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Newspaper Page Text'TO M imi v Mm United Press full Leased Wire 46th Year New York Central System Paralyzed By Strike Action Railroaders Ignore Return To Work Plea Toledo, O. (U.R) Disgrun tled railroad workeri her vot ed to go back to work late Wednesday, and said they would remove picket lines that had hampered full re sumption of service on the New York Central railroad. Chicago (U.R) Rebellious railroad workers at two key points Wednesday defied both the government and their union leaders to paralyze anew all through traffic on the New York Central System west of Buffalo. Members of three rail brother hoods the firemen, engineers and conductors at Toledo, O., and Elkhart, Ind., refused to re turn to their jobs despite the urging of the leaders who agreed to comply with a federal court injunction issued Tuesday in Cleveland. Both cities are "division points" in which long-haul crews are based. The NYC said that so long as union members there refused to work, the road would be un able to operate either freight or passenger service of long dis tances west of Buffalo. The NYC, however, said it hoped to resume commuter serv ice in locations outside Toledo and Elkhart, provided crews could be obtained when the non strikers returned to work. Regular Service Doubted In Chicago, one commuter train made its run between Chi cago and Chesterton, Ind. The NYC said it was doubtful that regular commuter service out of Chicago could be restored until later. Three NYC subsidiaries the Michigan Central, the Ohio Cen tral and the Big Four were scheduled to resume operations. They were not affected by the Toledo and Elkhart bottlenecks. At other locations, the em ployees grudgingly agreed to re turn to their jobs. But the NYC said that al though trains were being made up, it would be impossible to get crews out of the strikebound cities to man them. Meeting Scheduled In Walkout at OTI Klamath Falls, Ore. (U.R) A meeting between representatives of Oregon Technical Institute's student body and Oscar Paul sen, state director of vocational education, was scheduled Wed nesday in an effort to end a two- day student walkout. .- More than half the 530 stu dents enrolled in the school were involved in the walkout. The students were protesting the reduction of instructors at OTI and other policies of the school's administration. A spokesman for the school said two instructors were laid off last week because of a de crease in the number of students. Schuster Slaying Suspect Said Seen San Francisco (U.R) A pos sibility that Frederick Tenuto, hunted by New York police as a suspect in the murder of Arnold Schuster may be in the bay area, was voiced by police Wednesday. Police said a waitress in a restaurant near the Southern Pa cific depot said she had served a man answering his description. Schuster, who led police to Willie The Actor Sutton, notor ious bank robber, was shot down in Brooklyn. Tenuto, who es caped from a Pennsylvania pris on six years ago with Sutton, is a top suspect. CHAINS ADVISED Br UNITED PRESS Oregon motorists traveling mountain roads were advised Wednesday to carry chains as snow fell in many sections. New snow was reported at Santiam pass, Willamette pass, Chemult, Klamath Falls, . Bly, Lakeview, Keno, Seneca and Burns. 16 Pages CAPT. J. C. LANGSTON Flier Missing in Action ? Air Force Pilot From Medford Said Missing in Action Mr. and Mrs. James C. Lang- ston, 114 Tripp street, were no tified Monday by the defense department that their son, Capt. Jack C. Langston, 29, is missing in action in Korea. His wife, the former Miss Jacqueline ,.Thur- man, lives With their two chil dren, Jolinda, 7, and Johnnie, 2J, at the home of her mother, Mrs. Clara Thurman, Trail. Captain Langston left for Ko rea Jan. 7, 1952, and is an F-84 fighter-bomber pilot. Before leaving the states he was sta tioned at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla, He. visited here last Christ mas on a 15-day leave when- a family reunion " was held, the first in many years. He has one brother, Lloyd Langston, an employee at Lu- man's grocery, and three sisters, Mrs. Earl McQuigg, Mrs. Mar vin Heidemann, and Mrs. George D. Landes, all Medford. Graduated Here Captain Langston was gradu ated from Medford high school m 1940. He entered the National Guard here in 1939 and has been in service since that time. During World War II, Cap tain Langston was a radar ' in structor in this country and after the war served in the Canal Zone. He was graduated in 1948 from the Air Force flying school at Randolph Field, Tex., with second highest honors. In June, 1951, he was given a letter" of commendation by the commanding officer at Eglin base for outstanding perform ance of duty as director pilot for a task unit during Operation Greenhouse at the base. In addi tion to his skill and devotion to duty, he was commended for his judgment and attention to detail in connection with developing techniques and procedures re quired in flying the T-33 aircraft safely by remote control. Penitentiary Escapee Captured in Medford George Frederick, 28, who es caped from Oregon state peni tentiary February 28, was ap prehended on a downtown Med ford street shortly before noon today, according to state police. Frederick was recognized by Officer Russell Brendle, who made the arrest, they said. Frederick, a trustie at the prison, walked away from the farm annex near Salem the aft ernoon of February 29 with Walter H. Edmonds, another trustie. Frederick was serving a three-year term for larceny from Umatilla county and would have been eligible for release next November. - U. S. Battle Casualties Increase 160 in Week Washington (U.R) The De fence Department reported Wed nesday that U.S. battle casualties in Korea through last Friday to tal 106,453 an increase of 160 over last week's figure. WEATHER FORECAST: Generally cloudy with rain and snow showers tonight and Thursday. Con tinned cool. Low tonight 3t 32. High Thursday 49-50. : Temp. Highest Yesterday 45 Lowest this Morning 32 Free, to 4:3 ajn. Today M 1 - 2-1 .. . MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1952 German Journalist Will Spend Week on Mail Tribune Staff Eugene Ten European jour nalists will lend an international flavor to the press of Oregon during the week of March 24. Each of them will spend the week on the staff of a daily or weekly newspaper. " The 10, comprised of eight Germans, an Austrian and a Hol lander, are all students this year at the school of journalism, Uni versity of Oregon. Their field trips will come during the week of spring vacation. Members of the working press in their own countries, they are m the United States both to study in their profession and to gain firsthand knowledge of . the United States and its people. Work With Staff Each of them will work with regular staff members of the co operating newspapers, trying their hands in several depart ments. In addition, each visitor hopes to participate .in the life of the community to the fullest possible extents They will be available for brief, informal talks to service clubs and similar groups. With a total of 15 students from abroad, the Oregon journal ism school has the largest foreign student program in proportion to total enrollment of any school in the country this year. ... , v Newspapers invited to; partic Ipate in the spring vacation pro ject were chosen, with an eye to getting a representative group of Oregon papers, both as to size and location. . 10 -Papers . The papers are the Albany Democrat-Herald, Baker Democrat- Herald, Bend Bulletin, Coos Bay Times, Hillsboro Argus, Lakeview Examiner - Tribune, Lebanon Express, Medford Mail Tribune, Newberg Graphic, and the Oregon Journal. , The 10 foreign students are Gunther Barth, Jurgen Benhcke, Franz Cesarz, Wolfgang Meyer, Walter Schwarzlose, Hans Steph ani, Eva Marie Vogler and Ger hard Zahn, all from Germany; Wilhelmus Van Eekeren, Hol land, and Otto Zundritsch, Aus tria. Gunther Barth, of Dusseldorf, Germany, is the foreign journal ist who will spend a week on Robert Swoape Found Dead in Trailer House The body of Robert Louis Swoape, 43, was found in his trailer house at 106 Clark street at about 2:45 p.m.' Tuesday; city police said today. His death was listed as "accidental" by County Coroner Carlos Morris. . Police said the body was found lying, under a mattress on the trailer house floor by Thomas W. Swoape,. the dead man's brother. The trailer house was full of smoke that- came from a small oil heater, they said. An air vent in the top of the. trailer had been closed, according to in vestigating officers. Efforts of Medford firemen to revive Swoape were unsuccess ful. , f ' -. Swoape's estranged wife, Vel ma. Grants Pass, is expected here today to help complete funeral arrangements which will be con ducted by Perl funeral home. Big Squabble Of Second Aircraft Carrier Washington (U.R) The Navy, which had a fearful- row over its first super aircraft carrier, was headed into rough seas Wednesday with plans for its second. - . '. '" ' Storm signals for a new super carrier squabble were already up in Congress. Action oa Bill Delayed Action on a bill to authorize construction , of the second big flat-top, along with other naval vessels, was delayed temporarily in the House Armed Services committee Tuesday after mem bers argued over. where the big ship should be built - - DEIFY iOTEfflMEm the staff of The Mail Tribune. He will arrive here March 23, remaining during the following week. ; If the program committee chairmen of any organization; wish to arrange for Barth to appear before their groups dur ing the week he is here, they may do so by calling Eric Allen Jr.,. Mail Tribune city editor, during the week of March 17 to 22. High-lip Decision Apparently Needed To Break Deadlock Panmunjom (U.R) The Kor ean truce talks were at a stand still Wednesday and it appeared that only a high-level decision in Peiping, Moscow or Washing ton could break the deadlock. Nearly every phrase used in the discussions between Allied and Communist truce officers was a repetition of those from earlier meetings. Reds Revive Proposal The Communists revived their proposal to allow truce inspec tors, including "rieu.tral" Russia. to"examihe secret Allied wea pons affer'the armistice. The Urn again rejected it. . ; . The. Allies also turned down for" the second time a Commu nist proposal for forcible repa triation of prisoners of war on the basis of names now avail able to each side. The proposal excluded some 44,000 Reds and 53,000 South Koreans believed captured but unaccounted for.. Blockade Issue Dropped Red staff officers' apparently dropped their move to prevent a possible Allied blockade by terms of the armistice agree ment. An Allied staff officer said the Communists "do not seem to wish to make this a further issue." Truce officers spent nearly two hours negotiating, only to cover issues that have been dis cussed over and over again with out success. Meanwhile, Radio Peiping criticized Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, UN senior delegate, for "twice talking of exerting mili tary pressure until 'we force them to come to terms'." "This type of 'gunboat on the Yangtze' talk is not suitable to the diplomatic situation," the broadcast said. Southern Oregon Cities' Representatives Meet Here This Evening Approximately 11 represen tatives of southern Oregon cit ies will attend a League of Ore gon Cities regional meeting at 6:30 p.m. today at the Medford hotel, according to the office of Mayor D. L. Flynn. The meeting will be the largest in the history of the event, they said. William A. Bowes, Portland commissioner of public works and president of the LOC, will be the main speaker and discus sion leader. Medford guests at the meeting will include mem bers of the city water and plan ning commissions. Looms Over Indications were .that this question won't be settled by Congress but that the Navy will be allowed to make its own de cision. This means the second super carrier will be built on the East Coast, probably in New York. West Coast Suggested California House members are demanding that since the 60,000-ton flat-tops can't go through the Panama canal, one or more of them should be built on the West Coast. - One super carrier already is under construction at Newport News,- Va.' -The " Navy hopes E. P. LEAVITT Park Superintendent Retires Superintendent 01 Crater Lake Park To Retire E P. Leavitt, superintendent of Crater Lake National Park since Aug. 1, 1937, announced today that he will retire from the National Park Service on March 15. ' ' Leavitt is one of the "veter ans" of the. service, with nearly 42 years to his credit. He entered the service as a clerk at Yosem ite National Park, California on April. 14, 1910, when,the parks were still under the administra tion of the Army. During 20 years there, he ad vanced through the ranks of the service to assistant superintend ent. On Jan. 16, 1931, he was asigned to Hawaii National Park, T. H., and was promoted to su perintendent. He served there for three years, then moving to Mesa Verde National Park, Colo rado, and Mt. Lassen Volcanic National Park, ' Califronia, as superintendent of both. Succeeded Canfield When appointed to the Crater Lake post, he succeeded David H. Canfield, who was transferred to Rocky Mountain National Park. Mr. and Mrs. Leavitt make their home at 1317 Queen Anne Avenue in Medford, but they plan to move to a retirement home on the Old Stage road near Medford after his retirement be comes effective. No successor in " the . position has been announced by the Na tional Park Service, Leavitt said, but one is expected to be named soon. Hermiston Business Houses Ruined by Fire Hermiston, Ore. (U.R) Fire early Wednesday gutted a con crete building housing three businesses on Hermiston's Main street with loss estimated at $235,000. Destroyed were Burnham's De partment store, the Tot shop and Cap's Donut shop. Firemen battled the blaze which broke out about 4 a.m. for more than four hours before bringing it under control. The fire was discovered by a night patrolman. Manager Bruce Giddens of the department store estimated his loss at about $225,000. He said he carried $8,000 insurance on the store but none on the stock. Construction by Navy eventually to build 10 of them, at the rate of one a year. ' In addition to the argument over where the second carrier should be built, some lawmak ers are ready to contend that the big ships should not be built at all. - , Work Scuttled A hot argument about this in 1949 was climaxed when then Secretary of - Defense Louis Johnson scuttled what . was to have been the prototype super carrier, the USS United States, after work on it was well underway.' United Press Full Leased Wire No. 307 Morris Answers Senator McCarthy In Angry Exchange Solon Blasts Cleanup Chief Washington (U.R) Newbold Morris accused Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R.-Wis., Wednesday of not being a "gentleman" and of "going after me like a dog" in an angry clash before Senate investigators. "You've fr locked off a lot of characters, and you're not going to knock off mine,' Morris shouted at McCarthy in a turbu lent hearing before the Senate's permanent investigating com mittee. Lashed by McCarthy McCarthy had just said that Morris, corruption cleanup chief, was "either the greatest dope or dupe of all time or '"responsi ble for making a vast amount of profit soaked in American blood" through leasing of surplus tank ers for hauling Soviet oil to Communist China for Russia. Morris promptly- appealed to Chairman Clyde R. Hoey, D. N.C., to give him a chance to re ply to McCarthy before he was forced to answer any more di rect questions by the grim-look ing Wisconsin Republican. Patriotism at Stake "My patriotism is at stake,' Morris said. ,. : Hoey ruled that he had a right to respond "to McCarthy with a brief statement. Morris then began slugging back verbally at McCarthy and a shouting match was on. Morris referred to Hoey, however, as an arch-angle of decency and a model as a presiding officer for all others." The outbreak came shortly after Morris took the witness stand for the second day for questioning about surplus tank er deals in which his New York law firm represented two Chinese-backed outfits. Spiegelberg Named Football Coach School board members last night named Fred Spiegelberg head football coach at Medford high school for next year. Spiegelberg, line coach for four seasons, succeeds Lee V. Ragsdale, who has been named head of the physical education department of the city school sys tem and head of the Medford school-sponsored summer recrea tion program. The new head coach has been boxing and wrestling tutor here also. Spiegelberg, a 1943 grad uate of Washington State col lege, is 32 years of age. The board also granted a $100 per year cost of living increase to teachers of the Medford school system, with some other adjust ments in the schedules of pay. Income Taxpayers Gel 48-Hour Extension Federal income taxpayers will have 48 hours of grace before becoming delinquent this year, it was announced today by offic ers of the Medford office of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, 33 North Riverside avenue. The legal deadline for filing income tax returns is March 15, but because that date falls on a Saturday this year, the law per mits taxpayers to file returns up to midnight the following Mon day. '. The office 'here will remain open until 9 p.m. Friday, March 14; 5:30 p.m. Saturday, March 15, and until midnight Monday, March 17, to assist in last-minute preparation of returns. , : Address to which income tax returns should be mailed from here is: Collector of Internal Revenue, Portland,. Oregon. , Salem-U.R) Niel R. Allen of Grants Pass has been reappoint ed as a member of the State Board of Geology and Mineral Resources, Gov. Douglas McKay announced Wednesday. . mm " Q o GEN. EISENHOWER Republican Winner (Acme Telepholq ESTES KEFAUVER - . , Gets Democratic Vote Eisenhower Proud Of Results Shown In New Hampshire Frankfurt, Germany (U.R) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower said Wednesday . that . he is "proud" New Hampshire voters think he ought to be president. 0 The supreme commander of North Atlantic forces made the comment on his arrival here from Paris for a one-day confer ence with Allied commanders in Germany. Ought To Be Proud Eisenhower scanned the re turns from the New Hampshire presidential primary, smiled broadly and told ' a ' waiting crowd of newsmen and photo graphers: "Any American who is in formed that so many other thou sands of fellow Americans think he's fit for the presidency well, by golly, if he isn't proud, then he just isn't an American." No Return Planned The five-star general made it clear that he doesn't plan to re turn to the U. S. in the imme diate future. He said he hadn't received word of Connecticut Democratic . Sen. Brien ' Mc Mahon's proposal that he return to testify before a congressional committee on foreign aid. Asked if he planned to return to the U. S. to deliver the SHAPE and Allied forces annual report, he replied: "The plan is that I shall give the report from Paris." Oregon's Political Supporters Jubilant Portland (U.R) Oregon's supporters of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Sen. Estes Ke fauver were jubilant Wednesday over the victories of their respec tive candidates in the New Hampshire primary election. William L. Phillips, chairman of the Oregon - for - Eisenhower committee, said the New Hamp shire primary was "an inspiring victory for the ideals for which Dwight Eisenhower stands and for his devotion to duty." State Sen. Jack Bain, who filed "petitions to get Kefauver on Oregon's Democratic primary ballot, said, "while the ... re sults are gratifying, we still have a hard row ahead of us to carry this state for Kefauver in May." Lowell Paget, chairman of the group supporting . Sen. Robert Taft, R.-O., in Oregon said only, "I'm surprised." Both Win Entire New Hampshire Delegate Strength Sen. Taft, Truman Given Thrashing Concord, N. H. (U.R) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Sen. Estes Kefauver scored thumping triumphs in the New Hampshire primary which was the first test in the nation of the popularity of presidential candidates. More than 129,000 voters In the doughty little New England state braved bitter weather Tues day and indicated a preference for Eisenhower over Sen Robert A. Taft as Republican standard bearer by almost 11,000 votes, and for Kefauver over President Truman as prospective Demo cratic nominee, by over 4,000 votes. Entire Strength Won But Eisenhower and Kefauver won more than a popularity polL Both won the entire New Hamp shire delegate strength in the nominating conventions which will be held in July in Chicago. Twelve delegates were commit ted to give the state's eight votes to Kefauver in the Democratic convention. Fourteen Republi can delegates, each with a full vote, must vote for Eisenhower's nomination. All the other candidates, in cluding a sizeable group given "write-in" votes, were far out distanced. Complete Tabulation The complete United Press' tabulation of all of the 297 pre- v cincts showed this final standing of the predominant candidates: Republicans- Eisenhower Taft . 46,441 35,691 6,673 3,160 Stassen MacArthur write in Democrats Kefauver Truman 20,240 16.12ft What started out as an inter esting popularity; contest in a tiny state soon gained impetus as the attention of the country's voters attached itself to the re sults of the first test with ballots of the vote-getting strength of the presidential aspirants. Scorching Battle Soon the campaign resolved itself into a scorching and some times carbolic battle between some of the candidates them selves and many of the support ers of those whose names had been entered. Kefauver staged a long and folksy campaign and won, but Taft stumped the state vigorous ly, yet lost. Eisenhower maintained a de tached attitude at his NATO headquarters in Paris and won, while President Truman re mained inactive, and even be littled the importance of the pri mary, and lost to. the Tennessee senator. A surprisingly large write-in vote went to MacArthur 3,160 -though his total was substan tially behind former Minnesota Gov. Haroled E. Stassen's total of 6,673. William R. Schneider, a St. Louis lawyer whose name was on the ballot, got but 243 votes. Kefauver Margin Uniform Kefauver scored a startling set. His margin was uniform through the cities and the rural areas. He interpreted it as a "vic tory for amateur politicians" and said that it represented a wish by the voters for new faces and new ideals, but did not con stitute a repudiation of the Dem ocratic administration. The complex delegate battles, involving a total of 95 Demo cratic and Republican candi dates, was solved swiftly by the voters they swept the boards for two preferred candidates. It had been anticipated that the New Hampshire delegations might be split among a number of candidates, for the vote on these was entirely separate from the presidential "popularity" poll. Many Individuals Favored There were delegate candi dates favoring many individuals, including a full slate for Mac Arthur. Stassen made a strenu ous campaign for "popular" votes and said he received somewhat more than he expect ed he did not enter the dele gate 'contest. There had been predictions that Eisenhower would run strong in the cities and lack equal strength in the towns. But the general did the opposite in most cases. Kev West U.R President Truman Wednesday cheerfully declined to let the ftew Hamp shire preference .primary inter fere with his earlv morning? stroll through downtown Key West. He wished inquiring news men a bright good morning, but as to the primary no comment"