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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.
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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. .