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Weather Recommended ; FORECAST Partly cloudy through Sunday night. Ex pected high Sunday S, expected low M to SS. Temp. Highest Saturday 7 Lowest Saturday ST A lurrcy ky political Kiea tUt. Biting Hit "wont ana eft" senators, win be found on page 11 of today's Hall Tribune. United Press full Leased Wire United Press full Leased Wire 46th Year 30 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, MARCH 9, 1952 No. 304 RIBUIE Primary Baee Set In Mew Hampshire Concord,, H. U.R5 New Hampshire's "grass roots" poli tical campaign drew to a close Saturday night with indications of a tight race between Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Sen. Robert A. Taft in the nation's first primary. Voters of the snow-covered granite state will mark ballots Tuesday in a test which may give the first hint of who will .be the Republican and Demo cratic candidates in November. Leaders of both parties de scribe the election as a "key contest, and the most extensive "cracker barrel" campaign ever conducted by White House hope fuls is certain to bring out an unusually heavy vote. Also Pick Delegates The voters will select dele gates to the national nominating conventions and also will name the man they prefer in Wash ington. The dual ballot has political leaders worried. They differ over whether the delegates or the legalized "straw" poll is more important. A candidate must win both for an unques tioned victory. Eisenhower supporters have banked heavily on the New Hampshire race. Their slate of delegates is comprised of strong vote-getters" and they look to the popularity contest as giving Eisenhower "the call from the people." Teel Confident" "We feel confident that we will win both a majority of the delegates and the preferential contest," one Eisenhower leader said. "However, if the general is beaten he may withdraw en tirely from the field. He is not seeking the job, we are seeking him." Taft, completing a three-day swing with a vigorous attack on Eisenhower's candidacy, hangs his hopes on topping the popu larity poll. He estimates he will take only four of the 14 Repub lican delegates, but- may be de liberately underestimating his Strength. While the senator from Ohio agrees New Hampshire is. a "key" state, he has no thought of withdrawing from the race if he is beaten. Kefauver Seeks Upset On the Democratic side, Sen. Xstes Kefauver could produce a major upset. He has virtually conceded victory to delegates Ashland Man Judged Guilty of Drunk Driving A district court jury Friday returned a guilty verdict against John William Lybrand, route 1, box 117A, Ashland, who was charged with driving while under the influence of intoxica ting liquor. The jury vote was live to one for conviction, it was said. The charge was filed against Lybrand after the pick-up truck he was driving struck a parked car on Sunset drive on February 16. A two-day jury trial opened Thursday. Lybrand is free on $250 bail and sentencing is ten tatively set for Wednesday. Assistant District Attorney Robert Dickey represented the state and Robert Duncan the defendant. Purpose of Reappointment Of Officials Is Explained Purpose, of the resignations and reappointments of a number of Jackson county officials and employees last December was to change from the state retire ment plan to federal social se curity, County Clerk George Carter explained Saturday. Under the state retirement plan, Carter said, the retirement board stated that if elective of ficers wanted to they could change from the state to the fed eral plan. But the understand ing was given that, unless all the county elective officers changed, successors of those who did not could not come under either plan. That was the season for the wholesale quitting. Legal Publications The resignations and reap pointments were not reported at the time but appeared in a pub lication of county court proceed ings in legal notices on January 28. Fuller public attention to the matter was brought Friday when County Engineer Paul B. Rynning filed for reelection. Other elective officials con cerned were Treasurer Ralph Sweeney, Clerk Carter, Assessor C. A. Myers, School Superin tendent Alf Mekvold and Judge J. B. Coleman, who was reap favoring President Truman but nas beaten tne Dusnes xor "straw" votes. Kefauver said he was in the race as a "loyal Democrat" not opposed to - any candidate, but he doesn't think Mr. Truman will run again. The President's New- Hamp shire campaign has had no direct support from the White House. His managers emphasized they have had no word from him but feel he will make the run. . Gen. Douglas MacArthur has a full slate of delegates and al ternates running but the Taft people claim -the general per sonally favors the Ohio senator Harold E. Stassen made a sweeping personal campaign. He has no organization or delegates running but his name is on the popularity poll. Former Demo cratic Chairman James A. Far ley is favored by some dele gates, but he is not on the straw ballot. Seasonal Hump Of Unemployment Reported Passed Jackson county passed the hump of seasonal unemployment last month. . . ' The Medford office of the State Employment Service said that the annual low point was passed in mid-February, and that the number of jobs "definitely began to climb before the end of the month." There was still considerable unemployment at the end of the month, however, according to the report, due mostly to logging operations being delayed by heavy snow in the mountains. The principal factor needed to restore a high level of employ ment is enough good weather to permit the woods : to open up. the report said. :: 2.530 Jobless ..' Unemployment at the1 end of the month was estimated at 2,530, or 9 per cent below a month ago, and 29 per cent more than this time last year. Job placements were slightly above the total for last February. The report, in commenting on the Army's recent announce ment that Camp White will be placed on a stand-by basis at a cost of some $6,000,000, said that "this will be a very small job compared to the construc tion project carried out in 1942." The money allocated for Camp White work is about one sixth of the cost of the former construction, which took place when construction costs were much lower than at present, it pointed out. Some Shortages - There continued to be a short age of stenographers and do mestic workers during the month, the report said, despite the general labor surplus. . Migration into the area con tinued during February, and the ofice re .ort said many inquiries by mail have been received about job opportunities here. They come from all parts of the nation, and most of the writers indicate they are looking for new permanent positions. pointed by the governor. State law permits persons ap pointed to fill out unexpired terms of selective off ioes to serve only until the post is filled by the next general election. Al though Rynning's present term normally would have expired in 1954, he was thus forced to seek reelection this year. Terms of the other officials involved ex pire anyway. Carter brought out that state retirement costs much more than social security. The state plan protects only the one person while social security protects the employee and allows his wife half as much as he. Now "Out On Limb' However, all who pulled out of state retirement are out on a limb" and presently are not covered by either the state or the federal plan. Now county officials are being told that ev ery employee has to come under social security. There are a num ber who did not pull out from the state plan. They have many years of previous service, are not old enough yet for retirement and cannot afford to make the switch, Carter reported. It looks as if congress is going to have to change the law, Car ter added. Lucky Luciano Reported Head Of Dope Ring 23 Persons Indicted , In San -Francisco Washington (U.R) Charles (Lucky) Luciano, one-time New York vice overlord, was "def initely" behind an international narcotics smuggling ring cracked in San Francisco, a government official said today. Assistant Chief George W. Cunningham of the Narcotics bureau, said Luciano, controls all of the narcotics smuggling from Italy. In San Francisco, Assistant U. S. Attorney Joseph Karesh said "about five" of the 23 persons indicted by the grand jury there yesterday had "talked" impli cating "several" of the 23. Kar esh reported no new names had cropped up as a result of what the five had said. More Indictments However, Karesh said he "hoped" many new persons in other states would eventually be indicted "as a result of past in vestigations and the current investigation." Luciano was convicted of com pulsory prostitution In New York in 1936 and was in prison when Gov. Thomas E. Dewey commuted his sentence in 1946 and he was deported to Italy. Since then Luciano has been living in Italy with no apparent source of income but he has lived lavishly, according to all reports received here. Luciano Blamed . The senate crime committee, in its report on crime syndicates in the United States, blamed Luciano for having a good part in the world traffic in drugs. . In San Francisco, Assistant U. S. Attorney Joseph Karesh, ap parently unintentionally, re ported that a "man in Illinois," nni of the 23 indicted bv the grand jury yesterday, had talked. Karesh said the information wai "so hush.hush. I'm even afraid to talk about it."; 'y He said the "boys are singing all over the place now' Karesh laid the "Singing" would prob ably result in many new arresis, involving about "two or three more states." When Karesh referred to the 'man in Illinois." he stODDed himself quickly, saying, "Oh, I shouldn't have mentioned that." Earlier, Karesh reported that "about five" of the 23 had "talkpd" However, at that time Karesh said no new names had cropped up as a result of the information. Portland Man Held Portland (U.R) Michael De Pinto. 48, Portland, was being held for the U. S marshal Sat urday following his arrest in a nationwide roundup of alleged narcotic violators. ' DePinto was taken into cus tody by Portland vice squad of ficers at the home of his moth er, after being under surveil lance for some time. Toasts in Two Sizes, Short and Extra-Long London (U.R) Quen Elis abeth. II has approved the fol lowing form and order for royal toasts: ' 1. "The Queen." 2. "Queen Elisabeth, the queen mother. Queen Mary, the Duke of Edinburgh and other members of the royal family." CANDIDATE Dr. G. A. Dier dorff, Medford, announced Fri day that he is a candidate for the Republican nomination for state representative from Jack son county. His filing brings to three the number of men ' after the GOP nomination; Incum bent s Robert Root and-E. H. Mann filed previously. . There is no Democratic candidate. vp, ITS' V 4 ,y .-.:v w lip r ' r STOPPING RED SUPPLIES Navy pilots from the aircraft carrier USS Antietam leave this train burning on the tracks in North Korea after a sudden strike. The Antietam is part of a fast carrier task force operating off the coast of Korea. Their sudden strikes are designed to disrupt the Communists' flow of war material (U. S. Navy Photo.) Crew of Eight Killed In Wreck of US Plane Kleine Scheidegg, Switzerland (U.R) Four daring Swiss guides reached the wreckage of Contests Seen For All Major County Offices There will be an election con test, at least on one side of the political fence, for every major political, off ice in the county but one this yeas The - filing i deadline was 5 p. m.; Friday, ' and the? only, fil ing not previously reported "was made Friday afternoon. It was by C. L. Hockersmith, 3860 Calhoun road, Medford, who filed as a Democratic candi date for nomination as county commissioner. He was the Demo cratic nominee for this post in the 1948 election, and was de feated by L. G. Morthland, the Republican candidate. Here are the candidates: County judge J. B. Coleman, incumbent, and Robert L. Brant ley, both Republicans. No Demo crat candidate. County commissioner, L ' G. Morthland, incumbent, Republi can unopposed in the primary and Loyd W. Whitney and C. L. Hockersmith, Democrats. County clerk, George Carter, incumbent, Republican, unop posed. County treasurer, Ralph Swee ney, incumbent, Democrat, and H. F. Cope, Republican, both unopposed in the primary elec tion. County assessor, W. P Tuck er, R. G. Fowler and John Henry Tizekker, Republicans, and Andrew Hawver, Democrat, who is unopposed in the primary. County surveyor, Paul Ryn ning, incumbent, Republican, unopposed. County coroner, Carlos Mor ris, incumbent, and Dr. M. P. Vogel, both Republicans. No Democratic candidate. Up to press time, no other can didates had announced their in tention of seeking election to of fices where filings are made in Salem, and the United Press re ported no other candidates. These offices include: . State representative, two va cancies, Robert Root and Ed H. Mann, incumbents, and Dr. G. A. Dierdorff, all Republicans. No Democratic candidates. Circuit judge of the first ju dicial district, position No. 1, H. K. Hanna, incumbent, non partisan. Two Medford men have filed their candidacies for election as delegates from the state at large to the national Republican con vention. There are 10 such posts. Seeking the job from here are Robert A. Elliott and William McAllister. Four local people have filed for the two posts as GOP conven tion delegates from the fourth congressional district. They are Mrs. Bereth Hopkins, Gene Brantley, Catherine Holtz and A. A. Lausmann. (The county clerk Friday cast some doubt upon the candidacy of Catherine Holtz when he re vealed that his records show no such person being registered in Jackson county as a Republican, No Medford directories, list a Catherine Holtz, and no public announcement -of her candidacy has been made. .'...,. . a U.S. Air Force C-47 high in the Swiss Alps Saturday and re ported all eight Americans aboard were killed when the plane smashed into an Alpine glacier. The patrol of tough mountain guides, all of them skiing cham pions, said the plane which crashed at the 9,000 foot level of the Jungfrau Massif, setting off a small avalanche, was destroy ed. The debris was bloodstained, but they could not find the bodies lying under a fresh, blan ket of snow more than two feet deep. The patrol said there was no trace of the fuselage. They said the wings and tail were visible but thatJhe. fuselage apparently exploded when the plane hit the sheer wall of rock and ice. The plane was on a flight from Madrid to the U.S. air base at Fuersthe-Feldbruck near Stutt gart when it plunged into a sheer ice wall, killing all those aboard. The four guides reached the wreckage after a torturous five hour climb and failed to send a prearranged signal that would send rescue parties after any sur vivors. A crowd some two miles below watched them through field glasses as the guides tramped through the snow among the wreckage. Although they did not find the bodies, the guides reported tonight "there is no hope whatever of digging them out alive." " A rescue column will start out from here early tomorrow morn ing equipped with avalanche dogs especially trained in find ing persons buried under Enow. The four guides left the crash scene after a short search, picked up their skis they had left mid way on the Guggi glacier and could be seen from here racing down into the valley at break neck speed. They arrived at the search headquarters in Weingernalp and reported what they had seen. Sxpected Avalanche Karl Schlunegger, one of the guides, said "snow reached up to our chests. I expected an ava lanche any minute. The plane was an awful sight. It was smashed into little pieces and scattered over a wide area. Only the tail was in sight. The fuse lage had completely disappeared. "There was a lot of blood' on the snow, but we could not find any bodies although we searched diligently and used our ski sticks for probing." The four world-famous Swiss guides made a perilous five-hour climb up the slopes of . Guggi glacier despite the threat of new avalanches, fog and blinding snow flurries. - ' Strike Delayed For More Study Denver (U.R) A nationwide oil str ike scheduled to begin Sunday was "reluctantly" post poned indefinitely by oil union officials to allow the Wage Stab ilization board time to study the dispute. The postponement was an nounced for a coalition of 22 oil unions here by O. A. Knight, president of the CIO Oil Work ers International Union. The months-old dispute be tween union leaders and man agement centered around union demands for .a flat 23 cent an hour increase in wages. French Premier Asks Approval Of New Cabinet Progressive Catholics Join Pinay Government Paris (U.R) Independent Premier Antoine Pinay suc ceeded Saturday in forming a streamlined coalition govern ment pledged to put France on a paying basis. Pinay presented his cabinet list to President Auriol for ap proval after a night-long series of hectic party meetings. He was able to' form the government after the Progressive Catholic Popular Republican movement agreed to take part in the coal ition provided they were not assigned any economic, finance or labor posts. Keeps Finance Job Pinay, a 60-year-old tannery owner, kept the finance post himself, as did his predecessor, Edgar Faure," vjhose govern ment fell eight days ago. The Faure government consisted of 40 ministers. Pinay's has only 17. Robert Schuman stays on as foreign minister in the new government and the other cab inet posts were filled by mem bers of the last two govern ments. Pinay now must present his cabinet list to the National As sembly on Tuesday. Political observers gave him a fair chance of winning Assembly approval to head France's 15th govern ment since the liberation. It would be the first postwar gav ernment to be headed by an In dependent right winger. Rene Pleven, a former pre mier, was assigned the job of defense minister in the new gov ernment succeeding Georges Bid ault, who is ailing. Most other top posts were unchanged. Senators Support Tax Bureau Plan Washington (U.R) Three Democratic, senators said today the Senate must : choose next week between "discredited poli tical patronage" in the scandal ridden Internal Revenue bureau or a career-merit system. 'Strongly supporting President Truman's proposed reorganiza tion of the tax-collecting agency, they used some of his words to assert the issue is simply "wheth er the Senate is willing to give up the discredited political patronage system of appoint ments in the bureau." A Senate vote on the House approved plan is scheduled for Wednesday or Thursday with the outcome in doubt. The law requires 49 votes to kill the plan. A Senate administration spokesman said the outcome will hinge largely on how the' Re publicans vote and the number of absentees. The three calling for its ap proval were Sens. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.), A. S. Mon roney (D-Okla.) and Blair Moody (D-Mich.). "This (next) week the Senate faces the choice between politi cal patronage and a real career merit system in the future col lection of some $70 billion in governmental revenue," they said. Mr. Truman proposes to re place the 64 politically-appointed tax collectors with 25 col lectors who would be under civil service. SPORTS BULLETINS Central Point Klamath Falls gained the right to repre sent District No. 4 in the state Class A high school basketball tournament by trouncing Crat er high 53 to 29 here Saturday night. By the victory, the Pels made it two straight wins in the two-out-of-three game play-off for the tourney berth. Klamath won Friday night 58 to 42 at Klamath Falls. The Pelicans had little trouble with the tired Comet quint which lacked its fire t of the previous night. First quarter score was is to 7 xor Klamath which led all the way. Half time margin was 33 to 11 and at the third quarter the bulge was 43 to 20. A complete team of Pel re serves went in midway in the third quarter and finished the fracas. Ralph Carroll paced Klamath with J 8 points and Boye scored nine for Crater. Los Angeles (U.R) The Washington Huskies nosed out the UCLA Bruins S3 to 50 to night to even the series in the battle for the Pacific Coast conference basketball crown. Numerous Claims Slow Truee Talks Tokyo, Sunday (U.R) A meeting between Allied and Communist negotiators on the Korean truce supervision terms broke up after a two-minute ses sion today at Panmunjom. It was the shortest meeting ever held between the two sides discussing item 3 of the proposed Korea armistice. Negotiators hardly had time to take their seats before the meeting was over and another session . was scheduled for Monday at 11 a.m. (6 p. m. PST Sunday). Sub-delegations on exchange of prisoners under the armistice terms adjourned their meeting in another tent at the discussion site after 33 minutes of discus sion. They also agreed to meet again Monday. U.S. Claims Both sides had met in the charged atmosphere of Ameri can claims U.S. prisoners are in terned secretly in Chinese Man churia and Red insistence the UN is conducting germ warfare against North Korea and China. Premier Chou En-Lai of China said that any American pilots captured after dropping germs on China would be treated as "war criminals." Presumably that would mean trial and exe cution. The truce talks at Panmunjom already were clouded by an Jackson County Red Cross Drive Starts Tomorrow The Jackson county chapter of the American Red Cross will open its 1952 fund drive for $27,000 tomorrow. Teams of volunteer solicitors are being organized, leaders of the drive said, and will contact anyone interested in becoming a member of the Red Cross, or anyone wishing to make a do nation. . To Cover Downtown The downtown business dis trict will be covered by mem bers of the Ladies' Mounted troop of the Sheriffs posse, and by the Red Cross Motor corps. The total budget for Jackson county includes both the local allocation of funds, and this area's portion of the national $85,000,000 quota. Thirty-nine per cent will go to the American National Red Cross for disaster and service work; 61 per cent will remain here for local ac tivities. "Little Enough" Leaders of the drive here said Saturday that $27,000 is "little enough" for the multi tudinous activities carried out by the local chapter. These are largely made possible by volun teer workers, who outnumber paid workers on a ratio of 100 to 1. Brief radio broadcasts on all three valley stations tomorrow will be aired to note the start of the drive, which has "Answer the Call" as its theme. Record Snowpacks Pile Up In Southern Oregon Area Record breaking snowpacks are piling up in southern Oregon mountains, and the water supply outlook throughout the state ranges from good to "excellent, the snow survey office reported Saturday. Out of 17 snow courses mea sured March 1 in the Rogue basin, 13 have broken all pre vious records of March 1 water content, and nine of them have broken the all-time record for water content at any time of year. Flood Danger Seen "Record or near-record'-streamflow was forecast on a number of rivers throughout the state, including the Rogue, Ap plegate and Illinois. "Extremes or high water during the melting season can be expected," the report said,". . . while unusual melting condition accompanied by abnormal rains can produce extremely damaging flows in all cases." , Reservoired water supplies are 22 per cent less than last year, but above-normal snow cover should make up this difference, the report said. Throughout the state the water content of the mountain snow cover averages 167 per cent of normal on 93 measured snow courses. It is 160 per cent of last year, and 120 per cent of one month ago. Illinois Highest In the Rogue River drainage Allied charge that the Commun ists have shipped at least 1,000 prisoners, including Americans, across the North Korean border to Manchuria. Chou, in a broadcast from Peiping, said the United States government must "bear full responsibility" for the air at tacks on northeast China. The United Nations command has denied there have been any such attacks. Germ Warfare Charged An official Communist mouth piece, the Peiping People's Daily News, said: v "The American aggressors have chosen precisely this mo ment to bomb our northwest again and to carry out large scale germ warfare with the ob vious aim of wrecking the armistice talks in Korea, prolong ing and expanding the aggressive war in Korea and instigating new wars." Chou's accusation capped a two-week propaganda campaign by the Reds against alleged "bacteriological warfare" by the Allies. It was the first time the Reds had openly linked the cam paign with the armistice talks. The People's Daily detailed what it said were ' "open and direct acts of aggression of the U. S. government" beginning with establishment of a Navy cordon on the China coast in June, 1950, and first intrusions" by U. S. aircraft over China in August." The reference to a cordon ob viously was to the U. S. 7th fleet which on the outbreak of war in Korea was ordered to patrol the sea between Formosa and the China mainland. Local Court Lacks Strike Jurisdiction The way was left open for pickets to return' to the Single ton Milling company. Central Point, Saturday following a cir cuit court finding that the court had no jurisdiction to grant con tinuance of a temporary re straining order against picketing at the plant. The decision was handed down by Judge O. J. Millard, Grants Pass. ' Judge Millard, stated that be cause the firm is engaged in in terstate commerce, the circuit court has no jurisdiction in the case. In accord with this finding, to obtain an injunction the Cen tral Point firm must now go be fore the national labor relations board. After announcing his findings in the hearing, Judge Millard stated from the bench, however, that he would have acted as did Judge H. K. Hanna in granting the temporary restraining order. He stated that he believed the facts warranted issuing such an order. Attorneys for the Singleton mill were unable to comment immediately whether an injunc tion would be sought from the NLRB. No pickets have been placed at the plant late Saturday. Elsewhere on the strike scene, conditions were unchanged. basin, the courses totaled 212 per cent of last year at the same time, 168 per cent of 1950 and 209 per cent of average. Highest of the individual drainage basins within the Rogue area was in the Illinois valley, where the snow water content is now 448 per cent of 1951, 190 per cent of 1950 and 331 per cent of average. The data which goes into the snow surveys and resulting water forecasts is gathered by the cooperative federal - s t a t e snow survey, which uses figures supplied by a large number of cooperating agencies. State headquarters are in Medford, and W. T. "Jack" Frost. Medford, is hydraulic engineer in charge. The U.. S. Weather bureau, which this year for the first time has been issuing general river forecasts, also issued its March forecast Saturday. Above Average Above normal February pre cipitation in the Rogue and Klamath basins assures excellent water supplies, the forecast said. Even if precipitation for the remainder of the season is as low as the minimum of record, 110 per cent of average runoff can be expected, it added. The forecast for the Middle Fork of the Rogue river, near Prospect, amounted to 160,000 acre feet on the Weather Bureau report, which it listed as 121 per cent of normal.
