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4 Ml 0) urn 0 'Acme Tclepholo) MISSING Barbara Kelly (above), 117-year-old waitress. Is believed by (police to have drowned herself by walking nude into the sea near Eureka, Calif., after shooting her boy friend. Henry 3aird. 28. Baird's nude body was found on the beach, where he had been shot through the head. Police said that while murder and suicide seemed plausible they were not ruling out possibility of a third party being involved. Disloyalty Charge Against Service Declared False Washington, June 22 (U.R1 Career Diplomat John S. Serv ice swore firmly under oath to day that disloyalty charges made against him are "false." The charges have been made by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R., Wis.) and Patrick J. Hur ley, former ambassador to China. Service testified before a sen ate foreign relations investigat ing sub-committee. Accusations Denied He denied Hurley' accusa tions that he sought to "knife" him, swing American policy be hind the Chinese Reds and feed secrets to communist leaders in China. He said he became "in nocently" involved in the .X945 Amerasia stolen documents case. V- Service, a 41-year-old state de partment diplomat, is complet ing a department re-examination of his loyalty and was called be fore the senate committee to an swer the Hurley - McCarthy charges. The sub-committee had intend ed to hear Service in secret, but Service pleaded that his testimo ny be opened to the public and Chairman Millard E. Tydings (D., Md.) agreed. Service explained that his wartime contacts with the Chi nese communists were in line of duty as an American intelligence officer. He said he had to re port "every shade of , political opinion" in China. Hurley's charges, he said, 'are as false today as they were when they were uttered in 1945," and re-echoed since then by McCar thy and Reps. Walter Judd (R., Minn.) and George P. Dondcro (R.. Mich.). He attributed the charges re sulting in his recall from the far east for a new hearing "di rectly or indirectly" to the at tack against him first launched by Hurley in 1945. Artie Shaw Sings Blues After Robbery S Cincinnati, O., June 22 U.R) Bandleader Artie Shaw sang the blues today, but it wasn't part of the act. He told Cincinnati police that burglars entered his hotel room yesterday and took $4,000 worth of jewelry and $180 in cash. The loot included a gold cig arette case worth $500 and a $1,000 watch. Santa Monica. Cal., June 22 (U.R) Jane Cowl, 65, well known actress, who had been on the stage since 1903, died today. JaDanese Leaders Ask for Quick Peace Pact With West Tokyo. Japan. June 22 (U.R) Japanese government leaders asked U. S. State Department Adviser John Foster Dulles to day for a quick separate peace with the western democracies and American protection against communist aggression. Premier Shigeru Yoshida, Up per House President Naotakc Sa to and Former Premier Kijuro Shidchara, all ranking members of the pro-American liberal par ly, conferred with Dulles after consulting Emperor Hirohito. They told the republic foreign policy expert that Japan wanted a peace treaty with the West even if Russia and Communist China refused to sign it. They also were reported to Trainmen, Conductors Threaten Strike Against Country's Largest Railroads Unions Turn Down Recommendation of Fact-Finding Board July 15 Scheduled For Latest Walkout Chicago, June 22 (U.R) Two big unions rejected a fact-finding board's report today and threat ened to call 250,000 members on strike against the nation's larg est railroads on July 15. The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Order of Rail way Conductors issued the strike threat a few hours after the AFL Switchmen's Union of North America ordered a strike of 4, 000 members for next Sunday against five Western railroads. Work Cut Demanded All three unions are demand ing reductions of the work week from 48 to 40 hours with no loss in pay, plus changes in other working rules. Chairman Francis A. O'Neill of the national railway media tion board was registered at a Chicago hotel and was expected to begin a last-minute race to day to head off both of the threatened strikes. The trainmen and conductors charged that a fact-finding board recommended the 40-hour week for only 85,000 yard workers and did not offer ' retention of present pay levels for them. Said Unfair Report Trainmen's President W. P. Kennedy and Conductors Presi dent F. H. Nemitz issued a joint statement terming it "the most unjust, unfair, inequitable and injurious report . . . issued by an emergency board since the railway labor act became law." They announced that general chairmen of both unions on all class one railroads have been summoned to a meeting here to take "appropriate action." They said their members vot ed 95 per cent to use "economic strength, if necessary, to force a fair settlement of the issues." "While the board recommend ed the 40-hour work week for yard service employees, it did not provide 48-hours pay, a con dition almost universally preva lent in U. S. industry," they said. "In fact, its report if accepted would mean a pay cut to more than 85,000 yard service men." Extension Voted On Draft Measure Washington, June 22. KU.R) Congress today approved a stop gap resolution to keep the draft alive for 15 days pending action on a permanent selective ser vice bill. The resolution was approved unanimously by both the senate and house after democratic lead ers abandoned hope of getting agreement on an extension bill before midnight tomorrow, when the existing draft law ex pires. Senate Democratic Leader Scott W. Lucas of Illinois intro duced the 15-day extension reso lution in the senate as the only means of keeping the draft authority alive while differences between the separate house and senate bills are being thrashed out. FORECASTER DIES Washington, June 22. U.R) Capt. H. T. Orville who did the weather forecasting for the Doolittle raid on Tokyo and the North African invasion in World War II is retiring from the navy. have said that Japan would of fer voluntarily to lease military bases to the United States as pro tection against possible Soviet aggression. Dulles hinted at a press con ferenceearlier that the United States is ready to defend Japan against any future aggression. While Dulles was consulting government leaders, U. S. De fense Minister Louis Johnson and Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chairman of the Joint chiefs of staff, paid a flying visit to Oki nawa. . Johnson told newsmen at Ok inawa that the United States in tends to build the strategic is land into an impregnable base that can defend itself from any attack from Communist Asia. Medford 45th Year. 20 Pages 'Greater Medford' Population Ne?rs 30,000 Persons Total Includes Three Towns, Rural Areas The populat.on of the "Great er Medford" area, including all persons living in Medford and within a six-mile circle from the city, stands at 29,244, according to Ray Feves. Eugene, district supervisor of the census. This area includes Medford proper, 17.176; Central Point, 1,657; Jacksonville, 1.183, and the precincts of Griffin creek, Phoenix southwest, Phoenix west, Orchard Home east, Hill crest, Roxy Ann, Howard east and west and Perrydale north and south, totaling 9,228. Shady Cove's population is 617. Feves reported, and that in the Applegate precinct is 548. Ward Figures Told Feves also gave figures for the four wards within Medford city limits. They are Ward 1 (all east of Bear creek except a triangle formed by East Main and Myrtle streets and Bear creek), 3,436 compared to 2.235 in 1940; Ward 2 (all south of West Main street and west of railroad tracks), 5.569, compared to 3.552 in 1940; Ward 3 (all north of West Main street and west of railroad tracks) 4,702, compared to 2,778 in 1940, and Ward 4 (area bound ed by city limits on north and south, by railroad tracks on west and Bear creek on east except Mina street-Myrtle street trian gle) 3,469, compared to 2,716 in 1940. Soil Saving Hearing Scheduled Tonight Howard Cushman, executive secretary of the state soil con servation committee, and Otto Bohnert, Central Point, member of the committee by gubernato rial appointment, will conduct a hearing at 8 p. m. today in the Sams Valley school on the sub ject of a proposed soil conserva tion district. County Agent W B. Tucker will act as recording secretary at the hearing. The hearing officers will de termine whether there is suffi cient interest in the formation of a soil conservation district in the Sams Valley-Beagle-Table Rock areas to merit holding a referendum election on the is sue. They will also discuss the boundaries of the proposed dis trict. Boundary lines that have been drawn up by residents of the three communities are still subject to revision, Tucker said. Tourists Scandalize MonteCarlo Casino Monte Carlo, June 22. (U.R) The sad-eyed habitues of Monte Carlo discussed today the great est "scandal" this gambling cas ino has known in recent years. It happened at the dice tables, installed last year to attract American tourists. Flawlessly-gowned and tailed roulette and chemin players were -startled to see a group of Americans strip to their shirt sleeves and start shouting the language of craps. "They were practiclly naked said Henri Pontie, the casino director-general. "One visiting nobleman play ing roulette actually dropped his monocle in surprise. "If fell on No. 9, which came up. It was the maddest night we ever had." Fireworks Danger in Dry Bruch, Grass Tofd City firemen today warned that setting off firecrackers in grass and brush is dangerous and can start a serious fire. They saVi that two calls last night were for grass fires set by fireworks. One run sent them to 402 West Clark street at S:50 p.m. and the other to Murray and Hamilton streets at 8.08 p.m. MEDFORD, OREGON, JUNE 22, 1950 'Acm Ttephoto) HOME DESTROYED Farmnouse of Oscar neioal was completely aestroyea oy a Ilasn-IJood that struck near Lewistan, Idaho. Neibal and his family barely reached high ground before the full force i the flood hit Three neighbors were killed by the flood. Damage was estimated at $30,000 and 30 years of work. Note deep ravine cut by water. This v."'. once almost level land. Air Ambulance Patient Said in Critical Condition Miss T.aurptip Kell. 26. Gold Hill, is in "critical" condition at Good Samaritan hospital in Portland, the United Press said today. She was flown to Port land yesterday by an air force C-46 Commando plane for urg ently needed surgery performed yesterday. Miss Kell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kell, Gold Hill, a former WAVE, was first hnsnitalized in Grants Pass. She was brought to Medford yester day by Mercy Flights ambulance nlnne and was transferred to the air force plane when weather conditions north made the use of the bigger ship advisable. The air force plane, from the Portland air base's 403rd troops carrier wing, was piloted by Capt. George Gross and Second Lt. Robert A. Glenz. 3 Hospitalized in Highway Collision Three persons were hospital ized late yesterday afternoon af ter two cars and a tractor were involved in a three-way collision on highway 62 in the Antelope creek area, according to state po lice and Conger-Morris ambu lance attendants. Dale T. Mayben and Robert L. Waltmire, both Ashland, were taken to Ashland General hos pital for treatment. Ambulance attendants said Mayben was semi-conscious from a bruise over his left ear and also had a swollen right ankle.. Waltmire was bruised and shaken up, they said. Madford Man Hurt Clifford Albe'r, 22, 1827 North Riverside avenue, received a cut over the left eye and was skinned and bruised. He was taken to Community hospital in Medford for treatment. According to reports from the ambulance service and po lice, Mayben's car was struck broadside by a tractor driven by Lawrence Ousterhout, Eagle Point, who was coming onto the highway. The Impact pushed the Mayben car Into the path of Al ber's car. Parole Revoked for Man by Circuit Judge Charles Riegard, Medford. will serve two and half years in the State penitentiary as the result of a parole revocation ordered this morning by Circuit Judge H. K. Hanr.a. the district attorney's office reported. Riegard was on parole from a three-year sentence for attempt ed burglary but the suspension was revoked on the recommend ation of the state parole officer. Riegard had left the Jurisdic tion of the court without per mission and was apprehended last month in St. Paul, Minn. Boxcar Shortage on Railroads Threat to Lumber Firms Here A serious shortage of lumber box cars, which may force some Medford area mills to shut down if it is not relieved, was repor'6d today by public utili ties cc'nmission officers. Public Utilities Commission er George Flagg, Salem, has sent three commission men on a swing through the state to con fer with tail road agents and mill owners to check unfilled orders and see how long it is taking to get cars. Said "Vary Bad" The three, D. W. Kelly, Pilot Escapes Crash With Bump on Head Toppcnish, Wash., June 22 (U.R) The 24-year-old pilot of a light plane which crashed on a mountainside east of snow-capped Mt. Adams, Wash., walked away suffering only a slight bump on the head. "I guess I'm Just pretty lucky," T. W. Hanson, Ephrata, Wash., said. Hanson took off Tuesday from Hillsboro, Ore., in a small plane rented from a Ephrata fly ing service. He said the weather closed in on him and that he couldn't read his compass. "Han son, old man, you're lost," he said he told himself. His plane crashed between two trees as he tried to swing around. "I didn't know I was in Wash ington," he said, "I thought I was in Oregon and had come down on the slopes of Mt. Hood." Three-Year Marriage Of Lena Home Told Paris, June 22 (U.R) Negro Torch Singer Lena Home and Metro-Goldwyn Mayer's white musical director Lennla Hayton kept their marriage secret for three years for professional rea sons, her manager said today. They announced yesterday they had married in Paris three years ago. They felt It might be better professionally for both of them not to announce the marriage," said Miss Home's manager, Ralph Harris. Rural School Directors Named in Monday Vote Results of Monday's school elections in the Ruch-Sterling, Sams Valley and Kenwood school districts were received in the county school superin tendent'! office today. They show that Fred West was elected to the board of directors of the Ruch Sterling district, Walter D. Jen sen in the Kenwood district and Lester James and Ben Day in the Sams Valley district., Day was re-elected lor a three-year term. Tribun: NO. 77 Thomas W. Dench and Roger L, Hawley, report the car situa tion has been getting progress ively worse -since June 1, and that it Is "very bad" right now. The PUC men left Salem Mon day and have been to Coqullle and Reedsport before coming here. Kelly said that Flagg will be given an immediate report on the situation, and he hinted that the PUC may have to take action to force a larger flow of empty cars to this area. A mini mum of 1,000 more cars than are now available are needed, Kelly said, between Portland and Medford. Unfilled Ordars Some mills have unfilled or ders for as many as 45 or 50 cars, he said. In addition to the PUC agents, the Southern Pa cific has its own men in the field checking the situation to see what can be done to bring more cars here. The Chicago Northwestern railway has been sending in sud plus stock cars to the Spokane, Wash., area to help carry out lumber orders, Kelly said. German Leaders To Visit in Portland Portland, Ore., June 22 (U.R) Eight German industrial, busi ness and labor leaders are sched uled to arrive here next Sunday for a two-week stay as the guests of the Portland Chamber of Com merce. The group will be one of 52 teams to visit the United States under a program of the U. S. military government in Ger many and the state department. Visits to all types of north west Industries are planned for the group, according to Cham ber Manager Arthur J. Farmer, NATIONAL St. Louis BIO Naw York S 0 Pollet and Rica; Janian and Wettrum. Home runs Oil bart, Dark. Pittsburgh 4 10 1 Philadelphia 7 14 S Borowy, Paplsh, Walsh, Lom bardl and Tuinir, Mueller! Millar and Saminlck. Losing pitcher, Borowy. Home runs Jonas, Ennls, 8mlnlck, Nich olson, Kinar. WEATHER PorrrMt: Partly rloudy tnnliht and Friday wlfh scattrrad ahnwera ovar hlshar moun tain! In aflarnoon. t'ontlnuad mild. Hlh rrlday 7. Tamp. Hlfhaat raalardar ft Uailt (his mornlni 44 Roseburg Corporation Has Good Reason for Going Out of Business ' 'am. Ore.. June 22 (U,R) T hern Oregon Tucker ' 0 oila) Sales corpora- Roieburg today had O .1 hara) an annlieation iinoluiion of tha corpora i because it does not ax ct to be doing any business a tha futura with Tucker automobiles and because it hat not dona any in tha pait. Only hand-mad Tucker auto models hava bean turned out for public impaction tinea business -wat founded at tha end of the war. Reason for the dissolution wat given at: "Whereat tha Southern Ore gon Tucker Salet corporation hat never been a dealer In can. equipment, or other mer chandise; and said corporation hat never received any income from any lource; and that laid corporation doet not contem plate any future developments or butineit in the future: Therefor, be it resolved that . . . the corporation ba dis solved." Wilson's Car Said Not in Use at Time of Kidnaping Vancouver, Wash., June 22 (U.R) Four defense witnesses In the kidnap-murder trial of Tur man and Utah Wilson today testi fied that the green 1937 Chev rolet coupe registered to Grant Wilson was not in working or der during the time J o A n n Dewey was abducted and mur dered. The car had figured In the prosecution's case against the Wilson brothers. Grant la a brother of Turman and Utah. Clarence Ostenson, brother-in- law of the defendants, who lived at the Wilson's Green mountain home, told of escorting the car from Green mountain to Grant Wilson's home seven miles away on March 17. Eighteen-year-old JoAnn, with whose murder the Wilson brothers aja charged, waa abducted from Vancouver street March 10. Ostenson, a Sunday, school superintendent at the Assembly of God church at Camas, Wash. testified that he had to push the car to get it started. He said he had to drive ahead in another car to light the way because the Chevrolet's lights failed. The Chevrolet's engine also quit, Os- teason testified, and the car roll ed to a stop in front of Grant Wilson's house. The battery was down and the generator was not working, he said. Dan McPherson, 19, Camas, who bought the Chevrolet from Grant; David Wooldrldge, brother-in-law of Grant, and Mable Wooldrldge, Grant's mother-in- law, all testified that the car sat in front of Grant's house without being moved from March 17 un til March 28. - . McPherson said he bought the car on March 28., Grant had previously testified that he sold the car to McPher son on March 30. ' Ostenson, like previous wit nesses, testified that Turman'a hands 'showed no Injuries In the days following the Dewey girl's disappearance. He described Tur man as "thrifty and frugal" and said Turman turned money he earned at the Washougal woolen mill over to his mother. The prosecution had intimated the Chevrolet was used by Tur man and Utah the night Joann was abducted. Dr. Harold L. Richardson, Oregon state police criminologist, had testified that three hairs found in the car's trunk "closely resembled" those of Joann Dewey. (See Story on Page 6) Pittsburgh, Pa.. June 22 (U.R) CIO President Philip Murray will undergo a minor eye oper ation today at Mercy hospital Discovery of Two Galaxies Reported by Astronomers Washington, June 22 U.R- Space-exploring astronomers to day reported discovery of two dwarf galaxies which may give clues to how the universe of stars evolved. One of the newly-sighted star groups Is the smallest "island universe" ever found. It is 1,500 light years across, a midget com pared with our milky way gal axy which Is 100,000 light years in diameter. The smallest galaxy ever seen before is 3,000 light years from edge to edge. A light year the distance light travels In one year at 186, 273 miles a second is about 8 trillion miles. The smaller of tha two new-found dwarf groups thus it 9 quadrillion miles in diameter. Plant Under Siege By CIO Pickets; Strikers Armed Hundreds of Shots Discharged in Fray Morristown, Tenn., June 22 (U.R) Four men were wounded by gunfire and the strike-bound American Enka textile plant here was put under aiege by CIO pickets today. The three most seriously wounded were men who attempt ed to enter the plant to work this morning. The fourth, suffering a slight wound, was listed at a striker. Non-Strikeri Armed About 75 state highway patrol men were rushed to the plant, armed with machine guns, riot guns and tear gas pistols. Twenty non-strikers, held Inslda the gates by the siege, were dep utized and armed, but warned not to shoot. , Some stray bullet continued to whine over the fields toward the plant during the morning, but there was nothing to com pare with the 25-minute barrage in which hundreds of shots wer fired when a group of automo biles, filled with workers, ap proached the gates Just before dawn. The patrolmen began to clear out the massed pickets. Local au thorities had been greatly out numbered, and.kept inside a small building at the gate used by plant guards. "They were striken who did the shooting, and they were) armed all right," a deputy said. Union officials denied respon sibility, and aaid tha shootings were "instigated by tha com pany to bring more police and troops In Heream." Witnesses said the strikers massed across the highway at a curve near the plant, to halt tha group of cars, and that bullet poured from behind an embank ment Into 10 cara and a bus. Tha wounded striker, David Potter, told union spokesmen ha was wounded In the arm when he was fired on from a group of about 200 non-strikers who wer) waiting for transportation at the city limits, several milei away. Highest Columbia Freshet Expected Portland, Ore., June 22. flJ.R) A crest of water la still to coma from the upper Columbia river basin, tha weather bureau warn ed today as the highest freshet since the disastrous 1948 flood swelled river banks In the Port land-Vancouver, Wash., area. The bureau forecast stag) of 26.1 feet In the Columbia at Vancouver and 25.7 feet in tha Willamette river at Portland by Monday. The bureau aaid continued rainfall In the Snake river basin and other factors had con tributed to the forecast for new rise in the two riven for the next four days. County Dairymen To Offer free Milk Th Jackson County Dairy mans' attocialion tomorrow will hand out 1,600 half-pint of Grade A paiteuriied milk in downtown Madford. Tha free rfrihmnt arc being furnlthed by local dairy farm art and packaged by Madford milk diitributort. Tha ttunt 1 In observance of National Dairy month. North Bonneville, Wash., Juna 22 (U.R) Fifi Tucker, 45, Sea side, Ore., was killed instantly last night when the car ah waa driving collided with a West Coast Freight lines truck. Hollywood, June 2 (U.R) Actress Benay Venuta has filed suit for divorce from Armand S. Deutsch, charging mental cru elty. The new galaxies, tiny Island in the vast universe of galaxies, were discovered by the National Geographic Socicty-Palomar Ob servatory Sky Survey. They sra in the so-called "local" group of galaxies of which the milky way with its billiona of suns is one. They lift to 18 the number of groups now known to be In this galaxy-of -galaxies. The new star families showed up on sky survey platei made In April by the 48-inch Schmidt camera at the Palomar observa tory in California. They will be studied further by Palomar'a 200-inch telescope, capable of probing 1 billion light years into space, and by the 100 inch telescope at Mt. Wilson. .
