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-v. r at? Weather FORECAST Fair Sunday and Monday. Htih Sunday near ' CS. Low Sunday night Z8. Bl(h Monday C7. Bifhest Saturday (3 Lowest Saturday XS A feature articU telling ml ' the 1SI1 activities or the.Jar k oa county J n v a 1 1 eoart appear on pace IS of today! Inae of The Mall Trihuae. United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full ! I Wire 47th Year 28 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 1952 No. 1 RIBUIE leased m said mmmumm MacArthur Asks For New Leaders Of Moral Courage General Speaks to Mississippi Solons i ' Jackson, Miss. (U.R) Gen. Douglas MacArthur said Satur day that "America now stands at a crossroads' where only new and strong leadership can restore the country to a domi nant position in world affairs. Portland CU.R) F. E. Eptoo, campaign leader for Gen. Douglas MaeArthur's forces in Oregon, said Sat urday he was "tickled pink" ever the general's statement tin New York thai he would be subject to draft at the Re publican national convention. Epton said his Oregon-for-MacArthur committee would consider the statement "a sig nal to put on the campaign fuel." "Down one lies a return to those immutable principles and ideals upon which rested our country's past grandeur," he said. "Down. the other lies the arbitrary rule of men leading to the ultimate loss of constitu tional liberty." Speaks to Legislature ' Speaking before a joint ses sion of the Mississippi legisla ture, MacArthur attacked the administration's domestic and foreign policies. He called for the emergence of men with "vision and moral courage" to restore political morality and integrity to the government. MacArthur blamed "irrespon sibility in leadership" for mov ing the country "toward a Com munist state with as dreadful certainty as though the leaders of the Kremlin themselves were charting our course." 1 He said that American fiscal policy "implements the blue prints of Marx and Lenin with unerring accuracy and gives stark warning that, unless the American people stem the pres ent threatening tide, human liberty will inevitably perish from our land." , , He said administration policy on pursuit of the Korean War in preventing use of "our faith ful ally garrisoned on Formosa" enforced upon the Korean peo ple the "dreadful tragedy in volved in the exclusive use of their soil as the sole battle ground." Student Reporter Starts Tomorrow Gunther Barth, of Dusseldorf, Germany, who is spending a year in advanced study at the University of Oregon, will be a staff member of The Mail Tribune this week. He is to ar rive today. The visitor, a sub-editor on the Rheinische Post,, a newspaper of some 250,000 circulation, will spend the week here to gain further experience in American newspaper work, and to become more familiar with American people and customs,. He has been invited to partici pate in a wide variety of civic activities during his stay with . The Mail Tribune, and will be the author of several newspaper articles comparing Germany and America in different aspects. His week with the newspaper is sponsored jointly by The Mail Tribune and the school of jour nalism of the University of Ore gon. Nine other foreign journal ists are making similar visits to other Oregon newspapers during the week. Forecast Tentatively Slated for Thursday Roy Rogers, federal meteor ologist in charge of the annual frost warnings for Rogue River valley fruit crops, tentatively has scheduled his first forecast broadcast for Thursday, March 27, the county agent's office said Saturday. Whether orchard heating is required on any one night is de termined by two factors, it was explained by County Horticul tural Agent C. B. Cordy tem perature, and the condition of the tender young buds of the fruit trees. As the buds mature, they are less able to withstand cold, he said. At the present time they would be in no danger unless the temperature were to get down as low as 15 degrees above zero. GOVERNOR Gov Douglas McKay, above, will be the speak er at a dinner meeting Monday sponsored by the Jackson Coun ty Chamber of Commerce. One of a series of forum" meetings, the dinner will be open to mem bers of the chamber, their wives and guests. Governor McKay's topic will be "Oregon, Today and Tomorrow" Dinner will be served at 7:15 p. m., after a 6:30 p. m. social hour. Central Point Mill Operators Ask Court Order A complaint requesting a tem porary court order to restrain picketing and other practices on the part of two unions was filed in circuit court here Friday by the Southern Oregon Planing Mill company of Central Point. The company's employees have been on strike for about a month in a dispute involving the. union seniority status of a former foreman at the plant. Hearing Time Set Circuit Judge H. K. Hanna ordered the defendants to ap pear at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 25, to show cause why such an injunction should not be imposed. Defendants named in the suit were Local 3030, Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union, AFL; the United Brotherhood of Car penters and Joiners of America; Ralph M. Davis, A. E. Jungans, William E. Kuhlwein and Gene Tedrick, president recorder, sec retary and business agent re spectively of the lumber work ers union, and Harold McKenzie, Joe Kulas and S. D. Nelson, representatives of the carpenters brotherhood. The complaint specifically re quested the court to enjoin the defendents from: Prohibitions Asked - Publishing and declaring that the plaintiff is unfair to the defendants unions, from claim ing that there is a strike at the plaintiff's mill, from picketing the plaintiff's premises or roads and ways leading to the mill, from obstructing the entrances and exits to the mill, from per suading and coercing any of the plaintiff's employees or for mer employees from working for the plaintiff or from return ing to work, from threatening, intimidating or placing fear in employees and from telephoning the plaintiffs employees, their wives or members of their fam ilies and threatening, intimidat ing or insulting them. Seattle (U.R) Congressman Hugh B. Mitchell of Seattle Sat urday announced lie would seek the Democratic nomination for governor -of Washington. . Spring Storm Dumps Snow Across Northern Plains Omaha. Neb. (U.R) The worst blizzard of the season swept across the northern plains Saturday, dumping up to 15 inches of snow-along its path through six states. The vicious spring storm, borne on winds up to 55 miles per hour, blocked roads and high ways anew with deep drifts, cut transportation to a crawl and in some sections forced snowplows to give up the battle. The blizzard,, spawned from the storm that hit western and mountain states earlier this week swept from Kansas through Ne braska, Iowa, the Dakotas and Minnesota all the way into Wis onsin. Farmers feared heavy - live stock losses. Blocked roads pre vented them from getting feed to stranded animals. State-by-state reports showed these conditions: Kansas A 15-inch snowfall hit Atwood in western Kansas, and nine inches fell during the night at other points. Rail Unions Ask Industry Income To Be Impounded Want Rail Seizure Declared Illegal Washington .(U.R) Three rail unions which pulled a quickie strike in the midwest last week asked federal court in Cleveland Saturday to impound the industry's $1,660,000,000 profits since August, 1950, as well as its future income. The unions also asked the court to declare that President Truman's seizure of the rail roads illegal and in violation ot the constitutional guarantee against involuntary servitude. Mr. Truman seized the na tion's class one carriers on Aug. 25, 1950, to avert a country wide strike threatened by the trainmen s and conductors' un ions. He invoked an act of 1916 which provides for seizure of transportation facilities "in time of war. ' Legal Move Unprecedented The unprecedented legal move by the Brotherhood of Locomo tive Engineers, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engi neers and the Order of Railway Conductors came as their nego tiations here with the railroads on wage hikes and rules changes bogged down again. The three unions have been ordered to appear in court in Cleveland next Friday to show cause why a temporary restrain ing order against the three-day strike should not be made a permanent injunction. The move Saturday, in the form of a counter-claim to the government's request for a per manent no-strike order, was the first time a rail union has indi cated willingness to challenge the 1916 act all the way to the supreme court. : A spokesman said the move was designed to keep 4he legal side of the bitter three-year-old contract battle alive after the wage-rules dispute ends. UN Team Rejects Red Entry Maps Tokyo, Sunday (U.R) The UN rejected at truce talks to day four or five Communist maps giving details or ports of entry to be used when an arm istice is signed.' . In another tent at Panmun- jom, allied delegates told the Reds they were willing to go into 'confidential session on the issue of prisoner exchange In a 16-minute meeting on item three-armistice supervision Col. Don O. Darrow told the Reds only the map of Slnanju was acceptable to the UN. The other four, Darrow said, were out of date and had discrepan cies. In the item four tent, dealing with 'prisoner exchange. Col. George W. Hickman said the Allies were willing to consider confidential discussions on ques tions of prisoner repatriation. It was understood the allies were willing to discuss a news black out of the talks in order to speed up negotiations. Darrow said the UN gave the Reds "our version of what we thought port limitations should be and they promised to give us their opinion tomorrow. Nebraska Much of the cen tral and eastern portions of the state were isolated. Planes were grounded, buses halted, trains delayed and automobile traffic was all but impossible in many sections. Iowa Six foot drifts halted all bus. runs north and west of . DesMoines. Greyhound cancelled all bus runs to Omaha and to Fort Dodge, la., United Air Lines and Mid-Continent cancelled all flights in the storm area. Governor Marooned South Dakota Motorists were warned off the highways. Gov. Sigurd Anderson was marooned at Sioux Falls at a meeting of the South Dakota Press associa tion. : North Dakota nig h w a y crews trying to clear roads choked with snow from previous storms suffered a new setback as winds drifted them closed. Minnesota The southern por tion of the state was blanketed with three to six inches of new snow. Government Ready To Give Increases To Steel Industry New Formula Subject To Truman's Approval Washington (U.R) The gov ernment is prepared to grant the steel industry flexible price in creases designed to avert a na tionwide steel strike set for April 8, it was learned Saturday night. Authoritative sources said the plan now is to change the stabili zation rules to permit each steel company to get whatever price boost it needs to meet the pay raises recommended by the wage stabilization board and - accept ed by Philip Murray's 650,000 United Steel workers. The new formula is still sub ject to President Truman's ap proval. Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson is expected to fly to Key West, Fla., in the next few days to submit it per sonally to the president. Were To Negotiate Monday The steel industry and union were ready to begin negotiations Monday as requested by wage stabiliation board Chairman Na than P. Feinsinger, who asked that the talks begin "not later than three days" after the recom mendations were received by the parties. U. S. Steel and Jones and Laughlin planned to meet the union in Pittsburgh, Bethlehem in New York and Inland Steel in Chicago. Wilson is known to feel that steel prices and wages should be held right where they are, because increases in so basic an industry would have explosive effects throughout the national economy. Only Way to Avert Strike But top officials believe there is not way of averting a disas trous steel strike except to rec ognize that wages cannot be per mitted to rise without a corre sponding increase in prices. They contend that the steel pay raises recommended by the wage stabilization board 17V cents an hour spread over 18 months in - three installments plus more than 5 cents and 3.5 cents later in "fringe" benefits violate the spirit if not the letter of the stabilization regu lations. If the pay raises are granted, these . officials say, the steel companies also should be given compensating price increases The steelmakers have warned they w;ll not pay the wage in creases unless- they get higher prices, even .at the risk of a strike. 1,200 Reds Reported Killed During Week Tokyo, Sunday iU.PJ Nearly 1,200 Communists were killed by UN forces in Korean fighting during the week ended Friday, the Eighth Army announced to day, i In an "evaluated casualty list." the report said 1,192 Reds had been killed. 948 wounded in action, and 53 taken prison ers of war. The total "evalu ated" list of 2,193 compared with the previous week's estim ates of 2,023. . North of Chorwon Saturday a UN patrol fought a reinforced Red company for 20 minutes, then withdrew in favor of a counterpunch by Allied artil lery. The Far East Air Forces an nounced that American F-8C Sabre jet. pilots had shot dowo or damaged 33 Red Mig-15 jets without combat loss in a week of blazing action over "Mig Alley" in northwest Korea. Dowson Lawyer Asks Investigation Time Attorneys for Harry G. Dow son, 47 South Berkeley way, named defendant in an assault and battery case, Friday request ed time for investigation, and April 21 was set as date for Dow son to enter a plea in district court. Bond has been posted, the dis trict attorney's office reported. The complaint was filed by Aubrey Y. Cripps, Box 759, Cen tral Point. It states that the al leged offense was committed on March 14 at the Corner club in Central Point. - Dulles Ends Relations With Administration New York (U.R) John Foster Dulles, Republican adviser on foreign policy and architect of the Japanese peace treaty, sev ered his connections with the Democratic administration last Thursday, when the Senate rati fied the pact, an unimpeachable ource said Saturday. : - 11 J'ead i 'MidsoutK "ON HIS OWN" White House spokesmen said Saturday that Frank McKinney, national Democratic chairman, standing at left above, was "entirely on his own" in discussing what President Truman might do in 1952. McKinney is shown telling reporters the president would not seek reelection in event of a Korean peace settlement Ike Believed Ready To Start Campaign Paris (U.R) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower sought advice Saturday on what restrictions might hobble his activities if he makes his expected return to the United States in mid-May to campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Observers here believe he will ask his American superior for relief from his Atlantic Pact command very shortly possibly within the next twotweeks. Could Be Home in May This would .enable Eisenhower to head home to the political battlefront between the target dates of May, 15 and June 1 which have been recommended by his su porters at home. It was pointed out, however, that Eisenhower, in his U. S. campaigning, would still tech nically be subject to Army regu lations which forbid any soldier from taking an active part in politics while on active duty. Five-star generals like Eisen hower are always technically "on active duty." But Eisenhower's supporters have advised him that they feel he is quite free, as a soldier, to discuss "America" and could even hit hard in his speeches at such topics as the Korean war and the Communist threat in Asia "as reflected on his com mand over here." The big question was whether President Truman and the U. S. Defense department would go along with this interpretation of Eisenhower's supporters or would slap crippling restrictions on the general's campaigning. Restrictions Doubted (In Washington, sources said a decision on what restrictions, if any, would be invoked in event of campaigns by Eisenhower or Gen. Douglas MacArthur has Eisenhower Aide Asks Foreign Aid Backing Washington (U.R) Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, chief of staff to Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower, returned Saturday to re port the defense tide "is flowing our way" and to urge Congress to back the administration's $7,900,000,000 foreign aid pro gram. Meanwhile. Sen. John J. Sparkman (D-Ala.), predicted Congress will slice $1 billion off the program but he stressed that was only his estimate of Congressional sentiment, not necessarily his personal stand. Sparkman, a member of the Foreign Relations committee, said he will make up his mind on the proper size of the pro gram after hearing all the evi dence. Gruenther will give, his and his chief's view to the Senate Foreign Relations, committee on Monday as to why the United States should continue the heavy flow of military and economic aid to the free world. Key West, Fla. (U.R) The White House said Saturday that President Truman will end his late winter vacation and return to Washington next Thursday, March 27. He has been here since March. 7.. ... ;.. i never been reached if in fact it has even come under consider ation. Defense . department sources said it was extremely unlikely that regulations forbidding any officer on active duty from making political speeches would ever be slapped against Eisen hower or MacArthur.) 44 Persons Dead In German Crash; Americans Listed Frankfurt, Germany (U.R) A four engined KLM Royal Dutch airliner crashed and burn ed in a pine forest on the out skirts of Frankfurt Saturday, killing 44 persons, including three Americans. Four persons were rescued, but one later died of injuries suffered in the crash. The American dead were iden tified as: John Bickford, 27. a profes sional airline pilot who boarded the plane in Rome. There was no address listed for him. Lt. Col. Edward Angel, Wies baden, German. Angel's wife's parents were listed as Mr. and Mrs E. F. How of Tyrlingham, Mass. H. A. Bennik, an American citizen who was born in Rekken, Holland, and who spent 17 years as a poultry farmer in the Unit ed States. His wife and daughter live in Apeldorn, Holland. In Rome, Bickford was iden tified as an American citizen by the hotel where he was stay ing. His profession was 'given as an airplane pilot. His Amer ican passport said he was born Feb. 1925, in Portsmouth, Eng land. KLM officials in Rome iden tified Angel as an American Army colonel stationed in Wies baden, Germany. Planes From Three States Start "Operation Haylift Elko, Nev. (U.R) Navy ' and Air Force . planes from three states converged on Elko Satur day to participate in an "opera tion haylift" dropping hay and feed bundles to 600,000 starving cattle and sheep on snowbound northeast Nevada rangelands. Huge transports from Cali fornia, Washington and Colorado were rushed here to take feed to the animals caught in snow drifts piled up by a series or winter blizzards. The . planes took' off from here in the early afternoon under clear skies and air force officials said weather conditions were "perfect" for -the opera tion. C47s Lead "Lift Hamilton Air Force base, Calif., dispatched two C-47s to lead the - airlift Four Navy R5Ds (C-54s) were sent in from Moffett Field, Sunnyvale, Calif , and the 4th Air Rescue Squad ron ordered one C-82 transport from Lowry Field, Denver, ana another C-82 from McChord Air Arkansas Reports High List of Storm Fatalities Little Rock, Ark. !U.R) Killer tornadoes slashed paths of destruction, across Alabama late Saturday to take four lives and hike the death toll from storms in the midsouth to at least 201. President Truman ordered an immediate survey by federal officials of relief possibilities in the stricken areas. Funnels of countless twisters left death, destruction and misery in their debris-littered trails as they marched grimly across Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Missouri and Kentucky. Tornadoes accounted for 191 lives in at least 33 towns, while a flood on the Kentucky-Tennessee border killed 10 others. It Mystery Man" May Be Cited For Contempt Washington U.R) Tax scan dal investigators will ask the house next week to vote a con tempt of congress cit-ation against "mystery man" Henry W. Grunewald, it was learned Saturday. A House ways and means sub committee will seek the citation while continuing its investiga tion of G.'unewald's complicated activities, pinpointing an alleged effort to get favorable settlement of a $5,000,000 tax case in which Senate Republican Leader Styles Bridges of New Hampshire also was supposed to have been inter ested. Bridges' office said he had no plans, at present, to testify. ' Adrian DeWind, counsel for the subcommittee, said the Grun ewald citation will be ready for House action by Wednesday or Thursday. Won't Discuss Shakedown Ring It results from Grunewald's refusal, in two appearances be fore the subcommittee, to 6ay whether he knew anything about an alleged $500,000 tax shake down ring operating in the cap ital or to tell anything about his own activities. - .. Another corruption investigat ing group, the House judiciary subcommittee headed by Rep. Frank Chelf (D-Ky.), will hear Attorney General J. Howard McGrath as a witness on Wednes day. The questioning of McGrath is expected to deal only with jus tice department "administrative procedures." The subcommittee wants to study the income tax returns of McGrath, outsed As sistant Attorney General T. La mar Caudle and 18 others, but has received no reply from the White House to its request that the returns be made available.' House Turns Down NW Power Infertie Washington (U.R) A House appropriations committee for the third year has thrown out a re quest for funds for an intertie between the Bonneville trans mission system and the Central Valley system in California. A request for $1,173,000 for e line between Baker and La Grande to connect with the Idaho Power company system was also . denied. Bonneville's share of the rejected tieup with California was $90,000. The full $368,000 asked for the Klamath project in southein Oregon and northern California was also approved but a $700, G00 item for construction of ac cess roads in Oregon and Cali fornia grant lands was turned down." Force Base. Wash., to help. The Air Force said the planes would work until dusk running bay and feed from here to the starving animals and then would return to their respective bases Saturday night. Planes Standing By In addition, six C-54s were standing by at Great Falls, Mont. Air Force base and "several' four-engine transports were waiting at McChord before starting out with hay from Cali fornia to Nevada.- . Tons of hay were piled up on the runways of Elko airport when the first planes arrived. Air Force officials said planes also were being sent from Hiii Air Force base at Ogden, Utah, McClelland Air Force base at Sacramento, Calif., and possibly from McChord Air Force base in Washington. The plan called for the planes to drop hayloads to the stranded livestock throughout the day un til Sunday and to resume the work tomorrow if necessary. - Hundreds were homeless. 101 Dead in Arkansas A 4:30 p.m. (PST) recount by states in the disaster belt showed 101 tornado dead in Arkansas, 58 in Tennessee, 13 in Mississip pi, 15 in Missouri and four in Alabama. From the winter White House at Key West, Fla., President Truman asked Raymond M. Foley, adminstrator of the Housing and Home Finance agency, to investigate and report immediately whether the emer gency disaster act "is applicable in the present situation." The chief executive also di rected Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan to investi gate the extent of relief needed in rural areas. ' The wanton winds raged on into the area of Hartselle, Ala., 100 miles north of Birmingham and bludgeoned three small com munities. Mr. and Mrs. Eugie Wilson, a Miss Brown, and an unidentified Negro were killed. Guided Missile Center Hit A short time later, another tornado whipped the area of the super secret Redstone Arsenal, guided missile center near Huntsville 50 miles northeast of Hartselle. It skipped along a line of ammunition dumps but did only minor damage. Officials said the twister hit "Line Six," an assembly line for ammunition, ripping off roofs of buildings, uprooting machinery sunken in. concrete and over- A frame house near the rocket reservation was demolished, but no injuries were reported. Still another Alabama tornado struck Jemison in the central part of the state and sent resi dents scurrying into storm cel lars they built after the great 1932 cyclone killed 268 in that area. Air Force Predicted Storm! Tinker Air Force base In Oklahoma which has developed a tornado forecasting system -announced that it had predicted the north Alabama storms in confidential bulletins to military installations. The U. S. Weather bureau at Atlanta issued a special forecast saying "there is a possibility" of other tornados developing late Saturday in eastern Ala bama, Georgia and western South Carolina. Taft Urged To Stay In New Jersey Race Washington (U.R) sen. n. Alexander Smith (R., N. J.), urged Sen. Robert A. Taft Sat urday to stay in the New Jersey presidential primary and help "unite" the Republican party for its battle with the Democrats in November. Smith sent a telegram beg-, ging Taft to reconsider his de cision to withdraw from a New Jersey primary contest ' with Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Taft announced Thursday he was pulling out because Gov. Alfred E. Driscoll had "broken" a pledge of neutrality and joined the Eisenhower camp. The Ohio senator accused Dris coll of "political trickery." Dris coll denied it and said the Taft campaign has collapsed. SPORTS BULLETINS Eugene OJ.R) Lincoln of Portland won the Oregon class "A" high school basket ball tournament here Satur day night by defeating Can tral Catholic of Portland. 68 lo 44. "Swede" Halbrook. towering Lincoln ace, scored 51 points to run his season's total to 1,035. John Foster col lected IS for the losers. An all-time tournament at tendance record of 61,882 was set; - Named to the state all-star team were Foster, Halbrook, Bob Altenhofen. Central Cath olic, who gained the honor for the third time; Jerry Ross, Cleveland, and Morris Buck waiter, La Grande. r Corvallis (U.R) Santa Clara scored an astound ing 56-53 npset victory ever top-rated' Wyoming tonight in the finals of the western re gional NCAA basketball play offs bar. - - r- - -