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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.- ...
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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.
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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,
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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.
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1952
No. 308
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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. ;'
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