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MEDFORD, OREGON, MO MAY 22, 1950
No. 52
PIAGU
M
HUNGER,
THREflTE
QUAKE
ravaged
eiTY
Bidault Urged to
Meet With Stalin
To Air Cold War
Trygve Lie Suggests
Talk With Premier
Paris, May 22 U.R Trygve
Lie, secretary general of the
United Nations urged Premier
Georges Bidault today to sit
down with Premier Josef Stalin
and other world leaders in an
effort to settle the cold war be-
fort it 15 too late.
Lie talked for 90 minutes with
Stalin last week in Moscow. He
'went there to feel out Russian
leaders on the possibility of set
tling the differences between
the east and the west.
Not Dissatisfied
Now Lie had returned to the
west to confer with leaders of
the Big Three in the light of his
mission to Moscow. He said at a
press conference just before he
left Moscow that he had no reas
on to be dissatisfied with his
talks there, but some time would
be required before he could tell
whether his efforts would bear
fruit.
Tomorrow Lie will repeat his
arguments for a top level cold
war peace effort to Foreign Sec
retary Ernest Bevin of Britain,
and possibly Prime Minister
Clement Attlee.
Keynote of Talks
Wednesday he will fly to the
United States for similar talks
with President Truman and Sec
retary of State Dean Acheson.
His exortation to Bidault to
meet with Stalin and other
world leaders appeared to be
the keynote of his talks with
western leaders.
If his goal was a big four con
ference at the top level, he was
keeping the idea to nimseu until
he had consulted further with
the American and British gov
ernment chiefs.
Work Starts on
Diamond Cutoff
r State highway crews today be
gan plowing out the mountain
ous drifts of snow that have clog
ged the 27-mile length of the Dia
mond lake cut-off road since last
fall. J. G. Bromley, resident en
gineer for the state highway de
partment at Grants Pass, said he
expected the plows would have
the road open and ready for the
new season's travel in about one
week.
Superintendent E. P. Leavitt
of Crater Lake national park said
crews will be placed on the
north and east entrance roads in
to the park sometime in June, as
usual, with July 4 the goal for
having them open for full ser
vice to summer visitors. Snow in
the park is melting steadily it is
now down to 109 inches and as
soon as it is more manageable
the plows will work on it from 4
a.m. until 8 p.m. in preparation
for the season s heaviest travel.
Accommodations will not be
available at the park until June
15. Only south and west entrance
roads are open at the present
time.
Partial service is now avail
able at Oregon Caves. Leavitt
said, and full summertime ser
vice will go into effect May 29.
Meals and lodging are. both of
fered now in the chateau.
Ashland Council To
Canvass City Ballots
Ashland. May 22 The Ash
1 land city council will meet Tues
day evening to canvass the
municipal election vote, it has
been announced by Fred Homes,
chairman of the council and
acting mayor.
He will serve in tiiis capacity
until the council picks a succes
sor to Thomas Williams, who
was recalled from the position
of mayor in Friday's election.
The council will probably pick
Williams' successor, and one for
Elmer Sheldon, who was recall
ed as a city councilman, at the
first meeting in June.
Homes also reiterated his
previously announced decision
not to seek the mayor's post.
Senate Approves Plan
To Reorganize FTC
Washington. May 22 .UP)
The senate today approved, 37
to 34. President Truman's plan
to reorganize the federal trade
commission.
The olan eoes into effect Wed
nesday. There is no opposition to j
the plan in the house.
Paradoxically the senate ve
toed practically identical reor
ganization plans last week for
the interstate commerce commis
sion and the federal communica
tions commissiop.
The FTC plan centralizes con
trol of the commission in the
hands of a commission chairman
and allows the president to ap
point the chairman. At present
the commission choose it own
chairman.
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'Acme Tftrphottt)
LIVE SHELLS PERIL BLASTED PORT-Captam Hugh McCaf
fery. New Jersey National Guard, cautiously nudges an unexploded
60-mm. shell (arrow) aiay from chair in office where tt was blown
by explosion of four munitions barges in South Amboy. N. J. Diur.
age was estimated at 30 million dollars in the blast which killed at
least 24 and injured an estimated 400 persons.
Death Toll in Dock
Blast Climbs to 28
South Amboy. N. J . May 22 t
U p.i The indicated death toll in :
Friday's munitions explosion rose throughout the city by the ex
to 28' todav when a stevedoring plosion.
firm added two more names to ;
the list of persons missing. :
The Healing company, whose 1
crews were working on the docks
at the time of the blast, said John over portions of the city during
Krinetskv, Jersey City and Wal- the night, adding to uneasiness
ter Sullivan. 36". Hoboken. had brought by daylong dock area
been missing since the disaster, i explosions.
The company's announcement The blaze flared yesterday af
boosted the number of missing to i ternoon exploding 50 or more of
24. There were four known dead. the scattered 1. nd and "bouncing
Sullivan had been out of work i befty" anti-personnel bombs,
for two weeks when he was or- j Damage Estimated
dered to report for the week-end. ! This city of 10.000 persons still
the company said. Krinetsky's looked like a front-line war area
car was found near tne scene oi j town, insurance experts esti
the blast. I mated the damage at S7.500.000
Authorities feared that many
British Ship Ordered
Away From Russians
London. May 22 tU.PJ The
British navy ordered its secret,
newly-fitted aircraft carrier The
seus to move out of sight of 31
Soviet shins anchored off Eng
land's southwest coast today.
The Theseus sailed into
Mounts bay in southwest Eng
land vesterdav on the way to
tests in the Scilly isles.
Aboard the carrier were the
navv's latest operational air
craft, presumably jet-propelled,
so secret the admiralty refused
to discuss them "on security
grounds."
One of the Soviet vessels
which appeared mysteriously in
British waters last Fridav and
have been hanging around ever
since moved into Mounts bay
this morning to a point within
sight of the aircraft on the decks
of the Theseus.
No Special Session
Planned by McKay
Salem, Ore.. May 22 U R!
Gov. Douglas McKay issued an
endorsement today for the poppy
sale for veterans next week-end.
His statement follows:
"Thousands of brightly-col
ored paper flowers will bloom
on every street corner in Oregon
next Friday and Saturday. May
2R and 27. and they will bloom
for a purpose that is vital and j
fu
moaninB I
Next week-end will bring the !
annual Doppy sale by veterans
organizations. The object is to
raise funds to continue rehabili-1
tation programs for those men !
and women who sacrificed so
much in order that the republic ,
might survive the threat oi two
great wars
Poking Nose in Other's
Business Proves Costly
Detroit Mav 22 I' P Miles
Nelson. 26. decided todav to oe
more careful about poking his
nose in other people s business
Nelson intervened in a family
spat between Mr. and Mrs. Ollie
Henderson and Henderson bit
off the end of his nose with one
bite
Henderson wa held for inves
t'gi'ion of felonious assault
Nelson went to a veteran, hos
pital in hop of getting a new
DOM.
land mines and anti-personnel
mines had been scattered
Irritating smoke from a white
phosphorus fire that broke out
in the devastated American Agri-
culture company plant drifted
piiospnorus nre um orune uui
Hundreds of state troopers, na
tional guardsmen and regular
troops patrolled the streets. Big
army trucks rumbled to and from
the explosion scene. Residents
picked their way past piles of
broken glass and other debris.
Nearly every window in town
was boarded over or covered
with sheets or blankets.
Schools were closed and entry
into the city was forbidden ex
cept to relatives of residents and
other persons on necessary mis
sions of work and relief.
Oregon University
Students Go to Polls
Eugene. Ore.. May 22 lU.PJ
Students at the University of
Oregon went to the polls today
after one of the stormiest polit
ical campaigns in the school's
history. Pre-election campaigns
were marked by violence, name
calling and charges of conspir
acy. The names of three candidates
for major campus offices were
stricken from the Associated
Green Students' slate yesterday
AGS President Hob Deuel of
Medford said the names were re
moved "in the interests of good
student government."
Deuel said removal of the trio
was prompted by their alleged
membership in an outlawed se
cret society Theta Nu Epsilon.
The three removed were Jerry
Smith. Portland, candidate or
student body president: Will Ur
ban. Portland, running for a
seat on the student executive
council, and Dick McLaughlin
Portland
candidate for iunior
class representative.
AGS is a legitimate organiza-
tion at Oregon, composed of
Greek-letter fraternities and sororities.
Crowd-Greeting English Garbage Truck
Driver Fired for Ridicule of
Bebington. England. May 22
U Pi Garbage truck Driver Syd
ney Cooper said today he must
have lost his head when he
drove his bright orange vehicle
behind Queen Elizabeth's pro
cession, nodding and waving to
the crowd.
For this ridicule of royalty.
Cooper. 36. was fired from the
job he held for 17 years and
denied his pension. In the old
days he probably would have
been beheaded.
Three other miscreants were
nuitaied tor t week without
United Nations Still Regarded as
World Peace Guardian, President Says
Washington. May 22 (U P)
President Truman told congress
today the United States will con
tinue to regard the United Na
tions as the chief guardian of
world peace despite Russia's
"willful flouting" of the charter.
Reported in Letter
In a letter transmitting to con
gress a report on UN accomplish
ments during 1949. Mr. Truman
said: "We are endeavoring in the
Up'ed Nations ... to make clear
to thi Soviet Union that we seek
to carry out the charter in deed
as in word, and that we ask nn
more or less from any other
member.
He said UN accomplishment.'
Fire Department
Effort Promised
By Acting Chief
As a result of Friday's over
whelming vote in approval of
new funds for the Medford fire
department. Acting Chief Leo
Weidner said today that "i.ery
man in the organization will con
tinue to give his every effort" to
give the people of Medford a top
flight department.
"We know that it is going to
take a lot of planning, work and
time to develop the kind of fire
defense system that the people
have risked for, and are willing
to pay for," he said. "However,
the overwhelming vote of confi
dence is inspiripg. and with this
type of cooperation and supnort
from the people, we know that
in the not too distant future we
will be equipped and prepared
to give them a service second to
none for a city our size," he
continued.
Pin Three To One
The two measures, at S125.000
hnnH tsnp for new enuinmpnt.
; sub-stations and alarm system.
and a four-mill continuing city
tax levy, passed bv margins of
better than three to one.
Weidner sounded a note of
caution in regard to creation of
a new department. "We wish to
remind everyone that money is
not everything." he said. "We
would like them to come to the
fire stations and help in the de
velopment and oroeress of our
organization with their sugges
tions and interest.
Proud of Wof
"This will give us a chance to
talk over our mutual problems
in our never-ending fight against
the ravages of fire. It also af
fords us an opportunity to ex
plain and demonstrate some of
the inner workings of our or
ganization into whirh we put a
lot of time and effort and of
which we are quite proud,"
Weidner continued.
"Most people know verv little
about the functioning of their
fire fighting forces, and conse
ouently do not get the maximum
benefit from their services. In
many cases this lack of under
standing results in confusion
and delaved action in emergen
cies, with resultant loss of life
and increased destruction by
fire, flood, explosion or other
damaging elements," he con
cluded. Budget Vote Slated
By School District
Patrons of the Medford school
district will vote Tusdav. Mav
23. on a proposed S998.888 26
budget for fiscal vear 1950-1951.
The budget is $2i3.617.60 in ex
cess of the six per cent limit,
thus requiring the election. It
exceeds the previous budget by
$47,443.76.
Voting hours will be 3 to 9
p.m. (2 to 8 p.m. Pacific stan
dard time) at the girls gymna
sium at the Medford senior high
school.
NEW GRAND JURY
A new Jackson county grand
jury was sworn in this morning
and Deputy District Attorney
Paul Haviland said only routine
matters would be on the agenda.
The seven jurors are G. A. Left-
house. Lucille Grieves. Bernard
Governor. J. A. Kaufman. Ethel i
Gibson. Merle
P. Hughes and I
Dave Hutchins.
pay. The incident occurred Kay
3. when Queen Elizabeth passed
through Bebington en route to
the shipyards for Ihe launching
of the aircraft carrier Ark
Royal.
The town council tomorrow
will consider a union request
that Cooper be reinstated If the
plea fails, the townspeople have
collected 10.000 signatures for
a petition to the queen. She was
too far ahead to notice Cooper's
antics.
Cooper, who has eight chil
dren, Mid h tad tbt otiier three
in 1949 were "impressive" but
that many were overlooked "in
the clamor of daily difficulties."
He again affirmed that "support
of the United Nations is and must
be point one of our foreign pol
icy. ''
Effortr Pointed Out
He called attention to the UN's
peacemaking efforts in Palestine.
Kashmir and Indonesia, and
said, "many lives have been
saved ... in moving such con
flicts indoors from the battle
grounds to conference tables."
The president also pointed to
UN accomplishments in econom
ic and social fields; in assisting
cfusees. and in bringing the in
ternational court of justice intn
i
Mrvne Tettphaio)
JOYOUS REUNION Marine Sergeant Elmer C. Bender Is joyously greeted by his wife and daughter.
Kachy. on his arrival at Olenvtew Naval Air Station, Chicago, after being held prisoner y the Chinese
Communists for 18 months. Also taken prisoner with Bender and released u Nary Chief petty Officer
William Smith, woo waa reunited with his family In Long Beach. Calif.
Austin Flegel Still Retains
Margin in
Portland. Ore., May 22 U.R)
State Senator Austin Flegel
lost ground but still maintained
a hair-breadth lead over Lew
Wallace in the race for demo
cratic nomination for governor
today on the basis of almost
complete returns from Friday's
primary- election.
Circuit Judge Walter L.
Tooze. boosted by final vote
counting in Multnomah county.
Set Formation of New
Naval Reserve Unit
Men interested in joining an
organized naval reserve unit
specializing in electronics are
asked to meet at the Federal
building. 33 North Riverside
avenue, at 7:30 p.m. today. The
unit will incorporate the activi
ties of the present volunteer
electronics warfare group, and
members of that unit will make
up the nucleus of the new
company.
Upon activation, the electron
ics unit will receive pay for the
weekly two-hour drill sessions.
Enlisted men will be furnished
complete sea bags.
Especially needed to complete
organization of the company
are men who can qualify as in
structors in electronics, radio,
sonar, and radar. An officer with
the rank of lieutenant command
er and classification of D. T. or
C is needed for duty as com
manding officer.
SCHOOLS OUT
The five students attending the
Brownsboro school will be dis
missed today for the summer va
cation, the county school super
intendent's office reported to
dav. The Shady Cove school will
close tomorrow, according to
Principal William Shepherd. The
two schools are the earliest in the
i roiintv
to begin their summer
vacations
Most schools in tne
county close in June or the last
of May.
Royalty
persons in his garbage truck did
not know they were tailing the
royal procession until they
caught up with it while en route
to a garbage depot.
"I could not get off the road
because of the crowd." he said.
"Perhaps I lost my head a bit.
but it was an embarrassing sit
uation and the police on duty all
along the way made no attempt
to stop me. I meant no disrespect.
"I was just thankful when the
queen s .ar turned into Birken'
hed and I was abie to carry on
U the depot,"
increased use for settling interna-1 He said the United tSates will
tional disputes. (press its program of forcing Rus-
"These constructive activities sia to abide by its international
have been overshadowed by the agreement by creating "condi
unsolved problems arising from ! tions under which it will be to
the policies and acts of the Soviet
Union which lead to tension and
impairment of security in inter
national relations." he said.
Problem Foremost
The president indicated the
United States will continue to
press for effective international
control of atomic energy, which,
he said, "stands foremost among
the urgent problems calling for
agreement." Regulation of arma
ments and armed forces, he said,
"is a related problem of urgency."
Gubernatorial Race
won a clear majority over Rob
ert F. McGuire and Austin Dunn
and was elected to the Oregon
supreme court bench. Tooze's
vote exceeded the Maguire-Dunn
total by more than 7,000.
Flegel Win Seen
Most of the remaining untabu
lated precincts in the guberna
torial race were from counties
where Flegel had been leading
Wallace. If the ratio of the
count remained the same, it was
indicated Flegel would draw
away slightly in the final count
and win by a close but comfort
able margin.
With only 29 precincts still
unreported, Flegel was leading
Wallace by 1.317 votes.
Sen. Wayne Morse's victory
over Dave Hoover In the repub
lican contest for the U. S. sena
tor nomination was almost two
to one. Morse said he would re
turn to the senate " a free man.
not under obligation to any
pressure group, lobby or individ
uals." Republican Victory "Must"
Morse's opponent in Novem
ber will be Howard Latourette,
Corporation Tax
Boost Seen Likely
Washington. May 22 (UP)
A boost in corporation taxes ap
peared today to be the way left
for house tax writers to make
up a $1,100,000 000 revenue
loss in excise tax cuts.
The tax-framing house ways
and means committee has ten
tatively decided to plug some
"loopholes" in present laws to
bring in another $3S0 million
a year. It may add $150 million
to $200 million more by plug
ging other "loopholes."
But even so. the committee
still would be perhaps $500 mil
lion short of the revenue expect
ed to be lost through excise cuts
on such items as furs, jewelry,
travel tickets, telephone bills and
cosmetics.
Several members said the only
avenue left open to the commit
tee is an increase in corporation
taxes.
Corvallis. Ore., May 22 UP)
Ensel A. Evans, graduate stu
dent in chemistry at Oregon
State college, has been awarded
a $2,800 graduate fellowship by
the Du Pont De Nemours com
pany, school officials announced
today.
Rhododendron. Ore.. Mav 22
UPi Robert Charles Miller,
four-year-old ion of Mrs. Kath
leen Huber of Bnghlwnod. Ore .
was drowned In the Zigzag river
near here Saturday.
the interest of the Soviet Union
to enter into and keep agree
ments." UN Complimented
Mr Truninn complimented the
UN for refusing to let Russia's
walkouts over admission of Red
China interrupt its activities.
"In the presence of this wilful
flouting by the Soviet govern
ment of obligations assumed by
it under the charter, the United
Nations has taken the common
sense attitude of proceeding with
its business as usual," he said.
Oregon City attorney, who led
Dr. Louis Wood of Eugene by al
most 10.000 votes.
"We must now carry the quali
fications of the party's candi
dates to the individual voters
of the state." Morse said. "A re
publican victory in 1950 is a
must, not only in the state but
in the nation."
Democrat David C. Shaw,
Curry county, won a warm-contested
race over Walter A. Swan
son of Lane county and will op
pose incumbent Harris Ells
worth in the 4th congressional
district In November. Ellsworth
was given a complimentary vote
of 22.617 in Coos. Curry, Doug
las, Jackson, Josephine and Lane
counties.
Homer Angell, dean of Ore
gon's all-republican congres
sional delegation, piled up an
overwhelming victory over R. J.
Jensen and Donald Walker and
will oppose Democrat Carl C.
DnnaiiEh. former U. S. attorney,
who defeated young Phil Dreyer
and II. H. Stallard.
Ti nnMu Stockman
Vernon Bull. La Grande, de
feated Hugh Bowman of Uma
tilla county and Benjamin C
Garske, Bend, for the congres
sional nomination In the nd
Hi.inrt and will run against Rep.
Lowell Stockman In the general
election.
Roy R. Hewitt of Marion
county defrated L. T. Ward.
Philomath publisher, for the
democratic nomination for con
gress in the 1st district and will
tackle incumbent republican
Walter Nnrblad.
Dean Bryson defeated Adm.
Thomas L. Catch. Ret., for the
republican nomination for state
senator in the 13th district and
former Gov. John Hall was beat
en by Irving Rand for the GOP
nomination for state senator in
the 14th district.
WALTER L. TOOZE
Wiai Court PesiUoa
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Ancient Capital
Of incas Damaged
In Sunday Trew
Contamination of
Water System Feared
Cuzco, Peru, May 22 (U P)
Hunger and plague threatened
today to increase the ravages of
an earthquake which left hard
ly an undamaged building in
this ancient lnca capital two
miles high in the Andes.
The stricken city had no
bread or electricity, and author
ities feared that the water avail
able from the damaged system
might be contaminated.
Scores Hospitalised
The known dead was near 50,
and authorities feared the toll
woina oe considerably higher.
Scores were hospitalized.
(In Washington the state de
partment reported that original
estimates of casualties in the
quake were 100 dead and 200
injured.)
Most of the buildings still
itanding were cracked and sag-
Fin,. X tarda nArMn.n
buildings were damaged so bad
ly that it seemed they would not
withstand a strong gust of wind.
Many survivors in this city of
50.000 spent the night in plazas
and nrtfn fieMc fnorfi.l iun,
other temblor might send weak-
enea structures crashing down
upon them.
Structures Toppled
, ine earthquake, most violent
this city's history, struck at
1:35 n m vpatnrrlnv
structures which had stood for
vemunes toppled into the cobble-
stnned t root . .J ; .. .
clouds of dust which hung over
Ky xor nours.
Parrln u,n. .it. .
. v...uk, w4 suuie ot
Cuzco s most modem and finest
mines, was completely leveled.
The entire suburb of San Sebas-
nan was wiped out.
Almost all of the city's scores
of churches, including some that
withstood the severe earth
quake of 1650, suffered some
damage. The towers of the
churches of Santo Domingo and
Belen fell, and the National
College of Sciences was partly
destroyed.
Among the building damaged
was the convent of Sonto Do
mingo, which incorporates in its
wnllc narr n , l, .
aiiuieiii inc
temple of the sun (Coricancha).
- "u.uai, iuwq escapes
One of the buildings which
suffered th l,at t u - i
. - - - - - - ,nc mini-
em four-story hotel Cuzco. fill
ed with foreign tourists when
the mialra ctriiflr Cn.
walls cracked but none of the
gursi was injured.
Officials said casualties prob
ably would have been far heav
ier out lor the fact that 15.000
city's population, were attend
ing a football game when the
quake hit. All these escaped.
Governor Endorses
Week-End Poppy Sale
Salem, Ore.. May 22 (U.R1
Gov. Douglas McKay said today
that he has no intention to call
a special meeting of the state
legislature.
A Multnomah county commis
sioner had indicated McKay
would be asked to call a special
session to help that county out
of its financial dilemma after
voters rejected several money
raising proposals at the polls
Friday.
"The regular session of the
(legislature will convene in Janu
ary, oov. McKay said, "and
the indications are the county
will have eiKJugh money to run
at least until then. If any relief
action is found necessary, that
should be soon enough to take
care of it."
Gov. McKay had no comment
to make on the Oregon primary
election other than to say he
was pleased at the size of the
vote.
Party to Honor Chief
And Oldtime Firemen
A dinner party honoring Fire
Chief Leo Weidner and the
"old-time" members of Protec
tion companies No. 1 and 2 will
be held tomorrow at 6:30 p.m.
in the fire hall. Guests will in
clude the oldest alumni of the
department and their wives,
present "call men" and their
wives and the regular firemen
and wives. It will be the last
social gathering at the fire de
partment before Acting Chief
Weidner leaves to resume his
work with the Portland depart
ment. Third Malheur County
Jail Escapee Seized
Vale. Ore.. May 22 (UP)
State police said today that Har
old E. Collins, who escaped from
the Malheur county jail last
week with two other prisoners,
has been captured at Elko, Nev.
Charles Melton of Bend and Er
nest Crawford of Myrtle Creek,
the other two. were cafitured
earlier at Rome, Ore,