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DEFENDERS REST Holding the Republic's flag, two retreating
South Korean soldiers rest near Suwon, Korea, before regrouping
for a stand against North Korean Invaders, who were one mile away
when this photo was made.
Korean War Seen
Possible Death to
Excise Tax Slash
Washington, July 3 (UK
Public demand for excise tax
cuts and a veto threat seemed
likely today to warm a cool
senate reception of a proposed
increase in corporation taxes.
But the Korean war could kill
the tax revision bill completely.
Democratic leaders warned that
prolonged fighting could mean
even higher taxes.
The finance committee sched
uled a meeting to discuss the
house-approved measure and
planned to set a date to start for
mal hearings.
Elsewhere in congress:
Both Parties Have Say
Politicking Congressional
candidates from both political
parties were ready to make a
campaign issue of the Korean
war. Democrats called for "na
tional unity" behind President
Truman's bold stand.
Republicans agreed to that but
no more. They broadened their
attack on administration far
eastern policies pre-dating the
South Korean invasion.
Crime The senate's special
crime investigators announced
they will hold hearings later
this month in Kansas City, St.
Louis, Chicago and Miami in
the course of their $150,000 in
vestigation. Truman, Johnson Eye
Far East Battle Maps
Washington, July 3 (U.R)
Defense Secretary Louis John
son, armed with a military map
of Korea, brought President Tru
man up to date today on fighting
in the far east.
Johnson, Under-Secretary
Stephen Early and Gen. Omar
N. Bradley, chairman of the
U. S. joint chiefs of staff,
"briefed" the president for 25
minutes at the White House.
Johnson said Mr. Truman would
be briefed daily from now on.
Johnson, Early and Bradley
vere calm and assured. Johnson
paused in the White House re
ception room to photograph a
snoozing reporter with a camera.
CAP Cadets Leave by
Air for Drill Contest
Medford's drill squadron of
the civil air patrol left at 8:20
a.m. today for Ogden, Utah,
where they will participate in a
regional drill competition. They
were representing Oregon, hav
ing won the state championship
from Portland last month.
A big C-46 airforce reserve
transport plane from .the Port
land airbase picked up the
youngsters and their leaders at
the airport here this morning
The group is expected to re
turn some time after B p.m. to
day. About 35 cadets were ex
pected on the jaunt, under the
leadership of Lt. Don Stewart
Federal Court Jurors
Released From Duty
Paul Hanlin, deputy United
States marshal here, reported to
day that all cases scheduled to
be heard in federal court July
6 have been settled. Jurors who
were called for that date are re
leased, he said.
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Hearing Scheduled
On City's Budget
For 1950-51 Year
A hearing on proposed oper
ating expenditures of S597,
995.98 for the city of Medford
for the fiscal year 1950-1951
will be held during the regular
city council session at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, July 5, at the city
hall.
General fund outlay approved
by budget committeemen for the
new year Is $399,670. Operating
expenses outside the general
fund would be $42,887.50 for
parks and swimming pool, $74,
854 for the fire department,
$60,785 for the police traffic de
partment and $19,799.48 for the
library.
Tax Levy
The general fund levy planned
is $154,200 which would be $30
within the six per cent limita
tion. Outside this will be levies
of $72,000 to retire bonds and
$13,099.48 for the library, mak
ing a total of $239,299. Also to
be raised by taxes is a four-mill
fire department levy and one
mill park levy.
Estimated receipts and cash
on hand for the new fiscal year
total $245,470. Among items in
the general budget are $60,895
for police, $50,100 for general
administration and $124,760 for
public works. Reserved for the
emergency fund is $10,000.
U. 5. Navy Looking
For Subs Off Korea
Washington, July 3 (U.R)
The navy today was reported
to be on the lookout for sub
marines in Korean waters.
This apparently is a chief rea
son why the navy is reluctant to
discuss its role in the Korean
fighting. So far, it has men
tioned only two operations the
bombardment of the eastern
coast in the Sam Chok area by
the cruiser Juneau and the
destruction of five of six North
Korean torpedo boats by an
unidentified U. S. vessel.
The navy has declined com
ment on Russia's far east naval
strength, saying the Soviet Un
ion has managed to keep the
information hidden rather well.
Bend Budget Election
Scheduled on July 1 I
Bend, Ore., July 3 (U.R)
Bend's twice-defeated 1950-51
budget in excess of the state six
per cent limitation will be sub
ject to a vote again July 11.
The pared budget will be
$16,579.77 less than the original
estimate of funds needed to car
ry on city business in the com
ing fiscal year. Voters rejected
the budget at two special elec
tions last month.
Lost Girl Found Safe
After 50-Man Search
Longmire, Wash., July 3 (U.R)
A four-year-old girl lost In Mt.
Rainier National park since yes
terday afternoon was found to
day by two Tacoma, Wash.,
men. the ranger's office here re
ported. A ranger said the girl, Marcel
la Ramiskcy, was in good condi
tion with no visible cuts or
abrasions but was taken to a
doctor's office at Buckley for
examination.
The ranger did not identify
the men who found the girl.
Forest rangers and soldiers,
assisted by bloodhounds, had
searched the bcar-infcsted Car
bon river area of the park for
the girl who strayed from a
family picnic.
Medford
45th Year. 8 Pages
TRAFFIC ACCIDENT DEATHS EQUAL
RECORD SET IN U. S. LAST YEAR
Nearly 300 Killed
In Traffic Mishaps
Since Friday Night
No Fireworks Deaths
Or Heat Prostration
By United Press
Traffic accidents killed Amer
icans at the rate of one every 14
minutes today as the nation
swung into its Fourth of July
celebration.
The death rate was equal to
that of last year's, when a new
high in holiday slaughter was
recorded.
Mora Heavy Traffic
Safety experts feared it would
go even higher because traffic
will be heavy tonight and to
morrow night on most high
ways. United Press compilations
showed that 286 persons were
killed in traffic accidents be
tween 6 p. m., local time, Fri
day, and 10:30 a. m. today.
Reports from UP bureaus
showed that 450 persons had
met violent deaths during the
period, including 81 drownings.
Airplane crashes killed 11 and
miscellaneous accidents 72.
No deaths were reported from
either fireworks or heat pros
tration. 385 Deaths Expected
The National Safety council
had predicted that 385 persons
would die in highway- crashes
in the 102-hour period from
6 p. m. Friday to midnight
Tuesday. That would have been
a death rate of 3.77 per hour.
Actually, the death rate was
running more than four an hour.
Despite the hazards of crowd
ed highways, Americans turned
out by the millions, grimly de
termined to enjoy the holiday
as a respite from the gloomy in
ternational news of the past
week.
Many had to return to work
for today, complicating the
traffic situation.
Plan No Mobilization
Of Reserves in Week
Washington, July 3 U.R
Defense Secretary Louis John
son today scotched reports that
a partial mobilization of reserves
is slated to get underway this
week.
"Nothing like that is" in pros
pact at the present time," John
son told reporters.
The defense department also
threw cold water on the reports.
A department spokesman re
issued Johnson's statement of
June 28 in which he said that "It
is not contemplated to call the
reserve components to active
duty in the foreseeable future."
NOT TO MEET
The new organized naval re
serve electronic company will
not meet this evening due to the
holiday, according to Lt. Edward
O. Leonard, commanding officer.
The next meeting will be at 7:30
p.m. Monday, July 10. All men
in the company must attend to
take physical examinations
which will be given by a team
to be sent down from Seattle
headquarters.
Fifty men with flashlights
searched along the swollen,
swift-flowing Carbon river all
night without results, and Park
Supt. John Preston said 115 sol
diers from Fort Lewis. Wash.,
had Joined the search this morn
ing. Two bloodhounds from Cen
tralia. Wash., were unable to
pick up the tot's scent immedi
ately. The girl, Marcella Ramiskcy,
became separated from her
mother. Mrs. Kay Ramiskcy of
Fairfax. Wash., about 5 p. m.
Sunday while on a holiday out
ing near the junction of Carbon
river and Chonuis creek in the
extreme northwest corner of the
241,525 acre park.
MEDFORD, OREGON,
F
PROTEST U. S. ACTION IN
to protest measures taken by the
Youngster Drowns
In Orchard Home
Irrigation Ditch
Kerry Michael Wilkins, year
and a half old son of. Mx.-iuid
Mrs. Fred Wilkins, Bandon,
drowned in an irrigation ditch
along Orchard Home drive here
early yesterday, according to
Coroner Carlos Morris.
The youngster, who with his
parents and two other children
was visiting his aunt and uncle,
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Wilkins,
2049 Orchard Home drive, ap
parently fell into the swift wa
ter of the full ditch at about 10
a.m. He was missed about a half
hour later, and the family start
ed searching for him.
The body was found a block
away at about 11 a.m. A Conger
Morris ambulance resuscitator
and a doctor's injection of adre
nalin failed to revive him.
Litwiller Funeral home, Ash
land, is in charge of arrange'
mcnts.
Forest Men Again
Urge Fire Caution
State forest patrolmen and
Rogue River national forest fire
protection officials Joined today
in a renewed plea for fire cau
tion in southern Oregon's forests
over the July 4 holiday.
The warm and pleasant holi
day weather has helped to dry
the forests out, they reminded,
and it would be easy for a dis
astrous fire to gain a foothold.
Fireworks especially are a
danger, they said, and asked
that they not be used in forest
areas.
Pilot From Portland
Lands on Nevada Road
Portland, Ore., July 3 U.R)
A Portland pilot, missing four
hours on a flight from Portland
to Lakeview, Ore., yesterday,
made a safe landing near Win
nemucca, Nov., the civil aero
nautics administration reported
today.
CAA officials said Guy Ful
ton, 40, of Portland said he ran
out of gat after overshooting the
Lakeview airport and landed his
light plane on the highway
about 60 miles north of Winne
mucca. He was alone in the
plane.
Salem, Ore., July 3 U.R) A
crowd of nearly 2,500 is expect
ed at Champocg August 6 when
state employees and members of
their families picnic at the his
toric spot on the Willamette
river.
Radio Highlights
"Lindy" Sales, on of the
boosters of the Pee Wee Bast
ball league and coach of the
Phoenix entry, will appear on
Dick Schuchard's "Breakfast
Sporii Page" Wednesday at
7:45 a. m. on KYJC (1230 kc.)
MONDAY, JULY 3, 1950
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KOREA Germans In the Soviet sector
united states in Korea. &ign reacts:
to enforce the peace."
Diplomats Indicate
Since Red Invasion
Washington, July 3 (U.R)
U. S. diplomats showed more
optimism today than at any oth
er time since communists invad
ed Sotith jfeorea."
They believed the United
States still faces severe military
tests, but has overcome the
greatest diplomatic dangers.
Despite reports that four
planes marked with the red
star of Russia were operating
July 4fh Events
Set at Ashland
Ashland, July 3 A record
crowd jammed Lithia park here
Sunday to enjoy the day-long
program of events, picnic or
join in the barbecue.
Today's crowd, not expected
to be quite as large, was fea
tured by many children who
were to participate in various
contests during the afternoon.
The Fourth of July celebra
tion will get off to a start to
morrow at 0:30 a.m. with a
grand western parade on Main
street, and down Helman street
to the junior high school. At
11 a.m. a band concert will be
given In the park band shell and
at 12 noon a barbecue will be
held in the park.
The Ashland Riding associa
tion sponsored rodeo and races
will get under way at the asso
ciation's grounds north of Ash
land, at 2 p.m.
Evening programs at the park
will include an organ recital at
7 p.m., a band concert, 8 p.m.,
final grand fireworks display at
SOCE Pear bowl, 9:30 p.m. A
Jaycee street dance on the
Plaza blocks'will continue from
9:30 p.m. to 12 midnight.
The riding association's queen
and princesses will preside at
the rodeo tomorrow afternoon
and queen candidates of the
Jacksonville Gold Rush Jubilee
queen contest will be intro
duced. Portland Area Given
Big Fireworks Display
Portland, Ore., July 3 (U.R)
Residents of a southeast Port
land neighborhood got a free
pre-holiday fireworks show yes
terday when a $2000 stock of
pyrotechnics was unintention
ally set off.
Multnomah county sheriff's
deputies believed a carelessly
thrown small firecracker started
the explosion. Alw destroyed
was a tent valued by Owner
Richard Allen of Salem at $1000.
GOV. McKAY APPOINTS
Salem, Ore., July 3 U.R)
Gov. Douglas McKay reappoint
ed I. A. De France of Salem to
day to a five-year term on the
state public employes retirement
board. De France represents em
ployes on th board,
In
Tribune
No. 86
(Aetna Ratiio-Tetphoto)
of Berlin rally at the Lustgarten
"Truman tnreatens witn war,
More Optimism
of South Korea
with the North Korean air
force, there was a growing be
lief here that Moscow will keep
hands off even if the commu
nists lose... .
Officials would not comment
on dispatches from the Korean
front that 1L-10 reconnaissance
planes with Russian markings
took part in a raid on the Su
won airstrip.
But U. S. officers have dis
counted or denied previous re
ports that Russian pilots have
Joined the battle. Since all North
Korean planes are Russian-built,
it was considered possible that
the four bearing Russia's red
star may have been put into use
without bothering to paint on
the North Korean insignia.
The optimism here sprang In
part from:
1. Overwhelming world sup
port for U. S. intervention in
Korea.
2. A hope that the strong
western stand will discourage
Russia from adventures likely
to touch off a general war.
Seek Six Teen-Agers
After Guns Hurt Two
Vancouver, B. C, July 3 (U.R)
Six teen-agers were questioned
by police today as officers sought
to track down the hoodlums
whose blazing gunfire terrorized
downtown Vancouver Sunday
Two men were wounded by
bullets and three were knifed
in a wave of violence.
Ray Moss, 28, was shot in
the leg and Lome Campbell,
29, was wounded in the face as
the gunmen opened fire. Later
the hoodlums shot up street
lights and fired into a passing
truck.
Knifed were Campbell, E. R.
Koontz, 58, and Mike Kilroe,
36. They were also gashed with
broken beer bottles.
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Emergency Board Supports Civil
Defense Plan With $25,840 Fund
Salem, Ore., July 3 (U.R)
The state emergency board, call
ed Into extraordinary session
here Sunday, threw Its full sup
port behind Oregon's stepped-up
civil defense program with a
quick and unanimous appropria
tion of $25,840, all that was re
quested. Gov. Douglas McKay, who
called the Sunday meeting, told
board members that Oregon's
air raid warning and ground ob
servation preparedness efforts
were lagging behind those of
Washington and California and
attributed the shortcoming to
the face the 1949 Oregon legis
lature made no appropriation to
carry on the work of the state
civil defense agency which It au
thorized. Washington and California
bav adequately financed their
NOON
EDITION
Oregon Death Toll
Two From
Mishaps,
Two in Drownings
Police Report Unusual
Calm on Most Highways
Portland, Ore., July 3 1U.R)
Oregon's holidav death toll
stood at four today.
Drownings accounted for two
of the deaths and autos two,
Charles S. Longfellow, 63, of
Lakeview, died in the North
Bond hospital yesterday. He was
injured in a two-car crash on
the Umpqua river highway a
mile east of Scottsburg.
Indian Crushed
A 30-year-old Navajo Indian,
Eddy White, from Farmington,
N.M., was crushed to death at
The Dalles. Police said the In
dian apparently was sleeping
under a truck trailer and was
crushed when It pulled out of
the yard.
Kerry Michael Wilkins, 1V4-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Wilkins of Bandon, drown
ed yesterday In an Irrigation
ditch on his uncle'a farm near
Medford.
Drowns in Surf
Ronald W. Miller, 11, of Ore
gon City, drowned In the surf
at Oceanslde Saturday.
State police yesterday report
ed an unusual calm on most
Oregon highways as far as acci
dents were concerned. The po
lice said the steady streams of
cars heading for the beaches,
mountains and cities holding spe
cial events celebrating the
Fourth were orderly and that a
minimum of chance-taking was
reported.
Two Firemen Injured
In Fire at Gresham
Grcsham, Ore., July 3 (U.R)
Two firemen suffered slight in
juries yesterday while fighting a
spectacular blaze that leveled the
sawmill unit of Barger Mills, In
corporated, causing an estimated
$100,000 damage.
Flames were visible for more
than 10 miles as the sawmill
quickly became a heap of ashes.
Debris, carried into the sky on
flaming clouds of smoke, show
ered most of Gresham, near Port
land. Witnesses told police the fire
started in a railroad siding at
the mill where four railroad cars
were being loaded with finished
timber. All the cars were de
stroyed. The Injured firefighters, both
from Multnomah county fire dis
trict No. 9, were Solon Spencer,
22, and Capt. Don Brown. Spen
cer was overcome by smoke and
Brown suffered a foot injury
when red-hot timbers crashed to
the ground from the roof of the
building.
WASCO DEMOS ELECT
The Dalles, Ore., July 3 (U.R)
The Wasco county democratic
central committee today an
nounced the election of L. V.
Broughton as chairman in a
meeting during the week-end.
civil defense, the governor indl-
cated.
Said McKay:
"I am not the least bit Jittery,
but I feel that we would be dere
lict In our duty by not moving
forward on the premise that 'any
thing can happen'."
Jack A. Hayes of Salem, dep
uty director of Oregon's civil de
fense agency, told the board that
a federal outline of vigil defense
procedure was still lacking but
was expected by September I.
He said Oregon already had a
skeleton civil defense set-up with
several of its subdivisions in fine
shape.
He said the plan of operation
of ground observers would differ
from World War II in that volun
teers would be confined to homes
located at high points instead of
being stationed on a 24-hour
Americans Rushing
To Help Republic's
Stubborn Forces
Line North of Suwon
Held by South Korea
Tokyo, Tuesday, July 4 U.R
Hard pressed South Korean forc
es clung stubbornly to outflank
ed Suwon today, beating off
communist attempts to encircle
them before onrushing Ameri
can troops could come to their
rescue.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur'a
headquarters announced that the
Korean republicans still were
holding a line north of Suwon,
20 miles south of Seoul, and also
held the town of Inchon, the port
of Seoul, 25 miles northwest ot
Snwon.
Three Columns Move
Three North Korean columns,
each reported to contain some
tanks and artillery, were slash
ing southward In the region east
of Suwon. The headquarters
communique said they appeared
to have reached towns to the
southeast of Suwon.
The South Koreans fell back
on Suwon after abandoning
their crumpled Han river de
fense line at the outskirts of
Seoul under relentless commun
ist pressure.
Field dispatches reported U. S.
ground forces, including armor
ed units, were rushing north
from the provisional capital city
of Taejon, 70 miles south of Su
won. All available trucks and
trains were speeding the Ameri
cans northward for a head-on
collision with the communists.
Clash Today Expected
Officials predicted that the
Americans and North Koreana
would clash today, U. S. Inde
pendence day. But MacArthur'a
communique reporting the
southward push of the commun
ists east of Suwon, said only:
"The enemy ' utilized every
available means of transporta
tion to expedite the movement
of the columns. Apparently thle
was an attempt to outflank and
encircle the South Korean forc
es prior to the arrival of United
States reinforcements."
The communique also said
South Korean reinforcements
were moving north in an attempt
to contain the communist threat
east of Suwon. '
The North Koreans forded
the Han river just east of Seoul
in the vicinity of Kwangjang
and advanced south and south
west toward Suwon in two small
parallel columns eight and 12
miles east of Suwon.
Switchmen's Strike
Still Not Settled
Chicago, July 3 (U.R) Gov
ernment mediators failed to
settle a strike of AFL switch
men against five western rail
roads but reported progress to
day in efforts to avert a nation
wide walkout of trainmen and
conductors.
The switchmen's union re
jected a government appeal to
end its eight-day-old strike but
offered to send enough men
back to work to move "essential
material."
A railroad spokesman termed
the union offer "utterly imprac
tical" and said "it Is impossible
to try to run half a railroad."
John Thad Scott Jr., new
chairman of the national (rail
way) mediation board, appealed
to the union to call off its strike
because of the "critical" Korean
situation.
JULY 4 HOLIDAY
In order to permit Its em
ployees to observe the holi
day. The Mail Tribune will
not publish on Tuesday, July
4.
around-the-clock basis in obser-
vation towers.
To an observation by Frank
Van Dyke, Medford, speaker of
the house, that if one of the coast
states falls down in setting up
civil defense, the entire plan for
western states will fail to func
tion," Hayes added:
"In building up this CD group,
we are not primarily protecting
ourselves, It is a co-operative
movement in which we are pro
tected and in turn protect others.
Should any enemy planes, for
instance, swoop over the north
pole and head for the states,
British Columbia would warn
Washington. Washington would
prepare and pass on the warning
to Oregon, with latest observa
tions. Oregon would prepare and
pass on the warning to Cali
fornia, and ao on."