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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
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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."
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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.
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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.