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Newspaper Page Textfo)H JQUV S B H IS U Imovlls U In V ... -A, J W,-. " LARGEST MILITARY AIRLIFT BEGINS-Troops of the 31st Infantry Division file into the jaws of a C-124 Giobemaster transport at Shaw Air Force Base, S. C, to be flown to Temple, Tex., to take part in Operation Long Horn. More than 10,000 combat soldiers will make the 1100-mile trip in the - largest Army and Air Force maneuver in U. S. history. Aboard the planes with the men were 105-mm howitizers, trucks, trailers, jeeps and other equipment The war fames at Camp Hood, Tex., will involve some 150.000 troops. 46th Anniversary Observed Tomorrow by Mail Tribune The Medford Mail Tribune will be 46 years old tomorrow. On March 22, 1906, the Medford Tribune was established as a daily paper. It was the successor to several earlier papers, includ ing the Medford Mail, founded in 1889; the Southern Oregon ian, founded in 1902; the Demo crat Times, founded in 1872, and the Ashland Times, which was founded in 1906 and later moved to Medford, consolidating with the Tribune the same year. Although the present news paper counts its age from 1906, it was not until three years later in 1909 that its present name was established, and it was published as The Medford Mail Tribune. George Putnam was editor of the newspaper then, and for a number of years following. He at present is editor and publisher of the Capital Journal in Salem. Sunday's edition will be No. 1, 47th year of publication.. Jacksonville Home Destroyed by Fire Jacksonville Residents of Jacksonville are collecting clotn ing and household goods for the James Thompson family, whose home on Upper Third street burned to the ground at 4 a.m. yesterday. Origin of the fire is not known. The living room was ablaze when the Thompsons were awak ened and found they were cat off from the rooms where their five children were sleeping. The couple escaped through windows and tore screens from the win dows of the children's rooms to rescue them. Rex Thompson, a brother of Thompson, who lives with the family, also escaped tiie blaze. The children include two daughters, aged 8 and 9, and three sons, 2, 11 and 14, the friends said. Jacksonville . Volunteer fire men and auxiliary are cooperat ing in collecting anything in the way of household items, canned foods and clothing for the family. They will be at trie Jacksonville Community hall from 7 p.m. Sunday, March 23, to receive do nations. The auxiliary will serve refreshments. Bogart, Vivien Leigh Win Coveted Hollywood Oscars Hollywood (U.R) Humphrey Bogart said Friday he hadn't changed his opinion that acad emy awards don't prove anything even though he won an Oscar Thursday night in one of the biggest upsets in Hollywood his tory. It was no surprise, however, when English actress Vivien Leigh became a two-time Oscar winner with an award for her role as a faded nymphomaniac in "A Streecar Named Desire." Her supporting players, Kim Hunter and Karl Maiden, won the coveted gold trophies as ex pected, too. But the star-studded crowd at the 24th annual awards presen tation gasped and applauded when Bogart nosed out favored candidate Marlon Brando to snare the award for playing a gin-soaked riverboat captain in "The American Queen." - Last year the movie tough guy growled in a magazine a re ticle that Oscars were a lot of nonsense. But Friday Bogie refused to eat his words. "I don't change anything of what I've said," he said. Testimony Made by Gruenwa Id's Lawyer Studied for Perjury Washington (U.R) House tax' scandal investigators voted Fri day to forward testimony of Attorney Wjlliam Power Ma loney to the Justice Department "for a review as to whether per jury, has been committed." Maloney, formerly a special assistant attorney, general, is the attorney of "mystery man' Henry W. Grunewald whose activities and income have been the subject of an inquiry by House ways and means sub committee. Decision Unanimous The decision to submit Mo loney's testimony to the Justice Department was unanimous. It was made on the motion of Rep Robert W. Kean, R-N.J. Kean cited two points in Maloney 's testimony during questioning Friday, Thursday, and the day before. Maloney said the subcommit tee could send the Justice De partment "whatever it wants to." He heatedly protested, how ever, what he termed "an inva- sion of his right" in the sub committee's decision to hold him for further questioning. The vote on Kean's motion fol lowed testimony by Maloney that he. asked Sen. Styles Bridges, R. N.H., about three years ago to intercede with the Internal Revenue Bureau to- be half of a Baltimore liquor deal er in a $5,000,000 tax case Inquiries Admitted Bridges has said he did make inquiries at the bureau about the case, which involved Hyman Strange As It Seems Again Mentions Valley The Rogue valley is men tioned in Elsie Hix' feature. Strang As It Seems, today for the second time in a week. In today's feature, which ap pears on page 12. it is x plained that cattle and sheep are pastured in fields of blue grass in the winter in the Rogue Valley and the grass is harvested in the spring. The unusual incident oours on the C. C. Hoover ranch. Tuesday's Strange As It Seems told how Hoover dis covered that after spraying range areas with DDT and sulphur, no rattlesnakes were found in the area sprayed for two years. An American in Paris was voted by members of the hon orary Academy of Motion pic ture Arts and Sciences the beat movie of 1951. It became 'the third musical ever to win in academy history. George Stevens was given a big hand as he accepted an Os cor for best direction for "A Place in the Sun." Song Honored Other awards included: . Best song: "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening," . from Paramount's "Here Comes the Groom." Music by Hoagy Car michaeL lyrics by Johnny Mer cer. Best foreign language movie: Rashomon Japanese. - , Best special effects: Para mount's "When Worlds ' Col lide." Best full-length documentary: "Kon-Tiki." . s Best original motion .picture story: "Seven Days to Noon," by Paul Dehn and James Bernard. Best screenplay: "A Place in the Sun," ' by Michael Wilson and Harry Brown, from Theo dore Dreiser's noved, "An Amer ican Tragedy." Harvey Klein. The case has not been settled. The Baltimore case did not however, figure in the points raised by Kean. - Kean said Maloney previously told the subcommittee that Grunewald never lent him money while Maloney was in government service. Later, how ever, the subcommittee found that Maloney had repaid to Grunewald loans totaling $9,000, Kean said. Reds Propose Prompt Release of Prisoners Panmunjom (U.R) Red truce negotiators proposed Friday that both sides agree to release all listed war prisoners without fur ther squabbling over missing cap tives. The Communist "compromise" proposal provided for the freeing of only the 11,559 Allied and 132,474 Red prisoners whose names already have been ex changed. Of the Allied prisoners, 3,198 are Americans. It in effect would write off at least for the present 53,000 addi tional ' Allied troops, including 1,398 Americans, who disappear ed, in Red captivity and 44,000 Communist prisoners allegedly held but not reported by the UN Allied representatives shrugged off the proposal. They said it con tained "absolutely nothing new. Open House Planned By Posse Here Sunday An open house will be held by the NJackson County Mounted Sheriff's posse at their grounds from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, it was announced today. Information about the posse. its purposes, standards and his tory will be given by Posse CaDt. W. M. Lemmon, Sheriff Howard Gault and Dr. Charles W. Lem ery. S. M. Tuttle, drill captain, will show trophies won by the drill - teams, and will explain compeitive points on which the wins are based. - Men of the posse will be on the grounds during the day working on buildings now under construction for the annual Rogue River roundup in June. Women of the auxiliary will serve refreshments during the open house. The public will be welcome during the open house hours. DOW JONES AVERAGES Dow Jones closing stock av erages: 30 industrials zoo.oz, up 0.29; 20 railroads 90.04, off 0.15; 15 utilities 50.37, up 0.32; 65 stocks 100.63, up 0.13. Sales Friday totaled 1.290,- 000 shares compared with 1,240, 000,' traded Thursday. THERMOMETERS TESTED The ..Jackson county agent's office reported this morning that all orchard thermometers brought there for testing by Federal Meteorologist Roy Rog ers have been checked. They re quested that orchardists pick up their thermometers at the earli est opportunity. Seattle (U.R) Expansion of West Coast industries will be discussed at a Pacific Coast industrial development confer ence here next Wednesday. Radio Highlights Radio Station KTJC (1230 kc) will carry the broadcast of the final gam of the- Ore gon state Class A high school basketball learner starting at 1:40 pan. Saturday. Medford lalut rran Tall Uut4 Wlr 46th Year 16 Pages Supplies Run Low, Highways Blocked In Mountain Area Worst Snowfall In Past 60 Years By UNITED PRESS The mountain area of the West Friday was choked under the worst winterlong accumulation of snow in 60 years. More than 1,500 persons were marooned. Supplies were run ning low. Major transcontinental highways were blocked and more snow was falling. In addition, the late season snowfall greatly increased the danger of floods in the event of a sudden thaw which would loose uncounted tons of water from the mountains. In northeastern Colorado and Wyoming, a fresh spring snow the worst since the paralyzing snows of December struck. Forecasters said it would go "over a foot" in Denver. The public bus system in -Denver, which daily carries 20,000 persons, was stopped by the storm. Farther to the west in the Si erra Nevada mountains, ranch ers faced a possible $10,000,000 property and livestock loss. Declared Disaster Area Responding to a plea 'by Ne vada's Gov. Charles Russell. President Truman declared the northern central and eastern sec tions of the state a disaster area and ordered federal agencies to help the stricken region with equipment and funds. Rescue crews, moving in be hind bulldozers, concentrated on reaching the settlements in the most desperate situation. . Plane Drops Supplies An airdrop brought in vital supplies to twenty persons snow bound in at Piute Lookout in the mountains east of Bakersfield, Calif. One of the hardest-hit commu nities was Leevining, Calif. A load of fuel, food and medical supplies was en route to the stricken community by truck. Saturday Sunshine Seen for Northwest By UNITED PRESS The weatherman said Friday that sunshine would bring a lit tle warmth to a chilly Pacific Northwest by Saturday. Generally fair weather was expected throughout the region, forecasters said, although there will'be some cloudiness east of the Cascades. Temperatures will rise to near 60 degrees in the west and to 50 east of the moun tains. A heavy fog covered north west Oregon and southwest Washington early Friday but it slowly disappeared as the day progressed. Astoria, Salem in Consolation Finals Eugene (U.R) Astoria came from behind in the second half to defeat The Dalles 55-43 Friday in a consolation bracket game of the 1952 Oregon high school class "A" basketball tournament here. Salem nosed out Milwaukie in the final quarter today 35-32 to go into the consolation finals against Astoria. Reservations Going Fast for McKay Dinner Reservations for the govrr nors dinner ol the Jacksor County Chamber of Commerc next Monday are being mack rapidly, the chamber office re ported today. The dinner meeting, first of series of public forums, will be at 7:15 p.m. Monday, and Gov. Douglas McKay will be the principal speaker. Reservations for chamber members, their wives and guests are being ac cepted by members of the cham ber greeters committee, or at the chamber office. The governor will speak on "Oregon, Today and Tomorrow." Vealher FOKECAST: Gaamny Mr x cpt valley fof aaS frxiaf temperatures Satartfajr Mn U(. Lews ZJ-ZI. Sitka la tar tly ss-ce. Tnaa. Ignnt Tmterea S Lewtn thl MaralBf .. S Free, to 4:1 a.au 1o4a. Trac suoh m mm ummm i en MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, Tafft Seen as Washington (U.R) Sen. Rob ert A. Taft's opponents Friday viewed his withdrawal from the New Jersey primary as a sign of weakness, but the Ohinan s suu- Dorters retorted ' that he wLl prove his strength in Wisconsin. . Republicans supporting Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower for the GOP presidential nomination said Taft gave their campaign its third big boost in the past two weeks when he pulled out of the April 15 New Jersey contest The general already had swamp ed Taft in the New Hampshire primary and receive an aston ishing total of write-in votes in the Minnesota race. Adds to Jubilation Eisenhower added to his sup porters' jubilation Thursday by saying he is "reexamining" his past decisions as a result) of the Minnesota primary. His state ment indicated he is reconsider ing his earlier refusal to come home and make a personal cam paign for the GOP presidential nomination. The Eisenhower camp receiv ed a minor setback Friday night when the Maryland attorney general's office ruled that voters may not write-in the name of a candidate in that state's primary May 5. Write-ins Banned Deputy Attorney General J. Edgar Harvey said write-ins are banned in Maryland primaries. Sen. Estes Kefauver, D.- Tenn., is the only presidential candidate of either party to file in Mary land. Harold E. Stassen who was entered in the New Jersey pri mary along with Taft and Eisen hower, called Taffs move a confession of weakness." Even some of Taft's friends regarded his withdrawal as an indication of weakness, but said SPEBSOSA OFFICIALS Shown above are the two men who are principally responsible for the second annual "Harmony Jamboree and Parade of Quar tets," to be held in the Medford high school auditorium at 8 p.m. Saturday under sponsor ship of the Medford chapter of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in Amer ica. They are Gus Voss, top, of Gold Hill, who directs the big Medford chorus, one of two which will sing at the event, and Gus Witte, Medford, president of the chapter. The songfest, which will feature 13 quartets from all parts of Oregon, and from Washington and Califor nia, is a sell-out, members said today. r i -fix. vA? A I 1 if- :" . fQ v ELU Withdrawal Weakness it would be better to take small loss now than a big one later. Washington (U.R) Walter Williams, chairman of the Wash ington state republican central committee, began serving as the chairman of the national citizen's committee for Eisenhower Fri day amid a storm of protest from state Taft-for-President forces. The Seattle mortgage broker, who will assist Paul G. Hoffman in directing the presidential cam paign for the general, accepted the job Thursday. Logical Basis Williams said his decision to abandon his earlier avowed neu trality had a "logical, rather than an emotional basis." He said a study of the polls of the results in the recent presidential primaries in New Hampshire and Minnesota convinced him that "Eisenhower is the only man who can win." Senate Ratifies Japanese Treaty, Security Pacts Washington (U.R) i The Senate has ratified the Japa nese peace treaty and three re lated scurity pacts aimed at keeping peace in the Pacific. Ratification of the historic treaty came by a vote of 66 to 10. The Senate had defeated five attempts to amend the trea ty and a move to postpone a vote on it indefinitely. Security Pacts Ratified Then, by voice votes, the Sen ate ratified mutual security pacts between the United States and the Philippines and Australia and New Zealand. Debate was started immediately on ratifica tion of a similar pact with Japan to back up the treaty. Only one Democrat, Sen. Pat McCarran of Nevada joined nine Republicans in voting against the Japanese peace treaty. Republicans voting against the ' peace treaty were Everett Dirk- sen, 111.; William E. Jenner, Ind.; Henry C. Dworshak, Ida. ; Zales M. Ecton, Mont.; James P. Kem, Mo.; George W. Malone, Me.; i Joseph R. McCarthy, Wis.; Her man Welker, Ida., and Milton R. Young. N. D. Wants Record To Shew Although action on the Phil ippines and Australia-New Zea land security pacts was by a voice vote, Jenned said he want ed the record to show he voted "no" on both. Working under a limited de bate agreement, the Senate re jected a series of four reserva tions proposed by Jenner and Sen. Margaret Chase (R., Me.) and one by Dirksen. Ratification of the treaty by the United States and five of the 11 signatory nations at the San Francisco peace conference would officially end the war that started with the Pearl Harbor holocaust of Dec. 7, 1941. The Senate foreign relations committee's resolution approv ing the treaty specified that U. S. ratification would not rec ognize . Russian claims to the former Japanese-held territories or imply approval of the Yalta agreement. But Jenner argued that the formal reservations were need ed to protect American sover eignty "so we won't have to go hat in hand to the United Na tions." Eisenhower Expected Home in May or June Paris U.R) Reliable sources said Friday that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower probably will return to the U.S. between mio May and June 1 as a candidate for the Republican nomination for Presi dent Within the next few weeks, they believed, he will ask to be relieved as supreme commander of the North Atlantic Pact forces to pave the way for his return. Eisenhower said Thursday that the big vote he received in the New Hampshire and Minnesota primaries were "forcing me to reexamine my personal position and past decision." j Tribune United Prra full Leased Wire 1952 No. 315 Threatened Steel Strike Postponed Until April 8 Recommendations By Board Accepted Washington (U.R) The CIO United Steelworkers Friday post poned their threatened nation wide strike until April 8, leav ing it up to the steel industry to accept or . reject a 176 cent hourly pay boost and union shop recommended by the Wage Sta bilization Board. The union's 170-man wage pol icy committee accepted the board's recommendations short ly after 11 p.m. PST, but warned it will call a strike if an agree ment is not reached with the steel companies by the new dead line. Not Binding The wage board's recommen dations are not binding on either side. The Steelworkers postponed their walkout for the fourth time only hours before Defense Mo bilizer Charles E. Wilson was scheduled to leave for Key West, Fla., to confer with Presi dent Truman on the crucial is sue of steel prices. Spokesmen Give Hint Industry spokesmen have hint ed strongly they will not go along with any proposal which does not assure a compensating price increase, and some observ ers expected the negotiations to bog down again if the price issue is not settled to the steelmen's satisfaction. CIO President Philip Murray, who also heads the powerful steelworkers union, said negotia tions with the industry would re sume Monday. Most observers felt the steel workers' acceptance of the board's recommendations shifted the pressure for settling the dis pute squarely on the industry. Industry members of the wage board bitterly assailed the pan el's recommendations as an "in strument of union appeasement." The management delegation said the proposals were "unfair and inequitable, and in terms of sta bilization are in serious disre gard of the public interest." The board's union members said the recommendations offer ed "a solid .foundation upon which ... a sound, fair, honest collective bargaining agreement" could be reached. Wave of Suicides Reported in China Hong Kong (U.R) A wave of suicides and attempted suicides has broken out among native and foreign born businessmen in China as a result of constant harassment by Communist offi cials, reliable reports said Fri day. These reports, which came from travelers and from China itself, said Communist officials have subjected these business men to such relentless question ing that they have cracked un der the strain. Cited as one such example was Hans Theurkauf, German mana ger of Melchers and Company, an import-export firm in Tient sin, who hanged himself in his home after undergoing a month of questioning. New and Relocated Armory Seen in Guard Staff Action The way has been opened for the relocation of the Medford armory, and the construction of a new building, it was learned today. A United Press story from Salem quoted Maj. Gen. Thomas A. Rilea. the state's adjutant general, as" saying that a new armory here and one in Salem have been approved by the gen eral staff of the Oregon National Guard. Plans for their authorization will be submitted to the 1953 legislature, General Rilea said. He added that it would be pos sible to get federal funds for both projects. Can Negotiate Mayor Diamond L. Flynn, who talked by . telephone with the guard headquarters in Salem this morning, explained that the staff's approval means that a way has been opened whereby the National Guard can negotiate for- a new site. It has long been Soviet Said Ready For Military Move Against Japanese 5,000 Fighter Planes Reported in Siberia Tokyo (U.R) Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway warned Friday that Russia has completed building a fast military force in Siberia and' is prepared for military action against Japan "at any time." He said the Soviets have more than 5,000 fighter planes in Si beria and a fleet of submarines in the Japan sea. Told in Interview The supreme United Nations commander told the heads of Japan's three largest and most influential newspapers of the Russian buildup in Siberia and on Sakhalin island, just north of Japan, in an interview. He said Japan Communists al ready have begun following the same pattern that Chinese Reds marked out for victory over the Nationalists. Seek Control of Unions Comirlunists in Japan are try ing to seize control of labor unions and publications and are forming cells advocating vio lence even as they did in China, Ridgway said. "This is a manifestation that the aims of the Soviet military power are now directed toward control of Japan," he said. Ridgway said U. S. troops would remain in Japan after a peace treaty for the sole reason "to oppose such Soviet ambitions and the threat of Soviet mili tary power." Assault, Battery Charged in Case Filed Yesterday Harry G. Dowson, 47 South Berkeley way, has been named defendant in an assault and bat tery case filed Thursday aft ernoon in district court, accord ing to District Attorney Paul Haviland. Dowson was expected to re ply to the charge through his attorney sometime today. He said he has no comment to make on the charge until then. The charge was filed, by Aubrey Y. Cripps, Box 759, Central Point, the district at torney stated. Union Attorney Present Paul Bailey, Portland attor ney who recently represented Local 3030, Lumber and Saw mill Workers' union, AFL, in an injunction hearing involv ing a strike at a Central Point mill, was present with Cripps when the complaint was filed. The complaint claims that Dowson committed the assault and battery on Cripps on Fri day, March 14, at about 10:30 p. m. The action was alleged to have taken place in the Cor ner Club in Central Point. Oran Chastain, Central Point chief of police, said the matter is still being investigated and witnesses are being questioned. Medford Man Injured In Auto Accident Merritt Jackson Swing, 55, of 2520 Merriman road, suffered a broken collarbone in an automo bile accident this morning on Table Rock road at Merriman road at about 10:45 a. m., Con- , ger-Morris ambulance service, which took him to the hospital, reported. Swing was driver of one of two cars involved in the acci dent and the other was operated by Mose Graham, Ashland, state police said. Swing's car was struck broadside, ambulance men said. Amount of damage to the two vehicles was not re ported. recognized that the present site on North Bartlett street is inade quate for the purpose, the mayor quoted the officers as saying. Under the present plans the 29-year-old, fire-gutted building, in which only the office space re mains intact, will be sold along with the surrounding property. Then a site for a new building can be selected. Committee Named A Jackson County Chamber of Commerce committee, headed by Walter Garner, has been named to look into the possibility of constructing a combination armory-auditorium building, which could be used for both military and civilian purposes. A public meeting on the question was held recently. The mayor said that he in vited the top guard officers to come to Medford soon to meet with the committee to discuss further the feasibility of such a plan, and he said the invitation was tentatively accepted.