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1 Bedford Weather Tribune FORECAST: Fair tfcronfli Tues day. Colder tonight- Low to night ZS-M. High Tuesday CS. Temp. Highest Yesterday : 11 Lewest this Morning , 47 Prep. To 4-M MJn. Today Calte Bat Wrtm r1 L nt Win 47th Year ,.14 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1952 No. 14 lhSHrTie WBkD" GU SftHk !:' V'"- "I ' . V v 1 I J, I BEACHING FOR DEE BUTTONS, three governor agree Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower Is their choice for President during Chicago meeting. From left: Gov. Dan Thornton. Colorado; Gov. Douglas McKay. Oregon; Thomas S. Tyler, Illinois, and Got. John Lodge, Connecticut. (International Soundphoto) Grants Pass Youth Seriously Injured In Auto Accident Arthur Harding, 16, of Grants Pass, was seriously injured early Sunday when the car he was driving failed to negotiate Bybee , corner, on the Medf ord-Jackson- ville highway, and overturned. State police, who investigated the accident, said the car Hard ing was driving went through Jacksonville at a high rate of , speed, and that the Jacksonville police chief chased it. When it came to the corner it did not slow down, the police report said, and turned over three times, pinning the youth in the car. Partly Paralysed Conger-Morris ambulance at tendants took Harding to Com munity hospital, and physicians gay he is paralyzed from the chest down, having only a little use of his arms. There was dam age to the nerves in the neck, the report said, and he also suf fered cuts and bruises. He is in "poor" condition , but spent a fair night, hospital attendants . added. . - He is the son of Mrs. Faith L. Harding of 731 Southwest Elk street, Grants Pass. Second Accident Another Sunday accident also occurred on the Jacksonville highway. West of Oak Grove school, state police reported The cars involved were driveri by Gale Andrew Jones, Grants Pass, and Coe Eugene 1$rown, 805V4 West 10th street, Med- f ord. police said. " : - The accident reports indicated Brown was blinded by the head lights of the other car, and left the highway, then swung back onto the highway and crashed into the Jones vehicle head-on. Both cars were badly damaged, police said. Brown was treated at Commu nity hospital for minor injuries and then released. Off-Highway Mishaps Kill Two in Oregon Hillsboro, Ore. (U.R) Two persons were killed Saturday in off-highway accidents in Washington county, according to Deputy County Coroner An drew Young. Margaret Lentz baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Lentz of Hillsboro, was pronounced dead at Jones hospital after a car backed over her in a drive way. Young said the car was driven by the baby's grandfa ther, a Mr. Hutcheson. The other accident occurred at Orenco, five miles east of Hillsboro. Einar Ellesson . had raised his car on blocks to change the oil. Young said the car rolled off the blocks and crushed Ellesson. Radio Highlights The talks, entertainment pro gram and other features of Ash land's centennial banquet today will be broadcast by KWIN start ing at 6:30 p.m. and continuing throughout the evening. Washington U.PJ The Fed eral Communications. Commis- sion has postponed indefinitely hearings on proposals to allocate special television channels to theaters. 800,000 Men By Armed Forces in Summer Fort Hood, Tex. U.R) Under Secretary of Defense Anna Rosenberg estimates the U. S. armed forces will require about 800,000 replacements this sum mer, meaning draft boards might have to begin calling men less than 20 years old. ' Vip to l ower Ages v- Present law calls for. drafting men I8V2 through age 25. Se lective Service has been draft ing the older men first and working down through the age groups. "Few have been . called thus far younger than 20 years old. The heavier call mean that Judiciary Committee Will Hold Hearing On McGranery Choice Washington (U.R) The Sen ate Judiciary Committee in closed session voted unanimous ly Monday to hold hearing on President Truman's nomination. of Federal Judge James P. Mc Granery to be attorney general No date was set for the hear ings. Nor was there' any indica tion whether they would be pub- Electric Storms Yesterday 'Rare' Thunder and lightning storms experienced by Jackson county residents yesterday afternoon and evening were described by the weather bureau as rare for this time of year. The storms were mostly in the hills and mountain fringes of the valley, but .69 of an inch was re ported at the weather bureau station at the municipal airport in the 24-hour period up to 4:30 a.m. today. , Jacksonville residents report ed some thunder, lightning and rain about 3 p.m. yesterday, heavy rain about 5:30 p.m. and thunder, lightning and rain again about 10:30 p.m. No storm was . experienced at Emigrant lake during the boat races yes terdays . - Fair- skies through - Tuesday has been forecast by the weather bureau. V "" ' . ,. Montana Residents Baffle Flood Threat Chinook, Mont. (U.R) Chi nook was six inches from disas ter today, A thousand residents almost half of the town's population worked with bulldozers' and their bare hands to strengthen dikes weakened by the Milk river. - As they worked, however, the townspeople kept their ears cocked for the sound of a siren the signal that the river had broken through. Officials warned them that if the siren sounded they should head for a five-square block area expected to remain about 25 feet above the flood in the center of town. Men, women and children were trying to save a half-mile earthen levee along the town's east side where 50 homes were in immediate danger. About one- fourth of the town's population would be affected if levees along the east side toppled. . . Communist Planes Dodge Ull Sabrejefs Seoul (U.R) The Communist air force, staggered by the de struction or damaging of 53 of its jet planes during the past eight days, stayed out of sight of prowling American Sabrejets Monday. The Sabres patrolled North west Korea's "MIG alley" as far north as the Manchurian border without finding a single Rus sian-built jet. On Sunday alone, the Sabres shot down four MIG- 15s, probably . destroyed two more and damaged seven. Needed Selective Service now will have to dip into: that age group. The heavier calls .would re place men scheduled for. dis charge because of expiring en listments, Irs.' Rosenberg said, but- aren't expected to "strain civilian manpower available for production.' May Extend Enlistments ' The under secretary, on an inspection tour of Exercise Longhorn Sunday, said Presi dent Truman is considering re quest to extend the enlistments of volunteers who were not cov ered by the previous one-year extension. . lie or held behind closed doors, Quick Confirmation Stalled But the decision to hold hear ings apparently forestalled any chance of quick Senate confir mation of McGranery's nomina tion. The committee action came after Sen. Arthur V. Watkins, R Utah, said the group should "lay aside" the "courtesy" usually given former congressmen and conduct a thorough investigation of McGranery. McGranery, former Democrat ic member of the House from Pennsylvania, was named by Mr. Truman last Thursday after he fired Attorney General J. How ard McGrath. Motion by Watkins Committee ,members said the motion to hold hearings was made by Watkins and seconded by Sen. Homer Ferguson, R- Mich. Chairman Pat McCarran, D- Nev., said last .week that the committee would take its time about acting on McGranery's nomination. He has denounced Mr. Truman's ouster of McGrath. "We shouldn't confirm him just because he was once a mem ber of the club," Watkins said. "Courtesy will have to be laid aside this time." Chairman Pat McCarran, D- Nev.. . bitterly critical of Presi dent Truman's "'cruel" ouster of Attorney General J. Howard Mc Grath last Thursday, indicated that the committee was in no hurry to confirm McGranery. Watkins said most committee members think that before Mc Granery is allowed to occupy the double hot seat vacated by Mc Grath and corruption hunter Newbold Morris, he should be asked some "pointed questions" about the wisdom of the Justice Department's prosecution of the wartime Amerasia case. Fala Laid To Rest At Feet of Roosevelt Hyde Park, N. Y. (U.R) The body of Fala, elder statesman of dogdom, rested in a grave Mon day at the feet of his master, the late President Roosevelt. The black scottie dog would have been 13 years old Monday. In failing health for some time he was given a "mercy death" Saturday, a week before the seventh anniversary of Roose velt's death. The famous dog, which had frisked at the feet of some of the world's most noted men and even became an issue in a presidential election campaign, was buried Sunday in a pine coffin fashioned by Louis Depew, former chauf feur for Roosevelt's late mother. in a shallow grave in Hyde Park rose garden. Olio Jeldness Dies At Home Early Today Otto Jeldness, 68, of 525 South Grape street, died at his home early today. Mr. Jeldness, who was retired, formerly operated Otto's club at 39 South Front street A resident of Medford 46 years, he was born at. Astoria, Ore., on Dec. 9, 1883. Survivors include his widow, Beulan. Chapel mortuary has charge of funeral arrangements. Ghost of Guam Suffers Injuries at Grants Pass Grants Pass, Ore. U.R) George Tweed, the "Ghost of Guam," was recovering Monday from a broken left leg and a broken back following a 30-foot fall from a tree. Tweed was putting up a swing for his children in his backyard Saturday when he fell. Doctors said he would be in the hospital for two weeks but would have to wear a cast for many months. San Francisco U.R) Negotia tions between Pacific Grey hound Lines 'and the striking AFL Motor Coach Employes union resumed her Monday. Stevenson Backers Predict Sizeable Vrite-ln Vote Illinois Primary 4 Will Be Tuesday Chicago (U.R) Backers of Adlai Stevenson, said to be Pres ident Truman's choice as the Democratic presidential nom inee, . Monday predicted he would draw a sizeable write-in vote in Tuesday's Illinois pri mary. At the same time, supporters of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower hoped for a substantial write-in showing for the general against Sen. Robert A. Taft and Harold E. Stassen. both of whom appear on the ballot On Ballot for Governor Stevenson will be on the bal lot, but only as the unopposed candidate for nomination to the governor's post, a Job he has re peatedly said he is seeking rather than the presidency. Sen. Estes Kefauver has the Democratic slate all to himself in the presidential column and should take the primary, observ ers have said, unless there is a heavy vote for Stevenson. And although Stevenson has maintained consistently that he is a candidate solely for the gov ernorship, and there has been no concerted write-in drive in his j behalf, most observers feel he will make a good showing. Double Voting Approved Illinois election officials have approved double voting for Stev enson, both as governor and as a write-in candidate for presi dent. And any understandable spell- in of a write-in candidate's name will be counted. Illinois will send 60 delegates to the national conventions of both parties, the largest number of any state holding a presiden tial preferential primary. Fifty will be elected Tuesday and 10 chosen later at state conventions. Kefauver Declines VP Job Kefaucer, appearing Sunday on a television program with Stassen. unconditionally turned down any possibility of his run ning with Stevenson as a vice presidential candidate. "I'm running for president." Kefauver said. "I'm not interest ed in any other office." Portland (U.R) Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois has accept ed an invitation to address the 1952 Jefferson-Jackson banquet j of the Oregon Democratic party on May 1. it was announced Monday. Both Stevenson and Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, who will be opponents of the states Demo cratic presidential primary oai lot May 16, have been invited to address the annual party fund- raising event, but Kefauver has not yet given his final answer. C. Girard Davidson, Portland attorney and former assistant secretary of the interior, will be general chairman of the ban quet Prison Guard's Shot Halls Wandering Pair Salem U.R) Two trustees working in the dairy barns of the state prison farm annex here tried to walk away in the spring like weather Sunday, but halted their migration when a prison guard fired a shot over their heads after they had left farm annex property. Warden Virgil O'Malley said Monday. The two were identified by O'Malley as Joe Scott Wilson, 21. and William H. Stark, 22. Wilson was received from Ben ton county in March, 1951, to serve two years for larceny and forgery. Stark was received from Hood River county in April, 1950 to do four yean for forgery. HST Asks Extension Of Emergency Powers Washington (UJ9 President Truman urgently requested Con gress Monday to extend for at least 60 days his war-time emer gency powers before taking an Easter recess. . Some 60 war-time emergency powers, including the power to seize the railroads, will expire when the Japanese peace treaty becomes effective. The Senate has approved the treaty, but Mr. Truman has not yet issued a proclamation of ratification. None of the emergency pow ers Mr. Truman asked continued would give him authority to seize the steel industry, which is threatened with strike .early Wednesday. BOY, 15, ADE3ITS- HIIROER OIF OOTTOGE ISBOWE ML Eugene, Ore. (U.R) A charge of first degree murder was filed Monday igainst a 15-year-old boy, who, authorities said, admit ted killing a near-deaf mute girl because his eighth grade class mates taunted him about her be ing prtgnant The boy, Elmer Harlan Bel cher, was remanded to juvenile authorities by District Judge Stalin Seen in Favor Of Early Sessions To Settle Disputes Moscow (U.R) Premier Jo sef Stalin was believed Monday to be in favor of early East-West negotiations, perhaps by heads of states, to settle all outstand ing world disputes. He gave that impression to Indian Ambassador Sir Sarve- palli Radhakrishnan in a half hour audience Saturday night that produced the Soviet Union s Talks Scheduled In Final Effort To Avoid Steel Strike Washington (U.R) The, government Monday banned 11 deliveries of steel for civil ian use in a move to save sup plies for high priority defense needs in case of a steel strike. New York !U.R) The gov ernment wage stabilization boss scheduled. separate and joint con ferences with industry and union leaders Monday in a desperate final effort to head off a nation wide steel , strike at , midnight Tuesday. Nathan P. Feinsinger, wage Stabilization Board chairman. started the day by talking with union representatives. He met with company representatives late Sunday night Plants Cool Furnaces I expect to have either sep arate or joint conferences throughout the day," he said. "1 do not expect to have anything further to say for the rest of the day." While settlement attempts were being intensified in the meetings in New York hotel rooms, plants which manufacture 95 per cent of the nation s steel for defense and civilian use be gan cooling furnaces and laying off workers in an orderly shut down. Other industries throughout the country were planning for a curtailed use of steel. Large users of steel said they believed they could keep going for two to six weeks. Gradual Progress" Reported Feinsinger reported after a joint meeting Sunday that "grad ual progress" was being made in attempts to find a peaceful set tlement of the wage dispute. But an angry exchange of charges Sunday night between Benjamin Ft Fairies, president of U. S. Steel, and Philip Mur ray, head of the Steelworkers Union CIO dimmed chances that a walkout by 650,000 steel work ers would be averted. Josephine Road . Employees Strike Grants Pass, Ore. (U.R) Fifty-four employees of the Jose phine county road department went on strike Monday. Douglas McOmie, president of the local road employees' union, said the strike was in protest to actions of County Road Superin tendent Roy Slette. A picket line was set up around the county's road shop. The county court issued a statement saying that the road department would be operated through the foreman rather than through the superintendent but that Slette would not be fired. However, McOmie said that un der no circumstances would the men go back to work unless Slette was discharged. CALLED SOUTH BY DEATH Mr. and Mrs. Cole Holmes, 16 Ross Court, were called to San Francisco Saturday by the death of Mrs. Holmes' mother. Mrs. Clara Myers McKenzie of that city. Funeral services will be held Wednesday in San Fran cisco. Mrs. McKenzie is survived by her husband, Mrs. Holmes, the only daughter, and grand- Chester Anderson. However, Cir cuit Judge G. F. Skipworth call ed a special grand jury to inves tigate the slaying of 16-year-old Mary Ellen Campbell. District Attorney C. E. Luckey said the boy confessed he fired a .22 calibre pistol bullet into the back of the girl. Her body was found near her home south of Cottage Grove, Ore, early Sat- fourth gesture toward the West in the past month. Problems Can Be Solved Radhakrishnan told newsmen afterward: "Following my interview with Stalin, I feel there isn't an out standing problem now dividing the world which cannot be solv ed by discussion and negotia tions. "It would be unwise to bang the door against every approach and give up the task as impos sible. Every effort should be made to get the top people to gether." Radhakrishnan did not iden tify the "top people," but it was assumed he was urging an early meeting by Stalin, Presi dent Truman, British Prime Min ister Winston Churchill, French Premier Antoine Pinay and pos sibly Indian Prime Minister Ja waharlal Nehru. Other Soviet Gestures Stalin's interview with Rad hakrisnan, his first with a West ern or neutral diplomat in two years, followed these other So viet gestures toward the West: 1. A Soviet offer last month to unify Germany and write a German peace treaty. 2." Stalin's statement to a group of American editors that a third world war is no closer now than it has been for the last two or three, years and his re iteration of his belief in the pos sibility of Communism and cap italism existing peacefully side by side. 3. Russia s offer at a Soviet- sponsored International Econom ic Conference in Moscow to buy $2,750,000,000 worth of goods annually from the U. S., West era Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa. London (U.R) Prime Min ister Winston Churchill indicat ed Monday that he feels the time is not ripe for a face-to-face meeting with Premier Joseph Stalin to try to settle the cold war. Churchill's reaction to appar ent Soviet feelers for such a meeting emerged from an ex change with Labor members in the House of Commons. Truce negotiators Soften Propaganda Panmunjom (U.R) - Allied and Communist headquarters Monday soft-pedaled their props eanda voices and restrained truce negotiators a top com mands of both sides worked sep arately on delicate strategy plans that could bring the Ko rean war to a sudden end. Armistice sub-delegates met here for a brief 5 minutes and 57 seconds to see if either side had anything new to offer on truce supervision problems. Nei their side did, and the meeting was adjourned until Tuesday. Prisoner exchange discussions entered their third day of "in definite" recess to give the op posing teams in Munsan and Kaesong a chance to "develop additional avenues" for resolv ing the POW question. Valley Men En Route Home on Rotation San Francisco (UJ!) Twenty-eight Oregon men were en route to their homes on combat rotation from Korea Monday after landing at the Oakland Naval Supply Center aboard the USNS Gen. John Pope. They in cluded: Pfc. Ernest C. Lunsford, Grants Pass: M-SgC Genrel O. O'Brien, Ashland; Cpl. Joseph H. Santos. Medford; Sgt Glen R Rock, Medford. PAVING STARTS Paving of Third street be tween Grape and Fir streets is under way. according to Vernon Thorpe, city public woaka director. urday by Elmer's brother, Ken neth, 17. Luckey said the yputh told uuu ue una planned zor 8DOUI a week to kill the girl. Luckey said young Belcher told him he lured her about 200 yards away from her home while her parents were away milking cows Friday eve ning and shot her in the back. Dr. Homer Harris of the state crime detection laboratory said the Campbell girl was five months pregnant. However, Luckey said he was not sure if young Belcher had caused her condition. The youth's confession to state police officers came early Sun day after Lane county authori ties confronted him with evi dence that the bullet that killed Mary Ellen had been fired from his pistol. Gold Hill The Harlan Belch er family formerly resided in Gold Hill, but left thereabout 10 years ago when Elmer H. Belcher was about five, former neighbors said today. The father was employed by the Southern Pacific company, and there are relatives now living in Medford. Forgery Charges Await Local Man Police authorities in Cedar Rapids, la., have notified Sheriff Howard Gault that they have ar rested A. D. Thompson, formerly of Medford, who is wanted here to face charges of forgery. On January 22, Thompson was charged by a grand jury secret indictment of passing bad checks at the J. C. Penney store, the Bar-B-Q grill and the First Na tional bank, totaling some $500, Sheriff Gault said. Thompson was formerly em ployed here as a meat cutter for Safeway and the Big Y market Assistant District Attorney boo Dickey and Sheriff Gault said Thompson has refused to waive extradition,, and that an officer will be sent after him. He -has a prior criminal record, tney indicated. Tigard Girl Dies Of Accidental Shot Portland (U.R) Police said Monday a 13-year-old Tieard girl had been killed by an ap parent accidental shot from a rusty .38-caliber revolver held by her 14-year-old brother. The victim was Angela Rosa. State and Multnomah county po lice said that according to infor mation they could piece together, the girl was shot while combing her hair on a davennort across the room from where her broth er, Gerald, was examining the revolver. .Deputy sheriffs Bill Cree- craft and K. C. Robertson found the terrified brother eight hours later. The officers said the boy apparently had become panicky after the shooting and had fled after asking a neighbor to call a doctor. Oregon Prison Slates Commencement Rites Salem U.R) Oregon State prison will hold the first com mencement exercises in its his tory Friday night when 11 grad uates of the prison's academic school get their eighth grade diplomas. A dinner for the grades will precede the commencement ex ercises. Gov. Douglas McKay is expected to be among guests of No Serious Flooding Seen In Portland-Vancouver Area Portland (U.R) The weath er bureau said Monday 'that spring runoffs from the snow- heavy mountains of the Colum bia river basin probably will cause 1 minor flooding - in the Portland - Vancouver, Was h., areas before the end of the sea son. If o Serious Flooding A special water supply out look, compiled as of April 1, said no serious flooding is expected in the Columbia drainage above the confluence of the Columbia and Snake rivers near Pasco, Wash., "unless an adverse se quence of temperature and pre cipitation conditions occurs." With normal temperatures and rainfall throughout the melt season, the discharge of water down the Columbia would re sult in peak stages near 22 feet in the Portland and Vancouver harbors, too report Hid, Hit-Run Tactics Threatened To Disrupt Service Communications System Limtied New York (U.R) More than 65,000 telephone workers went on strike across the nation Mon day and threatened a "hit and run" disruption of service in 43 states and the District of Colum bia. The strike started at 6 a. m. Combined with the five-day-old strike of Western Union oper ators, it confused and limited the nation's communications. But the telephone strike was immedi ately effective in only four states New Jersey, Ohio, Michigan and Northern California. Major Threat The major threat to national service was from the compara tively small 15,500 member Districts 10 and 11 of the Com munications Workers of Amer ica, CIO. All are employees of Western Electric and their hit-and-run picket lines could idle all other telephone workers in all states except those of New England and Montana. The first Western Electric pickets appeared in Augusta, Ga., and Jennings, La., Shortly before 9 a. m. A Southern Bell spokesman said one picket at Augusta kept "some" operators off their jobs. Two pickets ap peared at Jennings and prevent ed 6 of 12 operators from work ing who respected the line and refused to enter the exchange, the company said. Other Operators Quit In addition, 44,500 telephone operators in Ohio, Michigan and New Jersey, represented by oth er divisions of the CWA, walked off their jobs in separate dis putes wtih local Bell Telephone companies. Service employees of the Pa cific Telephone and Telegraph company struck in Northern -California. These .6,500 strikers , were expected to idle operators with their picket lines. Negotiations in all the wage . disputes broke up shortly before the 6 a.m. strike deadline but were scheduled to resume dur ing the day. A settlement in any one could set a pattern for quick agreement on the others. Portland U.R) Some 350 em ployees of Western Electric Co. in Oregon, Washington and part of Idaho went on strike Monday in connection with a nationwide walkout but service was not im mediately disrupted. Downtown telephone ex changes in Portland and Grants Pass, Ore., were picketed for a brief period. Western Electric installers are also employed at Medford, Jacksonville, Eugene, Springfield and Madras in Ore gon. Although no pickets appeared at the latter places immediate ly officials of the Communica tions Workers of America CIO hinted that "hit and run" picket ing would be employed. A union official said he expected all tele phone workers to observe picket line when they were set up. Western Electric employees at work in Medford and Jackson ville installing new central of fice equipment are on strike here, it was reported this morn ing by J. H. Creager, manager of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company here. All telephone service, both lo cal and long distance, is normal, Creager said. No picket lines had been set up this morning, he added. There are about eight Western Electric employees in this area, Creager. reported. Flood stage is 18 feet at the Portland "seawall" and 15 feet in the lowlands surrounding Vancouver. Such stages would send wa ter into low-lying farm areas but would not seriously affect ei ther of the cities. 108 Per Cent of Average The forecast said all streams tributary to the Columbia above Grand Coulee would produce more than 110 per cent of their 1940-49 average water year flows, assuming medium subse quent precipitation. The inflow at Grand Coulee dam is expected to be 108 per cent of the 10-year average. Streams tributary to the Colum bia in Washington state below Grand Coulee are expected to produce between 90 and 100 per cent ' of their average, except in the Okanogan, where nearly 140 per cent is expected. . f
