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Americans Represent Korea, Communists Panmun jom (U.R) A Communist truce ' negotiator charged angrily Thursday that "Americana cannot represent the Korean people" and advised the United Nations command to stop con tending that it does. "It would be wise for you not to repeat any more that you say you represent the Korean people," declared North Korean CoL Chang Chun San in armistice terms discussion. "Americans cannot represent ' Col. Don O, Darrow told Chang that "in numbers we, meaning the United Nations command, represent as many if not more Korean people than you do. - "I am not here as an American but as a representative of the United Nations command, Darrow "As the United Nations command representative I represent also the Republic of Korea and the citizens of the Republic of Korea 70 Reported Dead In Crash of Planes Ai Moscow Airport Berlin (U.PJ Sources close to the Soviet Control Commis sion reported Thursday that more than 70 persons were killed at an airport just outside Moscow Wednesday in the crasn of a pas senger plane and a loaded troop transport plane. The big passenger plane, in bound from Odessa on the Black Sea. was landing at Moscow's Tula airport, according to the report, when it overshot the run way and crashed into a military transport plane about to take off for Berlin. Honor Students Aboard Thirty-four honor students of the Moscow Voroshilov Military Academy were in the transport plane, informants said. The report of the disaster reached Berlin when Soviet headquarters was . notified that the flight of the military acad emy students had been can celled, it was added. . There was no information of the number of passengers in the civilian transport plane or the number of survivors. Pop' Gates Funeral Friday at 10:30 A.M. Funeral services for Charles E. (Pop) Gates, 80, former Med ford mayor and auto dealer who died Tuesday night in Salem, will be held at Perl funeral home Friday at 10:30 a. m. with the Rev.' D. Kirkland West, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, officiating. Interment will be in Siskiyou Memorial park. , Active pall bearers will be Fred Purdin, John Deaver, Au brey Norris, Paul Rynning, El bert Lennox and Paul Selby, all past worshipful masters of Medford Masonic lodge. Honorary pall bearers will be Morris B. Leonard Sr., Carl Y. Tengwald, Joe F. Fliegel, Leon B. Haskins, Frank DeSouza and E. C. Jerome, all past exalted rulers of Medford Elks lodge. Army Civil Functions Cut by $200,000,000 Washington (U.R) The House Appropriations commit tee Thursday cut more than $200,000,000 off an Army civil functions appropriation bill which contained $693,000,000 when it came to Congress. The cut, amounting to more than 28 per cent, was mostly at the expense of rivers and har bors and flood control projects. The committee said it worked on the premise that "th civil works program should be sub servient to the defense needs of the nation." It said it eliminated all re quests to start new projects, and took out money for features of going projects which could be dropped without affecting con struction alread. under way. 100th Washington Wreck Victim Due on Week-End Olympia (U.R) Death will have claimed its first. 100 vic tims on Washington state high ways this "year by the end of this week-end, if the one-a-day traffic death pace continues. The state patrol reported 96 persons died during the first 86 days of 1952, compared to 101 deaths reported during the same period of 1951. During all of last year 540 traffic fatalities were reported. Seattle (U.R) Number of workers at Boeing Airplane company's Seattle and Renton factories will be increased from 28,218 to 29,400 by the end of June, the company said Thurs day. Weather FORECAST: Fair with increai in; high clouds tonight and Friday with showers late Fri day. Lows 38-40. Hifh near . Temp. Highest Yesterday ?t Lowest this Morning 34 ' Cannot Claim the Korean people. continued. Seen As Attempt To Stall Russian Question ' The Communists - apparently set off the anti-American blast in an attempt to stall on the question of whether Russia is a neutral nation qualified to sit on the post-armistice commis sion The 80-minute meeting made no progress. Prisoner exchange negotia tions, held in secret, last eight minutes longer. The UN "further explored the Communist pro posal of March 21 the formal ized version of a plan for con tinuing negotiations on the basis of lists already exchanged Probe Continued Col. George W. Hickman, UN staff officer, said both sides were continuing a Verbal probe of differing viewpoints. He said the negotiators are holding free dis cussions in an atmosphere that had no rancor. The bitter debate Thursday was set off during discussion of translating into Korean the term "United Nations command," as related to the agreement on ports ol entry. The Reds favored the term meaning "Allies" and the UN wanted a specific translation Came As Surprise Col. Chang released his attack when Col. Darrow told him to remember the UN represented "the Korean people also those allied with the United Nations. Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols said later that the Communist outburst came as a surprise. He said they were developing what had seemed a thoroughly unim portant point into a matter of significance. Daylight Saving Time Seen as Power Saver Portland iU.R) The adoption of daylight saving time this summer would save an average of 100,000 kilowatt hours of "peaking, power" for Pacific Northwest defense industries, ac cording to a statement released Thursday by the Oregon Broad casters association. The group attributed the es timate to the Bonneville Power administration. The daily saving in peak load would amount to 250,000 kilowatt hours in late August and September when falling stream flow cuts power production, the broadcasters said. They said BPA expects an other power shortage this sum mer. BULLETINS Richard H. Baise. 36, of 45 Hawthorne street, was sen tenced to an indeterminate prison sentence of not more than three years this after noon. Circuit Judge H. K. Hanna imposed the sentence at 2:05 p. m. today after hear ing character witnesses for Baise. Baixe. a former Medford po lice sergeant, was arrested Feb ruary 20. and pleaded guilty the following day on a charge of larceny by embexslement in volving the theft of some $1,600 in pennies and nickels over a two-year period when he was in charge of parking meter collections for the city police. Richland. Wash. (U.R) AFL teamsters began return ing to their jobs at the Han ford atomic works Thursday ending a work stoppage that had halted the plant's $180. 000.000 expansion program. Pinson, Poe Salem (U.R) Four convicts, three of them lifers, tried to break out of the segregation ward at Oregon state prison Wed nesday night but were caught after one of them .had cleared the bars, Warden Virgil O'Malley said Thursday. Cells Claimed Locked The four mysteriously got out of their cells and into the shower down the corridor, O'Malley said. It was not clear just how they got out of their cells. Guards claim they were locked. But bars on the cells-were not cut. Bars on the shower had been cut, however, and wooden pegs inserted, indicating that the men had planned the break attempt for some time.'" A check is made every half hour in this segregation unit, and Me United Press full Leased Wire 47th Year IU1 A Benton Declares Ability To Prove McCarthy Charges McCarthy. Dared To Press Suit Washington (U.R) Sen. Wil liam Benton, D-Conn., saidThur day he can prove in court the truth of his charges against Sen Joseph R. McCarthy and dared the Wisconsin Republican to bring his $2,000,000 suit to trial before the November election. McCarthy filed the suit in Fed eral Court here Wednesday charging that Benton libeled and slandered him during his cam paign to have McCarthy ousted from the Senate. Stems From Testimony The suit stemmed mainly from Benton's prepared testimony be fore a Senate Elections Commit tee last September charging that McCarthy practiced perjury. fraud, and deceit in his efforts to prove that the State Depart ment is infested with Commun ists and fellow travelers. McCarthy, who is seeking re election, filed his suit after Ben ton announced in the Senate last week that he is willing to waive his legal immunity from libel or slander suits. Under the constitu tion, a member of Congress nor mally could not be sued for what he said on the Senate or House floor or before a congressional committee. Statement Issued Challenging McCarthy to in sist on a trial before McCarthy's bid for reelection, Benton said in a statement issued through his of- fice: "Senator McCarthy knows I can prove in court the truth of my carefully documented charges. His sincerity can hence forth be judged ... by the dili gence with which he seeks to bring his suit to trial." Benton said "an immediate re view of his tactics is urgently in the interest of the people of the United States and also of the tens of millions throughout the world in whose eyes our country is being discredited by his tac tics." Several Senate colleagues ex pressed doubt that McCarthy and Benton will be able to carry their running feud into the federal courts. Meeting on Steel Discussion Fizzles Washington (U.R) A three hour meeting of top mobiliza tion officials fizzled out Thurs day with no solution to the steel wage-price crisis. The conference was called in an endeavor to reach a compro mise to avert the threatened strike by CIO United Steelwork ers on April 8 against the na tion's steel mills. After the conference between Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson and his key stabilization aides, Wilson cancelled plans to issue an "action statement:" U. 5. Recognizes New Cuba Government Washington (U.R) The United States Thursday formally recognized the new government of Cuba headed by Fulgencio Batista. Secretary of State, Dean Ache son told a news' conference Wednesday that American action on recognition would be based on whether the government has firm control, whether the people of Cuba "acquiesce 'to the gov ernment, and whether it would carry out its international ob ligations. Again in when guards found the men their cells the missing from alarm was sounded. Within a matter of minutes three of them had returned to their cells vol untarily. But the fourth had wriggled "through the bars to the roof of the building, and it was a good half hour before he was found. -Pinson Included included in the four was John O. Pinson, 34, who with William Benson executed the first suc cessful attempt in the history of the prison to break out of the bull pen. That was on Memorial day of 1949. The others were Dupree Poe, 54, under life sentence for kill ing a Silverton policeman; Rich ard M. Moore, 46, under life sen- tence from Multnomah couity - BFQRBe 24 Pages LEADING HIGH SCHOOL MUSICIANS Is all In cays work for California's Gov. Earl Warren as he campaigns in Wisconsin for delegates to Republican convention. Musicians are from Shorewood, Milwaukee suburb. Warren later made speech. (International) Wisconsin Primary Electioneering At Stage of Suspicion Madison, Wis. U.R) The pol itical air in Wisconsin was charged with suspicion Thurs day as the three Republican President Returns From Florida Rest Key West. Fla. (U.R) Presi dent Truman flies back to Wash ington and an assortment of problems ranging from the steel strike to politics Thursday. The chief executive was" sched uled to arrive back in Washing ton between 4 and 4:30 p.m. The people of Key West, par ticularly the merchants, were more sentimental than usual about the President's departure. His highly publicized 11 trips down here have resulted in thousands of extra tourist dol lars. First Frost Warning Broadcast Due Sunday C. B. Cordy, county agent for horticulture, indicated this morning that the first, frost warning broadcast for orchard ists will probably be given Sun day night. The service is con ducted here annually by Federal Meteorologist Roy Rogers. The first broadcast had been tentatively scheduled for today. However, Cordy pointed out that cold weather has placed the de-iif velopment of fruit tree buds about 10 days behind the year- to-year average. Off ending 'i' Found ' In Willamette Avenue Medford city officials dis covered today that, despite a careful check of some 1,200 newly ordered street signs, an error in spelling has been found. Signs at the intersec tion of Willamette avenue and East Main street proclaim that the north-south thoroughfare is "Williamette" avenue. City officials are a bit pus xled as to how .the incorrect sign escaped several checks and was actually mounted on a metal post at the intersec tion. However, they point out that it will not be much of a problem to "pluck out the offending i." Prison Break Attempt for burglary, and Allen D. Brum- field, 37, doing 22 years from Marrow county for burglary. Pinson is under life sentence for killing a state policeman at Hxd River. The four managed some way to get out of their cells in the segregation ward of the old cell block "C" and into the shower room. Reached Fifth Tier There they had cut through to the corridor and had managed to reach the fifth tier. They cut through a bar at the top tier and pushed' Poe, the slightest of the four, through the opening. From there he had only to descend like a "human fly" to the ground and then find a way over the wall. But the others could ge"c i through the opening, their ab- MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, Fee candidates stepped up their campaigning with only five days left before the primary next Tuesday. All seemed wary of any more "surprise moves' like the one Harold E. Stassen pulled when he announced that half his dele gates would vote for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower on the first ballot at next July's na tional GOP convention. Kefauver Attacks McCarthy Sen. Estes -Kefauver, only democrat on the presidential pri mary ballot for his party, ignor ed the electioneering by-play among the republicans for the time being and concentrated his attacks on Republican Sen. Jo seph McCarthy. Before leaving for Nebraska, which also has an April 1 pri mary. Kefauver told a Milwau kee audience that McCarthy's tactics'" were not helping the country at home or abroad. The Tennessee senator said that he did not "like the idea of swear ing and I don't like the idea of McCarthy." Sen. Robert A. Taft, speaking in Madison, took a swing both at Stassen and Gov. Earl Warren of California. Abandonment Charged ' "In one case, the delegates seem to have abandoned their candidate and in the other, the candidate seems to have aban doned his delegates." Taft said. He referred to Stassen's un usual action and the fact that Warren delegates have said that elected they will cast their GOP convention votes for Eisen hower in case Warren appears unable to get the nomination. And earlier at Portage. Wis., Taft called Warren. and Stassen "hybrid"' candidates and said he could not see how anybody could vote for them "when they don't know what they are voting for." Refuses Questions But the Ohio Republican re fused to answer any questions on New Jersey's action in refusing to remove him from that state's ballot on April 15 although Taft had sought to withdraw after Gov. Alfred Driscoll of New Jer sey threw in his lot with Eisen hower. Stassen himself, when asked whether he was considering a vice-presidency on any future Eisenhower-for-president ticket, said he was "engaged in a strong campaign for the presidency." sence from the cells was discov ered, the alarm was sounded, and searchlights began piercing every cranny of the prison. Once Poe was found cowering in the darkness atop the cell block, the; . ' , . . , remainder of the 17 men in the iUCCUmbS in AShlana segregation ward were searched j Ashland, Ore. (U.R) Mrs. for escape weapons or tools Harry G. McElmurry, Stanley, but none were found. ;Wis., died Wednesday night in Guards Turn Firemen la local hospital after lying un- One prisoner in protest of the conscious for nine days from search tossed a lighted wad of paper onto his cot, and guards had to turn firemen momentar ily to put out the blaze.' The in cident cost the convict his cig arettes and matches. The escape quartet had fash ioned a rope of some 50 feet out of wetted sheets to make the sc?r. t Ire r. the top of cell block "C" to the ground. Mm Five Highways Covered by Water In Central Oregon Melting Snow Sends Streams From Banks By UNITED PRESS East Oregonians, accustomed to cold, dry weather, fought floodwaters Thursday as warm temperatures melted mountain snow, sent streams out of their banks and forced hundreds of persons to flee their homes. At least five highways were flooded. Printrille Hardest Hit Hardest hit was Prineville, a town'of 3.200 where more than 125 homes along the banks of the swollen Crooked river and Ochoco creek were evacuated. Trailer houses were forced to move to hills above the town. Passengers of a Pacific Trail ways bus near Prineville were stranded by a washed-out bridge. Authorities reported the pas sengers found shelter in nearby farm houses. At Vale, the Malheur river was at its highest level in 30 years and half a dozen families left their homes. Schools in Vale were dismissed Wednesday for fear busses might be held up by water on roads and bridges. The Crooked river at Prine ville dropped six inches during the night but another warm day was expected Thursday. Fear was expressed the town's busi ness district might be flooded if the snow runoff continued as fast. Oldtimers at Prineville called it the worst flood since 1910. Water crept into town Wednes day and continued to rise throughout the day. Home Evacuated Fifty homes in the southwest part of the city were evacuated first when water flooded streets and lawns and lapped' against floorboards of homes. Furniture was moved to a school gymna sium for safety. Later the wa ter reached another residential district and 75 more homes were evacuated. Secondary streets were com pletely impassagle. Travel Hasardous Closed highways and washed out bridges made travel habard ous in the usually arid area. U. S. Highway 395 was flooded over a nine-mile section in the Wag ontire area, water was over the Central Oregon highway in the Cap ranch area. U. S. Highway 26 between Mt. Vernon and Day ville was closed, - Highway 27 south of Prineville was covered with three feet of water and the Rome-Princeton highway at Fol ly farm in Malheur county was closed. Some lowland areas in West ern Oregon's Willamette valley remained inundated - Thursday, but the flood threat in the val ley eased as the Willamette riv er crested below flood stage. First National Bank Affected by Ruling Portland (U.R) A federal reserve board decision dissolv ing the huge Giannini banking empire will have a direct effect on the First National bank ot Portland and its statewide bank ing system. The Portland bank is one in which Giannini interests hold stock ownership. Dissolving of the Tranamerica corporation, Gi annini' holding firm, however, would merely transfer owner ship rather than business rela tions with the public. First National has 11 Portland offices and 35 branches through out the state. Additionally, there are 15 af filiated banks in Oregon and three branches of affiliates, mak ing a total of 64 Oregon banking houses directly affected by the ruling. Siskivau Wreck Victim head injuries suffered in a head on collision between a truck and a car in which she was riding. The 70-year-old woman's hus band lost control of his car on icy payment March 18. The car skidded into a truck driven by Joseph Earl Smith, Grants, Pass, 10 miles south of here. McFImurry and Smith es caped serious injury. - RIBUIE 1952 mm Gunman Murders Three Mebraskans Merriman. Neb (U.R) A suspect in the midnight mur ders of three persons was shot and fatally wounded Thursday by a posse of 200 persons which stormed a ranch, burn ed three buildings and fired more than 1,000 shots to get him. The suspect was identi fied as Blaine Ellis. Merriman, Neb. (U.R) Ranch ers' and townspeople, some fly ing their own planes, joined au thorities Thursday in a manhunt over the desolate sandhills for a murderer who shot and killed a couple and one of their neigh bors. Roadblocks were -set up on highways and the sparce net work of sideroads leading over the Sandhills in the area of this isolated town of 321 persons. Planes Circle Area Several small private planes circled the area, hoping to spot the car in which the gunman Youngsters Admit Ashland Theater Vandalism Guilt Ashland Nine boys ranging from 11 to 14 years of age have been questioned about the van dalism in the Shakespearean Theater shell here Tuesday, Chief of Police Vern Smith said today. All have admitted vary ing degrees of guilt, the chief added- Smith raid that four more youngsters will be questioned today. All property which was reported stolen from the theater in the Tuesday break-in has been recovered, Smith reported, and some property which was not listed on the report also has been recovered. Some of the boys gained ac cess to the shell by going over the wall, they told Smith, and others broke in through the gate. The parents of the youngsters involved will be called in for consultation, the police chief said, and presumably will be held responsible for the damage, described as malicious mischief, caused by the boys. Damages will total more than $200, ac cording to Bill Dawkins, of the Shakespeare and Vining theatri cal companies, who reported the case to police. He said that some of the destruction will be cov ered by insurance, but that some properties are irreplacable. Bridges Testifies Before Subcommittee Washington (U.R) Senate Republican Leader Styles Bridges testified Thursday that his interest in a liquor dealer's $7,000,000 tax case stemmed solely from a desire "to encour age quick and proper action." The New Hampshire Republi can conceded to a House Ways and Means subcommittee inves tigating tax scandals that he did not know Hyman Harvey Klein, the Baltimore liquor dealer in tax difficulties. Bridges said he entered the case at the request of an old friend, William Power Maloney, former special assistant attorney general and now attorney for "Mystery Man" Henry W. Grune wald. Maloney previously testified that he had asked Bridges to in tervene in the Klein case. Dalles Dam Project Loses $37,500,000 Washington (U.R) The House Appropriations committee, . in eliminating $37,500,000 for The Dalles dam in Oregon from an army appropriation bill, criti cized the Corps of Engineers Thursday for not getting started on fishing right negotiations with Indians. The committee said it told the engineers last year to get the Columbia fishing rights settled before again asking money to start the dam. It also said it asked for final cost estimates for the project Oregon City (U.R) A charge of assault and battery, against State Sen. Thomas R. Mahoney of Portland was dismissed here Thursday by District Court Judge Paul C. Fischer. United Press Full Leased Wim No. 5 fled after killing Mr. and Mrs. George , Mensinger and Deo Gardner. The murderer also wounded the Mensingers infant son, Fritz, and another neighbor. Cliff McDonald, 30. Cherry County Sheriff Art Jones said .the killer was be lieved to be "hiding in the hills" in the vicinity of the shooting. Large groups of neighbors and friends of the shooting vic tim joined the search for the gunman, believed to be driving a black 1950 or 1951 Chevrolet sedan. No Reason Offered Authorities could offer no rea son for the shootings. Authorities had not been able to question McDonald, who suffered a ser ious neck wound and was hos pitalized at Gordon, Neb. Sheriff's officers gave this version of the shooting: Just before midnight the gun man came to the Mensinger home,' eight miles south of here. Mensinger, 27, answered the door and was fatally wounded by a shotgun blast. Three more shots were fired through the partially opened door, and Mrs. Mensinger, 24, and her son were wounded. Makes Telephone Call Mrs. Mensinger, although wounded, ran to the telephone and got a call through to the Merriman operator. The call and her screams for help also were heard by several neighbors on the party line. The gunman, meanwhile, had circled the house and fired a shotgun blast through the kitch en window, fatally wounding Mrs. Mensinger as she tele phoned. The gunman then apparently jumped into his car and sped away. A short distance away, McDonald, unaware of the gun man's identity, stopped his car and was wounded in the neck by a shotgun charge. . Gunman Disappears Then Gardner, believing the gunman's car to be that of a neighbor, stopped it. He walked over to the car and was shot by a pistol, believed to be of .38 caliber. The gunman had disappeared by the time other neighbors and authorities could arrive. Pearson Conferring On Veterans' Bonus Washington (U.R) Walter J. Pearson, Oregon state treasurer, was here Thursday conferring with federal officials on the is suance of a $40,000,000 bond issue to finance a bonus for the state's World War II veterans. Pearson said that Oregon "ap peared in better shape" than most states in marketing such bonds. He was scheduled to meet with Dr. Arthur Smithy, assist ant to Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson; Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder, Chair man William Martin of the fed eral reserve board of governors and Federal Reserve Governor Oliver Powell. . . Josephine Road Workers Plan Strike Grants Pass, Ore. (U.R)' Josephine county road em ployees Thursday threatened to strike in protest to actions of Road Superintendent Roy Slette, whom they charged with jeopar dizing job security. The workers, members of the AFL Oregon Public Employees Council, said they would strike April 7 and picket county road shops if "a satisfactory solution" was not reached by then. The county court refused a formal hearing, but Judge Ray mond Lathrop expressed willing ness to talk to one or any group of workers. Eight More States feel Midwestern Truck Strike Kansas City, Mo. (U.R) A three-week-old truckers' strike threatened Thursday to spread to eight other mid-central states after drivers in other cities in Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas joined the walkout. Sympathy strikes and walk outs were reported at Des Moines, Sioux City and Ottum wa, la.; Omaha, Neb.; Wichita. Kan., and Joplin, Mo. . Bui
