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Newspaper Page TextJUTbibtine WEATHER Subscribers MEDFORD FORECAST; Fair tonlfht and Saturday. Somewhat warmer Saturday. Temp. HlEhrst Yesterday 7 Lowest this Morning IITI 39 To Moon ImDroDtv r m delivery ot the Mail Tribune phone1 z-sMi oeiore p. m. cuuiy ana 10:30 a. m. Sunday. If rerular delivery arrlTes itiurlly after you call, please notify office, thu Hmlnatlnc apecUl messenger sendee. United Press Full Leas Wire full Leas. Wim 45th Year. 20 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, F APRIL 21, 1950 NO. 26 United Prest KIDNAPED GIRL FOUND BY COPS Los Angeles, Apr. 21 (U.R) A gunman kidnaped a pretty stu dent nurse today after knocking out her boy friend, then raped the girl and turned her loose. Blonde Carol Ann Cope, 22, and Robert Mueller, 22, were parked in a lonely lovers' lane area in Highland Park, about six miles from downtown Los An geles when the kidnaper ap proached their car. Pointed Gun "He pointed a gun at us and forced us out of the car," Miss Cope told police. "Then he forced us to he down on the side of the hill." Twelve stitches were required to close the gash in Mueller's head caused by three blows from the kidnaper's gun. Mueller also was robbed of his wallet contain ing $35. Mueller said he first met Miss Cope, of Santa Ana, Cal., at a service dance last Jan uary. (The couple had been parked near the base of a hill on which is located the studio and trans mitter of radio station KRKD.) As Mueller, a navy veteran from Costa Mesa, Cal., lied on the ground, the man struck him viciously four times over the head. He then ordered the girl to walk with him to his car parked further down the hill. Just as he forced Miss Cope into the car, Mueller regained consciousness and crawled-up the hill to the radio station where Douk Arsonists Held In Demonstrations Krestova, B. C. Apr. 21 U.R) Rebellious members of the Doukhobor religious sect seeth ed with unrest today after nude arsonists burned five homes de spite police -reinforcements and the pleas of a bearded Bible student. Eight of the terroristic-inclined sons of freedom cult of the Doukhobors were arrested last night following the blazes, and police said they would be charg ed with arson at Nelson, B. C, today. More than 200 naked men and women put the torch to the homes of three clan members yesterday, then burned the over turned automobile of John Lebe doff, one of their leaders. The arsonists struck despite a curfew by reinforced British Columbia provincial police and doffed their clothes in riotous demonstrations. Actor John Agar's Driving Nets Fine Hollywood, Apr. 21 (U.R) Actor John Agar, recently di vorced by Shirley Temple, has been fined S200 and given a sus pended 30-day jail sentence for reckless driving. Beverly Hills Justice Court Judge Henry H. Draeger sus pended the jail term on condi tion that the actor not be arrest ed for reckless or drunk driving in the next year. Drunk driving charges filed against Agar last February 12 were dismissed because of insuf ficient evidence. The actor paid S25 of the fine yesterday and will pay the rest of the money in S25 montly installments. ' Nationalists Smash Communist Toeholds , Hong Kong. Apr. 21 (U.R) ' Nationalist troops have smash ed all but one of the three toe holds communist forces estab lished on the northwest coast of Hainan island, nationalist re ports from the Hainan capital of Hoihow said today. The third and last , commun ist beachhead is near the town of Fushan, 25 miles west of Hoi hnw. the reports said. Commun ist troops in that area were re ported retreating north toward the coast under heavy nationalist assault. The tide of battle was turned in the past two days fighting by air. ground and naval reinforce ments sent in from Formosa, the Hainan reports said. Flood Waters Filling Prehistoric Lake Bismarck. N.D., Apr. 21 (U.R) More than 6.600 persons were homeless today as pre-historic Lake Agassiz. dried up since the ice age 20.000 years ago. slowly refilled with snow-fed flood wa ters from the Red river and its tributaries. The waters were spreading rapidlv over vast areas of east ern North Dakota and north western Minnesota. The weather bureau predicted still higher temperatures and some rain for today to swell the rushing waters. President Truman late yester day allocated $100,000 from his emergency fund to relieve hard ship and suffering in the stnek- - - . i- ni,ni. r' m' Frerl en area, .onn ii-iw.c. -j" -G. Anndahl had appealed for the funds. he had Engineer Eddie Waters call police. The kidnaper, described as about 25 years old, six feet tall and wearing a crew cut, drove the nurse to another secluded area a short distance from where the couple had been parked. Girl Attacked He forced ner out of the car and then attacked her, Miss Cope told police. After attacking the nurse, he drove her back to a spot about a mile from the radio station and let her out of his car. She called police from a nearby house. Mueller's head injuries were not considered serious, receiving hospital doctors said. President Urges Continuance of Rent Controls Washington. Apr. 21 IU.R) President Truman today urged congress to continue federal rent controls until June 30. 1951, to prevent "a wave of exorbitant rent increases. In a special message to the house and senate, Mr. Truman said the housing shortage is still acute and that abolition of rent controls would mean "serious hardship for millions." But in extending rent con trols, the president said, "we should continue the present pol icy of granting the landlord all justifiable increases in rent." Increases Authorized Under the law which expires June 30, Mr. Truman said, land lords in the past year alone have been granted increases covering more than 900,000 units. The average increase authorized, he said, was 18 per cent. But experience has proved, he said, that where controls were dropped "prematurely," rents as much as 56 per cent. "It is clear, therefore, that a sudden and simultaneous re mocal of rent controls on a na tional scale would precipitate a wave of exorbitant rent in creases. Espee Will Remain On Standard Time San Francisco. Apr. 21 (U.R) The Southern Pacific railroad will continue to operate its pas senger trains on standard time when daylight saving time be comes effective April 30. However, the company will schedule many trains operating entirely within California an hour earlier. This means that trains will arrive and depart at the same time as they do under standard time. These intra-state trains include commuter trains between San Francisco and San Jose, San Francisco and Los Angeles (coast), San Francisco and Sacra mento and most trains on the San Joaquin valley lines. The changes to be made in intra-state trains include service on the Owl, to afford convenient connections with the Shasta Day light, the Starlights and the West Coast between Los Angeles and Sacramento. Northwestern Pacific will schedule the departure of its pas senger train between San Rafael and Eureka a half-hour later un der daylight saving. DC-4 Plane To Be at Airport Here Sunday Heralding the innaugural of United Air lines DC-4 airliner service to Medford on April 30, tho air rnrrior firm will have one of the big planes at the Med ford municipal airport on Sun day, April 23, for public inspec tion. Thp three women who suggest ed Hawthorne park, name chos en after a poll tor ncsignaung the new city park, will get rides aboard the DC-4 as part recog nition for proposing the winning name. They are Mrs. nazei Bur ger, Miss Neva Samuels and Mrs. Charles Snedden. President- Will By Latest War Machines Washington. Apr. 21 (U.R) iinHnr louden skv. President Truman flew south today for a two-day look at some of the na tion's latest war machines in action. . The president, with members of his staff, took off at 7;39 a.m. EST from National airport for Ft. Benning. Ga. They flew aboard the president's plane, the lndpnendence. To Watch Plants After a seven-hour visit at one of the army's largest installs-.-. k flv to F.Iain field, and air force base in North Flor ida where he will devote most oi tomorrow to watching the new- , -l-np in action with live ammunition and bombs. While at Benning ana tigm, ip Tmmon uill tee ground and air denjccitraUoni staged by the Race Information Abets Corruption, Committee Told Charge Made at Hearing by Senators Washington, Apr. 21 (U.R) Senate crime investigators were told today that racing informa tion provided by the Continental Press service leads to "corrupt ing police departments through out the country." That charge was made to a senate commerce subcommittee by Mayor Delesseps S. Morrison of New Orleans and Police Chief William A. Worton of Los Angeles. Linked to Killings Thev linked the racing news service to the old Capone gang of the prohibition era and to more recent gang killings on the west coast. Both officials, along with Mayor Fletcher Bowron of Los Angeles, asked the committee to approve a proposed justice de partment bill to outlaw the in terstate transmission of certain gambling news. The measure would hit Continental, which operates out of headquarters in Cleveland and is owned by one Edward J. McBride, according to Worton. Worton. a retired marine ma jor general, charged flatly on the witness stand that the racing news service is responsible for "corruption" of police depart ments all over the country. Testimony Amended ' He amended that, testimony later in talking to reporters. Ex plaining that he did not mean the service itself is corrupting police officers. He said action by congress is "vital." because "it is a national problem of the very greatest con cern to all branches of govern ment ... an even greater prob lem than the prohibition day gangsters." The law is needed, Morrison said, in the same way that fed eral statutes were needed to curb "kidnaping, bank slickups, auto thefts and narcotics . . . without any encouchment on local self government." Marshall Brought Into McCarthy's Charges Washington. Apr. 21 (U.R) Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R., Wis.) broadened his attack upon the state department today to in clude former Secretary George C. Marshall, who. he said, was "completely unfit" for the cabi net post. McCarthy said "it was a crime . . . a pathetic thing" to put Mar shall in charge of John Stewart Service, Owen Lattimore "and so forth." He suggested that Mar shall "boned up" on China by reading the works of Lattimore, the man McCarthy has accused of being a communist and a spy. spy. Injection of Marshall's name into the current controversy came as a complete surprise. Re publicans have grumbled about his ill-fated mission to China, but they have avoided direct criti cism of the wartime chief of staff. Coast Guard Probes Crash of Vessels San Francisco, Apr. 21 (U.R) A headon collision between a freighter and a large navy tank er in San Francisco bay was in vestigated today by coast guard and navy officials. The two vessels, the Pope and Talbert freighter Laura Bridge man and the navy tanker U. S. S. Chipola. collided while making their way through a patch of heavy fog near the Golden Gate yesterday. Coast guard officials said the ships hit "dead center, stem to stem." The freighter suffered a caved-in bow and the navy ship sustained ".8.94" damage above the watprline. Both vessels docked under their own power and no injuries to personnel were reported. The Chipola was outbound for San Pedro, Cal., while the Bridgcman was inbound from Los Angeles. See Show defense department as part of the annual joint civilian orienta tion conference. The conference was designed to acquaint representative busi ness, labor, religious and profes sional men with up-to-date prob lems and techniques of the army, navy arid air force. The conference began here last Monday and will end at the Pensacola naval air station next Monday night. Mr. Truman will participate in the exercises today and to morrow only, returning to Wash ington late tomorrow afternoon. He was scheduled to reach Ft. Benning at 10:15 a.m. Maj. Gen. Withers A. Burress. command ing general of the infantry cen ter, will escort the chief execu tive immediately to a review of tbe 3rd infantry division, - Russia Claims Western Powers Making Military Base Of Trieste Washington, Apr. 21 (U.R) The Soviet Union stepped up its cold war offensive in eastern Europe today by accusing the western powers of turning the free territory of Trieste into a military base. Officials believe the Russian maneuver is designed to upset the west's effort to settle the Trieste question peaceably. In an effort to offset the new Russian drive, the state depart ment sought ways of increasing the effectiveness of U. S. propa ganda abroad. May Increase Broadcast There were indications that congress may be asked to boost and possibly double the appropriation for the Voice of America. Its chief, Foy Koh ler, said the U.S. broadcasts amount to about half the output of radio Moscow at a time when the voice is the most effective means for presenting the Ameri can story to the peoples of east ern Europe. Russia reopened the Trieste dispute last night in notes deliv ered in Washington, London and Rogue River Bond Issue Beaten by Two Vote Margin Rogue River, Apr. 21 A pro posed $115,000 school bond is sue to provide funds for erec tion of a six-unit grade school and an addition to the high school here, was voted down at a special election last night by a vote of 158' to 1 54. Fifty per ceni or ciiginic voters in tnc dis trict cast their ballots. School board members met after the election to discuss solu tions for the problem of the overcrowded grade school. They asked taxpayers for their sug gestions. ' A taxpayers' group had met last week to consider a more conservative building 'program in event the bond issue failed. It was reported at that meeting that an eight-acre tract of land within the city limits was avail able for about $4,000. Additional Signatures Ask Ashland Recall Two more petitions have been filed with the county clerk here bearing signatures of Ashland residents favoring the recall of Mayor Thomas WilliHins and Councilman Elmer Sheldon. The clerk's office has validated 146 signatures on the petition aimed at Williams' job and 147 on the petition against Sheldon. A total of 30 names was stricken as not valid. Added to the signatures that were filed here on the first re call petitions, the new names make a total of 687 registered voters protesting Williams and 694 opposing Sheldon. The law requires only 493 names on each of the petitions, As a result of the petitions, the recall mesa lire will be placed on the May 19 primary ballots in Ashland. Warrant Issued for DeCicco Son's Arrest Portland. Ore., Apr. 21 (U.R) Pierce county police in Tacoma. Wash., today notified Multno mah county police here that a warrant charging grand larceny has been issued against Louis WiUiam Decicco, 34, son of Mike Dccicco, prominent Portland tire dealer and treasurer of the Ore gon democratic parly. The sheriff's office was ad vised that bail would be $5,000 in the event louis Decicco is ap prehended. Decicco is charged with taking $1,007 from a Ta coma business firm April 7. He has not been seen in Tacoma since. Posthumous Awards To Fliers Approved Washington. Apr. 21 (U.R) The house with an emphatic vote of .'130 to 0 approved to day posthumous decorations for 10 American fliers who died in the Baltic plane incident. The house added its approval to the senate-passed resolution after Chairman Carl Vinson of the armed services committee called the incident a "barbar ous attack" by Soviet fighters on an unarmed American plane. The Georgia democrat said the congress should promptly fol low up its tribute to the navy fliers by putting up more money lor more air power. N Paris. Its accusations were inter preted as part of a series of Kremlin power plays along the eastern European front of the cold war. Here is a box score of the Rus sian offensive so far: 1. The United States was charged with "deliberate inter national provocation" in sending a bomber over Soviet-occupied Latvia, which opened fire on So viet fighter planes. (The U. S. position is that the Russians shot down an unarmed American plane over the open Baltic sea.) Dardanelles Campaign Opened 2. A campaign to wipe out American influence in eastern Europe which was culminated in the closing of American "libra ries" in Czechoslovakia and the ouster of a U.S. embassy attache on "spy" charges. 3. The long-dormant Soviet campaign to gain control of the Dardanelles flared anew as the controlled Moscow press at tacked Turkey and demanded revision of the Montreux conven tion designed to keep Russian warships out of the Mediterran ean. o f P.O. CUTS JOBS Joseph Dodge scratches his head In bewilder ment ax he ponders newspaper headline and Postofflce notice on mailbox In San Francisco announcing the extension of clerk-carrier examinations. Confusing, Isn't 11? Bell System Resumes Phone Strike Talks New York, Apr. 21 (U.R) The Bell system, rejecting an arbitration award which the union endorsed, resumed its ne gotiations today with the com munications workers of America (CIO) In an effort to head off a nationwide telephone strike. Western Electric officials and representatives of the CWA's di vision 6 met at the hotel New Yorker wilh federal mediation Commissioner T. R. Steutcl. Wag Boost Rejected J. H. MacKenzie, Western Electric labor relations manager for the installation division, headed the company negotiators. Transportation Seen As Russian Target Indianapolis, Ind., Apr. 21 (U.R) National American Legion Commander George N. Craig be lieves any potential Russian atomic attack will be aimed first at the nation's transportation system. "Transportation is recognized as the first line of defense." he told a dinner meeting last night. BULLETIN Jackion county's Mercy Flights air ambulance plan was called en an emergency trip to LikeTiew at about 1:45 p, m. today. Airport lourcei id that Rogue valley cou ple war Involved in an auto mobile accident near that city and that the woman suffered a broken back. The plan was to bring her to Medford and then on to Portland for emergency medical treatment. Nam of the couple was not learned. George Milligen, Mercy Flights chairman, was piloting the hip, and co pilot wss John Appltgtt, lirport msngt 4. Increased pressure on Fin land to force her more firmly into the Russian orbit through thinly veiled charges that Fin- nisn-Amencans are spying on the Soviet Union. In its Trieste note, Russia said the situation has become "intol erable" in the Adriatic seaport. It charged that the western pow ers had violated their obligations under the Italian peace treaty. which set up Trieste as a free territory and provided for ap pointment of a governor by the u.i. security council. Russia ignored the fact that the security council never was able to agree on a governor, and that the United States, Britain and France proposed in March, 1948, that the territory be re turned to Italy. That proposal still is the offi cial basis of American policy, although U, S. officials now acknowledge that any settlement "must take Yugoslavia's interests into account." This is widely in terpreted as the result of better relations with Yugoslavia follow ing Marshal Tito's break with the Kremlin. (Armm Telenhotot Ernest Weaver, division 6 presi dent, represented the 11,000 in stallers who have threatened to walk out. The talks were resumed short ly after another of the Bell sys tem's subsidiaries, the American Telephone tc Telegraph com pany, rejected a $2.50 wage In crease awarded 11,000 New Jer sey telephone operators. CWA leaders, however, re garded the New Jersey state arbitrators board decision as "the first significant break" in the wage dispute. H. K. Killlngsworth, vice president of the long lines de partment of the A. T. &. T., said the decision "would have no bearing on the bargaining with our union." The New Jersey Telephone company said It would challenge the decision, which was handed down yesterday in Trenton, In court. The company also asked immediately for substantial rate increase to offset the operators boosts, which ranged from 50 cents to $2.50 a week and pro vided for a union shop. Pendleton Will Be Major Truman Stop Pendleton, Ore., Apr. 21 (U.R) President Truman's major stop in Oregon May 10 en route to Grand Coulee dam will be in Pendleton, it was disclosed to day, A public meeting is scheduled for the city's new Vert memorial auditorium, where Mr. Truman will deliver an address to be broadcast throughout the state. Station stops along the way have already been announced by the White House for Huntington, Baker and La Grande, all in eastern Oregon. One or more other platform itopi may be added later. RUSSIA DECLINES PLANE PROTEST London, Apr. 21 (U.R) Russia today categorically rejected an American protest against a Soviet attack on an American plan and warned that its fighters would deal similarly with any other foreign aircraft flying over Soviet territory. Radio Moscow said the Soviet reply to an American note of last Tuesday was handed bv Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vish insky to United States Ambassador Alan G. Kirk at the Kremlin. Kirk said he would forward the note to Washington. Intercepted Plan Claimed Flying Fortress The American note had charged that Soviet fighters' shot down an unarmed United States navy Privateer carrying a crew ol 10 over the open Baltic sea April 8. No wreckage or survivors have been found. The Soviet reply: 1. Contended that the plane which Its fighters intercepted was not an unarmed Privateer, but a B-29 "Flying Fortress" en gaged in photographing Soviet Defense installations. 2. Insisted that the American plane opened fire first after Soviet fighters intercepted it 13 miles inside Soviet territory south of the big Soviet naval base of Liepaja in Latvia. America Must Bear Sol Responsibility 3. Said the United States must bear sole responsibility for the incident. 4. Warned that Russia has no intention of altering its stand ing instructions to Soviet airmen to fire upon any plane over Soviet territory which resists orders to land. 5. Rejected American demands that Russia pay indemnity for the loss of the plane and the crew and rebuke Soviet airmen who fired upon it. The note said Russia did not1 know whether the American plane was lost. "But if the American aircraft was indeed lost," the note said, "then the responsibility for its loss lies entirely with those gen tlemen who obliged the Amer ican aircraft to penetrate Soviet territory and photograph Soviet defense installations, and so urged if to violate international law and the inviolability of the Soviet frontier." The Soviets insisted that the plane which its fighters inter cepted was "a B-29 Flying Forte ress . . , carrying American iden tification marks." Might Be Mistaken Actually the B-29 is a Super fortress, somewhat larger than the older B-1T Flying Fortress. The Privateer also is a single- tailed, four-engined plane and American airmen said that it might be mistaken at a distance for cither a B-29 or a B-17. However, the United States has insisted throughout that the missing navy rivateer was tin armed. It left Wiesbaden at 10:31 a. m. GMT. April 8, on what was described as a routine flight to Copenhagen, Denmark and back. It lost radio contact after sev eral hours and never reached Copenhagen. Murderer's Appeal Filed With Court Suicm. Ore., Apr. 21 (U.R) An appeal on behalf of Morris Lclnnd, sentenced to die in the stale prison gas chamber here for the murder of Thelma A. Taylor of Portland, was filed with the Oregon supreme court here to day. The appeal automatically stays the execution, sentence for which was made mandatory when a Jury convicted Lclnnd November 9 of heating and stab bing Thelma Taylor to death Aug. 6. 1949. T. H. Ryan of the Portland law firm of Ryan and Pclay, who de fended Leland, has 20 days in which to file his brief. Then the appellant has still another 10 days In which to reply to the state's brief. Leland was sentenced by Mult nomah County Circuit Judge James W. Crawford November 14 to death in the gas chamber at Oregon stale prison. Central Point Bond Issue Revote Slated Central Point, Apr. 21 Resi dents of consolidated school dis trict No. 6 will be asked to re affirm a bond Issue previously approved when they go to the polls Monday, April 24, The revote is scheduled on the 7.500,000 bond Issue school pa trons authorized last November for construction of a new high school at Central Point. A Port land bonding attorney's interpre tation of law concerning a con solidation election necessitated the second bond vote. Polls will be open from 2 to 8 p. m. at the Gold Hill school gymnasium and the Central Point high school gymnasium. East Coast Shipping Walkout Is Averted New York, April 21 (U.R) A strike that would have tied tip shipping on the cast and gulf coasts was everted today when the shipowners and union agreed to a contract providing for a closed shop for ships' officers. The agreement between some 40 shipping companies and the Masters, Mates and Pilots of America (AFL) was reached at 9 a. m. after more than 22 hours of continuous negotiations. The strike had been scheduled for midnight tomorrow. Railroads Planning Substitutions for Striking Firemen Chicago. Apr. 21 (U.R) Two of the nation's four strike-threat ened railroad systems planned today to keep their trains run ning even if firemen walk off the job. Spokesmen for the other two systems threatened with a strike next Wednesday refused to com ment. To U Supervisors . , . Officials of the Santa Fe said the big western road "definite ly" will try to run trains, prob ably with supervisory personnel taking the place of striking fire men. Spokesmen for the New York Central and its subsidiaries, th Michigan Central, Ohio Central, and Big Four said they, too, plan to operate despite the strike. But sDokesmen for the Penn sylvania and the Southern re fused to say whether they would attempt operations. The four strike-threatened sys tems include seven major rail roads and many smaller subsidi aries. The Brotherhood of Locomo tive Firemen and Enginemen set the strike deadline to support demands that the railroads as sign an extra fireman to each multiple-unit diesel locomotive. No further negotiations liav been scheduled in the dispute, but officials of the Michigan Central said they were hoping for a settlement before the dead line at 6 a.m. Wednesday. ' How ever, they did not elaborate. Russia, Red China Sign Trade Agreement Moscow, Apr. 21 (U.R) Rus sia and communist China hav signed a new 1950 trade agree ment whereby the Soviet will supply equipment and the Chin ese raw materials, it was an nounced today. The announcement said the agreement was signed by Soviet Minister of Foreign Trade M. A. Mcnshikov and Chinese com munist minister of commerce Ych Chi Chuang on April 19. At Ihe same time a protocol was signed calling for Soviet de liveries between 1050 and 1952 of equipment and raw materials promised in a loan agreement signed previously. The Chinese delegation left for home yesterday. Drputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and other important Soviet officall saw them off. SOC Building Contract To Be Let Next Week Ashland, Apr. 21 Southern Oregon college officials said to day that contracts for construc tion of the proposed new $350, 000 library and classroom build ing at SOC will be let at a meet ing of the state board of higher education In Portland, on Thurs day. April 23. The final budget for the year will be presented at the board's meeting. Two houses, now owned by the college, will be removed within the next 10 days to make way for Immediate construction work on the new building. On is to be torn down and the other moved. London, Apr. 21 (U.R) Sir Harry Lauder, Scots minstrel who died February 26, left 358, 971 pounds ($1,005,118.80), his will disclosed today.