T MIME W WIH
n
OT
JMvL
Medford
mutes preis mil wm
47th Year 20 Pages
Byrnes Says Truman Tried To
Substitute Fiction for History
Untruths Claimed
- Made Following
MoscowConference
Attempt To Grab
Glory Alleged
Washington (U.R) James F.
Byrnes has accused President
Truman of trying to "substitute
fiction for history" .to grab the
glory of Byrnes' "get tough" pol
icy toward Russia.
However, one of his charges
was contradicted by Sen. Clinton
P. Anderson, D-N.M., who was
secretary of agriculture when
the alleged incident occurred.
Untruths Charged
The governor of South Caro
lina, once Mr. Truman's secre
tary of state and close friend,
charged in Friday's issue of Col
lier's magazine that the Presi
dent had made "untrue" and "in
accurate" statements about
Byrnes' service.
Byrnes was angered by a state
ment in the book "Man of In
dependence," by Jonathan Dan
iels, editor of the Raleigh, N.C.,
News & Observer, and by publi
cation of a presidential memo in
William Hillman's new book,
"Mr. President."
Riot Act Alleged
Daniels quoted Mr. Truman as
saying that "Byrnes got the real
riot act" after returning from the
December, 1946, Moscow confer
ence with Joseph Stalin. -
"This positively is not true,"
Byrnes said. No riot act was
spoken or read to me then, or
any other time."
However, Anderson, secretary
of agriculture 'at the time of the
Moscow conference, supported
Daniels' quotation of Mr. Tru
man.
Thursday Anderson said Mr.
Truman summoned Byrnes
aboard the presidential yacht
Williamsburg after the confer
ence to read the "riot act" to
him.
President "Horrified"
The president was "horrified,"
Anderson said, when he learned
that Byrnes had planned to re
port to the nation on the confer
ence without first clearing his
radio address with him.
Anderson said Mr. Truman
told Byrnes that, although
Byrnes was a member of the
cabinet, it was the president who
shaped foreign policy.
Mr. Truman gave Byrnes a
"curt and stiff" reprimand, An
derson said, and every Cabinet
member "who knew the two
men" was aware of what had
happened.
Said Not Summoned
Byrnes said in his article that
Mr. Truman did not summon
3him but that he sent word to the
president aboard the Williams-
burg "that I wished to report to
him and to discuss with him the
advisability of my making a
speech on the radio about the
Moscow conference."
Byrnes said his relations with
Mr. Truman were cordial after
the conference.
Fort Lewis, Wash. (U.R) Pfc.
Garvin N. Williams, 23, of Buf
ralo, N. Y., drowned in the Madi
gan Army hospital swimming
pool here Thursday.
Medford PTT. Offices Still
Being Picketed in Strike
Picketing of the Medford of
fices of the Pacific Telephone
and Telegraph company contin
ued today, but J. H. Creager.
manager, said that traffic is
"Just about normal."
Some supervisory personnel
are on switchboards today, he
added, and in addition to regular
workers reporting for work
make a near-normal work force
on duty.
S There may be some few de
lays. Creager said, but not many.
.However, installation work is at
standstill, he reported.
BY UNITED PRESS
I A general strike against the
icific Telephone & Telegraph
Vnpany spread throughout Ore
n Friday while the heaviest
Jketing thus far in the two-
at A T Y
MEDFORD, OREdON, FRIDAY, APRIL 18,
HOVERING HELICOPTER looks down on Red Cross disaster workers using boats to evacuate fam
ilies trapped at Blencoe, Iowa, in greatest flood in Missouri River history. Scores of thousands of
refugees are fleeing to higher ground as mighty flood sweeps lowlands. (International Soundphato)
Crash of
Kills All
Los Angeles (U.R) A trans
continental airliner which van
ished over the fog shrouded San
Gabriel valley crashed into the
slopes of grassy Puente Hills Fri
day, killing "all aboard about
28 persons."
The first Los Angeles sheriff's
deputies to reach the scene, just
above the dead end of La Belle
street in North Whittier Heights,
14 miles east of here, reported
"all aboard dead."
Three Crew Members
A North Continental Airlines
official at nearby Lockheed air
terminal, reported there were
"three crew members and about
25 passengers" aboard the twin
engine non-scheduled airliner.
A sheriff's call for three am-
Agent Suggests Route
For Viewing Blossoms
The height of the pear blos
som season is upon the Rogue
valley, according to County Hor
ticultural Agent C. B. Cordy.
In order that valley residents
may follow the best route in
viewing the trees, the county
agent suggested the following
trip around the valley:
Beginning a t Jacksonville,
motor south to Talent, making
sure of staying west of the
Southern Pacific railroad tracks
until Talent is reached. Turn
south on Highway 99 toward
Ashland for 100 yards, then turn
east on the gravel road which
crosses Bear creek. After cross
ing the creek, turn left and
travel north, always staying east
of the creek. The tour will end
at the Hillcrest orchards just
east of Medford.
The weather bureau at Med
ford airport reported this morn
ing that there will "defintely be
no need for orchard heating to
morrow morning, but there is a
possibility on Sunday."
week-old Western Electric in
stallers dispute was reported in
Washington state.
PTT officials asserted that no
breakdown in service had been
reported anywhere over its ac
tivities in the two states.
All installations of the PT&T
in Portland and all other Oregon
exchanges, except those at The
Dalles and Milton, had pickets
and pickets were reported at 19
exchanges in Washington.
It was pay day for plant and
commercial employees in Port
land and by 9 a m. strikers had
picked up checks for a two-week
period ending last Friday. Pick
et captains accompanied strikers
through the lines and then re
mained to see that they left
promptly.
SBWTBIBUNE
Airliner
Aboard
bulances was radioed 15 minutes
after the first report was re
ceived.; i '
The plane, a non-scheduled
North Continent ' airliner en
route from New York to Los
Angeles, made its last radio con
tact at 3:33 a.m.
Pilot Lou Powell, Long Beach,
reported at the time he was
over Downey,. Calif.. 17 miles
east of here and less than five
miles from when, the twin-engine
C-46 crashed.
When the plane failed to land
its estimated time of arrival,
3:45 a.m., the Los Angeles In
ternational Airport tower listed
it as "overdue."
An immediate three-pronged
ground-air search was ordered
with the sheriff's Aero Squad
ron and the March Air Force
Base air rescue team taking
over the land and air check of
the Puente Hills area.
A representative for the com
pany, which has its headquar
ters in Kansas City, said the
flight originated at New York's
LaGuardia field "early yester
day or late Wednesday night."
"There should have been
about 25 passengers and a crew
of three aboard," he added in
confirming the plane was over
due. He was unable to deter
mine the exact number "because
the only passenger manifests are
either aboard the plane or in the
mail to Kansas City."
President Denounces
Defense Spending Cut
Washington (U.R) Presi
dent Truman has denounced as
"terribly dangerous" a recent
$6,000,000,000 House cut in de
fense spending.
Accusing Congress of arbitrar
ily slashing military appropria
tions to get "headlines" and to
"impress the voters back home"
in an election year, Mr. Truman
said:
"Slashing appropriations is
fine, until the day comes when
we find we don't have the planes
or the tanks or the guns we need.
And then we have to pay for
those headlines not in money
but in lives in the lives of our
soldiers."
Weather Change Waited;
Medford' $ 84 Hottest
By UNITED PRESS
There will be a change in the
weather in the Pacific North
west Saturday,
Temperatures 10 to 15 degrees
cooler and possibility of a few
showers were forecast by the
weather bureau because of a dis
turbance moving into British Co
lumbia from the Pacific.
Temperatures remained warm
Friday, but the weatber bureau
said the westerly flow of cool
air would break the warm spell
Saturday. Medford was Oregon's
hot spot Tnurtday with 84 degrees.
United Pru Full Lcued Wl
1952
No. 24
Mighty Missouri
River Leveling
At Highest Point
Omaha (U.R) The mighty
Missouri river was leveling off
at its highest, known point Fr-i
day but Army engineers warned
that the crisis for this area of
350,000 inhabitants would last
for two or three more days.
This was "C" Day, the day of
reckoning for Omaha and Coun
cil Bluffs, la., a virtual ghost
town across the bank from which
35,000 residents had fled.
Crest Hour Unknown
"We have a long flat crest
which will be with us all day, a
government forecaster said.
At what precise hour or level
the river would crest, no one
could say.
It was the day the river itself
would pass judgment on the
frantic efforts of 15,000 levee
workers who stood in mud up to
their knees and watched the
brown river surging past at a
record 30.24 feet.
For more than eight hours the
river had held almost steady,
just above 30.20 feet. The
Weather Bureau, which earlier
had predicted a crest of 31Vi
feet, said it now might reach
30V4 feet.
Little Danger Seen
Lt. Gen. Lewis A. Pick, chief
of Army engineers, said there
was' little danger the angry
floodwaters would top the sand
bagged earthen levees.
Pick said the danger from the
long, flat floodcrest might last
two or three days. No one could
tell how long the dikes would
hold against the river's enor
mous pressure.
(See Story on Page Nine)
Indictments Expected
By Grand Jury Today
The newly-convened Jackson
county grand Jury is expected to
return a list of indictments some
time this afternoon, according to
District Attorney Paul W, Havi
land. Meeting of the jury, set for
10 a.m. yesterday, was delayed
until today so a complete panel
could be obtained. Criminal
cases being considered by the
jury include, among others, the
Valentine's lounge burglary
charge against Voliner Albert
Poole, a Camp Pendleton ma
rine who was extradited, and
the case of Mrs. Sarah Painter,
Central Point, who is charged
with the delinquency of two mi
nor daughters.
Weather
fORKTAST: Partly Moudy to
night and laturday with a
lw widely frittered ihowers.
Colder ftiturday. Low tonight
49. High Saturday 70-75.
1mp.
Hltheit VnOrdir ..... M
LowMt thli Morning 41
A-f; -i. KW I Sj II SWf-
Harriman Selected
By N. Y. Democ
To Be Candid.
Truman Approval
Of Choice Indicated
New York (U.R) New York
State Democratic party leaders
chose W. Averell Harriman Fri
day as the man they'll back for
the party's presidential nomina
tion.' In a joint press conference
following a meeting of county
Democratic chairmen, Sen. Her
bert H. Lehman, D-N.Y., and
State Democratic Chairman Paul
E. Fitzgerald said they would
urge Harriman's candidacy
"throughout the country."
Lehman, Who turned down a
"favorite son" designation at the
meeting, said:
Support Hopeful
"I want to make this clear in
presenting the name of Mr. Har
riman, We are not doing it as a
gesture or as a holding opera
tion . . . we are very hopeful
that support will be sufficiently
strong throughout the country to
gain him the nomination and the
election."
Reports from Washington in
dicated that such a choice would
have the approval of President
Truman. Mr. Truman's remarks
at a press conference indicated
he might support Harriman now
that Gov. Adlai Stevenson of
Illinois has said he does not
want the nomination.
Party's Kitty Gains
The dinner at the Waldorf-As
toria hotel, biggest Democratic
get-together so far this year, at
tracted 1,500 guests who put
$150,000 litto the party's cam
paign kitty.
Harriman, former ambassador
to Moscow and now head of the
Mutual Security Administration,
received the praises of such af
ter-dinner speakers as Sen. Estes
Kefauver of Tennessee and Rob
ert S. Kerr of Oklahoma, both
avowed candidates for the party
nomination, and Stevenson, who
removed himself as a possible
standard bearer Wednesday.
Steve-cn Apologises
Stevenson,' who "smilingly
apologized for coming to dinner
as a "candidate for governor in
stead of a "candidate for presl
dent," warned that complex
problems beset the nation.
"No living American knows
more about such problems than
Harriman," Stevenson said.
The Illinois governor said the
Republican party is "bereft of
common purposes, policy, prin
ciples or program" and told
guests thaf'omens are good" for
a Democratic victory in Novem
ber. Further Talks Slated
In Telegraph Dispute
Washington (U.R) Leaders of
the AFL Commercial Telegra
phers Union scheduled further
talks with Western Union offi
cials Friday but indicated that
the telegraph strike will not end
on the company's terms.
Federal mediators also were to
attend the meeting Friday after
noon to push for settlement of
the 18-day walkout of 30,000
clerks, telegraphers and messen
gers. Still on the bargaining table
was a company proposal for a
60-day strike truce to permit bar
gaining by "calm judgment."
The company said it would con
tinue pre-strike wage rates and
other contract terms during this
period.
Prisoner Exchange
Talks Due Saturday
Panmunjom, Korea (U.R)
The United Nations agreed Fri
day to resume secret talks with
the Communists Saturday on an
exchange of war prisoners.
The U.N. truce delegation fi
nally sent Its acceptance after
the Reds had asked three times
in the past week for resump
tion of the discussions. Delegates
will meet at 11 a.m. Saturday.
.The talks had been recessed
April 4 to give both sides a
chance to seek a way out of the
deadlock over the U N 's demand
that prisoners be permitted to
refuse repatriation. The Commu
nists have Insisted that all pris
oners must be exchanged forc
ibly if necessary.
Sfofe Prison Inmate
Suicides by Hanging
Salem (U.R) Warden Virgil
J. O'Malley slid Eugene Phillips,
serving life sentence In Oregon
state prison for second degree
murder in Crook county, com
mitted suicide early Friday by
hanging himself in the basement
of the prison postoffice.
The body was found by fellow
convicts.
oT Might Seize
Press and Radio In
Case of Emergency
Washington (U.R) Presi
dent Truman shocked some of
the nation's top newspaper edi
tors by suggesting that he might
claim constitutional power to
seize the press and radio if he
thought it necessary in an emer
gency.
The question came up Thurs
day at the biggest news confer
ence Mr. Truman has ever held.
More than 350 members of the
American Society of Newspaper
Editors joined 150 regular Wash
ington correspondents for the
session, held in the big auditori
um of the Smithsonian Institute.
Reply to Question
The shocker, to some of the
editors, was his cryptic reply to
this question:
"If it is proper under your
inherent powers to seize the steel
mills, can you tell us whether
in your opinion it is proper' to
seize the newspapers and radio
stations."
Mr, Truman replied sternly
that under similar circumstances,
the president has to do whatever
he believes is best for the coun
try. There was considerable dis
agreement among the editors as
to just what Mr. Truman meant
by that reply.
Could Take Everything
ASNE President Alexander F.
Jones said he thought that "the
President meant that he has the
power to take over steel ... it
would be putting words in his
mouth to say anything else."
Walter M. Harrison. Okla
homa Ctiy, former president of
the society, said, "I think he
meant he could take over the
papers, radio and everything
else. If that isn't on the edge of
totalitarianism, I don't know
what is."
Robert N. Hitt Jr., editor of
the Charleston, S. C. Evening
Post, brushed aside Mr. Tru
man's statement as "just ab
surd."
R. H. Kirkpatrick,--editor -of
New Street
Lights
Being Installed
Installation of new street
lights on Central and' Riverside
avenues was under way here
this morning, according to Call
fornia Oregon Power company
officials. They stated that about
160 new lights of various types
will be installed as received on
Medford streets during the next
60 to 90 days,
Seventeen new mercury vapor
lights will be installed on Cen
tral and Riverside avenues and
Front and Bartlctt streets, they
said. Plans also call for new
lights of other varieties on Cen
tral and Riverside avenues and
Court street and for improved
lights on East and West Main
street.
County Blood Program
Praised by State HQ
The Jackson county blood
bank section of the local Red
Cross was commended this
morning for its outstanding
work in blood collections in a
letter from the Portland branch,
according to the local office.
This week's drive, which ob
tained one more than its quota
of 500 donors, raised total coun
ty collections from January 1951
to the present to a total of
4,365 pints, it was added.
Steel Industry
Sawyer's Recommendation
Washington (U.R) Secre
tary of Commerce Charles
Sawyer said Friday the gov
ernment 'ill give the CIO
United Steelworkers a pay
raise next week If the wage
dispute Is not settled before
then.
Washington - (U.R) Secretary
of Commerce Charles Sawyer
met with steel industry leaders
Friday morning and informed
sources said he would inform
the officials of the wage boost
he will recommend for the CIO
United Steelworkers.
The big question in the bitter
steel dispute was the size of the
pay Increase to be recommended
by Sawyer, nominal "boss" of
the industry since the govern
ment seizure last week.
To Send Recommendation
An aide to Sawyer said the
secretary would send his recom
mendation to President Truman
Friday. Sawyer was scheduled to
meet with CIO President Philip
Murray after conferring with
the management representatives.
the Bethlehem, Pa., Globe-Democrat,
said Mr. Truman declared
that the president has "the re
sponsibility and the authority to
act in the best interest of the
people and that would include
seizing the newspapers."
Theoretical Power
White House sources said
later Mr. Truman meant that he
or any other president has the
theoretical power, in a national
emergency, to take over "any
portion of the business commun
ity acting to' jeopardize all of
the people."
When Jones, editor of the Syr
acuse, N. Y Hcraia-Journai,
asked Mr. Truman why he de
cided not to run for reelection,
the President permitted direct
quotation of his reply:
"I don't think that any man
no matter how good he Is is in
dispensable in any job,
"When a man has been re
sponsible for eight years, as I
will have been by Jan. 20, he
should have made by that time
all the contribution to the wel
fare of the nation that he can
possibly give."
County Employees
OK'd (or Federal
Social Security
Most of the employees of Jack
son county have been accepted
for coverage under the federal
social security retirement sys
tem, it was learned today by the
county court.
More than the minimum of 75
per cent of the employees peti
tioned lost year for inclusion un
der social security, rather than
the state retirement system. A
few still remain under the state
retirement plan.
The Inclusion under the fed
eral plan will be retroactive to
Jan. 1, 1952, the court was In
formed. Officials Resign
It was to comply with require
ments of the law regarding in
clusion under social security
that most county elected offi
cials and employees resigned last
December, and were reappoint
ed. At the time it was thought
necessary to have new appoint
ments, and the resignations were
submitted so that successors In
office would be able to be in
cluded under the system, accord
ing to L. G. "Shy" Morthland,
county commissioner.
The resignations and reap
pointments came to light on
March 15, the last day on which
candidates for political office
could file, when Paul Rynning
filed for reelection as county
surveyor, although his original
term did not expire until 1954.
Under Criticism
His resignation required a re:
appointment "until his successor
is elected."' Rynning has been
under some criticism because of
the fact that few people knew
of his resignation and of the fact
that he would have to seek re
election.
Morthland said today that the
change will result in consider
able savings of money to the
county, because employer con
tributions under the federal plan
are smaller than those required
under the state system.
Awaiting
Mr. Truman emphasized at his
news conference Thursday that
a decision had not been made,
and that he himself would de
cide the hotly-contpstcd issue.
The Industry claims Mr. Tru
man not only did not have the
right to seize the steel mills, but
cannot legally order a wage
boost.
Informed sources said the gov
ernment-imposed 1 n c r e a s e
which Industry attorneys are
prepared to challenge immedi
ately In the courts will match
management's "best offer" be
fore direct negotiations collaps
ed. This was a I2'4-cent hourly
pay hlge plus 5',i cents in fringe
benefits.
Murray told a National Press
Club luncheon Thursday that
his 650.000 steel workers "ex
pect and hope" that the govern
ment will order the full 26
cent wage-fringe package plus
a union shop, which were includ
ed In the IB-month contract
recommended by the Wage Sta
bilizalion Board.
Largest Landowner
01 Area Beginning
Development Work
Indications Seen
In Officers' Hints
Camp White, which has been
slated for partial reactiviation
as an Army stand-by training
camp, may never be construct
ed, it was hinted today.
C. C. Hoover, owner of most
of the property on which the re
activated camp would be locat
ed, said today he is going ahead
with "extensive development" of
the land on the basis of indica
tions to him that the camp never
will be reactivated
Officials Give Hints
He said it has been intimated
to him by Lt. Gen. Joseph M.
Swing, commanding general of
the 6th Army, and by N. S.
Green, project manager in the
Army engineers office in Seat
tle, that the camp either will
not be built, or will be consider
ably delayed.
The Department of the Army
has never given any clear-cut,
definite and detailed public re
port of- its intentions regarding
the camp, but from time to time
has issued statements, some of
which were conflicting. As a
result, those who for one reason
or another are interested in the
camp plans, including 'Hoover.
have been unsure just what "the
Army intends to do.
Heard Nothing More
Until recently, negotiations
were under way between the
Army and Hoover, and a few
others, for land east of the high
way where the camp had tenta
tively been located, for purchase
or exchange agreements. But
Hoover said today he has heard
nothing more from the Army re
garding the acquisition of his
land.
Early in April he was told to
go ahead and plant crops on the
land, and subsequent indica
tions of the Army's lack of in
terest impelled him to go ahead
with his development work, he
reported. ' - " - -
In another development,
which added somewhat to the
confusion surrounding the
Army's plans, The Mail Tribune
received a telephone call this
morning from Congressman Har
ris Ellsworth In which he quot
ed a letter from the Army telling
him that a railway spur to the
proposed camp site has been de
leted from the plans.
Confirms Other Details
Other than the deletion of the
spur line, the letter generally
confirmed previous information
as to the size, location and ex
tent of the proposed site.
The letter to Ellsworth was in
response to his request for a re
port on the progress of the camp.
It pointed out that the land east
of the highway originally was
acquired during World War II,
and has utilities, footings and
other basic necessities to support
housing and utilities for 20,000
troops.
The troop housing area west of
the highway is now used by in
dustry, and the Army letter said
that to reacquire the land
through condemnation would be
expensive and would upset the
local economy.
Therefore, the letter added,
the Army proposes to limit troop
housing to the land east of the
highway, although it will still
need some facilities west of the
highway where the land is al
ready federally owned.
No Other Land
Unless the international situa
tion changes so that reactivation
of Camp White on a full scale
becomes mandatory, additional
land will not be acquired east
of Crater Lake highway, the let
ter said. All these are statements
which have previously been re
ported. On February 26 it was learned
that the acreage of the proposed
camp had been cut to some 1,-
300 acres, and the week follow
ing Sen. Guy Cordon reported
that contracts for construction
Including utilities, roads, rail
road spur and a telephone and
telegraph building would be let
April 15, with work to begin
about May 1.
However, early In April, land
owners in the area were told
that' it would be permissible to
plant crops there, Indicating a
delay in plans. No further word
has been forthcoming on the
dates contracts will be let.
Cost Estimated
The Information from Senator
Cordon indicated that the cost
df the Installation had been esti
mated at about $629,000. The
reason given for the deletion of
the sour, In the letter to Ells
worth, was because the Southern
Pacific had recently completed
construction of a spur track
from Tolo to the Camp WhiU
industrial area.