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Tornado
Dazed Survivors
Begin Rebuilding
Destroyed Homes
Arkansas Continues
Search for Bodies
Little Rock, Ark. U.R) The
death toll rose to 250 Monday
in the tornado and flood-ravaged
areas of six southern states as
dazed survivors finished the two
day job of burying their dead
and began rebuilding their
wrecked homes.
The American Red Cross
counted 1,107 injured in the
wake of the swirling black fun
nels, greatest barrage of tona
does in 20 years, and estimated
damage woud run into "mil
lions." Search for Bodies Continues
The grim search for bodies
continued in Arkansas, hardest
hit by the killer twisters that
marched across the midsouth
through Mississippi, Alabama,
Tennessee and Missouri.
Rains had stopped in the flood
ed areas along the Kentucky
Tennessee border, where 10
lives were lost, and the state
highway patrol at Harlan, Ky.,
reported the rampaging rivers
were receding.
In Arkansas, National Guards
men patrolled the storm-shattered
towns to prevent looting.
Death Toll Revised
. Red Cross officials here re
vised upward the number of
killed by the raging storms in
Arkansas from 121 to 149 with
711 injured. Elsewhere a state-by-stata
breakdown issued by
Red Cross headquarters in Wash
ington gave this picture:
Alabama: 8 dead, 46 injured.
Tennessee: 60 dead, 257 in
jured. - Mississippi: 11 dead, 23 . in
jured. Kentucky: 7 dead, 1 injured.
Missouri: 15 dead, 69 injured.
Officials received applications
from 2,612 families for various
kinds of help.
The Red Cross listed 975
homes demolished by the on
slaught of the storms and an
other 1,391 damaged.
Car Given Homeless
Red Cross and Salvation Army
relief workers supplied food,
clothing and shelter to .the
homeless, while doctors and
nurses gave medical aid to the
injured in hospitals and impro
vised clinics set up in churches,
schools and other structures.
Red Cross disaster headquart
ers here sent a "rush" shipment
of milk, baby bottles and nipples
to Searcy, Ark., in the heart of
the tornado-belted area.
Federal officials, acting on
orders from President Truman,
began a survey of the stricken
areas to determine relief possi
bilities. The Red Cross increased
its national disaster fund by $5,
000,000 to care for the needy.
State of Emergency
Gov. Sid McMath of Arkansas
proclaimed a state of emergency
at Judsonia and Bald Knob and
Tennessee's Gov. Gordon Brown
ing ordered all ( state relief
agencies into action in the west
ern part of the state.
Clean-up crews with bulldoz
ers began shoving into the debris
and muck that lay across the
earth, as the search for bodies
continued through the jumble of
wrecked homes and buildings,
trees and utility poles.
Hong Kong (U.R) U. S.
Navy Secretary Dan A. Kimball
left Hong Kong Monday for
Okinawa to continue his tour of
Pacific naval installations. From
Okinawa he will go to Formosa
and then to Japan. .
Mrs Truman
Regarding 4
Washington (U.R) Mrs. Tni-
man can be as evasive as tne
President about where the Tru
mans hope to spend the next
four years.
The first lady proved that she,
too, is skillful at dodging ques
tions when she took a group of
newspaper women on a tour of
the family quarters of the reno
vated White House Sunday.
Rare Opportunity
It was a rare opportunity for
reporters since Mrs. Truman
never holds press conferences.
They tried to make the most of
it.
"Would you like to spend four
more years at the White House?"
asked a reporter who was well
eware that Mrs. Truman would
like nothing better than for her
MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 24,
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TORNADO KILLS 250 Aerial view shows the business district of Judsonia, Ark., which was
the hardest hit when a tornado
looked as though it had been struck by two 500-pound bombs and
artillery. Arkansas counted 149
Rain on Snowpack
Brings Potential
Danger of Floods
A potential danger of damag
ing floods in southwestern Ore
gon was reported today by Bob
Church, meteorologist in charge
of the Medford weather bureau.
The danger is not immediate, he
said.
A record-breaking snowpack
is lying in the mountains, and
Rainfall sine the start of
the agricultural year her on
Sept. 1, 1951, already exceeds
lh average for a 12-month
period, weather bureau rec
ords showed today. The total
since September 1 was 18.06
as of midnight last night. The
average is 17.89.
the freezing level has gone up to
an altitude of about 11,000 feet.
Church reporter, while rains are
falling generally throughout the
mountains.
Streams are beginning to rise,
he said.
But the danger of flooding
will probably be lessened by an
inflow of cooler air from the
northwest. Church predicted,
which will bring the freezing
level down to 7,000 or 7,500 feet.
There will be continued melting
at lower levels. Church said, and
the situation may resolve into a
favorable one permitting the
gradual melting of the heavy
snow pack.
Showers to Decrease
The showers now falling in
the area will decrease early this
week, he said the forecasts
showed.
Snow survey radio reports
from Diamond lake said that 1.4
inches of rain fell there between
Sunday and Monday mornings.
Temperature this morning was
34 degrees two degrees above
freezing and the total snow
pack is 97 inches.
At Lake O' Woods it also has
been raining steadily for the past
24 hours. The temperature is
nearing the freezing point, and
there are 58 inches of snow.
Vancouver, B. C. (U.R)
Eighty-six passengers aboard the
Union Steamship company pas
senger vessel SS Cardina were
taken off by tugs Monday after
the 226-foot ship ran aground at
the entrance to Vancouver har
bor in dense fog. . . ;
Evades Reporters' Question
More Years jn White House
husband to take himself out of
the presidential race.
"That's a question you'll not
get a yes or 'no out of me,"
retorted the first lady.
To take the sting out of the
reply she laughed and added.
". . . but that's a fair enough
question, I'll admit."
Special Preview
"Could you stand it, if you had
to?" asked another reporter.
"Well," said Mrs. . Truman, "I
have stood it for seven years."
About 1,000 members of Con
gress, other government men
and their wives also got a spe
cial preview of the $5,700,000
remodeling project Sunday.' Mrs.
Truman, however, did not linger
to greet them. She and Mr. Tru
man will receive them at an ofii-
ripped through four states killing
dead, Tennessee 60, Missouri 15,
Sierra Nevada Range
Gets Fresh Snowfall
By UNITED PRESS
The most destructive storm of
the winter howled toward the
Far North Monday, leaving be
hind it a swath of destruction
down the nation's midsection
from the Canadian border to the
deep south.
The weather bureau said the
giant storm would howl itself out
of existence in the Canadian
northland.
But in the mountains of the
west, fresh ' snow ' fell on the
Sierra Nevada range, already
choked under the heaviest
blanket of snow in decades.
'Operation Hay lift' Stalled
"Operation Haylift," designed
to bring feed to more than 600.
000 head of livestock faced with
possible starvation, was stalled
temporarily at least because of
the rough flying weather.
The pileup of snow in the
mountains brought grave threats
of floods to the San Joaquin val
ley at the western base of the
Sierra Nevada mountains.
Authorities said it would be
Europe Must Aid
Self, Ike Believes
Washington (U.R) Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower believes
western Europe can be defended
only if its nations do their ut
most to help themselves, his
chief of staff said Monday.
Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther told
the Senate Foreign Relations
committee that Eisenhower "is
firmly of the opinion that the
defense of a region such as west
ern Europe must come basically
from within.
Gruenther's statement to the
committee was released after he
had testified more than two
hours in closed session as Eisen
hower's stand-in, in support oi
the $7,900,000,000 mutal securi
ty program.
Eisenhower feels th'e '.'United
States can do much in providing
heavy and highly complicated
forms of military equipment as
well as other forms of support,"
Gruenther said, "but a success
ful defense in western Europe
can in the long run be created
and maintained only if the coun
tries there make a maximum, ef
fort in terms of their own re
sources."
cial party later.
Both tours tramped through
nearly all of the 107 rooms of the
reconstructed mansion from
the stainless steel and chromium
kitchen on the ground to the
new glass-enclosed solarium on
the roof". They were excluded
only from the secret under
ground shelter. .
Solarium Most Pleasant
Most visitors .found the 10
sided solarium with its green-upholstered
bamboo furniture and
high outlook over the city, the
pleasantest room in the White
House. A small family dining
table has been placed in the
center of the room and it is ap
parent the Trumans intend to eat
many meals there this summer.
Tribune
lalteS Pre Salt UuM Ut
1952
No. 2
250 and injuring 1.107. Judsonia
then shelled by a concentration of
and Mississippi 11.
the heaviest spring run-off in 40
years once warm weather turned
the mountain snowpack into
water.
The snowpack at present holds
up to 155 per cent of its normal
amount of water. It is a record
159 inches deep in places.
Winds up to 55 miles an hour
piled snow 10 feet deep in some
portions of the northern Mid
west.
Robinson Gains -Labor
Support
Portland (U.R) The execu
tive board of the Oregon state
federation of labor declined
Monday to recommend to its
members any choice among the
candidates for president on the
states primary election ballot.
However, the board made the
following recommendations for
congressman in Oregon:
First district. Earl E. Fisher,
tieaverton. republican, No rec
ommendation for unopposed
Democrat.
Second district. John G. Jones.
La Grande, Democrat. No recom
mendation for Republican.
Third district, Hober D. An
gel!. Portland Republican. No
recommendation for Democrat.
Fourth district, no recommen
dation in either party.
The board made no recommen
dation for secretary of state or
attorney general, but recom
mended Fred E. Robinson. Med
ford, Republican, and L. W.
Blakeslee. Portland. Democrat
for state treasurer.
German Newsman
Begins Visit Here
Gunther Barth. a young news
paperman from Dusseldorf, Ger
many, spent his first day at work
on The Mail Tribune today. He
is visiting the newspaper for one
week through a cooperative ar
rangement between the school
of journalism at the University
of Oregon and The Mail Tribune.
A' drama, art and music sub
editor on the Reinishe Post of
Dusseldorf. which has a circula
tion of 250.000 in a city of 550.
000, Barth is in this country on
an exchange scholarship. His
visit to Medford is during spring
vacation at the university.
Today he accompanied Mail
Tribune staff members on their
beats, and received an introduc
tion to the workings of a small
city newspaper. A series of ar
ticles, giving his impressions of
America, and of Medford. will be
published in The Mail Tribune
during the week.
Karl Janouch Named
Deputy Treasurer
Karl Janouch. former super
visor of Rogue River National
forest, and more recently asso
ciated with lumber firms here
and in the Willamette valley, fas
been named deputy county treas
urer, it was announced today by
Treasurer Ralph Sweeney.
Janouch succeeds Walter Dun
lap, who resigned earlier this
month due to ill health after 16
years in the office.
HST Asks 300,000
Europeans Allowed
To Enter America
3-Year Immigration
Program Requested
Key West 'U.R) President
Truman asked Congress Monday
to let an additional 300.000
Europeans, including fugitives
from iron curtain countries, into
the United States during the
next three years.
The chief executive proposed
a three-year emergency immi
gration program designed to as
sist "fugitives from Soviet
terror" and to meet the need for
increasing migration from over
crowded European areas.
Tare Point Program
He outlined a basic three-
point program in a lengthy mes
sage to Congresss:
1. "Provide aid for the unfor
tunate victims of oppression who
are escaping from Communist
tyranny behind the iron cur
tain."
2. "Continue our participation
in the international effort now
being made to assist in the mi
gration and resettlement
throughout the world of a sub
stantial number of persons from
the overpopulated areas of west
ern Europe.
3. "Authorize additional im
migration into this country, on
a limited basis, to aid in allevi
ating the problems created by
Communist tyranny and overpo
pulation in western Europe.
rouows Sunday Action
The message followed action
by the president Sunday to start
the use of American funds for
recruitment of iron curtain es
capees in the North Atlantic De
fense forces.
Mr. Truman okayed the first
expenditure of $4,300,000 in mu
tual assistance money under the
so-called Kersten amendment
which authorizes the use of up
to 9ioo.ooo.ooo for this purpose.
Mr. Truman pointed out Mon
day that the recruitment of fugi
tives lor kato military forces
and their formation into active
military units posed "great and
administrative difficulties" and
would not eliminate the need
for additional measures to use
the "skills and energies" of fu
gitives in civilan life.
Problem Overshadowed
The president 'felt, however.
that the problems of helping
fugitives from Soviet terror"
were "overshadowed by the need
for Increasing migration from
the overcrowded areas of Eu
rope."
Labeling existing immigration
laws "inadequate," Mr. Truman
pointed out that the Displaced
Persons act will end this year
and the United States will re
vert to the quota system of im
migration. Present immigration laws pro
vided for the admission of about
150.000 immigrants a year un
der a quota system. The presi
dent's request for admission of
an . additional 300,000 over a
three-year period was similar to
the post-war displaced persons
program which provided for en
try of 400.000 additional immi
grants over the quotas.
Governor Undecided
On Daylight Saving
Salem (U.R) Gov. Douglas
McKay said Saturday he has
not yet made up his mind wheth
er to declare daylight saving
time in effect for Oregon this
year. He said:
'The question of daylight sav
ing time is being discussed and
agitated again this year and I
have been urged to issue a state
ment regarding my position on
the subject for the coming sea
son.
'Up to this time. I am frank
to state. I have not had informa
tion sufficient to justify action
and until I receive positive evi
dence which justifies me in de
ciding that the economic wel
fare of the people of this state is
affected, I am not inclined or ob
ligated to act thereon."
Ho Let-Up Sighted
For llorthwest Rain
By UNITED PRESS
The weatherman pulled a fast
switch on the Pacific Northwest
during the week-end and instead
of the promised sunshine sent
down rain by the buckets-full.
Forecasters Monday said no
immediate letup was In sight
A rain-heavy air mass moved
in from the Pacific and com
pletely fooled the weather bu
reau which had predicted sunny
skies over the region at least,
through Sunday.
Heaviest rainfall was report
ed at Newport on the Oregon
coast where 3.10 inches fell dur
ing a 24-hour period. North
Bend, Ore, had 2.26 inches.
Portland had .68 of an inch at
the airport and .67 downtown.
Jakarta, Indonesia (UJ9
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt arrives
here Thursday from Singapore
for a two-day visit to Indonesia.
Bold Beach Elian
Hangs Self After
Admitting
CoquiUe, Ore. U.R Glen
Raines, 43, who admitted to state
police that he killed his former
wife Feb. 4 and buried her body
at the foot of an enbankment
south of Gold Beach, Ore.,
hanged himself in his jail cell
here early Monday.
The body of Raines former
wife. Mrs. Ruth Genevive Marr,
51, was not found until last
week.
Death Follows Quarrel
Raines told State Police Sgt.
Howard Marsh Saturday he
killed Mrs. Marr in a (trailer
house at Gold Beach after an ar
gument. He told Marsh she
pulled a gun from a mattress and
pointed it at him. He said he
picked up a frying pan from the
stove, intending to knock her off
balance, and struck her twice.
When he discovered she was
Taft Strength Said
Unhurt by Recent
Eisenhower Gains
Washington U.R) The Taft
camp claimed Monday that its
"basic strength" was unhurt by-
recent gains of Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower.
A campaign aide of Sen. Rob
ert A. Taft conceded that there
has been a "change" in the po
litical climate since Taft's defeat
by Eisenhower in the New
Hampshire Republican presiden
tial primary.
"But our basic strength hasn t
been disturbed," the Taft spokes
man said.
Mor Confidence Shown
The Eisenhower organization
has shown growing confidence
as a result of the New Hamp-
shire primary, Eisenhower s
startling, writein vote in the
Minnesota primary and Taft's
withdrawal from the New Jersey
primary.
Eisenhower supporters were
further encouraged by two fth
et developments Monday:
1. The Washington Post, which
has never endorsed a presiden
tial candidate within the mem
ory or its present executives,
came out for the nomination and
election of Eisenhower as the
Republican candidate capable of
ridding. the country of "political
blight and mediocre leadership
2. Sources close to Eisenhower
reported in Paris that the gen
eral win make a television re
port to the American people on
April 2 on the progress of his
European rearmament mission,
and that he probably will return
to the United States about May
15 to deliver a series of at least
three major speeches.
But Taft supporters pooh
poohed the idea that an Eisen
hower bandwagon is beginning
to roll.
Nw Strength Seen
David S. Ingalls, Taft's mana
ger, said in a formal statement
Sunday night that "despite a lot
of sound and fury by the, stop
Taft forces, Sen. Taft's position
in the race for the Republican
nomination has actually been
strengthened."
Sabrejefs Add 14
MIGs fo War Toll
Seoul (U.R) American jet ni-
Iots shot down or damaged 14
Russian-built MIG-15 jets in four
violent battles high over North
Korea Monday.
F-86 Sabrejets knocked down
three MIGs, probably downed
two more and damaged seven.
F-84 Thunderjets damaged two.
The first air clash came when
32 Sabrejets ripped into 30 Com
munist planes just as they
crossed the Yalu river into North
Korea. One of the MIGs was
shot down, one probably shot
down and two damaged.
There was no immediate re
port of Allied losses.
Governor Completing
Trip Here by Ground,
Weather Closes Airport
Gov. Douglas McKay, who is
to speak at a Chamber of Com
merce dinner here this evening,
was scheduled to arrive in Med
ford late this afternoon from
Eugene.
The governor started his trip
by commercial airliner, but left
Ithe plane at Eugene when weath
er conditions closed tne airport
here temporarily and made it
uncertain That the plane could
land at Medford. He is complet
ing the trip by air line limousine.
The governor will speak at a
forum meeting sponsored by the
Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce at 7:15 p. m. at the
Rogue Valey Country club. A
social hour will precede the dinner.
Murder
dead, Raines told authorities he
drove about five miles south of
Gold Beach and carried the
body down an enbankment.
buried it in loose dirt and put
ferns over the top of the grave.
Several days later, he said, he
felled a tree across the grave.
Daughter Suspicious
Mrs. Evelyn LaChappelle,
Reedsport, a daughter of Mrs.
Marr, became suspicious of
Raines' story that her mother
had gone to San Francisco. She
went to Gold Beach last week
and found there was a draft
against her mother's bank ac
count. Mrs. LaChappelle and Gold
Beach Police Chief Victor Lortie
went to the trailer house where
Raines lived. When he stepped
outside, they challenged him.
Lortie said Raines began to run
but stopped after he fired a shot.
Arrested for Forgery
Raines was arrested on a for
gery charge. On Saturday he
confessed killing Mrs. Marr. The
body was found where Raines
said he had buried it.
The trailer house was taken to
Reedsport and Raines was taken
there yesterday. He described to
officers how it had happened.
He was returned to jail at
CoquiUe Sunday night. His body
was found about 7 a.m. Monday.
Authorities said he hanged him
self with a strip of blanket torn
from his bed.
Truman, Wilson
Study Steel Strike
Key West -4U.R) President
Truman and Defense Mobilizer
Charles E. Wilson sought Mon
day to devise a plan for avoiding
a steel strike without causing
another costly spurt of inflation.
Wilson and the President,
meeting in the winter White
House, studied a series of plans
and alternatives which Wilson
brought with him on a flying
trip from Washington Sunday
night. The mobilization director
was to fly back to the capital
Monday afternoon.
Wilson submitted a series of
recommendations to the Presi
dent, thus putting not onlv the
inreatened steel strike, but the
economic consequences involved
in a settlement squarely up to
Mr. Truman.
The mobilization director
would not discuss his plans with
reporters until he finished his
talks with Mr. Truman.
16 Persons Killed
In Africa Air Crash
Dakar .French West Africa
(U.R) Sixteen persons were kill
ed and three were injured seri
ously Monday when an "African
Tropical Transport Society"
plane crashed and burned near
Gao in French Nigeria.
The crash occurred 80 miles
northeast of Niamey.
A baby was among the passen
gers killed.
All three crewmen died when
the plane, which apparently de
veloped engine trouble, plowed
into the jungle a mile outside
Gao.
A company spokesman said
the plane crashed immediately
after taking off from Gao on a
routine flight to Nice.
Ruch School Gymnasium
Bond Issue Defeated
Ruch A proposed S20.000
bond issue for the purpose of
constructing a new gymnasium
for the Ruch school was defeated
by a one-vote margin at an elec
tion here last week. j
The vote was 52 for the bond
issue, 53 against.
3 Children Lost in Storm;
Searchers Find Two Dead
Oconto, Wis. (U.R) Rescuers
searching for three small chil
dren lost in a blizzard in Nicolet
National forest Monday found
one of them alive and the other
two dead.
They were found by a tavern
keeper in an outbuilding near
a hunting lodge where search
ers by the hundreds had tramp
ed since the children were re
ported missing since .Saturday.
Survivor Hungry
The only survivor, four-year-
old Mary Ann Church, was tak
en to the office of Dr. J. S.
Dougherty in nearby Suring,
Wis.
The bodies of her sister,
Kathy, 5, and her cousin, Stevie
Kennedy, 5, were brought in
later. Their bodies' were stiff,
the doctor said.
But Mary Ann, who had sur
vived the blizzard and the bit
ter cold for 43 hours, apparently
had suffered no serious effects.
Hews Blackout
On Prisoner Issue
Being Discussed
Further Discussion
On Secrecy Matter
Panmunjom (U.R) Allied
and Communist truce negotia
tors "almost" reached agreement
Monday on clamping a news ban
on deadlocked prisoner of war
discussions.
Both sides met for more than
three hours discussing the scope
and form of future talks on ex
changing prisoners. A UN spokes
man said the talks were "quasi
confidential." Further Discussions
"We almost came to an agree
ment, but not quite," said Allied
staff officer Col. George W.
Hickman after the session. "We
will discuss the matter of secre
cy for 20 minutes Tuesday."
Brig. Gen. William P. Nuck
ols, the official UN spokesman,
refused to give details of Mon
day's conversations. However, he
said the negotiators discussed
whether they should meet in
executive sessions "in which
both sides would be free to ex
press points of view and to de
velop these points of view over
a period of perhaps days hi com
plete privacy."
They also discussed what they
would talk about, once they
reach agreement on secrecv.
Nuckols said.
Meeting Lai
The meeting began three
hours late at the request of the
UN, but it was not known why.
Other negotiators took up the
question of ports of entry to be
used by both sides once an arm
istice is reached. The Commu
nists submitted for Allied ap
proval five new maps outlining
areas for Korean ports of entry.
The maps at first glance ar
peared in "general agreement"
with UN ideas.
"As for the ports of entry con
cerned, conceivably we could
wrap it up tomorrow," said Col.
Don O. Darrow, UN staff of-.
ficer.
Information Undecided
Hickman said there was no dis
cussion in the prisoner meeting
of what kind of information
would be given the press in case
a news blackout is decided upon.
The prisoner of war discus
sions became deadlocked on the
Communists' demand for forc
ible repatriation. The Allies have
insisted on voluntary repatri
ation. ,
San Francisco Girl
Found Beaten, Raped
San Francisco (U.R) The
nude body of a 17-year-old high
school girl, the victim of a rape
and brutal beating, was found in
a clump of hedge near Mission
high school Monday.
The girl was identified as
Hilda Rose Pagan, a student at
the high school.
The body was found by An
drew Young, 64-year-old night
watchman, who told police he
was taking a customary morning
walk through the Mission Do
lores park when he came upon
the body.
The girl had been reported
missing Sunday night by an
uncle, Jose Monilo, when she
failed -to return from a movie
she attended in the late after
noon.
Washington (U.R) Ren.
Lowell Stockman (R., Ore.) left
here Monday by air for a tour
of military installations in the
Far and Middle East.
Weather
FORECAST: .Cloudy with occa
... sional rain through Tuesday.
Mild temperature!. Low to
night 40. High Tuesday 52. ..
Temp.
Highest Yesterday 45
Lowest this Morning 40
Prec. to 4:30 a-m. Today 33
"We gave her some hot milk,"
the doctor said, "but she insist
ed that she liked coffee better.
"And she kept asking for a
sandwich," he said. "She told
me she was 'awful hungry."
The three children wandered
away from the Arnold Church
home about 3 p. m. Saturday.
No snow was falling but within
an hour a full-blown blizzard
hit the lonely north woods area.
Parents Appeal for Help
The parents sent an urgent
appeal for help. Volunteers by
the hundreds swarmed into the
area from surrounding counties,
bloodhounds were brought in
and a Civil Air Patrol plane took
off to aid in the search.
The searching party walked
repeatedly within 300 to 400
feet of the hunting camp Satur
day and Sunday, and a snow-
plow cleared part of the area in
ha search for the children.