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nn El mm mm Mm if Kefauver Florida Against Atlanta OJ.R) Sen. Estes Kefauver challenged Dixie's power ful anti-Truman bloc Thursday Georgia's Sen. Richard B. Russell Kefauver, who defeated President Truman in Tuesday's New ' Hampshire Primary, will oppose Russell in Florida's May 6 presi dential primary, which is not binding, and also in a separate elec tion on May 27 for the sunshine state's Democratic convention delegates. Russell already has filed as a candidate in the popularity contest and a slate of the Georgia Democrat's candidates has been entered in the delegates' election. It was reported in Florida that Kefauver's slate of delegates will be filed by the end of the week. Kefauver's entry into the Florida primary brings him faee to face with a powerful move in Dixie to overthrow Mr. Truman's control of the Democratic party. ment is to seek the Democratic 'On to Wisconsin' Becomes Rally Cry Of Taft Backers Washington U.R) Dis appointed Taft supporters sound an "on to Wisconsin" rallying cry Thursday. They claimed that their candidate is still the front runner in the race for the -Republican presidential nomin ation. But Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower's political backers, tre mendously encouraged by their victory in New Hampshire, look ed toward New Jersey for a re peat performance. The, New Jersey primary Apirl 15 will provide the next, and probably last, direct test be tween Eisenhower and Sen. Rob ert A. Taft. Before that contest, however, Taft will have two 'chances, in his native Midwest, to repair the damage which his vote-pulling reputation suffered in New Hampshire Tuesday. The Taft organization is opti mistic about prospects for a dramatic comeback in the Wis consin primary April 1 and in the Illinois primary April 8. Harold E. Stassen, who ran third . in the New Hampshire race, will be pitted against Taft in both of the Midwestern battles. v Eisenhower is not entered in either state. Taft, who spent three days in New Hampshire, will invade Wisconsin next week for two weeks of intensive campaigning. He was in El Paso Thursday winding up a whirlwind speak ing tour of Texas. Rail Operations Hearing Normal Chicago (U.PJ Operations on the New York Central System neared normal Thursday after "diehard" workers at two strate gic locations gave up their fight to render a federal anti-strike order ineffectual. Priority was given mail and freight trains, particularly those loaded with perishables. And the line said the first long-haul passenger train the New Eng land States would leave Chi cago on schedule for Boston. Thereafter ,the NYC said, operations should be normal. Early Thursday, the only pocket of resistance to the system-wide back-to-work move among the f iremeh, engineers and . conductors was in the switching crews of the Chicago Junction Railway serving Chi cago's stockyards and some in dustrial sections. More Farm Units for World War II Veterans Salem (U.R) Forty-two more farm units are being of fered to World War U veterans in the Columbia Basin irriga tion project in Washington, the Oregon department of veterans affairs said Thursday. Veterans must apply before April 6 to the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation office at Ephrata, Wash. Bill To Restore Crosses In Hawaii Killed by Vote Washington OJ.R) A House Interior subcommittee Thursday killed legislation to force the Army to restore white crosses on graves of 13,000 war dead in Honolulu's National . Memorial cemetery. Action by Voice Vol The action was taken by voice vote in open session with no ob jection from any of the seven subcommittee members present. The vote followed testimony by Col. James B. Clearwater, Chief of the Army Quartermas ter Corps ' memorial division, that restoration of the crosses Enters Primary Russell by announcing he will oppose in Florida's presidential primary. Step number one in this move nomination for Russell, New Hampshire Vol -Said Truman Protest The move is led by Gov. James F. Byrnes of South Carolina, Sens. Harry Byrd of Virginia and Walter George of Georgia, and Govs. Hugh White of Mis sissippi, Herman Talmadge of Georgia and Allan Shivers of Texas. The Dixie rebellion excludes any support for Kefauver. Talmadge maintains the New Hampshire primary was not a personal victory for the crime busting senator but rather a pro test vote against President Tru man. He said the outcome actu ally helped Russell by showing the president's weakness. Talmadge bitterly attacked Kefauver in his personal polit ical newspaper last week. He branded the Tennessee senator "the darling of the Communists and all. the left-wing radicals." Kefauver will have -an uphill fight in Florida just as he had in New Hampshire. Most of the state's congressional delegation backs Russell Furthermore, the lanky Ten nesseean will not have the sup port of Gov. Fuller Warren who has been a bitter Kefauver critic since the senator's crime investigatng committee took a look into organized crime in Florida. The committee had some, unflattering things to say about Warren". Speaker Raybum Backs UMT Bill . Washington (U.R) Snpalrpr Sam Rayburn threw his influ ence Thursday behind a move to give Universal Military Train ing another chance in the House. Kayburn told reporters he be lieves the House might approve a modified UMT bill if it were brought up again. i. he House last week voted 236 to 162 against an' Armed Services committee measure under which 18-year-old males would be given six months of military training and then do a 7V4 year hiteh in the reserves. Committee chairman Carl Vin son, D-Ga., said after the vote that he wouldn t try to revive the measure in this session. But Rep. Charles B. Brownson, R Ind.. who wants to turn TTMT into a high school training pro gram, said today he is "going to bring out another bill pretty soon.. Scuffle With Woman Fatal lo Port land er Portland U.R) Gordon Charles Bradford, 31, Portland, way killed Wednesday night dur ing a scuffle with a woman over a .38 caliber revolver, police re ported. June Elizabeth Sykes, 28, only witness to the slaying, told police Bradford had been drinking and ordered her to leave his apart ment. She told officers she re fused and that Bradford then threatened her with the revolver. She said that when she tried to wrest the weapon from him it discharged, the bullet striking Bradford in the chest. The woman was held for sev eral hours and then released. The district attorney's office ordered a coroner's inquest. would be contrary to policy established for national ceme teries. The Hawaiian cemetery, in the famous Punchbowl Crater above Honolulu, was opened in January, 194$. Until last fall the Army used white wooden crosses as temporary grave markers. Replaced by Markers Last fall, however, the crosses were- uprooted and replaced with permanent flat markers of stone. This action evoked pro tests from Hawaiian groups and resulted in introduction of the legislation killed today.- ... Medford&UTribune United Press-Fall Uuc4 Wlr 46th ear 22 Pages IP ir fF r Flay Biga'rt Lovett Assures Doubtful Congress Nations Face Test Top Spokesman Plea For Foreign Aid Bill Washington (U.R) Defense Secretary Robert A. Lovett as sured a skeptical Congress Thursday that U. S. military aid will depend on the "perform ance" of America's allies in building defenses against Com munism.' . Lovett gave his assurance as the administration sent its top spokesmen to Capitol Hill to plead for President Truman's $7,900,000,000 foreign aid pro gram. . Acheion To Testify Secretary of State Dean Ache-, son, Mutual Security Director W. Averell Harriman and Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also were scheduled to testify before a joint session of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees and the House Foreign Affairs commit tee. Obviously mindful of congres sional criticism that some West ern European nations have been "dragging their feet" on rearm ament, Lovett said "the first cri terion" in granting U. S. mili tary assistance will be the "per formance of nations in raising effective forces." Performance To Bt Test ' . . "I assure you that no program for any nation is to be considered as a commitment or a promise on the part of the United States," he said. "Performance will be the test.". . - ' Lvett's prepared testimony dealt almost . exclusively with the need for $5,350,000,000 in "direct military aid" which. Mr. Truman has requested for Allies in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Near East and Latin America. The remainder of the multi billion dollar mutual security program would be made up of $1,819,000,000 in "defense sup porting" economic aid to help Western Europe increase its mil itary potential, and $656,000,000 in outright economic and point four technical assistance, mostly for Asiatic countries. Military Position Improve Lovett said that North Atlan tic defenses moved from "the planning to the operational phase" at the recent NATO con ference in Lisbon, when mem ber countries promised to have 50 divisions ready to defend Europe by the end of 1952. In a review of rearmament progress under the North Atlan tic Treaty, Lovett said the mili tary position of Western Europe has "improved appreciably dur ing the past year." . Tanker Deal Fads Claimed Withheld Washington- CJ.R) -1 Three members of the former Maritime Commission testified Thursday they .would have blocked a profitable surplus -tanker deal involving . Newbold .Morris if they had had the "full facts." : The three told Senate investi gators they would not have allo cated three -surplus tankers to a group headed -by former Rep. Joseph -E. - Casey, D-Mass., had they known it would sell them to a Chinese-financed firm rep resented by Moms' New York law firm. The witnesses were Vice. Adm. W.W. Smith, chairman of the commission at the time in early 1948, and former commissioners Grenville Mellen and Joseph K. Carson. ; United Asks Non-Stop Portland-Spokane Trip - - Portland (U.R) United Air Lines said Thursday it had ask ed the Civil Aeronautics Board for permission to start non-stop flights' between Portland and Spokane. . The air line said it had spe cifically requested permission from the CAB to lift a restric tion which calls for a stop at Pendleton on all its flights be tween the two cities. 1 i vwsa . -sav MEDFORD, OREGON, mm a nn t - EARNING THEIR NICKNAME These smoke-eaters are really earning their famous nickname as they crawl on the roof of a two-story Minneapolis tnuse in an effort to put out fire which left 17 persons . homeless. All the occupants escaped without injury. Union Issues On Strikes at The , union - which has struck two mills here in recent weeks issued statements today to clarify its position in regard to the strikes. Gene Tedrick, business agent for . Local 3030, Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union, AFL, issued the statements on behalf of the union's members. The two . mills now being struck are the Southern Oregon Planing Mill, Central Point, and Jarkson Creek Lumber com pany, near Jacksonville. Re garding the planing mill strike, Tedrick said: " The strike is not for wages or over : working conditions but is solely over a question of senior ity; the union remains the bar gaining agent for employees, despite the fact that the com pany has terminated its working agreement; the company has re fused to negotiate settlement of the strike despite union offers to negotiate, -and the union has filed charges of unfair labor practices against the company with the National Labor Rela tions board. Hat No Comment The company has stated that it will negotiate a settlement only if the striking employees return to work. A spokesman for the firm said today he has no comment to make regarding the labor union's statement. The matter has been placed in the hands of an at torney, he said. The plant is op erating' and "we're minding our own business," he added. "We're sorry the strike started, and we think that 80 to 90 per cent of the employees are too. But it's gotten out of hand now, and we're letting our attorney handle? it," he said. . " The union's statement regard ing the Southern Oregon Planing mill strike said, in part: -' Statement Given "We union employees . . . con tinue to picket the plant while waiting for the company officials to begin negotiations with pur local union committeemen on grievances over . alleged . senior ity rights violations out of which the strike has arisen. The com pany has been, notified . .'. that we are ready at any or all times to meet ... in order to bargain and bring about a settlement of the present dispute.' Local Union 3030 is the sole collective bar gaining agent for the workers of the Southern Oregon . Planing Mill company. This is a fact that can only be changed through an NLRB election at the request of the employees . . . ' "Although the plant is oper ating at. about one-third capac ity, only five of the workers who are ' members of (this) union crossed the picket lines to date. The majority of the rest . . . are recently-employed workers. . . A very great majority of workers seeking employment respect our picket lines . . '. Conciliators Informed " "We have been informed :. .". that the U- S. conciliation service has been notified in regard to the deadlock caused by the man agement's refusal to negotiate a settlement and end the strike. ' "Up tor the present date, the company has not been able to submit .to: us a . satisfactory rea-. THURSDAY,, MARCH 13, iff Am Id I Statements To Two Mills in Jackson County j son for hot wishing to meet with our representatives ... By fail ing to confer on the issues at hand, we feel that considerable unnecessary and injudicious ani mosities have or could arise, causing a loss to be sustained by both management and labor, by any delayed settlement ..." ' . The second statement issued by Tedrick concerned the strike at Jackson Creek Lumber com pany, which is under the same management as theother mill, but which was struck for differ ent reasons. This statement said, in part: - "The complete cause of the strike is failure to recognize a collective bargaining agency. This merely means a , written agreement to wages, hours and working conditions. There is no dispute for. higher wages as is popularly believed. "Three regularly employed Allied Tanks Raid Enemy Positions on Central Front Seoul .(U.R) Allied tanks, rumbling across the thawing rice paddies in Kumsong valley, raided Communist 'positions on the Korean east-central front Thursday. The mediun. tanks shelled 56 trenches, destroyed nine enemy- bunkers and knock ed . out two machinegun posi tions. Tank crews fired 302 50 millimeter shells and nearly 7,000 rounds of machinegun fire. Enemy Strength Growing - United Press War Correspon- Frost Warning Expert To Arrive Here Friday Roy J. Rogers, Pomona, Calif., f ederaL meteorologist for the de partment of commerce, is sched uled to arrive here "on Friday to begin preparations for his an nual frost, warning service for Jackson county fruitgrowers..; His headquarters will be at the county, agent's office at the courthouse. C..B. Cordy, county agent for horticulture, has ask ed that orchardists bring in their thermometers immediately for testing. It is planned to do the testing early next week. Oregon Goose Eggs Said Bigger, Better Than Washington's . Dr. B. R. Elliott wants the Portland Oregonian to know that Oregon geese lay bigger -eggs than Washington gees. Yesterday Dr. Elliott, retired Medford dentist, read on the front page of the Oregonian thai a goose owned by Junior a Deccio of Long Beach, Wash..' had laid an egg weighing 10 ounces and measuring HVi inches around. , The doctor promptly went and measured a couple of eggs laid by on of his while . Emden geese. One egg Weigh-' ' d 12Vb ounces and measured 13V inches. So Dr. Elliott says "Pooh, that's nothing." to stories about eggs laid by ' .Washington. United Press TaU Leased Wire 1952 No. 308 erica's AIIis To Military J Clarify Stand people are going through the picket lines and the rest are peo ple from towns in the vicinity usually employed by other mills. "We cannot understand the company's position in not recog nizing us when in a letter of March 3 they said, 'The union affiliation or lack of affiliation of any employee is no concern of this company. We respect and will encourage the protection of your rights under . . . the Labor Management" Relations Act . . ."' ' The management has said it would recognize a union only after an NLRB election. . A third mill, the Singleton Planing mill in Central Point, which was picketed for some time over alleged use of "hot" equipment from one of the other struck plants, resumed opera tions yesterday, it was reported. Pickets did not reappear at the mill. dent Wendell Merrick reported enemy strength was growing in the Kumsong area and that one tanker told him: - "They threw more shells at lis than I've ever seen." ' Merrick said Communist troops on this front also are try ing to take- Allied prisoners. Wednesday night, he said, an Allied patrol was trapped in a Communist ambush, but escaped. t Pfc. Raymond Brunelle, South port, Me., was grabbed by the arms and a voice told him, "come along." Then another Chinese grabbed him. Brunelle shook off both Communists and fled. MIGs Refuse Fight 1 United Nations aircraft sought to inflict further punishment on the Communist air force, but the Russian-built MIGs refused to come out and fight. In three days of furious dogfights be tween the Yalu river and Pyong yang, North Korean capital, American Sabrejets shot down 15 MIGs, four of them Wednes day. Construction Workers Allowed Pay Increase Washington (U.R) The Wage Stabilization board set a 15 cents an 'hour ceiling Thurs day on pay increases this year for more than 3,000,000 construc tion workers. - The board also approved health and welfare plans for building trades workers with a 7Vi cent an hour limit , on em ployer contributions. f Both policies, adopted on the recommendation of the WSB's construction commission, differ from the rules in effect for oth er industries.' '. f " ' Management members of the board dissented from the health and waif are policy, r The :15-cent general increases permitted if workers can nego tiate such increase, correspond to the board's cost-of-living raises allowed employees in oth er." industries. Weather FORECAST: Rata and oceisioe al gusty south wiud tonight, ' becoming showery Friday. Continued cool. Low tonight 33-31. High Friday 4J-SS Temp. Highest Yesterday 47 Lowest this Morning Zt Communists Insist Armistice Outlaw Possible Blockade Change of Mind By Enemy Noted . Panmunjom U.R) The Com munists, in a surprising change of mind, insisted anew Thurs day on a Korean armistice broad enough in scope to outlaw a pos sible American blockade of China or Formosa. The new attitude on the part of the Red truce negotiators came to light during an inter preters' session the lowest level of the negotiations. Assurance Repudiated Communist interpreters work ing over an agreement tentative ly reached on truce supervision repudiated an earlier assurance that they would drop all at tempts to stretch the scope of the armistice. They had originally opposed including the word "Korea" in a paragraph prohibiting a naval blockade of the war-torn penin sula. Such a deletion would have had the effect - of extending a blockade ban to the coasts of China or Formosa, if desired by either party. However, they withdrew the proposal to delete . the word "Korea" and indicated their willingness to reinstate the word again. . Reversal of Discussion . Brig. Gen. William P. Nu- ckols, an Allied spokesman, said the Communist announcement was a "complete reversal of the staff officers' discussion Wed nesday." While prisoner exchange and armistice terms discussions re mained deadlocked, Peiping ra dio spat out a sarcastic recipe for quick settlement of the talks: "Let Acheson call off his in sect soldiers and instruct his human ones to quit stalling, and matters in Korea will be settled very quickly." Germ Charges Renewed The broadcast then renewed charges that the Allies were waging germ warfare and that UN negotiators were holding up truce bargaining. Earlier, United Nations truce negotiators demanded that the Communists turn over anew, "complete and bonafide" list of Allied war prisoners. Seeking an accounting" of 53, 000 missing UN soldiers known to have been captured by the Reds, Rear Admiral R. E. Libby said an accurate list was needed' if prisoner exchange discussions were to have any "definite and concrete meaning." Californian Succeeds Leavitl as Park Head John B. Wosky, who has been assistant superintendent of Yo semite National park in Cali fornia, will succeed Ernest P. Leavitt as superintendent of Cra ter Lake National park, accord ing to a, United Press dispatch from Washington Thursday. Leavitt announced Wednesday that he will retire on March 14 after 42. years with the park service. . OTI Students mi Dispute Remains Unsettled Klamath Falls, Ore. U.R) More than 300 students at Ore gon Technical Institute who stayed away from classes for three days in protest to policies at the vocational school ended their walkout Thursday, but the dispute was not settled. The 300 represented more than half the student body. To Air Grievances ' The student body met Wednes day and watched a four-man group of state officials discuss problems with student repre sentatives. At the end of the session, the students agreed to return to classes while a com mittee, to- be named Monday, talks over grievances with the administration. Students protested the instructor-student ratio at the state In stitution. Representatives of OTI Mysterious Blast Heard in Widely Separated Points Source, Location Not Known by Agencies A violent explosion rocked large part of the Rogue valley at 11 p. m. yesterday. Efforts to determine its source and pin point the location this morning failed. ' The blast was heard in as widely separated points as Jack sonville, Sams Velley and Shady Cove, and it was loud enough in Medford, Central Point and the Camp White area to wak sleepers. .Windows rattled In Jackson ville, and Eagle Point residents heard the "sharp blast" plainly. Residents of Medford generally agreed that the sound came from the north or northeast At Camp White it sounded as though it was from the east. Floor Heaves One resident of foothills road said her floor "heaved up" as the blast was heard. A frequent comment was that thought something hit the house." Some reports indicated it was a dou ble blast, one followed by a sec ond. In the Dodge bridge area, northwest of Eagle Point, re ports indicated that the ex plosion was heard and felt with considerable "depth". Mrs. Howard Short, of the Eagle Point Irrigation district office, reported that she and friends had heard a similar blast about two weeks ago which "seemed to tear the earth apart," and which was followed by an other. There have been no other public reports of such an ex plosion. Speculation that blasting was being done by the CMC mining corporation west of Eagle Point was denied by officials of the firm. Road Blasting Report , Another report Indicating that blasting was being done at night on a road on Roxy Ann butte, east of Medford, was not confirmed. The county engineer's office knew nothing about it, nor did ' the public works de partment of the city of Medford. State' police, city police, sher iff's office and other official agencies were swamped with telephone calls, both last night and this morning, inquiring about the explosion, but they have no explanation. A sheriff's deputy was assigned today to try to trace down the blast. The control tower operator on duty at the airport last night said the blast was at 11 p. m. It was heard loud and plain there, and lasted about a sec ond. He saw no flash accom panying it. Capt Douglas Coleman, com mander of Ihe Air Force refuel ling detachment at the airport, said there were no jet planes in the area at that time last night, as far as he knows. (Shock waves from high-flying jet air craft have sometimes been credited with causing such un explained "explosions.") Officials of the California Oregon Power company had no explanation for the blast, and a report from the Southern Ore gon Conservation and Tree Farm association, which operates a ra dio network, failed to explain the blast. The explosion apparently was not heard in Brownsboro or in Gold Hill, but in most of the intervening area it was heard distinctly. Second Emmanuel Bribe Trial Given to Jury South Bend, Wash U.R) Judge John J. Langenbach Thursday allowed the second bribery trial of Samuel Emman uel, resigned state land board secretary, to go to the jury. But the Pacific county jurist again said there was a "close question as to whether there was a duty imposed on the de fendant at the time the state alleges he asked a bribe." End Walkout; administration pointed out that the state legislature's Joint Ways and Means committee set an ar bitrary rule that there should be one instructor for every IS students. Winston Purvine, director of Oregon Tech and member of the administration's panel, said that student enrollment had dropped off, requiring the dis misal of two teachers.. Problem for Legislature He said any change In the rule was not up to the students or the school's administration, but a problem for the state legis lature to iron out. Student charges of incompe tency in the faculty were an swered by Purvine when the school head said that every ac cusation of inefficiency was fully investigated by his office. ;' 71 4
