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From Armored ar; Two Ellen Arrested Guards Drink Coffee While Vehicle Looted Danvers, Mass. (U.R) Three $600,000 Tuesday in the biggest and within two hours two men were seized in New Hampshire and a third was believed trapped in Everett, Mass. . . , , , - In Madbury, N.H., some 30 miles north of busy Danvers square, where the robbery occurred, one man was wounded and captured with his companion after a highway chase by a state trooper. Red Cross Drive Only 30 Per Cent Subscribed So Far Only about 30 per cent of the $27,000 goal of the Jackson county chapter of the Red - Cross has been subscribed so far, it was reported today. The funds cover all expenses of the chapter, and also this county's share in the national $85,000,000 budget. Leaders of the fund drive today made a special appeal to residents of the county to increase their con tributions for the vital work. Checks can be mailed to the Red Cross Fund Drive, Leverette building, Medford, or handed to any Red Cross volunteer worker. Tornado Aid Asked In addition to the regular de mands, leaders here were ad vised yesterday of a special re quest for an additional $490 for assistance to residents of the tor nado disaster area in Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi and Mis souri. An emergency relief fund of $1,000,000 has, been appropri ated for the work, and some $4,000,000 more will be needed, according to estimates. Doctors and nurses have been ent into the stricken area, blood and plasma delivered by plane, and cots, blankets, generators and water purifiers brought in to care for life and welfare. The Red Cross has also han dled messages from those who are anxious about friends or rel ative in the disaster area, in ch z several from Jackson eounty. Phone Workers Vole To Strike ' Washington U.R) The CIO Communications Workers an nounced Tuesday that more than 55,000 telephone workers, in stallers in 44 states, have voted to strike unless they get a "sub stantial" wage increase. The union said the workers voted 4 to 1 to give CWA Presi dent Joseph Bierne authority to call a walkout after five days notice. No strike date has been set. Voting to strike were 18,000 Michigan bell employees. 15,000 Ohio Bell workers and 7,000 em ployees of Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. in northern Cali fornia, as well as 15,750 tele phone installers and distributors of the Western Electric system across the country. Those workers staged an 11 day strike in November, 1950, winning a six per cent wage boost. Their average hourly pay is $1.53. Portland (U.R) Today marks the 40th anniversary of continu ous United Press service to the Astorian-Budget at Astoria, Ore. Personality, Help of Individuals Needed in Gov. McKay Tells Chamber of Commerce uovernment needs your per sonality and your help," Gov. Douglas McKay told members of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce and their wives and guests at a forum dinner meeting last evening at the Rogue Valley Country club. More than 180 persons heard the governor's talk, the first sdeech in a series of quarterly forum meetings, which will bring outstanding speakers to Medford. "Businessmen have been neg lectful of government," the gov ernor said. "You must do more than vote, and occasionally con tribute to some candidate's cam paign fund. You cannot delegate your duties as citizens, as you delegate your' business responsi bilities, if we are to survive as a free enterprise community." "Must Have Faith" We must have faith, he said, faith in God and faith in the fundamental virtues on which this country was so successfully built, the governor emphasized. "If we do so, nothing can stop us." he said. The governor's talk was pre ceded by a report from Chamber President Jorgen Jorgensen, who told of the work of a number of the chamber's committees. men looted an armored truck of cash robbery since Brink a Inc., Police Comb Area For Another Suspect Meanwhile, in Everett, 15 miles south of here, where the robbers' stolen car was -found abandoned, some 50 police combed an area where another suspect was believed to have holed up. A blood-hound was brought in to try to pick up his trail on the city streets. The two were identified as Norman Vaile, of Boston, who was wounded, and Joseph Wil liam Kelley, of Woburn, Mass. Vaile was hospitalized but was not in serious condition. Guards Drink Coffee The robbery occurred while three guards of the U. S. Arm ored Car Corp. were busy drink ing coffee in a drug store in the center of this North Shore com munity. They had made several deliv eries, their last at the Danvers National Bank. just across the street from the store where they were having a mid-morning snack. The truck was parked at the curbing outside. Danger of Floods Said Decreasing Danger of flooding as a result of rains in southwestern Oregon decreased today, according , to Bob Church, meteorologist in charge of the Medford weather bureau. Rains have decreased, he said, and the frezing level has come lower. Streams wil remain "high and dirty," but flood danger is "much improved," Church added. ;. Generally damp and 'warm weather is foreseen during the week, according to the weather bureau. - Broadcasts of frost warnings will begin either Thursday or Monday, depending- on' the weather, the county agent's of fice reported today. If it remains warm and buds continue to ma ture, the first broadcast by' Fed eral Meteorologist Roy Rogers will probably be Thursday. If it gets colder, slowing, develop ment of the buds, the first broad cast will be Monday. Transit Strike Threat Continues in Portland Portland U.R) A transporta tion strike continued to threaten Portlanders Tuesday after an llth-hour attempt to postpone the April 1 walkout of AFL bus drivers failed. Harvey Thomas, business agent, Monday rejected for the union the suggestion of Mayor Dorothy McCullough Lee that the the strike be put off 60 days. Later, he rejected a request of the citizens' committee on trac tion matters that it be postponed for 15 days so some temporary answer to the problem might be worked out. The governor, who was intro duced by Jennings Piecre, chair man of the chamber's ' forum committee, stressed the need for honesty and economy in govern ment, and cited the fact that one third of the nation's income now goes for taxes, federal, state and local "That's too big," he said. The governor reviewed the financial condition of the state government, and said it is better than some critics believe. First of all, he stated, unprecedented collections of income taxes dur ing the war years left a big sur plus in the treasury a situation which he felt bad. "If you have money, there's always someone who finds ways to spend it," he said, and added that he felt it should have been invested in buildings so badly needed by many of the state's in stitutions. Deficit Foreseeable Since 1949, the governor ex plained, the state has been spending $10,000,000 more than it has been taking in in taxes. Despite the fact that both in come taxes and corporate excise taxes are coming in at a higher rate than was first estimated, the state still will spend more than it takes in during the current biennium. and a deficit is fore .Titan Accused Of Trying To End Wage Stabilization CIO Head Refuses To Consider Proposal Washington (U.B CIO Presi dent Philip Murray Tuesday ac cused Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson of trying to "wreck the entire wage stablization pro gram' and bluntly refused to consider his new proposals for heading off a steel strike. In an angrily-worded state ment that carried the threat of a future union boycott of the Wage Stabilization Board, Mur ray said his United Steel work ers will spurn an invitation to meet with Wilson. Wilson Silent Wilson had no immediate com ment on Murray's blast. But some of his top aides were sum moned to a hurried conference after midnight, and there -were indications that a Wilson state ment might be forthcoming. The defense mobilizer return ed Monday night from emergen cy conferences with President Truman at Key West, Fla., and announced that he would call in steel industry and union leaders to discuss "a whole - series of plans" for settling the wage dis pute which threatens to result in a nationwide strike April 8. Recommendation Repudiated Wilson repudiated the wage Board's recommendation that the dispute be settled with a 17V4 cent hourly wage increase plus fringe " benefits adding up to another Blk cents an hour. He said the board s propo sals already accepted by the union "would be a serious threat to our year-old effort to stabilize the economy." The Wage Board ruled last week' that the 26 cents-an-hour ''package" increase could be granted within present stabiliza tion rules. : Washington (U.R) Mobili zation authorities said Tuesday that President Truman may be asked to change the Wage Sta bilization Board s steel wage rec ommendations if they are found to violate wage ceilings. A spokesman for Defense Mo bilization Director Charles E, Wilson . said the board s wage recommendations are being re viewed by Economic Stabilizer Roger ,L. Putnam. He said Putnam, is expected to submit a formal report to Wilson in the next 48 hours and that Putnam then can turn the ques tion over to Mr. Truman. ,' U.S. May Modify 7th Fleet Policy Taipeh. Formosa (U.R) U. S. Navy Secretary Dan Kimball hinted Tuesday the United States . may consider modifying its policy under which the U. S. Seventh Fleet has been operat ing in the Strait of Formosa. ' Kimball told a press confer ence there has been no modifica tion yet in President Truman's directive charging the Seventh Fleet with protecting Formosa from the Communists and pre venting the Chinese Nationalists from operating- on the mainland of China. "There has been no modifi cation in the directive, but times are changing." he said. Kimball did not expand his remark. . Finnegan Sentenced To Two Years in Jail St. Louis. Mo. (U.R) James P. Finnegan,. former Internal Revenue collector, Monday was sentenced to two years in prison and fined $10,000. seeable, he believes particularly if the voters turn down a pro posed cigarette tax at the No vember general election. There are two solutions, he de clared increase the state's rev enue, or cut down on expendi tures. But he pointed out that it is easier to say "cut down on expenses" than it is to do so, be cause a large proportion of the budget represents continuing ex penses voted by the people them selves outside the 6 per cent lim itation on expenditure increases. Education. Welfare Sixty per cent of the budget is for education and welfare costs, he . explained, and most residents don't want to cut down on educational benefits for their children, nor the amounts made available to those who need fi nancial help to live. ' He also reviewed Oregon's bonded indebtedness, explaining that most of the debt is in self liquidating bonds. The total debt will be somewhat more than $100,000,000 by the end of this year, he said, but he emphasized that the state's credit is still ex cellent. .It is backed by the best security in the world, the prop erty of Oregon, he added. Bonding projects which he re viewed include highway bonds, Medford Win 47th Year 16 Pages Six Men Perish As Blaze Sweeps Los Angeles Hotel Cleric Given Credit For Heroic Effort Los Angeles. (U.R) A flash fire swept the' upper floors of the St. George hotel in the heart of Los Angeles skid row early Tuesday, killing at least six per sons. Only the heroic efforts of night clerk Leland Whitehouse kept the toll from soaring higher. 50 Overcome by Smoke More than 50 of the hotel's residents were temporarily over come by smoke. But only 10 per sons were hospitalized. Others were treated at the scene by fire department inhalator squads. The dead, all men, were first deposited on the street in front of the five-story structure. Later they were removed to the city morgue where efforts were made to identify them. Dead identified were A. J. Bernhart, Seattle, who fell to his death from a fifth floor ledge and Charles Ellis Black, 50, and J. R. Moore, 40, both address unknown. Three others were unidentified. Clerk Spreads Alarm The blaze was reported to clerk Whitehouse shortly after 3 a. m. when a tenant on the top floor phoned, screaming: "The entire top floor is on fire." Whitehouse rode the ele vator to the fourth floor and then raced from room to room awakening the unsuspecting resi dents with shouts of: "Fire; fire." Then he returned to his switchboard post, phoning ten ants in the lower floor. The lobby was untouched by flames but flooded by smoke. . , Screaming victims were heard two and three blocks from the hotel and much of the Los An geles downtown area was silhou- eted by the flames which at tracted thousands of curious. Court Order Hearing Delayed Until Friday A hearing on- a temporary court order to restrain picketing and other practices at the South ern Oregon Planing Mill com pany, Central Point, has been held over until Friday, attorneys for the firm said today. The defendants, two unions and seven individuals, were orig inally ordered by Circuit Judge H. K. Hanna to appear at 9:30 a. m. today to show cause wny an injunction should not be im posed. The hearing was delayed to allow Portland attorneys in terested in the case to have further time, they said. Named as defendants in the case are 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, officials of the lumber workers union, and Harold Mc Kenzie, Joe Kulas and S. D. Nel son, representatives of the car penters brotherhood. Government, Forum Here which are vital to the welfare of the residents of the state. which save them money in the long run and which are self liquidating from gas and use taxes and fees, and the Tilla mook burn reforestation project of $10,000,000. the largest re forestation job ever undertaken anywhere in the world, which is a forward-looking undertaking which will benefit future gener ations. Importance of Water Governor McKay, in conclud ing his talk, stressed the import ance of water development the expanding of a usable and re usable resource, which will still be here when the oil and coal of other states is gone. He predicted that Industry would outstrip forestry as the state's . No. 1 industry before long, and said that despite our individual feelings, this change is coming, and we must assume our obligations to the workers of the state and assist the develop ment of industry. He pointed out that, the many conflicting views on the best way in which to achieve this de velopment can be reconciled by discussion and compromise, pre ferably before they reach the "fight" stage. MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH Tabby's Long Jaunt May Win Alaska Trip A big white tomcat that trav eled some SO miles In about 14 hours has just about won him self a trip to Alaska. The cat which is a family pet of Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Cox. Talent, was taken to the home of relatives in Klamath Falls Sunday by Mr. and Mrs. Cox. They are planning a trip to Alaska this summer and wanted to make sure the ani mal had a good home during their absence. When last seen in Klamath Falls by the Talent couple, the cat was drinking milk from a saucer in the kitchen. When next seen, it was on their back porch in Talent Monday morn ing looking for more milk. How it made such a fast trip is a mystery. Mrs. Cox now thinks it will be easier to take the cat to Alaska than to leave it here. Prisoner of War Issue Discussed In News Blackout Panmunjom (U.R) Allied negotiators met with the Com munists under a newly-imposed news blackout and made a new attempt Tuesday to break a deadlock in the prisoner of war discussions. UN staff officers submitted a "preliminary statement" on a Communist proposal made March 5 to continue negotiations for exchanging prisoners of war on the basis of lists already ex changed. New Version Seen There was no indication what the United Nations command said, since the statement was made in secret session. But ob servers believed it was either a new version of a previous state ment, rejecting Communist pro posals, or an invitation to the Communists to alter their origi nal proposals. Ports Issue Disposed Meanwhile, staff officers in the next conference tent dispos ed of the ports of entry issue and resumed debate on a Communist proposal to name Russia as a "neutral" truce inspector. UN and Communist officers took only 20 minutes to decide to make the prisoner talks se cret. Each side had previously expressed the view that the stalemate might be broken if ne gotiators were granted "limited privacy." Bridges Advised To Clear Up Tax Role Washington !U.R) Rep. John W. Byrnes, R.-Wis., suggested Tuesday that Senate Republican leader Styles Bridges "clear up" his role in the $7,000,000 tax case of a Baltimore liquor dealer. Byrnes, a member of the House ways and means subcom mittee investigating tax scan dals, indicated that he would not press the iisue if Bridges is not disposed to testify. But the Wis consin congressman told news men: "I think the committee should hear Senator Bridges to clear up any questions concerning his ac tivity in this case. Bridges has acknowledged that he conferred with Internal Reve nue Bureau officials about the big tax assessment .against the iquor dealer, Hyman Harvey Klein. But he has not yet shown any desire to talk to the subcom mittee about the Klein case. Hew Appeal Made For Wilson Brothers Portland (U.R) Attorneys for condemned kidnap-slayers Tur- man and Utah Wilson Tuesday made a new appeal to Gov. Ar thur B. Langlie of Washington to commute the death sentences against the two brothers to life imprisonment Irvin Goodman, chief counsel for the Wilson brothers, said new evidence showed "these boys are absolutely innocent" of the kidnap-murder of 18-year-old JoAnn Dewey of Meadowglade, Wash. The new evidence Goodman said, concerned a beer bottle found near the scene of the ab duction on a downtown Van couver, Wash, street. - " Salem (U.R) Gov. Douglas McKay said Tuesday be has re appointed Charles H. Reynolds of La Grande as a member of the State Highway commission. The appointment is for a three year term. 3 WS BORDER BLOCKADE Trucks line tip for almost two miles along U. S. Route 20 at Conneaut, O., as the drivers halted in protest against Pennsylvania's 45,000-pound truck weight limit law. The blockade began at midnight and scenes like this were re enacted at many points along the Pennsylvania border. Police Probe Story Of Actress' Beating Hollywood (U.R) Actress Anne Sterling, savagely beaten during "an hour of hell and hu miliation," was treated at Holly wood Leland hospital Tuesday while sheriff's officers investi gated discrepancies in her story. - The - platinum blonde tele vision actress told sheriffs dep uties four "thugs" pounced on her and drove her to a house above the Sunset strip early Monday where they "beat and humiliated" her. Lost Consciouness Miss Sterling said she lost consciousness and the next thing she remembered was running down a road and stumbling into a friend's apartment. She was rushed to the hospital where she was "getting along nicely" and probably will be released Tuesday. Officers said they would question her again when she was released. Doctors said the actress' body was "bruised from her feet to her neck" as if she had been beaten with a cane." Dr. Henry W. Ephraim, who treated Miss Sterling, said she Drizzle Expected Through Wednesday By United Press It was warm but damp throughout the Pacific Northwest Tuesday and the weatherman said drizzles could be expected through Wednesday. Forecasters said temperatures generally would be higher Wed nesday with highs up to 65 de grees west of the Cascades and 48-42 east of the mountains. All weather stations in Ore gon reported minimums above freezing Tuesday morning. Low est temperature reported was 34 degrees at several southern and eastern Oregon points. The coastal stripiad the heav iest rainfall during the last 24 hours with Newport, Ore., re porting .62 of an inch. Portland had .48 at the airport. Fresh Storm Moving West Toward Nevada By United Press A fresh storm moved over the Rocky mountains Tuesday to ward snow-smothered Nevada as the tornado-ravaged sections of the South worked at their mas sive cleanup job. " The weather bureau raid the new storm packed rain and snow squalls. Forecasters would give no promise that "Operation Haylift" could be resumed so that planes could drop urgently needed fod der to the starving cattle of the area. - - The snow worst in 60 years blocked the movement of seven transcontinental trains. Major cross-country highways .were partly blocked, with one-way traffic permitted in a few cases. United Ptcm TuU Lease Wire 25, 1952 No. 3 "received the brutal beating by someone versed in this dubious art." Shoes Not Scuffed The actress collapsed in hys terics after giving officers her version of the beating. Sheriff's homicide officers said, however, her shoes were not scuffed and there was no mark of abuse on her coat, skirt, girdle or stockings. Detectives also noted conflict ing times given by various prin cipals in the case and announced, "we're going to round up and question all concerned to get to the bottom of this." Watchman Foils Museum Burglary Jacksonville Watchman Dave- Dorn foiled an attempt to burg larize the Jacksonville Museum about 10 p.m. Monday when he surprised a youth who "was jim mying a window on the south side of the building. Dorn, who guards the museum during the night hours, went to the window when he heard a noise and flash ed his light through the glass. full in the would-be intruder's face. Before Dorn could summon police the youth dropped off the window ledge to the ground and with a companion escaped in a car which had been parked near the museum. According to the museum curator, Myrtle P. Lee, the sheriff's office has been given an auto license number which may lead to apprehension of the pair. ' Salem (U.R) State police were conducting a statewide search Tuesday for Lee Marsh, 31, who walked away from the prison farm -annex here some time Sunday night. Funny Money Treasury Department Says Houston, Tex. (U.R) It was up to the treasury department Tuesday to say whether Hous ton's funny money men can con tinue their lucrative business. The department was expected to issue a formal opinion later in the week on the legality of the fake money being sold at a good profit by printer Jack Fulshear and an associate. Not a Bit Funny But the Secret Service let it be known informally again that it didn't consider either Ful shear's "Mink Standard" gag money or printer Leo U. Kaiser's "Texas Buck" even a little bit funny. The Secret Service also em phatically denied from Washing ton that it had the slightest in terest in the political implica tions of Fulshear's funny money which carries a picture of "Smiling Harry" that resembles President Truman and bears Weather FORECAST: Partly elendy tw ilight and Wednesday with a . - few widely scattered showers. -, Low tonight 42; hia Wed aesday C2. - Terns. Highest Yesterday S3 Lowest this Morning 45 To 4:3 a. m. today . Credit Restraint Order Removed by President's Action Bond$ Now Musi Be Advertised and Sold . Salem (U.R) Oregon will start payment of its bonus to veterans of World War H as soon as bonds can be advertised and sold, now that President Truman has ordered the credit restraint removed, Gov. Douglas McKay said Tuesday. Bonus checks may start roll ing within 60 days. Gov. McKay, confined to his home with the flu Tuesday, told the United Press that the presi dent's statement of Monday that he had instructed Mobilization Director Charles Wilson to re move credit restriction of state and local government financial actions meant that Oregon could start advertising for . bids at once. Machinery Set Up As soon as the $40,000,000 bond issue is advertised and bids received, Oregon can start at once .to pay the bonus. The machinery is already set up. The bonus division of the State Department' of Veetrans Affairs has been processing ap plications as they have come in, and Hub Saalfeld, manager of the bonus - division, reminded veterans again that they had better get their applications in as soon as possible, for they are numbered as they are processed and it's a case of first come, first served. Reaction of Satisfaction The first reaction around the capitol to the President's action was one of satisfaction that Ore gon finally can pay the bonus. The second reaction was one of eyebrow-lifting at the presi dent's timing. Some observers said they could not understand why the President should make his. . announcement Monday . in stead of waiting until Oregon State Treasurer Walter Pearson, a fellow. Democrat, visited the national capital Wednesday. Pearson's ' purpose was to ask Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder and federal reserve bank officials to approve the Oregon bonus so that the credit restraint committee could approve the Oregon bonus. They said the president's action "knocked the wind out of the sails" of a fellow Democrat. Oregon voted at the Novem ber, 1950, election a bonus to its veterans or their survivors of $10 a month for domestic service and $15 a month for foreign service, to a maximum in either case of $600. Officials have esti- . mated total 'cost of the bonus would run between 50 and 60 million dollars. Greyhound Declares Demands Fantastic San Francisco (U.R) Pacifie "Greyhound lines has accused the striking AFL bus drivers union of trying to "bludgeon" the com pany into granting "fantastic demands. The demands, if granted, would boost fares to prohibitive levels, the company said. Pre sumably, officials were referring to the unions demands for a five-day week and wage in creases. Union spokesmen declared the company's charges were untrue. They said the company is trying to set up a "smoke screen of bankruptcy" to confuse the is sues. Not Funny, such inscriptions as "Mink. standard of value" and "tax waste." Fulshear, when first "re quested" by Secret , Service agents last week to refrain from printing the fake money he'd sold 3,000,000 copies of in three months, charged . his funny money was "too hot for Harry." To Change Scroll But after a conference with CoL Paul Hart, head of the Se cret Service at Houston, Ful shear said he agreed to change some of the numbers and scroll- work on his double-sized gag money, because Secret Service headquarters at Washington said it was "in the likeness of of ficial money. - A Washington spokesman for the federal agency said it has no interest in the political implica tions of the fake currency and aims only to discourage counterfeiting.
