Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 03, 1950, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text1 mm MEM Marshall Medford 45th Year. 10 Pages. Globe Girdling Bixbys Forced To Turn Back To Calcutta Because of Trouble With Engine San Franciscans ind Schedule On Air Journey No Indication of Continuance Reported Tokyo, Apr. 3 (U.R1 The Fly ing Bixbys were forced to re turn to Calcutta today about three and a half hours after tak ing off there for Tokyo on a round the world flight. Speeding well into the second half of their quest of a globe girdling flight record, they were forced to turn back to Calcutta by engine trouble. Reports Unclear Whether they intended to continue the flight was not in dicated in the reports received at the Haneda airport here, where they had been scheduled to arrive about midnight (lu a m.. EST). Officials at Haneda received word that the twin engmed Mos quito bomber which Dianna and Bob Bixby were flying, left Cal cutta for Tokyo about 1 a.m. (EST). Turning back to Calcutta, they landed there at 4:30 a.m (EST) for the second time. The light bomber, named the Huntress II, sped past the half way mark last night on the at tempted flight of 20.745 miles. At Karachi, Pakistan, the Bix bys were 10,370 miles out of San Francisco, where they took off Saturday mornine. The young husband and wife team was out to better the round the world record of 73 hours, five minutes and 11 seconds. It was set by the late Bill Odom in August, 1947. Five Hour Cut Eyed During a brief pause yester day at Farouk airport in Cairo, Mrs. Bixby, 27, said they hoped to knock at least five hours off Odom's record. Odom's record flight covered 19.645 miles. He used Chicago as his terminus. The Bixby's landed their con verted bomber at Karachi at 6:18 a.m. (7:48 p.m. EST) Sun day and took off for Calcutta at 8:04 a.m. (9:34 p.m. EST). Bixby said in Karachi that he and his wife were running about an hour and a half behind their intended schedule. Ground stops were taking longer than they ex pected, he said. However, he professed confidence that they would set a new record. Mrs. Bixby said she was feel ing fine, and their plane was do ing everything they expected of it. Coos Bay Man Named Commission Chairman Portland, Ore., Apr. 3 U.R) Ben H. Chandler, Coos Bay, was elected chairman of the state highway commission today. Chandler, now the senior mem ber on the commission, suc ceeded T. H. Banfield as chair man. Banfield relinquished his membership on the commission when his three year term ex pired March 31. 'Suspicious Character' Turns Out To Be Only Innocent Mars Pilot Portland. Ore., Apr. 3 (U.R) Deputy Sheriff Art Heem was lummonid to Mount Scott cemetery to investigate a re port that a suspicious charac ter was loitering there, Heem said the "suspicious character" told him: "I have just come to the planet Earth from Mart in a space ship, but I can't go home because I can't find my ship. The tarth-peopl have blown it up. I'm through with earth peo ple. This is my 10th visit here in an attempt to help them. But they are craiy. They don't do things right. They don't appreciate help. "I'm afraid to go to sleep here and have been awake for a thousand years. The craiy earth-people bury those who go to sleep, then dig them up in three days and make them walk." Heem transferred the "sus picious character" fo an earth ly institution the Morning tide menial hospital. Urges MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 3, Washington Plays With U. S. Safety, Niel Allen Claims Grants Pass, Ore., Apr. 3 (U.R) Niel R. Allen, chairman of the American Legion's na tional civil defense committee, charged todav that "men in Washington are playing politics with the safety of America. "Atomic warfare could mean the end of freedom for America unless congress acts promptly and positively to enact a civil defense law carrying constitu tional guarantees, Allen said. Appeared in Capital "It could leave us politically in the middle ages, faced again by the grim struggle through generations to win back those fundamental human rights and liberties." Allen, a Grants Pass attorney, appeared before the joint con gressional committee on atomic energy in Washington two weeks ago. He presented the American Legion's plan, adopt ed in 1949, for a congressionally authorized, uniform nationwide civil defense training program. The Legion proposed that the program be blue-printed to the states and local communities through a civilian agency under the department of defense. Not Partisan Politics "The 'politics' which is sub merging statesmanship in Wash ington now is not partisan poli tics," Allen said. "It is the peri lous politics of men who lust for power. "It appears there are men guiding civil defense policy who foresee total authority in a single-agency control over both atomic energy and the civil econ omy of America under atomic attack. This must be stopped short." Convicted Traitor Missing Oft Coast Avalon, Cal.. Apr. 3 (U.R) A suicide note was found in the hotel room of a convicted traitor who vanished shortly before a mysterious submarine was re ported off the coast of Califor nia, but Sheriff's Capt. Garner Brown said today it is impos sible to know whether it actual ly was written by Theodore Do nay. Brown said In Los Angeles that constables at Catalina were mailing him the original of the longhand note. Donay, 51-year-old Detroit im porter, convicted in 1943 as a traitor for aiding Hans Peter Krug, an escaped Nazi prisoner of war. rented a motorboat here yesterday and said he would be back in an hour. The boat was found adrift in the open sea 10 hours later. Five hours and 20 minutes after the motorboat was found, coast guardsmen at the Point Argucllo light station 150 miles north of here reported they siehted a modern-type submarine eight miles offshore. Lookouts at the coast guard lifeboat sta tion nearby also saw the craii. It "definitely was not one oi ours, they said. T : UTn.W, A nr. 1 1 I PI UUIIKVltrw, "nan.. t" " Cowlitz county commissioners , -1 , I . n,,4 rural Blal flf uiaay vuteu m pw. -." - Cowliiz countv on daylight sav , .a .i... a;i in Uitt ing lime riii-Luvir i-ipin at the some time decided to end it earlier than other northwest communities. Marin Corps Reserve A reg ular meeting of VTU-1321. ma rine corps reserve. Tuesday in the armory at 7:30 p.m. Films will be shown and a lecture will be given bv Capt. Murray Gar diner. ' Full Support for 9 - - FORCED TO TURN BACK below waving from the wing of their converted British-built Mos quito bomber just before taking off from San Francisco in an at tempt to break the world-circling speed record, have been forced to return to Calcutta because of engine trouble. Upper photo shows the plane taking off from San Francisco airport on the first leg of tne gicoe-girdiing night. 2 Conferences Agree on Games For Pear Bowl Football champions of the Pa-' cific Northwest Intercollegiate Athletic conference and the Far Western conference will contend in the Shrine Pear Bowl game each Thanksgiving day at Med ford for the next five seasons, according to points agreed by representatives of the two con ferences and the Bear Bowl at a meeting here Saturday. waiter H. Leverette. chairman of the bowl representatives, said that the terms agreed upon must yet be ratified by the two con ferences at meetings in May. The session was held in his business office. Shrine To Sponsor According to the terms. Hillah temple of the Shrine will spon sor the event and the game will be contested on the Medford senior high turf until otherwise arranged. A trophy will be giv en by the Shrine, it will ge kept by the winning school until the end of the school year. A school winning the trophy on three con secutive occasions will gain per manent possession Participating teams must be the champions of their respective leagues, it was said. The matter of officials, travel ing expenses and team guaran tees were also discussed and agreed upon. Bowl representatives at the session hex were Leverette, Tribune 1950 No. 10. (Acma Telcphnio) Dianna and Bob Bixbv. shown Frank J. Van Dyke, Paul B. Ryn nine. Flovd Baker. Dr. C. H Paske and Art Leavitt, all of Medford, and John Nosier, Ash land. Northwest conference officials present were Dr. C. H- Howard, president, faculty representa tive, Lewis and Clark college Lestle J. Sparks, secretary- treasurer, faculty representative, Willamette university, and coaches and managers. Dr. Paul Stagg and Harvey Roloff. Paci fic university, and Paul Durham Linfield college. Those from the Far Western conference were Dr. L. D. Leach, president, faculty representative, University of California at Davis (California Aggies); Fred Tel onicher, secrelary-trcasurer. fac ulty representative, Humboldt Sla'te college, and Al Simp.ion, Ted Schopf and Marshall college. Snowfall Reported In High Mountains Salem, Ore., April 2 U.R New snow storms in the higher reaches of Oregon were a re minder today that winter is still hanging on, despite the calendar The state highway department said 10 inches of snow fell at government camp and also on the Santiam pass. Chains were advised on tome routes. European Relief WEATHER FORECAST: Fair and warmer night and Tuesday, becoming cloudy with tome light rain by Tueiday night. Temp. Highest Yesterday 53 Lowest this Morning 33 Prec. to 4:30 A.M. Today, Traco Testimony Heard Again by Jury In Bridges Case George Wilson Story Repeated by Request San Francisco, Apr. 3 ;U.R) A jury pondering the Harry Bridges perjury-conspiracy case made its second request to hear additional government evidence today as it continued its fourth day of deliberation. The jury of eight men and four women returned to Judge George B. Harris' courtroom and heard once again the testi mony of George Wilson, Los An geles newspaperman and admit ted ex-communist who testified he was present at party meet ings in San Francisco in the early 1940s which Bridges also attended. Once Close Friend Wilson once was a close friend of Bridges, president of the CIO Longshoremen's and Warehouse men's union. He was the only government witness not cross- examined by the defense during the 81-day trial. There was no indication that the jury was approaching a ver dict although it was evident the eight men and four women were studying the case with painstak ing care. They have reviewed the testimony of the govern ment's key witness and the de fense rebuttal and inspected all of the 170 exhibits introduced at the trial. Since the jury got the case Friday, it has spent 18 hours and 40 minutes trying to decide whether Bridges swore falsely that he was not a communist at his citizenship hearing five years ago. ' Seven Years Maximum Also at issue was whether he conspired with two union lieu tenants. J. R. Robertson and Henry Schmidt, to defraud the government, and whether Rob ertson and Schmidt aided and abetted Bridges to commit a felony. If found Etiiltv. thev will each face maximum prison sentences of seven years and $15,000 in fines. Regardless of the jury's decision, the government will prosecute n separate civil suit to revoke Bridges' citizenship and deport him to Australia. Camp White Member Ernest S. Jodoin, 63, veterans domiciliary center member, who was found lying at the corner of front and Jackson streets earlier this morning, died later at the center, occorcling to reports from city police and Conger-Morris ambulance service. Doctors at the center said that Utah Wilson Will Be Brought to Vancouver Sacramento, Cal., Apr. 3 (U.R) Vancouver, Wash., Police Chief Harry Diamond will leave here today with at least one suspect in the brutal kidnap-murder of 18-year-old JoAnn Dewey, two weeks ago. Utah Wilson, 20, younger of two brothers suspected of the crime, signed an extradition waiver late Sunday. Turman Wilson, 24, refused to sign a waiver before consulting a law yer. However, both said they have no fear of returning and steadfastly denied any connec tion with the murder. Chief Diamond said Turman would be allowed to see an at torney after he appeared before the U. S. marshal here this morn ing. If he refuses to sign. Dia mond said he would be left until extradition is arranged. In Portland, Ore., fingerprint officers had scant hope today of establishing by prints that the girl was carried off in the Wil son's car. Blurred Impressions found in a car belonging to an older Wil son brother were thought to be JoAnn's but comparison with hers has failed to establish any thing, police said. Foreigners in China Allowed To Leave Hong Kong, Apr- 3 (U.R) American and other foreign na tionals stranded in communist held Shanghai have been given permission to leave China via Tientsin. It was disclosed todHy. An announcement of the Shanghai public security bureau disclosed in a letter reaching here, said foreigners who have been granted exit visas and can book passage from Tientsin could travel overland to the port. Previously no foreigner! were permitted overland travel. Must Not Reduce Recovery Program, Gathering Hears Winning of Fight Said Vital to Peace Washington, Apr. 3 (U.R) Gen. George C. Marshall said to day "the chips are down" in the struggle between democracy and communism in western Europe and to win we must not "emas culato or reduce" the foreign re covery program. Winning this fight, the soldier statesman told 1,200 diplomats, congressmen and recovery work ers, "is vital to the peace and prosperity of the world as any military campaiens in history." Perilous Struggle "We are engaged in a perilous struggle with an implacable foe." Marshall said. "We must carry this battle to the finish: we must avoid the temptation to imperil the whole (recovery) invesment ... it is an investment in preserving the freedoms of men in a clean and decent world." Nowhere did Marshall, who as secretary of stale fashioned the European recovery program, re fer to Russia or communism by name. He referred to both simply as "the opposition" and "the implacable foe." Addressing a celebration hon oring the half-way mark in the four-year, $15 billion European recovery program, Marshall shared the speaker's platform with Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Economic Coopera tion Administrator Paul G. Hoff man. Job Half Done Marshall told them that "your job is only half done," and added firmly: "I must emphasize the tremen douse importance of carrying through the scale planned. We must avoid proposals to emascu late and reduce ECA to a mere relief affair. At the same time it seems clear to me that we can not continue this sort of extra ordinary aid indefinitely; there fore the (Marshall plan) termi nation date of June 30, 1952 should be adhered to." The administration asked for $3,100,000,000 for the third year of Marshall plan operations The house has authorized $2,850,000 000: the senate has not acted yet. The general, who now heads the American National Red Cross, said he believed that if this deadline on recovery is im pressed upon Europe, it will spur her leaders and people to lift themselves above the need for U. S. financial assistance. Dies; Skull Fractured Jodoin's skull was fractured, the ambulance service reported. Po lice said the death was being in vestigated. Jodoin was found by a Union Oil company stHlion man, police said. His name had not been learned by officers late this morning. The man was taken to Sacred Heart hospital by Conger-Morris ambulance where an ambulance from Camp White called for him. The body has been brought to Conger-Morris funeral parlor, whichwill have charge. Kidnaper of Girl Gets 35 Years in Pen Camden, N. J Apr. 3 (U.R) Frank La Salle, 52, convicted rapist, pleaded guilty today to kidnaping 13-year-old Sally Hor ner and Immediately was sen tenced to 30 to 35 years' im prisonment. La Salle, returned yeslerdny from San Jose, Cal., where he was apprehended March 21 with the school girl he held captive for 21 months, was also sen tenced on abduction charges. He was taken immediately to the New Jersey state prison at Trenton. La Salle's pleading guilty came as a surprise. He was led before Judge Rocco Palese and immediately pleaded guilty to the kidnaping charge for which he was Indicted 10 days ago, and to an abduction charge placed against him in March of 1949. McCarthy Promises to Reveal Secret Recommendations Made By Owen Lattimer Washington, Apr. 3 (U.R) Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy dis closed today that he knows the secret recommendations made by Owen Laltimore on far eastern policy and intends to reveal them if the state department won't. The Wisconsin republican is sued a formal statement through his secretary at the naval hos pital at Belhesda, Md., where he is undergoing a minor sinus op eration. At I recent press conference Secretary of State Dean Acheson Truman Orders Not To Comply Subcommittee Action Key West, Fla., Apr. 3 (U.R) I fldential Information when Hi President Truman formally an- disclosure would be contrary to notinccd today that he had in structed the secretary of state, the attorney general and the civ il service commission chairman not to comply with subpoenas for secret government loyalty files. The chief executive sent a letter to Sen. Millard F. Tydings, (D., Md.) chairman of a senate subcommittee investigating al leged disloyalty in the state de partment. Mr. Truman had di rected the three top officials not to comply with subcommittee subpoenas. Served Last Week Subpoenas were served last week on Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Chair man Harry B. Mitchell of the civil service commission. They were directed to appear tomorrow before the Tydings group with confidential files on a number of persons employed by or connected in some way with the state department. "No president has ever com plied with an order of the legis lative branch directing the exec utive branch to produce confi dential documents, the disclos ure of which was considered by the president to be contrary to the public interest," the presi dent wrote Tydings. He cited a long list of presi dents who stood on "its respon sibility of the executive branch to maintain the Integrity of con- Republicans Cut Party Platform to99Words Washington, Apr. S U.R) The republican party has re duced to 99 words the platform on which It hopes to win this year's congressional elections, . The 99 words represent post card size digest of the 3500- word policy statement which was adopted by party leaders when they met here February 6 for the Lincoln day celebration that opened their 1950 cam paigning. Suggested for Us The digest was issued by the senate and house republican campaign chairmen In coopera tion with National GOP Chair man Guy C. Gabrielson. The three suggested that all republi can candidates for office use it in their campaign material. The digest declares that the republican party stands for: 1. Reducing taxes. 2. Balancing budget. 3. Eliminating government waste, especially along lines of Hoover commission reports. 4. Fighting communism here Instead of condoning It, No Brannan Plan 5. Providing fair market prices on farm products aided by price supports cooperative market ing, soil conservation, reclama tion, rural electrification no Brannan plan. 6. Continuing and Improving Taft-Hartley law to protect pub lic from excessive power of la bor and management. 7. Developing an adequate so cial security system that dops not limit opportunity nor dis courage initiative and saving. 8. Protecting rights of veter ans and minorities. 9. Developing a united Ameri can foreign policy for peace world trade without undermin ing American living standards. 10. Safeguarding liberty against socialism. French Flier Lands At Medford Airport Jacques Henri Istel, 21, young French flier who is en route from Seattle to New York In a BT-19 converted training plane, landed at the Medford airport shortly after noon today. He left Salem this morning after telling bystanders that he was planning to fly via Portland, Boise, Cheyenne and Omaha. He told Medford airport officials that he was heading for Red Bluff. He had not filed any flight plans with the CAA. (Earlier story on page ten.) said that Lnttlmorc and 27 other persons had filed recommenda tions on far eastern policy with the state department. Lattimore, a Johns Hopkins professor, has been accused by McCarthy of being a Soviet spy. "I note with interest the state department's statement that this Lattimore report was so impor tant and of such a confidential nature that the American people were not entitled to know its content," McCarthy said. "On this I heartily differ, because I feel the American people should know to what extent Lattimore Group With the public interest," the presi- aeni saia. Willingness Repeated "I would be derelict In my duty if I failed to do so." In his letter, Mr. Truman re peated his willingness to co-operate with the committee in any "reasonable way." "For that reason I have asked the bipartisan loyalty review board to make an independent review of the loyalty cases be fore your subcommittee," the president said, referring to his letter of March 28 to Tydings. The loyalty files were re quested by the committee as re sult of accusations made against a number of present and former government employees by Sen. Joseph McCarthy, (R., Wis.) who claimed communists had infil trated the state department. Attention Called To Cancer Fund Drive This Month The drive for funds to combat the nation's second greatest kill ing disease, cancer, received the approbation of Mayor Diamond Flynn today. The campaign, which is under the auspices of the Oregon divi sion of the American Cancer society, is headed locally by Mrs. John Day. She explained today that 25 per cent of the funds raised through the drive goes to the national research program; 15 per cent goes to a nation-wide educational program, including instruction In early detection of cancer, and 60 per cent remains in Oregon- This 60 per cent Is spent for research instruction, and teach ing in the University of Oregon medical school, for augmenting technical services to doctors and dentists, for purchase of diagnos tic and treatment facilities, for establishments of clinics, for a nursing program, for dressings made by volunteers, for sick room equipment, for Instruction material, and for an extensive educational program. In calling attention to the campaign, Mayor Flynn said that the program Is worthy of the support of all citizens. "The disease," he said, "Is one of the most dreaded illnesses from which Americans suffer. But many people do not realize that cancer can be cured if it is recognized early enough. Through the fund campaign of the American Cancer society, we can assure an attack on the basis causes of cancer through re search, we can aid in an educa tional program to assure that more people are acquainted with the facts of the disease, and we can make those suffering from It more comfortable, and give them greater hope of recovery." The campaign will continue through April, which has been designated as Cancer Control month. Census Bureau Happy With Result of Quiz Washington, Apr. 3-(UB-Census bureau officials ap peared satisfied today that their $80,000,000 quiz program was going off as planned. First progress reports on the nation's biggest and most com plete census were expected from field offices tomorrow. In the absonce of any bad news during the weekend, thev said Americans appeared to be co operating with the 145,000 enu merators. An estimated 8 million per sons, Including President Tru man, were counted Saturday on the opening day of the 17th cen sus. Bureau officials estimated that 2,800.000 homes were visit ed on that day alone. A census-taker dropped In on Mr. Truman at his Key West, Fla., vacation headquarters. The president's answers, like those of every other American, were strictly confidential. There was little done yester day since enumerators were in structed to refrain from con ducting Interviews on Sunday except in emergencies. is dictating state department pol- Icy. "I feel, therefore, that If the secretary of state does not im mediately make the Lattimore recommendations known to the American people, it will be my duty as a United States senator to do so." McCarthy had been scheduled to hold a news conference in his room at the hospital. But at the appointed hour, Capt. R. M. Gil lett, commanding officer of the hospital, told reporters that the conference had been postponed.