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Newspaper Page TextQ) 0) urn mm M VIOLENCE FLARES AS SUBSTITUTES TAKE OVER JOBS Chicago, May 11 (UP) Violence broke out in the coast-to-coast railroad strike today when white collar replacements for striking employees were fired upon from ambush at Knoxville, Tenn. One bullet pierced a crewman's sleeve but no one was hurt. Striking locomotive firemen and en ginemen charged in turn that they were stoned by strike breakers. Officials of the Southern railway, which had an nounced it would try to move as many trains as pos sible with supervisory personnel, said one bullet was fired at each of two moving freight trains. Railway spokesmen said the bullets were fired from bushes along the right of way between a freight yard and a station. Union officials denied the shots were fired by strikers. Industry Feeling Impact of Strike Meanwhile, industry began feeling the impact of the strike, which had cut vital supply lines in 27 states. In western Pennsyl vania. 13 coal mines were forced to close and 4.200 miners were thrown out of work. At Cleveland, the Fisher Body plant and Midland Steel com pany had closed, but hoped to get back into partial production by using trucks to haul finished materials to rail lines not in volved in the strike. Efforts to settle the walkout were stalemated. Presidential Assistant John R. Steelman at the White House talked by tele phone with Chairman Francis O'Neill of the national media tion board at Chicago and was told that no turtner negotiations had heen scheduled. The strike, called yesterday at 6 a.m. crippled the Pennsylva nia, the New York Central, the Santa Fe and the Southern, in directly, it curtained operations of the Chesapeake & Ohio ana the Colorado & Southern. finniA Trains Moving The New York Central, Santa i nnH Southern were maintain ing as much service as possible with the aid of supervisory per sonnel. But the Pennsylvania an nounced that "not a wheel is turning" on the segment of its svstem Involved in the strike. But the portion east of Harris burg, Pa., was not involved and was operating normally. The railroads themselves had h.ann invinir off workers. The Pennsylvania announced that it would close Its Alioona, ra., works Friday, throwing 11.000 emplovees into idleness. The New York Central laid off 350 roundhouse workers at Cleve land and said 15,000 additional emplovees throughout the sys tem face idleness. The Santa Fe closed its Albuquerque, N.M., shops, idling 1,100. Saturday Deadline For Roseburg Briefs Roseburg, Ore., May 11 (U.R) Counsels in the anti-picketing in junction suit which has led to a cilv-wide milk strike have until Saturday to file briefs with Cir cuit Judge Carl E. Wimberly. (In Portland, eight Washing ton and Oregon dairymen asked to investigate and arbitrate the milk strike criticized fellow dairvmen of the Umpqua River valley for not being satisfied with the minimum producer price of S1.90 per hundred weight, plus 90 cents a pound for butterfat.) Yesterday testimony and final arguments were given for the Umpqua Dairy Products corpo ration, which wants an injunc tion issued to halt picketing around the plant by dairymen. Legal Help Claimed Dairvmen Pete Vecnrtra and Paul Crawford charged H. V. Sullivan of the Umpqua Dairy with saying. "If this strike fool ishness continues, we ll get ev erv nickel you farmers own. and "we ve been offered S10.000 by statewide interests to fight this thing." , Sullivan testified he had the offer of "legal help from interest ed oarties. ' He said ne mougoi he told Veenstra and Crawford that "the strike will cost somo bodv something, possibly you farmers." Then he vaid "maybe I mentioned S10.000" as the cost to the farmers. Proper Number Use Asked by Firemen City firemen today cautioned residents who wish to take out a burning permit to phone Med ford 2-2790 only. This is the fire riipartmcnts business phone, the other number alerts firemen and it should be used only when reDorttne a fire. rirefichtcrs said tnat many population in Canada s history, people calling in for permits ue I An estimated 30.000 will have the wrong number, evidently j quit the city by tonight or to not realizing that the fire morrow. Many said they had no larm number should not be j ides where they could go. iued lor business calls. ' Brigadier S. A, E. Morton, Water Supply To Be 'Good'; Local Streams To Be Up Water supply forcasts for all streams in the southern Oregon area are above the 10-year 1939 48 average, it was revealed to day by the May 1 issue of the federal-state cooperative snow survey bulletin. The report, last to be issued for the year, said that 1950 water supply prospects remain "good" throughout the state, de spite the fact that April precipi tation has been only 70 per cent of normal. No Deficiencies Seen If usual snow-melt and rain fall conditions continue, the re port said, there should be no late season deficiencies of water anywhere in the state. The mountain snow cover now has greater water content than has ever been measured this late in the year, the report said, with about 60 per cent more than average, 40 per cent more than in 1947, and 25 per cent more than last year. In addition, the total water stored in the larger Oregon reservoirs is now one per cent greater than at this time last year, 14 per cent above 1948, and four per cent above 1947, but three per cent less than the 10-year average. Although forecasts of stream flow have been reduced in some areas, this will not mean water shortages unless conditions of snow melt and precipitation should be adverse, the bulletin said. New runoff records will be established in the upper Des chutes watershed, it added, with extremely high streamflows ex pected on the White, Hood. San dy, Clackamas, Santiam and Mc Kenzie rivers, and on the middle fork of the Willamette. Bids To Be Opened On Highway Projects Salem, Ore., May 11 (U.R) Thirty-one road projects estimat ed to total 52,500,000 will be ud for bid when the state highway commission meets in Portland Thursday and Friday. May 25-26. Bids to be opened Thursday, May 25, include: Jackson county Cascade gorge-Prospect section of Crater Lake highway; stale project; 7.50 miles of grade widening and pav ing. Jackson county Prospect maintenance building; state proj ect. Jackson. Josephine and Doug las counties Division No. 3 re oiling project on seven state highways; state project; 62.22 miles of re-oiling. Bids to be opened May 26 in clude: Jackson county Section on C" street in Phoenix; city proj ect: .26 mile of grading, surfac ing and bituminous macadam. Hordes Flee Winnipeg Flood Winnipeg, Man., May 11 (U.R) Thousands of women and chil dren jammed the railroad sta tion and remaining highways to day, trying to escape Red river flood waters threatening the city with darkness, hunger and disease. The men stayed behind ' to fight the flood which broke through another dike and in undated one fifth of the city. Evacuations Asked The army asked that 160.000 women and children evacuate the city, give the floodfight-.rs more room to combat the ever rising waters, and lessen the strain on essential services. Troops guided the refugees in the largest mass movement of WEATHER FORECAST: Continued warm tonight. Cooler Friday with considerable cloudlneii and a few shower i. Temp. Highest Yesterday 80 Loweit this Morning . 44 vV v. f?l TESTIMONY ASKED The California senate un-American activities committee has invited Atom Scientist J. Robert Oppen heimer, lower photo, to deny under oath that he attended com munist party meetings. The charge was made by Mrs. Sylvia Crouch, (top photo) former com munist, at an Oakland, Cal., hearing. (International) Queen Contest at Phoenix Near End Phoenix, May 11 Wednesday night's tabulatirtn of votes in the May Festival queen contest still left Miss Bonnie Icrzenbach in the lead, with 8,611 votes. Miss Terzenbach is sponsored by Phoenix Lions club. The eon- test closes tomorrow. Miss Wanda Norton, Phoenix PTA candidate, lost her second place to Miss Shirley Dudley, who is sponsored by the Neigh bors of Woodcraft Thimble club. Miss Dudley now has 7.769 votes and Miss Norton, 6.517. Miss Virginia Robers. candi date of the Phoenix Garden club, has 5,550 votes and Miss Rosalie Klassen. Phoenix Grange candidate, 4.465. Miss Barbara Barlow, candidate of the Phoe nix Youth group, totaled 3,162 votes at the last counting and Miss Sally Tripp, Phoenix Thurs day club. 2,368. The contest closes Friday. May 12 at 6 p.m., and the girl chosen will be crowned at 11 a.m. Satur day and reign over the two-day festival May 13 and 14. Medford Girl Taken Hospital; Fear Polio A )4-year-old Medford girl was taken to a Eugene hospital by Perl ambulance yesterday fler showing symptoms indi cating infantile paralysis, Dr. A. Lnn Mcrkel of the county health department reported. He said that the girl was not paralyzed when she left Med ford, but that symptoms observ ed while in a local hospital indi cated that disease. Expenses for the girl are be ing underwritten by the Jack son county chapter of the Na tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. flood control chief, said he want ed Winnipeg's population of 320.000 "thinned" to lessen the strain on the city's two remain ing power stations. He asked all able-bodied men to slay behind to help the 20.000 organized flood-fighters shore up two maj or dikes still protecting the city. Disease Threatens Medical officials warned that sewage backed up by deepening flood waters threatened the city with disease. Flood workers washed their hands in tubs of disinfactant after contact, with river water. Morion said he feared milk and food for babies might be held up. All bridges were closed to traffic and the central heating plant was down. Residents re maining behind were asked to take as few baths as possible and turn on lights only when necessary. While the situation here worsened, most tain-swollen Medford 45th Year. 22 Pages Embassy Crews Oregon, Washington Welcomes President; Arrives At Coulee By United Press Thursday is D-day Dedica tion dav. At 11 a. m. PDT President Truman arrived at Grand Coulee dam for opening ceremonies of dedication of the world s largest Coulee Dam, Wash,, May 11 (U.R) Three Oregon con gressmen were at Coulee City today when President Tru man arrived to dedicate Grand Coulee dam. Reps. Harris Ellsworth. Homer Angell and Lowell Stockman, all republicans, ilew in an air force plane yes terday and landed at Moses Lake, Wash. With Ihem were Reps. Hugh Mitchell and Henry Jackson, both Washing ton state democrats. , The two Washington rep resentatives shook hands with Mr. Truman, but the Oregon trio remained in the back ground. "Nobody invited ui," said Ellsworth. man-made structure and of Franklin D. Roosevelt lake be hind the dam. An estimated 70.000 persons in Ontario. Huntington, Baker, La Grande and Pendleton in Ore- Bon and in Pasco in Washington Wednesday heard and saw Mr. Truman as the 13-car special train traveled toward Grand Coulee dam. Northwest 'Vast Arsenal' At Pasco Wednesday night the president said the nearby Han ford atomic energy plant was one of several areas that made the Pacific northwest a "vast arsenal." He told 20.000 persons that America would use its re sources "in an effort to keep peace in the world. Mr. Truman said that the northwest was the gateway to Alaska and that he hoped "Alaska would soon enter as a new state along with Ha waii." In his fifth of six major speeches across the country, President Truman said in Pendle ton that "our goal over the next decade should be to lift every hard-working American family to an income of about $4,000 a year not a mere dollar increase but an increase in the real stand ard of living." Wants Balanced Budget He told the crowd of 20.000 at the Pendleton depot that he wanted to have a balanced bud get for the federal government "just as much as anybody else does." Many of the 12.000 persons welcoming the president in La Grande gave him a lesson in pronunciation. First, Mrs. Tru man mispronounced the name "Wallowa." Then he slipped and said "La Grange" instead of "La Grande." Residents helped him out when he stopped his talk and asked for the correct pro nunciation of "Wallowa." He said the lumber industry was improving because of in creased home building for which the federal government deserves the major credit. Predicts Cam At the Baker station, the pres ident made a prediction to 7,000 listeners. He predicted that the Hull's canyon dam project, which the senate has rejected, will be built yet to provide the area with a million kilowatts of power, flood control and irriga tion. He told the Huntington crowd that he was pleased to see the increasing industrialization of rivers in the midwcslern United States receded and evacuees straggled home. At least 15 per sons were dead and seven miss ing in Nebraska and Oklahoma, the hardest hit areas. Floods also caused damage to farm property in Minnesota, North Dakota and Iowa. But there still was danger. Heavy rains were forecast for eastern and central Oklahoma and western Texas. Both the North Canadian and Des Moines riven were rising to flood stage. Other Areas Suffer The water here was above the second floor level in some spots. Conditions were even worse through the rest of the pro vince, the 65-mile valley area stretching from Emerson. Man., on the U. S. border north of Winnipeg. Royal Canadian mounted police said more than 8.000 had been evacuated from southern Manitoba and the sec tion was almost deserted. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY eastern Oregon because "the more diversified your economy is, the better off you will be." He called for new steps to "re duce the downward trend in farm income." Particularly in the field of perishable commodi ties. (See story on page 16) Highlights of Truman's Speech At Grand Coulee Aboard Truman Train, May 11 (U.R) Highlights of Presi dent Truman's speech today at Grand Coulee dam: Grand Coulee dam with its tremendous power and irrigation benefits is an instrument of our democracy, forged to contribute to a better life for ourselves and our children. Today, those who opposed Grand Coulee are trying to cover their tracks. They are trying to jump on the bandwagon. The opponents of progress would have you believe that the frontiers are closed. They think we should now relax and strug gle no more. Those are the men of little faith. I say to you that the American spirit which blazed the Oregon trail is not dead. Here in the northwest you are still pushing back frontiers. What- has happened here ' tt what happens in the case of un der-dcveloped areas everywhere in our country and the worm. Sound, productive investment al ways makes bigger markets and more jobs. When the dam was being built it was attacked as a colossal waste of public funds. Well, that was a colossal misstatement. The private power lobby and other people who have selfish interest to maintain, say the Co lumbia valley administration would be a "super-state." Of course that is not true. Ask the people in the Tennessee valley . . . they will tell you that the TVA is the greatest thing that ever happened in their part of the country. We have embarked, all over the country, on the task of fully developing our resources for all the people . . . We will meet op position from the private power groups. Many of them ... do not want the energy of our rivers put to use as power and sold to the people at cost. This opposition of the private power companies is wrong. It would deny the people the bene fits of low-cost power they ttvm selves have brought about through public investment. Letters to Fraudulent Firm Being Returned Acting Postmaster Moore Hamilton today said that a num ber of letters, addressed to "The National Radio Program Agen cy in Chicago by Mecuoro peo ple, are being returned to their senders stamped "fraudulent The agency, which has given its address as 82 West Washing ton, Chicago, has been operating money-soliciting racket, postal authorities said, and most of the letters returned contain 12 or $3. In addition, Hamilton said, postcards addressed to local peo ple from the so-called agency have been intercepted and turn ed over to the postal inspection service. Big Three Ministers Eye Stronger Defenses London. May 11 U.R) The big three foreign ministers sur veyed the problems of the world today and agreed they must strengthen their defenses and economies against the possibility of another world war. The American, British and French ministers met for four hours. Their first talks of the confer ence ranged all over the world, from east to west, and a spokes man said "the twain met." The opening day of the con ference was overshadowed by a sensational French proposal for pooling the coal and steel indus tries of France and Germany, and perhaps all of wesUin Eu rope to Leave fl 1 A V L M sZVP: ,.. ".i-uis i (Acme Trlrpholat BING DENIES FAMILY RIFT-Btag Crosby and his wife, the for mer Dixie Lee, are shown in a New York night club tn one of the few pictures taken of them together in public Hollywood rumors Insist the couple are splitting up, but Btng, on a "bachelor's vaca tion' In Paris, denies them. They have been married almost SO years and are the parents of tour sons. . Counter-Offer Made In Forest Industry's IWA-CIO Negotiation The employers negotiating committee of the northwest lum ber industry has submitted a counter offer to the Internation al Woodworkers of America, CIO, in the current dispute over health and welfare demands, ac cording to B. L. "Bud'! Nutting, manager of the Medford corpor ation here. The offer was made by letter to J. E. Fadling, of the unions negotiating committee, by C. L. "Chet" Irving, of the Pine In Portland Man To Head Nazarene Church District Dr. Weaver W. Hess, Portland, superintendent of the Oregon Pacific district of the Church of the Nazarene, was re-elected to his fifth term in that office dur ing business sessions at the dis trict convention here late this morning. Dr. Hess was unanimously named to the post on the first nominating ballot, according to the Rev. P. J. Bartram, local pns tor of the church. Mrs. Hess has served several terms as the presi dent of the Women s foreign Missionary society of the church, until she declined to be renom inated here Tuesday. Rally Tonight Final sessions of the district conference were being held this afternoon and this evening the delegates some 400 or 500 of them will participate in a dis trict home missionary rally at the church. Dr. H. C. Powers, Dallas, Tex., the church's general superintendent, will speak. Dr. Hess was formerly pastor of the Nazarene church in Sa lem. Ore., and in other north west communities. He is a mem ber of the Nazarene seminary hoard of trustees, Kansas City, Mo., and of the board of regents of Northwest Nazarene college, n Nampa, Ida. Warning Issued on Dog Poisoner in City Jackson County Humane so ciety today warned dog owners of the county that dog poisoners are at work in Medford and at the same time called attention of druggists to the laws governing the sale of poison. A society spokesman pointed out that drug gists, under Oregon law, must not only have the signature of the person buying poison, but must make the purchaser pro duce identification. It has been brought to the at tention of the society that one Medford resident is claiming that he ran buy strychnine without identifying himself with the pur chase, the spokesman said. It was further pointed out that addition to perpetrating a cruelty to animals, a person who puts out poison runs the risk of causing the death of a child. Within the history of the soci ety's work here, there has been at least one recorded case of a small child, living on the west side of town, bringing home poi soned meat found outdoors, tha sosinw spokesman saio. Tribune 11, 1950 NO. 43 Czechoslovakia . W ' mx dustrial Relations committee His proposal, he said, would cost employers seven and a half cents an hour, and would in volve a cent and a half per hour wage increase, three and a half cents an hour to a jointly-ad- (ministered 'health -and-welfare fund, and six paid holidays each year, costing employers an esti' mated two and a half cents. Offer Par Increase The employers would also consider substituting an out right wage increase at the same cost for either paid holidays or the health and welfare provis ion, or both, according to Irv ine's Latter. The IWACIO has threatened a strike, involving some iu.uuii workers, on Monday if their de mands have not been met. Two firms in this area, Medco and Fir Milling and Planing company in Ashland, are the only ones employing IWA mem bers, about 250 in all. Portland, Ore., May 11 (U.R) J. E. Fadling, president of the International Woodworkers ot America (CIO), said today north west logging and sawmill opera tors have not offered the union "an acceptable plan." Fadling added that "we hope to settle negotiations without strike." Contract talks will re sume tomorrow morning in Portland. The IWA represents about 40,000 northwest lumber workers in 700 operations in five states. The lumbermen's Industrial relations committee, which rep resents about 160 lumber and logging operators in the north west, "had gradually inched up its offer," Fadling said, "but still the plan it offers is not worthy of recommendation to our membership." The lumbermen have offered a 2'2 cents an hour wage in crease and a medical program to employees. Washington Posse Catches Bank Robber Carnation, Wash., May 11 A posse of irate citizens and volunteer firemen driving a fire truck caught a hank robber shortly after he held up the Washington State Bank branch here today. The bandit was overtaken six miles south of this city of 400 persons. It was not immediately known how much money he had obtained. A bank employee said the gunman shoved a paper sack through the teller's cage win dow and said "Fill it up right now." Ethel Bagwell, R bank em ployee, described the man as "small and young, wearing a cap and khaki rlnthes." He entered the bank and pointed a gun at a woman teller and demanded the money and ran out the door and sped west in his car toward Monroe, Wash. Sheriff's Cant. Adam Lys- koskl said the federal bureau of investigation entered the case Immediately because federal funds were involved. Copenhagen, Denmark, May II U.Rl Denmark has estab lished diplomatic relations with communist China, the foreign minbtry announced today, General News Sports Society Locals Personals Skeleton Force Will Remain on Diplomatic Staff Removal Complies With Czech Demand Prague. Mav 1 (U.R) The United Slates instructed all but 15 of the American emplovees at its embassy today to leave the country after Czechoslovakia warned it would not be respon sible for their safety beyond Sunday. The instructions were issued by Ambassador Ellis O. Briggs. American officials said Briggs had decided to comDlv with thm demand made on April 28 that the United States cut its diplo matic staffs in this country by two-thirds. Demand Supplemented The Czech government sup plemented the demand last nieht by informing Briggs orally that n wouia not De responsible for the safety of American diplo mats if the staff cut was not completed by Sunday. ine Czechs said that unmar ried members of the embassy staff affected bv the reduction should leave Czechoslovakia ha. fore midnight Friday. ine (jzecn note of April 28 accused American diplomats of "anti-state activities" and charg ed that they had aided persons wno worxea against the "secur ity of Czechoslovakia.'1 Only 15 Left "These activities have noth ing in common with the usual activity of diplomatic and consu lar offices looking after the in terests of their state in Czecho slovakia, activities which, of course, they have only pretend-. ed," the note said. The reduction would leave In Prague only Briggs. political adviser James K. Penfield, two air attaches, two military at taches, two political officers. five office workers and two air crew members, American offic ials said. Road Nix, Oil for Streets Available The city engineering depart ment is now accepting applica tions from property owners for street oiling and for application of road mix surfacing of decom posed granite and oil. The city council has set I price of one cent per square foot for street oiling and four cents per square foot for the road mix. City Superintendent Vernon Thorpe said the public works de partment will be responsible for "shaping up" streets and alleys prior to the application of the oil. and the city now has two graders so that the maintenance work will not be delayed by con struction programs. Application for spreading of the road mix on streets will be considered separately, he said, because surfacing of that type should not be placed on a street that does not have at least a fair base and drainage. Thorpe said he hopes to begin the road mix program as soon as possible so that the prime coat can he laid in June or early July. Several days of curing and drying are required. McCarthy's Charges Receive Brush-Off Washington, May llOJ.Rl Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R Wis.) today dismissed as "typ ical" the state department's brush-off of his charge that a top U. S. diplomat helped slip secrets to Moscow. McCarthy has said the diplo mat, now U. S. minister to small central European nation, was contacted by a Russian agent here who in turn relayed secret documents to the Soviet em bassy. John E. Peurlfoy, deputy un-der-secretary of state, who knows the identity of McCarthy's latest target, told reporters: "In so far as the stale depart ment is concerned we have no evidence to even remotely sub stantiate such charges." TWO MORE DAYS - There are still two more days for property owners to register complaints about property valu ations with the county board of equalization. The board is meet ing each dny this week at 11 a.m. (DST) in the office of County As sessor C. A. Myers and is so cepting the requests for a reduc tion of assessed valuations, pro vided they art submitted is writing.