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mmm ) IS Ul II IIU LTQ " I Jl . y &t M Medford Tribu? o 45th Year. 10 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1950 68 WEATHER Forerait: Cloudy tonight and arly Tuesday, rlparlnc by after noon. Rising daytime tempera ture!. Slightly cooler tonight. Temp. Ptgheit yeiterday 51 Ltwtit thlt morning SI free, to 4:30 a.m. today .. 68 Former Official Called Before In Amerasia Stolen Documents Jury Hearing fAcm TeiephoUt) ANTI-AMERICAN POSTERS APPEAR IN TOKYO Elderly Japa nese workman points to ami-American poster on the bulletin board of the AH Japan Government Employes Union Headquarters build ing in Tokyo. The posters made their appearance in the wake of General Douglas MacArthur's purge of top members of the Japa nese Communist party. Characters under the mother holding her email child read: "No more war" and "No American Colony in " Japan. Roundup Enthusiasm Undampened By Rain Siskiyou Posse Wins Despite sprinkles of rain which turned into a s eady downpour, the "show went on at "he ninth annual Rogue River Roundup yesterday afternoon. Dampened spectators made use of umbrellas, slickers and im provised shelters, while per formers grinned and bore it. Biggest- competition of the day-that for the Brophy's Jew elers trophy for mounted troop f drill-went to the Siskiyou T Mounted Sheriff's posse which edged out the Jackson posse by a quarter of a point. The spec tacular and dangerous fire drill, for which the northern Califor nia group is noted, made the margin of difference. nnrnina Barriers Working under the handicap of being last on the program i in the drill competition, you team braved a slick and muddy field to execute their precision jumps over burning barriers, and through a series of torch-topped poles. ici. Third place in the precision competition went to the Klam ath county posse, with fourth going to the Josephine count t6Tne blue and yellow shirted mens and women's Medford Trail riders mounted quadrille exhibition Saturday night was enthusiastically received, as the mounted square dancers swung Tnpir nnrmers iiivuri' Do." fMacc WinnRTI In Saturday night's three Baited horse class Mrs. Bettye Fidler up on "Peavine's Jaunty -i.;nf thp hlue ribbon. Mrs. iris Dodge, on "Son of Sen rnn lunnnnlH" took the red ribbon, and third and fourth places went to Mrs. Gladys Cleveland. Josephine county posse auxiliary member, and Mrs. Marjorie Hoover. Mrs. Dia Y mond Flynn presented the rib bons. , ... Women's stake race Saturday night was won by Ladies Mount vd troop, which defeated the Medford Trail riders. The Jo sephine county auxiliary team was third. The troop team and Josephine auxiliary were neck and neck in the last lap of the race when Mrs. A. C. Schneider of the Grants Pass team was thrown from her horse as she pulled up. to make a turn. Mrs. Schneider, the former Joyce Wooldridge and a sister of the Oueen Audrey Wooldridge, was shaken and bruised by the acci dent. Presented Belt Buckle Stan Morgan, Jackson county posseman and general chairman of the roundup was presented a hand engraved silver belt buckle for first -on-the-men' boot race. Saturday. Barbara Huntington, profes sional trick rider, performed both davs with daring feats on horseback. Bill Markley, round up clown, furnished fun for the audience and protection to brahma bull riders by detracting the bulls' attention after riders were thrown. iHitm0 the three -gaited horsp class and precision drills ... .it ..., n L. A mora A W UUSIV ruivuc;,, Milwaukie, and Matt Vetsch, Portland. Square Dance Held Hi Martin's Hayloft gang fur nished music for the posse s well-attended square dance Sat urday night at the Medford ar mory. Lee Ragsdale and Glen Smith called for the large dance crowd. Jimmy Dunlevy was master of ceremonies. Clavton Dickerson, Josephine countv posseman. was winner in the Saturday musical chair con test, with Clarence Harrison, Medford Trail Riders, second. Five boys and one girl won in the 4-H calf scramble, yester-j- finol rnnnriun event. The winners who took home calves thev had caught were Bernice ;rtUam Rontp 1. Eagle Point; ih William Bunker, Butte ciat. rnntp. Eafile Point Don Miracle, Route 1. Box 372, MorffnrH- Norman Bubb, Route 1 Eaele Point: Leonard Lewis Route 2, Medford. and Carl lie R20 Crater Lake avenue. Donating the calves were Drew Lamb, Magnolia Lumber rnmnnnv. Ashland: Richard o.. rir Milline and Plan -on Aahlanri: Ashland Elks club: Jim Miller. Miller ranches, Ashland: Jackson Coun ts n and the Shady Cove Rotary club. r.r,nJ Falls Nfld.. June 12-flJ.R Hntnp owners stood by their houses with garden hoses today nn.inif against sparks from a fnret firp raeins on the other of fhp 100-yard wide Ex ploit river. Max Yergan Asked To Take Stand in Investigation Several Witnesses Claimed Scheduled Washington, June 12 U.R Grim and tight-lipped Philip J. Jaifee went before senate communist investigators to day to be questioned on the mystery - shrouded Amerasia case in which he played a key role. Jaffe entered the committee room accompanied by his at torney. O. John Rogge. Re porters asked whether he would answer the questions of the subcommittee members. New York. June 12 U.R Max Yergan. former executive secretary of the council on Afri can affairs, today was called be fore the "runaway" federal grand iurv investieating the five-year- old Amerasia stolen documents case. Yergan testified twice in De- opmhpr 1948. before the federal oranH inrv which indicted Alger Hiss. He was ousted from the nniinnil nn African affairs by left-wing faction in atter ne broke with its chairman. Paul Robeson. The council is on the attorney general's subversive list. Witnesses Scheduled The grand jury called an FBI agent for testimony before hear ina vprffan. It was understood several witnesses were scheduled to be heard today. The runaway jury had only four days to act in the investiga tion which it undertook appar ently contrary to the wishes of Washington. The jury took matters into its own hands, demanded evidence on the theft of top secret govern ment documents uncovered in 1945, and moved under its own steam without prior approval of federal officials who usually guide such top drawer investiga tions. Little Revealed Little has come to ngnt re garding the jury's findings, but it was considered likely that in dictments were in the making. Thp iurv a charges must oe framed by'Thursday the day the panel's term expires. Utnerwise, xne inveawKiiu would be dropped unless a suc ceeding jury feels obliged to carrv on in the light of avail able evidence. '' Jj'.l' V ALS? V :-.:- .r-- n t i. ...ij . - . , . ....... ...j. ..j Boom to Continue or 18 Months, Experts Declare Production Mounts, Economists Note Washincton. June 12 (U.R Government experts believe the national economy, now in the midst of its binaest peacetime boom will continue to prosper lor at leaM another 18 months Economists noted that produc- t ' A rme Trtrpnnto r cn M WP1TFRC. f All m Hollywood film writers John Howard Lawson Cleft) and Dalton Trumbo look back as they enter marshal's van to be taken to the District of Columbia Jail In Washington after they were sentenced to one year In jail and fined $1000 each for contempt of Congress. They refused three years ago to tell the House On-American Activities Committee whether they ever had been Com munists and the Supreme Court last month turned down their appeal for a reversal. El Russia, Colleagues Absent at UN Meeting T.altP Success. N. Y.. une 12 (U.R Russia and her eastern European partners failed to show up today as representatives of some 70 nations met to launch the United Nations' expanaea program of tecnnicai assistance to the worm s DacKwara ica. Secretarv-General Trygve Lie, giving full credit to President Truman whose "point four" pro gram provided the impetus for the expanded UN project, told delegates that the general assem bly "has declared that partisan political considerations shall not enter into the conduct of this program in any way." The Chinese nationalist dele gation, whose continued pres ence in the UN was the given reason for the 21 -week-old So viet boycott of the world or ganization, was in its place the conference began. Flegel Pledges Labor Representation On State Boards If Elected Governor La Grande. Ore.. June 12 (UR:The Oregon State Federa tion of Labor opened its annual state convention here today after the State Building and Construc tion Trades council heard Aus tin F. Flegel Jr.. democratic gubernatorial nominee, pledge labor representation on state boards. Fiend . who made a brief "non political" speech to the council, said labor would be represented on the state boards "which actu ally govern Oregon" if he wins the November election. Governor ol All "I propose to be governor of all the people of Oregon," Flegel said. "1 propose to give leader ship to things which are in the intcrc.l of all the people . . the things that are adverse to labor are adverse to all the peo pie of Oregon " He also renratpd a campaign promise to remove Public L'Ul- ities Commissioner ueorge r iagg if elected. Astoria and Seaside openea a campaign for next yeai vention at Seaside, but received some competition from Klamath Falls. Cldl Harris, secretary of the Portland district council of car pents was elected president of the AFL Building Trades un ion after Charles McCrary. Med ford electrical worker, declined to be a candidate for re-election. Harris was named over Tom Hodges of the Pendleton carpen ters. . , William Gray. Laborers ho. 21)6. Portland, was unanimously elected vice-president: Volney P. Martin, painters. Portland. wa named secretary: H. H. Har rison, electric workers No. 48, Portland, conductor and William Virgin millmen. Portland, war den. . Prisoner Labor Opposed Resolutions by the builuers opposed state use of prisoners for construction or ceil diocks at the Salem state penitentiary. called for laws which definitely and adequately punish sex enm inals, and demanded mat tne live ner cent differential in favor of local contractor snouin pe maae mandatory instead of optional nn nubile contracts. The convention aiso asseriea that there was a "serious power shortage" in eastern Oregon and western Idaho and called for immediate construction of the Hells Canyon dam on the Snake rivpr. Fred Manash, secretary of the Portland Building council, said that Jurisdictional disputes were becoming "alarming" and gave enemies of labor ammunition for anti-labor legislation. He urged all unions to settle their Juris dictional dispute around the con ference table.. Estimates Place Pear Crop Seven Per Cent Lower The volume of the 1950 Rogue valley pear crop may drop seven per cent from last year's produc tion. An earlv estimate of the crop made by the Rogue River Valley Traffic association inai- cates a production of about 2,750,000 packed boxes includ ing cannery tonnage. Officials of the association said this is three per cent below the five-year av erage and about seven per cent below last year s crop. Individual varieties, they said, will vary considerably, with the estimate showing anjous with a in ner cent increase, bartletts a 13 per cent decrease and bosc a 16 per cent decrease from the five-vear average. Bartletts will still be the larg est producing variety in the val ley with 35 per cent of the total, followed closely by anjous with 33 per cent. The trainc association smu uir trend in bosc production is downward and that it now rep resents only 20 per cent of the total. The remainder of the pro duction will be distributed among thp cornice, nelis. seckel. howell and p. Darry, wun io": five varieties making up 12 per cent of the total. Rain-Weighted Tree Cuts Power Supply Plprtrical nower in the south west section of Medford was out for almost three hours last night uihon a trpp hranch. weighted by heavv rain, broke tne power one in the 900 block of South Oak- dale avenue. Approximately one-iounn ine town, the area west oi uir mo- anH miilh Of 1 Hi) Street wa without power until about midnight. California Oregon Pnurpr rnmnnnv reported that power in the area will be down from 3 to 7 a. m. luesoay wiuic permanent repairs are made. When the break occurred last niahi firpmnn received a call that shtning nan siruin wic line. A truck was dispatched and stood by for a short time. 800 Lions Register For Annual Conclave Here1 Today Tuesday Although a sleady downpour forced Oregon Lions to move their chuck wagon dinner from the high school stadium into the junior high gymnasium last night, the weather failed to dampen the spirits of more than 800 delegates and their wives here for the state convention of Lions International. Medford Lions had planned to accommodate their guests in the spacious football field, but the western barbecue dinner was considered a great success in spite of the move indoors. 800 Hegistered The registration desk in the Move to Return Rent Control Bill To Committee Loses No More Filibuster Agreed by Senator Washington. June 12 (U.PJ The senate today passed and sent to the house a bill to ex tend federal rent controls through 1950 on the present local option basis. The roll call vote was 36 to 28. It came after Sen. Harry P. Cain. R Wash., abandoned a one-man filibuster against the measure. Washington, June 12 (U.PJ Sen. Harry P. Cain (R., Wash.) called :iff his one-man filibuster against h bill to extend rent con trols today after the senate de feated a move to send it back to committee. A vote by nightfall appeared likely. Senate Republican Leader Kenneth S. Wherry said Cain agreed not to filibuster further against the measure after the republican-sponsored motion to return it to the senate banking committee was rejected 44-25, Amendments Considered The senate then began con sidering amendments to the measure. Cain had been expected ha ion. income and employment are ; h- ,-;i:u,,c7rt, aoQic t. Japanese Visits Crater Lake One of the visitors at Crater Lake national park Saturday was Osamu Ikenouyc, official of the national park system in Japan. He is in this country at the invitation of Gen. Douglas MacArthur and has been on an extended tour of national parks to learn American organization al methods in that field. Since arriving in the United States March 22. Ikenouye has visited Sequoia. King's Canyon. Vosemite, Great Smokey, rt o t Springs, Carlsbad Caverns, Mt. Rainier, Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. He will at tempt to expand the Japanese park system on the American pattern when he returns to hn homeland. Many Accidents Over Week-End City and state police reported i epidemic of auto accidents, mostlv minor, during the week end, 'with the weather appar entlv a contributing fncor. City officers had record of 14 mishaps in and around Medford and state patrolmen listed about a dozen wrecks. Personal in juries were recorded in only one accident. Mrs. Clinton Coblaugh. 141 South Holly street, is confined to Community hospital as result of injuries suffered yesterday in a collision on highway 66 at Mt. View camp, according to state police and hospital reports. She was a passenger in a car driven by her husband. Police said the Coblaugh car and one operated by Jack Romald Allen, Kelso, Wash., were involved in the wreck. Allen was cited for passing with insufficient clear ance, according to police. Mrs. Coblaugh was brought to Medford by an Ashland ambu lance. Six Jurors Picked For Wilson Trial Vancouver, Wash., June 12 .11 pi Si iurnrs were selected today at the opening of the first degree murner mm . and Utah Wilson, charged with the kidnap-slaying oi in-year old JoAnn Dewey last March. After a morning of question ing the panel, the'sixlh Juror was chosen shortly before the noon recess. Selection of jurors ua to continue through the .flarnnnn The six turors are Otis Kil Friuard Gardner. Robert r Kriiiine rhrlslinr M. Shana han. Donald B. Pachal, and X'rnA A Conner. The trial opened In Clark county superior court. Vancouver. B. C, June 12 (II Pi Two bnvs playing cop and robbers in an isolated ravine found $7,000 worth of checks stolen In a recent robbery, police (aid today. Medford hotel had something more than 800 Lions and their ladies signed up for the Hth an nual conclave by this morning, but Chef Danny Marine is mak ing arrangements to feed be tween 900 and 1,000 at the gov ernor's banquet at the high school tonight. Today's activities for the Lions started out at 7:30 a.m. with a breakfast for more than 300 dole Bates. Only about 100 slept in after last night's hilarity. Speak er at the breakfast was Jack Peddvcord. international direct or from Se a 1 1 1 e. Dr. Floyd South, district governor, presid ed. First Business Session Delegates got down to business this morning with their first business session in the Holly the ater. Dr. Lee Mellish. conven tion chairman, presided and Mayor Diamond Flynn presented the address of welcome. The annual "model" luncheon was to be held this noon at the junior high school with Baker Lions In charge. Tonight's banquet and ball and this afternoon's golf tournament at t h e Rogue Valley Country club will wind up the second day of the three-day convention. Autopsy Set in Death Of Cab Driver Here Ervin Lyle Coin. 49, Gray Line Cab company driver, was found dead at Ins home, lO'l South Central avenue, yesterday morning and the coroners omce said an autopsy will be held this evening. According to a city police re port, Coin had finished wnrK about 5 a.m., ate at the Chung king inn about 5:45 a.m. and went home to go to bed. Police said thev were told that Coin complained of feeling ill upon his arrival home and that he drank soda water, vomited and said he felt much better. Mrs. Coin found hltn dead in his room about 11 a.m., police stated. The body is at Perl funeral home. ip and said the hest guess th;it these economic indicators will continue to climb through out 1951. Could Set Record The gross national output the total value of all goods and ser vices produced stood at the an nual rate of $263,900,000,000 for the first three months of this year. If the pace is maintained. 1950 will set a new peacetime record. Also contributing to the opti mism is the plan of businessmen to build new plants and buy new equipment. The commerce department re ported that personal income, not including life insurance divi dends paid former servicemen, climbed to an annual rate of $212,800,000,000 in April. This was almost $3 billion higher than the annual rate last year. Total Waqet Up 1 he department also said to tal wages and salaries were on the upswing. In April thev rose to the annual rate of $136.7(10, 000.000. about $1,800,000,000 higher than the previous month. The labor department report ed that some 300.000 fewer workers drew unemployment compensation last month than in May. 1949. Conceding that some of the drop might have been caused by workers exhausting their right to benefits, the department thought most of the decline re sulted from new Jobs in the con struction industry, agriculture and summer resorts. ore to extend rent control through December 31 and per mit local governments to ex tend rent controls another six months beyond end of the year. Present controls end June 30. The vote on the motion to send the bill back to committee came a few hours after demo cratic congressional leaders as sured President Truman that the house and senate will pasa a compromise extension bill. Passage Seen Soon Senate Democratic Leader Scott W. Lucas said he thought the senate would pass the bill before the end of this week. Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texaa said the house would pass the bill "pretty soon" after the sen ate completes action. Lucas said he will hold the senate in another long, late night session if necessary to let Cain talk himself out if his filibuster is revived. Charge Manslaughter In Death of Child, 3 Pendleton. Ore . June 12 U.R) Mr. and Mrs. William Johnson of Pendleton were charged with manslaughter here Saturday In the death of a three-year-old girl left in their charge. Umatilla county sheriff's offi cers said John admitted striking Mary Margaret Brown when she fought off his attempts to put her to bed. Johnson was quoted as saying she struck her head on a door pamb after he hit her. She was taken to a Pendleton hospital where she was pro nounced dead. The child was the daughter of Charles W. Brown, a bus driver. Oriuinallv the Johnsons said thev found tne gin unconscious on their back porch before they took her to the hospital. Their bond was set at $15,000. Million Dollar Rain Falls on Week-End A week-end rain which began Friday night, let up slightly most of Saturday, and came down in earnest Sunday afternoon, has eased the fire danger situation in the Rogue valley, permitted Med ford's reservoirs to refill and brought much-needed moisture to the valley's crops. Almost- a full inch 'of rain 91 inches fell during the week end. Seed farmers said it was "a million dollar rain for them, al though farmers with hay on the ground were not so enthusiastic. A prediction of clearer and warmer weather was given for tomorrow by the weather bureau here. The precipitation brought the season s total (since septemDer, 1949) to 16.55 Inches. .68 inchel over the average, and the month ly total to .im incnes, or ,ou over average. Brookline. Mass., June 12-U.R) John Shcpard 3rd, 64, pioneer radio man credited with the first baseball broadcast, died yester day at a hospital after a 13-day illness. Hollywood, June 12 OJ.R) Capt. Gerald Welckcr, foster son of Commedian Joe E. Brown, honeymooned today with Nurse Betty Eddy. Another War Is Possible, Oregon Graduates Informed Eugene, Ore., June 12 U.KJ suit from lis tenaency to oe wo- New Aiofor Building Dedication Held Today Jackson county's motor ve hicle registration office on high way 99 south was to have been dedicated at 1:30 p. m today hv a delegation of public offi cials. Including Secretary of State F.arl Newbry and mem bers of his staff. Jurig" J. B. Colemnn, Mayor Diamond Flynn and representatives ol ve:?'an organizations and military units Th buil'ling was constructed hv Scheflel ("onstructlin com pany anil will be managed by Wiliupi O llrien, who has moved his office ftom the temporaty quarters en the ground floor of the couxttouse. crakinn at the graduation ol the largest class in the history of the University of Oregon Lebanon s minister to tne unum States and the United Nation said yesterday another World War is possible Because tear. confusion and uncertainty per vade the very air we preatne. The Lebanese minisui, Charles H Malnik, sain it ap peared difficult to aistmguiso between "good and oaa on the international front occausr of world wide political, moral and religious uncertainty. 5,800 See Graduation About 5.800 persons sw wie 1.928 student of the class oi 1950 graduate. In his address on ine ,n- ioiii n thp Moment. Mainm emphasized that "one thing is certain the uncertainties of a world environment are here to inv therefore we must learn to live with them." MolnMf rui n rd to ine com munists' faith in their cause and their feeling that they are nn the "bandwagon of history as reasons for their territorial gains since the end of World War II. In the same way, he snld, the west must Instill confidence and eertainlv into Its way of life if it believes that environment Is worth defending. As lor tne tu lor Malnik thinks the even tual tall ol communism will re lated from the rest of the world. Malnik said despair and cyni cism on a world-wide scale are feeding the fire of communism, but that America through lead ership and conviction could lead the world in a triumph over communism. The question today is. "will the descendants of the pioneer that opened up a new continent in America turn to tne interna tional scene and re-discover the world?' " Malnik stated. Up to Graduates The statesman told the gradu ating students it would be up to them to accept their share or leadership to continue our way of life. Unlvers tv Pres dent Marry Newburn said this year's gradu ating class would be the larg est for some time to come, prob ably until the 1980s, when the large wartime birthrate Is re flected in our colleges and uni versities. A. S. Grant, member of the state board of education, wel comed students and guests to yesterday's ceremonies on be half of the state board. Dr. W. G. Nicholson, pastor of the Congregational church here, gave the invocation, and Dr. Ross J. Griffith, president of the Northwest Christian col lege here, offered the benedie
