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5) c fo) Ltq Ml mil M M o)fl mRfo)(g Medford 45th Year. 22 Pages liasta Slaying Suspects 2 Tcugh Hoodlum Youths Accused of Slaying Deputies Considerable Feeling Against Pair in City 4 Nevada City. Cal.. May 27 (U.R) Two tough 'teen-age hood lums accused of slaying two Shasta county sheriff's deputies wore transferred to Folsom state prison for "safekeeping" tonight as indignation ran high in Red ding. Cal., home town of the victims. The youths. James McKay. 18. Sacramento, and Robert Strum. 18 Oakland, were transported in custodv of Sheriff John Balma of Shasta county. Kept Several Days Shasta Countv Superior Court Judge Albert F. Ross said the pair probably would be kept in Folsom "for five or six days." He conceded there was consider able feeling in Redding against the pair. Deputy District Attorney Hi ram Baker disclosed his office is working on the theory that slay ings of Undersheriff Earl Sholes and Deputy Dan Heryford were premediated and warranted a death penalty. Since both youths are over 18 years of age, capital punishment is possible. Formal murder charges were filed against them at Redding. Taken Near Redding Sholes and Heryford were slain Friday as they were return ing McKay and Strum to a juv enile detention camp from which thev had escaped last month. Highway Patrolmen William Gautsche and George Schrom who captured the pair, said they admitted overpowering their es corts in an automobile 40 miles north of Redding and fleeing in r the officers' automobile. "We knocked their heads against the dashboard and took their guns. There was a strug gle." they told Patrolman Gautsche. Both denied shooting Sholes and Heryford whose bullet-torn bodies covered with sagebrush were found at the side of U. S. highway 99. The fugitives were overtaken by the highway pa trolmen while hitchhiking a ride with a middle-aged motorist. They had abandoned the offic ers' car when it ran out of gas. Trustees Ask To Aid Ashland City Library Income from the Ben E. Evans student loan fund at Southern Oregon college has grown to such an extent that the trustees have filed a petition for a decree in circuit court tharwould allow the surplus funds to be used for the benefit of the Ashland public library. , , The original sum bequeathed bv the will of Ben E. Evans was S36.777.05. It was directed to be used as a loan fund for students at Southern Oregon college and has been made available for that purpose since 1928. There has been an excellent return on the loans and the trus tees, J. W. McCoy, F. S. Englc and G. H. Wcnner, say interest l. has now built up the original " fund to S63.223.17. In keeping with the original intent of the will, the trustees have petitioned for permission to improve the services and facilities of the Ash land library since they consider it an important adjunct to the Ashland campus. , SALEM ZONE EXTENSION Salem. Ore.. May 27 ,U.R) The slate capitol planning com mission will ask the 1951 leg islature to extend the capitol zone from its northern boundary just north of Center street to D street. The ione is between Cap itol and Winter streets. Exhausted Still Seeking Skiier !. "St . , If - L ii.4 L,oncview. mij., ;ij: air; Exhausted marchers com pleted their si.-h day of .opera tions in '! e M''' st. Hcleris area, about 10 nil Mast of here, late today wiihouTfinding any det inue traces of Joe Carter. 32-yrar-old Seattle aircraft worker "missing since last Sunday. Carter's father, here from Carmrl. Cal.. said today he be lieved hi son is still alive but hope faded today and state patrolmen said the search might be called off Sunday. About 40 members of ski clubs in Oregon and Washington have scoured the area, aided by civil air patrol aircraft and coast; (ifdsmtn. The Yt aihington . MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 28, Secretary of Commerce Asks Resignations of Department Officials Washington. May 27 U.R) Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer today demanded the res ignations of William W. Rem ington and Michael J. Lee, com merce department officials whose loyalty is under investi gation. He threatened to fire them if they did not comply but Rem ington immediately rejected his chief's demand. He said he would not quit under fire. Declares Loyalty Lee issued a statement declar ing he is loyal. But he refused to say whether he will resign until he sees Sawyer. The com- Liberal Candidate Leading in North Carolina's Primary Raleigh. N. C, May 27 (U.R) Liberal Sen. Frank P. Graham built up an early lead over con servative lawyer Willis Smith to night in returns from a demo cratic primary that provides the second polls test of President Truman's policies this year. Returns from 1,294 of North Carolina's 1.990 precincts gave Graham 176.881 votes. Smith 145,436. former Sen. Robert R. Reynolds 32,804 and Olla Ray Boyd 2,463. A clear majority would be necessary for Graham, long a re nowned educator before he went to the senate 14 months ago, to win the seat without a runoff. Smith was regarded as his strong est challenger with Reynolds third man and likely to switch his support to Smith in the event of a second primary. The bitter campaign in which Graham vowed support of most of President Truman's policies brought out voters in record numbers. A victory for Graham would make the administration even up in the southern elections. Rep George Smathers (D Fla.) re cently unseated fair dealer Sen. Claude Pepper in the Florida primary. As in Florida, demo cratic nomination in North Caro lina assures election. Rivers of Columbia Basin Rise Slightly Portland. Ore., May 27 (U.R) Lower night temperatures have again slowed the rates-of-rise of Columbia basin rivers and the weather bureau here forecast only gradual increases until Monday. In the upper basin, near-freezing temperatures held the snow melt to a minimum Friday night and forecasts said the Columbia at Vancouver. Wash., and the Willamette at Portland rose only slightly today. Grand Coulee dam gates were closed Friday, permitting the accumulation of run-off waters in Franklin D. Roosevelt lake. Army engineers moved into Sauvie island on the Columbia west of here in a fight against time to add two feet of earth to the too of the 9.3-mile levee on the north end of the island. The engineers have only four days ti complete the mammoth project since flood stage was ex pected to exceed the dike's height by Tuesday. Searchers state patrol issued a call for ex perienced woodsmen to relieve tired searchers. The coast guard reported a spI of "ski pole tracks" were found in a patch of snow today and said a partv was following the trail from Clearwater shelter to Jackpl 1 e shelter. The coast guard bel'eved Carter may have followed trail from Jaekpine shelter tnvard Mt. St. Helens. A search group of 35 local timber workers and experienced trackers was being sent to Jack pine shelter to establish a head quarters. Crusty snow and fallen logs In the search area have blocked frails and Impeded progress. searcher! reported. merce secretary left for his Cin cinnati home shortly after an nouncing the resignation re quest. He will be away from Washington until Wednesday or Thursday. Sawysr emphasized that his action is no reflection on the loyalty of either Remington or Lee. The commerce loyalty board is checking both men on that score now. But Remington and Lee have long been under congressional attack and republican critics of the administration loyalty pro gram have repeatedly demanded their dismissal. Commerce officials were un certain as how to go about fir ing Remington. He has been cleared by the president's loy alty review boards But he was recalled recently for further hearings by the House Un-American Activities committee and was summoned before a federal grand jury in New York. The commerce loyalty board, meanwhile, ordered a new check on Remington after the House committee produced testimony which Remington swore was false that Remington was a communist party member when he was 19. But until and unless the loy alty board finds against Rem ington, he cannot be dismissed on loyalty grounds. His work has been adjudged satisfactory. But charges of some kind must be filed against him by person nel officials in the department, it was said, before hearings on his dismissal can be held. Teen-Agers Accused Storekeeper Murder Long Beach, Cal., May 27 (U.R) Three teen-agers,, two of them girls, have confessed the murder of a liquor-store owner who gave his life to save $50 in an attempted holdup, police an nounced today. The youngsters, one of them a 15-year-old ninth-grader, were arrested through clues provided by an accomplice in another at tempted liquor-store holdup, Detectvie C a p t. L. Q. Martin said. Thomas Charles Cook Jr.. 17, a Junior at Polytechnic high school, admitted firing the shot that killed Dominic Calarco, 26, who was clutching the $50 he refused to give up when the youths tried to rob his store two weeks ago, Martin said. Booked with him for investi gation of murder and turned over to juvenile authorities were Murial Clara (Pickles) Downs, 17. also a junior at Polytechnic, whom the holdup witnesses were said to have mistaken for a "baby-faced boy." and Peggy Byrns. 15. a junior high school ninth grader and asserted driver of the get-away car. Senate Crime Probers Finish Florida Talks Miami, Fla.. May 27 U.R) Senate crime investigators con cluded a two-day secret hearing here late today and revealed they had examined minutely the Florida activities of New York gambler Frank Erickson. Sen. E s t e s Kefauver, (D., Tenn.), said he was "most satis fied" with the results of the opening investigation of the committe he heads. 'We got more information than we expected to." he said. Although Erickson's Florida operations, uncovered by New York investigators recently, was the chief reason for the commit tee's rush flight to Miami yes terday, Kefauver said his group also learned a great deal about Florida crime and gambling ac tivities in general. He informed the Senate that it had "certain law enforcement officers" who he said "are not very anxious to enforce the laws of the state." MRS. W. K. WHISENANT Mrs. W. K. WhLsenant. 74. died at her home, 418 Arcadia street. Saturday evening. Perl funeral home is in charge of arrangements and a complete obituary will be published later. In order to permit employ ees to observe the Memorial Day holiday. The Mail Trib une will not publish on Tues day, May 30. Tribune 1950 NO. 56 Removed Switchmen Decide To Cancel Strike Scheduled June 1 Western Railroads Expected Walkouts Washington, May 27 U.R The switchmen's union tonight cancelled temporarily its strike set for June 1 on 10 western railroads. Chairman Francis A. O'Neill Jr., of the national mediation board announced the cancella tion. The union had no immediate comment. Tiie union had announced the strike in an effort to force a contract providing for a 40-hour week with wages for 48 hours. O'Neill said that "sufficient progress" had been made by the parties in the negotiations to warrant the mediation board continuing its efforts to compose the differences existing between them. The strike originally was post poned from May 23 until June 1. No More Expected O'Neil said he did not believe a further postponement would be necessary. "While the union reserves the right to reinstate its strike order," O'Neill said. "I believe no further strike call will be necessary." O'Neill announced the can cellation after two meetings to day among Union President Arthur J. Glover and spokesmen for the carriers. General Motors and CIO Agree on New Working Contracts Detroit. May 27 (U.R) Gen eral Motors and the CIO electri cal workers agreed tonight on a new contract which is a virtual duplicate of the historical pact between GM and the CIO United Auto Workers. Covering 30.000 employees In three states, the settlement pro vides SlOO-plus pensions, guar anteed annual pay increases and cost-of-living tie incorporated in the contract between GM and the UAW Tuesday. The agreement extends past 300.000 the nupiber of workers covered by unchangeable five year GM contracts, and contains only one basic difference from the auto workers plan. It had been a foregone con clusion, since IUE-CIO chiefs sat in on the UAW talks and had been covered by a similar agree ment for the past two years. The IUE did not win an im mediate modified union shop. A national labor relations board election is necessary before the union can bargain on that point. But a provision was inserted which gives the IUE the modi fied union shop if the NLRB vote favors it. Diamond Lake Road Clearing Progresses Highway 230 is now open from highway 97 to Diamond lake, James Bromley, Grants Pass, resident highway engin eer, informed state police here early yesterday afternoon. Two crews are now working to clear snow from highway 230 between highway 62 and the lake (this side of the lake), Bromley said. The crew on this side has worked up about 14'i miles from the junction of routes 62 and 230 and the other equipment is progressing from the lake. Each group has been making about two miles per day prog ress, It is thought the road may be cleared by May 31. Garrett Larson Hurt When Car Hits Tree Garrett Larson. 22. 1005 West Main street, suffered a possible brain concussion and cuts and bruises about thp chet at 7:30 p.m. yesterday when the car he was driving collided with a tree at the corner of West Ninth street and South Oakdale ave nue. Larson was taken to Commun ity hospital in a Conger-Morris ambulance but a physician said last night it was .Hi ill too early to tell whether the injuries were serious. City police had no ex planation for the collision. The fire department was railed to flush away sp'HM ga-o-line when the oadly damaged car was towed away. r l f Jf , I & . -fit IV. i.P LIBERTY BELL SHOWN Washington school youngsters and Eagle scout honor guards are shown grouped about the Oregon Liberty Bell which Was displayed at Medford schools Thursday in connection with the Independence savings bond sale drive of the federal treasury. Purpose of the bell showing in the stnte is to encourage thrift and stimulate interest in America's heritage. Youngsters, from left, are Donald Vinson, DeAnne Taylor, Ronda Martin, Norman Burk, Hamil ton Gary and Linda Luman. Scouts are, from left, Martin Johnson, Lee Stothers, Lloyd Bishop and Jack Bailey. (Brainerd photo). City Seeking Data On Aerial Ladder Fire Apparatus City Superintendent Vernon Thorpe has been instructed by the city safety committee to get information as soon as pos sible from various companies on aerial ladder fire fighting ap paratus aud prices. This will expedite advertis ing for bids when bond issue funds recently voted by resi dents are available. Thorpe's office is also mak ing a survey for locations of west and east side fire stations which the bond funds will pro vide. Want No Delay At a safety committee ses sion last week, the group ex pressed the feeling that there should be no unnecessary delay in the fire department program, because of overwhelming vote of the people. Meeting with Council Committeemen Paul Sclby, Elmer Childers and Frank Rtintz were Mayor Dia mond Flynn, Councilman Har old Frye, Thorpe and Jack Cul ver of American LaFrance Foamite corporation. The safety committee plans to .confer with representatives from other companies to get a better understanding of the type of equipment necessary for the city. At LeaJMilled In Holiday Accidents Chicago, May 27 (U.R) Acci dents had killed 75 persons'by Saturday night at the end of the first 24 hours of the four-day Memorial holiday period. Sixty-two persons met death on the nation's highways. Six persons drowned and seven died in miscellaneous mishaps. Michigan recorded the great est number of first day deaths with 14. the exact number kill ed there during the entire holi day week-end last ypar. State and national safety of ficials warned that the toll would be heavy. Expected Estimates Of Population Not Given The Mail Tribune has bepn ex pecting word from the district supervisor of the census, in Eugene, for about a week giving preliminary population estimates of the city and surrounding area. They had not arrived up to press time, despite the as surances of Rav Feves, super visor, that they would be made available earlier this week. Considerable Interest in the first census releases has been noted here. Last year city popu lation estimates here ranged up ward from 17,000. although populations in other Oregon cities have proven to be con siderably less than earlier esti mates. WEATHER For FX A NT Parily Hourly to day and Monday with itiorri Monday. Contlfinti eool OmperaturM, Tmp. 13 . 4h H1chft YMtrrriay I.otttit YMterday , eU"HJU 1 Honors Readied For Last GAR Commander Camo White. May 27 The entire personnel and member ship of the veterans administra tion domiciliary center nere, ana several thousand visitors, will do honor to the last living com mander of the Grand Army of Temperatures Drop After May Peak, 93 Temperatures here skidded downward after hitting a May peak of 93 degrees Thursday. The maximum was 8 Friday and 73 yesterday. Cooler nights and warm days with tempera tures in the 80s was the weather forecast for the holiday period. Maximums Thursday. Friday and Saturday were similar to the corresponding days in May last year when the respective read ings were 90, 83 and 72. Hottest May day on record here was May 22, 1941 when the weather bureau thermometer registered 100 degrees. This peak occurred during a hot spell. The readings were 90 on May 20. 95 on May 21. 91 on May 23 and HU on May 24. Ex-Mental Hospital Man Admits Stabbing New York, May 27 (U.R) A hulking, incoherent Negro re cently released from a mental hospital was arrested tonight and admitted he fatally stabbed a young war veteran through the heart without warning as his 20-year-old girl friend watched in dumb horror. Police said they seized Robert Cannon, 45. a 200-pound. 8 1 x footer, of suburban Ilcmpslenri, N. Y.. at the home of a cousin, Amnlia Newton, in the Jamaica section of New York City. They said he has a record of three arrests for felonious as sault and had been released from the Pilgrim state mental hospital at Brentwood. N. Y.. in Miss Newton's custody last October. 4,500 Join Wildcat Strike at Oak Ridge Oak Ridge, Tenn., May 27 'URi What began four days ago as a walkout by 700 dis gruntled laborers snowballed to day into a wildcat strike of 4,500 construction workers that halted virtually all expansion work in the atomic center. Atomic Energy commission officials were groping for the next step toward settlement af ter the AFL workmen in nine building crafts ignored pleas of union officials and the media tion panel directive to go back on the job. The most damaging effect of the unauthorized strike was to upset the timetable for building two gaseous diffusion plants. K-2fl and K-31, needed to speed processing of uranium. Socialite Shoots Self To Death, Army Pistol Arcadia. Cal.. May 27 lURi Socialite Anne Simpson, 23, daughter of a wealthy Arcadia family, shot herself to death to day with an army pistol, Pol ce said her suicide appar ently was caurd by disappoint ment over an unhappy love afiau, . M the Republic here Sunday after noon. The observance, sponsored by the VA center in cooperation with two GAR auxiliaries, will pay tribute to Theodore "Daddy" Penland. 101. who last year was elected commander in chief of the Civil war veterans organi zation for the remainder of his Jiie. Parade r 2 p.m. Representatives In most cases high officers of the major veterans organizations will join in the ceremonies, which will be preceded by an elaborate parade at the center, at 2 p.m. A re viewing stand has been construc ted for Commander Penland and visitinE dienitaries. and the brief ceremonies open to the public will be held In front or tne chapel. More than forty different marching u n It i. including a t least four musical "organizations, will participate in the parade, which will be more than a mile In length. Military units which will participate will include civil air patrol. Company A, 186th infantry. Oregon national guard; Grants Pass Company C; marine corps reserve unit; air reserve unit; volunteer air reserve training unit; and headquarters and headquarters battery, 732nd battalion, ONG. Program Listed The program following the parade will include selections by the Medford and Grants Pass high school bands, invocation and henediction bv the center chaplains, a short address of wel come by Center Manager ram A. llalton, introduction of guests by General Chairman John Kelly, a talk "A Great Warrior," by Sam Bowe, Grants Pass, state American Legion commander, and a brief talk by the old vet eran himself. A description of the dav'sing non-communist pledges, events will be rebrnadcast over The decision on whether to both Medford radio stations later discharge the employes, which in the day. KYJC at 4 p.m. and Included 89 professors, rests KMF.D at 9 p.m. with the board of regents. Late Sports Medford Rogues and the Eugene Larks battled it out to a IS to 15 tie Saturday night at the fairgrounds with the game called at the end of 12 innings due to a time limit according to Far West league rulst. The game had been full of walks, many bate hits and the lead had changed often, Medford got the bases load ed with two out in the last of the 12th but could not score. The Rogues threatened in every inning of the extra number but could not push a run across. Boston, May 27 (UP) Boston Red Sox swept both ends of a doubleheader here Saturday night winning the nightcap 6 to 2 after taking the opener 4 to 3 from Wash ington. Albany. Ore7, May 25 U.R Brilliant pitching won two Oregon high school teams their second consecutive Class A and B baseball crowns here Saturday night. Roosevelt of Portland beat Eugene 7 to 0 for the Class A title and Drain whipped Amity U to 0 In CI 111 B finale. City Tense, Quiet As Commies Plan Big Demonstrations Nearly 500,000 May Take Part in March Berlin, Sunday May 28 (U.R) Berlin was tense but quiet early today as the communists pre pared to begin their mighty eight-hour youth parade climax ing a mammoth anti-western demonstration. After a brief spurt of gunfira yesterday in which nobody waa injured, the city slept aerenely. By midnight Saturday night only a few communist youths remained in Russian sector streets of downtown Berlin. Police Set Overcast Weary policemen stood in small groups as an overcast sky threatened rain. The loudspeak ers that bellowed all day Satur day were silent a few hours be fore the big parade set for 9 a.m. (4 a.m. EDT). Blue-shirted communist youtlis prepared to assemble two hours before then ana nearly 500.000 were scheduled to par ticipate. Throughout the night Unter den Linden was ablaze with lights, spotlighting large por traits of Josef Stalin and other communist leaders. First Big Violence The gunfire yesterday marked the first serious violence in con nection with the rally. Soviet zone german police opened fire on west sector police. No one was injured and tht west Germans did not return tha fire, averting a major crisis in the tense and divided city wnere allied troops wert alerted against threatened communist attempts to seize Berlin for the Russians. Grey uniformed west Berlin police and blue-clad east Berlin police later threw stones at ont another for a few minutes near Potsdammer P 1 a t z, 10 miles from the scene of the shooting but tempers on both sides cooled quickly and the scuttle enaea shortly with out casualties. U. S. public safety official! said the shooting followed th arrest ot tieorg wiuenz, a Aa-year-old school t e a c h r who lives in the American sector of Berlin. Russian sector police in vaded the American sector a few yards to make the arrest. Twenty west Berlin police at tempted to rescue Mueru and chased the communist police back inside the soviet zone. The Russian zone police opened fire, cutting loose with six or eight shots from rapidfiring machine pistols and carbines. Dorothy Jean Anderle Rose Festival Queen Portland, Ore., May 27 U.B Dorothy Jean Anderle. 17-year-old Cleveland high school stu dent, was selected and crowned Queen of the 1950 Portland Rose festival here Saturday night. A brunette, Dorothy is Cleve land high's second queen and was coronated "Queen Dorothy II" She is the daughter or Mr. and Mrs. Carl Anderle of (3914 SE 9th Ave.) Portland. The new queen is vice president of her senior class and a member of Sorosis, girls service club. Mayor Dorothy , McCullough Lee nresenled the kevs to the city to the new ruler. This is the 42nd annual Portland Hose festival. 412 U. of California Workers Balk at Pact San Francisco, May 27 (U.R) The armistice in the University of California's loyalty oath con troversy ended today with the disclosure that 412 employes re fused to sign contracts contain- Bulletins Southern Oregon district trackmen broke the string of victories compiled by Port land schools in the annual north-south meet by scoring a 6834 to 61 14 decision Satur day nlqht at the local field. Medford took individual school honors with 3 Hi points, Klamath had 21'i. Grants Pass lBVe and Ashland i for the southern schools. Roosevelt was high for Port land with 15'. First for Tornado boys were Jack Morris In the 100 and low hurdles, Frank Morris in the high hurdles. Lou Bittle In the 440 and the local relay team, Jack Morris broke the north-south mark for the low hurdles with 22. Ss compared with 22.6s. Redding, Cel.. May 27 (U R) Russ R os berg hit his 11th home run of the season in the sixth inning to boost Redding over Klamath Falls 3 to 2 in their Far West league game Saturday night. Sacramento, Cel., Mfy 27 (URi Oakland took a 3 to 2 series lead over Sacramento o f t h e Pacific Coast league here Seturday night by down ing the Saci 3 to 0.
