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Communist China
Ambassador, Lie
Confer in Moscow
UN Secretary-General
Also Talks to Stalin
Moscow, May 16 (U.R) UN
Secretary - General Trygve Lie
conferred today with Wang Chia
Hsiang, communist China's am
bassador to Moscow.
Wang called on Lie while
diplomatic circles still were
speculating on the secretary
general's 90-minute conference
last night with Soviet Premier
Josef Stalin.
Lie said before his departure
for Moscow that he intended to
seek a solution to the deadlock
resulting from Russia's refusal
to attend UN meetings at which
representatives of nationalist
China were present. Russia has
pressed for the seating of Peip-
ing representatives m the UN.
Molotov, Vishinsky Present
His other avowed objective
was to discuss means of easing
the East-West cold war.
Vice Premier Viacheslav Molo
tov and oFreign Minister An
drei Vishinski also were present
at Lie's talk last night with
Stalin at the Kremlin.
Lie refused to shed any light
on the conference. He scheduled
a press conference for 3:30 p.m.
(3:30 a.m. PDT) tomorrow, but
told newsmen:
"It won't produce anything
sensational. It won't make head
lines." ... ,j
He said he probably would
not make any important state
ment until -he has returned to
Lake Success.
Lie indicated he would con
tinue his talks with various per
sons in Moscow today. He is ex
pected to leave Moscow Thurs
day. Medford Students
Receive Honors
At Oregon State
A number of Medford students
attending Oregon State college
have received recent honors at
the school.
Two students. Jack F. Helman
and Louis W. Powell, were hon
ored during the annual honors
and awards convocation by be
ing tapped for membership in
Phi Kappa Phi, national all
school scholastic honor society.
Helman, an engineer senior, is a
son of Mrs. Alice N. Helman,
420 Pearl street, and Powell's
parents are Mr. and Mrs. H. D.
Powell, 1920 Barnett road. He is
a senior in forestry.
Mumhsrshio in the honorary
is taken from the top 10 per cent
of the senior class and the top
five per cent of the junior ciass
James Gray, junior in agricul
iir urns recently elected presi
dent of the OSC chapter of Blue
Kev. national senior men's serv
ice honor fraternity. He is cur
rent president of Memorial Un
ion and a son of Mr. and Mrs,
James R. Gray, 18 Modoc ave
nue. m
Butte Falls Logger
Victim of Mishap
Edward G. Pilgrim. 21. Butte
Falls, was instantly killed yes
terday afternoon when he appar
ently was struck on the head by
a failing dead limb during log
ging operations eight miles east
of Butte Falls. Conger-Morris
ambulance service reported.
Pilgrim was working as a
fallcr with his brother-in-law,
Roy Price, also of Butte Falls,
but no one witnessed the acci
dent, it was said. He was em
ployed bv Benjamin F. Nork,
Butte Falls.
Conger-Morris funeral home
has charge of arrangements. A
complete obituary will be pub
lished later.
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King Farouk Orders Sister
Leave Commoner Husband
Cairo, May 16 (U.R) Kingrof the council. He cancelled
Farouk of Egypt ordered his sis
ter Fathia today to leave her
commoner husband and directed
the temporary seizure of his own
mother's property for sanction
ins Kathia's marriage.
Princess Fathia. 19, was mar
ried to Riad Ghali. 31. in a civil
ceremony at San Francisco, on
April 25. A Coptic Christian, he
has been political advisor to
queen mother Nazli since 1947.
The king handed down his de
cision on the marriage after the
crown council, which acts in an
advisory capacity, recommended
that Fathia should leave her hus
band Farouk approved the decisions
Medford
"45th Year. 18 Pages
Nationals Quit
Chushan Islands
Chiang Vows Freedom
For China in 5 Years
Taipei, Formosa, May 16 (U.R) The Chinese nationalists to
night abandoned the Chushan islands, main base for their block
ade of communist China, but Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek de
fiantly vowed the liberation of all China within five years.
The nationalists pulled all 150,000 army, navy and air force
officers and men off the Chushan archipelago, some 80 miles south
of Shanghai, in the face of a powerful red offensive. That leaves
only Formosa in nationalist hands.
Chiang expressed his "deep regret" for the loss of the Chu
shans and of Hainan island last month in a broadcast to the Chinese
people.
But he added:
"In the not distant future, government forces will come to
your rescue." '
He said the government was confident it can crush completely
any communist attempt to take Formosa.
To Be Invulnerable Base
"In short," he said, "Formosa
will be made the base which
will be invulnerable . . ."
"I can assure you that should
the communists invade Formosa
in the comma three months, n
would be our chance to beat
them and launch a counter-offensive
on the mainland with our
victorious armies.
"If the communists do not do
so, we will complete our prepa
rations for a counter-offensive
within one year and launch it
after another year."
Within three years, he said,
the nationalists will have the
communists on the run on the
mainland. Victory will be com
plete in five years, he said.
Vnluntarilv Shifted
Gen. Chou Chih-jou, national
ist chief of staff, said the nation
alists "voluntarily transferred
their armv, navy and air forces
from the Chushan archipelago to
Formosa. ,,
"The evacuation of 150,000
trnnns and Dart of the civilian
population, together with large
quantities of equipment and war
supplies, was started the night
of May 13 ana compieiea uimu
according to plan," Chou said.
He said the abandonment of
the rhnshans was ordered so
hot "nnr nrmed forces can deal
a heavier blow at the enemy at
the most favorable time and
r,ii-e" obviously when the
communists attack Formosa.
School District
Okays Bond Bids
Central Point, May 16 The
joint offer of United States Na
tional bank of Portland and
Blythe and company, Portland,
for purchase of $500,000 worth
of bonds for new high school
construction here was accepted
last night by the consolidated
district No. 6 school board.
It was the only bid submit
ted. The bid was $100.07 per
each $100 par value and an av
erage interest rate of 2.309 per
cent. The offer was substantially
the same as made by the two
firms last December when bids
were first asked.
An interpretation of a Port
land bonding attorney made re
votes on a consolidation of dis
tricts and on the bond issue nec
essary. The bonds were then re
advertiscd for sale.
Board members are expected
to open bids on construction of
the new structure next month.
The high school will be erected
on property just north of Cen
tral point city limits. It will
serve the former districts of
Gold Hill. Central Point. Willow
Springs, Table Rock, Tolo and
Agate, which have merged into
district No. 6.
SKERRY SECOND
Attorney Harry A. Skerry,
Ashland, placed second in state
Toastmasters club speech compe
tition last week-end at Corvallis,
it was reported today. He was ac
companied to Corvallis by Mrs.
Skerry and Dr. and Mrs. J. S.
Heatherington.
Nazli s guardianship over Fathia
because she approved the mar
riage. He appointed a temporary cus
todian of Nazli's property pend
ing seizure of all her holdings in
Egypt. Neguib Salem Pasha, ad
ministrator of the royal estates,
was named for the Job, and also
as temporary custodian of Fath
ia' property pending its seizure.
The council, in a move ap
proved by Farouk, called on
Egyptian authorities to take "ef
fective measures" to separate
Fathia and Ghali at once. But
there was little they could do if
the couple elected to stay in
the United State.
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 16,
National Security
Problems Theme of
Morse Address
The problems of national secu
rity in what was termed "these
critical times" was the theme of
the two public addresses deliv
ered here yesterday by Senator
Wayne Morse, member of the
armed forces committee of the
United States senate.
Saying that the administration
is suppressing too much informa
tion about national defense, sen
ator Morse declared that Ameri
cans need to be better informed
about the seriousness of the
world -situation. The public, he
said, should be made to realize
that the issue between war and
peace in the world is "touch-and-go."
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Students Addressed
Morse snoke yesterday after
noon to about 1,500 high school
students at the senior high
school stadium and to about 700
townspeople yesterday evening
from a reviewing stand on bast
Main street. His appearances
here were in connection with
Youth Day observances being
held nationally as part of Na
tional Security week.
The senator reviewed the
Medford unit of civil air patrol
cadets at the high school and
last night watched a parade de
picting the role of youth in na
tional defense.
He said the major point he
wanted to put across was the
vital need to maintain our de
fenses abroad as well as those
on this continent. This country
cannot be made secure, he de
clared, if we neglect our bul
warks all over the world. '
Isolationists Attacked
Morse, who is being opposed
in Friday's primary elections by
Dave Hoover of Deadwood, at
tacked "these isolationists who
are selling you short and cover
ing you with a myopia of ignor
ance" by claiming that now is
the time to withdraw from Eu
rope and to cut off Marshall plan
aid. Without the European re
covery program, Europe would
have been lost to us long ago,
Morse pointed out.
At the conclusion of his ap
pearance at the high school,
Morse presented an American
flag that had flown over the na
tion's capitol to Jim Shinn, pres
ident of the junior high school
student body.
From Medford Morse was
scheduled to make appearances
in Tillamook and other upstate
points.
Interim Tax Group
In Public Hearing
The legislative interim tax
study committee was to meet
here at noon today for a public
hearing on tax problems and to
give a report on the fiscal con
dition of the state. A large
crowd was expected at the Med
ford hotel for the luncheon meet
ing. Here for the forum are Com
mittee Chairman Howard Belton,
state senator: Rep. Giles French,
Rep. John Sell, Mrs. Louise
Humphrev of the Oregon Busi
ness and Tax Research, and Earl
B. Day. Arrangements for the
meeting, considered one of the
most important discussions of Its
kind to be held here in many
months, were made by the Jack
son County Chamber of Com
merce. Portland. Ore, May IB (U.R)
Gov. Douglas McKay of Oregon
has a public bet.
He issued a friendly challenge
to Gov. Arthur B. Langlic of
Washington last night for a con
test in forest tire prevention dur
ing 1950 and said he'd put up a
"big bronze, broad-breasted"
Oregon turkey against "anything
raised in Washington."
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THOUSANDS FLEE WINNIPEG
way along Inundated rails as it
evacuated the city and thousands
Truman Pledges Party To
Remove 'Obstructionists'
Aboard Truman Train, May
16 (U.R) President Truman
sped toward Washington today,
winding up a 6,000 mile "non-political"
tour that was climaxed
last night when he pledged him
self and the democratic party to
remove "obstructionist" con
gressmen blocking his fair deal
program.
The president's big speech, de
livered over four networks from
Chicago, also was the high point
of the democrats' biggest rally in
history.
Elaborate Parade Held..-. ...
Immediately after the speech.
Mr. Truman boarded his special
train for the final leg of his long
journey.
As a backdrop to the speech
which kicked off the fall con
gressional campaign, the demo
crats staged one of the most
elaborate parades and spectacles
in political history.
Listeners cheered wildly as
Mr. Truman said, "I hope that
by next January some of the
worst obstructionists will be re
moved" from congress.
His challenge apparently in
cluded conservative democrats
for he said his legislation had
Hamilton Receives
Committee Backing
In Postmastership
, Recommendation that the act
ing appointment of Postmaster
Moore Hamilton of Medford be
made permanent, has been marie
by Monroe Sweetland and Nancy
Honeyman Robinson, Oregon's
democratic national committee
men. Word of the recommend
ation was received from Portland
today.
Postmaster Hamilton has been
serving in an acting capacity
since his appointment on May 1,
1949. He received the backing
of the Jackson county democratic
central committee.
Hamilton, for many years ed
itor and publisher of the Med
ford News, is a former demo
cratic member of the state house
of representatives from Jackson
county. He disposed of his news
paper interests here a couple of
months ago.
Young Farmers Pick
Organization Officers
Jackson county's young farm
ers, from 20 to 35 years old, last
night elected officers to head the
new organization they have just
formed under the auspices of the
county extension agent's office.
Serving as president will be
Mcrton Bradshaw. Brownsboro.
Don Bonncrt. Central Point, will
be vice-president and Don Nied
ermoyer, Medford, will be secretary-treasurer.
Next meeting of the organiza
tion will be held June 5 at a
place to be announced later. Pro
gram chairman for that meeting
will be Dwaync Lehman, Med
ford. and the committee in
charge of arrangements includes
Dalton Straus. Gold Hill, and
Larry Perry. Brownsboro.
Radio Highlights
Senator Wayne Morte will
peak over Station KYJC
(1230 ke) from 1:45 to 7 . m.
lodiy.
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Tribute
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NO. 47
Smites
Train loaded with refugees, mostly women and children. Indies tta
flees flood-stricken Winnipeg. Canada. Some 40.000 persons ban
more are expected to leave before toe flood crest of the rampaging
Red River is reached.
met with "strong opposition from
various oddly assorted groups."
He promised he would fight
"this year, next year and the
following year" for repeal of the
Taft-Hartley act, and enactment
of his medicine, housing, educa
tion, farm and civil rights bills.
Stadium Jammed
The Chicago stadium was
jammed with 25,000 listeners
and overflow crowd watched
television screens outside. Wil
liam M. Boyle, democratic na
tional chairman, said the rally
was "as successful as the 1948'!
meeting when Mr, Truman cam
paigned here. '
Sen. Robert A. Taft (R., O.)
will respond on behalf of the
Katherine Grieve,
Former Resident,
Dies in Seattle
Katherine May Grieve, former
resident of Jackson county, her
family having settled in Central
Point in 1888, passed away Sun
day at Seattle, Wash., where she
had been making her home with
a daughter since March of last
year.
Mrs Grieve was born March
6, 1879, at Mound City, Mo., and
after first living in Central Point
her family lived for many years
at Prospect. She was a past ma
tron of Adarel chapter, Order
Eastern Star, at Jacksonville, a
oast president of the Medford
P.-T. A., the first master of Upper
Rogue Grange and was a member
of the Jackson county republican
central committee and active in
politics for over 40 years.
Many Survivors
Survivors Include three chil
dren, two sons, Bruce, of Pros
pect, and John, of Salem, and a
daughter, Mrs. Etta Phelps, Se
attle; a sister, Mrs. Etta Purkey
pilc, Medford; two brothers,
Amos A. Fries, Washington, D.C.,
and A. C. Fries. Portland; three
grandchildren, William J. Grie
ve, Portland; Louise Gladfelder,
Seattle, and Thelma Clark, Pros
pect; two great-grandchildren,
Donna and Sandra, of Prospect.
Funeral services will be con
ducted from the Perl funeral
home Thursday at 10 a.m., with
the Rev. Father George R. Bols
ter, rector of Saint Mark's Epis
copal church officiating. Inter
ment will be in Siskiyou Memo
rial Park.
The Eastern Star will have
(heir services at the chapel.
Surgical Screws for
Injured Man Received
An air force C-4H flew here
yesterday from the Portland air
force base carrying vitallium
screws needed to save the arm
of Clarence Twooood. 68, who
injured it In a fall from a high
ladder at Lake Creek yesterday
morning.
Twogood, according to Osteo
pathic hospita' where he was
treated, fell ille working on
Church of the (Olden Rule prop
erty. He was 'ought to the hos
pital in a pr ate car.
When the ospital found that
the screws r ;ossary to save the
arm were r . available In Med
ford. Phys, lam and Hospital
supply, Pi .and. was contacted
and the fir? apitaled to the air
force to Ir the screws to Med
ford. i
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General News
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republican party tonight with
a nation-wide speech over the
same four networks.
"There are still many backward-looking
senators and repre
sentatives who have tried to de
feat every progressive measure
they could, and to obstruct and
delay those they could not de
feat," Mr. Truman said.
"Despite the efforts of these
men, the 81st congress is mov
ing forward. Its record will be
a great deal better than the rec
ord of the 80th congress."
Contributions Cited .
Among-the 81st congress con
tributions, he said, were: Ratifi
cation of the North Atlantic
treaty, extension of the European
recovery act, approval of inter
national wheat agreements,
strengthening of the soil conser
vation program, restoration of
government grain storage facili
ties, authorization of a national
science foundation, increasing
the minimum wage from 40 to 75
cents an hour, enactment of a far
reaching housing and slum clear
ance program.
The president promised to con
tinue his fight for middle-income
housing, federal aid to educa
tion and federal health insur
ance. Although he did not men
tion the administration Brannan
plan directly, he pledged to
fight for "an improved farm
law."
He also worked In a plug for
his senate majority leader, Scott
W. Lucas, whom he said "is en
titled to return to the senate by
the great state of Illinois." Lu
cas faces a rough fight this No
vember from former Republican
Congressman Everett M. Dirk
sen. Washington, May 1 6 (U.R)
Republican leaders countered
President Truman's can for the
ouster of the "worst obstruction
ists" In coogress by promising
an all-out fight against his "to
talitarian" and "socialistic" pro
gram. To a man they scoffed at his
claim that the democratic 81st
congress has a better legislative
record than the republican 80th.
This congress, they said, is just as
reluctant as the 80th to enact his
legislative program.
Lewis Denies Giving Orders to Miners;
Declines Invitation to Attend Hearing
Washington. Mav 1 6 (U.R)
John L. Lewis denied today that
he gave orders to his soft coal
miners to ignore a no-strike in
junction last winter. But he
turned down an invitation to tes
tify on that question at a con
gressional hearing tonight.
mat was Lewis nrst public
reply to charges by Lloyd H.
Sidener, Canton, O., miner, that
he secretly ordered the miners
to ignore the government Injunc
tion. The Lewis denial was dlsclnv
ed in a letter to Rep. Andrew Ja
cobs (D., Ind.) chairman of a
house labor subcommittee Inves
tigating the Sidener charges.
Jacobs originally had subpoe
naed Lewis to appear at to
night's hearing but Rep. John
Lesinskl (D Mich.) chairman of
the full labor committee with
drew Jacobs' subpoena power as
subcommittee chairman.
Lewis, in his letter to Jacobs,
said Sidener "is In error in his
press-quoted assertions that he
received directly or indirectly
any 'whistle slop' instructions"
from United Mine Workers
headquarters.
"No such Instructions," Lewis
Mid, "wer uttered or tuthor-
FIREMEN END
SIX-DAY STRIKE
Chicago, May 16 (UP) The Locomotive Fire
men s union ended its coast-to-coast strike today and
the four crippled railroads raced to get trains back
on full schedules by nightfall.
The strike was ended during a nightlong negoti
ating session in which the Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Firemen and Enginemen abandoned its demand
for an additional fireman on big multiple-unit diesel
engines.
However, the union may at any time reinstate iU
demand.
The union also won an elimination of a wage dif
ferential preyiously in existence between firemen on
various types of locomotives; . A union spokesman
said that the amounts involved ranged from a few
cents to about $1.
In return, the railroads agreed to submit two
other issues to routine arbitration underthe railway
labor act which will be binding on both parties.
In one issue, the union has demanded that a fire
man be placed aboard 200 small "teapot" switch
diesels now manned only by an engineer. Both sides
agreed that "teapots" now manned by firemen would
continue to cany them notwithstanding the arbitra
tion results.
Firemen To Be Added ,
To New Switch Engines
The union said the railroads
further agreed to assign fire
men on any new switch engines
put into service. The roads had
nothing to say on this matter,
however.
The second dispute to be sub
mitted to arbitration involves
union charges that the companies
are violating various working
rules.
Brotherhood President D. B.
Robertson sent telegrams to lo
cals throughout the nation ad
vising the 18,000 striking fire
men to halt their picketing and
return to work.
He and other union and com
pany negotiators expressed
pleasure at the termination of
the six-day-old strike.
The railroads hurried - to get
their schedules back to normal.
The Santa Fe said It would be
"in full operation before noon."
The New York Central recalled
50,000 furloughed employees and
said "well be accepting all
freight and passenger business
offered by this afternoon."
Th Pennsylvania expected to
be back in full service by tomor
row afternoon but the South
ern railroad said it would resume
ordinary schedules "as the busi
ness returns to us."
The Union Pacific, whose divi
sion between Los Angeles and
Salt Lake City was struck by the
firemen in a side issue involving
use of Santa Fe tracks, said it
would start normal service over
the route this evening.
The company and union repre
sentatives looked drawn and tir
ed when the agreement was
reached about 3 a.m. today.
L. W. Hornung, vice-president
of the New York Central rail
road, one of the struck carriers,
said "it's a good settlement for
all concerned."
"We're going to get the wheels
rolling on the struck lines with
in a couple of hours," he said.
Robertson issued a statement
In which he said:
"After more than six months
of negotiation and mediation and
six days of strike, a satisfactory
settlement of all Issues involved
has been reached and our key
men have been notified and in
structed to have our men return
to service immediately,"
A fire prevention ordinance
may be Introduced to the city
council at its regular meeting at
7:30 p. m. today at the city hall
and modification of ordinances
regarding convention banner dis
play and peddlers may 1 be
talked. Mayor Diamond Flynn
said this morning.
ized at any time by this office
to Mr. Sidener or any other of
the hundreds of thousands of of
ficers and members of the Unit
ed Mine Workers of America.
The term 'whistle stop' has no
significance in the coal mining
industry."
Sidener lias charged that he
received telephoned instructions
from Lewis that "the whistle
blew once," indicating, accord
ing to Sidener, that miners were
to ignore the injunction and slay
out of the pits.
Sidener said he lost his Job
and was fined $50,000 by the
union as a result of his charges.
Logging Truck Mishap
Slows Street Travel
Traffic at Cenlral avenue and
lOlh street was slowed about
B.'.IO p. m. yesterday when a log
truck driven by James Edward
Tanner, Gresham, broke down
in the Intersection while turn
ing into Central avenue.
City police said that a trailer
breach broke, causing the trailer
of logs to fall against a nearby
tree and preventing the logs
from spilling into th ettwet
Liberty Bell To
Be Shown in City
Thursday. May 25
Oregon's Liberty Bell, which
Is being shown throughout Ore
gon in connection with the In
dependence savings bond drive,
will be displayed In Jackson
county on Thursday, May 25, In
stead of May 24 as previously
reported.
The announcement was made
last night at a meeting at Leon
ard's Electric store to formulate
plans for the appearance of the
bell, here and to make additional
plans for the 50-day bond drive
which opened yesterday.Servfc
club and bank officials and oth
er civic leaders attended,
Honor Guard Planned
It was Indicated that the truck
carrying the bell will begin it
tour of the county at Rogue Riv
er and would be in Medford ear
ly In the day and then later for
an evening showing before being
driven on to Klamath county.
Boy scouts will form an honor
guard and seniors from various
high schools will be selected to
go along and give talks on th
county tour.
Plans were outlined for
speeches before service club
and laboring groups, with th
Toastmasters club assisting in
part of the program. Radio par
ticipation was discussed.
Morris Leonard Sr., Jackson
county chairman for the bond
campaign, conducted the meet
ing and stressed the importance
of thrift. Thrift, he declared. If
beneficial to business of the
community and saving bonds
are a part of thrift.
$150,000 Quota
Jackson county's quota in th
50-day drive is $150,000. Last
month county residents pur
chased a total of $85,026 in bonds
of which was $64,989 was in
E bonds.
Wilhclm warehouse, Portland,
Is furnishing the driver for the
Ford truck taking the bell
throughout Oregon. The Oregon
bell Is one of 53 exact replicas
of the American Liberty Bell.
They were cast in France. The
bell Is expected to attract con
nities of the state, A tap of the
nities of the state. A top of the
bell clapper at Pendleton yes
terday opened the drive.
JOHN L. LEWIS
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