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Boise, Ida., Apr. 10 (U.R) Kenneth Arnold, the private pilot
who made the first 'report of flying saucers, said today he's con
vinced there is a definite link between them and the mysterious
submarines reported off United States coastlines.
In fact, the Boise businessman wouldn't be surprised if they
turned out to be one and the same thing.
He agrees with those who think the strange aircraft might be
space ships from another planet. And he doesn't scoff at reports
that "little men" have fled from alleged crackups of flying saucers
in Mexico and southern California.
"Who am I to say that no such men exist?" says Arnold. My
mind is always open to anything. I haven't seen any of the tiny
men myself, but I have letters from persons who have seen them.
And they're serious persons, too."
Despite this, the air force and even President Truman have
repeatedly denied knowing anything about the flying saucers.
Arnold's collection of flying saucer material includes tape rec
ordings, photographs, newspaper and magazine clippings and piles
of technical data. His daily mail is crammed with new information
from well wishers, cranks and scoffers.
Arnold touched off the flying saucer stories nearly three years
ago He claims that all he did was file a "routine report" when he
landed his small private plane at Yakima, Wash., on a balmy June
day in 1947.
Bridges' Lawyers
File Nine-Poinl
Retrial Motion
Hallinan Cites
Reasons for Action
San Francisco, Apr. 10-UU.R)
Attorneys for Longshore Leader
Harry Bridges and his two co
defendants today filed motions
for a new trial and offered nine
point grounds on which their re
cent perjury-conspiracy convic
tion should be thrown out.
The motions were filed by
Chief Defense Attorney Vincent
Hallinan as Bridges and Co-De
fendants Henry bcmnidt and J.
R. Robertson appeared before
Federal Judge George B. Harris
for sentence.
Arguments Offered
Hallinan first filed motions for
arrest of judgment for all three
defendants and then offered the
following points in argument for
a new trial. He claimed that:
1. The court erred in denying
a directed verdict of acquittal.
2. The verdict was contrary to
the weight of the evidence.
3. The verdict was not sup
norted bv substantial evidence.
4. The court erred in charging
the iurv and in refusing to
charge the jury as the defense
requested.
5. Harry Bridges and co-de-fpnriants
were substantially prej
udiced and deprived of a fair
trial by misconduct of the court.
misconduct oi prosecuting -neys
and by fraud, corruption
and bribery of witness by agents
of the prosecution.
' Mistrial Motion Denied
6. The court erred in denying
the defendants' motion for a mis
trial.
7 Thp court erred in sustain
ing objections to admissibility of
evidence tendered dy me De
fense.
s The murt erred in admit
ting evidence tendered by the
envernment over objections of
the defense.
9. The defendants' prosecu
tion was barred by the statute
of limitations.
Bathborne Interviewed
In arguing his motions, Halli
nan pointed out that key gov
ernment Witness Mervin Rath
borne was interviewed by the
justice department in Washing
ton two years before the Bridges
trial. .
He charged that a "series of
political prosecutions" are now
going on and that Bridges' trial
was "a political campaign to get
rid of a man whose political,
philosophical and economic opin
ions differ from the (govern
ment! officers in charge."
He termed the trial "illegal,
tyrannical and unconstitutional.
He said there was not one wit
ness produced by the government
who was not open to accusations
of bribery, perjury or conspir
acy against the defendants.
Bridges and his co-defendants
stand liable for maximum terms
of seven years in prison andor
$15,000 fines each.
'Political Reprisal'
Blamed by Deputy
Vancouver, Wash.. Apr. 10
(U.R) Claude R. Bone, Clark
countv commissioner, charged
todaythat revocation of his spec
ial deputy sheriff commission by
Sheriff Earl Anderson was a
"political reprisal." '
The sheriff asserted Saturday
in lifting Bone's credentials that
the commissioner had violated
his oath of office by not going t
the assistance of Jo, in Dewey.
18-vear-old Battleground. Wash.,
giri who was abducted and mur
dered March 19.
Bone, who lives in an apart
ment on the street where Miss
Dewey was picked up by two
men. said he reported all the
facts he knew of the case to the
police department.
"1 may be guilty of not report
ing what 1 saw and heard to the
sheriff's office immediately, but
since I told everything to police
who arrived before I went back
to my apartment, I didn't think
ot u " Bone said. "I didn't know
at that time there was a rift be
tween the police and sheriff.
Eugene. Ore.. Apr. 10 (UP.)
Dewev L. Friend, 49. self-employed
liuaene longer. as In
fair condition today alter being
run over by cat Saturday.
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ICY DIP Man turned out in be dog's Dest fnend when Denny, an
Irish setter, fell into the swollen Israel River In Lancaster, N. fcL
Firemen quickly responded to an emergency call and are shown mak
ing a successful rescue.
McCarthy
Mystery Man's Name
Washington, Apr. 10 (U.R)
Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy said to
day he is ready to give senate in
vestigators the name of the wit
ness he has said will identify
Owen Lattimore as a one-time
communist party member.
Testify Under Subpoena
The Wisconsin republican told
reporters that the witness will
testify under subpoena. He iden
tified him only as "the first wit
ness I mentioned in my speech"
on the senate floor on March 30.
The first witness mentioned in
that sDeech was a man who Mc
Carthy said would identify him
self as a former inner circle com
munist. McCarthy said the man
would identify the Johns Hop
kins university professor as a
communist who was under the
party's discipline.
'Mercy' Slayer Gels
Three to Six Years
Allentown, Pa., Apr. 10 (U.R)
Convicted "mercy" slayer Har
old A. Mohr was sentenced to
day to three to six years in
prison for the rifle shooting of
his blind and cancer-ravaged
brother.
The 36-year-old Coplay, Pa.,
tannery worker, was convicted
last Friday of voluntary man
slaughter, which carries a maxi
mum six-to-12 year sentence.
The lesser sentence was imposed
by Judge James F. Hcnninger
because the Jury recommended
mercy.
Mohr was taken back to Le
high county prison where he
will serve his term.
Judge Henninger also fined
Mohr $500. The jurist comment
ed before passing sentence that
he understood the jury verdict
to mean that "the Jurors believe
Harold Mohr shot hii brother
out of sympathy."
Lebanon. Ore.. Aor. 10 (U.R)
Mayor Peter Tweed said today
Lebanon will change to day
light saving time April 30.
Mysterious Submarines, flying Disks
Arnold's sinrv nf having seen
over Mt. Rainier first was told to Al Baxter, general manager of
the Central Aircraft company at Yakima. Baxter listened politely
to Arnold's story of the amazing speed of the craft, how they flew
in a diagonal chain-like formation, and other details. But Baxter
told his friend frankly that he didn't believe him.
"I told the truth then," said Arnold today, "and I'm telling
the truth now. Whv I've seen those flying disks three times since
1947." Furthermore, the press misquoted me when they said I
called the objects flying saucers." ' -
Arnold said he merely described the objects in flight as ap
pearing to skim through the air like a saucer over water. He said
they wavered somewhat as they flew along.
Be that as it may, the whole business has become such a head
ache to Arnold that he said he has to make up his mind whether to
forget it all or make a fulltime job of studying flying disks and
other mysterious objects.
He's particularly interested in experimental work with radar
being carried on at Areata, Cal. Arnold said he obtained pictures
of strange images on the radar, called radar angels, which tech
nicians were unable to explain. He believes the inexplicable ob
jects are just another link in the flying saucer story, ;
Amarillo, Tex., Apr. 10 (U.R) Twelve-year-old David Light-
MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 10,
airlines see e
Will Tell
McCarthy said he has contact
ed Edward P. Morgan, counsel
for a senate foreign relations
subcommittee which is investi
gating McCarthy's charges of
communism in the state depart
ment. He said he would give
Morgan the name.
"I expect to have names of
other witnesses later and I hope
they will be called," McCarthy
said.
Speculation On Budeni
He has refused consistently to
identify his alleged ex-communist
witness. But speculation has
centered around Louis Budenz,
one-time editor for the New York
communist newspaper "T h e
Daily Worker."
Budenz. now a professor at
Fordham university, has declin
ed to comment on the specula
tion. McCarthy presumably contact
ed his witness during a week-end
trip which included a speech to
the Marine Corps league at Pas
saic. N. J. He has hinted strong
ly that he has found a "missing
link" to prove his charge that
Lattimore is Russia's "top"
United States spy.
'Crab License' Given
To Those Who Qualify
As Registered Crabbers
Grants Pass, Ore., Apr. 10
(U.R) Anyone who wants to
"crab" about anyihinq better
get in touch with Noble Stan
ton, local advertising man.
Stanton hat cooked up a
stunt to pull voters out of their
hells and into the ballot
booths on election dates. His
"crab licenses" are being cir
culated here and the demand
it growing.
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Each license card hat a pic-
of a crab on front and
ma words crab license ' on
the back of the card are these
words:
"I am entitled to crab about:
Roads, schools, county and
state business yet, I even
have a right to crab for or
againtt national and interna
tional goingt on. For I am a
regittered volar, and I am go
lag to vol."
nine rieculiar. tail-less aircraft
Southwest West
Coast, Apply for
Consolidation
Station Manager Here
Reports Application
Bob Davidson, acting station
manager for Southwest airlines
here, said today he had been ad
vised that his company and West
Coast airlines have filed appli
cation in Washington, D. C.,vto
merge the two air carriers into
one coastwide air line.
A Joint announcement by John
H. Connelly, president of
Southwest Airlines pompany, and
Nick.. Bez, - president -'.of West
Coast; Inc., was received here
by wire. Davidson said.
To Use Southwest Name
According to the statement.
Southwest airlines will continue
as a corporated entity and name
assuming all the assets and lia
bilities of West Coast. After this
is done, the statement contin
ued, all schedules now handled
by both carriers to 59 Califor
nia, Oregon and Washington
cities will be handled by the cx
oanded firm, under the author
ity granted by the certificates of
public necessity and convenience
now issued both carriers by the
civil aeronautics board.
The joint statement of the two
officers said that ' the consoli
dation would result in substan
tial operating and other econ
omies and "will promote the
public convenience and inter
est." The merger will not create
a monopoly, or Jeopardize any
other air carrier not involved in
the merger plans, the statement
said.
Two Terminals Here
Connection between the two
present routes is now at Med
ford. which is the southern ter
minal of West Coast and the
northern terminal of Southwest.
West Coast now serves 26
cities with 885 miles of routes
in Oregon and Washington.
Southwest serves 33 cities over
1.218 miles of routes in Califor
nia and Oregon.
Consolidation of the routes
will for the first time provide
a single carrier able to furnish
complete regional local air serv
ice on the west coast, Bez' and
Connelly's statement said, ac
cording to Davidson.
Announcement Surprise
News of the merger had not
been received on press associa
tion wires from Washington,
D. C. up to earlv afternoon to
day. What effect the merger will
nave on Medford operations was
not known, and announcement
of the proposed consolidation
eame as a surprise to most Med
ford residents.
Applications by both air car
riers for expanded service are
still under consideration by the
CAB in Washington, with no fi
nal decision yet announced.
West Coast seeks to extend
service to Klamath Falls and
other points now served by Unit
ed airlines. Southwest's applica
tion is for an extended route in
northern California and Arizona,
and Medford Station Manager
Joe Gochring is to be trans
ferred to Phoenix, Ariz., upon
arrival of the expansion appli
cation. He is in the Arizona city
at present making an economic
survey, according to Davidson.
faster Good Weather
Draws Many to Pork
Brilliant sunshine on Easter
boosted Sunday travel to Crater
Lake national park to 430 visi
tors, park headquarters said this
morning. Skiing was excellent.
There has been no new snow
at the lake the past 24 hour and
the pack has settled to 147 Inches
with a crusted surface. Roads in
the park are all open and most
ly free of lea. Chains ara not
required. i
foot claimed today that he touched a "flying saucer" and that It
sprayed mm wun a gas mat raised red wells on his face and arm.
Many persons tended to believe that David, as a true son of
Texas, might be getting an early start as a teller of tall tales. But
his story was backed by his cousin. Charles Lightfoot, 9.
The boys were fishing 10 miles northeast of here Saturday,
they said, when something "like
and landed beyond a slight rise.
David ran to it. He said it
18 inches thick, and curved on
a flat plate.
"The part between the top
was on fire, he said.
The top half was still spinning as he approached. The disk was
blue-gray in color and red-hot otherwise, he said.
I dived for it but my fingers barely touched It," he said. "It
was slick like a snake and plenty
Then the lop started spinning faster, "made a whistling noise
and took off," he said. It was out of sight in 10 seconds.
He said that as it left the ground, the gadget released a gas or
spray which reddened his arm and face and caused small welts.
His father applied skin balm which removed the welts, but the red
ness remained.
Charles couldn't run as fast
100 yards of the object when it
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FREAK WIND HITS LOS ANGELES Lineman ta!J t7on'oi
galvanized Iron roofing from top of a 16,000-volt power pole where
it was deposited when a freakish wind of hurricane velocity lashed a
two-block area of East Los Angeles. The metal was stripped from a
lumber shed 300 yards away. Note tumbleweeds at top of pole and
section of roofing on lower Una (left). The Weather Bureau de
scribed the storm as a large Isolated thunderhead.
Airplane Ditched in
Lake, Crewmen Saved
Benton Harbor. Mich., Apr. 10
(U.R) Eight navy crewmen saved
themselves early today by ditch
ing their Neptune P-V-2 airplane
into Lake Michigan after almost
all residents of this town and
its twin city, St. Joseph, turned
out to help in a 40-minute battle
to help them land.
Nearlv all control towers In
Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and
Indiana listened as the pilot, a
Lieutenant Milton, fought to
keep the plane in flight during
a raging ice storm and to bring
it down safely.
Hundreds of motorists lined
their cars up at the airport here
In an attempt to illuminate the
noifl uirougn tne murKy siorm.
With his gasoline almost gone,
the pilot brought his plane down
about 400 feet from shore, and
let It skim to rest in shallow
water.
Then the men tumbled out,
wearing life Jackets, seven
climbed aton the half-submerged
plane, a two-engined land-type
craft. The eighth, the plane's
radar operator, swam to ahorc
for help.
The radar onerator walked to
the nearby home of Dr. Bough
ton Sowers. Sowers and a neigh
bor, Malcolm Ross, went out in a
canoe to rescue the other crew
men. Men Brought Ashort
They alternated on several
Kansas Citv, Mo., Apr. 10
(U.R) More than 1.000 persons
Jammed Holy Rosary church to
day for the requiem of Charles
Binaggio, slain north side demo
cratic boss and gambler, and
heard a condemnation of the un
derworld and "the ovcrworld
which protects and uses it.
a balloon" sailed over their heads
was the size of an auto tire, about
the bottom with a top looking like
and bottom was real red, like it
hot.
as David but said he was within
took off.
WEATHER
FORECAST: Fair and mild to
night and cloudy Tuesday
wiyi occasional light rain.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday S9
Lowest this Morning ...... 38
trips out 150 feet on the -choppy
white-capped lake to bring the
men ashore. Sowers brought In
two men and Ross saved the
other five.
The only Injury rennrted
among the crew was a slight cut
on the radar operator s hand.
"They all took a ducking and
got pretty cold and wet, how
ever," Sheriff Erwin H. Kubath
said.
The plane, a long-range patrol
craft manned by naval reservists,
had made a week-end trip to
Bermuda In the Bahama islands
and was en route back to its
base at Minneapolis after land
ing at Norfolk, Va.
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World Slipping Info Science Worship,
Pope Pius Warns Post-Easter Listeners
Rome, Italy, Apr. 10 (U.R)
Pope Plus XII warned a post
Easter audience today that the
world is slipping into a danger
ous worship of science.
He told HO, 000 holy year pil
grims that there is no basic con
flict between religion and
science despite the scientists'
challenges of many Roman Cath
olic beliefs.
"Between sure results of
scientific investigations and the
essential conditions of the faith
there is no and there cannot be
anv irreducible opposition," he
said. .
"As for the eventual diverg
encies, they must be counted
among the errors to which hu
man 'i'H":-enU ;ive easily sub
ject, They can never be attribut
ed to so objective and Irrecon
GOVERNMENT CREDIT AIDS
FOR BUILDERS APPROVED
Washington, Apr. 10 (UP) The senate today
unanimously approved and sent to the White House
compromise legislation to expand government credit
aids for private home-building.
The action was by voice vote after only a few
minutes of discussion. The house approved the meas
ure last week before starting a 12-day Easter vacation.
Sen. Burnet R. Maybank (D., S. C), banking
committee chairman and a chief sponsor, said the
house-senate compromise "is a better bill than either
house passed." -
Approval Swift
With Talk Unfinished
Approval came swiftly with
out Maybank having to finish a
short explanatory statement.
The compromise was worked
out last Wednesday night after
hours of bitter wrangling over
some of its knottier sections.
It contains many of the "mid
dle income" features asked by
President Truman but both
chambers knocked out the most
controversial section a new
urogram of federal aid for co
operatives. The measure primarily is an
expansion of existing mortgage
insurance programs of the feder
al housing administration. The
main FHA programs are now
dormant because authority or
funds in some cases both al
ready have expired.
Permit! Reinvestment
It includes authority for the
Federal National Mortgage asso
ciation to purchase another $250
million in mortgages from pri
vate lenders under its "second
ary market" program. This en
ables the private lenders to re
invest in other mortgages.
The compromise also provides
direct federal loans to GIs and
schools and colleges and provides
for the disposal of about 389,000
government-owned temporary
and war-built housing units.
Kogap-Union Dispute
Hearing Slated Today
Circuit Judge Orval J. Mil
lard was scheduled to hear the
case of Kogap Lumber industries
of Medford versus Medford
Council of Building and Con
struction Trades unions at 3 p.m.
this afternoon. The plaintiffs
seek a temporary court injunc
tion to halt picketing at the
Kogap plant south of Medford,
and damages totaling $100,000.
Attorney for Kogap is Frank
Van Dyke, and the defendants,
including some separate unions
and individuals as well as the
council, will be represented
a Portland law firm.
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Utilities Franchise
Tax Shows Decline
The franchise tax paid to the
city of Medford by California
Pacific Utilities for the year end
ing Mar. 25, 1050 was slightly
less than the payment for the
previous year, according to City
Treasurer Darell Huson.
The amount for this year, re
ceived today by Huson, was $4,
448.91 compared to $4,510.09 for
the year ending Mar, 25, 1949.
This year's payment amounLs to
one and one-half per cent of the
gross revenue of the firm in
Medford.
Medford Firms File
Incorporation Papers
Salem, Ore., Apr. 1 0 (U.R)
Articles of incorporation were
on file here today for Radio
Medford, Inc., of Medford, Ore
with capitalization listed at
$100,000.
Signing the articles were H. B
Murphy, Dwight H. Findley, V.
J. Robinson, B. L, Lageson and
J. L. DeArmond.
Salem, Ore., Apr. 10 (U.R)
The Southern Oregon Tallow
company, Medford. Ore., firm
with capitalization listed at $50,
000, filed articles of incorpora
tion here today. Signing the ar
ticles were Igino Assali, Orvel
ahclton and O. L. Brown.
San Diego, Cal., Apr. 10 (U.R)
Engine trouble forced indefinite
postponement of the giant
XP5Y-1 flying boat's test flight.
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft
announced today.
cilable opposition between
science and faith.
Gentlemen, the rights to rea
son and of the progress of
science have nothing to fear
from any menace of the faith.
Their enemy is not God. Their
enemy is all those who in one
way or another have denied or
discarded God In order to put in
hl.i place an idol.
"And who would deny that
our era is dangerously slipping
on the incline which leads it to
the cult of false divinities, whose
service is incompatible with the
moral liberty and dignity of the
scientist?"
The pilgrims who heard the
Pope included a large group of
French university students and
professors and delegates from 11
countries to ih.e international
convention of the Catholic
Delay in Ashland
Budget Election
Suggested There
Ashland, Apr. 10 A proposal
to defer Ashland's budget elec
tion until the recall movement
against Mayor Thomas Williams
and Councilman Elmer Sheldon
has been resolved, was submit
ted here Saturday by Dr. Elmo
Stevenson, chairman of tha citi
zens budget committee.
If the recall forces succeed in
placing their Issue on the Mayi
primary ballot it would com
up for vote at the same time as
the budget and the committee is
fearful that the instability cre
ated by possible recall may Jeop
ardize the proposed budget,
which exceeds the six per cent
limitation.
Dr. Stevenson has suggested
that the budget election be post
poned until after May 19 so that
the status of the city administra
tion can be olarified.
County Clerk George R. Car
ter said this morning that he has
Just begun to check the signa
tures on the two recall petitions
filed with him last week by th
Ashland city recorder. No lesa
than 493 signatures on each of
the petitions will be required to
place the recall measure on the
primary ballot.
The names are being checked
by Carter's staff to ba certain
that each signer li a registered
voter.
Annual Meeting of
York Rite Opens
Regular sessions of the annual
state meeting of the Grand Com
mandery of Knights Templar of
Oregon Masons began at the
Masonic temple this morning
and the registration desk laid
125 Sir Knights had registered
by early this afternoon. Dele
gates from all over the state ara
here for the annual meeting.
Grand Commander John A. New
bold of Portland is presiding.
Deputy Grand Master of the
Grand Encampment of the Unit- 1
ed States, William C. Gordon, of '
Missouri, was to pay his official
visit to the Oregon commandery
today.
The annual banquet and ball
of the highest of the York Rite
bodies will be held tonight in
the Masonic temple.
Two other York Rite bodies
of the Masonic lodge, The Grand
Council of Roya 1 and Select
Masters and the Grand Chapter
of Royal Arch Masons, will hold
their annual slate-wide meetings
here before the conclave closes
Thursday afternoon. Tomorrow
Grand Master Clair P. Davis,
Salem, and Grand Recorder
Henry G. Richardson, Portland,
will open the meeting of Royal
and Select Masters. The Med
ford lodge is scheduled to confer
the super excellent degree for
the state council tomorrow
night.
General Grand Master John
M. Littleficld of Auburn, Me.,
will pay his official visit Tues
day. Sunday School Week
Designated by McKay
Salem, Ore., Apr. 10 (U.R)
Gov. Douglas McKay today des
ignated this week as National
Sunday School week In Oregon
and said history shows that re
ligious instruction for America's
young people has been a vital
force in the progress of this na
tion. Teachers' associations.
The Pope yesterday called on
nation? and individuals the
world over to conform to the
divine law of God.
With 400.000 persons jamming
St. Peter's Basilica and the mam
moth square outside, the pontiff
celebrutod Easter mass and im
plored the world to abandon Its
"crimes, massacres and wars"
and return to the "royal road"
of Christianity.
His words were broadcast to
the world by the Vatican radio.
"There cannot be tranquility
either for individuals, groups or
for nations except on the condi
tion that everything be arranged
in harmony With the order s
which arises from the gospel
precepts and which is confirmed
and enlivened by divine grace,"
the pontiff said.