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5W LTU Mm Wilsons Whisked To Kelso To Avoid Mob At Vancouver Vancouver, Wash., Apr. 5 U.R) Sheriff Earl Anderson locked Turman and Utah Wil lon, accused kidnap-slayers of JoAnn Dewey, in the Cowlitz county jail at Kelso for safe keeping overnight after he re ceived radioed warnings that a large number of automobiles and pedestrians were forming a street blockade in Vancouver. Cars were double parking on the streets around the court house and approximately 100 persons afoot were milling around the jail when Sheriff An derson arrived with the Wilsons from Sacramento, Cal. Trouble Feared "There might have been se rious injury to one or more per sons if we had stopped in Van couver," Sheriff Anderson said. "The crowd probably was made up mostly of curiosity-seekers, but it only takes one crackpot to set off trouble." He disclosed that the Wilson brothers were "very happy" when they were informed that they would be jailed in the Cow litz county jail in Kelso instead of Vancouver. He estimated there were about n or 100 cars cruising slowly or double parked on the streets near the Vancouver jail. "I had been notified of the sit uation in radio messages from Vancouver which I received in my automobile approaching Van couver," Sheriff Anderson said. Pasted Wilson Home "When we reached Washougal,' we turned north and hit the farm-to-market roads until we Sot to Vancouver, then we jrned onto highway 8-A. the Camas orchards highway. This route took us directly past the Wilson home on Green mountain. "Utah Wilson heard the ex change of messages on the car radio. Then I told him that wc were going to avoid Vancouver, b was tickled. "He authorized me to send a radio message to the sheriff's office. He wanted a deputy to tell his mother, who was sup posed to be waiting outside the court house that he was being treated all right and that he was in good health and good spirits." Sheriff Anderson said that his next moves with the Wilsons will be "fast and precise." He planned to hold the Wilsons in the Cowlitz county jail for at least another day "to avoid any further mob contacts." On Good as Another He planned to meet with Prosecutor Dewitt Jones and Chief of Police Harry Diamond at noon today to map further strategy. In Kelso, Utah Wilson told an Interviewer that "one jail is as good as another," and said it made no difference to him whether he was kept in a cell at Kelso or in one at Vancouver while awaiting trial. Turman Wilson, interviewed In his jail cell, reiterated his in nocence and threatened legal ac tion against those connected with the case. Sergeant Admits that 'Robbery' Was Hoax Alden A. Marrs, an air force sergeant, last night admitted to state police that the holdup he had reported yesterday morning was a hoax. The district attor ney's office will file a criminal complaint charging Marrs with falsely swearing to an affidavit a felony carrying a possible two-year jail sentence and a maximum fine of S5.000. Deputy District Attorney Paul Haviland said Marrs would prob ably be arraigned on the charge In circuit court tomorrow. Marrs had told police that a man .in a sailor's uniform had forced him, at the point of a gun, to drive to a spot on Dark Hol low road and had robbed him of $75. Slate police officers and deputy sheriffs had spent all day attempting to apprehend thtf "bandit" before Marrs finally ad mitted he had made up the story. He is at home on leave from his station at Vallejo, Cal. Fag Makers Asked to Halt Misleading Advertising Washineton. Anr ft flip) The federal trade commission to day told the makers of Camel and Old Gold ciearettcs to stop what the FTC called false and misleading advertising. The FTC ruled that all cigar ettes contain various amounts of nicotine and throat irritants, and that there is no reliable basis for advertising claims that one brand is superior to another in having less irritating qualities. Lucky Strike Involved The FTC issued cease and de sist orders against R. J. Rey nolds Tobacco company, Jersey City. N. J., makers of Camel, and P. Lorillard company. Jer sey City, N. J., 'makers of Old Gold. At the same time an FTC trial examiner recommended that the commission decide that the American Tobacco company. New York, is misreDresenting Lucky Strike cigarettes. The ex aminer recommended a cease and desist order against it also. "I'm going to sue everybody connected with this case when I'm found innocent," Turman shouted. Turman was not a stranger to the Cowlitz county jail. He served a short term there in September, 1949, for first degree assault. Cowlitz County Sheriff C. W. Reynolds said the Wilson broth ers were "model prisoners." He said he did not know when Clark county officials would arrive to take charge of the brothers, but he assumed it would be some time today. Turman and Utah Wilson were Mllll III I 1 Ill IIM II vol - v ' i I " ' .V. J i ' t S f I f ' X KV. . If rV If i-T v 'J'. .w.l (Amm Telrvholoi TAKEN TO KELSO JAIL Ex-convict Turman Wilson, left, and his brother, Utah Wilson, shown above at the time of their arrest in Sacramento, last night were taken to the Cowlitz county jail in Kelso, Wash., to avoid possible mob reaction at the Van couver, Wash., jail. The brothers are accused of the kidnap-slaying of JoAnn Dewey, in Vancouver the week of March 18. A number of persons had gathered outside the jail at Vancouver as the broth ers were being returned from the south. Councilmen May Set Water Bond Election City councilmen took no ac tion last night on the board of water commissioners proposal that residents be asked to vote on a $2,800,000 bond issue to construct a second aqueduct from Big Butte springs to Med ford. It was reported, however, that the legal department undoubted ly will bring in legislation at the next regular meeting calling for the election. The regular ses sion is scheduled April 18. Sug gested date for the election is May 19, day of the primary election. Fire Study Tentative Findings of Acting Chief Leo Weidner, Mcdford fire consult ant, were spoken of only in gen eralities. Paul Selby, chairman of the council safety committee said that reports from Weidner. so far were only tentative and made only for finance committee and budget deliberations. He stated that Weidner and the saf ety committee were being rushed to get the reports into entirety. The acting chief and commit tee are expected to recommend acquisition of additional equip ment and facilities needed be cause of the growth of the city and fire department. Selby last Another trial examiner still is considering a complaint against Phillip Morris & Co., Ltd., Inc.. New York. The complaint charges it with false advertising of Phillip Morris cigarettes. Still another pending case involves Pall Mall cigarettes made by American Cigarette & Cigar company, New York. In the case of Camels and Old Golds, the FTC found that their smoke do not contain less nico tine than other leading brands, contrary to their advertising. It said: "The nicotine content of the smoke of a cigarette is in direct Proportion of the nicotine con tent of the tobacco contained in the cigarette itself." For this reason, it said. Rey nolds and Lorillard cannot truth fully claim a lower nicotine con tent because the tobaccos used by makers of all leading brands contain "nicotine in substantial ly the same quantities and variations." arrested in Sacramento on a kid naping and first degree murder warrant issued from Clark coun ty in connection with the abduc tion and subsequent slaying of Miss Dewey, a Battlegound, Wash., hospital worker. Denies Knowledge Asked what he thought the outcome of the trial would be, Utah Wilson said: "I don't know, but 1 didn't have a thing to do with it." . He also said "I don't know" when asked about the finger printed beer bottle found near the scene of the abduction, which originally led to his arrest. 1 night spoke of the need for "catching up fundamental im provements delayed over a per iod of years." Conference Needed Selby reported that his com mittee believes another confer ence with state fire authorities necessary before the council goes to the people with its program for filling the requirements. The consultants will help determine what should be done now and what should be added over a per iod ot several years. " City representatives probably will be sent north soon. Mayor Diamond Flynn mentioned the possibility of insurance rates be ing boosted here if the fire de partment is not "caught up." Truck Ordinance Passed The ordinance preventing heavy trucks to use the "loop" formed by 12th, Franquette and Mayette streets and Spencer ave nue as a turn-around was passed by the council. Trucks having a gross weight of 10,000 pounds or more are prevented from us ing these streets surrounding Block 2 in South Sea addition, except to service homes in the neighborhood. Residents of the addition requested the restric tion because of alleged wjoar on the streets and dust and hazards created hy the large vehicles. Councilmen approved a zone change that will permit con struction of an eight-unit apart ment house by Bill Barnes be tween Whitman and Oakdale avenues north of the senior high school. , Contract Awarded A contract was awarded to Lambert and Miller. Mcdford, to install the city swimming pool scum gutters at a cost to the city of not more than $000. The firm was the only bidder for the work. The council heard a protest from the local Girl scout council on the projected move of a beer parlor to the 400 block on East Main street. It was stated that a meeting of interested parties was held with council committeemen last week and the matter held up. The business may occupy another location. It was reported. Lew W. Bates, operator of the Bates Candy company, was nam ed to the city budget committee to succeed the late David Holmes Sr. tSee Story on pagt sixteen) Medford 45th Year. 16 Pages Bridges Places 'Frameup' Blame In Perjury Case Dave Beck Accused Of Master-Minding San Pedro, Cal., Apr. 5 (U.R) Longshore union bos9 Harry Bridges charged today that the U. S. immigration department and "certain elements in the labor movement" got together to "frame" him for perjury. Bridges accused Teamsters Union Leader Dave Beck, of Seattle, of master-minding the prosecution which may revoke his American citizenship and re sult in his deportation. Beck Job Getter Beck, whose teamsters union has fought bitter jurisdictional wars with the longshoremen, got a job for a high immigration de partment official who sat in on the trial and now is assisting in readying deportation proceed ings. Bridges said. "In my opinion, the west coast ship operators were not part of this deal," he said at a press con ference before a union regional caucus started here. "I think it was the witnesses who were pro duced as well as agents of the immigration department and certain elements in the labor movement. Lying Said Admitted "Many witnesses admitted ly ing and others were caught flat footed. Any employer elements that had any hand in this were on a more national basis." Bridges denied again that he was or had been a communist. A San Francisco jury ruled yester day that he lied when he denied a communist affiliation so he could become a citizen. Asked whether he thought communists ought to be removed from the state department and important posts in labor unions, Bridges hemmed and hawed be fore saying: "I haven't gone that far to start joining the red-baiters and the rats. If the price of getting by is to get lined up with char acters like McCarthy, it isn't worth it." Medford Schools Set Reopening Tomorrow Medford schools will reopen Thursday after a three-day spring vacation. Most other schools in the county will be starting or continuing their spring holidays. A number of Medford faculty members will return to classes and administrative posts after having attended Oregon educa tion associations in Portland three days this week. Students with excuses from parents will be allowed to at tend Good Friday church serv ices. Schools will be dismissed at 2:30 p.m. Friday. Importance of Lumbering In County Told Rotarians The sianificance of the lumber industry in the future of Jack son county was emphasized yes terday by Arthur Priaulx, pub lic relations director of the West Coast Lumbermen's association, in a talk to members of the Med ford Rotary club yesterday noon at the Jackson hotel. Growth of the industry was described by Priaulx. who said that there are now 120 sawmills in this county alone. The cut in 1940 was 126 million board feet a year from 20 mills, he said; now it is half a billion. Value High The total cash value of lumber to Jackson county lumber firms is now at a rate of $33,900,000 per year, representing a payroll of some $17,628,000 to lumber In dustry employees. Other indus tries' stake in lumber were men tioned by Priaulx, who said that purchases of tires, gasoline, oil, machinery and supplies in this county alone by lumber firms amounts to more than $10V4 mil lion each year. Stumpage payments total nearly $3 million, he said, and the Industry in the county was responsible for payment of freight bills totaling $13,130,000 last year. The lumber Industry Is four times as valuable in Its produc tion and assets In the county than is the fruit industry. Priaulx said. Jackson county is the fourth lumber county in the state, he added, and only Lane, Douglas and Coos have greater yearly production. Chang in Thinking After outlining the importance of the Industry to the economy of Oregon, and this section of the state in particular, the lum ber promotion man went on to describe a basic change in the thinking of industry leaders. The previous theory In the In dustry, he said, was to cut sur pluses and sell them u raw ma MEDFORD, OREGON, McCarthy Ignores Report Deadline Washington, Apr. 5 (U.R) Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy today ignored a noon deadline for turn ing over to senate investigators further information in support of his charges that the state de partment is loaded with communists- But the Wisconsin republican said he "undoubtedly" would be able to arrange for the appear ance before a senate subcommit tee of "some, if not all" of the anonymous witnesses ne says Daylight Time Is Okayed in Ashland Starting April 30 Ashland, Apr. 5 Ashland joined the list of Oregon cities which will go on daylight saving time April 30, as the result of action taken by the city council at a regular meeting here last night. Councilmen felt that despite objections which have been raised Ashland should conform with other southern Oregon cities, including Medford and Klamath Falls. A resolution was passed by councilmen which will place on the May 19 election ballot a pro posed city charter amendment which will permit the city to sell Ashland canyon timberland to the forest service. Golf Leases The council also approved terms of a lease contract for the city golf course, under which the city will furnish water pipe and materials and the new les see will improve the property. The city street department has expended its appropriation for the year, it was reported, and a special council meeting will be held tomorrow evening to see what can be arranged to finance future operations. Consideration of proposed new water rates was again postponed pending clarification of ques tions involving water users at higher elevatioas who do not have sufficient water pressure. Drop Soot Plans City Attorney Harry Skerry Jr. suggested that plans for a soot control ordinance be dropped. He said other cities have found it to be unenforce able, and of questionable con stitutionality, and added that most effective soot and sawdust control . has been achieved by cooperative endeavors. Eight councilmen and city of ficials will attend a meeting of the League of Oregon Cities in Medford next week, it was re ported. terials. But lumbermen now are taking notice of encroaching competition by other building materials. In 1945, the Industry began countering this competition with a campaign of institutional ad vertising, working to create markets for low grade, or econ omy lumber. Cost factors in construction were emphasized, if proper selection of materials were made, and the campaign was begun with full-color page advertisements in 20 national magazines. Biq Response Response to this advertising was big, Priaulx said, with 1, 100,000 letters and cards coming from all over the country. Each year since 1945 the production of lumber on the west coast has gone up while production of other areas has declined. A new type of thinking also Is beginning to pervade the indus try with regard to the manner in which lumbering is done, Priaulx said. Emphasis is now on sustained yield, selective cutting and approved silvicultural prac tices which will make the forests of Oregon and Washington a "re newable resource." Fire protec tion is a vital part of this pro gram, he said. Cites Greater Usa Still another trend In lumber industry thinking is the new em phasis on increased utilization, Priaulx explained. By this, he said, is meant chemical utiliza tion of wood wastes, as well as remanufacturing on the local level. A good example of the latter plan is at Grays Harbor, Wash., he said, where remanufacturing of woods raw materials into fin ished products now employs three times as many men than before for the same amount of lumber cut. Priaulx was introduced by B. L. Nutting. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, can prove his charges that Owen Lattimore is or has been a mem ber of the communist party. Would Fire Reds McCarthy advised subcommit tee chairman Millard E. Tyd ings. (D. Md.), that he could do so if Tydings will set a definite date for the appearance some time next week and "give me your solemn promise that they (the witnesses) will be heard on such date as you set." He sent Tydings the letter as the state department's top in vestigative officer told the sub committee that he does not know of any "card-carrying com munists" in the department. Donald L. Nicholson, chief of the department's division of secur ity, said that if he finds any they will be fired "by noon." Nicholson carefully outlined the department's security proce dures and presented the subcom mittee with graphs and charts to explain his points. Board Uninformed At the end of his formal testi mony, Sen- Brien McMahon, (D., Conn.), asked: "Are there 205 card-carrying communists in the state depart ment"? "Senator, as far as we know, there are no card-carrying com munists in the state depart ment," Nicholson replied earn estly. "If there were and we could find them, they would be terminated by noon." Brig. Gen. Conrad E. .Snow, chairman of the department's loyalty security board, told the senators: "If there are any communists in the state department, the loyalty security board is unin formed of their existence." Snow said that since the de partment's present loyalty and security program was launched three years ago his board has determined 246 actual "loyalty cases, stemming directly from mi information. Iowa Collegian Freed in Slaying Iowa City, la., Apr. 5 !U.R) Robert Bcdnasek, 24, was found innocent nf strangling his cam pus sweetheart today on the basis of his own strange "truth drug" story of her death at a for bidden rendezvous by candle light. Bednasck. handsome and pop ular University of Iowa psychol ogy senior, escaped a possible death sentence and walked from the courtroom to freedom amid the cheers of his classmates and fraternity brothers. He was charged with stran gling pretty Margaret (Gee Gee) Jackson in a jealous rage last Dec. 11, but the jury ruled on the basis of his own story that the socially prominent coed's death was an accident. From the courtroom, Bcdnasek hastened to the county jail to pick up his belongings, and while there the Rev- Harold Mc Gee, Episcopalian minister of Iowa City, came to greet him. His lather, fcmll, 67, naa oeen forced to return to the family home at Cedar Rapids, la., yes terday because of illness. The girl's father, William Jackson, was not available im mediately for comment. DA Orders Probe into Death of Veteran District Attorney George Neil- son today ordered a full scale in vestigation into the death of Ernest S. Jodoin, domiciliary center member who was found Wing on a Medford street early Monday morning. Neilson said this morning tnat II three law enforcement agen cies, city, state and sheriffs police, have been called Into the case after an autopsy held over the body of the 63-year-old vet eran showed evidence of "sev eral blows to the head." County Health Officer Dr. A. Erin Merkcl reported that the cause nf the death was a frac tured skull. BULLETIN A haarinq has been set for 3 p.m. Monday in circuit court her whan Judge Orval J. Millard, Grants Pais, will be aiked by Kogap Lumbar In dustries to istua a preliminary injunction against tha Madford Building and Construction Trades council and others re straining lham from placing picktti at tha Kogap plants south of Medford. Kogsp's at torney, Frank J. Van Dyka, this afternoon was notifying in defendants of tha hearing data. Tribune 1950 NO. 12 Families Routed By High Water in Midwestern Region Chicago, April 5 (U.R) Floods drove 125 families from their homes in the midwest and win try weather routed spring tem porarily from the Rockies to the Appalachians today. A cold front which sweot down from Canada dipped into the Gulf states and pushed east ward toward the Atlantic sea board, which basked in spring like temperatures yesterday. Freesinq In South Freezing temperatures were recorded as far south as New Mexico and Kansas, and the mer cury flirted with the zero mark along the Canadian border. Snow fell in Wisconsin, Michi gan, Iowa, Illinois and Indiana. the rampaging Red River of the North forced more than 100 families to leave their lowland homes at Moorhead, Minn., and Fargo. N.D. Twenty families were made homeless by flooding Spring creek at Herried, S.D., and a flash flood put three families to rout along Sugar creek at Toad hop, near Terrehaute, Ind. Al Considered Ked Cross officials considered a request (for army aid for 40 farm families isolated, but not in distress, in rural areas near Moorchead, Minn. The Red river approached the 24-foot mark today and was expected to cest at 26feet Friday. Spring creek threatened to send two feet of water over Pol lock, S.D., and the Cannon Ball river flooded rural areas near Breien in North Dakota. The Wabash and White rivers In Indiana overflowed for the ninth time this year. But heavy rains which touched off the flooding stopped yesterday and Meteorologist Paul A. Miller of the Indianapolis weather bureau said the floods would be much less severe than In January. Day's Committee Proposes Single Resources Bureau Portland, Ore., April S U.R) A legislative interim committee headed by Rep. Ben Day of Gold Hill today proposed creation of a single state department of na tural resources through reor ganization of a group of state agencies. The committee suggested that forestry, farmland, fishing, min ing, water and natural history agencies b molded into one de- Sartment. in Divisions The program would set up nine divisions within the de partment. These would be for estry, soil conservation, water conservation and sanitation, fish eries, wildlife, geology and min erals, state lands and natural his tory and research. The committee contemplated a board of nine members, whose appointments would be made by the governor with approval of the senate. Of the nine members, two would come from coastal coun ties, two from the rest of western Oregon, two from the area of Umatilla. Union, Baker, Grant and Harney counties and two from the remainder of eastern Oregon. The ninth member would be appointed from the state at large. FIREMEN CALLED The Medford fire department sent two Ln France pumpers to 34 North Holly street at 10:30 a.m. today to extinguish sparks on the roof of the building. Fire men said they were not sure what caused the sparks but they were put out with carbon diox ide and there was no damage. Bette Davis Asks Divorce Following Studio 'Scene' Hollywood. Apr. 5 (U.R) Big- eyed Bette Davis, 41, decided to day to go ahead with her divorce from Artist William Grant Sher ry, 35-year-old ex-pugilist, after he muscled In on a studio party honoring her birthday. Actor Barry Sullivan was one of those who tried to pacify the hot-tempered Sherry at the par ty Monday night on the RKO movie lot. No Blows Struck The argument with Sherry never got beyond the 'pushing around' stage and no blows were struck as far as I know," Sulli van said. But actions of her husband at the party given ln honor of Miss Davis birthday as well as for others who had birthdays in the cast so angered the blonde actress that she retained famed Hollywood Attorney Jerry Geis ler to represent her In "litiga tion involving a domestic affair." you mean a divorce acuoni Gleskr waa asked, Starboard Engine Explodes During Flight Near Oahu .. All Aboard Escape In Rubber Life Rafts Honolulu, Apr. 5 (U.R) The navy's giant flying boat "Mar shall Mars," made a forced land ing at sea today, then exploded and burned three miles off Oahu. All eight crewmen aboard on the test flight escaped ln life rafts. The navy said a burning star board engine on the 72V4-ton plane forced the plane com mander, Lt. Cmdr. Glenn E- Sim mons, to land in the open lea at a lzo-mile an hour clip. Take To Boats As soon as the Mars slid to a stop, the crewmen jumped into lite Doats and rubber life rafts moments before an explosion racked the flying boat and it burst into flames. The navy rushed crash boats and other emergency equiDment to the scene in an effort to save the Mars the largest flying boat in the world. The exDlosion sent a 2.000- foot smoke column towering in to the blue sky as crash boats, two helicopters, patrol craft and one submarine raced to the scene to help save the erew. Engine Explodes John Klein of Honolulu, from a vantage point near Diamond Head, said he saw the starboard engine of the Mars explode in tugnt. A tnird of the wing imme diately was wrapped in flame, Klein said. He said the giant sea plana immediately banked steeply to ward Pearl Harbor and glided out of sight. The Mars holds the world rec ord for carrying the largest num ber of passengers- On May 19, 1949, on a flight from Alameda naval air station near San Fran cisco to San Diego, the TOar shall Mars" sister ship of the one that burned today success fully carried 301 passengers and a crew of seven. Grounded Briefly The Mars-type flying boats, normally used by the navy for trans-Pacific flights, - were grounded briefly last year after several plans had minor engine trouble. The Mars is a 185.000-lb. sea plane, with a wingspread of 200 feet, an overall length of a little more than 120 feet. It can carry a payload of 22,000 pounds for 3,550 miles. It has four engines and a top speed of better than 250 miles per hour. Priests Convicted By Prague Court Prague. Apr. 5 U.R) The Prague state court convicted nine ranking Catholic priests of high treason today and sentenced them to jail terms ranging from life to nine years- The tenth priest was found innocent of high treason but guilty of knowing about the crimes of the others and was sen tenced to two years. There were no death sentences. Dr. Jan Mastilak, 38, rector of the redemotorist seminary in Omorist, Moravia, was the only defendant sentenced to life. Abbot Augustine Machalka, 44, of the premonstrate monas tery In Nova Rise, and Jesuit Frantisek Silhen, 45, provisional head of the Jesuit order here, were sentenced to 25 years each. The sentences climaxed a five- day trial. Corvallis, Ore., Apr. 8 U.R) Margaret Muriel Field, 54, en gineering librarian at Oregon State college, died yesterday at Good Samaritan hospital here. WEATHER FORECAST: Prrrfiilnf clmirJl nrM font r tit hfrominit moitl? cloudy Thursday afttrnoon with urtttprrd ihoweri, Coolf r. HlKhfst YMlfrrtay 14 Lowest this Morning 44 Yeah I guess so," he re plied. Miss Davis, working on a pic ture which ironically is titled "The Story of a Divorce," has moved out of her home but ia still in the city, Giesler said. In her divorce action. Mist Davis asked custody of their 3-year-old daughter, Barbara, who has some scenes In the picture in which Miss Davis Is playing. Awful Tamper The actress filed suit for di vorce last October 21 at Santa Ana, Cal., but action in the case was postponed when the couple reconciled. She had obtained a court order restraining her husky husband from harming her. At the time, Sherry said he had an "awful temper," but agreed to take psychiatric treat ment to curb It. The studio party at the RKO commissary was only for mem bers of the cast and crew of "The Storv of a Divorce," and no oth ers, ware invited, Sullivan said.
