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Newspaper Page TextSubscribers WEATHER FORECAST: Fair and mild to Blht and Tuesday. Temp. Htfheit Yfilerday (9 Loweit thil Mornlni t Medford Tribune To report Improper or tto& delivery of the Mall Tribune phono 2-8141 before 6:45 p. m dally aa4 10:30 a. m. Sunday. If rerular d e 1 1 t ery arrlrei ihortly after you call, pleaie notify oince, tnus euminaung special messenger lervlce. United Press Full Lease Wire United Press Full Lease Wire 45th Year. 10 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON . 4DAY, APRIL 17, 1950 NO. 22 BY VATICAN roust. CHURCH STATE PACT Railroad Locomotive Men Plan Movement To Enforce Demand More Firemen Sought On Diesel Engines Chicago, Apr. 17 (U.R) A spokesman for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and En--jjinemen said today the union plans to strike to enforce de mands for an additional fireman on diesel locomotives, and is de laying a strike call only to clear up details of when and where it will be staged. General Strike Unplanned There was no indication of whether the union plans a gen eral strike against all roads us ing multiple-unit diesels or con fine the walkout to individual roads or regions. The strike will be called unless there is an un expected settlement, the spokes man said. The union today called in ad ditional officials for a meeting here to work out details for a walkout. The meeting adjourned until 8:30 a.m. (PST) tomorrow, pend ing the arrival of the additional officials. The union claims 110,000 members on the nation's rail roads. The spokesman said no meet ings have been scheduled be tween the firemen and manage ment representatives. "Determining when, where, and how we are going to strike is the only thing holding up the announcement," he said. Sources Speculate Railroad sources have specu lated that the firemen might strike against all dieselized roads; individual roads, or all the railroads in a particular re-, lion. The union wants the railroads to put an additional fireman on multiple-unit diesel engines. Registration lor Election Near End Only one day remains for voters to register before the May 19 primary elections. After to morrow, voters who have failed to register with any of the nu m e r o u s registrars scattered throughout the county will have no voice in helping to deter mine which candidates will run lor public office in the general elections next November, and in several local issues. The registration desk in the county clerk's office will be closed at 5 p.m. tomorrow, but booths maintained by the League of Women Voters will be kept open both tonight and tomorrow night in Medford ele mentary schools for the conven ience of Medlord voters. Those who must register are those who have failed to vote within the past two years, those who have moved to a dif ferent precinct and those who have changed their names through marriage or court action. In addition to nominating can didates for office, voters at the primaries will be called upon to decide a number of vital local 1 Issues. A bond issue for the con struction of a new pipe line to Big Butte springs, matters in connection with the improve ment of the Medford fire de partment, and the recall of the mayor and a counSJman at Ash land may all be placed on the primary ballots. Las Vegas, Nov., Apr. 17 (U.R) Skyscraping Actor Jerome Courtland. 23, honeymooned to day with Polly Bcrgin, 19-year-old singer he met while taking vocal lessons. Ashland Cabinet Factory Destroyed By Sunday Fire Ashland, Apr. 17 U.P The 30-year-old plant of the Ashland cabinet works was destroyed by fire last night with an estimated damage of between $20,000 and $25,000. Spreads Rapidly The flames, feeding on the tinder-dry wooden structure and stored supplies, razed the build inc in half an hour. Fire Chief Harry McNair said firemen and volunteers prevent ed the flames from spreading to a new addition to the-cabinet shop and to a tank car on a sid ing at the rear of the building. Flames shot 90 feet into the air. but lack of a wind prevented their spread to the thickly con gested residential district of Ash land across the street. Brotherhood Slates Strike THRONG SEES SCOUT SHOW AT ARMORY Picture above is a general view of the main floor of the Medford armory as it looked Saturday evening when the largest "Scouting Adventure" exposition in this area's history drew a crowd estimated at more than 3,000. To the left in the fore ground and middle distance are the bridge and tower constructed of logs and rope by Troop 19, Pros pect, which won for them the President Christensen streamer for all-around excellence. Across the top of the picture can be seen the rope "monkey bridge," put in place by Troop 10, Medford. (Brainerd photo). Verdict Clarified In $50,000 Suit For Damages Here A story in Sunday's edition of the Matfl Tribune concerning the verdict in a $50,000 damage suit was subject to possible mis interpretation, it was pointed out this morning by parties in volved in the litigation. The suit was brought by Ed ward Gaines, seeking damages for serious injuries incurred in an accident on Jan. 23, 1948. on the Crater Lake highway near Camp White. Named as defend ants were Cloyd A. Golden, driver of a truck which collided with the vehicle driven by Gaines, and B. F. Nork and the Elk Lumber company. During the circuit court trial concluded Saturday before Judge H. K. Hanna, attorneys for Nork and Elk Lumber com pany contended that Golden was an independent contractor hauling lumber or Nork, and that Nork was also independent, and not an employee of Elk Lumber company. The jury, in effect, corrobor ated this contention when it de cided that neither Nork nor Elk were liable for damages in the case. The entire $50,000 in dam ages were awarded to Gaines from Golden. Attorneys George Roberts, G. W. Kellington and Edward Branchficld successfully defend ed Nork in the suit, and Frank Van Dyke was counsel for Elk Lumber company. Not only were Nork and Elk cleared of liability, but under normal pro cedure in such cases will rcceiv' court costs from the plaintiff. Gaines was represented by Don Newbury. , Many Thefts from Cars Reported by Polks Numerous auto owners report ed thefts of accessories from their vehicles during the week end, city police reported. The pilfering was thought to be the work of youths. Fender skirts, hub caps, a gear shift knob and aerials were among the items missing. Police also had a report that light bulbs were taken from the marquee at the What Not cafe. McNair said the fire mav have been started by hoboes resting underneath the shop, zhil Stansburg. shop manager, said the loss was covered by in surance. He said work will con tinue from the new, modern plant recently erected adjacent in the old building. Crowds Hamper Firemen Firemen said crowds jamming around the fire hindered the work of the firefighters and some alarm was felt when high tension lines burned out but did not fall. The last big fire In Ashland was exactly a year ago tomor row, when a sawmill at the Lumber Mills corporation burned to the ground at a loss of $100,-000. Prospect Boys Earn Exposition Streamer Troop 19, Prospect, received the President Christens en streamer for all-around excel lence at the Boy scout exposition in the Medford armory Saturday evening, for its display of pio neering skills. The display in cluded a tower and bridge made entirely of rope and logs. Wally Denkins is scoutmaster of the Prospect troop. , An estimated 3,000 persons crowded into the armory during the two-hour show, scout leaders said this morning. H. D. Chris tensen. president of the Crater 125 MPH Speed by Model Plane Wins Ray Edwards. Medford, with a speed of 124.95 miles per hour, took top honors at the control line speed model airplane con test held yesterday at the Med ford high school by the Medford Prop Nuts, local gas model air plane club. Edwards won the class CD speed event using a plane of his own design with a McCoy 60 en gine for power. Albert Allen. Central Point, won second in this event with a speed of 108.39, and uaie icwton, Medford. placed third with a speed of 95.71. In the class AB event Edwards also won first with a speed of 95 miles per hour: tdwards son, Larry, placed second with a speed of 91: John Bcardsley, Klamath Falls, came in third with a speed of 85.75: Clarence Young. Medford, fourth, with 85.5, and Allen fifth, with 79 miles per hour. Stunt Event Clarence Young won the stunt event with a total point value of 174, Edwards took second with 172. Dick Simonson placed third with 167 and Larry Edwards took fourth with 97 points. The next scheduled contest will be a free flight contest to be held at Camp White May 7 and will include all classes of gas engine competition, an event for rubber powered ships which will include the Oregon elimina tions for the Wakefield event. This contest is held each year in the country which won it the pre vious year. This year's finals will be held in Finland. MYSTERY SUB This mystery submarine was photographed by a crewman aboard the racing yacht Westward Ho during the San Clement races to Catallna Island. The Westward Ho approached to with in about 75 yards of the sub when two khaki-uniformed men on tho conning tower jumped Inside, and the submarine submerged, according to crewmen of the yacht, Comdr John P, Currle, nibmarlnc officer at Trfirir I-iand r.'rv-i! ?rt-. San Francisco, tninxs It's a U. S. sub ot tht Oa-r v.' Corvlr. T 'lTie, t who made the last war patrol on the Chsrr lr Mid C. 3. su' -rrre operating la the Ctuuizu are when Uia taema cub lighted, . Lake area council of the Boy Scouts of America, said that the event was the "most outstanding such exposition in the histor-' of the council. Awards Given Other awards presented to scout troops included the blue ribbon to Troop 5. Medford Scoutmaster Paul Shaffer, ' for woodworking, and a red ribbon to Troop 35, Jacksonville, Wayne Mcisner, acting and assistant scoutmaster, for woodcarving. Cub awards included red rib bon to Pack s0, Cubmastcr Don Elliott, for cub handicrafts, and the blue ribbon to Pack 44, Lone Pine, C. Taylor, cubmastcr, for their peep show. Special mention went to the following units: Pack 8, Medford, E. M. Cook sey, cubmastcr, for dancing dolls: Troop 10. Medford, Mel Cotton, scoutmaster, for their monkey bridge; Troop 3, Med ford. Wes Christlieb, scoutmas ter, for camping: Troop 9, Med ford. Dr. W. Roberts, scoutmas ter, for advancement, and to the Sea scout ship "Rogue," Skipper Bob Prow, for their breeches buoy. Scout Executive Cliff Hanson said today that next year's plans are for a scout circus for boys from the entire council. Spray Information Reported by Agent Continuing his up-to-the min ute timetable of spraying infor mation for orchardists, County Agent C. B. Cordy said pear trees should be sprayed for blight control when 35 per cent ( of the blossoms are open and only when the trees are dry. They should be sprayed or dust ed with a fixed copper. Orchardists who dust should use 25 pounds per acre of a dust containing five to seven per cent of metallic copper. For a spray, they should use one of the fol lowing wettable materials per 100 gallons: one pound of copper hydro, three-quarter pound' of spray-eop, one-half pound of COC'S or one-half pound of cop per A. The material should not be used in a concentrated form, Cordy said. Federal Bureau Has No Evidence Of Crime Syndicate McGrath Testifies Before Subcommittee Washington, Apr. 17 (U.R) Attorney General J. Howard Mc Grath said today the justice de partment has "no evidence" of "any great national (crime) syn dicate of any size." However, McGrath said, there are many sizeable organizations' which are "active" in local areas. McGrath made the statement before a senate commerce sub committee in reply to questions. McGrath asked the subcommit tee to deliver a "knockout blow" to gambling syndicates by deny ing them use of interstate com munications facilities. "Do you know of any so-called nationwide crime syndicate?" Sen. Homer E. Capehart, (R., Ind.) asked. i "I'm not able to answer," Mc Grath said. "Do you know where we might secure the answer?" Cape hart pressed. "I wouldn't know," McGrath said. Later, Sen. Edwin C. Johnson (D., Colo.) asked if McGrath was able to testify about "national crime syndicates." "No, I'm not," the attorney general replied. "Do you have any evidence (about crime syndicates)?" John son asked. "I do not have evidence . . . that there are large scale big business operations built around illegal undertakings," McGrath replied. Then he added, "we do not know in the department of jus tice of any great national syndi cate ... of any size." McGrath was the opening wit ness as the subcommittee, head ed by Sen. Ernest W. McFarland D Ariz.) began hearings on legislation to outlaw interstate transmission of Information which could be used Illegally for gambling. Confusion Reigns in Springfield Offices Springfield, Ore., Apr. 17 U,R) City government came to a virtual halt in Springfield to day. Four Dolicemen resigned, fol lowing the lead of their police chief Clell Pryor. The ritv hall was locked, and nobodv could be found immedi ately who knew the combination to the citv s safe because L-ity Recorder Kenneth Gile and his secretary-wife quit Saturday. City Manager Fred uneainam was f red-by tne cny council Thursday night and City Attor ney Marvin Sanders quit a wcck aeo "to avoid any further dis sension." Four more policemen were re ported to be ready to resign, ana Pryor announced that he had ac cented a job as police chief in Tillamook effective Mav 1. The series of upheavals In Springfield's government had their roots in the battle between the city's "good government league and Mayor JJ. f. L,ar son's administration. Medco High Bidder on Butte Falls Timber Medford corporation was suc cessful bidder today in an oral sale of 7,880,000 board feet of timber in a tract of the Butte Falls O and C forest unit. The tract is north of Butte Falls. The sale was conducted at the city hall by the Medford office of the bureau of land management. Medford corporation offered $87, 476.50 for the timber, mostly dnuglas fir. Appraised price was $64,036.50. The successful bid der and Magnolia Lumber com pany and Alley Lumber com pany submitted a total of 34 of fers. ' Auction of 6,270,000 feet of timber in the Jenny creek forest unit also was being conducted today. JL r, JIM Acma Telephoto) DEMOLISHED BY CREEPING HILL-Houso lies In shambles on creeping Coxcomb Hill in Astoria, Ore., where In three months a slithering earth flow has demolished or damaged 21 homes. On the north side ot the same hill, geologists warn of a potential slide forming that would do much more damage than the present land slide. About 50 per cent of the city's 18,000 residents live on the north slope. Coxcomb Hill damages are estimated at $150,000, 2 More Homes Added To Toll In Astoria Astoria, Ore,. Apr. 17 !U.R) Two homes were added today to the list of buildings that must be moved from Astoria s Coxcomb hill as it slips nine feet daily toward the Columbia river. They brought to six the num- PTT To AddIv for Increase in Rates On Phone Service A "premature news break" In Portland Saturday revealed that the Pacific Telephone and Tele graph company tomorrow will ask the Oregon public utilities commissioner for permission to increase rales for its services throughout the state. The information was revealed following a similar company proposal in California, and J. H. Creager, Medford and Ashland PTT manager, said today that a full schedule of propnsed rates will be released as soon as the request is filed in Snlcm. If thp rates are unopposed at PUC hearings they will go into effect one month later. The pro posed increase would be the third in three years. Creager said the new schedule docs not provide for changes in present rates for farm line tele phones, or for business or resi dence phones. Day station intrastate long distance rates will not be changed, he said, except that on present 10 cent routes the initial period will be three minutes In stead of five minutes. Minor in creases at certain mileage steps ranging from five to twenty-five cents are proposed for night and Sunday station-to-station calls, as well as person-to-pcrson rates. Company officials said that "The number of telephones we serve In Oregon has increased In the last 10 years by 115 per cent, considerably more than the record-breaking 59 per cent pop ulation increase in the same pe riod. But this outstanding accom plishment still has not been enough, and has produced grave financial problems. Our rate ap plication Is a necessity In order that our earnings can be brought to a level that will attract the millions of dollars of new capi tal needed to supply still more and better service . . ." Two Jailed for Theft Of Can of Tuna Fish Donald Clinton Hopper and Francisco Morales, both of Im perial rooms, Medford. arc being held In county all in lieu of $1, 500 bail each for taking a can of tuna fish from a local store. The charge lodged against the air Is larceny from a store uilding. a felony In Oregon. They were arraigned in county Justice court Saturday and have waived preliminary hearing. ber of houses slated for moving this week. Thirteen have been moved, three were smashed to kindling last month and another Is riding the crest of the phen- ominal earth flow. Began In January The slide began In January after 12 inches of rain and 30 inches of wet snow soaked through 30 feet of topsoil to a layer of clay limestone. Lubricated by the water, the limestone shelf permitted a big chunk of topsoil to begin sliding downhill to damage or destroy 23 homes, tear up streets and sidewalks, and rip up utilities. Meanwhile, city officials said an anonymous resident has re quested permission to buy prop erty now Deing ruined by the slide. l "I think that property is go ing to he about the most stable in Astoria when this slide stops," he is reported as saying, "and I want to build a house on it." Public Land Given Officials said they would not sell the slithering land at this time. The city is giving public land to residents losing their p-opcrtv in the earth flow. Dr. Harvey Rones said no one has offered to buy his home and property for $4,000 cash. He put it up for sale the day 12 feet of his backyard broke loose and headed for the river. Toledo, O., Apr. 17 (U.R) Dr. Charles Joseph Bushncll, one time president of Pacific uni versity at Forest Grove, Ore., died here Sunday at the age of 74. Coastal Residents Dislike Oil Washed Up On Beaches Seaside, Ore., Apr. 17 U,R) Two principal beach resorts of the northwest were literally swimming in oil today and coast line residents didn't like it. More thnn 30 miles of Oregon and Washington beaches lace ruin as vast slickey smelly patches of oil threaten to dis rupt a multi-million-dollar tour ist business. No one knows where the un wanted stuff comes from, but residents here and on the 27 mile Long Beach, Wash., penin sula have placed the blame on everything from Russian sub marines to freighters scuttling waste oil as they enter or leave the mouth of the Columbia river. Damage from the mystery oil has ranged from killing migra tory birds to being a health menace to swimmers, ruining clothing and creating a fire hazard to piers and pilings. Presence of the oil has been noted in this area and at some California points during past years, but observers rate this spring's tide as the greatest by lar. Coast guard and corps of en gineers observers said the worth iest oil might coma from sunken Catholic Church Denies Knowledge Of Agreement Reported Agreement Amazes Vatican Vatican City. Aor. 17 M.Vt. The Vatican officially denied any Biiuwieuse ioaay oi a purported agreement between the Catholic church and the communist cov. eminent of Poland. The official Polish news agency PAP reported Saturday mice jukii r-uiisn tainouc clergymen and government of ficials had signed an agreement. The agency said that under the agreement the church recogniz- ea me auinority of tne Polish state in all but purely religious mailers. Vatican quarters noted that the Polish government announc ed the alleged state-church ac cord while Stefan Cardinal Sapieha of Poland was in Rome. "If there was any accord," one such source said, "It must have been more a "diktat' than an ac cord." He added that such an accord would mean for the church "not a modus Vivendi but only a modus vegetandi (not a way of living but of slow death)." The Polish news agency re ported from Warsaw Saturday that an agreement had been signed in Warsaw in which the church recognized the authority of the state in all but purely re ligious matters. But Msgr. Valerian Meysztow- lcz, canonist consultant of the Polish embassy to the Vatican, said: , "If there is an accord, it must be a local one. It may be be tween a single Polish bishop and a government representa tive. But not with the whole Polish episcopate." Vatican sources, who were amazed by the reported agree ment, pointed out that Arch bishop Stefan Cardinal Sapieha of Cracow, Poland's leading car dinal, now is in Rome for the church Holy Year celebration and had not heard of any agreement. VA Reminds Veterans Of 61 Bill Deadline The deadline for most veter ans for starting a course of edu cation and training under the Gl bill is 15 months away July 25, 1951. A veterans administration re gulation, issued today, states that the majority of veterans will not be permitted to begin GI bill courses after that date. An ex ception has been made for those discharged after July 25, 1947, and those who enlisted or re enlisted under the armed forcei voluntary recruitment act. Veterans who have started and actually are pursuing GI bill training on that date will be allowed to continue the course with full benefits. He will be considered to be in training even though he has temporarily inter rupted the course for the sum mer vacation or for other reasons beyond his control. SCHOOL PLANS SHOWN Rogue River, Apr. 17 In the Hill building window on Depot street has been placed the archi tect's drawings of the first six rooms in a proposed grade school, and of the proposed ad dition to the high school build ing. Birth rate charts also show the Increased population in Ore gon and the United States. A community meeting to discuss the plans and the coming bond election will be held in the high school gym tonight at 8 p.m. tankers off the coast or from freighters illegally pumping out bilge oil within the three-mile limit. The sunken tanker theory comes from reports that a num ber of sinkings occurred near here during the war. Once water broke through a tanker's sides, its load might flood the beaches with as much as five million gallons of oil. A few more theories about the northwest's worthless "oil strike" included: Russians Blamed Oil-d rilling operations at Grays Harbor, Wash., some 60 miles north of here, havevcaus ed seepage from the ocean floor and currents have swept the oil to sea and back on the beaches. Russian agents are dumping the stuff to promote domestic discord. A sub-ocean oil deposit has erupted. , In Portland, shipping officials said passing ships couldn't dump enough oil to blight such a large area. Law requires ships to jet tison waste oil outside the three mile limit and the ocean would assimilate the waste before it could reach Oregon-Washington shores.