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Newspaper Page TextMnnNNP m a in rfrun MS OH 9 n " o 3'.n itJrJkiteBsL v Liar' wf?.j??:v. I DANCERS FLOCK TO JAMBOREE A portion of the several hundred dancers who partici pated in the square dance jamboree in the Medford high school gymnasium Saturday night are shown in the picture aoove. Presented under the sponsorship of the iamboree drew an estimated 1,000 spectators in addition to sion was the calling of Jack Hohcisal (on chair at extreme right) who is one of the best known western type callers for dancing. Groups from the "Y," the Rogue Valley Country club and from private dance clubs participated. Hoover Opposed To Disclosure Of Files Washington. Mar. 27 (U.R) t place the lives of the FBIs in FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover said formants "in actual jeopardy.' today that disclosure of secret : and most certainly would under i bi loyauy files to congress would mean a "complete col- lanse" of the FBI s entire system. Hoover told a senate foreign relations investigation subcom mittee that he wants "no part" of any investigative organization which has the power to rule on what portions of its files should be disclosed publicly and which should remain secret. Would Be "Whitewash" With Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, he testified before a senate foreign relations subcommittee looking into Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's charges that the state department is loaded with communists. McCar thy insists that without disclo sure of the royalty files of "cases" he has named the inquiry will be a "meaningless" white wash. Hoover, in the strongest terms, told the committee that disclos ing contents of his files would do "grave injustice" to many innocent citizens. He said such action might Growth 01 County Shown In Census A preliminary report o9 the results of the 1948 business cen sus issued today indicated "that retail, wholesale and setvice establishments located in Jack son county showed a "substan tial expansion" in dollar volume of trade from 1939 to 1948. Retail sales increased 355 per cent, from $13,400,000 in 1939 to S61 million in 1948, the census showed. Wholesale sales climbed from S7.700.000 to $46,600,000 during the same period, and the service trade? grew from $700, 000 to $3,100,000. Employment Up The report also showed a big increase in employment in the fields covered during the same nine-vear period. There were a combined total of 4,589 paid em ployees for the week ending Nov. 15. 1948, compared with 1.928 employees for the corre sponding week in 1939. The census showed that there were a totHl of 722 retail trade establishments in Bie county in ,, 1948. 91 wholesale trade houses. 1hd 230 rcrvice trade firms. Funeral Tuesday For Lester Glenn Lacy Ashland. Mar. 27 Services for Lester Glenn Lacy. 88. who died Friday at Klamath Falls, will be Tuesday at 1:30 p. m. at Litwillcr funeral home here with burial at Phoenix cemetery. Lacy, born in Jackson county, resided in Ashland 23 years and worked for the city 20 years be fore moving to Klamath Falls. Survivors include his wife. Eva: five sons and five daugh ters, and a brother, fiud, Medford. Foster Care Sought For 3 Youngsters By A bov seven years old and two little girls, two and three years old, today are living in a cold and unkempt house not far from Medford where they arc receiving indifferent care in an atmosphere of emotional ten sion. There is no other place for them to go.' Deputy Juvenile Probation Officer Helen Busenbark this morning told of this case, anoth er where the county's lack of a juvenile detention home is causing acute hardship for those least able to endure it young children. Miss Busenbark said the 1st e4 case involves a family where t lather and mother are hav iiiB domestic difficulties due to her refusal to make a homejfor her three children. The young sters have been farmed out 3 a neighbor for long periods oX'dxen. (brainerd photo.) mine the FBI's future effective ness. At the same time Hoover re ported that "a foreign power" is stepping up efforts to seek "intimate personal details con cerning many of our leaders in government and industry." Turning the files over to con gress might aid this process, he said. McGrath. who testified before Hoover, declared that giving con gressional committees a look at FBI files would make it "ex tremely difficult, if not impos sible," for the FBI to perform its duties. It would likewise un dermine United States principles of justice, he said. Hoover and McGrath testified before a jam-packed audience and under the glare of camera kleig lights. "A disclosure of FBI reports,' Hoover said, "would reveal the identity of confidential sources of information and, if it did not Dlace the the lives of such per sons in actual jeopardy, it would certainly ruin their value and effectiveness. Likewise, he said, it would provide a valuable tipoff for criminals, foreign agents and subversives on FBI "procedures and techniques." High Court Refuses To Reconsider Act Washington, Mar. 27 U.R The supreme j(ourt refused today to reconsider its action of Feb ruary 13 turning down a union appeal to review the legality ol seamen's hiring halls. The National Maritime union (CIO) had asked the court to think the matter over once more The second U S. circuit court of appeals found; the hiring halls to be a violation of the Taft-Hartley labor law. When the supreme court tossed out the appeal, the lower court ruling became final. The union, in urging reconsid eration, said the issues "are of such magnitude that the decision of the court below should be re examined by the supreme judi cial authority of our country." State Labor Group Opposes Indorsement Portland. Ore.. Mar. 27 OI.R) The executive board of the Ore gon state federation of labor, meeting in the Multnomah hotel here Sunday, declined to indorse any gubernatorial candidate in the forthcoming primary. Spokesmen for the board said no choice was made among the I democrats because "each has a good record in the state senate. Gov. Douglas McKay, sole re publican candidate for the post, was by-passed in the board's rec ommendations and condemna tion.". Officials time while the parents were away, often overnight. When the probation officer was finally called, she found the home unheated. without food and littered with filth. Armed with a court order, she spent all day Sunday trying to find a foster home for tempo rary care but none was avail able. Much against her better judgment, she said, she was forced to leave them in the custody of their parents even though the father was so emo tionally overwrought he was in no fit condition to care for them. A court hearing to make a fi nal disposition of the ease is set for thi. week but. in the mean time, the county juvenile office has expressed real concern over the welfare of the three chil- the Medlord YMUA dance group the dancers. Featured at the ses More Than I, Valley People At Dance Jamboree More than one thousand Rogue valley people watched and par ticipated in the biggest square dance event ever held here Sat urday night, as the Medford YMCA square dance group spon sored a square dance jamboree at the Medlord high school gym nasium. Jack Hoheisal. one of the best known of Los Angeles' 300 or more dance callers, olficiated at the dance, calling for the 30 or more squares, giving exhibition dances and instructing in pat terns of dances new to valley dancers. The spectator's section of the j gymnasium was jam-packed with mose wno nave Dccome inter ested in the old-time dances since it first became popular in the valley within the last two years. And several hundred of the more experienced dancers participated in active dancing on the gym floor. 20 Dances More than 20 dances of one sort or another were performed during the evening. Most of thcr.i were squares, but the program was varied by the insertion of couple dances and "mixers," some of them taught by Mr. and Mrs. Hohcisal. An exhibition dance given by youngsters was one of the fea tures of the evening. Many groups of dancers, in cluding that from the "Y", from the Rogue Valley Country club, from dance classes and from pri vate dance groups formed squares to participate in the eve ning's entertainment. Minnesota Town Threatened By Fire International Falls. Minn., Mar. 27 (U.R) A seething fire. pushed by a 60-mile-an-hour bliz zard, threatened to destroy this entire town before firemen brought it under control early today. Firemen fought the flames to a standstill despite broken pow er lines that snapped and crack led about them like gunshots, lighting the area with electrical flashes. Only minor injuries were re ported among firemen but the blaze left 30 persons homeless and total damage was estimated at $175,000. International Falls has a popu lation of 8.000. The fire broke out in a brew ery warehouse near the east end of the city's business district. Candidate For Supreme Court Visits Medford State Sen. and Mrs. Austin Dunn. Baker, were visitors in Medford today. Senator Dunn is a candidate for the state supreme court this year and his visit here was on behalf of his candidacy. Dunn is running for the non partisan position to be vacated this year by Judge J. O. Bailey of the supreme court. His oppo nents In the election are Circuit Judge Walter Tooze and Attor ney Robert Maguire, both Port land. Republican Committee Sets Meeting Tonight Members of the Jackson coun ty republican central commit tee will meet at 8 p m. lodav in room B of the Medford YMCA, according to John Nidermeycr, chairman. Mrs. Marshall Cornett. Klamath Falls, national commit tecwoman for the state repub lican party will attend the meet ing. Problems of reapportionment of Oregon legislative repre sentation will be discussed at the meeting by State Sen. William McAllister. Blakely, Ca . Mar. 27 'UP) Townspeople blamed disgrun tled taxpaver for the confeder ate flag swirling above the court bouse today. 4. Medford 44th Year 10 Pages Death of Washington Girl Blamed On Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Inhalation Of Gas Reported By Crime Pathologist Young Girl's Body Recovered Fropi River Vancouver, Wash., Mar. 27 (U.R; Pretty JoAnn Dewey. 18. whose battered body was found in the Wind river a week after she was kidnaped by two men. died of "acute asphyxiation" caused by inhalation of carbon monoxide gas. a coroner's jury was told today. Dr. Howard L. Richardson, University of Oregon Medical school crime pathologist, testified that carbon monoxide was the primary cause ol death. He was the first witness at a Clark coun ty coroner's inquest held in a Vancouver funeral home. Officers investigating the case said, on the basis of Dr. Richard son's testimony, that the girl may have been slugged into un consciousness by abductors and left to die of gas inhalation be fore she was thrown into the river. Dr. Richardson also testified that two of the head wounds were inflicted on JoAnn before death. These were gashes on the chin and behind the left ear. Oth er injuries, he testified, prob ably were caused by impact with rocks and water when she was thrown into the river, possibly from a bridge upstream. AH available officers mobil ized today to find the kldnap slaycrs. Miss Dewey was found yesterday morning by three young fishermen. Her battered body lay face down in a cluster of wet rocks near the middle of the swift-running stream four miles east of Stevenson. Wash., and 50 miles east of Vancouver. "We are working day and night on the case and we will continue to do so," said Police Chief Harry Diamond. "We don't intend to let down at all." Chief Diamond said he felt the girl had been dead "for a long time" possibly since the night of March 19 when she was snatched from a dimly-lighted Vancouver street and dragged, screaming, into an automobile. Officers began sifting the ashes of a small, unused cabin near the spot where the body was found. The cabin burned to the ground Tuesday night. Author ities speculated the abductors may have taken the girl to the cabin after abducting her. Liqu or Blamed For Slayi ingOfWAF San Rafael Cal., Mar. 27 (U.R) Burly Air Force Sgt. Lyle H. Buswell, 33, blamed "liquor and drinking" today for the impulse that led him to strangle an at tractive WAF sergeant. Buswell was held under a "sui cide guard" in Marin county jail until he could be taken to San Francisco to be arraigned on a charge of murder. His victim was WAF Sgt. Fairv E. Decker. 43. Her nearly nude body was found early Sat urday on a grassy knoll near the women s quarters at nearby Hamilton field air base. An au topsy report indicated she had been raped. Buswell himself reported finding her body. His story was so vague that authorities became suspicious. He finally confessed after daylong questioning by FBI agents. "I choked her," he said. "I got nothin' more to live for." Five-YearbTdBoy Killed By Elephant Sarasota. Fla., Mar, 27 'U.Ri Tragedy haunted the nation' biggest circus today as it packed for a tour without Dolly, a sleepy elephant who killed a friendly child who offered -her peanuts. In a split-second break from 20 years of circus docility. Dolly wrapped her trunk about five year-old Edward Rogers School ey yesterday afternoon and crushed his skull with her huge foot. WEATHER ronrrAST: rniv rloiidv with ihoKPrt tonight and Tum H. PU he of allrv t Tijrxlay morning. Cooler to night. 7mp. HlrhMt YMtrr1v 51 I.oumi thl Morning i' Prep, to 4:30 A .M. Today, Tract MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH Kansas Clawed By Heavy Wind McPhcrson, Kan., Mar. 27 (U.R) Rising winds today clawed the dry soil of Kansas for the second .straight day and sent swirling dust clouds over the mid-America wheat lands. After subsiding during the night, the death-dealing, crop damaging northwest winds mounted to velocities of 52 m.p.h. and kicked up dust over much ol the nation's No. 1 grain growing state, s Shortly before noon, the U. S. weather service said blowing dust was reported at many Kan sas stations, including Garden Rains Hampering Road Maintenance By County Crews March rains are hampering the road maintenance and repair work of the county engineer's de partment and the condition of many of the roads is growing worst as heavy traffic chops through the softened roadbeds. County Engineer Paul Ryn ning said today some county routes may be in bad condition if weather does not improve to the point where repair crews can get to work on them. Loud limit restrictions imposed last winter are still in effect on three roads in the county although Rynning had expected they could be removed much earlier. Heavy haulers arc restricted on the An telope, Crowloot and Sardine creek roads. Other work under Rynning's Jurisdiction is proceeding satis lactorily, he reported. The new steel and concrete bridge being built by the county across the Rogue river at the city of Rogue River has made good progress despite bad weather and occa sional high water. Much of the concrete on the south side of the river has been poured and work has just been started on the concrete piers on the north side. Steel structural for the main span are expected to arrive from the fabricators next month, according to Ryn ning. The new structure will re place the ancient bridge connect ing the main community of Rogue River with highway 91). It gets heavy use from log and lumber haulers. Latfimer Attorneys Say McCarthy Lied Washington, Mar. 27 (U.R) Lawyers for Owen J. Lattimorc branded as a "colossal lie" to day Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy s charge that Lattimorc is the top Soviet espionage agent" in this country. They demanded in a letter to the Wisconsin republican that he "retract and repudiate" his charge. McCarthy gave senate investi gators Lattimorc's name in con nection with his sweeping charg es that the state department is "invested" with communists and communist sympathizers. He told numerous newspapermen "off the record" that Lattimorc was his "ton" case. Radio Commenta tor Drew Pearson last night identified Lattimorc publicly as the man McCarthy had been talking about. Snow Continues Falling At Crater Lake Park The snow continues to pile up In Crater Lake national park where there arc now nearly 15 feet of snow on the ground. Ra dio reports from the park re ceived at the Medford headquar ters this morning said an addi tional 10'i inches have fallen in the past 24 hours and it was still snowing when the report was made at 8:30 a. m. There are four inches of pow der snow on the roads in the park but crews expected to have it cleared early today. Travel . possible provided chains are used. A steady snowstorm through out yesterday did not stop 204 visitors from entering the park for winter sports and sight-sec-J lng. City, Gourilancl, Hutchinson, S; linn, Anthony, Fort Riley, Lebo and Topeka. Visibility One Mile Visibility dropped to a mile al Salina. So far the storm had not reached the intensity of the week-end blow. In central Kan sas it took four lives, injured more than 30 persons and wreaked untold crop damage to fall-seeded wheat and spring planted oats, alfalfa and barley. Storm deaths numbered 11 through the Midwest. Besides Kansas' four. Texas had three, Missouri two and Nebraska and Colorado one each. The Missouri deaths were two small boys, brothers, crushed by a falling tree in the gale yesterday. Worst Since 1930'i The howling midwestcrn storm yestcrdny was described in Kan sas as the worst since the black days of the 1930 s. The heavy curtain of dust pro duced 30 accidents in central and south-central Kansas yesterday, resulting in two deaths in the Salina area and two others near McPhcrson. Mr. and Mrs. Waclaw Rolccz of Bavaria, Kan., Polish dis placed persons, were killed in a pile-up of 19 cars on U. S. high way 40 west of Salina. Mrs. H. G. Brandt, 55, of Wichita, died in a two-car colli sion on Highway 81 seven miles soulh of McPhcrson and L. C Parks, about 50, of Mound Ridge. Kan., suffered fatal injuries in a two-car crash near his home. Texam Killed (Three deaths in Texas were attributed to the blowing dust storm which cut visibility to near zero yesterday. (Jack E. Slockstill. 31, of An drews, and Cecil Fox, 27, of Lubbock, were killed in a head' on collision of their motor cars' at Lubbock. Mrs. Nora Shurts. 44, of Los Angeles, died in a crash that injured six other per sons at Amarillo.) Labor Government Majority Reduced London, Mar. 27 (U.R) The labor government's nominal ma jority in the house of commons was cut to three scats today by the death of F. A. Cobb, labor member of parliament for Brig house and Spendborough, The government had an over all majority of six after the Feb ruary 23 general election. It wus reduced by the deaths of two labor members and the resigna tion of a third. Cobb was the second labor member of parliament to die in 10 days. The other was Adam McKinlay, for whose West Dum bartonshire scat a by-election has been set tentatively for April 17. Cobb, 49. served in the first world war in the British mer chant navy and later was general manager of a radio equipment company. He won his seat in the Febru ary general election with a ma jority of 2.132 over W. E. Wool ley, a national liberal. War Must Go, General MacArthur Says; Orient Situation Called Explosive Alhambra, Cal., Mar. 27 UR Gen. Douglas MacArthur be lieves "war must go or man kind will go" but peace not only is essential but "very possible," Herbert G. Klein said in an ex clusive Interview with the gen eral in the Alhambra Post-Advocate today. MacArthur said the situation In the orient is "explosive" and Klein said- he did not minimize the situation there. MacArthur traced the devel opment of war from the glad! torial contest of the times of David and Goliath to the pres ent dav destruction of machines and super-bombs. He said the masses of thp people, "even the Russians," do not want war. ' Even when I Joined the army, a colt .45 and a rifle were pri mary weapons." Klein quoted MacArthur as saying. "Today It is not a contest between men but between machines and iu-pcr-bombs. Tribune 27, 1950 No. 310 French Dock Men Strike In Protest Of Arms Shipments Ports Tied Up By Red-Called Move Paris, Mar. 27 (U.R) A communist-called dock strike in pro test against American arms aid shipments tied up traffic in French ports today. The communist-led general confederation of labor ordered all 35.000 members of its steve dore union to quit work for 24 hours. Call Ignored Rebellious dockers at the trans Atlantic port of Cherbourg ig nored the strike call and report ed for work as usual. But most union members in other ports appeared to have gone on strike. Only small forces of non-communists showed up at the quays in Marseilles, Le Havre, Bor deaux and other major seaside cities. Hclmetcd, armed republican guards marched into dock areas of the ports for patrol duty to guard against any outbreaks of violence or sabotage. At Marseilles, police and guardsmen helped load military supplies on ships for Indo-China, but elsewhere they engaged only in patrol duty. Protest Technically, the strike was called in protest against the ar rest of three strikers by Mar seille police after a communist labor demonstration there last week. But both the government and the union saw the strike more as a protest against the impending arrival of American arms under the military assistance program to Atlantic Pact nations. It also provided a rest of strength in the ports where the communists have proclaimed their intention of halting the un loading of arms shipments.- Enumerators' Training Starts Here Today Training of enumerators for the federal census to be con ducted in Jackson county start ing next Saturday began here and in Ashland today. Crew leaders who have been prepared for the work are conducting the classes. After three days in instruc tion, a "practice enumeraction" will be held on Thursday, with enumerators going into the field to give themselves actual expe rience In taking information. The census is conducted once everv 10 years under provisions of the constitution calling for the counting of citizens. Origi nal basis for the census was the reapportionment of congression al representation according to population, and other informa tion has been added to the list of questions asked from time to time during the oast 170 years. STOCK AVERAGES New York. Mar. 27. (U.R) Dow Jones closing stock aver ages: 30 Industrials 209.10 off 1.52: 20 railroads 54 R9 off 0.79: 15 utilities 43 14 off 0.23; 65 stocks 74.92 off 0.64. Sales today approximalcd 1.- 930.000 shares, compared with 1.570.000 traded Friday. Wc will have to find that either war must go or mankind will go. I think that the com mon people realize this. The Japanese know war does not pay. Kven the Russian masses probably oppose war. "All we need are the mechan ics to accomplish peace. "I don't think the problems of today are any bigger than those of 20 or 50 years ago. Thev seem more real because all are brought before lis at once in your evening newspaper. Many incidents which would have in cited war years ago now are be ing ignored or merely protested "Peace is very possible. It is essential." Klein, who interviewed Mac Arthur while on a recent trio to Japan pointed out that these "were the views of the man who has been a general longer than any other United States officer It was a professional soldier speaking for peace." Mrs. Albert Straus Tells Of Hearing Craft Wednesday Search Continues In Central Oregon Possibility that the Beech craft airplane missing since last week in a flight from Lakeview to Portland may have strayed off course into the Medford area was seen to day in a report that a' plane was heard here last Wednes day morning. Mrs. Albert Straus. Sams Valley, reported to the civil aeronautics commission today that the heard a plane early Wednesday morning flying in lhe Sami Valley area. It ap peared to be in difficulty, the said, and the motor was alter nately idling and speeding. The information wat relayed to tearch headquartert in Klamath Falls. Klamath Falls, Ore., Mar. 27 iU.R) Search Coordinator Al Mo cabee said today that an air force B-17 is making a low-level flight over the probable route from Lakeview to Portland fol lowed by a private! plane miss ing with four Portlanders aboard. Smaller planes also took off in poor weather to scan the Klamath Falls - Lakeview- Red mond triangle. Snow showers were reported in the area but the weather bureau said a storm which curtailed week-end search flights was disappearing. Hunt Shifting Mocabee said the hunt was gradually shifting northward to the area between Redmond and The Dalles. Leaders of the search be lieved the last authentic report on the plane had it headed west over the Wapinitia cutoff which crosses the base of Mt. Hood. George Blakkolb. brother of missing pilot Lee Blakkolb, said his brother once said he would head northwest over the high way if he encountered snow and ice aloft in that region. Sunday about 30 planes from Klamath Falls and Redmond searched most of the John Day country at treetop level through snow and rain. Conditioni Haiardous Larry Harvey, Portland, a pi lot flying out of Redmond, said weather conditions aloft were so hazardous that they feared search planes would be lost. Al Lockridge. aDDOlnted search coordinator by the CAA, allotted 10-by-15 mile sectors to pilots and, in cooperation with the air force, set iid a grid for systematic searching. Harvey said today's search would begin as soon as the ceil ing was high enough to permit takeoffs. All available planes and ground searchers will be brought to The Dalles bv Moca bee, appointee of the state aero- , nautics beard. False Alarm Yesterday a false alarm was recorded after "wreckage" turn ed out Jo be part of a yellow truck on a lonely mountain road. Numerous reports of the high powered private plane passing overhead have been dis counted after thorough check ing. Aboard with Pilot Blakkolb were Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Lund strom. Lundstrom and Blakkolb are associated in the Forest Products company, Portland. They participated in the mass Portland-Havana flight a few months ago and were reurning home via southeastern states. New York. Mar. 27 (U.R) William E. McKenney, nation ally known bridge columnist and card expert, died yesterday at the New York hospital after an illness of more than two months. Radio Highlights Firtt of the nightly frost warnings broadcast by R. J. Rogers, government meteorol ogist will be broadcait at 8 p. m. today over radio tlations KYJC and KMED. The warn ings will be broadcait each evening at 6 p. m. during the period of frost danger for ihe valley's orchards. Klein said that while Mac- Arthur talks of peace he docs not minimize the explosive situ ation in the orient. He said jet fighters, long - range bombers and four divisions of sharply trained troops, coupled with an alert naval force, give evidence that MncArtliiir Is prepared for war In the far east If it becomes necessary. However, he said, civilian conditions In Japan give proof of Mat-Arthur's belief in peace. , "Arts and sciences have prog ressed more rapidly than character-building." MacArthur told Klein. "If we had achieved the heights in character that we have in other fields, all would know that war is no solution. "With present weapons, there no longer is any advantage to winning a war. Everyone loses with the victors losing a little less than the vanquished. Even In this nasi war, we found that the destruction requires Ul to carry new burdem now."