since the sixth grade." Eymann said no boy friend was Involved, nor were there any "big issues" between the sit ters. "The embarrassment at school possibly caused her a great deal of shame," Eymann said. "As a result, the hatred was built up. Jealousv could possibly be a mo tive because of Sally i popularity."
