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Newspaper Page Text-A Vast Throngs of Communist Youths Slate 3-Day Meeting in Berlin I JIM HI' I..., .I,,,! I : Mr?' , frr "i BUZZIE TAKES BRIDE The whole Roosevelt clan gathered at Santa Monica, Cal.. today to watch the late president's favorite grandson take Robin Edwards, 21, daughter of a Douglas aircraft executive, as his bride. Curtis (Buzzie) Roosevelt Dall, had to get his mother's consent because he's only 20. They are shown above as they applied for their marriage license. Strike By Subject of Washington. May 23 (U.R) The national mediation board be gins conferences today in an ef fort to head off a strike set for June 1 by the AFL switchmen's union against 10 western and midwestern railroads. Walkout Postponed The walkout originally was set for tomorrow, but the union post poned it last week at the board's request. Arthur J. Glover, president of County School Yoiers Approve Big Budget Budgeted expenditures three quarter of a million dollars in ex cess of the six per cent limita tion were approved May 15 by 387 residents in 26 rural school districts. There were 60 "no" votes cast. The county rural school board is forced to go to the voters each year for approval of the major part of its annual budget to op erate the schools in every dis trict except Medford, Ashland and Central Point. Because of an outgrown levy base of 6237,797 and school needs amounting to $951,553.62, the board's budget must always be in excess of the six per cent limitation by several hundred thousand dollars. Three districts out of the 26 were opposed to the levy in ex cess of the limitation, but there were sufficient votes cast in oth er districts to approve the ex penditures by a large margin. Voters in the Brownsboro dis trict two of them both voted against the measure. It was de feated in Derby by a vote of 6 to 2 and in the West Side district 10 to 6. Rubber Companies Boost Tire Prices Akron, O.. May 23 (U.RI Two big rubber companies an nounced price increases today of 2l2 per cent on passenger car tire.s and 5 per cent on truck tires "effective immediately." , Following the lead of the U.S. 'mibber company, the B. F. Goodrich company and the Good year Tire and Rubber company, announced the tire prices boosts from their headquarters here. School District Vote On Budget Here Today Medford school district resi dents were voting today on a measure to exceed by $213. 617. HO the six per cent limitation in the 1950 1951 school budget. Polls at the senior high school girl;' gymnasium will be open until 9 p.m. daylight time (8 p.m. Pacific standard time). Alternating Temperatures Reduce Threat of Floods Portland. Ore., May 23 iU.R! Alternating cool and warm weather during the past two weeks was termed "very benefi cial' toward reducing the seri ousness of this spring's Columbia basin flood threat by the weath er bureau here today. Warm weather this month caused risen in the river system which were then checked by sev eral days of cooler temperatures. The bureau forecast another pe riod f warm weather beginning I'-rlay. but pointed out that a cont'iiui'd alternation in temper atures could not dissolve trie flood threat entirely. Slight rises in the middle por tion of the Columbia between Pasco. Wash . and Grand Coulee dam were expected until Wed nesday, with similar increases on the lower Snake and Willam ette rivers. JAcmt TelepholoJ Switchmen Sessions the Switchmen's Union of North America (AFL), was expected to bring three other union negotia tions to today's meeting. Railroad representatives are Daniel P. Loomis. chairman of the western carriers conference committee, and several officials of the roads involved. The AFL switchmen want a 40 hour week with their present 48 hours pay. plus time and a half for Saturdays and double time for Sundays. 40-Hour Week Given Other non-operating rail broth erhoods got the 40-hour week last September with a seven-cents-an-hour pay raise. Railroads involved in the dis pute are the Chicago Great West ern; Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific: Davenport, Rock Island and Northwestern: Denver and Rio Grande Western; Great Nor thern; Minneapolis and St. Louis; Northern Pacific Terminal com pany of Oregon: St. Paul Union Depot company; Sioux City Ter minal Hallway . and western ra cific. Czechs Order Further Diplomatic Staff Cut Prague, Czechoslovakia. May 23 tU.R) Czechoslovakia de manded tonight that the United States cut its diplomatic staff here in half within two weeks. The government asked that the American staff be reduced to four diplomats, seven non-diplomats and one guard. The official Prague radio said a Czech note to the United States demanded that the Americans affected be out of the country within two weeks. This was the third demand for a cut in the American staff since April 18. The first was for a cut bv two-thirds within a "reason able time." On May 10 the U.S. was told that the reasonable time had expired, and the per sons must leave by May 12. a deadline later extended to May 17. The reduction demanded to day presumably was in reprisal for the American ousting of 22 of the 33 Czech diplomats in the Washington embassy and the closing of the Pittsburgh and Cleveland consulates. Congress Will Hear Secret Acbeson Report Washington. May 23 iU.R) Arrangements were made at the White House today for Secretary of State Dean Acheson to give congress a secret report next Wednesday on his London meet ing with the Atlantic pact nation foreign ministers. Senate Majority Leader Scott W. Lucas of Illinois said after a talk with President Truman that Acheson would make his report at an executive session of the house and senate in the audi torium of the library of congress. Forecasters expected a 25 to 26-foot flood crest on the Colum bia at Vancouver. Wash., next month. 10 to 11 feet above flood stage. The river was six inches over the 15-foot flood stage Monday. At Wenatchee,' Wah., the Co lumbia was l'-j feet below its level two years ago when a dis astrous flood was climaxed by the destniction of Vanport, Ore., a city of 18.000 north of Port land. Bonneville administration of ficials here said Pacific north west power supplies would not be affected by the expected 25 to 26-foot crest at Vancouver. However. John P. Jolliffe. chief of operation, said a 30-fool crest like that of 1948 would re duce peaking capacity by about 200,000 kilowatts. Medford 45th Year. 12 Pages PARALLEL NOTES BY WESTERN COUNTRIES SAY WORD BROKEN Washington, May 23 (UP) The Bie Three western powers accused Russia today of breaking her word and jeopardizing peace by creating an army of o0,000 Germans in the Soviet zone of Germany. The United States, France and Great Britain in parallel notes demanded that the Kremlin give some measure of plausibility to its purported devotion to peace by promptly disbanding the east German mili tary force. All Three Nations Accuse Russia of Violations All three nations accused Rus sia of violating her repeatedly pledged word to keep Germany demilitarized. The U. S. note ex pressed this government's "grave concern" over the Soviet action. The state department, in a statement accompanying release of the American note, said the Soviet trained and indoctrinated East German military force "could form the nucleus of a new German army or an internal se curity force to maintain com munist control." The three notes said that the East German army is equipped with military weapons how itzers, anti-aircraft guns,'- mor tars, machine guns and tanks and therefore cannot Be camou flaged as a police force. Iits key personnel, the state de partment said, are old line Ger man communists who fought with the communists in the Span ish civil war. Its chain of com mand, the department added, stems "from Major General Pet rakovsky of the Soviet control commission." The U. S. note emphasized that the western occupying powers had taken "effective steps" to prevent German rearmament in their zones. All three notes charged that Russia had violated her pledges to take the same pre ventive action in her zone. Sen. Flegel Extends Margin Oyer Wallace Portland. Ore., May 23 (U.Ri State Senator Austin Flegel's narrow lead over Lew Wallace of Portland for the democratic nomination for governor ex panded slightly today, reports from all but 12 precincts in the primary election showed today. Returns from 2.005 of the state's 2.017 nrecincts gave Fle gel 58.913. Wallace 57.574. and State Treasurer Walter J. Pear son 46,341. The remaining unreported pre cincts were scattered in Clack amas, Curry, Grant. Harney, Lincoln and Union counties. With 2.004 of 2.017 precincts completed. Sen. Wayne Morse's victory over Dave Hoover for the republican nomination for U. S. senator stood at 118.394 to 62. 697. slightly less than a ratio of two to one. Salem, Ore., May 23 U.R) State Treasurer Walter J. Pear son today called upon democrats who supported him lor governor to get actively behind Austin Flegel, who won the democratic nomination for chief executive. Building Inspector Issues Eight Permits Eight building permits have been issued in the last several days by the city building inspect or's office. Principal projects are an $8000 duplex residence on 411 Oak street to be erected by William E. Brooks and a $7,000 house at 1041 West 11th street to be built bv Rav Schumacher. Dr. B. Ray Miller' asked to make a $1,000 addition to a house at 127 Valley View drive. Other projects were Burr E. Tvc, $700 addition to house at 102 Mistletoe street; C. C. Con nolly. S500 repairs to building at 1006 Saling avenue: Don Bren ner. $300 roof repairs at 504 Austin street: James Helqeson. $200 addition to house at 534 South Fir street and Morris K. Wallace $45 bathroom at 600 Bemoo street. MEDFORD, OREP Congress Scolded For Passage of Public Works Bill Washington, May 23 (U.R) President Truman's objections to the $1,800,000,000 public works bill are likely to go unheeded at this session of congress. He signed it, but scolded con gress yesterday in a three-page single-spaced message for pass ing a "seriously deficient" bill. Revisions Out Members responsible for pilot ing it through congress said pri vately the revisions Mr. Truman suggested don't stand a chance of action now. As strong partisans of the army engineers, they can be expected to be cool to his pro posals that the engineers' should share resource planning author ity with other federal agencies. Specifically, Mr. Truman ask ed congress to: 1. Cut other agencies in on basin-wide planning for develop ment of the Arkan.ses. White and Red river areas. He suggested that plans be prepared by a spe cial interdepartmental commis sion, with a chairman appointed by the president. 2. Authorize "a full-scale in vestigation of multiple purpose resource development" for the Merrimac and Connecticut rivers. He thinks such an investigation should take into account the pro posed St. Lawrence seaway proj ect. Message Larded 3. Reconsider rejection of in terior department projects under the coordinated army interior plan for Columbia river develop ment. He called the bill's provis ions "partial and inadequate." Mr. Truman larded his mes sage with critical references to "piecemeal approaches." "inade quate planning" and failure of congress to adjust its procedures to the inherent requirements of federal resource development work." Coast Guard Probes New Jersey Explosion New York. May 23 (U RI The coast guard called new witnesses today, trying to find out what touched off the atomic-like am munition explosion at South Am- boy. N. J. All the men who know ex actly what happened aboard the explosives-packed barges and railroad cars last Friday night apparently were among the 28 men who died in the blast. The witnesses who have testi fied in the coast guard inquiry so far either had left the scene before the blast or arrived later. Senate Opholds Three Reorganization Plans Washington. May 23 (U.RI The senate today upheld three more of President Truman's plans to reorganize the govern ment's executive departments. They were the las. of the 2i re organization plans submitted to congress at this session. By identical votes of 43 to 29. the senate first approved reor ganization plans for the com merce department and to switch advanced planning of non federal works from the general services administration to the housing and home financing administra tion. Then, by a vote of 69 to 7. it approved a plan to turn over con trol of certain oostolfice build ing! to the GSA. i VUESDAY, MAY 23, Last Commander Of GAR fo Visit Veterans Center Parade, Dignitaries To Honor Penland, 101 Theodore "Daddy" Penland, 101, last and final commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, will be guest of honor at "National GAR day" ceremonies at Camp White Sun day, it was announced today. A long list of state, national and veterans organization digni taries has been invited to the affair, and many have accepted, it was reported by John L. Kel ly, chief of special services at the veterans domiciliary center, general chairman of the event. A parade in honor of Com mander will be held at the vet erans center at 2 p.m. Sunday, followed by a short talk by a speaker of slate-wide promi nence, it was reported. The pub lic is invited. Well Known on Coast Penland, the sprightly old gen tleman who last year sounded the gavel on the final encamp ment of the GAR at Indianapo lis, with only six of his comrades in attendance, is well-known along the. Pacific coast. He now makes his home in Vancouver, Wash. A native of Goshen, Ind., he was born there Jan. 23, 184!), and enlisted in the Union army at the age of 16. He was wound ed twice during the civil war, and came west at the cessation of hostilities. After visiting Cali fornia, Nevada and Idaho, he set tled in Portland, where he resid ed for more than 70 years. He attended the first GAR encamp ment in Indianapolis 83 years ago, and has attended all but two since that tune. More than half a mililon men belonged to the organization at one time. Guard of Honor Penland will arrive at the Medford airport at 10:55 a.m. where he will be met by Mayor D. L. Fynn, officials at Camp White, and an honor guard, ranging in age from 22 to 100, veterans of four wars. He will review a parade at the camp at 2 p.m., which will in clude high school bands Horn Medford and Grants Pass, and possibly from Ashland and Cen tral Point. The Jackson County Mounted Sheriff's posse will par ticipate, as will a delegation of Cave men from Grants Pass. The Medford Eagles auxiliary drill team mav also march. Signifi cance of the event and the place will also be marked by a burro, packed with a pick, gold pan and bedroll. Veterans organiza tions, their auxiliaries, and mem bers at the veterans center, will also be represented. The Ash land Kilty band has been asked to inarch. Invitations Sent Invitation have been sent to Senator Wayne Morse, Con gressman Harris Ellsworth, Mayor Flynn, Governor Douglas McKay, Secretary of State Earl Newbry, David M. Brown, na tional commander of the Dis abled American Veterans: Clyde A. Lewis, national commander of the Veernns of Foreign Wars; Gcorae N. Craig, national com mander of the American Legion: E. E. Carle, adjutant general n the Uniled Snanish War Veter ans, and the state commanders of all major veterans organizations and the presidents of their auxil iaries. It is understood that arrange ments have been marie for a na tionwide radio broadcast of the event, and for newsreel cover- ace, and invitations have been sent to representatives of Time j and Life magazines, and to me major press services. Sheriff's Officer to Return Parole Violator Deputy Sheriff DeArmond Leigh left here yesterday for St. Paul. Minn., to take custody of Charles Harvey Reigard. 27. who is wanted by Jackson county au thorities for parole violation. Reigard was given a three-year suspended sentence March 23 for attempted burglary and was on probation to the state parole of ficer. His Medford address is list ed as 14 South Bartlett slreet. He was picked up by St. Paul au thorities last month. Tribune 1950 No. 53 v iAcme Tel photo i GUBERNATORIAL ASPIRANT Mrs. Ana Frohmlller, S8, Ari zona Stale Auditor for 23 years, announced In Phoenix that she would be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for gov ernor. . During her political ca reer, Mrs. Frohmlllcr has won 14 races with no defeats. If elected she would be the nnlion's third woman governor. Prompt Action by Workers Rescues City Employee Prompt action probably saved the life of Owen C. Pratt, 60, of 1416 Maple Park drive, when the side of a ditch in which the city employee was working fell in on him about l:.iO p.m. yes terday. Pratt, according to the city superintendent's office, was mak ing a sewer connection in an eight-foot ditch on South Grape street for the new Myron Root fruit packing plant. Working with him was Ted Alvord. Earth Falls A solid chunk of earth five feet deep, eight to 10 feet long and one and one-half to three feet thick cracked off and pinned Pratt from " the neck down and was slowly cutting off his breathing, it was said. Workmen from the Myron Root plant came quieklv to the scene. They shoved timbers into the ditch between the chunk of earth and the ditch wall. A chain was put around the tim bers and a city truck, which hap pened to be close by at the lime, was used to pull them and re lieve the pressure on Pratt, who was then due out. Hospitalized For Checkup Pratt was taken by Conger- Morris ambulance to Community hospital for check and x-rays. He was reported resting at his home today. City Superintendent Vernon Thorpe reported that no such cave-in was experienced last winter during the laying of the sewer to which the connection was being made. The ditch dug for the sewer was much deeper, he said. On hand to heln rescue Pratt were other public works and water department employees and men from nearby jobs and busi nesses. Medford Gideons Visit Klamath Falls Camp A group of 18 or 20 members of the Gideons' Rogue Valley camp attended a rally sponsored by the Klamath Kails camp Sun day. After a brief devotional and prayer service, members attend ed 19 different churches and Sunday schools, presenting Gid eon work there. Following church services, the group assembled for a fellow ship dinner, followed by a short program. Tom Dryden, slate president, addressed the group. The state cabinet attended the session, and there were Gideons from Bend. Portland and other state encampments in attend ance. The celebration marked the fourth anniversary of the Klam ath Falls camp. White Plains, N. Y May 23 (URi Don (Creesh) Hornsby, 26, composer and pianist, died today of infantile paralysis in Grass lands hospital her. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair with MUM ehing In temperature to night and Tueidajr. Temp. ........ St 49 Hiiheit yeiterday ..... Lowest thti morning . Lie Sees Chance For Agreement on Special Meetings Cold War Problems Would Be Thrashed London. May 23 (U.R) Try- gve Lie, United Nations secre tary general, sees a better than 1 au-DU chance of big power agree ment within the year to start a series of special security council meetings on cold war orohlems. authoritative sources said today. Informants said Lie's optimism presupposed that the Chinese communist government would be seated in the UN by the time the general assembly meets this-fall. Reported on Talks Lie conferred todav with Prime Minister Clement Attlee and Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. He reported on his talks last week with Premier Josef Stalin and other Soviet leaders. lomorrow he leaves for the United States. He will talk agHin with President Truman and Sec retary of State Dean Acheson. Yesterday he saw Premier Georges Bidault and Foreign Minister Robert Schumnn of France. The hard core of the results of his talks to date with bie four leaders was said to be that none had rejcclcd his idea for resump tion of negotiations through the medium of the security council. His associates said the results so far had been like the words of the old song. "She Didn t Say Yes and She Didn't Say No." Gives Up Idea Earlier this year Lie proposed in a Washington speech that an unused provision of the charter and the security council rules be invoked to start a special series of security council meetings at the level of foreign ministers or even heads of state. After his talks with big four leaders Lie was understood to have given up the idea of the heads of state attending, and to be concentrating instead on try ing to start such meetings at the level of foreign ministers. Long Rang Project Lie's idea would be to start such a series of extraordinary council meetings this fall and then follow up with two each year in the various capitals of the world. He would have such meetings held in secret, particularly at the beginning, for an exchange of views and exploration of pending problems. His project is a long range one. looking forward a score of years. General Motors, CIO Sign New Contract Detroit, May 23 (U.RI Gen eral Motors and the CIO Uniled Auto workers today agreed on a new contract continuing their cost-of-living wage agreement and providing SlOO-plus pensions for 270,000 employees across the nation. The contract runs for five years. UAW President Walter P. Routher said it amounted to a 19-cent "package." and the most significant advance for the UAW since it was organized In 1936. General Motors stock shot to its highest level since 1929 when settlement was confirmed. Big Earl Shelton Injured By Mysterious Fairfield, III., May 23 (U.R) Big Earl Shelton, last member of a notorious family gang, was re covering today from minor wounds he suffered in a mystery ambush similar to those which killed his two brothers. Shelton's nephew, "Little Earl," escaped injury In the at tack yesterday when three gun men blasted them with a rifle, a shotgun and a submachine gun as they drove down an Isolated road in the Pond creek bottoms tn inspect some oil wells on Big Earl's land. It was Just a year ago tomor row that Big Earl was shot in the back by an unknown gun man as he played poker in a club he owned here. The gun man fired through a window that time, and escaped In the dark. And Little Earl also has been a target for the mystery men Gerhart Eisler Promises Peaceful Week-End Session Policemen Alerted To Handle Rally Berlin, May 23 (U.R) A three-day meeting of hundreds of thousands of communist youths here next week-end will be carried out peacefully, Ger hart Eisler, propaganda chief of East Germany said today. Eisler called a press confer ence soon after the German po lice of both east and west Berlin had been alerted to handle the rally. The former communist leader in the United States refused to guarantee that the trunk high way between Berlin and West Germany would be open to al lied traffic during the meeting. To Rid Fear "I have called this conference to get rid of all trie fear that still might be in your bones, and give you a chance to bury the campaign of h. eria launched by the western press," Eisler said. The rally had been touted for months as certain to generate friction and possibly violence. The big question, still unan swered with the vanguard of the communist youth already stream ing in. was whether a march on west Berlin would be under taken. Authorities said all policemen in the Soviet sector of Berlin were alerted at 8 a m. todav. Re inforced by police from all East Germany, the number mobilized lor the rally was expected to reach 50.000 by the time the first speech is made. About one-third of west Ber lin's 12.000 police were alerted today. The remainder will be or dered to stand by on and after Thursday. Western allied troops of the American, British and French garrisons, specially trained in anti-riot tactics, were geared for action if the police should allow the situation to get out of hand. nans ueorge urban, deputy police commissioner, said close checks would be maintained on all sector border crossings inside Benin. County Budget Still Undergoing Study Jackson county's budget lor the 1950-51 fiscal vr i .till In a state of uncertainty today, and a date for publication of the final figures is not yet known. Several department heads of the county government were meet ing behind closed doors tnHnv with the budget committee to thrash out differences and arrive at an equitable allocation of funds that will give each depart m e n t adequate operating ex penses for the next fiscal year. In spite of the expanding costs of county services, the bud get committee has invariably managed so far tn kprn pvivnM within the six per cent limita tion. Deadline for completion of the instrument is July 15. Atomic-Age Navy Approved by House - Washington, May 23 (U.R) In a burst of defense activity, the house today passed legisla tion to start work on an atomic age navy and to spend about $580 million on top priority mili tary construction at home and abroad. The construction bill. In dif ferent form, already has passed the senate It now goes back for consideration of house changes. The navy building program in cludes plans for an atomic-powered submarine. It now goes to the senate. 8EABEES TO MEET A special meeting of the Sea bee reserve will be held today at 8 p.m. in the Federal building. Lt. Cmdr. Jackson. Seahee re serve officer from Seattle, will be here to answer questions re garding the Scabee reserve and help set up a training program. Ail former Seabees are invited to attend. Seattle. May 23 U,R The const guard reported today that the cutter Bnnham had taken two fishing vessels in tow off the Oregon coast and was en route to Coos Bay, Ore. Assailant who apparently are bent on wip ing out members of the Shellon clan. Little Earl was blasted by eigiit machine gun slugs last September 10. Neither Big Earl nor Little Earl would say today whether they glimpsed the men who fired at them yesterday afternoon. Driving the same car in which Little Earl was shot, they were en route tn investigate a report that one of Big Earl's oil wells was about to "come through." As they drove through the bottomlands, the gunmen sud denly fired at them from a clump of hushes. One slug missed Lit tle Earl, who was driving, and hit Big Earl in the right arm. Flying glass cut B I g Earl's eyes. Little Earl (romped on the ac celerator and the car roared away as the gunmen fired a vol ley of shots after them.