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TAIL OF WOE Quecnie double chocks the first-aid technique of
Barbara, 7, and Carolyn Navarre, 9 (right), who are bandaging
the pup's tail in their Detroit home. Queenie got her tail caught
in an automatic ironer and.it took the combined efforts of two
policemen to free her. The din that Queenie raised at the time
sounded like a raiding band of Apaches.
New Jersey
Vote Slowed by Rain
Newark, N. J. (Uf) New Jer
sey voters carried their umbrel
las to the polls Tuesday in a
presidential primary testing the
political popularity of Sen. Rob
ert A. Taft and Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower.
Heavy Late Vote Seen
A chilling rain held down ear
ly balloting in most counties, but
election officials fully expected
voters to "swarm to the polls"
later in the day. They predicted
a record 1,000,000 of 2,490,000
eligible voters would participate
before the polls close at 8 p.m.
However, the forecast of scat
tered showers worried Eisenhow
er supporters, who counted heav
ily on a big turnout to swing Re
publican balloting in his favor.
Some 211 candidates were
seeking 38 Republican and 36
Democratic seats at the parties'
National Nominating Conven
tions. The ballot was further
complicated with a U.S. senato
rial and 14 congressional races.
Machines In Use
Automatic tabulating machines
were expected to speed the
counting in eight of 21 counties
but slower tallying in rural areas
might cause the final outcome to
be delayed until late Wednesday.
Republican and Democratic
Kefauver May Talk
In Ashland May 14
Ashland Sen. Estes Kefau
ver, Democratic candidate for
nomination to the national presi
dency has tentatively scheduled
an address at Southern Oregon
college on Wednesday, May 14,
according to Dr. Arthur Kreis
man, chairman of the Ashland
Kefauver - for - President com
mittee. Dr. Kreisman said the pro
posed meetingwould be held at
9 a.m. and would be open to the
public.
The May 14 meeting would be
Important in that it would pre
cede the state primary election
by only two days, Dr. Kreisman
pointed out. Extent of the candi
date's Oregon tour will be either
two or four days, and if the later
it is hoped he can make the Ash
land address.
Radio Highlights
Radio station KYJC. (1230
kc.) will carry returns from
the New Jersey primary elec
tions between 6:45 and 7 p.m.
today. Announcers on the pro
gram will discuss issues and
men Involved as well as the
latest voting figures, a station
representative said."
Armed Bandits Steal Gold
From French Armored Car
Paris (U.R) Three bandits
armed with sub-machine guns
robed an armored truck of S74.
285 worth of gold Tuesday and
escaped after a brief gun battle
with police who poured from a
station house only 125 yards
away.
Pedestrians Look On
Astonished pedestrians on the
Rue Notre Dame de Nazareth,
one of the city's main boule
vards near the Place de la Re
publique, looked on as the men
looted the bullion truck, switch
ed cars and raced away through
a fusillf.de of police bullets.
The bandits drove an incon-
spicuous French Peugeot auto
mobile as they overtook the bul
lion truck on the boulevard and
Primary
delegates technically were unin
structed, but the winner in the
popular voting was expected to
receive the major share of the
convention ballots.
Harold E. Stassen, former gov
ernor of Minnesota, shared the
Republican ballot with Eisen
hower and Taft. Sen. Estes Ke
fauver of Tennessee was the only
Democrat entered.
8-Jet Superfort
Undergoes Flight
Test at Seattle
Seattle U.R The U. S. Air
Force's super - secret eight - jet
YB52 Stratofortress roared into
the air for the first time at 11:09
a.m. (PST) Tuesday at Boeing
field here.
Thunderous Roar
She took off with a thunder
ous roar. Its great size gave the
appearance that it was moving
too slow but suddenly at the end
of the 5,000-foot runway the
monster gave a little bump and
was airborne.
Boeing test pilot Tex Johnson
was at the controls. With him
was co-pilot Lt. Col. Guy Tate
and an undisclosed number of
crewmen.
The plane made a great circle
over Seattle and headed for
Larson Air Force base near
Moses Lake, Wash., where she
will undergo extensive pre
flight testing.
Climbs Gradually
It climbed gradually trailing
eight plumes of black smoke.
The pilot left his flaps and
wheels down until the plane was
out of sight to the south.
Injunction Granted
Against Rail Strike
Cleveland (U.R) Federal
Judge Emerich B. Freed has
granted the government a per
manent injunction restraining
three railroad brotherhoods
from striking against the carri
ers to force a settlement of their
long-standing wages and rules
dispute.
Judge Freed announced his
decision after studying both
sides of testimony presented in
a seven-day heairng that ended
April 4. His ruling meant that
he denied the request of the
three unions that the temporary
order issued on March 11 which
restrained them from striking be
tossed out.
forced it to the curb. The truck
had just left a bank to deliver
gold to various currency dealers.
The bandits, two of them de
scribed as between 20 and 24
years old while the third was be
lieved to be between 30 and 40,
moved with speedy efficiency.
Submachine Gun Used
One trained a submachine gun
on the armored truck driver.
The other two leaped into the
truck and hauled out five sacks
of gold weighing 106 pounds.
The loot was thrown Into a
second car belonging to a neigh
borhood tradesman. Passersby
watched open-mouthed but made
no move to interfere as the ban
dits Jumped into the second car
and raced off down the boulevard.
Weather
FORECAST: Ttlt with ilowly
rising temperature!. High to
day fiS-68, low tonight 31,
high Wednesday B-70.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday A
Lowest this Morning .............. 32
Feinsinger Blames
ilson for Havoc
In Steel Dispute
Negotiations Chance
Claimed Damaged
Washington (U.R) Chairman
Nathan P. Feinsinger of the
Wage Stabilization Board accus
ed former Defense Mobilizer
Charles E. Wilson of causing the
"havoc" in the steel dispute.
Feinsinger said Wilson's ac
tions hurt chances of negotiating
a settlement on the board's rec
ommended terms of a 26-cent an
hour "package" increase for the
steel workers.
Heard by Subcommittee
Feinsinger made the remarks
in testimony before a Senate La
bor subcommittee investigating
President Truman's seizure of
the steel industry. He defended
President Truman's action, the
board's wage recommendations
and the controversial recommen
dation for a union shop.
Feinsinger said that Wilson
who resigned over the wage dis
pute, had said the recommenda
tions would be a "serious threat"
to the stabilization program. The
wage chief said this remark
caused an "atmosphere . .
scarcely conducive to the begin
ning of negotiations looking to
wards settlement.
Statement Retracted
Feinsinger said Wilson retract
ed his statement the following
day. However, he said, "This re
traction was too little and too
late to avoid the havoc caused
by the first statement."
Wilson resigned several days
later, charging that he "still
felt" that the board's 26-cent-an-hour
"package" proposal would
be unstabilizing.
In other developments:
Sen. Wayne Morse, R.-Ore.,
said he will introduce legislation
to return the steel mills to their
owners if the companies grant
wage increases proposed by the
Wage Board.
President Signs
Jap Pea c& Treaty
Washington (U.R) President
Truman signed the Japanese
peace treaty Tuesday, paving the
way for Japan's return to the
family of free nations before
the end of the month.
Mr. Truman also signed de
fense pacts with Japan, the Phil
ippines, New Zealand and Aus
tralia setting the stage for the
first peacetime Pacific defense
system.
Formal Ratifications
The President's signature on
the peace treaty constituted this
country's formal ratification. He
affixed his signatures at a cere
mony in his White House office.
When the Japanese treaty is
deposited along with the ratifica
tions of five other of the major
nations which fought Japan, the
treaty will come into effect,
establishing Japan as a free and
independent nation and ending
the seven year military occupa
tion. Tuesday Final Day
For State Tax Filing
Salem (U.R) Tuesday was
the final day to file your state
Income tax returns.
Ray Smith, chairman of the
State Tax commission, said his
offices In Salem would be open
until 9 p.m. and his offices in
the state office building in Port
land would be open until mid
night. Mail Tribune To Print
Candidate Statements
Beginning Tomorrow
In tomorrow's edition. The
Mail Tribune will begin pub
lication ol i series of state
ments by candidates for local
office in the May 16 primary
election.
The statements will be pub
lished as a free service to the
candidates and for the Infor
mation of readers wishing to
Inform themselves of candi
dates' positions relative to
their candidacy.
The Mail Tribune offered
the space te the candidates,
and has received statements
from each of them, except
from three who have no oppo
sition in either the primary
or general election. They win
be published on each day
starting tomorrow.
Medford
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47th Year 20 Pages
Atomic Explosion Gives Off Li.iliant Flash
Las Vegas, Nev. (U.R) The
biggest daylight flash resulting
from an atomic explosion lit up
the cloud rimmed horizon north
of here Tuesday when a nuclear
device was dropped from a
speeding Air Force bomber.
The Atomic Energy Commis
sion announced that the device
was released from the bomber
over the Yucca Flat proving
grounds 70 miles north of here
COAST GUARD TO THE RESCUE-Helicopter crewmen of the Coast Guard were called upon to
rescue Paul Maugheiner, 39, who was trapped by flood waters In a ranch home near Pierre, S. D.
Maugheinerwho was handicapped with a broken leg. chopped a hole in the roof and crawled out
(left) to wait for rescue. At right, he dangles in midair as Ihe 'copter carries him from the rooftop to
waiting ambulance.
RIVERS
Sioux City la. (U.R) Dike-
encircled towns of the Missouri
Valley were islands surrounded
by an inland sea Tuesday from
the relentless advance of the
record Missouri'river flood' crest.
The Mississippi river swept
into St. Paul and Winona, Minn.,
to begin a devastating march to
the south which the Red Cross
said would bring record crests as
far south as Hannibal, Mo.
65,000 Homeless
In the eight flood-soaked states
of the Midwest, a total of more
Mother of Medford Soldier
Plans To Stick by Her Son
Mrs. Myrtle Inez Jones, 1024V4 I a career of Army service. He re
West Ninth street, said today she ! enlisted for six years before re-
will "stick by her son, regardless
of what happens. Mrs. Jones is
the mother of Pc. Royal F. Cran
dall, 28, who is in trouble with
army authorities after going
AWOL for about three months
when he was refused permission
to marry lk South Korean
fiancee.
Mrs. Jones said she believes
her boy has won the right to
marry the Korean girl, Miss Lee
Kum Suk, whom he met while a
patient at Taegu, Korea.
Reenlisted
"He has been in the army since
he was 18," she said. "After
World War II he reenlisted, he
was one of the first to be sent to
Japan under MacArthur and was
among the first to go to Korea."
She explained that Private
Crandall was once badly frozen
during winter fighting in Korea,
has been wounded and another
time narrowly escaped death in
a. bomb explosion. "He has
worked hard to be a model sol
dier," she said, "and I believe he
is entitled to something." She
pointed out that other soldiers
were allowed to marry Japanese
and Korean girls.
Mrs. Jones said her son "has
his heart set" on marrying the
girl and that If he wants her
bad enough to fight for her, he
deserves her. She stated that
while she was not originally in
favor of the marriage "my son's
happiness is mine." Mrs. Jones
added that, if the marriage is
possible, she will do everything
she can for the Korean girl.
Plant Army Career
According to Mrs. Jones, Pri
vate Crandall intends to make
First Orchard Heating
Smoke Noted in Valley
Smoke from the first notice
able orchard heating of the year
greeted Rogue valley residents
this morning.
County Agent C. B. Cordy,
horticulturist, reported that the
heating was "light and pro
tected the buds from damage in
the colder areas. Elsewhere, the
temperature remained above the
danger point. The minimum
temperature in the coldest areas
was around 27 degrees.
MEDORD, OREGON,
at 9:30 a.m. PST.
Observers who witnessed the
explosion from atop buildings
here said the device apparently
was detonated higher above the
ground than any prveious A
blast. They based their opinion
on the king-sized ball of fire and
the dust cloud which boiled up
above the mountains ringing the
test area.
Neither troops nor animals
CONTINUE SURGE
than 85,000 persons were home-
less. The Red Cross said 74,000
persons were "affected."
The deepening crest of the
Missouri sped southward down
the Iowa-Nebraska border. It was
due to crest Tuesday at well over
25 feet opposite the Iowa towns
of Sloan, Whiting and Onawa,
from 25 to 40 miles south of
Sioux City.
Cities Ringed by Dike
Each of the cities to the south
was ringed by a dike of earth
and sand, thrown up as a bul-
. turning to this country from Ko-
rea, she said. She does not be-
neve me preseni cuiiicumes will
change his plans.
Private Crandall was last in
was last in
Medford in December and Janu
ary, after he returned from Ko
rea. She said at that time he was
very worried about the situation
and that her husband cautioned
him against going AWOL.
100 Donors Needed
For Blood Program
Jackson county's blnodjro
gram Is still lacking 100 doiiors
to reach the goal of 500 set by
2 p.m. tomorrow.
Officials reported this morn
ing that donors "picked up"
this morning but that every ef
fort will be needed to make the
quota by tomorrow. "Drop-in"
donors will be heartily welcom
ed between 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Wednesday and appointments
can be made by calling the Elks
temple in the morning where
the bloodmobile is stationed.
General Oregon
Phone Walkout Seen
Portland (U.R) A general
walkout by Oregon CIO commu
nications workers appeared In
the making Tuesday when Pa
cific Telephone & Telegraph
company refused to give back
Jobs to all employes returning
to work after respecting "hit and
run" picket lines.
Workers who failed to get
back their old Jobs immediately
set up "squirrel cage" picket
lines around the main telephone
building In Portland. An esti
mated 250 employes who had re
fused to go through union picket
lines earlier this week were In
the picket line today.
Eugene (U.R)Gov. Val Pet
erson of Nebraska will speak
May 2 at the University of Ore
gon's mock Republican party
convention,
Tuesday.
it was announced
o
t-
TUESDAY, API i,
participated in the test, the AEC
announced. i
Several thousand troops, the
vanguard of some ?,000 who will
participate in the next test,
watched the grotesque ball of
fire sear the sky over the Yucca
Flat test area.
Atom - hardened Las Vegas
residents, who calmly went
about their day's chores while
hundreds of tourists crowded
wark against the Big Muddy as
it spread wider and wider across
the valley lowlands.
At 8 p.m. Monday, Whiting
was the, scene of furious activity
as the 100 remaining men in
town worked with shovels and
bulldozers on the 5-foot dike
around the town.
At 10 p.m., a fire siren wailed
across the valley, signalling to
the countryside that the river
had reached the dike and was
surrounding the town.
At Onawa, a city of 3,500 to
the south, only 1,000 persons re
mained. Gordon Oliver, one member of
the disaster committee, estimated
that 8,000 to 10,000 head of cat
tle had been removed from the
surrounding farmland now un
der water to points as far as 80
miles away.
Some cities were no longer
even islands. Blencoe and Mon-
j..i i Th ,.i.
' 5 f, deer) throuBhout Blen-
rkon rolT,ni-H
The Mississippi poured over
the industrial section of St. Paul.
Thousands of residents were
driven from their homes. The
stockyards and riverfront Indus
tries were flooded. t
- Minnesota counted 7,000 per
sons homeless, 3,000 in the St.
Paul area alone.
At Winona, a dike burst and
the Mississippi rushed in, cover
ing the town's new airport. Wi
nona was almost an island city.
Two roads and a railroad track,
all awash, led out of town.
Washington (U.R) President
Truman has asked seven Middle
Western governors to meet with
him Wednesday near Omaha to
discuss the Missouri River flood
emergency.
The Chief Executive, flying in
the airplane Independence, will
leave Washington at 7 a. m. and
spend the late forenoon cruising
over the flooded area.
Invited to the flood conference
were Govs. Adlai Stevenson of
Illinois, Sigurd Anderson of
South Dakota, Norman Bruns
dale of North Dakota, William
S. Beardslcy of Iowa, Val Peter
son of Nebraska, Walter J. Koh
ler of Wisconsin and C. Elmer
Anderson of Minnesota.
Registration of Voters
Closed at 8 P.M. Today
Registration for Oregon's pri
mary election will close today.
Voters may still register up
until 8 p.m. at the county clerk's
office and both Medford fire
stations. Officials describe the
registration this year as "stead
ier every day than ever before.'
STUDY MASS" CARE
Local and state civilian de
fense officials met late this
morning in Medford to organize
a program to assist the Red
Cross and welfare departments
of Jackson county in the mass
care program needed for CD,
according to George E. Emigh
Jr., training and education offi
cer from Salem.
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onto roof tops to watch, neither
felt nor heard the blast. The re
sulting atom cloud appeared less
dense to seasoned observers
than those of past tests.
The nuclear explosion was
the second of the spring test
series to be touched off by the
AEC and is the 14th atomic
blast set off in the past two
years at the twin testing grounds
of Yucca and Frenchman's Flat.
About $400 Stolen
From St. Mary's
School Here Sunday
A total of about $400 was
stolen Sunday from St. Mary's
school, 321 West 11th street, it
was revealed today by city po
lice. Police records indicated that
thieves gained entry to the build
ing between 7:50 and 9:15 a.m.
and ransacked the sister super
ior's office where the money was
kept in a metal box.
The box was pried open, as
was a filing cabinet, according
to investigating officers. The
money Included $300 in bills and
over $90 in change, they said.
The loss was discovered by
Siste.- Superior Miriam Mar
garet at 4:50 p.m. Sunday, when
it was reported to police. Details
of the theft were withheld by
The Mail Tribune Monday dur
ing the preliminary investigation
at the request of city police and
St. Mary's officials.
County Budgeters
Hold First Meeting
The first organizational meet
ing of the 1952 Jackson county
budget committee was held in
the county court offices.
' Budget . requests iwere given
to committee members Roger
Rath, Talent, , Arnold Bohnert,
Central Point and Tom Wray of
Medford, who will study them
before definite figures are recom
mended. County Judge L. B.
Coleman presided and Commis
sioners Robert L y 1 1 e, Valley
View, and L. G. Morthland, Med
ford, were present.
Officials of seven county school
districts are attending budget
hearings today to determine the
final figures over the 8 per cent
increase limitation set by state
law to be submitted for an equal
ization election.
The hearings are before the
rural school board composed of
Mrs. L. C. Taylor, Medford,
chairman; Merle F. Stockman,
Rogue river, Dr. George B. Dean,
Medford, Lyle Van Scoy, Eagle
Point, H. F. Padgham, Jr., Med
ford, and Alf B. Mekvold, sec
retary. Public Hearings
Slated by Council
Public hearings on five pro
posed Medford street paving
project have been scheduled be
fore the Medford city council at
a regular meeting at 7:30 p.m.
today in the council chambers of
the city hall.
The projects to come before
the council Include Wilson place
from Eastwood to Keeneway
drives, Haven street from Co
lumbus avenue to Summit street
and from Summit street to Oak
street; Jasper street from Mel
rose to Stewart avenues and
South Peach street from 13th
street to Dakota avenue. .
City officials indicated that
other items to come before the
council will be of a routine na
ture.
Veto of Tidelands Measure
Seen Despite
Washington (U,R) Opponents
of the "tidelands" oil bill still
are counting on President Tru
man to kill It with a veto.
Their confidence that Mr. Tru
man will veto the legislation,
once it is finally enacted, was
unshaken by all the backing and
filling on the subject which took
place at the White House Mon
day, Misquote Claimed
It started; when former Salt
Lake City 'Postmaster I. A.
Smoot emerged from confer
ence with the President and con
fided to newsmen:
"He told me he will veto the
tidelands bill.
Five hours later, White House
Press Secretary Joseph Short Is
sued statement saying that
"Mr. Smoot has misquoted the
President.
"The President did not tell Mr.
Two Men Escape
Flaming Wreckage
At Fairchild Base
Rescue Attempts
Blocked by Flames
Spokane, Wash. (U.R) A B-38
bomber crashed and burned
while taking off on a routine
training flight from Fairchild
Air Force Base near here Tues
day and 15 of the 17 men aboard
were killed.
Two men escaped the flaming
wreckage by crawling through
the nose of the globe-girdling
craft after it plummeted into a
deserted -stretch of farmland
eight miles west of here.
The air force said 15 of the 17
aboard were killed.
Suffer From Burns
The two survivors were suf
fering from serious burns and
other injuries. They were hospi
talized at the Air Force base.
The $3,500,000 plane was in
the 92nd Heavy Bombardment
Wing attached to the 57th Air
Division.
A CAA official who saw the
crackup from Geiger Field, one
mile from the scene said the
plane exploded before It burned.
I noticed the plane as it was
taking off at 3:45 a.m.," said the
official, who declined to identify
himself. "A B-38 has a very low
rate of climb, but this one bare
ly cleared the ground,
Series of Flashes
"It glided along for a short
distance, then crashed and ex
ploded, Immediately after it hit,
there was a series of bright
flashes, apparently caused by
wing tanks exploding. One flash
was brighter than the others,
and lt may have been a magne
sium flare."
State Patrol Sgt. Harold Bolak
radioed from the scene that the
flames blocked attempts to res
cue possible survivors.
"Nobody could live through
that," he said. "I don't see how
those guys managed to get out
alive. All I could make out of
the burning wreckage of the
bomber was its motors. The rest
was just so much twisted metal.
I couldn't recognize another part
of the plane."
The wreckage was scattered
over a 1,000 square-foot area. A
column of smoke rose several
miles Into the air.
New Grand Jury Sets
Criminal Case Study
A number of criminal cases
will be heard by the newly-convened
Jackson county grand jury
when it meets at 10 a.m. Thurs
day, according to District At
torney Paul Havlland.
Among the cases will be that
of Vollner Alber Poole, who Is
charged with the burglary of
Valentine s lounge on Sept. 10,
1950. Three others involved in
the case, Robert Jesse Duanne,
Albert Julius Fletcher and James
Harry Buchanan, the latter a
former Medford policeman, haves
already been sentenced. Poole,
a marine stationed at Camp Pen
dleton, cat., has been extradited
and is out on ball.
Another case to be heard is
that of Mrs. Sarah Painter, Cen
tral Point, who is charged with
delinquency of two minor daugh-,
ters. '
Water District Vote
UndcrWayHereToday
Residents of the Maple Park
area west and northwest of Med
ford were balloting today on a
proposal to form a water dis
trict there. The poll is located at
Medford Spring Service, 917
McAndrews road, and will be
open until 8 p.m.
Five nominees for five direc
torships for the proposed water
district are also on the ballot.
Plans for the district call for
the purchase of water from city
of Medford, if the organization
is approved by the voters today.
Statements
Smoot that the pending tidelands
oil bill would be vetoed, Short
said. "That legislation has not
reached the president for signa
ture, and the president reserves
comment thereon at this time."
The legislation If approved
would give the states ownership
of the submerged coastal lands
generally three miles wide be
yond the low water mark.
Veto Predicted
Senators who have predicted
all along that Mr. Truman will
veto the legislation said they
took Short's statement to mean
that the president is holding to
his policy of refusing to dlscusd
pending bills.
They voted that Mr. Truman
vetoed almost identical legisla
tion In 1946 and said there is no
reason to think he has changed
hit stand.
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