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Medford United Press Full Lease Wire 45th Year. STONES TOSSED 3 JET PLANE COMES A CROPPER One mishap marred the aerial activity at the Medford airport over the week-end, when one of a flight of five F-86 jet fighters undershot the runway while landing, and skidded to a halt some thousand yards away. Shown above just before it was dragged off the runway, the plane was piloted by Lt. B. E. Gigsons, who was uninjured. Several thousand Medford residents crowded to the airport to see the jets land, and many were attracted by the crippled plane. The F-86 is the air force's fastest operational fighter, being rated officialy at speeds "in excess of 670 miles per hour." What looks, like an open hatch in the rear section of the fuselage is really an "air-brake," used by the plane to slow its speed for landings. Armed Services Group Approves Washington. May 1 lU.R) The house armed services com mittee today unanimously ap proved legislation to let the navy start work on a $335 mil 1 i o n modernization program that will include construction of an atomic-powered submarine. The nuclear-powered subma rine will cost S40 million. It is one of four experimental under water cratt included in the mod ernization program. Adm. Forrest P. Sherman, chief of naval operations told the commit! t- hopes the Handle Company At White City Burns To Ground A large warehouse structure housing the Mt. Pitt company, manufacturer of wooden han dles, was burned to the ground at the Camp White industrial area last night. Ed Collins, Medford, operated the plant. Origin of the blaze was not known late this morning. Bob Schott. assistant sales manager for White City Lumber com pany, owner of the building, said the 'amount of the loss had not been determined but probably exceeded $50,000. The loss was partiallv covered by insurance. The Camp White. Eagle Point and Medford fire departments and the forest service dispatched fire fighting equipment to the scene and succeeded in keeping the fire from spreading to an ad joining building or to lath or other wood products in the area. Discovered about 9:30 p. m., the blaze was brought under control about 12:30 a. m. Hears "Explosion" John Johnson of the adjacent Northwest Manufacturing com pany reportedly noted the blaze, seeing flames ' coming out the windows after hearing an "ex plosion." , Schott today expressed appre ciation for the way the various fire departments and people of the vicinity came to the aid of the company. Six men and the 1.000 gallon pumper were sent out by the Medford department in line with its mutual aid agreement with other communities. The truck stood by to protect the other buildings and the surrounding area, and Medford firemen help ed lay out hose from other trucks. Mayor of Wisconsin Town City to Communists in Mock Revolution Mosince. Wis.. May 1 iU.R) Mayor Ralph Kronewettcr, with a gun lammed in his back, today "surrendered" the town of Mosi nce to "communist invaders." Many of the town s 2.000 resi dents assembled on a muddy football field designated as "Red Square'' to witness the surren der after a mock "revolution." The demonstration was designed to show what life would be like under red rule. The formal surrender cli maxed a parade and the "execu tion" of Police Chief Carl Gewis for refusing to surrender his two-man police force. A "commissar" held a gun at Kroncwetter's back as the mayor announced the surrender 10 Pages J, i? Navy Work atomic sub can be completed in three years. Experimental work has been started on its nuclear engines. Sherman said the navy now has anti-aircraft guided missiles good enough to warrant imme diate installation on ships. The modernization program calls for conversion of a heavy cruiser into a guided missile launcher at a cost of about $40 million, he said. In all, 112 new vessels would be built under the program and 30 ships would be converted to new uses. In addition to the atomic pow ered submarine, these other subs would be built: 1. A midget submarine, dis placing 250 tons and costing $3 million. 2. A "target and experimen tal" submarine, displacing 1,100 tons and costing $10 million. 3. A 2,200 ton experimental sub with a secret "closed cycle" power plant of a new type re quiring no external source of air. Cost $37 million. Sherman said the guided mis siles were designed primarily for use against aircraft, but he gave no details. Salem Woman Evades Injury in Auto Crash Salem. Ore., May 1 (U.R) Mrs. Nellie E. Chapin of Salem escaped without serious injury Saturday when her car crashed through a narrow bridge and set tled on its side in the shallow water of Clear lake north of Sa lem, state police said today. Investigating officers said cars driven by Mrs. Chapin and Mrs. Gladys Barnick of Salem brushed on the narrow bridge and Mrs. Chapin lost control of her car, which was extensively damaged, and about 25 feet of bridge rail ing was knocked out. All Not Sublime For Sublimity Man Salem, Ore., May 1 UR All was not sublime todav for Henry Moen, 20, of Sublimity, Ore. Moen went to the county jail in Vancouver. Wash., to visit an incarcerated friend. An alert deputy checked Moen's name as he chatted with his friend in a cell. The officer discovered Moen was wanted here for forgery. The hapless "visitor" waived extradition and was brought to a cell of his own here. and said. "God must have willed it this way." Make-believe members of the proletariat, carrying placards saying, "Stalin is our leader," shouted approval. Gewiss and Kronowctter were seized at their homes and dragged to city hall by a "com munist gorilla squad." "Com missar" Benjamin Gitlow, as leader of the squad, demanded that Gewiss surrender the police force. "Never;" Gewiss shouted. Gitlow, one of two ex-members of the U. S. communist par ty, who are acting as commis sars for the seizure, stepped close to Gewiss and said, "If you know what's good tot you, MEDFORD, OREGON, Y WEST POLICE PELT RUSSIANS IN BERLIN Berlin, May 1 (UP) Anti-comrnunist Western police pelted Soviet sector police with stones today in a flareup in the heart of Berlin after two huge May day demonstration by more than 750,000 persons. The most threatening of several flurries of rough ness occurred in the Potsdamerplatz, where the Amer ican, British and Soviet sectors meet. Hundreds of Germans massed in the square taunted the Soviet-controlled police as "swine." East and west sector police joined forces to put down the storie throwing before it got well under way. The demonstrators fled as soon as a show of police force was organized. The rival demonstrations in the east and west sectors of Berlin highlighted May day demonstrations throughout Europe. The western powers alerted 12, 000 west Berlin police and 8,000 allied troops here against the threat of a test of strength. Stragglers Toss Stones At East Second Police The Berlin stone throwers were stragglers from a crowd of half a million which overflowed the Tiergarten in the British sec ton. The meeting over, a few hundred wandered along the east-west border to the Potsdam er Platz. They snatched stones from heaps of rubble and hurled them at the east sector police across the street, A few east second po lice were hit, but none seemed to be badly injured. At the Brandenburg gate just off the Tiergarten, where the west Berlin rally was held, oth er groups of anti-communists jeered communist youth across the border. But east sector police and civilians, ordered by the Soviet and German communist leaders to keep out of west Berlin, re fused to be drawn into fights. Roar Approval The Tiergarten crowd roared approval of statements by anti communist speakers, including Irving Brown of the Aemrican Federation of Labor, and shook fists at armed sentries guarding the Soviet war memorial just inside the British sector. Scattered fist fights broke out and taunts flew moderately thick and fast as the Berliners gath ered for the two demonstrations less than a mile apait. The 8,000 western allied sol diers who stood by against an emergency remained idle as the west German police kept the restive situation generally under control. In the Soviet sector Lustgar ten. German communist speakers told the 250,000 Germans gath ered there that salvation depend ed on collaboration with Russia. Federal Mediation Asked in Negotiations Portland, Ore., May 1 (U.R) Craft employees of the Trout dale plant of the Reynolds Met als company said today they re quested federal mediation in their pension negotiations. Federal Mediator I. I. Pickett has been assigned as conciliator in the negotiations, now under wav more than eight months. The aluminum plant's 150 ma chinists, teamsters, painters, blacksmiths and electricians have been bargaining as a com mittee since Aug. 19, 1949. RETIRED DOCTOR DIES Seaside, Ore., May 1 (U.R) Dr. Carl George Patterson, 72, retired physician formerly of Baker, died today at his Seaside home. Surrenders you big galoot, you'll come over to our side." "Never!" said Gewiss. "What is your last word," Git low asked. "Never," said Gewiss. Gitlow pointed a German Hi ger at Gewiss' head and pulled the trigger. Since the sponsors of the affair didn't deem it nec essary to actually kill Gewiss to accomplish their purpose. Git low's pistol was not loaded. The 'dead" man walked away and held a conference with 20 special policemen to determine how best to handle the day's crowds that were expected to throng to rallies and other tunc tloni. . MONDAY, MAY 1, 1950 MM DAY D Stalin Reviews May Day Parade Over Red Square Moscow, May 1 (U.R) An ar mada of jet planes, including what may be a rrcw Russian model, swept over Red Square today in a mighty May day pa rade reviewed bv Premier Josef Stalin. Giant tanks and other ground, weapons rolled before Stalin as he stood with his closest aides on Lenin's tomb. Stalin looked vigorous and healthy. After the troops marched past there was a demonstration of about 2 mi' lion civilians. ' Son Pilots Plane The premier's son. Lt. Gen. Vassili Stalin, piloted the lead plane, a four-motor bomber. The low-flying armada, consisting ot scores of bombers and jet fight ers, flashed by so fast no foreign observer could get a good view. But there were at least two types of jets and some military observers said there was one new model hitherto undisplayed. Impressive Parade It was one of the most impres sive military parades in Soviet history. Some foreign military observers said there were more jet fiehters than ever before, in dicating that jets as well as four engined bombers now are being mass produced. Stalin, Viachcslav M. Molo tov. Georgi Malenkov and other politburo members and mili tary leaders, heard the chief of the general staff. Gen. Scrgi Shtcmcnko, ldelivcr a message to the troops. Shtemenko said the Soviet armed forces are strong and ready to defend the father land. "Warmongers remember," he said, "that no arms race, provo cations or military blocs will frighten the Soviet people." Japan Demonstrators Celebrate May Day Tokyo, Mav 1 (U.R) More than 700,000 demonstrators throughout Japan took advan tage of perfect spring weather today to celebrate the biggest May day in the country s his tory. An estimated 400,000 persons jammed into the Imperial plaza opposite Gen. Douglas MacAr thur's headquarters to hear left and right wing speakers. Communist Sanzo Nozaka pre dicted the Japanese government would announce a major anti communist policv within 48 hours. Ho was believed to be re ferring to MacArthur's impend ing message to the Japanese on constitution day Wednesday. Portland Rider Wins 20-Lap Cycle Event Don Kinriall. Portland, won the 20-lap expert main event of the motorcycle races at Valley View track vesterriav. His time was 8 minutes. 48 seconds. Don Smplc. Medford. took the lS-lap amateur final In 4 minutes. 48 S seconds and Har old Sargant. Grants Pass, was novice main victor in 3 minutes, 48. 5 seconds. It was 10 laps. New York. May 1 'U.R) Mrs. Catherine Freidt was charged to r'.av with killing her seven-;iir;itlis-old son by putting io dine in Us feeding bottle, Thibune BIG-PLANE SERVICE INAUGURATED Twice-a-day service to Medford by four-engined DC-4 United Mainliners started yester day. On hand to officiate at brief ceremonies were a number of southern Oregon officials. In the picture above Mrs. Diamond L. Flynn, wife of Medford's mayor, is shown as she is about to snip the red-white-and-blue ribbon symbolic of the new service. Others in the picture are, from left, Walter Carson, United manager here; Mrs. Flynn; Mrs. Thomas Williams, wife of Ashland's mayor; Seely Hall, manager of ground operations for United, an air pio neer in Medford, and first United station manager here; an uniden tified United stewardess, and Mrs. Morris Millbank, wife of the mayor of Grants Pass. (Brainerd photo.) Many Visit Airport; DC-4 Se rvice Starts A Douglas DC-4 four-motored plane roared to a stop at the United Air lines terminal here yesterday morning on a flight that marked the first scheduled landing of a plane that size in Medford. Walter Carson, Unit- ed's Medford manager, observed the occasion with a display of historical aviation photos and clippings in the terminal lobby and with a ribbon-cutting cere mony attended by a large group of Medford residents interested hi the expansion of air service here. Seely Hall, manager of Unit- Missing Portland Aviators Located Portland, Ore., May 1 (U.R) William T. Peters, 67, and Frank Fraser, 54, missing since Satur day on a flight from John Day, Ore., to Boise, Ida., arrived safely at an isolated sheep ranch in southern Oregon and reported their plane was forced down when it ran out of gasoline. Peters reported he landed the plane on a highway in a remote section of desolate plains coun try Saturday afternoon. They hiked to the Fitzgerald sheep ranch, which had no tele phone. From there Fraser rode a horse 70 miles to Lakevicw from where he called members of his and Peters' families in Portland. . The civil air patrol and air rescue service, which had HO planes in the air searching for the last plane, called oft the hunt. Peters was described as ' com pletely exhausted" from his long walk to' the Fitszgerald ranch and remained there to rest. He relavcd a message through Fras er that he had been "completely lost" when he was forced down. Winter Blanket Covers Klamath Basin Region Klamath Falls. Ore., May 1 (U.Ri May dav blew into Klam ath Falls today with a belated winter snowfall. The entire Klamath basin was blanketed early in the morning with snow and temperatures tum bled below freezing. Mountain tops were given a white cover, but in the lowlands it wasn't sticking. Would-Be Safecrackers Muff Big-Y Theft Try Burglars who tried to crack the safe at the Big "Y" market Saturday night or early Sunday morning succeeded only in mak ing the Job of opening the safe difficult for experts yesterday, it was reported this morning. The burglars bored four holes in the door and attempted to open it with a powder charge, badly damaging the door, ac cording to reports. The explosion wrecked the control and caused the self-locking device to take hold. Experts labored about five hours to open the safe. Entry to the building was gain ed by sawing a hole in the roof. Wires, fuse caps and various other paraphernalia were left by the safe by the would-be thieves. United Press Furl Lease Wire emJSTwiis ed's ground operations and a pio neer of commercial aviation in Medford, was the first passenger to deplane here and was greeted by a delegation composed of Mayor . and Mrs. Diamond L. Flynnof Medford, Mayor and Mrs. Thomas Williams of Ash land and Mayor and Mrs. Mor ris Millbank of Grants Pass. Plane ton North Hall was presented with gift parcels, of Medford pears before reboarding the flight with May or Flynn for similar observances of the new service at Eugene and Salem. The four-motored planes, with luxury-type accommodations for 44 passengers, will make two stops here daily, one each north and southbound, for flights to Eugene, Salem, Portland and Seattle and to San Francisco and Los Angeles. The first flight ceremony at the United terminal was only the beginning of a day of heavy air and visitor traffic at the air port yesterday. A total of 34 military aircraft were on the aprons during the day, including a flight of jet fighters from Mc Clellan field. Thousands of visitors, attract ed by the roar of the Jets over the valley Saturday and Sunday filled all available parking places at the field and crowded onto tne ramps for a glimpse of the speedy big Jets and the navy, ma rine and air national guard planes that used the field over the week-end. Routine use of the field by private and commercial aircraft. in addition to the large number of military craft, created what airport traffic controllers called an unusually heavy day. Hours of Barbershops To Remain Unchanged Hubert A. DeHaas, secretary of Barbers union local 269, em phasized today that the adoption of a 40-hour work week by many barbers 1 n this district will not result in any change of hours at barber shops. The shops will continue to operate six days a week. DeHaas said many bar bers have been working the 40 hour week for two years and that others will now follow In line. Three Hospitalized By Portland Cave-In Portland. Ore.. May 1 (U.R) An excavation cave-in on I city sewer project today sent three workmen to Emanuel hospital for treatment of injuries. Norwood Braxton, William J. Aufdemorte and Ruben Schana man were buried to the waist in the excavation, but were extri cated from the 1 0-foot deep hole by other workmen. Braxton was the must seriously injured. Police' Alerted After YrekaHold-Up Reported State police In this area were alerted last night after a hold-up was reported about 7:40 p. m. at Yreka. Cal. Two armed men held up a Standard service station, It was aid. They forced an attendant to open the safe and between $100 and $150 was taken. The two fled In-t blue sedan. WEATHER FORECAST: Ptrtlr cloudy to night and Tueidavt with howtri, mostly In th moun Ulnt. Cooler tontfht and wrmr Tusiday. Tmp. Htrhut Ys(erdxy S3 Lowest thli Mornlnc ,'41 Prec. to 4:30 A.M. Today .01 No. 34 Briton Identifies Owen Lattimore As Commie Member Subcommittee Hears Woman's Testimony Washington. May 1 (U.R) Former Communist Freda Utley said today that Owen Lattimore and his wife apparently "decided to throw in their lot with the communist totalitarians" some time in 1940. Mrs. Utley, a British born former communist, testified be fore the senate foreign relations sub-committee on contacts with Lattimore in this country and in Moscow, she said he began with "critical" sympathy for the So viet regime and ended in "out and out" defense of its actions. Couldn't Prove It "He (Lattimore) wants, it seems to me, to be on the win ning side and he thinks the communists are going to win," she said. She conceded that she could not prove that Lattimore ever had actually joined the com munist party. But she said: "Some time after his visit to Moscow in 1936, he seemed to have become a communist fel low traveler as I shall demon strate by his writings." The subcommittee If investi gating charges by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, (R., Wis.) that the state department is loaded with communists. McCarthy has said that Lattimore was a communist and a Soviet spy, and he has of- tcrea to stake his entire case against the department on the Lattimore charges. Met in Moscow Mrs. Utley said she first met the Lattimorcs in Moscow in 1936 when the Johns Hopkins professor was there as an Ameri can delegate from' the Institute of Pacific Relations. At that time, sne said, she was working for the famous Soviet economist, Eu gene Varga, in the Russian branch of the IPR. Later, she said, she met the Lattimores in London and In the United States. Mrs. Utley began her state ment on Lattimore with an at tack upon communism and the Soviet Union. She said that she was a communist from 1928 until 1U31. Unconscious Woman Found in Speedboat San Pedro. Cal.. Mav 1 U.R) A woman tentatively identified as Mrs. Dorothea Panice Rice Fclka, 38. of Anchorage. Alaska, was hospitalized today after be ing rescued unconscious from i speeding, pilotless speedboat in Catalina channel. San Pedro receiving hospital authorities said she suffered a bruise on the temple, exposure and sunburn. She still was in a coma eight hours after being ad- muica to tne nospital. Police said the bruise could have resulted from a fall or blow. The Sea Scout cruiser Manta spotted what seemed to be an un manned speedboat about two miles off the San Pedro break water yesterday. The scouts drew close and saw a woman clad only in a batning suit lying face down in the bottom of the boat. Governor McKay Designates Boys, Girls Week in State Salem, Ore., May 1 (U.R) Gov. Douglas McKay designated this week as boys and girls week in Oregon and said the strength and security of America are re liant on the good citizenship training received by the nation's young people. Observance of the week Is on a national basis. Gov. McKay stated: "The oblccts of the week are to call the attention of the pub lic to the potentialities and prob lems oi youtn ana tne toys and opportunities of service to youth: to give Impetus to year-around programs of char acter-building activities for the general welfare of boys and girls, and to acquaint the public with the agencies which are serving these purposes; to em phasize the importance of physi cal, mental, and spiritual devel opment of youth: and to em phasize the need of instilling in boys and girls the love of coun try and respect for its laws and established Institutions and of bringing to each the realization Drawing Up of Contract Delaying Strikers7 Return Verbal Agreement on All Points Claimed Detroit, May 1 'U.PJ A high company official said today that verbal agreement has been reached on all points to settle the Chrysler strike, but the CIO United Auto Workers declared issues still were in dispute. Herman L. Weckler. Chrysler vice-president and general man ager. said only contract "Ian guage" was preventing a return to work of the 89,000 strikers. UAW President Walter P. Reuther promptly denied this. There still are unresolved is sues," the tired union leader de clared. "The union prefers to work for a solution of these is sues rather than engage in- a propaganda war with Mr. Weck ler." Weckler's statement that the long an costly strike was nearing an end came after more than 46 hours of gruelling "do or die" bargaining to end the 97-day strike. The agreement, when In final form, will include S100 a month pensions for the 89.000 striking workers and hospital-medical insurance program believed the ai.'u tne automtive industry. Although haggard and blear eyed, bargainers gave no Indica tion of quitting until a contract is born in the littered, smoky conference rooms. The strike, second longest in automotive history, has idled more than 144.000 persons, in cluding the strikers, across the nation. It has cost production of more than 450,000 cars and trucks. In his terse statement, Weck ler said: "Assuming that the TJAW stands by its verbal agreements on Issues that have been dis- CllsseH nt'of . , tC. r. "vcr aan dur ing the months of the strike, ap- r-ucmiy me ming that Is tak ing time now is language." Gninff nvoi tv. i ... . i i ! " ",T ""kuhkc noes take time for discussion. That appears to be the UAW's reason for the current delay in ending the strike. Silverton Man Dies During Argument Salem, Ore., May 1 (UP) James Franklin Goodman, 64. of Silverfnn rimnnui -i --- - ... ucaa nere Saturday while talking with a tennant, Mose Wilson, state po lice said today. InVfstt0ntnr mtJ I , ui. , v i vruuuillttn a death occurred in Wilson's trailer-house which had been parked on Goodman's property for about two weeks. Mrs. Good man was in tne trailer when the arffitmpnt atnrtAH .t.1. ; said. Witnesses reported that no uiiiws were struck. Wilson ii the father of Utah and Tlirmnn Wilonn hoi, Clark county Jail at Vancouver, i. noii., una cnargea witn tne murder nt .In Ann no,au nf Bat tleground, Wash., last March. 'Hot Rod' Racers ' Fined in Court Salem. Ore.. Mav 1 (UP) Two motorists charged with "hot rod" racing were fined $100 each in Marion county district court here Saturday. witiora Hay Miller of Oregon City and George Francis Gor mich of Portland were arrested a week ago Sunday by state po nce on the wiisonville cutoff highway near Aurora. Police said they wfre called to investigate a tip that "hot rod" races were being held. They said nearly 300 spectators were watcning the speeosteeri race down the highway side by side. The investigation officers added the ominous information that 40 license numbers were of his duties and responsibilities as a citizen." v Salem, Ore., May 1 (U.R) Gov. Douglas McKay called the attention of Oregonians today to the fact that this is CARE week. He stated: "The co-operative for Ameri can Remittances to Europe, bet ter known to all of us as CARE, is observing national CARE week from May 1 through May 7, The period has been set aside to highlight the various CARE services the food, the blankets, the clothing textile packages, the CARE book fund through which Americans have voluntar ily sent over $100 million worth of aid to the people of wartorn and less fortunate countries in the past four years. "I urge all citizens of the state of Oregon to join in this nation al observance, by responding to appeals to send CARE to the destitute and despairing of oth er lands. It is my sincere hope that a high level of CARE gifts will be reached during CARE week and will continue so long u that help If needed."
