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47th Year
Wisconsin Primary
Becomes Scramble
By 3 Candidates
Madison (U.R) The Wiscon
sin primary Wednesday devel
oped into a scramble by three
Republican presidential candi
dates to recruit support from
partisans of Gens. Dwight D.
Eisenhower and Douglas Mac
Arthur. Neither of the five-star gen
erals is listed on the ballot, and
election officials have declared
flatly that write-in votes will
not be counted.
Tail Supporters Active
And so supporters of Sen.
Robert A. Taft of Ohio have set
out to get the votes of Mac
Arthur backers, while the camps
of Gov. Earl Warren of Cali
fornia and former Gov. Harold
E. Stassen of Minnesota are woo
ing the Eisenhower adherents.
! Stassen made the boldest
move of all Tuesday night by
announcing that he would turn
over half of his still-to-be elected
Wisconsin delegates to Eisen
hower on the first ballot at the
GOP convention next .July,
i It was widely regarded as an
all-out bid for votes from Eisen
hower backers in the primary
next Tuesday.
Greeted With Silence
: Eisenhower's campaign man
agers in Washington, who have
refrained from any endorsement
in Wisconsin, greeted the Stas
sen announcement with silence,
but it drew a scattering of com
ment in-'the Midwest, much of it
unfavorable.
State Sen. Warren Knowles, a
Stassen backer in 1948 who
helped draft Wisconsin's presi
dential primary law, said the
move "ran counter to the spirit
of the law."
Knowles said the statutes
never contemplated "one man
running for another it con
templated bonafide candidates
for president."
Stassen himself did not ex
plain how he planned to release
half his slate of 30 delegates to
support Eisenhower on the first
ballot, but he dodged a direct
question on whether it meant he
was faltering in his own candi
dacy. "What I have to say is in my
speech," he said. "Draw your
own conclusions from that."
Allied Infantrymen
Repulse Red Attacks
; Seoul (U.R) Allied infantry
men with bayonets fixed drove
off two enemy platoons in a hill
battle on Korea's eastern front
Wednesday. .
The dawn raid was west of the
Red-infested , Mundugni valley.
The infantrymen, in three
groups, edged close to Red bunk
ers in the shadowy morning
light, then charged with hand
grenades and rifle fire.
: On the western front. Com
munists occupied one United Nations-held
position for 4V hours
before they were driven out by
attacking Allied troops. ;
Fighter - bombers, meanwhile
cut Communist railroad lines in
Korea another 94 times.
Salem (U.PJ Gov. Douglas
McKay confined to bed himself
with the ? flue issued a state
ment Wednesday designating
next Sunday as "shut-in- day" in
Oregon.
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" NEVADA SNOW POSES PROBLEM Nevada's worst winter
in 60 years presented major problems throughout most of the state
for the past several days. In upper photo a Navy C-54 cargo plane
of the Military Air Transport Service drops bales of hay (arrow)
over ranch near Elko, Nev., to aid livestock (left) starving in the
deep snow. An estimated 600,000 head of livestock face possible
starvation, on range land choked under the heavy snow blanket.
In lower photo, deer tamed by hunger more intense than their
fear of man stare at photographer who took this picture along the
highway near Reno. (Acme telephotos)
Detectives Explore
Chance Bandits Had
Key to Armored Car
Danvers, Mass. (U.R) Detec
tives explored a theory Wednes
day that three bold bandits had
a key to the cab door of an un
attended armored car which they
looted- of $681,000 in a daring
daylight robbery.
The thieves broke - into the
parked truck while its. three
guards sipped coffee Tuesday in
a drug store on busy Danvers
square.
Bandits at Large
The fast-moving bandits, whose
cash haul was the largest in the
east since the unsloved $1,219,
000 Brink's holdup in Boston
January 17, 1950, were still at
large. " .. V -
Two badly - wounded former
convicts were regarded as "defi
nite" suspects. They were shot
by a state trooper shortly after
the robbery when they abandon
ed a stolen automobile in a field
and attempted to flee to a wood
ed sector north of this city.
The men Norman Viele, 25,
of Boston and Joseph William
Kelley, 32, of Wobum, Mass.
were in a state of shock at a
Dover, N.H. hospital and could
not be questioned.
Auto Has No Clues .
. There was nothing in the aban
doned automobile to link Viele
and Kelley with the robbery, but
New Hampshire state police Su
pervisor Ralph H. Caswell said
"there's a possibility they were
a part of it."
The three armored car guards
Lawrence K. Johansen and
Dennis Walsh, 40, of Boston and
Joseph Rahilly of Revere, Mass.
told police they had locked
the cab door before entering the
drug store for their customary
cup of coffee.
No Marks on Lock ' '
But police doubted that the
thieves would have had time to
pick the lock during the light
ning operation. They said the
men apparently entered the cab
quickly, pressed a button to open
the rear door and fled in a black
sedan double-parked beside the
armored car.
There were no scratch marksin the county courthouse.
MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26,
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on the lock to show that it had
been jimmied, police said.
Harold V. Klem of New York,
vice-president of the United
States Trucking Corp., owners of
the truck, said the guards were
"trusted employees." But he said
they "violated a strict rule when
they left the armored truck and
the cash unattended." ;
Bridges To Receive
Chance To Tell Story
Washington (U.R) House
tax scandal investigators disclos
ed Wednesday that Senate Re
publican leader Styles Bridges
will be "invited" to explain his
behind-the-scenes efforts to set
tle a $7,000,000 tax case.
Hyman Harvey Klein, Balti
more liquor dealer against whom
the case is pending, testified that
he doesn't know Bridges and has
no idea what prompted the New
Hampshire Republican's efforts
in his behalf.
Chairman Cecil R. King, D.
Calif., of the House ways and
means subcommittee investigat
ing tax scandals said the inyita
tion to Bridges to testify will be
extended after all other wit
nesses in the Klein case Have
completed their testimony. That
may be Thursday. .
Red Cross Campaign
Now at 38.6 Per Cent
A total of $9,418.11 had been
collected in the Red Cross 1952
drive for funds up to this morn
ing, it was reported today. The
amount represents about 38.6
per cent of the $27,000 goal set
for the year.
.The amount includes $6,381.22
collected during the current
drive, and $3,036.89 in Medford
Plan funds. -
" Headquarters of the drive was
moved today from the Laverette
building to the Red Cross office
UIOJUETT
HIGH WATER REPORTED
IN CENTRAL OREGON,
EUGENE RIVER REGION
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One man was drowned as a "flood" hit central Oregon's nor
mally arid plateau region but the weather bureau Wednesday
promised relief from strong winds in eastern Washington and high
water in the Willamette valley.
Goldie Summers, about 60. who operates a ranch two miles
north of Burns, Ore., was drowned Tuesday afternoon when he
attempted to strengthen a reservoir dam with some boards and fell
in His body had not been recovered.
Sections of two central Oregon highways crossing the "high
desert" were under water. U.S. highway 395 was flooded over a
nine-mile section in the Wagontire area where the road dips from
highlands into the bed of Alkali lake, normally dry. Heavy runoff
in the Gap ranch area resulted in water over the central Oregon
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Top Mobilization
Officials Battle
Over Steel Issues
Washington (U.R) Top mo
bilization officials split into
warring factions over steel
prices and wages Wednesday as
direct union-management con
tract talks resumed after a
three-month break.
The CIO United Steelworkers,
who have called a nationwide
strike for April 8, demanded
that the steel industry accept
the Wage Stabilization Board's
recommendation for a 171 s cent
hourly wage increase, plus 8 Is
cents in fringe benefits. .
Secret Sessions Sought
Union officials planned to
press the demand at closed-door
sessions with the United States
Steel Corp. At Pittsburgh Wed
nesday, and in contract talks
with other steel companies later
this week.
But government officials ex
pected little real bargaining to
develop unless or until the in
dustry is assured of substantial
price increases to compenate for
higher wage costs.
Strike Seen on Schedule
Some officials predicted
gloomily that the strike will
come off on schedule, and knock
defense production schedules
into a cocked hat. They said the
government's ability to make
peace in the dispute is serious
ly impaired by the "family
fight" among its own mobiliza
tion agencies.
The backstage row broke into
the open Monday night when
Defense Mobilizer Charles E.
Wilson denounced the Wage
Stabilization Board's settlement
recommendations as a "serious
threat" to the year-old effort to
curb inflation.
Board Members Angry
Wage board members bristled
with anger, and steelworkers
President Philip Murray struck
back with a bitter statement ac
cusing Wilson of trying to re
verse the board in favor of an
"industry-dictated" settlement.
Wilson tried to make peace
with the board and the union
Tuesday by issuing a placatory
statement in which he ack
nowledged that the board's
.recommendations should serve
as a "basis" for the forthcoming
wage negotiations.
While he denied that he was
eating his earlier words, union
officials regarded his statement
as a "retraction."
April 15 $ Deadline
For Registration
Of New County Voters
Residents of Jackson county
who will have their 21st birth
day between April IS and the
primary election on May 16
can register to vote up to the
registration deadline on April
15, they were reminded today.
Those whose birthdays fall
after the election will not be
eligible to Tote in it.
All other residents who are
of voting age, and who meet
other qualifications, also here
until April 15 to register.
Those who voted in the pri
mary or general elections in
1930. and who nave noi mo
out of their precincts since, are
still registered.
Voters who have changed
precincts, however, must re
register. . .
A list of local registrars ap
pears on Page, 5 of today's
Mail Tribune, and voters in
aay section of the county can
register at the county clerk's
office.
RIBUIE
1952
Conditions Blamed
On Melitng Snow
Highway maintenance of
ficials blamed "flooding condi
tions" to rapid melting of heavy
snow in the plateau, which is
nearly a mile high.
Gusts of wind up to 60 miles
an hour uprooted trees in El
lensburg. Wash., Thursday and
scooped loose soil from Colum
bia Basin land- near Ephrata into
a swirling dust storm that
shrouded highways and caused
at least three accidents.
In Oregon, at least nine farm
families on the west bank of the
Willamette river north of Eu
gene were isolated Tuesday by
flood waters which reached 1.1
feet over flood stage. The farms
were cut off by water five feet
deep over a country road north
of the junction of the Willam
ette and McKenzie rivers south
of Harrisburg.
River forecasters in Portland
said, however, that the middle
and lower Willamette would
crest below flood stage Wednes
day. The crest at Corvallis was
expected to be 15.3 feet and a
12.7 crest was forecast at Salem
late Wednesday. With diminish
ing rain, the bureau expected all
rivers in northwest Oregon and
southwest Washington to be
falling slowly by Thursday.
Two log-rafts broke loose
above the Willamette river
falls at Oregon City Wednesday
morning. Two towboat compan
ies played hide and seek to re
raft the hundreds qf logs which
floated into Portland harbor.
Vandals Ransack
Ashland Theater;
Do Wanton Damage
Ashland Unidentified van
dals last night ransacked the
Shakespearean Festival box of
fice and theater here and did
wanton damage estimated at
more than $200, according to
Bill Dawkins, of the festival and
Vining repertory companies.
Much of the damage, to rec
ords and disc and wire record
ings, cannot be replaced, Daw
kins stated. A portion of the re
placeable damage was covered
by insurance, he said.
Vandals gained entrance to
the theater "shell" by smashing
in the doors of the box office,
which was completely ransack
ed. Records, including ticket
stubs required by law to be sav
ed for three years, were thrown
around, an album of recordings
was smashed and several reels
of wire recordings were un
wound and the reels were
smashed.
Enter Costume Room
Entrance to the costume room,
where all costumes used in the
festival are stored, was gained
by ripping boards from the
walls. Damage in this room was
believed to be minor, although
a complete check of the cos
tumes is still to be made.
A large amount of damage
was reported in the makeup
room, where vandals dumped
makeup and smeared the walls
with it.
Dawkins, an insurance com
pany representative and Ash
land city police went over the
.theater
this morning, and the
police investigation is continu
' ing. Dawkins stated that the
i "shell" has been entered several
times in recent weeks by boys
who climbed over the walls.
This is the first time that dam
age has been caused, he said.
SWALLOWS ARRIVE
The first swallows of the 1952
season were reported to have ar
rived in Medford today.
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C. E. (POP) GATES
Civic Leader Passes
Russia Rejects
Red Cross Offer
To Probe Germ Use
United Nations (U.R) Russia
Wednesday rejected an offer of
the International Red Cross to
investigate Communist charges
that American forces are waging
germ warfare against North Ko
rea and China.
Soviet delegate Jacob A. Ma
lik repeated before the United
Nations Disarmament Commis
sion the propaganda charge that
epidemics had been started by
germ weapons used by United
States forces fighting for the UN.
Said Swiss Organisation
. At the end of an hour-long
speech, the burly Russian said
. "The so-called international
committee of the Red Cross, to
whom Secretary of State Dean
Acheson has appealed for help,
is not an international organiza
tion, but is a Swiss organization
which has assumed the name of
the international organization of
the Red Cross. Naturally, such
an organization cannot act ob
jectively and impartially as a
truly international organization
should. ,
"By insisting on referring this
matter to the international com
mittee of the Red Cross under
the pretext of the necessity to
institute some kind of additional
investigation of the facts of the
use of bacteriological war by
American troops against the Ko
rean and Chinese peoples, the
U.S. government at the same
time is trying to prevent the con
sideration of this question by a
competent organ of the UN, such
as the disarmament commis
sion."
- Both the U. S. Defense Depart
ment and Gen. Matthew Ridg
way, supreme UN commander in
Korea, scoffed recently at Com
munist China's persistent charges
Americans had resorted to germ
warfare. They argued, instead,
the charges were made to cover
up widespread epidemics raging
out of control north of the 38th
parallel.
Veterans' Bonus OK
Brings Phone Calls
Salem (U.R) The green light
for state bonuses to veterans of
World War II resulted Wednes
day in a flood of phone calls to
the Oregon bonus division here,
Director Hub Saalfeld said.
The bonus division of the
State Department of Veterans
Affairs already has acknowledg
ed some vu.uuu Donus applica
tions and has approved and aud
ited 46,400 claims.
The advisory committee to the
State Department of Veterans
affairs will meet here Friday
and formally request Depart
ment Director William Gaaren
stroom to advertise the bond is
sue of $40,000,000. Investment
houses " are expected to give
quick response now that the ban
has been lifted.
Controls Act Favored
For Year's Extension
Washington (U.R) The Sen
ate banking committee voted
Wednesday in favor of pontinu
ing the controls act for one year.
President Truman had asked for
two years.
The present Defense Produc
tion act; . which provides for
wage,- price, rent and materials
controls, expires June 30.
Weather
FORECAST: Increasing B I ( h
cloudiness tonight. Thicken
ing cloudiness Thursday with
rain Thursday night. Low to
night 42-45. High Thursday
near 62.
Highest Yesterday 62
Lowest this Morning it
Prec to 4:30 am. Today, Trace
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C.E. (Pop) Gate,
Civic Leader Here,
Taken by Death
Served as Highway
Commissioner, Mayor
Charles E. (Pop) Gates, 80,
longtime automobile dealer here
and former mayor of Medford,
died last night at Salem. He had
been in poor health for some
time.
Mr. Gates, who had resided
here for about 41 years, operated
the Gates Auto company, a Ford
dealership, retiring from the
business at the outset, of World
War II. From 1919 through 1922
he served as mayor, taking the
lead in straightening out city
finances during his term.
His public life included serv
ice as a member of the State
Highway Commission. Mr. Gates
also had Held the office of vice
president of the Oregon State
Motor association. He was a past
exalted ruler of the Elks lodge
here, a 32nd degree Mason and
a Shriner.
Born in Indiana
He was born in 1871 at
Burnetsville, Ind., and came to
Medford from Noblesville, Ind.,
where he had been vice-presi
dent of the standard Manufac
turing company, maker of
plumbing appliances.
The family home here is at
513 West Second street.
Survivors are his widow,
Leah; a son George, Medford;
two daughters, Mrs. Laura Dean,
Medford, and Mrs. Marie Judy,
Bend; a brother, William A.
Gates, Medford; five grandchil
dren and several great grand
children.
Perl funeral home has charge
of funeral arrangements.
Large Narcotics Haul
Reported in Portland
Portland (U.R) What police
described as possibly the larg
est single narcotics haul in
Portland's history four pounds
of opium was seized on a busy
downtown street in broad day
light Tuesday.
City and federal narcotics
agents arrested John David
O'Keefe, 53, San Francisco. He
was charged with violation of
the Harrison act which pro
hibits illegal narcotics sale.
Police said narcotics opera
tives had been working on the
case for two months. When
O'Keefe got off a plane in Port
land he was followed until he
met another man on a street
corner and attempted to hand
him a package, wrapped like a
gift. Agents then arrested
O'Keefe.
Secretary's Secretary
Must Be Befuddled
Portland (U.R) Mrs. Mary
Kay Fall of Portland figured
Wednesday that a secretary
in the secretary of state's of
fice in Salem had a male in
stead of mail on her mind.
Mrs. Fall had mailed her
automobile title certificate
with a request for a new one.
Back came an official enve
lope. Mrs. Fall opened it
All that was inside was a
lock of black hair.
UN Seeking Compromise on
Prisoner of War Deadlock
Panmunjom (U.R) The Unit
ed Nations command said for the
first time Wednesday night that
it is seeking compromise in the
deadlock over exchange of war
prisoners.
Secret meetings appear to
have opened the way to pro
gress, it was announced.
Term Substituted
Brig. Gen. William P. Nuck
ols, official UN spokesman at
the truce talks, said negotiators
dropped the term "voluntary
repatriation" -and substituted
"no forced repatriation" 'about
four or five weeks ago.
He said this was in an effort
to say approximately the same
thing but in terms more palat
able to the enemy.
Nuckols said 'the Allies had
adopted a "reasonable attitude"
toward a Communist proposal to
drop their demand for return o'
44,000 "missing" former Nor.i-v
Connecticut Demo
Target of Action
In Federal Court
Lawsuit Outgrowth
In Ouster Attempt t
Washington (U.R) Sen. Jo
se p h R. . McCarthy, R-Wis.,
Wednesday filed a $2,000,000
libel and slander suit against
Sen. William Benton, D-Conn.
Benton is author of a Senate
resolution asking an investiga
tion of McCarthy's 'fitness to re
main in the senate.
To Be Own Lawyer
McCarthy charged that he was
libeled and slandered by Ben
ton in the Connecticut Demo
crat's efforts to oust him from
the Senate.
McCarthy's suit was filed, in
federal district court here. Mc
Carthy later told a news con-
ference that he intends to serve
as his own lawyer in the case so
that he can cross examine Ben
ton under oath during the trial
and in pre-trial examinations.
Fraud Campaign Alleged
Benton accused McCarthy last
year of 'waging -"a campaign of
fraud and deceit" and of com
mitting perjury during McCar
thy's campaign to prove that the
State Department is infested
with Communists.
Benton last week told the
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otrudie lie is willing iu waive ills
congressional immunity and ac
cept full legal responisbility for
the charges he made against
McCarthy.
It was on the basis of this
offer to waive immunity that
McCarthy filed his libel-slander
suit against the Connecticut,
democrat.
Defense Claimed
In his complaint, McCarthy
charged that Benton as a former
Assistant Secretary of State has
"defended various persons in the
State Department against charg
es of the Plaintiff, McCarthy,
that they are Communist and or
pro-Communist and that their
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ment is dangerous and detrimen
tal to the interests of the
United States." '
Baize Sentencing
Slated Tomorrow
Sentencing of Richard . H.
Baize, 36, of 45 Hawthorns
street, has ben. set : for 1:30
P; m. Thursday in circuit court,
District Attorney Paul Haviland
reported today. .
Baize pleaded guilty March 3
to a charge of larceny by em-;
bezzelment. The charge involv
ed theft of some $1,600 in small
change from Medford parking -meters
during a. 25-month pe
riod between Dec. 1, 1949 and
Jan. 1, 1952, when he was a po- -lice
sergeant in charge of park
ing meter collection and repair.
At the time of his arrest,
Baize waived indictment in the '
circuit court and Judge H. K.
Hanna postponed sentencing in
order to allow time for prepara
tion of a pre-sentencing report
and to allow him to obtain an
attorney. - !
Baize is represented by Med
ford Attorney Edward C. Kelly.
Tunisia Declared
In Stale of Siege
Tunis, Tunisia (U.R)- France
Wednesday declared a , state of
siege in , Tunisia and arrested
Premier Mohammed Chenik,
three ministers and his anti
French government and a num
ber of extremist leaders.
The 20,000-man French army
was given police powers under
the state of siege and full news
censorship was invoked.
The French resident general,
Count Jean de Hauteclocque
told the populace in a radio
broadcast that Chenik and the
others had been arrested to halt
their "disastrous political activi
ties." ,
Korean troops if the UN would
forget about 53,000 South Kor
eans believed captured by the
Reds.
The Communists also insisted
on forced return of all prison
ers, but Nuckols indicated there
was no change in the UN stand
that return . should be by free
choice.
Statement Repeated
He said the UN' command
again told the Communists that
"there is every ' indication the
great majority of their captured
personnel would decide to re
turn.. We have made the state
ment on numerous occasions." -
The UN says the 44,000 ex
North Korean troops actually
were South Koreans impressed
by the Reds, and that most have
been reclassified as civilians.
The Communists say the 53,000
South Koreans they are. sup
posed to hold actually were re
leased at the front