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Newspaper Page Textfo) no Medford United Press Full Lusa Wire 45th Year. State of Emergency Declared in Flooded Canadian Region Vancouver, B. C, June 19 (UP) A state of emergency was declared in Harrison Hot Springs toriav and the 500 residents were beinE evacuated. Harrison is about 70 miles east tfcVancouver. "Flood waters coursed through -die village and four other British 'Columbia towns as dikes crum bled under the incessant pound ing by swollen mountain rivers. Populace Evacuated We've lost the fight," said Mrs. A. N. Naismith, wife of Col. Naismith, commissioner of Har rison Hot Springs. "The women and children are being evacuated first and then the men will go," she said. "The colonel declared a state of emergency this morning." Up to three feet of flood water from Harrison lake covered most of the town and the city hall was surrounded. Canadian army and Red Cross officials were on hand arranging the evacuation. High temperatures continued to plague the flood-stricken Pa cific northwest today as the death toll in three states and British Columbia stood at eight. Flood in Montana In Idaho national guardsmen struggled to reinforce sagging Judge Reverses Rule Denying Benefits to North Bend Strikers Salem, Ore., June 19 ttJ.Rl Circuit Judge George R. Dun can today reversed a ruling by the state unemployment com pensation commission denying benefits to members of the AFL ..Lumber and Sawmill Workers 'union employed at the Irwin Lvons lumber mill at North Bend during a 1948 labor dis pute. Judge Duncan's decision over ruled the commission which had held that the lumber workers were technically on strike dur ing the time the CIO longshore men and marine firemen were picketing the mill in a dispute over which union was to man the Irwin-Lyons ship Rolando. In Real Danger The lumber workers stayed off Ceremonies Slated in Honor of Emil Bri Ceremonies honoring the late Emil Britt for his 58's consecu tive years of volunteer service as a weather bureau observer will be held on the steps of the old Jacksonville courthouse at 8 p.m. today, under the auspices of the Jacksonville Lions club. A department of commerce medal, commemorating Mr. Britt's long service, will be pre sented to his sister, Mollie, by Robert Church, official in charge of the Medford weather bureau. The public is welcome to join in the posthumous honor to Mr. Britt. .NAVY COMPANY SET Former navy men and others interested in belonging to an or ganized navy reserve electronics company are invited to attend a meeting at 8 p.m. today, at which first steps in the actual organization of the company will bp made. The meeting will be at the Federal building. 33 North Riverside avenue. The new com pany is expected to be the first such unit in the northwest. Bend. Ore.. June 19 U.R) One of Oregon's newest cities, Sisters, has a population of 718, Mayor C. W. Bush said today. Late News Bulletin Medford corporation, one of the area' largest lumber and sawmill companies, has settled with its Lumber and Sawmill workers' union employees (AFL) on wage demands, it was announced this afternoon by B. L. Nutting, manager of Medco. Nutting said the wage settlement is for an in crease of lOVi cents per hour, retroactive to June 1. The union had previously asked the increase become effective May 1, and later May 16. Vacation pay eligi bility hinged on the effective date. Some 400 workers at the Medco mill are affect ed. The agreement was reached at a meeting this hoon, Nutting said. There was no work stoppage, although a strike had been threatened earlier. It was understood the agreement was reached with local employees, and not through the Klamath Basin District council, AFL, which had represented union members in previous vag negotiation. dikes along the Kootenai river: and a flash flood swept through Harlowton. Mont. More than 1.500 persons had fled their homes in British Co lumbia where the Fraser, Skeena and Simalkameen rivers unleash ed their sullen streams. A University of British Colum bia professor made an air survey of the headwaters of the mightv Fraser river and reported there was still a "tremendous amount of water which has got to come down" being held in the moun tains. Temperatures ranging in the 80's were forecast to continue throughout the area. Two sections of diking crum bled before the onslaught of the steadily-rising Fraser. inundat ing hundreds of acres of rich farmland. More than 4.000 per sons were isolated in the upper Bridge river valley, provincial Police Constable Norm Gibbons reported, as Gun creek rose three feet in 90 minutes Sunday. The Fraser was expected to reach the 24-foot mark at Mis sion. B.C., today, four feet above flood stage. During the disas trous floods of 1948, the 695-mile long stream hit a high-water mark 24.7 feet. the job from Aug. 27 to Dec. 8, 1948. Judge Duncan in reversing the commission said: "The claimants were In real danger of physical violence to themselves if they attempted to breach the picket line. The court is of the opinion that there is substantial evidence that failure to the claimants to work result ed from fear of imminent per sonal violence to themselves and that there is no substantial evi dence establishing that either the claimants or any of their fellow workers of the same grade and class employed at the premises involved in the labor disputes were class employed at the prem ises involved in the labor dis putes." Workers are ineligible for benefits if they participate in a labor dispute. The court found that forms filled out by the claimants were not thorough enough in detail to allow the worken to tell their full story. Not Intent of Law The judge said it is "hardly the intent of the law that the workmen should have consulted lawyers before filling out tne forms for benefits, though had they done so, the answers no doubt would have been quali fied." He said "it is common knowl edge that in labor disputes such as the one nerem invoivea, n is extremely difficult while the picket line remains to afford ade quate protection to employees who make an enon 10 worn. t ra .TuHffe Duncan said, the plant manager reported non-pickets were accosted ana carried out of the plant by strik ing employees. GOP ELECTION SET nrfirpn of the Jackson County Republican Central committee will be elected by GOP precinct officers at a meting set for 8 m. todav at the ftieaiora initn. ... . aii ronithlimns and others in terested are invited, although voting will be limited to accred ited precinct committeemen and women. MEDFORD, OREGON, Ten danger spots were report ed in the dikes at Agassiz. B. C, which hold the river back from the community of 2.500 persons. Reeve James Fraser declared a state of emergency in the area as Canadian soldiers built sec ondary dikes around the boils. The post office and seven auto courts were abandoned to the flood waters at Harrison Hot Springs. Three persons died Saturday when a flash flood sent a 12-foot wall of water through Skyhawk canyon near Pomeroy. Wash. Four persons, three of them chil dren, drowned in separate acci dents in Washington state flood waters. Victim Identified The eishth victim was identi fied as Mrs. Ed Macon. Harlow- ton. Mont., drowned when a 10- foot high flood wave burst through Antelope coulee Satur iday night. At Bonners Ferry, Ida.,' Sher iff Roy Roehm said the rising Kootenai river had reached 31.8 feet last night but no bad breaks in the dikes were reported. "If the river stops rising within 24 hours, we can save the dikes," he said. "But they won't hold much above 32 feet." v i i J- m (Aemt TelephMo) NO THIRD TERM - Governor Thomas Dewey (above) bands oat a one sentence statement In Albany, N. Y, to the press stat ing quote, "I shall not be can didate for re-election next fall The Governor said that he was very tired after 30 years of public life and that be would probably enter private law practice at the end of bis present term of office. Witness Tells of Seeing Two Men Beat Young Girl Vancouver. Wash.. June 19 'UP) Mrs. James Nelson, an eye witness to JoAnn Dewey's ab duction, said she saw two men beating the girl and described their dress today from the wit ness stand at the kidnap-murder trial of Turman and Utah Wilson. Mrs. Nelson told the jury that she was aroused by the girl's shrieks as she was reading a newspaper in her room the night of March 19. She said she rushed to the window and looked out to see a man leaning over a prostrate girl. "He was hitting her on the head. He was striking down. It looked very severe. "I knocked on mv window thinking it would frighten him but it didn't." She said the man was of me dium build with dark hair and wore dark clothes. She said she saw a second man walk around from an automobile parked near by and start beating the girl also I The second man wore a hat and i light jacket and was of a slighter build, she testified. Under Prosecutor R. DeWitt Jones' questioning. Mrs. Nelson said she had picked out two men who resembled the assailants in two lineups at the sheriff's office later on. She did not say who ' these men were. I Jury Sent From Room For the third time the jury i was sent from the courtroom by Superior Judge Eugene G. Cusri-1 ing when Defense Attorney Irvin Goodman objected to a question by Jones. Jones 8sked Mrs. Nel son if she had ever seen Turman Wilson's picture in the news paper. After Goodman objected. Jones withdrew the question and Judge Cushing ordered the Jury to disregard it. Mrs. Nelson testified she did not see the face of either at tacker. Yakima. Wash.. June 19 UP; Heavy rains in the Yakima val ley have caused from 5 to 25 per cent damage of this year's cherry crop, it was reported today. KM MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1950 House Tax Writers Reverse Decision On Cigarette Cut Corporate Tax Increase Sought Washington. June 19 (U.R) House tax writers reversed them selves today and rejected a pro posal to cut the excise taxes on "economy" brand cigarettes. Some members of the tax-writing house ways and means com mittee said this reversal may be the key point in getting the com mittee to approve a boost in cor poration tax rates. Outcome in Doubt But the outcome still was in such doubt that sponsors of the corporate tax increase said they wouldn't bet a nickel that they have a majority of the commit tee behind them. However. House Speaker Sam Rayburn told President Truman at a White House call this morn ing that he thought a tax bill should be reported to the house this week, "taken up next week on Tuesday, and disposed of by July 1. ' Rayburn declined to dis cuss the corporate tax increase proposal. Proipects Please Truman Later, Rayburn said Mr. Tru man seems to be pleased with the tax bill prospects. Rayburn said he expects the committee to approve a bill with sufficient new revenue to offset the $1, 010.000.000 in excise tax cuts which is has approved. Rayburn presumably assumed that the committee will approve a corporation tax increase. This appears to be the only means the committee has of getting the ad ditional $500 million to bring the bill into balance. Departing Scouts To Parade Today A parade through Medford's downtown section and a court of honor at the Southern Pacific depot will precede the departure of this area's 71 boys and 8 leaders this evening for Valley Forge, Pa., where they will a t tend the national scout jam boree. The two special cars which will take the boys north to join the transcontinental special train will be part of the north bound passenger train leaving here at 7:38 p.m. (DST). March Through Streets At 4:30 p.m. the boys will leave scout headquarters in a group, marching through the streets to the depot. They will be led by the Central Point scout drum and bugle corps. Upon arrival, they will form in to a court of honor at which Jack Bailey will be presented his ranger badge. After the brief ceremonies the boys will be free to visit with friends and fam ily until train-time. During the day the scouts packed their trek carts and yucca packs, and underwent brief last-minute physical check ups and equipment inspections. They will return here in July. Two Firms Make High Bids for 0-C Timber Timber Products company .Med ford, and Weyerhaeuser Timber company. Klamath Falls, were successful bidders in an oral auc tion today for tracts of timber in the bureau of land manage ment's Medford district. The Medford firm offered $26. 353 25 for 2.880.000 board feet of mostly douglas fir on the West fork of Evans creek. Appraisal price was $25,884 25. Magnolia Lumber company was the other bidder. Seven offers were made before the sale was completed. Weyerhaeuser bid $118,007 for 7.430.000 feet on Jenny creek ap praised at $79,753.25. The tract included douglas and white fir and sugar and ponderosa pine. Other bidders were Puckett and Sherer. Magnolia and Klamath Basin Pine mills. Thirty offers were made among the four. The sale was conducted at the city hall here. Radio Highlights A transcribed description of today's Boy scout court of hon or, and interviews with mem bers of the scout group leaving tonight for Valley Forge, Pa., for the national jamboree, will be broadcast over radio sta tion KYJC (1230 kc.) at l:4J p. m. today. Radio station KWIN (1400 kc.) will broadcast the nttional middleweight championship boxing match between Wes Echols and Bull Haltey from the armory tonight, starting at I 'clock. Tribune FLASH FLOOD A dIuee of muddy water swirled throuch Rosevilte, O. alone; wrth six other Ohio towns ItiUoaini? a four-hour cloudburst that left a 2.i-square-mile area almost completely flooded. The flash flood has caused hundreds of thousands of dollars In damage and has resulted In three known, deaths. Interest Reported In Local School Board Elections Considerable interest in being reported here in the annual elec tion of school directors being held today in every school dis trict in the county. Polls in the Medford and Cen tral Point districts were opened at 3 p.m. and will close at 9 p.m. Voting times vary in the rural district. In Medford, ballots may be cast at the girls' gymnasium in the senior high school. There are three candidates for the one vacancy-on the Medford board of directors Dunbar Carpenter, Mrs. Moore Hamilton and Dr. Leroy Jensen. Two Polls In the Central Point district there are two polling places, one in the Central Point high school gymnasium and one in the Gold Hill gymnasium. In that district there are three vacancies to be filled and six nominees to choose from John Stieber. Dale Col lins, Hal Bishop. Homer Conger, Don Burleson and W. C. Hig ginbotham. There are no contests for di rectorships in most of the rural districts. There are two vacancies and two candidates for the rural school board and one candidate for the single existing vacancy on the non-high school board. Kenwood school District 102 will hold an annual school meet ing and election at the Albert Puhl residence at 8 p.m. today. One director for the district is to be elected and a director for the county rural board. Ft. Stevens Acquired For Game Refuge Astoria. Ore., June 19 'UP) The greater part of the old Fort Stevens military reservation has been acquired from the U. S. general services administration by the Oregon State Game com mission for a game refuge, gov ernment officials said today. Involved in the transfer are 1468 acres, mostly wasteland composed of sand dunes and marshy swales. Lands on the north and west sides, held by the army engineers and in the city of Hammond, where barracks and other structures are located, were not included in the deal. Myrtle Creek, Ore., June 19 U.R) The body of 10-year-old Norman Luther Braaten has been recovered from a Myrtle Creek mill pond, police reported today. Help Asked 10 Days on Miami, Fla.. June 19 'UP1 Mrs. Wrlhernld has learned In The distraught wife of an Amert- cable exchanges with Venezue can pilot appealed to the coast Ian authorities that it refueled Leuard today for help in locating 1 fl 5 persons missing for 10 riavs t on a missionary flight to South 1 with the South American coun America. j try until 7 pm. For the past few days, Mr?. Venetuelan Cosit Reached Donna Wetherald has been work-1 At that time her husband. W ing on her own. trying to find ! B. Wetherald. pilot-captain of out what happened to the church-i the missionary plane, notified owned IXJ-.J alter it ramoed June ! the Maracaibo airport that he 9 that it was coming in for a landing at Maracaibo. Venezuela Crew ol Three The plane presumably went down a few miles north of there. It carried a crew of three, seven missionaries of the new Tribes mission at Chico. Cal . and five children. The twiner.suie plane Irft Mane left here at 11:30 am EST., 10 days ago. United Press Full Lusa Wire 10 Pages Kingpin Bookmaker Enters Guilty Plea To Gambling Charges New York, June 19 (UP) Kingpin Bookmaker Frank Erickson pleaded guilty today to a (ill-count bookmaking and con spiracy indictment. Special sessions Judge Nathan D. Perlman set June 26 for sen tencing and continued the $10, 000 bail of the pudgy gambler whose operations in 48 states bring him $12,500,000 a year. Stiff Sentence District Attorney Frank S, Hogan asked that Erickson be re manded to jail immediately, but Perlman said no. "I intend to recommend on Shriners Attending . Los Angeles Conclave About 300 Shriners from Hil lah temple, a large percentage of them from Medford. are in Los Angeles today for the opening ceremonies of the four -day Shrine convention being held there. They are part of some 100.000 Shriners who are taxing the Los Angeles hotel and transportation facilities during the largest con vention in the history of t h e Shrine. The Hillah temple group, including Shriners from as far north as Eugene and from Coos Bay, Klamath Falls and Grants Pass as well as Medford and Ash land, traveled to the convention city by special train. The delegates arrived in Los Angeles in the midst of a transit strike that has paralyzed bus and street car transportation, leaving both Shriners and residents de pendent on private motorists and overburdened cab companies. Many Attend 'Fly-Ins' At Ashland Sunday Ashland, June 19 Hundreds of air-minded southern Oregon residents attended yesterday's "fly-in" for private pilots at the Ashland airfield. Visiting pilots from all parts of the state partici pated in the afternoon airshow and were taken on hospitality tours of the city. Those in charge of the aero nautical event were the Ashland Flying club, Abe Neslin, Sum ner Parker. Bert Wright, Earl Lininger. Eugene Ritzinger and Dan Healy. Parker is owner of the Ashland airstrip. to Find Plane Flight to South at Kingston. Jamaica. live nours later and kept in radio contact had reached the Venezuelan coast and was letting down from 5.000 feet for a landing. Nothing more was heard from the plane. Mrs Wetherald. expecting her husband back here by June 11 or 12 "at the latest." has been frantically trying to find out what hannencrt to the ffroun "They were due back in Miami 'two or Uirtt days after t&cy left, WEATHER rortcut: Fair tonight, becom ing partly cloudy TueitUy afternoon. Continued warm. Temp. Loweit yeiterday 84 Lower' Mil a morning .............. 55 NO. 74 June 28 the stiffest kind of sen tence," Hogan then told the court. "I see no reason why he shouldn't get a long sentence." The judge replied he was sure Ericksnn's counsel, Sol Gelb, had advised his client on the conse quences of his plea of guilty. Erickson had been scheduled to go to trial today, having plead ed innocent at his arraignment. Maximum 60 Years Hogan told reporters that Erickson could get a maximum sentence of 60 years in jail and $30,000 fine if the sentencing judge were so disposed. After a short bench confer ence, Gelb returned to the side of his client and said: "The defendant withdraws his not guilty plea and pleads guilty to the Information filed in this court." "Frank Erickson, do you plead guilty to each of the 60 counts?" the court asked. "Yes." Erickson replied. Fifty-nine of the courts charge bookmaking. The 60th charges conspiracy to violate the gamb ling laws. Juvenile Committee To Adopt Constitution The circuit court's juvenile ad visory committee meets at 8 p.m. today in the courthouse to adopt a constitution and by-laws and to consider applicants for the position of juvenile officer that will be left vacant June 30. John Richards, present proba tion officer, has accepted a posi tion with Catholic Charities, Inc., a Red Feather organization in Portland. Until a successor is chosen, Richard's deputy. Miss Helen Busenbark, will be in charge of the office here. Central Point Budget Due for Discussion Central Point, June 19 A public meeting to explain and analyze the proposed 1950-1951 city budget to ail residents inter ested will be held at the Central Point high school building on Tuesday, June 20, at 8 p m. A revote on the budget Is scheduled Thursday, June 22. A proposal to exceed the city per cent levy limit by $4,513 in the new budget previously was re jected 79 to 77 by voters. she said. "Of course It's possible they had to land at some isolated airport for repairs but it's been so long." Jerry Sanstrom, Miami agent for the mission, said he also was "very concerned." Cooperation Asked "We are asking the civil aero nauties administration to cooper ate in getting a search organ ized.' he said "All that has been done by the Venezuelans is to in stitute radio search." Last night they appealed to the coast guard, which immediately asked, through the American at tache in Maracaibo. that a com munications chcrk be made for the mission missionaries. The coast guard said that since . the plane apparently was over 1 land, any iercn would nave i Agreement on Hungary Condition Tentatively Given Freedom Expected Within Short Time London, June 19 (U.R) The. United States has agreed tenta tively to three Hungarian condi tions for the release of Robert Vogeler, American business man imprisoned in Hungary on spy charges, reliable sources report ed today. The sources said Vogeler might be freed soon, along with his British associate, Edgar Sandens. Vogeler, executive of the In ternational Telephone and Tele graph company, was sentenced in February to 15 years in prison. Sanders got 13 years. Would Reopen Offices Informants said the United States, to secure the release of Vogeler. agreed tentatively In negotiations with Hungary: 1. To permit Hungary to re open consulates in the U. S. that were closed on American orders after the trial of Vogeler and Sanders in Budapest. 2. To release war reparations that Hungary has demanded from Germany and the German held Hungarian crown jeweb in cluding the historic crown of St. Stephen. 3. To lift the state department ban on American travel in Hun gary. Informants said Vogeler might he freed this week. They said Sanders also might be released soon, but probably not at the same time as Vogeler, British Said Hedging British authorities were un derstood to have hedged on the Hungarian conditions for the re lease of Sanders. Reliable sources In Vienna dis closed that Anglo-American ne gotiations with Hungary had been going on for some time, and said they might be about to culminate in the release of the two men. A U. S. legation spokesman here and Mrs. Lucille Vogeler, pretty blonde wife of the 38-year-old American, confirmed that the negotiations were under way and hinted that the trend was favorable. However, both said they had no confirmation of reports pub lished abroad that Vogeler might be released within two days. The U. S. legation In Budapest said by telephone that it was in no position to forecast early de velopments in the case. Fear Expressed Mrs. Vogeler expressed fear that if the reports of her hus band's Impending release were true, premature publication might "spoil it all." Vogeler, an assistant vice president of the International Telephone and Telegraph com pany, was sentenced by a Hun garian court last February to IS years in prison on charges of espionage and sabotage. Edgar Sanders, a British asso ciate, was sentenced at the same time to 13 years in prison. Both confessed In court, but the U. S. and British governments sug gested they had been subjected to threats and intimidations. Meeting Called In I. A. Walkout Los Angeles, June 19 U,R) t A million commuters and 125,1 000 visiting Shriners hoped that a management-union conference today would settle Los Angeles' four-day-old transit strike. Federal Conciliator Harry Malcolm announced the meeting between representatives of the Los Angeles transit lines and the striking AFL Amalgamated As sociation of Street, Electric Rail way and Motor Coach employes. The Los Angeles county grand jury, summoned into session yes terday, asked Gov. Earl Warren to call a special session of the leg islature to enact laws prohibit ing strikes against "essential public services in our large cities." Lost for America be mde by the Venezuelan gov ernment. The plane was only 25 minutes flying time away from Maracai bo, a lakeshore town below coast. It was to have landed later at five other towns, but a check of those airfields found no trace of the plane. No Mountains in Path Mrs. Wetherald said their route would not have taken them over any mountains. Aboard, in addition to Wether ald. were Pilot David Kimbell and' his stewardess-wife. Hazel, all employed by the mission; Mrs. Betty Hilker and three chil dren of Brainard. Minn.; Mr. and Mrs. William Hoffman and two children: Mrs. Mildred Garber: John Grenier; Clyde Snow and Harold Mills.