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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.
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Cowlitz county commissioners
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Cowliiz countv on daylight sav
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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
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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,
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(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.