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Ufcliraul From Eton Jersey Piresieiiial Primary lae Eisenhower Free To Return at Any Time, Truman Says Korea Won't Affect Reelection Plans Key West, Fla. !U.R) Pres ident Truman said Thursday that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is at liberty to return from Europe at any time he deems it safe and proper. Thus the President left square ly up to the General when he leaves his post as European de fense commander to enter Re publican politics actively. Corrects Impression Mr. Truman at his first meet ing with reporters in three weeks bluntly corrected the im pression left by Democratic Chairman Frank E. McKinney that the President would not .seek reelection if there is peace in Korea. Korea enters not into the pol itics of this country at all, the President said when asked about McKinney's statement of Wednesday. Mr. Truman also said Korea has no bearing whatever on what he, himself, may decide to do. Mr. Truman said he had told Eisenhower personally that he could use his own judgment about returning to this country; that the general could come back whenever it was proper and safe in his own judgment. Praises Eisenhower's Job Mr. Truman praised the job Eisenhower is doing in Europe, but said he was not interested in political fortunes of Eisen hower, who showed imposing strength in New Hampshire and Minnesota Republican presiden tial preference primaries. The president's apparent com plete rejection of McKinney's thesis that peace in Korea and Mr. Truman's plans for reelec tion are hooked together came as a surprise to newsmen. . Korea Not in Politics Wednesday as he wound up three days of talks -with the President, the chairman told how he got the impression from the President that the chief execu tive would not run again if a peace settlement is achieved fairly soon. Asked whether McKinney ac curately reflected his views, the President without mentioning the chairman's name said twice that Korea did not enter into the politics of the nation and was without any bearing on his own plans. Burns Cause Death Of Ashland Gir! Ashland Loretta Mitchell, 8, died Wednesday afternoon at the Ashland General hospital from first degree burns suffered Tues day evening. She was the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mitch ell, 332 Patterson street, Ash land. Reports of the accident said the child's skirt caught fire when she leaned over a wood stove while heating water to wash her play dishes. Her mother was sit ting in the same room and at tempted to beat out the blaze, but the child ran from the house, causing the flames to en velop her entire body. Ray Mitchell, her uncle, arrived while the mother was attempt ing to roll the child in a pool of water. He wrapped her in t blanket and took her to the hospital. Radio Hiqhli Radio station KYJC (1230 kc.) will broadcast the Acad emy Award dinner from Hol lywood between 9:30 and 10:30 p. m. today. ' State Crops Suffer Little Damage During Mild Winter Corvallis (U.R) Oregon farmers welcomed the first day of spring Thursday on a decid edly optimistic note. A survey of county extension agents by Oregon State college showed that a mild, open win ter coupled with good to excel ent irrigation prospects, partic ularly in Western Oregon re sulted in bright crop prospects. Little Crop Damage "So far there has been little winter injury to field crops, tree fruits, nuts and berries," said O. E. Mitchell, Linn county exten sion agent "This is far differ ent from a year ago when sev eral thousand acres of field crops on hill soils were frozen out." Willamette valley pastures were reported "far ahead" 4of a year ago. Agents reported a different story near the Idaho line and in some livestock sections of East ern Oregon. "Hay supplies are the lowest in recent history," said William Farrell, Grant county. Farrell said grass was just United Press Toll Leaied Wire 46th Year 20 Pages - Minnesota Vote Will Bring Study Of Past Decisions Statement Follows President's Remarks Paris (U.R) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower said Thursday that his showing in the Minnesota primary forces him "to re examine my personal position and past decisions" on his can didacy for the Republican nom ination for president. He issued a statement on the situation shortly after President Truman said at Key West that Ike is free to go home to cam paign at any time he deems it safe and proper. Minnesota Amain Pressed by correspondents for a statement after his supporters in the Minnesota primary elec tion gave him more than 107,000 write-in votes Eisenhower said: "I did not imagine that so many voters in Minnesota would make me a write-in candidate and, according to newspaper ac counts, some of them had trouble with my name. "I count it an additional com pliment that some refused to be dismayed by the long Eisen hower name and simply wrote in 'Ike.' " General Astonished Eisenhower said he was "as tonished by ; the showing his supporters gained him in their write-in ballot campaign, organ ized almost on the eve of the election. "You gentlemen probably realize how astonished I was by the result of the Minnesota pri mary," Eisenhower said. "The mounting numbers of my fellow citizens who are vot ing to make me the Republican nominee are forcing me to re examine my personal position and past decisions." Gen. Eisenhower said on Jan. 7 that he would not take part in politics before the Republican convention July 7. Greeters Will Accept Bids for McKay Dinner The greeters committee of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce this morning receiv ed the names of 500 members of the chamber who will be con tacted regarding reservations for a dinner meeting Monday at the Rogue Valley Country club. Featured speaker at the meeting will be Gov. Douglas McKay. Chamber representatives said today that some requests from members for reservations have already been received. Governor McKay will speak on "Oregon, Today and To morrow." Also on the program will be Chamber President Jor gen Jorgensen, who will give a brief report on chamber activ ities. beginning to show green in the lower ranges and estimated it would be another month before the snow would be gone in the higher elevations. - W. T. Frost, Oregon snow sur vey leader at Medford, told W. B. Tucker, Jackson county agent, that the state's 1952 wa ter supply outlook varies from "good to excellnet," depending on location. Frost said record stream flow with accompanying high water dangers would likely occur in many areas as a result of the heavy snow cover. Spud Acreage To Increase C. A. Henderson, Klamath county, said potato-growers in his section estimated a $2,000, 000 loss from potato price roll back, but added that Klamath's spud acreage would increase 20 per cent or more over 1951'and may reach 20,000 acres. ' Clifford Cordy, Jackson coun ty extension horticulture agent, said fruit trees there wintered in good shape and Lee R. Fos ter, Hood River county, report ed a mild winter from the stand point of tree injury. MEDFORD, OREGON, 9 examine PSDftDDii' CAUGHT CARRYING LOOT-Jail matron Mrs. G. F. Newman attempts to comfort hysterical Mrs. Marie Jeanne d'Arc Macbaud (right), reputed "mastermind" of a $1,350,000 burglary at Reno, Nev. Mrs. Machaud was carrying $500,000 worth of the loot 'when arrested in Flagstaff, Ariz. Spring Makes Debut; Winter Grips: Nation By UNITED PRESS It's spring again. The new season officially ar rived at 8:15 a.m. PST when the sun crossed the equator into the northern hemisphere. But 71-foot snows, threats of flood, a ' state of emergency in the snowbound Far West re mained to show that winter was nowhere near ready to let go its hold on some parts of the nation. Fishermen on Ice Floe Three Labrador seal fisher men rode a runaway ice floe into the Atlantic ocean and authori- Record snow depth at head quarters of Crater Lake Na tional park reached 221 inches with the additional fall yester day, it was reported this morn ing. The former record was 208 inches set in March. 1938. Snowfall since the first snow last autumn has totaled 772 inches. Average snowfall is 6222 inches. ties held little hope for their early rescue. The men were without food when their floe broke away. The Far West caught the worst of winter's stubborn refusal to give way to the infant spring. Gov. John W. Bonner, of Mon tana, said President Truman has declared an 8.000,000-acre area in eastern Montana a "disaster area" eligible for $25,000 in fed eral funds. The,, money would be used to clear snowbound roads. Nevada in Winter's Grip A state of emergency was pro claimed in Nevada by Gov. Charles Russell as paralyzing blizzards pounded the state with what was called "the worst win ter in 60 years." So far, the accumulation of snow reached a record-breaking 71-feet at the Sierra snow labor atory at Soda Springs, Calif., in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Russell said the snows threat ened 200.000 cattle and 400,000 sheep with starvation. The Southern Pacific Railroad, however, expected to send four westbound and two eastbound passenger trains across blizzard- swept Donner Summit Thursday while highway crews still strug gled to open the drifted roads. North Dakota Snowbound - Southwestern North Dakota was still snowbound and a fed eral engineer recommended an allotment of $100,000 to clear several hundred miles of roads to stricken families; A new threat was posed in North Dakota when moderately THURSDAY, MARCH 20, ' heavy wet snow began falling late Wednesday. New Mexico authorities were alerted to prepare for possible emergency flood work. Authorities warned that snows in the northern New Mexico and southern Colorado mountains stood at record depths and the danger of thawing and possible rain made for a potentially se vere flood threat? Elsewhere across the nation, more seasonable weather greeted the new season. Fair at San Francisco The vernal equinox brought with it the first of fair weather forecast in two weeks at San Francisco, Calif. Winter paid its official fare well with snow, slush and rain in New York Wednesday and was to be followed Thursday by fair skies and mild temperatures. Wednesday's storm unloaded an inch of slushy snow in the city's suburbs and forced cancellation of 35 flights out of LaGuardia airport. From Boston to Atlanta, Ga., the forecast was for clear wea ther and at Washington eager gardeners were reported already spading the damp earth for the early plantings. Deliberate Wrecker Of 6. P. Cars Sought Grants Fftss (U.R) Police Thursday were looking for a motorist who apparently delib erately rammed 24 parked auto mobiles. Reward totaling S90 has been posted for information leading to arrest of the person who drove down Grants Pass streets Monday night crashing into cars parked in front of their owners' homes. Police said appearance of the damaged cars indicated the driv er had deliberately turned his vehicle into them. Chief of Police Carl M. Dallas posted a $25 reward for appre hension of the culprit and angry victims added $65 to the amount Weather FORECAST: Clearing fcyUfht. becoming fogfjr with low vereast early Friday. Fair Friday afternoon. Low to. night 2S-ZS. High Friday St. Highest Yesterday 42 Lowest this Morning J Free to 4:3 a.m. Today M Tribune Halted Pi mi full Leased Wire 1952 No. 314 Board Chairman Collapses During Steel Negotiations Temporary Delay In Strike Foreseen Washington !U.R) Presi dent Truman Thursday called Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson to an emergency con ference at Key West as union leaders deferred decision on whether to call a national steel strike after midnight Sunday. There was a chance that the Wage Stabilization Board might issue recommendations for settling the critical steel dispute before Wilson takes off tomorrow for his meeting ' with Mr- Truman in Florida. Washington (U.R) The Wage Stabilization Board re cessed its marathon discussion of the steel dispute early Thurs day when Chairman Nathan P. Feinsinger collapsed from fa tigue. Feinsinger, who had been working day and night in an ef fort to settle the bitter contro versy, collapsed while confer ring with labor members of the board. Condition Not Serious A physician said his condition was not serious. A member of the board said he was sure the 49-year-old chairman would be able to at tend the next meeting of the panel scheduled for late Thurs day afternoon. Feinsinger had planned to continue the all-night session until the board reached a deci sion on the recommendation of its public menfbers for a pack age increase of about 20 cents an houc including wage boosts and fringe benefits. May Bring Postponement Observers said the delay caused .by Feinsinger's collapre may result in at least a tempor ary postponement of the CIO United Steelworkers strike, scheduled, to begin at midnight Sunday. The union's executive board was scheduled to meet Thursday morning and its 170-man wage policy committee in the after noon to consider the public mem bers' recommendations and Fein singer's earlier plea for a new strike postponement. Board Vice Chairman Fred crick H. Bullen told newsmen i the public members had "some hope of getting together' with labor and industry, but that "no conclusions' were ready to be made. Astoria, The Dalles Tournament Winners Eugene (U.R) Salem knocked Klamath Falls out of the Oregon state high school class "A" basketball tourna ment Thursday with a 45-39 victory over the Pelicans. , Eugene (U.R) ' Center Ron Smart's short shot from the side 28 seconds into the second over time period gave Astoria a sudden-death 48-46 victory over Mc Minnville Thursday in the first consolation game of the 1952 Oregon state high school class "A" basketball tournament. The Dalles surged from behind in the second half Thursday to eliminate Scappoose with a 66 52 victory in a consolation round game. iaht Plane Pi Missing on Flight McChord Air Force Base. Wash. (U.R) Search started Thursday for a light plane with at least one man aboard missing on a flight from Seattle to Walla Walla, Wash., in "ceiling zero" weather. Pilot Stanley Page left Se attle's Boeing field Wednesday after filing a flight plan which would get him into Walla Walla at 5:50 p. m. He had -enough fuel to stay aloft until about 9 p. m. Two planes from the Fourth Rescue squadron here left to search for the maroon and yel low Bellanca. UM BE OUSTED Merlin, Ore. (U.R) Eighth grade students from Merlin school were home again Thursday after an air trip to San Francisco which may cost their principal his job. - , Principal Royal A. Ivory, with some 16 pupils and two mothers, left Sunday for San Francisco in what Ivory regards as a visual education program. The trip was made during spring vacation because the Merlin school board warned the principal for any more air flights on school time. Last year Ivory took his class to Salem for. the state legislature. The San Francisco trip was financed by the parents Will Not Be Rehired Next Year Shortly after the trip was announced, the Josephine county school board directed the superintendent to notify Ivory he would not be rehired next year. Citizens immediately protested the move and petitions bearing 140 names asking that Ivory be rehired were presented. The school board planned to consider the peti tions in April, or possibly sooner if a special meeting is called. Mrs. C. A. Axtell, chairman of the board, said that the trip had nothing to do with Ivory s was concerned. But she added that that broke the camel's back. "The board came to the time rehiring.' she said. "We decided there had not been enough cooperation on the part of Mr. Ivory to justify rehiring." Has No Comment Here Last Night Ivory had no comment to make last night concerning the de cision of the Josephine county school unit board not to rehire him for next year. Queried by a reporter when he and the students deplaned from the United Air lines mainliner at the Medford airport, ending the trip, he pointed out that the board announced the decision while he was on the trip. He said that he had been too busy to consider uie matter and to determine whether he would fight the dismissal action. ' But, judging by the attitude tor their youngsters, Ivory will patrons ot the district it he decides to fight. They were upset and irritated by the action and by other dealings with the board and suggested there may be an investi gation by the state board. They were strong for their principal. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Anderson remarked that Ivory is very good with the children and that children at the school are well taken care of. , 9on Transferred to Ivory's School Mrs. M. H. Halstead said that like to nave Ivory back. She transferred her son this year from Hugo to Merlin because of Ivory's reputation as a teacher and said she had not regretted the move. Ivory has brought the school from "bedrock to a very superior school in every detail," Mrs. Halstead declared. mis. ivuiy, wnu was at me letter from the board permitting trip. Truce News Blackout On Prisoner Issues Would Be Welcomed Panmunjom. Korea (U.R) The United Nations welcomed Thursday a possible Communist hint to impose .a new blackout on at least one phase of the. Kor ean truce talks in the hope of breaking a deadlock and reach ing an armistice. Big Butte Springs Pipeline No. 1 Now All Paid For Medford's Big Butte springs pipeline No. 1 was all paid for today, five years ahead of sched ule. A water commission check for S33.000 completed payment on the $970,000 bond issue, which was approved by local voters in 1926. Payments were originally scheduled for completion in 1957. The city was able to complete payments five years early be cause of two factors, according to Robert L. Lee. asistant water superintendent. These were a large increase in water users here, and a recall or the bonds early in the 1940s, when they were reissued at a lower rate of interest, Lee said. The final payment on pipeline No. 1 cleared the decks for the city's first payment on pipeline No. 2, which was completed just last year. The first payment on the new line is scheduled to be made in July of this year. The final payment under the present schedule Will be made in 1981. " The new pipeline is included in a $2,800,000 bond issue ap proved by Medford voters in 1950. Baize Still in Jail Pending Sentencing A date still has not been set for sentencing Richard Baize, former Medford policeman who admitted embezzling some SI, 600 in pennies and nickels from city parking meter funds recently, the district attorney's office said today. " , Baize is still confined to the county jail. Ashland The Ashland city council Tuesday voted a $750-a-year city tax to be levied on operators of all juke boxes with in the city limits. Road Conditions State police said today that motorists are advised to use chains in driving over the Greensprings and Siskiyou mountain passes, and over Oregon mountain on the Red wood highway. Sexton moun tain, to the north of Grants Pass, Is clear, they reported. that it would not be responsible of the children. present status as far as the board possibly the trip was the straw of the year when we consider of parents waiting at the airport have plenty of support from the she was "grieved" and would airport, said ner nusDand had a him to make the San Francisco Brig. Gen. -William P. Nuck ols, official spokesman for the UN, said such a blackout might nave the effect of speeding up the stalemated prisoner of war discussions. "I don't think any possibility should be overlooked," he said. Nuckols' commented on a news blackout in response to questions from Allied newsmen. Their questions followed per sistent hinting by Communist correspondents at Panmunjom that such a course might speed the talks. ' The Communists have used their correspondents previously to put out "feelers" to the Allied negotfators. No Doubt Left Nuckols did not say whether the Allies would suggest a news blackout themselves at their next meeting. But the tenor-of his remarks left no doubt but that such a blackout, if proposed by the Communists, would be looked on favorably. The three outstanding issues on which both sides are dead locked are forcible versus vol untary repatriation of prisoners, naming Russia as a "neutral" truce inspector and a ban on construction of airfields during an armistice. 2,000,000 Poles Said Ready for Soviet Army Paris (U.R) Gen. Wladyslaw Anders, World War II com mander of Free Polish forces, said Wednesday night that the Soviets could mobilize 2,000,000 Poles in case of war. Anders said Soviet Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky was reorganizing the Polish army on the Red army model. American Saber jets Down Five Enemy MIG-15 Planes Seoul, Korea (U.R) American F-86 Sabrejets' shot down five Communist MIG-15 jets and dam aged five others Thursday in two fierce air battles over northwest ern Korea. None of the pilots made any mention of seeing a new type of enemy jet fighter in actidn Thurs day. One of them was hit by an American pilot Wednesday for the first time. Three Planes Destroyed v Twenty-eight Sabres of the Fourth Fighter-Interceptor Wing destroyed three enemy jets and damaged two in a half-hour ffght against 40 "very aggressive" MIGs east of the Yalu river near Sinuiju. Two other MIGs were de stroyed and three damaged in a fight between 26 Sabres of the 51st wing and 65 MIGs in a 20 minute battle north of Sinanju. First Lt. James D. Carey of Governor Driscoll 'Broke His Word' Aspirant Charges Executive Pledget Eisenhower Support - - - ' Trenton. N. J. (U.R) Got.. Alfred E. Driscoll said Thurs day that Sen. Robert A. Tail withdrew from the New Jer sey presidential preference primary because his campaign has collapsed" as result of setbacks in New Hampshire and Minnesota. Accused by Taft of having "broken his word" by endors ing Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower, Driscoll fired back, charging Taft with being a "poor loser." "The unmistable fact is that the Taft drive has collapsed as a result of successive setbacks in "New Hampshire and Minne sota and because of the ire- t m e n d o u s groundswell of Eisenhower support among the independent thinking peo ple of New Jersey," he said. Washington (U.R) Sen. Robert A. Taft Thursday pulled out of the New Jersey presiden tial primary contest because, he said, Gov. Alfred Driscoll "has broken his word" and endorsed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. April 15 offered the only re maining primary contest be tween two of the chief rivals for the GOP presidential nom ination after last week's New Hampshire vote in which Eisen hower defeated Taft. To Seek Name Removal The Ohio Republican an nounced his decision to pull out of New Jersey just two days after Eisenhower's astonishing write-in vote in the Minnesota primary, where Taft was not entered. Although Taft said he would close his state organization in New Jersey, it was uncertain whether Taft's name could be removed from the ballot. The Taft organization planned to try. . The office of the New Jersey secretary of state promptly an nounced at Trenton that Taft cannot withdraw his name. It said that, under state law, the deadline for withdrawal was March 12 and that only court action can remove Taft's name. ' Position Said Reversed "Because Gov. Driscoll has broken his word and has obvi ously taken steps to corrupt the intent of the present primary of New Jersey, I have decided not to contend for the prefer ence vote in the New Jersey primary on April 15," Taft said in a statement issued through his headquarters here. "Reversing his previous posi tion, Gov. Driscoll announced his open support of Gen. Eisen hower on March 17 and one of his leading political associates, Lloyd B. Marsh, secretary of state, said at the same time that the state Republican organiza tion will actively campaign for Gen. Eisenhower." Taft said these statements could mean only that New Jer sey GOP .workers would feel "the pressure and power of both the governor and the state organization. "It is an atmosphere in which there cannot be a fair contest in the New Jersey preference primary," he said. BULLETIN Washington .'U.R) Sen. Owen Brewster, R-Me., testi fied Thursday he originally met "mystery man" Henry W. Grunewald through Vice Pres ident Alben W. Berkley. Brewster appeared before the House Ways and Means subcommittee investigat ing tax scandals after Grune wald's accountant, Joseph Stearns, testified there was an "exchange of funds" totaling $12,500 between Grunewald and Brewster in 1950. Las Vegas, Nev., said he engaged what he thought was a conven tional MIG-15 jet in a dogfight over "Mig Alley" in northwest Korea Wednesday. He noticed, however, that the plane had wings sweeping back from high on the fuselage, while the con ventional MIG-15 has a relatively low wing mounting. Carey gave the new plane a few bursts, then had to flee when a group of enemy jets came for him. The new enemy plane has been called "type 15" by the Allied air force. It has been seen before, but this is the first time an allied airman has hit one. On the ground, there were only, two light enemy probes and scat tered minor patrol clashes Thurs day. The probes were both south of Kosong and east of the Nam river near the east coast Both were repulsed.
