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ni -r J. ft: JVL ORE'PfflSORIE Senate Committee Opposes Shakeup Of Revenue Bureau Action by Senate Resolution Waits Washington (U.R) The Senate Executive Expenditures committee voted Wednesday to disapprove President Truman's plan for reorganizing the scandal-shaken Bureau of Internal Revenue. The vote was 7 to 5 for the resolution of disapproval of the reorganization plan. However, the Senate must pass the reso lution before the reorganization plan is killed. A constitutional majority of 49 votes for the dis approval resolution will be need ed. Approved by House The House has approved the shakeup. Chairman John L. McClellon (D., Ark.) said he thought the committee vote reflected the sentiment of the Senate. Mc Clellon has introduced a bill following the general lines of Mr. Truman's proposed reorgani zation but keeping top oficials under political appointment. Would Abolish Collectors Mr. Truman proposed abolish ing the 64 politically-appointed regional tax collectors. Senators have the biggest voice in presi dential appointments cf these collectors and they are regard ed choice patronage plums. To replace the 64 tax collect ors, Mr. Truman would create posts for up to 25 deputy dis trict commissioners. These would be under civil service. The top commissioner would not. City May Condemn Sewer Line Areas In East Medford The Medford city council last night voted to start condemna tion proceedings against two pieces of property in Country Club Park addition if easements for a sewer line cannot be ob tained from property owners. The council set a deadline of March 18, date of the next coun cil meeting, for the easements to be granted. The easements in the southeast Medford '"' residential area. : are needed for installation of a sani tary sewer which was ordered in by the council several months ago. To Expand Phone System The council also authorized City Superintendent Robert Duff to contract for additional ma terial and labor needed to inst .11 new units of Medford's emer gency telephone system. Bids will be awarded on the mater ials, the council said. Installation of the new units will bring the total in use to 51 and will give complete protection to the city, they stated. Sixty-two street lights for resi dential .areas were ordered in by the council. They cover areas east of Eastwood drive and south of Hillcrest road; 'between Da kota and Stewart avenues from Beekman to Plum streets; north of Hillcrest road between Sun rise terrace and Valley View drive, and in a block of Janes subdivision. To Sign Petition Mayor D. L. Flynn was 3uthor ized by the council to sign a petition for the city for paving of South Peach street from Da kota avenue to 13th street. Because of city owned prop erty on the street, the city's sig nature is needed to bring the percentage of property owners signing over 50 per cent as an other large section of property is owned by the city schools. No opposition to the paving project has been voiced by private citi zens. (St story on Pag 14) Greyhound Settlement Seen More Remote San Francisco (U.R) Settle ment of a seven-state strike against Pacific Greyhound lines appeared to be remote Wednes day as a bitter deadlock devel oped on the union's demands for a five-day week and other bene fits. The AFL Motor Coach Em ployees' Union sent its negotia tors back home and advised the membership to find other em ployment. A. A. Baker, union business agent, said "we are not looking for any break in this thing very soon." The three-day strike has idled 2,900 bus drivers and station workers in California, Arizona, Oregon, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas. Radio Highlights Charles E. Wilson, director of defense mobilisation, will speak over NBC and radio sta tion KMED (1440 kc) Wednes day ax 7:30 p.m. Medford United Preu Full Lease Wire 46th Year 26 Pages UMT Supporters See Little Hope Of Early Passage Slim Chance Seen Of Senate Passage Washington OI.R) Glum supporters of universal military training pinned waning hopes on the Senate Wednesday, but most lawmakers figured UMT was dead at least for this year. There was a slim possibility that the Senate might disregard Tuesday's House vote against UMT and pass its own bill, hop ing the House then would change its mind. . Possibility Seen Remote But most members of the House and Senate seemed to think this possibility was re mote. One Senate leader, noting the lopsided 236 to 162 vote by which the House consigned its UMT bill to oblivion, said pri vately: "What is the use of our wast ing our time on it, unless there is some reason to think the House might reconsider?" Many members thought the House, in its six-hour wrangle over UMT, gave little reason to think it would buy UMT now or later, regardless of form. Before sending the whole issue back to committee, members had: Standby Voted 1. Voted 126 to 19 to put UMT on the lawbooks now with its requirement of six months basic military training for all men at age 18, followed by 7V2 years in the reserve but to hold it in standby until the armed forces halt the draft for actual military service; also to put a termination date on the law July 1, 1958. 2. Agreed, 150 to 145, to toss out even this watered-down UMT plan in favor of a proposal to train youths instead in com pulsory ROTC classes in the junior and senior years of higiw school. 3. Reversed themselves, killed the ROTC plan, 235 to 156, and sent the original UMT bill back to the armed services committee without instructions. This nor mally is equivalent to killing a bill. Czechs Want More Than Mill for Oalis Washington (U.R) Amer ican officials said Wednesday that Czechoslovakia wants more than a $17,000,000 American steel mill for release of Amer ican' newsman William N. 0?;s. But the State department said in a special statement that the United States has refused to consider the demand for' the mill even though the United States is pressing vigorously for Oatis' freedom. The State department issued this statement: "The report that the Czecho slovak government offered to release William Oatis in ex change for a $17,000,000 steel mill is pure speculation. There is no basis for such a report. No such offer was made." Churchill Sees More Delay in Rearmament London (U.R) Prime Minis ter Winston Churchill said Wed nesday that Britain's lagging re armament program may be even further delayed by shortages of materials and lack of dollars. The conservative prime minis ter gave his warning in defend ing his rearmament program in the House of Commons against a Labor party censure motion. Churchill warned also that, if war comes to Britain, it will come "with violent speed and suddenness." and that he is arm ing his new home guards to aid in defense against a possible air borne attack. Arraignment Delayed For Mrs. Jada Kader Portland (U.R) Arraignrant of Mrs. Jada Kader on a ftrst degree murder charge has been delayed for a second time. Mrs. Kader's attorney. Nels Peterson, filed a demurrer Tues day to the first degree indict ment. . Mrs. Kader is accused of the murder of her three-year-old daughter, Sherrie Ellen. Portland (U.R) Funeral ar rangements were pending Wed nesday for John Patrick O'Hara, widely known Oregon scholar and Catholic educator, who was found dead in his car Monday near Butte, Mont - 1 MEDFORD, QREQON, WILLIAM M'ALuia icR Prominent Republicans Announce Candidacies as GOP Delegates McAllister, Lausmann Announce Candidacies For GOP Convention Two prominent Medford Repub-i licans announced today that they are candidates for delegate to the Republican national conven tion. William M. McAllister, an at torney, said he will seek elec tion to the convention from the state at large, and A. A. Laus mann,' a lumber mill executive, is seeking election from the fourth congressional district. Prefers Eisenhower . McAllister, whose personal preference for the GOP presi dential nomination is General of the Army Dwight D. Eisen however, is a native Oregonian, and has practiced law here since 1931, after graduating from Willamette university. He has served four sessions in. the state house of representatives, one of them as speaker, and one four yer;term in the state senate. He was a delegate to the 1948 Re publican national convention.-: McAllister said that if he is elected he will vote for the adop tion of a liberal and constructive party platform and for the nom ination for president of the can didate preferred by the people of Oregon in the primary election. "American System" '..He said he "believes in the American system , of representa tive government under the con stitution and in our system of free enterprise, and is opposed to bureaucratic government by ad ministrative decree." His slogan will be "For Republican Vic tory." . i McAllister is married and the father of two high school age children.. The family home is at 2615 Hillcrest road. He is a Presbyterian and has long been active in a wide variety of civic", veterans and fraternal affairs. : Lausmann has been a resident of Oregon since 1907. and has engaged in logging and lumber ing. He owns sawmills and log ging camps. He lives in Medford at 200 Medford heights, and is the head of Lausmann Lumber company" and KOGAP Lumber Industries. Background Told His background includes the presidency of the Pacific Log ging congress in .1942; member ship on the Postwar Readjust ment and Development commit tee set up by the late Gov. Earl Snell; vice-chairmanship of the Medford advisory board of the Salvation Army; membership on the board of trustees of the First Presbyterian church in 1945 and 1951, and the managing director ship of the Shrine Pear Bowl game for the benefit of the crippled children's hospital in Portland. Lausmann is married and is the father of two qhildren.lHe belongs to a number of fraternal and civic groups. His slogan is "Carry out the mandate of Ore gon voters." and he announced his personal preference for can Stassen Leading in Primary-Entering Derby Washington (U.R) Harold E Stassen was far out in front of all other presidential candidates I Wednesday in the primary-enter ing derby. His entry in the Oregon Re publican presidential contest ' this week brought to 11 the num- iberof states where he has ent ered or ' announced plans to enter presidential primaries. No other GOP candidate . comes : close to that mark. " Trailing Stassen is Sen. Estes ! Kefauver of Tennessee, a candi ; date for the Democratic nomina tion, who has entered or an nounced plans to enter primar ies in seven states. He is consid 'ering bids in two others. : WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, LAudMANii didates includes Eisenhower and Taft. The appointment of Lausmann as state finance chairman for the reelection campaign of Secre tary of State Earl T. Newbry was announced here yesterday by William E. Healy, assistant sec retary of state. Healy added that Newbry has named Walter Lev erette as campaign manager in Medford and Ed Singmaster in Ashland. Quiet Elsewhere Elsewhere on the political front in Jackson county things remained quiet, with no new filings for major office. Mrs. Bereth P. Hopkins, county Re publican chairman, announced that 25 party members have filed for election as precinct commit teemen and committeewomen. There are 84 precincts in the county, and a committeman and committewoman from each par ty is to be elected in each pre cinct. " ',?"-. V Those elected in each precinct automatically become members of the county central committees of each party. Mrs. Hopkins said that "All Republican voters should make it their personal re sponsibility to see that their pre- I cinct has candidates filed." Filing deadline for all candi dates in the primary election is March 7, including precinct of ficers. Salem (U.R) Catherine Holtz, Medford, filed with the state elections bureau here for dele gate to the Republican national convention from the . state at large. (Catherine Holtz is not listed in any Medford directory, and no local announcement was made of her candidacy.) ' t A. A. Kiwanis Kapers Opening Tonight The fourth annual presenta tion of the Kiwanis Kapers and Minstrel show by Medford and Ashland Kiwanis clubs will have its premier at 8:15 p. m. today at the Medford senior high audi torium. ' It will be staged here also on Thursday, Friday andjadded that a good number of McKay Files Candidacy For Republican Conclave Salem (U.R) Gov. Douglas McKay filed his candidacy for delegate to the national Republi can convention from the state at large. Sen. Wayne Morse filed late Tuesday for delegate to the Re publican national convention from the state at large. Oregon gets 18 delegates to this year's convention a six delegate "bonus", for being one of the states to stay in the Re publican camp when Thomas E. Dewey of New York ran against President Truman in 1948. Stassen, former governor of Minnesota, faces his first test Tuesday in the Republican presi dential preference vote in New Hampshire, where he is rated the underdog behind Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio. -Bitter Battles Remain The oratorical sound and fury which marked the windup week of the New Hampshire campaign was only a forestate of the bit ter primary battles still to be fought. Taft and Stassen are involved in two-man contests in Illinois, Ohio - and West Virginia, and both are in the larger field in the Wisconsin primary... Tribune Halted Tina Fall Leased Win 1952 No. 301 Struck Mill Firm Will Request NLRB Recognition Vote Two Strikes Said To Be Unrelated Officers of the Jackson Creek Lumber company said today they are writing to the National Labor Relations Board to request an employee election at the firm. Seventeen men left work there yesterday in a strike for recog nition of the union, firm spokes men said. Gene Tedrick, business mana ger of Local 3030, Lumber and Sawmill Workers union, AFL, said thisTnorning that the strike is not connected with the one which has closed the Southern Oregon Planing mill at Central Point for more than two weeks. For Recognition The Jackson Creek Lumber company strike, Tedrick said, is simply for recognition of the union. He claimed that a majority- of the workers there have joined the union, and asked the company to recognize the union as their bargaining agent. The company refused without an NLRB election. The company's position, as out lined by a spokesman today, is that the legal machinery for such an election is in existence, and it cannot recognize any union with out an election. There were no new develop ments in the strike at the plan ing mill. The firm has been closed for more than two weeks, when 61 employees walked off the job because of a dispute over the status of a former foreman. In a third phase of the strike situation, it was announced that Circuit Judge O. J. Millard Grants Pass, instead of Judge H. K. Hanna, of Jackson county, has been assigned to conduct a hearing on the Singleton Milling company's suit for an injunction to compel the union to cease picketing its plant. The union had asked for a change of judges. Restraining Order Issued Judge Millard will hold the hearing Friday morning. Accord ing to Frank J. Van Dyke, attor ney for the Singleton firm, a tem porary injunction against picket ing was granted last week, and the Friday hearing will be for the purpose of determining if the restraining order shall remain in effect during the pendency of the suit for permanent injunc tion. The company posted $2,500 bond pending the Friday hearing. The suit was filed after pick ets appeared at the company's plant in Central Point in protest over the firm's use of machiney which was moved from the struck premises of the planing mill. Saturday nights. Thursday will be Ashland night. Reserve seats for the variety and minstrel production, "Gee, Washington!" are selling rap idly at Barker's Men's store, committeemen reported. They choice seats are still available. The all-local talent show has the professional direction of Phil Butler, Geller productions, Hol lywood, Cal. The Medford club's share of the proceeds will be used for its - underprivileged children's work. WEATHER FORECAST Rain and occa sional fusty south winds this evening. Becoming showery Thursday. Low tonight JS. ,'. High Thursday 45-41. Temp. Highest yesterady 42 Lowest this morning 2S Prec. To 4:3 ajn. today 7 These five contests are the only ones in which Taft is now entered. But he may be forced into the Oregon primary with out his consent before Friday's deadline. Taft has not yet announced a decision on New Jersey. Stas sen plans to make the race, and Eisenhower also may be entered. In Pennsylvania Race Stassen confronts Eisenhower in a two-man test in Pennsyl vania where both have been entered in the preference poll, which is not binding- on dele gates elected in separate ballot- ViS- .... - - - ''---I Names Omitted From Hew Lists Submitted by Reds Report Includes Mostly Americans Panmunjom U.R) The Unit ed Nations Wednesday demand ed an accounting for 174 more prisoners of war, mostly Amer icans, whose names were missing from .Communist radio . broad casts, publications and prisoner 'etters to families. Confirmation Expected North Korean Ma j. Gen. Lee Sang Cho said he would "care fully note" the list It was felt here the Reds might confirm it, but the feeling was based more on attitude of the Com munists than any concrete state ments. The list included only non Korean troops. It brings to 1,621 the number of Allied sol diers believed in prisoner stock ades but missing from prisoner lists. Rear Admiral R. E. Libby pressed again in vain for infor mation about some 50,000 South Korean soldiers whom the Reds at one time claimed to have cap tured, but did not name in their final list of prisoners. No Progress on Issue Maj. Gen. Lee Sang Cho, North Korean negotiator, re ceived the list and "carefully noted it." Libby, describing the session on prisoner exchange as "rea sonably tranquil," said there was no progress on the basic issue of voluntary repatriation. "They wouldn't buy voluntary repatriation," Libby said, "and we won't drop it." Lake County Draft Board Walks Cut Lakeview, Ore. (U.R) The entire Lake county draft board resigned Tuesday in a protest over regulations which allow na tionals from some foreign coun tries to get out of military service in this country. . Carl Pendleton, chairman of the board, said the resignations followed a recent case in which two Irish nationals refused to be inducted. He said Ireland was one of 10 countries having trea ties with the United States which exempt nationals from military service.. ' . . - Members who resigned besides Pendleton included Jesse Faha, Harry J. . Anthony and L. S Passage. ' Eisenhower Pleased After Turkey Visit Istanbul, Turkey (U.R) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower left here Wednesday for Greece after re porting he got a "satisfactory im pression" on his 36-hour inspec tion of Turkey's military contri bution to western defense. Before departing for the north ern Greek cities of Salonika and Athens, Eisenhower praised tne Turkish people for their "im mense courage and curiosity about world affairs." His trip in his special plane was designed lo take in an aerial survey of the Greek frontiers and the scene of the defeat of Communist guer rillas. Turkish military sources in Ankara said Eisenhower agreed during his talks with leaders in the capital that Turkey must get more modern equipment Medford Korea Vet Expected Here Sunday Pfc. Malcolm Johnston, son of Mr. and Mrs. Myron Johnston. 2049 Orchard Home drive, is ex pected to arrive home Sunday after spending 20 months in Korea. Private Johnston arrived in San Francisco Tuesday. The Air Force man attended Medford high school. He listed in April 1950. en The Dalles, Ore. (U.R) An Indian woman, identified as Ade line H. Stimall of Toppenish, Wash., died here Tuesday from injuries suffered Saturday night in an automobile accident. Only in Nebraska is Stassen entered without opposition. The other 10 states, however, repre sent all in which GOP primary contests are indicated. - ' Gov. Earl Warren of Cali fornia has . announced entry only in Wisconsin and his home state so far. He may also get into the Oregon contest against Stassen, Eisenhower and Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Mac Arthur Entered MacArthur, who has dis couraged moves to put him in primaries, has slates of conven tion delegate candidates sup porting him in New Hampshire, Minnesota and Wisconsin. lnJaTOuH rguii GOV. EARL WARREN Enters Oregon Primary Truman To Miss Oregon Primary, Sweetland Says Portland (U.R) President Truman will not enter Oregon's May 16 primary election, Demo cratic National Committeeman Monroe Sweetland said Wednes day. Sweetland, who had gathered enough signatures to place the President's name on the ballot, made the announcement in a re corded interview over a Portland radio station. No Elaboration "With regret we announce that after conversations with Wash ington it is decided that Presi dent Truman's name will not be entered in the Oregon primary," Sweetland said. He declined - to elaborate. "There will be no further state ments on the subject," he said Sen. Estes Kefauver of Ten nessee was the only Democrat to file thus far for the Oregon pri mary. Deadline for filing is March 7. More Victims Sought In Japan Earthquake Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan (U.R) Rescue teams dug through snow-covered rubble of smashed homes Wednesday seeking pos sible additional victims of the earthquake and tidal waves that killed 34 persons Tuesday and left 10,000 homeless in bitter weather. American occupation forces joined with Japanese to bring emergency relief to the disaster victims on this northern Japan island where homes and city buildings were wrecked by the twin fury of earth shocks and waves. Pinay Agrees To Form New French Cabinet Paris (U.R) Antoine Pinay, a little known independent, agreed Wednesday to form a new French government in the face of an almost empty treasury and the ever present shadow of Gen. Charles De Gaulle. The 60-year-old politician vet eran formally accepted the task during a brief interview at Ely see palace with President Vin cent Auriol. The premier-designate will go before the French assembly Thursday morning to present his program and ask support of the deputies in forming a new gov ernment to stave off bankruptcy and guide France through its worst postwar crisis. Crystal Springs Files Incorporation Articles Salem (U.R) Articles of in corporation were filed Wednes day for the Crystal Springs Pack ing Co., Inc., of Medford. The firm will pack vegetables, fruits and farm products and will put up gift boxes. Signing the articles were Clarice M. Spatz, Otto J." Frohnmayer and Elsie M. Grove. TAX REFUNDS CLAIMED Salem 0).R)Nearly half of the State Tax commission's un deliverable refund checks have been distributed to claimants af ter their names appeared in Ore gon newspapers, Ray Smith, tax commission chairman, said Wed nesday. ' Of the 4,300 persons on the published list, 1,900 have claim ed their refunds. The Dalles, Ore. U.R) The Dalles Chronicle has raised its subscription rates from $1.25 to $1.50 a month for home-de r - .A livered papers. f nmmy Sacramento (U.R) Cali fornia's Republican Governor Earl Warren said Wednesday he will enter the Oregon presiden tial primary May 16. Warren, who recently filed in the Wisconsin primary, said he had decided to enter the Oregon contest by his "own declaration of candidacy." "I am informed that a peti tion is being circulated in Ore gon to qualify me in that man ner, but it is not at my instiga tion." Warren said, "and I pre fer to enter by my own inde pendent action." Warren said he would cam paign in Oregon "insofar as I am able to do so consistent with my duties as governor of Cali fornia, at the conclusion of the primary campaign among my Oregon neighbors who have been so considerate and friendly toward me during my years of public service," he governor said. Warren leaves Thursday for Superior, Wis., where he will open a two-day stumping tour in the northern end of the state, he will speak at Ashland, Hay ward, Rice Lake, Bloomer, Chip pewa Falls and Eau Claire. Sabrejets Down Five MIG Planes 8th Army Headquarters, Korea (U.R) American Sabrejets shot down five and probably six Com munist MIG-15 Jet fighters in a blazing half-hour air battle Wed nesday just south of the Manchu rian border. It was the Americans' biggest bag of Russian-built MIGs since January 25 when 10 enemy jets were sent spinning to earth. Twenty - eight Sabres ripped through a formation of 70 MIGs in the latest battle over "Mig Alley," near the Yalu river frontier. Allied losses, if any, were not given. From Tokyo, Columbia Broad casting System correspondent George Herman reported that several days ago American pi lots had spotted MIGs with new markings noses painted purple instead of the usual red. The Americans believed the change in marking meant that a new class of Red pilots had come to the front. It appeared, Herman said, that Wednesday's fights may have been the first against Sabrejets for the new Red pilots. Acheson Personally Gave Clubb Clearing Washington '(U.R) Secre tary of State Dean Acheson said Wednesday he personally had cleared foreign service officer O. Edmund Clubb after the State Department's loyalty and secur ity board had decided Clubb was a security risk. However, Acheson denied at a news conference that Clubb had resigned, immediately after he was cleared in order to pre serve his pension rights or for any other reasons. Such claims, Acheson said, are utterly and absolutely untrue. Seattle (ui)The1952 state Republican conference will be held in Spokane May 23-24, State Chairman Walter Williams said Wednesday. Foster, Ore. (U.R) George Whitfield, Foster, was killed in a two-truck collision near here Tuesday. Beer Drinkers Attempt William Tell Stunt; One Is Hospitalized A "William Tell" stunt that grew out of a beer drinking party here last night resulted in near tragedy, city police re ported today. Buster Glen Jones. 21, of route 2. box 734, Central Point, was treated at a hos pital for a scalp wound from a .22 caliber bullet, according to officers. He was released early today, police said. James Alphaeus Inlow, 21, "of 429 Berrydale avenue, told state and city police that he and Jones had been drinking beer at the home of Randell E. Olson. 423 Plum street In low said Jones bet him he could not shoot his hat off with a rifle that was in a rack in the room. Jones stood in the corner of the room and Inlow fired the rifle at the hat, he told police. The first bullet hit the hat brim and Jones told him to try again, he said. Inlow said ha fired again and although Jones did not appear to be hurt ha saw blood running down his face. Inlow drove the injured man to the hospital. No charges were brought against either man and they were released, police said.
