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MEDFORD, OREfcON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1952
No. 313
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like in 2nd IPIae
By Record Number
if Write-in Votes
General Runs Close to
Stassen in Minnesota
Minneapolis UR) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose name
was not on the ballot, swept to an amazing second-place position
Wednesday in the Minnesota presidential primary on a record
wave of write-in-votes.
He ran close on the heels of favorite son Harold E. Stassen,
former Minnesota governor whose name was on the Republican
ballot, and polled nearly half as many write-in votes in the Demo
cratic primary as President Truman di d. Washington observers
said Eisenhower won a great moral victory.
Returns from 2,519 of the state's 3,769 precincts gave Stassen
109,627 and Eisenhower 96,647.
In the Democratic primary, Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, D.
Minn., a stand-in for President Truman, rolled to an easy victory.
Returns from 2,422 precincts gave Humphrey 88,314 votes.
Sen. Estes Kefauver, D.-Tenn., drew 17,831 write-in-votes. Presi
dent Truman received 2,796 write-in- votes and Eisenhower 1,314
writeins on the Democratic side.
Edward C: Slettedahl, a St. Paul school teacher running as a
stand-in for Gen.. Douglas MacArthflr, conceded defeat. He polled
fewer votes than Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio, whose name was
General Declines
Comment on Result
On Minnesota Vote
Paris (U.R) Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower declined immediate
comment Wednesday on his
strong write-in showing in the
Minnesota primary, but he was
believed to be keeping a close
watch on the returns.
A general on Eisenhower's
staff at supreme Atlantic pact
headquarters here sent out these
instructions:
Comment Requests Ignored
"Keep shoving those bulletins
down to me as fast as they
come."
Eisenhower left his suburban
home at 8:30 a.m. (2:30 a.m.
EST) and drove through a driz
zling rain to his headquarters,
where he waved aside all re
quests for comment on the Min
nesota primary.
His schedule Wednesday call
ed for a full round of confer
ences on "strictly military af
fairs," an aide said.
Surprise Confessed
Despite Eisenhower's political
aloofness, some of his staff offi
cers freely confessed their sur
prise at the general's showing in
Minnesota.- - - - -'"
There was considerable more
Interest in this primary than in
the New Hampshire Republican
race, where delegates pledged to
Eisenhower won handily over
those of U. S. Sen. Robert A.
Taft.
- "This is amazing and incred
ible," a source very close to
Eisenhower said.
Peace Seen as Key
To HST's Decision
Key West, Fla. (U.R) Na
tional Democratic Chairman
Frank E. McKinney said Wed
nesday after lengthy talks with
President Truman that peace in
Korea would materially reduce
the chances of the chief execu
tive seeking reelection.
McKinney did not profess to
know what Mr. Truman's final
decision would be, but he hoped
for definite word from the Presi
dent by May 5. when the Demo
cratic National executive com
mittee meets in Washington.
McKinney told reporters he
did not believe the President
would be ready to make his an
nouncement by March 29, date
of the national Democratic Jefferson-Jackson
day dinner in
Washington.
Seattle (U.R) The Navy
transport Gen. M. M. Patrick is
Hiia htr at Q a m Thtirsriav
with 601 passengers from the
Far East, the Navy reported. 1
State Goes Into Safecracking Business;
Peels Wav Into Big Land Office Vault
Salem (U.R) The state of Ore
gon went into the safecracking
business Wednesday and was so
successful that not a paper in its
land office vault was scorched
by the torch.
It all started Tuesday noon
when a land office employee
inadvertently closed the 16-ton
door to the large vault which
occupies the northeast corner of
the office, on the first floor of
the capitol.
Checker Takes Off
Robert Spain of Portland, with
the Yale Lock people in the
Northwest, was making his an
nual inspection of the time locks
in he vault. Come lunch time,
he took off, with all four of the
time locks removed.
The vault was closed and no
one could open it. The vaults
such as the one in the land office
here are so fixed that when all
the time locks are removed, it
automatically locks and not even
the company or the most skillful
yegg in the country could open
It
not on the ballot.
Senator Taft Wins
19.128 Write-in Votes
Returns from 2,422 precincts
gave Taft 19,128 write-ins.
Slettedahl polled 18,128.
Other write-ins on the Repub
lican side: Gov. Earl Warren of
California, 4,713; MacArthur,
1,329; Kefauver, 37; Mr. Tru
man 19; Humphrey 4; and Fed
eral Judge Luther Youngdahl,
former Minnesota governor, 179.
Other write-ins in the Demo
cratic primary: Gov. Adlai Stev
enson of Illinois, 18; Sen. Paul
Douglas of Illinois, 53; Sen. Rob
ert Kerr of Oklahoma, 4; Mac
Arthur, 29; Taft, 32; Warren, 95;
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, 7; Eisen
hower, 1,314; Sen. John Bricker,
R-O., 1; and Chief Justice Fred
Vinson, 8.
Stassen Gets 28 Delegates
Stassen apparently won the
state's 28 convention delegates,
which must vote for him on the
first ballot in the national con
vention. But Eisenhower's sup
porters, who had hoped for only
50,000 votes after a bustling
four-day campaign for write-ins,
were elated.
Stassen, in Milwaukee where
he is campaigning for the Wis
consin primary April 1, said he
was "very pleased with the re
sults" of the Minnesota primary.
Stassen Gratified
He said he was gratified by
his lead over Eisenhower and
said there were "indications" he
would pick up some Eisenhower
support in Wisconsin.
Taft, also campaigning in
Wisconsin, said at Menomonie
that the results of the primary
were a "definite rebuff to Stas
sen. He said he felt that Eisen
hower's large write-in was the
result of an "all-out campaign"
waged by the general's backers.
He said his supporters made no
effort for a large write-in. .
Record Write-ins
Never before had such a rec
ord of write-in ballots swept the
state. ...
The 26 Democratic delegates
will go to Humphrey, who has
promised to turn them over to
President Truman if the Chief
Executive seeks reelection.
Otherwise he will swing them
to another candidate. He ias in
dicated that candidate might be
Kefauver.
McAllister Appointed
Eisenhower Chairman
Attorney William McAllister
was named chairman of the Med
ford Eisenhower for president
committee today by William L.
Phillips, Salem, state chairman
of the pro-Eisenhower organiza
tion. Lloyd Selby, Ashland, has
been named to head the general's
committee there, Phillips sa'id.
McAllister, a candidate for
election as a delegate to the na
tional Republican convention, is
a former legislator and speaker
of the state house of representa
tives
The state of Oregon could not.
Neither could Spain. .
Shortly after the state house
closed at five o'clock the state's
safe crackers went to work.
They used a jack hammer to rip
through the first layer of con
crete, then applied torches to cut
through the steel in the rein
forced concrete. Once they got
through the more than a foot of
reinforced concrete they were
faced with an inch of solid bes
semer steel. -.'.'
Drilling Didn't Work
Drilling was started at first,
because of fear that a torch
might set fire to the valuable
and irreplaceable records inside.
But drilling couldn't cut it, and
the crew, guided by a plan
showing where contents were in
side the vault, started the slow
and delicate process of cutting
through the steel. They made it,
shoved a filing cabinet out of the
way with a rod, and completed
the job, making a hole roughly
11 by 14 inches. Through this
Spain crawled and after a few
srv? . . . . .-jawk'w rM
RIVERS OF WATER flow In Los Angeles streets during heavy rain storm which caused storm
sewers to back up. This view of downtown area was at Olympic boulevard looking southward down
Hope street. Thousands of automobiles were marooned by floods. (International Soundphoto)
Snow Halts
Highway, Rail Travel
Br UNITED PRESS
One of the worst blizzards of
the winter halted rail and high
day travel over the Sierra Ne
vada range Wednesday while
rains lashed the Midwest in the
wake of a series of tornadoes as
winter made its last official cur
tain call.
The Southern Pacific railroad
said it was forced to suspend
temporarily freight and passen
ger service over Donner Sum
mit in the Sierra Nevada moun
tains and highway crews strug
gled against the mounting snows
to reach an isolated resort area.
The storms caused four deaths
in the Far West.
Tornadoes in Mississippi
A storm center gathering
strength in the Midwest Tues
day night unleased tornadoes in
the Mississippi valley.
A twister ripped a quarter
mile wide path through Farm
ington, Mo., injuring one wom
an and tearing the roofs off
several houses.
Schools' Budgets
Set at $M Million
Tentative budgets totalling
$1,595,990.83 have been sub
mitted to the county rural
school board by 23 second and
third class districts, the county
school superintendent's office re
ported today. The budgets, which
must be approved by the .rural
board, call for $925,658.17 to be
raised by taxes.
. The list of districts include all
those in the county with the ex
ceptions of Medford, Central
Point and Ashland, which are
first class districts.
The districts estimate they
will have cash incomes totalling
$670,332.66, most of which
would come from state and
county funds.
The rural board will hold the
first in a series of meetings on
the budgets tomorrow in the
county school superintendent's
office. April 10 is the deadline
for notifying local school dis
tricts of budget changes contem
plated by the rural board and
hearings will be scheduled be
tween April 10 and 20.
Marshfield, Central
Win Tourney Games
Eugene (U.R) Marshfield
whipped Scappoose 71-61 Wed
nesday to open the second day
of action in the 1952 Oregon
state high school class "A" bas
ketball tournament here.
Central Catholic of Portland,
a pre-tournament favorite, de
feated The Dalles 75-64.
minutes of expert manipulation,
opened the vault door from the
inside.
If you don't think that vault
door is impregnable to any as
sault this side of the little men
from Mars, look at this The 16
ton door is 17 inches thick. On
the outside is bessemer steel.
Then a . layer of . much tougher
tool steel. Then a nine inch slab
of copper alloy . which simply
cannot be burned. And after that
comes carbon steel. .......
Used Side Door
It was no dice going in the
front door. So the highway de
partment safe crackers went in
the side, just around the corner
of the vault from the vault door
and a couple of feet from the
floor.
The only incident to the big;
blow was that the sensitive
tive burglar alarm wires were:
set off by the operation and for !
half an hour the bells chimed
in staccato around the capitol
like a 10-decimel version of the
Bella of St Mary a. .
Sierra
Another tornado damaged 25
to 30 buildings in Kane, 111., 85
miles to the north.
Flood Preparations Made
The Southwest, meanwhile,
made preparations for possible
emergency flood conditions as
record snows piled up in the
New Mexico and southern Col
orado mountains.
The late winter snows, com
ing on winter's last official day,
dumped 300 inches or about 25
feet of snow in the Donner Sum
mit region of the Sierra Nevada
mountains.
Highway crews fought
through the mounting drifts to
reach 115 persons trapped in the
June lake resort region.
Fuel Supply Low
The victims were said to be
running "dangerously" low on
fuel and a veteran highway
crewman said clearing the roads
was like "dipping water out of
a lake."
The deaths were caused by
the blizzard and accompanying
snowslides. Two men were kill
ed when a 20-foot deep slide
rumbled down a mountain and
buried a power company proT
ject in the Owens river gorge.
Couple Asphyxiated
And a man and his wife ap
parently were asphyxiated when
they left the motor running in
their car after it stalled in a
snowdrift.
Authorities in Utah and Idaho
said fresh snows were adding to
near record snow falls and in
creasing the danger of spring
floods.
Some canyons near Salt Lake
City already contained five
times as much snow as usual.
High Court Kicks
Lobbyist Ruling
Washington (U.R) Congress
figured Wednesday a federal
court may have knocked the
props from under a 1946 law re
quiring lobbyists to register.
But there was no immediate
rush to repair the damage.
Members generally felt that a
special three-man district court
here had destroyed the effective
ness of the lobbyist control act
with a decision Tuesday which
held that the penalties provided
for violators are unconstitutonal.
However, they noted that the
Justice Department has said it
will appeal the adverse ruling
to the Supreme Court. They felt
Congress should wait and see
how this comes out, before doing
too much worrying.
UN Battles Russia's
Germ Warfare Charge
United Nations, N.Y5 (U.R)
The United States squared off
against Russia Wednesday in
the United Nations on the Com
munist charge that American
troops have been waging germ
warfare in. Korea and China.
U. S. Representative Benja
min V. Cohen was expected, to
make a full-dress reply to the
charge of Soviet delegate Jacob
A. Malik when the UN's 12
nation disarmament commission
meets. . -
Malik, parroting the propa
ganda of the Chinese Commu
nist and North Korean radio out
lets, made his charge last week
at the first working session of
the new commission set up to in
vestigate ways and means of
ending the world's armament
race.
Weather
FORECAST: Decrniinf mew
showers and continued cool
through Thursday. Low to
night 2. High Thursday a J.
Temp.
Hichest Yesterday 4
Lowest this Morning 31
Free to 4:3 a.m. Today .IS
Winter Keeps Grip
On Rogue Valley;
Snow Records Fall
Despite the fact that the
World Almanac says spring is
due in Medford at 8:14 a.m. to
morrow, winter was still stick
ing around today.
Heavy snows continued to fall
in the mountains, piling up new
record-breaking depths at Crater
Jake, Diamond lake and Lake
O' Woods, and covering moun
tain highways with enough
snow to make all motorists use
chains.
In Medford, more than an inch
fell at the weather bureau at
the airport, with more at sur
rounding elevations. Several
inches fell in Ashland.
Chains Required
State police said that chains
are required for travel over the
Siskiyous, the Greensprings,
Sexton mountain (10 inches of
new snow) and Oregon moun
tain passes. Twelve inches of
new snow were measured at
Cave Junction.
Crater Lake National park
headquarters reported that an
all-time record depth of 210
inches (17'4 feet) of snow won
the . ground at park . headquar
ters, and presumably the depth
is greater at the lake's rim.
Snow survey radio reports
from Diamond lake said that the
current storm has piled up 18
inches of new snow, containing
1.4 inches of water, bringing the
total snowpack to -108 inches at
the resort, a ; new record. The
temperature there this morning
was 19 degrees above zero.
New Records Told
At Lake O' Woods, the total
depth is now 65 inches of snow
on the ground, 10 inches of it
from the new storm, also an all
time record depth.
On the Siskiyou summit, the
51.4 inches of snow measured
there last Saturday contained
19.9 inches of water, compared
to an average for past years of
3.4 inches.
The Diamond lake snow water-content
of 38.5 inches com
pares to an average of 19 inches,
and the Lake O' Woods water of
22.5 inches compares to the aver
age of 9.3 inches.
UN Speeds Inoculation
Of Korean Civilians
Washington (U.R) The Unit
ed Nations has adopted stern
measures to prevent the deadly
epidemics sweeping the Commu
nist forces from hitting South
Korea, it was revealed Wednes
day. UN medical teams are work
ing a top speed to inoculate
South Korean civilians and
thousands of refugees against
cholera, typhus, smallpox and
other diseases.
So far, officials said, they have
prevented serious outbreaks. The
Situation is far grimmer behind
the Communist lines.
Secret reports reaching the Al
lies indicate the Chinese and
North Korean Reds have been
hit hard by cholera, typhus, and
even the dreaded bubonc plague
which' killed millions during the
middle ages.
Grants Pass Man Dies
In Car-Truck Collision
Selma, Calfi. 4U.R) Alvin Al
fred Brown, 39, of 907 Western
street, Grants Pass, Ore., was
killed Tuesday when his car' and
an oil truck collided at an inter
section about 10 miles south
west of here. ...
Highway patrolmen reported
the driver of the truck, James
Thacher, about 50, of Caruthers,
suffered head injuries when his
truck overturned after the col
lision. ;
Portland (U.R) Fremond W.
Merewether of Portland Wed
nesday was named manager of
the Bureau of Land Manage
ment's office at Spokane, Wash.,
by Regional Administrator Ros-
coe E. Belt
White House Said
Determined To
Hold Price Line
Stabilization Board
Remains in Session
Washington (U.R) A high
government official said Wed
nesday he is "very much afraid"
there will be a nationwide steel
strike.
The official, who asked that
he not be named, said the gov
ernment's top mobilization eche
lons, including the While House,
are "determined" to hold the
price line at all costs. That
means the steel industry cannot
get the price boosts it says it
must have to grant a wage in
crease. WSB in Session
The disclosure came as the
Wage Stabilization Board prom
ised to remain in session through
the night if necessary to draft
recommendations for settling the
contract battle between the pow
erful CIO United Steclworkers
and the industry.
The recommendations will not
be binding on either side. Steel
company officials have hinted
strongly they will reject the pro
posals if they fail to pry from
the government a much bigger
price boost than the $2, or so a
ton permitted by the so-called
Capehart formula.
At the same time, the union
has warned that it will strike
unless a "satisfactory" agree
ment it reached by midnight
Sunday. However, it meets
Thursday to consider the gov
ernment s request for a third
postponement of the deadline,
this tune until April 8.
The union wants an 18i cents
hourly wage increase and fringe
benefits costing as much again
for its 650,000 members in basic
steel, as well as a union shop
ana other non-economic con
tract improvements.
It stands to win board support
tor at least a good part of these
demands. It was disclosed Tues
day that industry members of
the board have set nine cents for
wages and 4.7 cents for fringe
benefits as the departure point
for bargaining with the public
and labor delegations.
Russell Starts
National Campaign
Washington (U.R) Sen. Rich
ard B. Russell opened his cam
paign headquarters Wednesday
and said he thinks he has a bet
ter chance to win the Democratic
presidential nomination than any
Democrat now in the field.
The Georgia Democrat reiter
ated his belief that President
Truman will not be a candidate
for renomination. He said the
chief executive's wthdrawai
from the Californian primary
Tuesday supported that belief.
Russell opened his campaign
headquarters in two suites of the
Mayflower hotel with a news
campaign in every sense."
The Georgian, leader of the
Southern bloc in the Senate,
said, however, that his accept
ance of speaking engagements
would be limited by his responsi
bilities in the Senate.
American Casualties
In Korea Total 106,671
Washington (U.R) The De
fense Department reported
Wednesday that American bat
tle casualties in Korea through
March 14 now total 106,671, an
increase of 213 over last week's
report.
The total represents casualties
whose next of kin have been no
tified through March 14. Since it
requires one to three weeks to
notify next of kin, it does not
represent all casualties through
that date.
Portland (U.R) Dr. Earl W.
Anderson of Ohio State Univer
sity Wednesday was named
executive secretary and research
director of the Oregon teacher
education survey, sponsored by
the Oregon State Board of
Higher Education.
Portland (U.R) The Oregon
Motor association opened its!
47th annual meeting here Wed-'
nesday by electing directors.
BULLETINS
Washington (U.R) The Ag
riculture department reported
Wednesday that farmers in
tend to plant an estimated 83,
928,000 acres of corn this year.
This is one per cent above last
year's planted acreage, but is
below the department goal of
89,000,000 acres.
Jacksonville, Fla. TJ.R)
Two women golfers were kill
ed Wednesday before they
knew what struck them when
a flaming Navy plane glided
silently out of the skies and
crashed on the seventh fair
way of a swanky country club
course.
The victims were identified
as Mrs. Brady S. Johnston,
wife of a prominent Florida
dairy company executive, and
Mrs. William E. Dempsey,
wife of a construction com
pany vice president.
County Plans Work
On Six Bridges;
To Cost $150,000
Six major bridge construction
jobs, with an estimated total
cost of about $150,000, will be
started in Jackson county as
soon as weather permits, County
Engineer Paul Rynning said to
day. In the largest job, a disman
tled 200-foot span of the old
Bybee bridge will be set up
across Big Butte creek on Cob
leigh road about four miles from
Butte Falls. The bridge will re
place a wooden bridge which
now crosses the creek. New ap
proaches will be built and three
quarters of a mile of road will
be changed. This work is ex
pected to be completed this fall.
Others Planned
County workmen will also
erect treated timber bridges
across the middle fork of the
Rogue river between Prospect
and Butte Falls; across Big
Butte creek above Butte Falls;
across Pleasant creek three
miles above Wimer, and across
Antelope creek on Meridian
road. Materials are already on
the sites of the Pleasant creek
and Antelope creek bridges,
Rynning stated.
Work on a reinforced concrete
bridge across Bear creek on Oak
street in Ashland will be started
about April 1, the county en
gineer stated. The bridge is to
be constructed by R. E. Meade
company, Grants Pass con
tractors, and is the only one of
the six not being erected by
county workers.
Numerous smaller bridge proj
ects are also scheduled for com
pletion during the summer, Ryn
ning stated.
Road Conditions
Chains are required on all
mountain passes in southern
Oregon, state police warned
motorists today. New snow
ranging in depth up to more
than a foot covered highways
in mountainous areas.
Planners Recommend Street
Opening Jobs
The Medford city council last
night accepted a recommenda
tion from the planning commis
sion that Eighth street be opened
for traffic between Fir and Front
streets across the Southern Pa
cific railroad tracks. No imme
diate action on the matter was
taken by the council.
Petitions favoring opening the
street, reported to contain the
names of some 200 persons,
were submitted to the- council
at a meeting earlier this month.
At that time Mayor D. L. Flynn
and various council members in
dicated that there was no oppo
sition to opening the street. They
stated, however, that the project
would be delayed until a method
of financing It could be found.
May Open Others
The planning commission rec
ommendation also included the
opening of Beekman street to
Stewart avenue and the exten
sion of Winchester street from
Peach to Newtown streets.
In other business brought be
fore the council, City Superin-1
Negotiators Near
Final Agreement
On Ports Issue
Role of Russia as
Inspector Debated
Panmunjom (U.R) United
Nations and Communist nego
tiators on Korean truce ground
rules were in virtual agreement
Wednesday on the last of their
secondary problems ports of
entry.
They were fast weeding out
side issues that would leave them
with only the major deadlocked
question of Russia's nomination
as a "neutral nation" inspector.
Proposal Brings Progress
A modified UN proposal cover
ing the ports of entry question
brought progress today in the 53
minute truce rules session.
Col. Andrew J. Kinney walk
ed out of the tent to report "it
appears that we are in agree
ment on the better part of the
ports question."
Next door, the session on pris
oners of war broke up for the
day after 2 minutes. Staff offi
cers reported "no progress" in
their efforts to Jnrther clarify
the opposing views. Both sides
have asked questions neither
have received answers.
Compromise Made
Brig. Gen. William P. Nuck
ols, spokesman for the UN truce
delegation, said the Allies had
compromised in the ports of en
try debate by dropping their de
mand for inclusion of Pyong
yang, the Red capital, and Seoul,
the Allied-held South Korean
capital.
Faced with a Communist re
fusal to permit neutral truce in
spection teams to enter Pyong
yang, the UN suggested instead
that the airfields and seaport
outside each capital be classed
a port of entry open to inspec
tion. Would Give Reds Ports
This would give the Commun
ists as approved entry . ports
Chinnampo, the west coast port
for Pyongyang, and Pyongyang's
airports; Sinuiju, on the Man
churian frontier at the- mouth
of the Yalu river; Manpojin,- far
ther up the Yalu near the nor
thern tip of Korea; Hamhung
and its adjacent east coast port
of Hungnam, and Chongjin, on
the northeast coast.
The allies would get Inchon,
west coast port of Seoul, and the
Seoul airfields; Kunsan, farther
south on the west coast; Pusan,
at the southeast corner of Ko
rea; Kangnung, farther up the
east coast, and Taegu, an inland
airport center.
RELEASED
Ernest Emery LaDuke, 27,
Talent, was released on his own
recognizance Tuesday pending
sentencing on a charge of burg
lary not in a dwelling, according
to the office of District Attorney
Paul Haviland. LaDuke earlier
this week pleaded guilty to the
charge, which involved entry of
Bryant's Key shop, 114 North
Front street, on March 12.
to Councilmen
tendent Robert Duff reported
that, because of limited city
money available for use for
street paving projects, the city
must restrict future petitions
which require participation of
city funds.
Duff suggested that the city
notify petitioners that the most
recently received petitions, as
well as those received in the fu
ture, may have to be carried over
into the 1953-54 budget period.
This would mean that the streets
could be paved in the summer
of 1953, the city superintendent
stated.
Deadline Extended
The council approved an ex
tension of a deadline for negoti
ating with property owners in
country club park addition for
right of ways needed for instal-
Councilmen also voted to au
thorize the city superintendent's
office to proceed with prepara- ,
tion of plans and specifications
for the municipal airport build
ing. (Sea story on Pag' S, Sec. 2.)