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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."
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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.
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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.