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Baby Found Safe; One Still Missing From N.Y. Hospital New York, Mar. 31 (U.R) Diane Ranzie, six-months-old, was found unhormed today, 12 hours after being kidnaped from a perambulator parked in a Brooklyn theater lobby, but police held little hope of finding a second stolen baby alive. The second infant, Chaneta Holden, a Negro born prematurely 10 days ago, disappeared from an incubator at Lincoln hospital last night a few minutes after the Ranzie girl had been whisked from her carriage by Mrs. Catherine Palmore. The infant's mother, Mrs. Clarence Holden, said she feared the baby had been dropped or injured bv a hosDital attendant and hidden. Police, theorizing that pital, searched laundry chutes, 10 to 2 Vole by Jury Finds Coy Guilty of Rape The second conviction for a sex crime in less than a week was obtained yesterday by Dis trict Attorney George Nielson when a circuit court jury com posed of six men and six women adjudged Rex Joseph Coy, 28, guilty of assault with intent to commit rape. They took just one hour to reach the verdict. There were ten "guilty" votes with two dissenting. Coy was identified as the man who attacked an 11-year-old I.dford girl, by his victim and by two of her playmates. He did not testify in his own behalf. The Medford man was indicted by a grand jury February 23. Sentencing Saturday Judge H. K. Hanna has set 9:30 a.m. Saturday, as the time to pronounce sentence and Dep uty District Attorney Paul Havi land said Coy's previous crimi nal record will be brought up at that time. It could not be men tioned during the trial because Coy himself was not called to testify. Coy was defended during the three-day trial by two court appointed attorneys, Manville Heisel and Stanley C. Jones Jr. A circuit court jury, -consisting of many of the same jurors who tried the Coy case, returned another guilty verdict last week against Earl Gorman Edison who had been indicted on a stat utory rape charge. He received a 12-year sentence but is being held in county jail here pending a motion for a new trial. Coy could be sentenced to life in the state penitentiary, or the court could give him a lesser sentence of from 1 to 20 years. NLRB Gets Unfair Practice Charges Kogap Lumber industries of Medford have filed unfair labor practice charges against the Medford Central Labor council, the national labor relations board in Portland told the Unit ed Press today. While the NLRB did not re lease the specific charges, it was understood here that they in volve a dispute between the firm and the labor council, together with several affiliated unions, which began about the middle of February. Pickets have been posted at Kogap since the dispute rose over the employment of produc tion workers at Kogap on con struction jobs, involving new dry kilns and sheds. The pickets have carried signs of the local Two Candidates Speak Here Two democratic candidates for important political office will attend the Saturday afternoon meeting of the Jackson county democratic central committee, it was reported today by Mrs. Ed ward C. Kellv, chairman. They are Howard Latouretle, who is seeking nomination for United States senator in the May 19 primary election, and David I Cv Shaw, democratic candidate ' ffl- nomination for congressional representative from the Fourth district. Latourette is a former speaker of the Oregon house of represent atives and is former democratic naLonal committeeman for Ore gofT. Mrs. Kelly said. He arrived c in Medford at noon today. Shaw is an attorney practic ing in Gold Beach and Eugene. The meeting, to be at 3 p. m. at the Medford YMCA. will be open and the public is welcome, Mrs. Kelly said. Democratic candidates for election to local offices also will be presented at the meeting. Tobacco Tax Restored in California School Aid Bill Sacramento, Mar. 31 (U.R) A three-cent cigarette and tobacco tax was nut back into a $29,500, 000 school aid bill by the assem bly wavs and means committee last night and the bill recom mended for passage by the house. The committee voted 14 to eight to reinstate the $45 mil lion tax on tobacco products that was taken from the bill Tuesday night by the revenue and taxation committee. It then voted 15 to three to send the measure lo the assembly board. Approval of the measure was over the objection of A. Alan Post, the legislature auditor, and H. Mugford. state budget di ''Qtor. (Mugford objected to the In crease in the school, program and the child never had left the hos incinerators, waste baskets, drain- Booked tor Kidnaping Assistant District Attorney cnaries uanui ordered Mrs. Pat more booked for kidnaping. uiane was found asleeD in bed with Mrs. Palmore and her daughter, Lois. She took the child, she said, because "it was freezing cold and I just decided lo taKe it home, She lives in a 10-family tenement a few blocks from the scene of the kidnaping. Mrs. Palmore is the mother of four children. Mrs. Geraldine Ranzie.'Diane's mother, sobbed with relief when the baby was returned to her at a Brooklyn police station. Mrs. Ranzie, who left Diane in the theater lobby while she watched a double feature with another child, said she did not know Mrs. Palmore. Woman Separated Mrs. Ranzie is separated from her husband, Albert, a steel com pany chauffeur, police said. Police learned of Diane's whereabouts from Mrs. Pal more's brother, George Bell, who had been living at her home for the past few weeks. Police quoted Mrs. Palmore as saying: "It was freezing cold and I de cided to take it home." Doctors feared the incubator baby could not live more than one hour outside the hospital in cubator without special atten tion. Radio stations broadcast her special formula and instruc tions for caring for the child, daughter of a 26-year-old Negro television repair student and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Holden. Reported by Nurse The Holden baby was report ed missing at about 8 p. m. by a special nurse in charge of the five incubator babies at the hos pital. She said all five were sleeping peacefully at her 7:30 p. m. check. Police said the incubator room was on the second floor of the hospital and easily accessible from the street up one flight of stairs. No one in the hospital saw anyone carry the child out. Her mother was too ill to be told of the disappearance. building trades council which listed KogaD as "unfair." Last week the local union of Lumber and Sawmill Workers, AF of L, protested to the Cen tral Labor council over the pick eting, and earlier this week the Klamath Basin District council of Lumber and Sawmill workers disclaimed this letter of protest. Abbot Pleads Guilty In Prague Hearing Prague, Czechoslovakia, Mar. 31 ;U.R) A Roman Catholic abbot pleaded guilty before the slate court today to high treason and espionage, radio Prague re ported. The broadcast said that Aug- ustin Machotka, abbot of the pre monstrate monastery at Nova Rise, Moravia, confessed "carry ing out espionage and commit ting high treason on orders of the Vatican hierarchy standing high in the services of American capitalists." He was said to be one of 10-high-ranking Czech priests put on trial today before a five-man senate of the state court in Prague's Pankrao prison. The other nine defendants were not identified immediately. House Votes Slash In Foreign Aid Money Washington. Mar. 31 U.P.) The house voted tentatively to day to lop $20 million off the $45 million asked by the admin istration to carry out President Truman's "point four" program. The standing vote was 117 to 78. Rep. Christian A. Herter (R.. Mass.) submitted the proposal for reducing the first-year au thorization for "point four" to $25 millian. This would include about $10 million for technical assistance programs now in oper ation. to the ear-marking of the tax to pav for it. "We may need this tax next year for general state govern ment costs under existing laws." he warned. He pointed out building reserve funds were ex hausted and there would be no money available to tap for pub lic works needs. Post objected on grounds the $45 million would not be enough to carry the extended school pro gram next year. He said in creased enrollment alone would require expenditures of an ex tra $12 million next year under the present scale of school sub sidy. The increased subsidies provided by the bill, he said, would more than eat up thii sur-plus. Medford United Press Full Lease Wire 44th Year 18 Baruch (Acme Telephoto) HARRY BRIDGES His Fate Awaited Bridges Perjury Case Goes to Jury After 81 days San Francisco, Mar. 31 (U.R) The perjury-conspiracy case against Longshore Union Leader Harry Bridges and two of his aides was submitted to a jury of eight men and four women at 12:43 p. m. today. Federal District Judge George B. Harris completed a morning long period of instructions to jurors at 12:10 p. m., and after a brief conference with oppos ing counsel, submitted the case. Long Session Seen The jurors will begin deliber ating immediately following lunch about 2 p. m. Apparent-, ly in anticipation of a lengthy deliberation, the first three jur ors in court today showed up carrying suitcases. One brought a comfortable pillow with him. The 49-year-old president of the powerful International Long shoremen's and Warehousemen's union is charged with lying at his naturalization hearing in 1945 when he denied he was or ever had been a communist. J. R. Robertson, longshore un ion vice-president, and Henry Schmidt, top ILWU organizer, were indicted with their presi dent on a conspiracy count and charged with aiding and abetting Bridges' alleged perjury. Poinli of Law Covered Harris took an entire morning to cover more than 40 points of law which the defense and pros ecution wanted explained to the jury. At the behest of Bridges' at torneys, he stressed the "guilt by association" theory and said the labor chief could not be con victed if evidence at the 81-day trial showed he had cooperated with communists merely to fur ther the work of the nupjr:.i;! ther the cause of the union. Groundwork Laid For Soil District More than 40 residents of the Sams Valley, Beagle. Meadows and Table Rock communities met at the Sams Valley school last night to lay the groundwork for a new campaign to form a soil conservation district. A committee of 14 will draw up tentative boundaries for the proposed district, which would coordinate soil-saving and water conserving efforts. The commit tee proposes to determine senti ment in regard to the district, and whenever they run into op posing viewpoints they will draw a boundary line, thus helping to assure the success of the meas ure when it finally comes to a vote. Only landowners in favor of such a district would be in cluded in the balloting. Petitions are being circulated for submission to the state soil conservation committee, and it was learned today that sufficient signatures to call for hearings in the area have already been ob tained. More signatures will be sought, however. A second meeting of interested farmers and ranchers has been set for April 20 when the final proposed boundaries may be known. PLANE GROUND LOOPS A Stinson Voyager airplane piloted by Dick Woods ground looped and nosed over at the Medford airport at about 1:15 p.m. today, according to airport sources. The plane, owned by Medford Air service, was taxiing when a brake grabbed. The left wing dragged on the ground, and the plane stood on its nose. Woods was unhurt, according to witnesses. Pages Urges America Staggering From Crisis To Crisis, Elder Statesman Says Newport, R. I., Mar. 31 (U.R) Bernard M. Baruch said today that the United States was staggering "from crisis to crisis with the initiative left to the enemy" and to win the cold war must have "a general staff for peace," headed by a man "of the stature of Gen. George C. Marshall." "What is needed is a non-partisan group which will stay on the job until the cold war is won," Baruch said, "a grotiD which would sit in continuous deliberation on the whole of the peace waging, serving as a central point of decision, weighing all the many commitments pressed upon us, guiding the best the disposi tion of our strained resources, determining where in the world we are to fight a mere holding action and where we can achieve a de cisive break-through and at what effort." Nation Said Spreading Itself Too Thin The 79-year-old former presidential advisor spoke before the staff and students of the Naval War college here. Baruch said the United States was today spreading itself "too thin, unable to achieve decision anywhere." The "serious defeat" suffered by the United States in China, he said, "has stirred a good deal of public discussion of whether we are losing the cold war. Certainly there is sufficient reason to feel that what has been done so far is inadequate." Must Learn To Pace Baruch said the United Slates! must "learn to pace ourselves in relation tp the Russians and the threat of war." He said he be lieved that American intelli gence could unravel enough of the Russian enigma to give us "an adequate basis for judging Russia's intentions as to war or peace." "I do feel that we must vigi lantly watch the over-all degree of Soviet mobilization for war and that we dare not permit too great a variance with our own mobilization, or we risk war," Baruch said. But, he added, he felt another war would not begin with an open attack on the United States. "It seems to me quite likely that the 'test may come in the more subtle form of civil war, probably in Germany," he said. "As a matter of fact, it might be said that a state of civil war already exists, because that is what the cold war really is neither peace nor total war but a succession of civil conflicts, more or less violent, wherever the Soviets can foment such strife." He urged "prompt enactment of a stand-by mobilization plan" providing for economic as well as military measures fi meet war, to remove "our grayest source of peril" which he said is the time lag between the start of a war and complete mobili zation. Baruch said a stand-by mobili zation plan should be "put into law now, to go into instant oper ation upon joint proclamation by congress and the president." He said it should include: "An impartial selective service law, with a work-or-fight clause; "A readied civilian defense; "The elimination of profiteer ing: "The power to shut down less essential production to give mili tary needs priority; "Rationing of scarce essen tials: "Much higher taxes; "A ceiling on all prices, rents, wages and other costs to prevent the inflation which could wreck any mobilization." B-17 Lands Here in Hunt for Lost Craft A B-17 air rescue plane from McChord field, Tacoma, Wash., landed at the Medford airport yesterday evening. The ship is engaged in the search for a Port land Beechcraft biplane missing for more than a week on a flight between Lakeview and Portland. The big four-motored ship, converted from a World War II bomber, left McChord yesterday morning, searched the Redmond area yesterday, and returned to McChord field last night. It will continue its search operations out of the Redmond field, ac cording to the Medford air and airways communications squad ron detachment. Church Group Files Incorporation Papers Salem. Ore.. Mar. 31 (U.R) The Southern Oregon Christian Service Camp, with headquar ! tors in Medford. filed articles of incorporation here today, sign ing the artcles were Earl F. Downing. L. H. Camp and Everett H. McGee. WEATHER FORECAST: fonHnuM f"tr with llttl rhtni In imp turt tonight nd ftslurdav. Temp. Hlfht THlfHiv Lowest thU Morniiif JS MEDFORD, OREGON, General Cooperation Plea Voiced as Census Begins Tomorrow Medford enumerators for the 1950 federal decennial census will officially begin their rounds of homes Saturday, and census officials today again voiced a plea for cooperation from resi dents. Enumerators have been trained to be courteous at all times, they said, and hope in turn for polite response from citizens. All enii' mcrators will carry identifica tion. Census workers under Crew Leader Mrs. Ralph Doty in Med ford conducted a practice enu- meration for about four hours today. These calls were the "real thing" and did not represent a "dry run," she said. Persons called on today will not be con tacted again. Enumerators Listed The 19 enumerators for Med- ford under Mrs. Doty are Mrs. Elizabeth Archibald, Miss Julia Bailey, Mrs. Alice Buchter, Ken neth "Buxton. Mrs. Opal Conner, Mrs. Phyllis Crary, Mrs. Maxine Cranston, Mrs. Margaret Dun ley, Mrs. Arlene Espey, Mrs. Es ther Jones, Mrs. Lura McGuire Mrs. Wilma McCord, Mrs. Elaine Ronfort. Raymond Stagger, Rich ard Schuchard, Mrs. Marilyn Belvv. William Woodford, Mrs. Winona Warren and Elsie Wer ner. Mrs. Doty has west and south west Jackson county in addition to Medford. H. F. Friel is leader for the cast and north section and Mrs. Dorothy V. Mntheny for Ashland and the south and southwest areas. The city hall is the mailing ad dress for census takers here, but Mrs. Doty said that census offi cials would spend no time there. Crew leaders are required to travel about assisting enumer ators. Bond Issue Revote Set for April 24 Central Point. Mar. 31 The school board of consolidated dis trict No. 8 at a special session last night set Monday, April 24 as the date for a revote on i $500,000 bond issue for new high school construction at Central Point. Patrons of the district ap proved the bond proposal at election last November but a re affirmation election was made necessary bv the interpretation of law by a Portland bonding at torney. Polls will be open from 2 to 8 D. m. tit the Gold Hill school gymnasium and the Central Point high school gymnasium. Board members said that plans and specifications for the new high school should be completed in about one week. 1950 Cancer Drive To Start Saturday The 1950 American Cancer so ciety campaign will get under way Saturday In Jackson coun ty and in the rest of the state. The campaign will continue through April, which has been designated cancer control month by the congress. George . Schocffel of Portland, state campaign chairman, an nounced the campaign will be "the most intensive in the history of the nation" and that Oregon will exert every effort to raise Its share of the $14,565,000 na tional goal. FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1950 SUSPECTS Staff For P . ice CENSUS TAKEH GOES TO rpnsns taker Helen Mabbott is hoisted out of the boiling surf with launch and crew onto pier at Farallon light station, JO miles ott San Francisco's Golden Gate, where she counted noses for the 17th decennial census. She found in children. She also got seasick. Nose Counters Will Start On Saturday Washington. Mar. 31 (U.R) 1 Nearly 3 million doorbells will be rung tomorrow as census tak ers begin the biggest, most com plete tabulation ever mane oi the American people. Forty-two million others homes will be visited before the four-week job is completed. Three separate enumerations coecring population, housing and agriculture will be made simultaneously in the nation's 17th census, a once-a-decadc operation. To Gather Information In addition to counting the 151 million-odd population, the census-takers will gather pertin ent information about each in dividual and the nation's 45 mil lion homes and 6,300,000 farms. When all of the data has been gathered and tnbulated, the gov ernment expects lo have 15 bil lion facts about its citizens. The task requires the help of 175,000 part-time workers in aa dilinn tn some 2.000 regular cen sus bureau employees. About 90 per cent of the extra neip win be laid off within a month. About 8.500 technicians and clerks alone are needed to oper ate the 3.000 card-puncning and tabulating machines that occupy acres of floor space at bureau offices here and in Philadelphia The end result, after more than two and one-half years' work, will be 100,000 pages of printed tables and text The house-to-house canvassers will write the answers to their questions on sheets bigger than the page of a newspaper. Each FBI Gets Documents In Lattimer Charges Washington, Mar. 31 (U.R) Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy has handed the FBI the documents he says will prove far eastern expert Owen Lattimore a com munist and a Soviet agent, his office revealed today. The Wisconsin republican was in a local hospital for sinus treatment and no details were available on where, when or how the material was given the government's top Investigative agency. The FBI was silent too. The data bearinS on the "Lat timore case" was described in part by McCarthy In a senate speech vesterday. McCarthy said it links Lattimnre to a 1945 espionage case, showed that the Johns Hopkins university pro fessor was a source of informa tion for Soviet Information and intelligence service and gave the name of a witness ready lo tes tify that Lattimore was i com munist party member. Lattimore, directly and through his wife, has described McCarthy's charses "pure hog- wash." He Is hustling here from a United Nations mission in Afghanistan to testify Tuesday before a .senate foreign relations investigating subcommittee, , Tribune (Acmt Itlephato) SEA Her Questionnaire ready, all, nine men, five women and five sheet provides space for some 15 to 30 facts for 30 persons, plus some space for more data about the houses they live in. The census taker's visit at each house will last from 15 to 20 minutes. In the field offices, census workers will handle 70 million copies of about 150 different types of questionnaires, record ing forms, manuals and adminis trative records. Information gathered by the enumerators will be transferred to 400 million Dunch cards con taining a small hole for each of the 15 billion facts collected. These will be run through "mechanical brain" machines at the rate of 400 a minute to com pile the information. The tiny holes are expected to show that: 1. Women outnumber men for the first time in American his tory. 2. The center of population has moved from Indiana Illinois. Density Believed Uo 3. The density of population has risen above 50 persons per square mile, compared with 44 in the Inst census in 1940. 4. The average American I 1950 is btter schooled than he was 10 years ago. Most farmers already have re ceived a detailed questionnaire by mail. They are being asked to complete these forms before midnight tonight so that they will be ready for the enumera tors when they call to make the nonulatlon and housing surveys Results of the census will be slow coming in. No detailed population figures will be reloa: ed until the president chooses to make the figures public some time after December 1, Medford School Students Take Three-Day Vacation Students, instructors and ad ministrators alike of the Med ford school system will have a break In the regular routine next week. Spring vacation will he ob served on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Concurrently in Portland sessions of the Oregon Education association will be held and a number of teachers and administrators will trek northward this week-end for the event. Among those planning to at tend the OEA conclave are E. H. Hcdrick, city school superin tendent; Elliott Beckcn, assistant superintendent; Lester Harris, high school principal; Glenn Linn. Junior high principal and H. W. Gustin, Jackson grade principal. There will be classes Thurs day and Friday. Hcdrick said school will be dismissed at 2:30 p.m. Friday. Students will be Permitted to attend earlier Good rlday services on written ex cuse from their parents. . United Presi Full Le.se Wh NO. 314 Sacramento Police Seize 2 Brothers n Girl's Death Fingerprint Leads -To Capture of Duo Sacramento, Mar. 31 (U.R) A fingerprint found on beer bottle was credited today with leading to the capture of two brothers accused of kidnaping and murdering pretty JoAnn Dewey, 18-year-old hospital worker. The brothers were Turman Wilson, 24, who once served six years in Oregon state prison for rape, and nis brother, Utah Eu gene Wilson, 21, They were held for Vancouver, Wash., author!- les. The Wilsons surrendered peacefully last night to Sacra mento police and FBI agents who waited near their coupe which was parked on a down town street. Turman was armed with a .25 caliber automatic pis tol, and a six-shot double action revolver was found on the front scat of their car. The government charged them with unlawfully fleeing from Washington state to avoid prose cution. In Vancouver, Wash., first degree murder and kidnap ing charges have been filed against them. The brothers were ordered held in lieu of $25,000 bond on the federal charge after tempor ary arraignment before U. S. Commissioner Adella Mcuaee. However, they will be surren dered to Clark county, Wash., deputies to face the murder charge, FBI agents said. Anything that happens la Washington, they blame me," Turman complained as he was fingerprinted after the arraign ment. He and Utah appeared in the commissioner's office dress ed in brown coveralls supplied by the Sacramento police de partment. After the arraignment, the brothers were taken to the coun. ty jail. The suspects refused to dis cuss Miss Dewey's slaying, said Police Captain Larry Trimble, nor would they give a "reason able explanation for being In Sacramento. Miss Dewey, whose home was In Meadowglade, Wash., was snatched off a Vancouver street Sunday night, March 19, by two men driving a black sedan. Her nude and battered body was found a week later In the Wind river about 50 miles from Vancouver. Remind Dog Owners Of Control Ordinance City police reminded residents today that enforcement of Med ford's dog control ordinance will commence Saturday. The law forbids dog owners to allow their animals to run loose during April, May and June as a protective measure for garden! and flowerbeds. Ernest G. Beale. newly ap pointed control officer, will pa trol streets and answer com plaints made to police. Where ci tations cannot be issued to dog owners, the animals will be picked up and taken to the Jack son County Humane society. Dogs may be redeemed by pay ing a $1 fine and board, and dogs not called for in three days will be killed. Portland. Mar. 31 N. P. Av tonomoff, Medford, was elected president of the Oregon branch of American Association of Teachers of Slavonic and East European Languages here this week, at a meeting held at the home of Mrs. Marjorie McDon ald. Students at the Talent. Central Point and Gold Hill schools will observe all next week as their annual Easter or spring vacation. Phoenix students will be dis missed April 6. 7 and 10. Oak Grove school will be closed April 5, 8 and 7, and the Griffin Creek and Lone Pine schools will ob serve the same closings as Med ford, April 3, 4 and 5. Eagle Point schools will not take a spring vacation sine they plan to close a week early at the end of the school year. No report has been received at tho county superintendent's offico about the plans of the Rogue River schools. Jacksonville, Mar. 31 Jack sonville schools will be closed for spring vacation the entire) week of April 3, Dick Boyd, superintendent of schools, and Mrs. Boyd will at tend the annual Oregon Educa tional association meeting In Portland, and Mrs Boyd Will also attend conference for counselors. ptured 1 i
