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r w 1 PLACIS mm WW 177 "H WE'RE A BARGAIN," says Mrs. Agnes Roche, Long Beach, Cal., with twinkle In eye as she an nounces she is looking for husband and father for her eight children. "Look at all the income tax exemptions," she pointed out. From left (on floor) : Tommy, Eddie and David. On the sofa: James, Barbara, Mrs. Roche, Lawrence, Mary and Judith Roche. (international Soundphoto) Woman Arrested With Of Loot From Redf ield Robbery Flagstaff, Ariz. (U.R) An attractive 36-year-old French Canadian brunet who may have engineered the fantastic $1,500,000 Redfield burglary at Reno attempted unsuccess fully to commit suicide Mon day. FBI agents have dis closed. Mrs. Marie Jeanne D'Arc Machaud, arrested aboard a train here Sunday while en route from Los Angeles to Chicago with "a large part of the Redfield loot," took a large overdose of sleeping pills early Monday, and later told a matron she planned to kill herself with a razor blade. Reno (U.R) An attractive French-Canadian , brunette was suspected Monday of being the woman who "cased" the mansion of a Reno millionaire for a band of thieves who got away witn $1,500,000 in cash, securities and jewels. The FBI held Mrs. Marie Jeanne D'Arc Machaud in Flag staff, Ariz., on charges of trans porting stolen property across state lines. En Route to Chicago She was arrested Sunday on a train en route to Chicago with a "large part" of the loot stolen from the home of La Vere Red field February 29. 'About $50,000 in cash, a large quantity ' of expensive jewelry and a large number of securities -were found," said FBI agent Gerald Norris in Flagstaff. '"It is all part of the loot." Mrs. Machaud, a self-styled songwriter and authoress, was a personal friend of Mr. and Mrs Redfield. Her arrest, the sixth in the case, caught Redfield by sui prise. He said he had asked her to his home on numerous occa sions, but he refused to say how or when he had met her. Had Been Houseguest "She has been out to our house as a guest several times," Red- Minnesota Primary Election Tuesday Minneapolis (U.R) Cam paigning in Minnesota's presi dential primary closed Monday with a last-minute flurry of ac tivity to get write-in-votes for Gen. Dwight Eisenhower and Sen. Estes Kefauver. The polls open at 7 a.m. (CST) Tuesday for 13 hours. The ex pected turnout was about 200, 000 less than one-sixth of those who voted in Minnesota in the 1948 general election. The Republican ballot will list only the names of former Minne sota Gov. Harold E. Stassen and Edward C. Slettedahl, a St. Paul school teacher entered as a stand-in for Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur. Their delegates also will appear. Sen Hubert H. Humphrey. D Minn., and his delegates were all alone on the Democratic bal lot. He will turn over his dele gates to President Truman if the chief executive decides , to run again. Backers of Eisenhower and Kefauver were hopeful although not highly optimistic that their 12th-hour drive for write-ins would swing the contest. Defense Department Issues Call for 19,000 Men in May Washington (U.R) The De fense Department Monday an nounced a draft call of 19,000 for May 15.000 for the Army and 4,000 for the Marine Corps. Same for April The total is the same as the number scheduled for induction in April. It brings to 913,430 the num ber of men who will have been inducted since the beginning of the Korean war. Of the total called, 832,000 have been for the Army and 81,430 for the Marine field said. "She's the one person I would not have suspicioned Li the slightest. It's simply .unbe lievable. "She is the first one of all these suspects whom I know, i know who she is but I don't know a great - deal about her. That's all I can tell you right now. Mrs. Machaud had lived in Reno two or three years, but she apparently was not wall known in the city., Recently, she had tried to interest a bandlead er in one of her songs. The band leader said she was "very at tractive." Bone for Dog The burglary was committed while Redfield and his wife were playing roulette at a downtown casino. The thieves tossed a Farley Seen Unlikely As Russell's Manager Washington (U.R) Supporters of Sen. Richard B. Russell ar trying to recruit James A. Far ley, the "old pro" of Democratic politics, to help push the Georg ian s bid for the presidential nomination. But any hopes , that Farley might become Russell's ' cam paign manager apparently are doomed to disappointment.' That picture emerged Monday Ike Said Free To Return Home Paris (U.R) Gen. Dwight D Eisenhower is now a "very ac tive" participant in the presi dential campaign whether he likes it or not and is free to re turn home and campaign if he wants to, a leading "I Like Ike' booster said Monday. Paul G. Hoffman, co-chairman of the "Citizens for Eisenhower' organization, sid after a talk with Eisenhower that the su preme allied commander, in his opinion, could probably return home and speak in his uniform "as a soldier' 'on international issues. The pledge that Eisenhower made in a statement on Janu ary 7 not to take part in politics before the Republican conven tion July 7 -would not be a bar to such speeches, Hoffman said "No, I do not think so at all. because conditions have very radically changed since that date," Hoffman said in reply to a question at a press conference Freighter Drifting Off Washington Coast Seattle U.R) A Coast Guard cutter and a large ocean-going tug Monday plowed through the choppy North Pacific toward a British freighter driftng help lessly 420 miles off the Washing ton coast. The Liberty ship Darton radi oed she had lost her propeller but was not in danger, the Coast Guard reported. However, the cutter Winona was proceeding to the scene to stand by until the tug Salvage rung from Victoria, B. C, can reach the scene to take the dis abled freighter in tow. Corps. The Defense Department said the May call will provide the armed services with' the number of men needed to meet approved program goals for June 30. June Goal 3.500,000 The overall goal by June 30 is slightly more than 3,500,000 ior all of the services. The Navy and Air Force have been' reaching their manpower goals through voluntary enlistment. They have not resorted to the draft during the Korean war. 3 - - Large Part watchdog a hambone from the ice box, then carted off a green safe containing cash and valu ables. Mrs. Machaud said she thought the valuables she was carrying when she was arrested wre worm souu.uuu, out orris saiu he thought her guess was too high. Value Up to Expert "We recovered more jewelry than was reported stolen, Nor ris said. "We still don't know it's value. That's a question for expert jewelers." Others held .in the case were Mrs-, Leona Mae Giordano, 37, former Reno cocktail waitress, in Los Angeles; Louis Gizzigli, 44, in Reno; and John Triliegi, 37, Frank Sorrenti, 36, and Andrew Young, 46, in Milwaukee. from a welter of conflicting statements on backstage negoti ations for an alliance between the Russell camp and the astute New Yorker who was Democrat ic national chairman during the late President Roosevelt's first two campaigns. -Farley Approached Senate sources, who are in a position to have accurate infor mation, told reporters Sunday night that Farley had been "ap proached" by "certain senators" who are supporting Russell fcr (he Democratic nomination. These sources said Farley was asked to become Russell's cam paign manager, and that he promised to come to Washington this week to talk it over. Farley immediately denied that he had discussed such a proposition with Russell support ers. He added: "I am through managing cam paigns. I feel that I have served my time managing. But this is no reflection on Russell or any oth er presidential candidate." Russell himself said he does not know anything about parley becoming his campaign mana ger. But he said he has a high regard for Farley and would "welcome" his "support." , Parents Told Missing Pilot Killed in Action Mr. and Mrs. James C. Langs ton, 114 Tripp street, were noti fied this week-end by the war department that their son, Capt. Jack C. Langston, an F-84 fight er-bomber pilot, was killed in action in Korea on March 10. He previously was reported to be missing m action. Captain Langstan's wife, the former Miss Jacqueline Thur- man, lives with their two chil dren, Jolinda, 7, and Johnnie, 2b, at the home of her mother, Mrs. Clara Thurman. Trail. He was a graduate of Medford high school and has been in the ser vice since joining -the national guar.d- here in 1939. During World War II he was a radar in structor. Good Irishmen, and Irishmen Pro Jem, Wear Green Today E. C. (Jerry) Jerome, form er Big Eruption of the now defunct Crater club, and a man of note in the Shrine, and other activities, was among many who sported green ties today in honor of good St. Pat rick, patron saint of all Irish men and Irishmen-pr4em. Jerome arrived in Medford as a mere broth of a lad 40 years ago today, and he was wearing the same violently green tie thai he bad en to day. He's worn it. gossip says, each March 17th for the past 40 years. Tokyo UJ0 Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida was reelected Monday for another four-year term as president of the ruling Liberal party. MEDFORD lalud fin rOI IwH wm 46th Year 14 Pages 3n invitation to Allies Demand Capitals Be Open For Inspection Four Other Points Of Entry Named Panmunjom (U.R) Allied truce negotiators told the Com munists Monday they want the battle-torn cities of Seoul and Pyongyang, capitals of North and South Korea, open to inspection by neutral truce teams during the armistice. The United Nations also named four- other points of en try on each side it wants open to observe traffic of troops and military supplies. No Direct Reply The Communists, who had ex cluded the capital cities from their slate, made no direct re ply when Col. Andrew J. Kin ney asked whether the Reds ob jected to opening Pyongyang to neutral inspection. Meanwhile, the Communists charged that an Allied plane at tacked a prisoner of war camp in North Korea Sunday, wound ing an unnamed British soldier. Col. Tsai Cheng Wen, Chinese staff officer in prisoner discus sions, said in a formal protest that such "continual murder by your side of captured personnel of both sides makes people doubt whether your side has the sincerity to settle actively the question of prisoners." Tsai was referring also to two riots at Koje island in South Korea where Communist inter nees and solgiers have been killed. The UN command said the Communists improperly marked prisoner camps, but the Reds contended the strafed camp at Changsong bore "conspicuous" markings. On the question of ports of entry for neutral truce teams, the Allies submitted the narrfes of 10 Korean cities. The Allies suggested the Com munist ports of entry include Pyongyang, with its port 'city of Chinnampo; Sinuiju, Chong jin and Hamhung, with its port city of Hungnam. For the five Allied ports of entry in South Korea, the UN named Seoul, Kangnung, Kun- san, Taegu and Pusan. Emmanuel Seeks To Erase Conviction Olympia .U.R) Samuel Em manuel, resigned state land board secretary. Monday was to try to erase his March 7 convic tion in Thurston county Super ior Court on one count of asking a bribe. Emmanuel's attorneys, Lee Ol- well and Tracy Griffin, were scheduled to argue their motion for new trial before Judge Charles Wright. If denied a new trial. Griffin said the case would be appealed to the state supreme court. Philippine Senate Gets Jap Treaty; Defense Pact Manila (U.R) President EI pidio Quirino Monday submitted to the senate the Japanese peace treaty and the Philippines United States mutual defense pact. He asked their ratification as "steps of utmost importance to ward liquidating the old war and preventing a new one." Quirino said the two treaties "will restore peace and stability to the Pacific." Airline Hostess Freed On Homicide Charge St. Louis. Mo. (U.R) A pretty airline. hostess was freed Mon day by a coroner's jury which returned a verdict of justifiable homicide in the slaying of her married lover. The jury found that Miss Betty Lou Tracy, 21, shot Law rence E. Keil, 43-year-old super intendent of stations for Ozark Airlines, in self-defense after he threatened to torture her for associating with other men. Portland (UJ9 Mrs. Susan P. Emery, 90, eldest daughter of H. L. Pittock, founder of The Oregonian, died at Jier Mil- waukie. Ore., home Sunday night after an illness of several months following a stroke. ivT-A IT MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH -" -f'-": - - ? ' V 1 URGING approval of $7J billion foreign aid program. Mutual Security Administrator W. Av erell Harriman tells senators $1 billion Is planned for France and Britain. (International) Gault Doubts Blast Crater Source of Mystery Explosion Sheriff Howard Gault said to day that he believes the explo sion crater reported late Satur day in the Antioch district was not the source of the blast felt and heard in many parts of the county last Wednesday night. The sheriff inspected the blast hole, just north of the old Anti och cemetery on the Beagle road, over the week-end. He said it measured about five feci wide and about 344 feet deep. Dirt was scattered for 150 to 170 Lfeet around it. and it apparently was caused by a shell buried there during the days that Camp White was an Army training site. But Gault pointed out that the blast was heard from Shady Cove to south of Medford, and appeared to be of largely simi lar intensity in all areas. He said he doubted that a blast the ap parent size of the one which caused the crater would have rattled windows in Medford and Jacksonville. The sheriff was at a loss to explain the blast, but speculated that it might "have come from the sky," because of the area over which it was heard. Shock waves started by jet aircraft when they go through the sonic barrier at approxim ately the speed of sound have been known to be the cause of similar "mysterious" explosions in the past, and although Air Force sources here knew of no fast aircraft in the area at the time, speculation continued that there was one passing over, and that it was the cause of the widely-felt "explosion." " Wage Cut Proposed In Klamath Mills Portland (U.R) CIO wood workers said Monday they were taking a strike vote after the Pine Industrial Relations com mittee proposed in negotiations a wage cut of 10 cents an hour for employees In lumber and ply wood mills of the Klamath Falls area. Union research director Virfcil Burtz announced the strike vote and said the federal conciliation service had been called into the dispute. The union is asking a substantial wage boost, three ad ditional paid holidays, rest pe riods in mills and other benefits. Inome Tax Deadline At Midnight Tonight Washington (U.R) You have until midnight Monday to get your 1951 federal in come tax return in the maiL If you miss the deadline, you are liable to a penalty charge of six per cent of the total tax due. Those who have to file quar terly declarations of estimat ed Income also must get their first quarter 1952 forms in by midnight. The Internal Revenue bu reau will be buried under an avalanche of more, than 53. 000.000 returns by the rime the last ones are filed. More than half an estimated 30, 000.000 will get returns. Eisenhower Decision Date Undecided On Foreign Aid Measure Washington (U.R) The Senate Foreign Relations committee Monday postponed indefinitely a vote on the politically-delicate question of inviting Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower home to testify on President Truman's $7,900,000,000 foreign aid program. Chairman Tom Connally, D.-Tex., said no date was set for a decision. After a scheduled 15-minute closed session on the question stretched to nearly an hour, Connally told newsmen that a vote was postponed. Sen. Brien McMahon, D.-Conn., made the proposal that the supreme Allied commander in western Europe be invited home for his testimony. Connally said the postponement was decided in view of the fact that the committee wants to hear several other witnesses includ ing Eisenhower's deputy, Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther. Lodge, Brewster Reported Absent Two committee members Sens. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., R Mass., and Owen Brewster, R Me., were absent and Connally said that was another reason for not voting on the Eisenhower invitation. Connally said he did not know riow the absentees felt about it. However, Lodge has told newsmen he is strongly op posed to the idea. Brewster is believed to oppose it also. An informal poll in advance on the meeting indicated that at least seven of the 13 committee members opposed McMahon's idea. Several said it might be "embarrassing" to the general to plead for approval of the full program, in his role as North At lantic Treaty commander. Some congressmen backing him for the Republican presidential nomination want to trim the funds. Willing To Return At Eisenhower's headquar ters in Paris, an informed source said the general would be will ing to return if he felt that his testimony was necessary for the success of the foreign aid meas ure. But the informant said Eisenhower probably would stay in Paris if he felt that the invi tation was a political maneuver designed to embarrass him. Waiting to testify after the Eisenhower vote was mutual se curity Director W. Averell Har riman, who previously warned against any cuts. Harriman faced stern ques tioning by senators who were frankly, skeptical of his claim that the entire pYogram is "es sential" to the free world's de fense. Minnesolan Selected President at U of W Seattle (U.R) Dr. Henry Schmitz, 59, dean of the School of Agriculture and Forestry at the University of Minnesota, will take over as president of the University of Washington "sometime this summer," the board of regents said Monday. Schmitz, a 1915 graduate of Washington, was named to suc ceed Dr. Raymond B. Allen, who resigned January 1 to become director of the Psychological Strategy board. At the same time, the regents named Acting President H. P. Everest to the newly created post of vice-president. Canby,- Ore. (U.R) State po lice said Monday that Mrs. L. E. Parsons, wife of the manager or radio station KVAS, Astoria, suffered leg injuries, possible internal injuries and shock in an automobile collision , near here early Sunday. 33 Persons Taken From Basement Refuge After Being Trapped by Big Bishop. Calif. (U.R) Thirty- three cold but thankful persons who were marooned in a little hillside mining camp near here when a huge wall of snow cas caded atop them, were removed from their basement refuge early Monday in face of possible new slides. -Mill Crumpled The giant avalanche crumpled the tungsten mining mill Satur day, temporarily burying many residents and sweeping portions of their homes into the steep walled canyon. Miraculously there were no injuries from the thundering; snowslide. Three persons were in the hos pital, however, suffering frost bite after dragging themselves through three miles of deep snow drifts to escape another thunder ing wall of snow. ' United Proia Full Leased Wire 17, 1952 No. 311 Voter Registration Deadline Near; GOP Keeps Margin With less than a month re maining during which residents may register to vote in Oregon's primary election on May 16, the county clerk's office today re ported that Republican regis tered voters still outnumber Democrats. The margin is 1,661. Deadline for registration is April 15. Total number of voters reg istered is 27,574, or slightly less than the 28,500 on the books at the close of registration in November, 1950, just before the last general election. Deputy clerks pointed out that the pres ent total is unusually high for before a primary election, and apparently indicates consider able interest in the coming cam paign. Republicans - registered total 14,300; Democrats, 12,639, and miscellaneous registrations, 635. Places where residents may register to vote are scattered in all sections of the county, and anyone may register at .the county clerk's office in the court house. Big Truck Tax Group Files Incorporation Salem (U.R) A vigorous ef fort to gather information to support an increase in big truck rates passed by the 1951 legis lature was launched here Mon day when Transport Informa tion, Inc., with headquarters in Eugene, filed articles of incor poration. J. H. Gilbert, retired dean of liberal arts who was head of the university's' economics depart ment, told the United Press in Salem by phone from Eugene that the objective of the new or ganization is to support the leg islature and combat big truck interests who succeeded last summer in getting enough signa tures for referendum petitions to stay the 1951 act automatically until the people pass upon it at the general election next November. Weather FORECAST: Rain this evening and showers Tuesday. Low tonlgbt- 3. High Tuesday near SO. Temp. Highest Yesterday 54 Lowest this Morning 30 Mining camp residents, in cluding four children, were res cued from the big mill's cement basement, where they had taken refuge after the snow roared down the mountainside, were rescued by snowshoed deputy sheriffs and mountain climbers. Prayed for Hours "It was terrible we just huddled together in the mill of fice's basement and prayed hour after hour," said mine -superintendent Thomas Holmes.- "We knew all the time that another avalanche might hit us before rescue crews could arrive. "I was outside the mill when the avalanche struck," he con tinued. "I looked ' around and saw a wall of snow roaring down from the canyon walls. It hit the mill and the houses. J : "The bouses seemed to ex Vote Conservatives Believed Target In New Offensive Obstructionists To Fair Deal Eyed Washington (U.R) Presi dent Truman may shortly em bark on a congressional polit ical purge aimed during the 1952 campaign year at ultra-conservatives of both parties. Whether the president runs again, his associates at the win ter White House say he is deter mined to launch a new offen sive against the people he blames for obstructing the Fair DeaL George Seen Target Whether Mr. Tuman's "purge" will resemble the 1938 attempt by the late President Roosevelt, remains to be seen. But Mr. Tru man is expected to shoot at one of FDR's 1938 targets Sen. Wal ter F. George (D., Ga.), chair man of the Senate Finance com mittee. The president long has felt that some ranking Democrats, among them, George and Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D., Va.), are ideo logically inclined to the Re publican, rather than the Demo cratic party. Plans Opposed George recently said some things in Congress that firmed up the president's opinion of him and that opinion cannot be safely stated without the im munity attending Mr. Truman's public remarks. George, Byrd and Sen. Tom Connally (D., Tex.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, recently voiced strong words of opposition to Truman plans. . Consequently, the president, however a strong advocate of the two-party sys tem in the past, is represented authoritatively as wanting to publicly denounce the positions taken by these senators. Book Shows Opinions Whatever Mr. Truman's plans for the future, his "purge" will flare Tuesday when "Mr. Presi dent," a book by William Hill man, is published. The book consists largely of the president's intimate opinions of people and situations since 1945. There are sections of "Mr. President" which will have the effect of enraging such vener able senators as George, Byrd and Connally. And the president is expected to 'hear from them shortly. Winter Hanging On; Spring 4 Days Away BY UNITED PRESS Winter showed all signs Mon day of bowing out reluctantly in the Pacific Northwest this year. With spring only four days away, a gusty windstorm, laden with precipitation, moved in off the Pacific. Storm warnings were up from Tatoosh Island, Wash ington, to Astria, Ore., and small craft warnings were flying south of Astoria and in Washington's inland waters. The weather man forecast winds up to 40 miles an hour for western Oregon and Wash ington with strong gusty winds in east portions. ' Rain was forecast west of the Cascades Monday with showers, sometimes mixed with snow, east of the mountains. Both the wind and rain were expected to abate Tuesday. 6aof Certification Mailed to Counties Salem (U.R) A ballot certifi cation was mailed over tne week-end to every one of Ore gon's 36 counties for the May IS primary election. Dave O'Hara, head pi the state election bureau, said Monday. The certification contains the names of all candidates for of fice for each party. Ephrata, Wash. (U.R) Rep. Hugh B. Mitchell (D., Wash.) predicted Monday Congress will authorize Hells Canyon dam in this session. Avalanche plode. I started running toward my home, almost crazy because I was sure my wife and baby were killed," he said, and then told how he found his wife in the crushed home; dazed but un injured. "She pointed to a 15-foot wall of snow and said, 'our baby is under that'," he related. "We thought it was hopeless but we heard our dogs whimper ing somewhere at the bottom of the pile, and we knew then there was a chance the baby might be alive, too." Two hours later, with the help of miners, the frantic parents found their youngster buried at the bottom of the pile of snow and debris. "Michael was wedged between the dogs. All were alive and un injured," he said.
