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Recommended Weather MEDFORD Tribune A feature itory n n t Sunday's hobby and arti fair conducted by Camp White vet eran! at the domiciliary renter theater appears on Page 13 of today's Issue of The Mall Tribune. FORECAST Continued fair to day and Monday with, riilnr daytime temperatures. Hlgfi today 70. low tonight 13. Temp. Highest yesterday 85 Lowest yesterday ,., IS United Press full Leased Wire United Press ed Wire 47th Year 32 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 1952 o No. 25 Extend Service For Enlisted Men . Washington U.PJ The gov ernment Saturday added nine months to the terms of service for about 125,000 enlisted men In the Armed Forces. The Department of Defense aid the move was "absolutely necessary in the light of the serious international situation" In order to keep experienced men in uniform to train recruits. All Enlisted Personnel With President Truman's ap proval, the department ordered service expiration dates moved ahead nine months for all en listed personnel scheduled to leave the various military branches between July 1, 1952, 'jnd June 30, 1953. The order does not affect pres ent maximum authorized active duty tours of reservists and na tional guardsmen, nor does it have any bearing on the pro grams for separating these per sonnel from the services. Neither does it affect draftees. A Pentagon source estimated 125,000 servicemen would be af fected 60,000 in the Army, 25, 000 in the Air Force, 3,000 in the Marine Corps, and 35,000 In the Navy. Third Extension It was the third extension of enlistment terms in three years. Acheson Accuses Russia of Opening Phony Peace Move Washington 4U.R) Secretary of State Dean Acheson accused ' Russia Saturday of tossing "golden apples of discord" over the Iron Curtain this spring in an effort to start a ruckus among free nations and put over a phony peace offensive. , Speaking to the annual con tention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, he assert ed the Kremlin's tactics of ob struction, hate and force would fail because "we have arrived at a climactic moment In the de velopment of the community of free nations." He sternly advised the editors that It would be a mistake to view recent Soviet moves as a "peace offensive." Then he dip ped into Greek mythology and (aid a more apt name "might be the 'golden apple' tactic." Will Resolve Friction Acheson did not bar Russia forever from the "wedding party." He said firmly that "we are willing and eager to resolve any or all major frictions in the world by peaceful negotiation, when and if there appears to be any honest and reasonable basis for negotiations." But "soft music . . . coming out of Moscow about peaceful co existence, peaceful trade and German unity . . . would be more persuasive if the Soviet propa gandists were not at the same time, out of the other side of their mouths, engaged in one of the most vicious and savage epi sodes in their hate campaign against the West," Acheson said. That, he said, is the "trumDed up" and "monstrous' charge that the United Nations is waging i germ wariare in rorea. ne noiea lt had been authoritatively de nied many times and said, "I deny it again here." Softer Policies Seen for Pilots Washington (U.P.) An Air Force spokesman late Saturday said Air Force Secretary Thomas K. Finlettcr is expected to issue a policy statement some time next week taking a softer tone toward recalled reserve officer pilots who have refused to fly. So far, one man has been court-martialed at Biggs Air Force base in El Paso, Tex., for refusing to fly. He got a two year prison sentence and was ordered dismissed from the ser vice. There have been six other "sit-down" strike pilots at Ran dolph Field. Tex., and six at Mather Field. Calif. The policy statement is expect ed to take an easier tone toward pilots who have refused to fly berause of fear of flying, fear for their families, or age or per sonal hardship. 1 A spokesman said Fmlettcr has taken a personal interest wi the situation of the reserve vhicers who have refused to fly and has kept fully informed on the problem. Similar orders were issued In 1950 and 1051. By law, no enlisted person may be held in uniform through more than one extension, so this order will have no influence up on those affected by either of the earlier two. The new regulation does, how ever, cover alike enlisted per sonnel, whether on active or in active duty, whose original tours would have ended in the speci fied period. Hail Prevention Contractors Make Saturday Flight The second cloud - seeding flight for the prevention of hail made in the Rogue valley this season took place yesterday morning, it was reported by the seeding contractors, Harvey Brandau and Eugene Kooser. The AT6 plane operated by the firm was engaged in actual seed ing for less than 10 minutes. Kooser reported, and the total flight time was 82 minutes in two flights. Areas seeded were along the western hills, the area around Gold Hill, and east and north of Medford toward the Tiller-Trail area. . To Prevent Snow Pellets The flights were for the pur pose of preventing the formation of snow pellets, which in turn frequently turn to hail, Kooser said. The seeding is done in an attempt to force the pellets to fall as snow or rain. The flight generally was successful in this, he added, and some snow and rain fell after the flights, and little if any hail was noted. On Friday Kooser made an ob servation flight in the P-40 plane operated by the fliers, but did no seeding as conditions in the valley were not threatening, al though hail fell on Sexton moun tain. Saturday morning, after the seeding flights, another P-40 flight was made to test the plane, Kooser said. Throat Infection Delays Ike's Trip Paris (U.R Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was confined to his bed Saturday night with a throat infection and fever that delayed the remainder of his farewell tour of Atlantic Pact, capitols "for at least 24 hours and prob ably longer." A spokesman at supreme head quarters emphasized there is "nothing serious" about the gen eral's condition and that Eisen hower was able to confer earlier Saturday with Republican Na tional Committeeman Arthur Summerfield of Michigan. The spokesman said the gen eral's illness was causing him discomfort but no alarm. Eisenhower had planned to fly to Oslo today, stay there until Tuesday morning, fly to Copenhagen for a day and then to the Hague before returning to Paris. It was the second postpone ment of the trip. The death this week of French Maj. Gen Henri Coudraux, SHAPE supply chief, forced the general to eliminate his visit to the Hague planned for last Thursday. NJ Prison Rioters Release Hostage; Mutiny Continues Rahway. N. J (U.R) One of nine hostages held for three days by 231 rioting convicts at the New Jersey state prison farm was released Saturday because of illness and told authorities the men had vowed to continue their mutiny. The hostage was released at about 5 p.m. and an hour later convicts in other sections of the prison began shouting and pound ing on their cell bars with tin cups and plates. Demonstration Latti Hour The men demonstrated for more than an hour, shouting the name "Bates" frequently. They were referring to Sanford Bates, state commissioner of institu tions. The convicts let Marlin Dunn, Trenton, a trainee guard, through their barricade made of broken furniture and mattresses and he was taken to the prison infirm ary. Dunn said the eight other hos tages being held in a second floor dormitory were well and had not been mistreated. Angry official! at the prison Union Calls Off Pickets As Phone Strike Breaks Up California Employees , Still Out on Strike New York (U.R) The CIO Communications Workers o f America called off picket lines in 43 states and the District of Columbia Saturday, breaking up the 12-day old nationwide tele phone walkout. Western Eelectric and CWA District 10, representing 10,000 installation workers, reached an agreement early Saturday pro viding for pay increases of 31.1 cents an hour in wage boosts and fringe benefits. Pickett Withdrawn Telephone operators had re fused to cross picket lines the installers threw up at phone ex changes on a "hit and run" basis, but the picket lines were being withdrawn Saturday. Officials of the American Tel ephone and Telegraph Co., said telephone service ranged from "normal" to "almost normal." Strikes involving some 13,500 other phone workers continued but had no effect on phone ser vice in most areas. CWA officials said they expected the Western Electric agreement to lead to quick settlement of the remain ing walkouts. ' Still on strike were 6,700 em ployes of the Northern Califor nia Telephone Co., 5,500 District 11 warehouse workers, 1,200 em ployes in Bell Laboratories and workers in Western Electric's telephone booth service. Negotiations Continue Representatives of District 11 and the company negotiated throughout the day, and the union presented a new package proposal to the company. Con tents of the proposal were not re vealed. The installers' walkout that began April 7 was the most criti cal nationally, and at one time an estimated 300,000 telephone workers wert idled in hundreds of towns and cities. ' San Francisco (U,R) Hopes for a possible settlement soon in the 13-day-old northern Cali fornia and Nevada telephone strike rose to new heights Sat urday. " Details of the recommended peace proposal submitted for study to each side Saturday were not revealed. But a union negoti ator said, "This looks like it." Solon Wants Inquiry On Hiring of Morris Washington (U.R) Rep. Kenneth B. Keating Saturday demanded an inquiry to deter mine whether the Justice de partment planned to threaten Newbold Morris with prosecu tion if the ousted corruption cleanup boss became too zealous in his job. Keating ii a member of the House subcommittee investiga ting the Justice department. Morris was fired by Attorney General J. Howard McGrath who also was promptly fired by President Truman. "It is essential for us to deter mine whether a man was select ed for the administration's anti corruption drive who was him self at that very time the object of intensive investigation by the Department of Justice in which he was appointed to a high post," the New York Republican said in a statement. tried to break the riot by turning down the mutineers' pleas for drinking water, and Dunn said the men were getting quite thirsty, although they had enough to eat. He said they had been saving up food packages that had been sent from home. Temperature Rise io 80 The strikers, jammed in the dormitory, ignored demands to halt their demonstration. The temperature outdoors rose to about 80 degrees during the day, and the men and their hostages were crowded in a room that normally accommodates 170 to 180 convicts. The rioters hung ' two new sheets with messages painted on them out of the dormitory wing where they are holed up. One sheet said "we want Drew Pear son or Robert Montgomery to mediate" and the other said "of ficers refuse to eat or drink unless we do." The latter sign apparently referred to the eight guards still held as hostages in the wing. Flares were dropped when the new messages appeared. WH -tV!5f W i THOUSANDS FLEE MIDWEST FLOODS Red Cross worker rides on Army duck as it passes an almost completely submerged home in St. Paul, Minn., while strong winds push high waves over flooded low land near the Mississippi River. An estimated 75,000 have fled the floods in seven Midwestern states as the Missouri, Mississippi and tributaries surge toward record crests. Flood Hits Missouri, Kansas As Crest Passes Omaha Omaha, Neb. (U.R) Omaha and Council Bluffs, la., appeared Saturday to have won their des perate flood fight as the highest Missouri river crest on record moved downstream, flooding Kansas and Missouri farmlands. The river level between Oma ha and Council Bluffs on the opposite bank was dropping steadly, and army engineers said the major threat was over al though the river would "bear watching." Engineers succeeded in plug ging a sewer line which' burst Friday night from the t-iver's Warnings Issued on Illegal Shooting The sheriff's office Saturday issued a warning concerning il legality of shooting firearms in congested areas. The warning followed investi gation of a report that a colt, pastured on land south of the IOOF cemetery and west of Sis kiyou Memorial park, had been wounded so seriously that it had to be -done away with. Sheriff's officers said that a Palomino mare and two colts were pastured on property rent ed by Tony Boitano and used by M. L. "Red" Robinson, 44 Eastwood drive. The colts were owned by Robinson and the mare by his daughter, Mrs. Betty Bani ken, Ellendale drive. Colt Hit by BB Youngsters of the neighbor hood had been breaking into the pasture, had been riding the colts, which was bad for the ani mals, and had been shooting BB's, the officers were informed. Last week a pellet hit one of the colts and the animal developed lockjaw. It was reported that two Ju veniles have admitted shooting a gun in the pasture. Sheriff's officers stated that the penalty for injuring animals is not less than six months nor more than three years in the state penitentiary, or not less than three months nor more than a year in the county jail, or fine of not less than $50 nor more than $1,000. Union Charges 'Deal' In Telegraph Strike Washington !U.R! A F L un ion leaders Saturday charged that Western Union made a "deal" with a left-wing union to "help break" the nationwide tele graph strike and asked Congress to investigate. In New York, a Western Un ion spokesman denied that any such "deal" had been made. He added that the company was forced to deal with the left-wing union because the organization was certified by the National Labor Relations Board to rep resent Western Union cable em ployees. He said that the com pany has petitioned Congress for legislation to relieve its "en forced association" with the union. Sacramento U.R Gov. Earl Warren announced Saturday the appointment of Frank S. Sever, Portland attorney, ai his Oregon campaign manager. 1 I terrific pressure and flooded an industrial section of Omaha The water backed up into the sewer with explosive force, rip ping craters in the riverfront area behind the levee at several points and shooting skywajd like geysers. The water spread from a square "mile across a railroad yard and factory district to a depth of four feet, Engineers said damage to the raiiyard and industrial section probably would run below $1,008,000. Officers praised a towboat, captain who maneuvered barges' loaded with rock through the darkness without hitting" the levee. 10,000 Leave Homes Downstream, 10,000 persons had left their homes in north west Missouri and northeast Kansas. Army engineers said 187,000 acres of farmland al ready were flooded between Hulo, Neb., and Kansas City, and damage was estimated at $13,- suu.ouo Floodwaters poured into Ham burg, la., unchecked by a tem porary dike. Flood workers had enough warning, however, to get giant earth-moving equipment out of tne way. Boats and army ducks were used to move families from flood ed areas at Hamburg. Water works employes stayed on the job, using boats to reach the water works building. US Minesweeper Battles Red Guns Tokyo. Sunday (U.R) The tough little minesweeper USS Endicott, all guns blazing, raced through a shower of Communist shells yesterday to escape a sur prise barrage from Red shore batteries near Songjin The 1,600-ton Endicott, first American ship to fight in Korean waters, was bombarding trans port'and supply targets on the northeast coast of Korea when she was taken under fire. It was more her speed than her weapons that got her safely away after she was straddled by more than 20 shells. The Endi cott carries three five-inch guns Ground and air action along the Korean battlefront dwindled almost to zero yesterday as un seasnnal eold and snow flurries restricted activity. The 5th Air Force announced it lost five planes last week but shot down seven Communist MIG-15's, probably downed an other and damaged five. Lake Creek Youngster Escapes Swim Mishap Clinton Millard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arlin Millard, Lake Creek, has been confined In Sacred Heart hospital since Fri day, following a near-drowning at Eagle Point, attendants said. The boy was rescued from a creek by his playmates after re ceiving a bump on his head while diving, it is reported. At tendants at the hospital said last night that he is now "getting along all right and will be out In a few days." He la bothered most by the bump reef ived, they said, but is recovering from the "good soaking." Oregon Democrats Split by Attack Against Sweefland W. J. Pearson Charges Harmony "Impossible" Roseburg U.R) Oregon state emocratic politics were "split" at the state level Saturday after State Treasurer Walter J. Pear son angrily attacked Monroe Sweetland, the party's national committeeman, during a Jefferson-Jackson day dinner here Fri day night. , Sweetland Present About 80 Democrats, including Sweetland, were present in the Evergreen Grange hall to hear Pearson as the main speaker charge that harmony had been "impossible" during the past four years because of the "Sweetland group." Pearson asserted that the group was made up not only of Democrats but also of some left wing Republicans and "quite a few Socialists." "It is my opinion that as long as the Democrats of this state continue to allow this small ma jority to influence our political fortunes in this state, we will nof elect many qualified candi dates." Issues Statement Sweetland made no comment during'the attack upon him, but later issued a statement charging that Pearson had "clearly align ed himself with the DeCicco-Mahoney-Granet disruptive ele ment in Oregon's Democratic party." "His (Pearson's) outburst is helpful to clear the air so the Oregon Democrats may choose their leadership in rank-and-file voting May 18," Sweetland said. Sweetland and DeCicco spoke in Medford last night at a Roose velt Memorial dinner but made no, further comment on Pear son's attack. David C. Shaw, Gold Beach attorney, was the principal Upeaker of-the-evening and out' lined to a group of 200 Demo crats attending the banquet at the Medford hotel all the 'facets' that made the late President's public life "such a success." Blackout Covers Truce Meetings Tokyo, Sunday U.R) United Nations negotiators today contin ued their observance of the news blackout surrounding prisoner exchange talks at Panmunjom and refused to disclose whether revised prisoner lists have been exchanged during renewed de bate with the Communists. Obseivors at the truce site believed revisions had been made in the lists of both sides over the two-week recess of the prisoner discussions in order to solve the issue of forced or vol untary repatriation. "I have no comment to give," said Senior U.N. Staff Officer Col. George W. Hlcmman after today's 43-minute meeting. "We are still In executive session. We meet again tomorrow at 11 a.m." Staff oficers also met for one hour and three minutes in the adjoining truce supervision tent, their first parley In a fortnight on the Red proposal that Russia be one of the "neutral" nations to. supervise an armistice and the Allied demand for a ban on airfield construction. Tuesday Atomic Explosion Awaits Weatherman's Okeh Las Vegss, Nev. U.R) Everything out the weather was ready Saturday for "Operation Big 3hot" next- Tuesday morn ing when the mighty atom makes its television debut in American '.lomcs with the most violent A-bomb ever exploded in the U.S.A. Skies were cloudy and It rained occasionally Saturday but the weatherman assured anxious atomic scientists that the outlook was favorable for clear skies by blast time Tues day. At Merer of Weather The men who have harnessed the atom remained at the mercy of the weather. If the wind should blow in the wrong dir ection, if a cloud layer 30 miles up in the sky should be in a wrong place, if a few raindrops should fall all these could keep the bomb-dropping airplane on the ground. Everything else was ready for Tuesday's spectacular show, Imr achment of Truman Studied Washington (U.R) Rep. I George H. Bender (R.-O.) called on Houre Democrats and Repub licans Saturday to name a point committee to consider possible "successful impeachment p r o ceedings" against President Tru man for his seizure of the steel mills. The Ohio Republican said the "whole pattern of the executive conduct in the last two years illustrates the extent to which the President is prepared to go in his drive for power." His statement was made as the administration was bracing itself for the anticipated attack in Congress and the courts on Drive To Assure Funds for School Opened by Parish Sacred Heart parish this week Is launching a fund campaign to assure use of the new St. Mary's school, now in the final stages of construction, by start of the fall term this year, it was an nounced Saturday. The mini mum objective of the campaign is $55,000, according to the Very Rev. John M. Berger, executive chairman of treasurer of t h e building fund. The new grade and high school building, which will contain 15 large classrooms, libraries, health rooms and other modern facilities, will cost a total of $401,000. Of this amount, $200,- 000 has been bequeathed for the project by the estates of Kath ryn Houck and Martha Morris, and about $100,000 has been collected In previous campaigns May Borrow Soma Of the remaining $101,000, $45,000 may be borrowed over a present debt of $15,000, leaving $55,000 to be raised In the cur rent drive, Father Berger stated. Members of the completion campaign committee Include the Most Rev. Edward D. Howard, D. D., archbishop of Portland, honorary ch a 1 r m a n; Larry Schade, general chairman; Ber nard Loosemore, parish chair man, and Tracy H. Crum, public chairman, Parish vice-chairmen are Vir gil O. Anderson, O. M. Bachand, Carl M. B r o p h y, George W. Davy, Byron I. Dibble, Fred J. Hart, John L. Hochstatter and Dan A. Hull. Captains Listed Parish captains will Include Edward J. Fogel, Fritz J. Bets chart, Eugene Hanawalt, L. W. Schaccher, William Callahan, Dick Randolph, Richard Coats, Charles W. Hill, William F. Schruggs, Roy Wilkinson, Lester Winslow, William E. Wlcse, Dr. F. Shasky, Donald Ruse, Edward Guldan, James Pockrus, Victor Kraft, Mark Emerson, Ed Roon ey, Ted Nave, Frank Dorigan, Charles Mclntyre, Bill Singler and Jack Dorsey. Oregon Highway Group Plans Tax Opposition Salem (U.R) The Oregon highway council, representing big truck owners, said Saturday that It plans to file an initiative measure amending the state con stitution to prohibit a truck ton mileage tax. If sufficient eligible signatures are obtained, the measure will be voted on at the November general election. termed "Project Observer" by the Atomic Energy commlsion and the Department of Defense but dubbed "Operation Big Shot" by newsmen on the scene after they viewed the array of officialdom. Highest Explosion If all goes well, an Air Force bomber flying between 20,0','0 and 25.000 feet 9 a.m. and 10 a.m (PST) there "re Indications the bomb will detonai ; 3,000 and 4,000 feet In the air higher than any other A-bomb the U.S. has exploded. Las Vegas (U.R) Morse Salisbury, director of informa tion services for the Atomic En ergy rnmmision, today told the press corps covering next Tues day's atomic bomb test that "the present state of American for eign relations and military pro aratlons" made It prudent to keep foreign nations from learn ing any useable Information about the A-bomb tests being held In southern Nevada. its power to order a wage In- crease for 650,000 CIO United Steelworkers. There is hardly a flicker of hope for an llth-hour agreement between the union and the in dustry. Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer with Mr. Tru man's backing is ready to im pose the pay raise Tuesday. Sawyer discussed the program Saturday with Economic Stabili zer Roger L. Putnam. Court suits already have been filed by several steel companies attacking the legality of Mr. Tru man's action. They demanded immediate return of their plants. in taking them over Mr. Tru man said he acted under his "in herent" constitutional powers and in his capacity as commander-in-chief charged with protect ing the security and freedom of the nation. Neither Mr. Truman nor gov ernment officials have given any evidence of being perturbed by the impeachment cries. Sawyer, who is in charge of the steel Industry under Mr. Tru- ' man's seizure order. Is reported thinking of ordering the full 26 cenls-an-hour "package" In three installments as recommended by the Wage Stabilization Board. This would include a 12V4 cent hike retroactive to January I. Additional 2Va cent Install ments due July 1 and next Janu ary 1, and five cents worth of fringe benefits now and 3,5 cents more next January 1. President Truman Set for Showdown On Defense Costs Washington (U.R) Presi dent Truman, backed by his mili tary leaders, headed Saturday for a showdown' with the Senate over the price to be paid to be prepared for peace or war. Aroused economy -minded senators hit back sharply at Mr. Truman's threat to keep Con gress in session until it gives him the money he considers necessary for defense of the na tion. Sen, Robert A. Taft, who ii seeking the Republican nomina tion, exclaimed that Mr. Truman "seems to have gone completely off his head." "He'll have to take what money we give him," Taft added, "and he won't get any more." House members also hit at Mr. Truman's threat. Republican Whip Leslie O. Arenda (111.) said Congress recognizes the "deadly peril" of Russia, but the "coun try's most 'deadly peril' is the suicidal spending policies advo cated by President Truman." Rep. Clarence J. Brown (R.-O.) said Mr. Truman's warning he would keep Congress in session "sounded like one of the tyran nical outbursts of King George the Third against the American colonics." Mr. Truman warned Thursday that he would keep Congress In session until the Senate restores to the House-slashed defense ap- Cropriations bill the money he elieves necessary to continue build-up of the military machine to deter Russia from aggression or meet it should Russia go to war. Debris Fire Dangers Cited by State Patrol Rogue valley residents were warned today by the state forest patrol against leaving debris fires unattended. "Two fires have occurred In the last two days In this area as a result of carelessness," of ficials pointed out. A fire on Friday was left unattended at Schultz gulch, two miles south of Rogue River, and as a result of high wind spread into timber and burned six acres, they re-1 ported. Saturday afternoon a debris fire at a home three miles north of Eagle Point spiead while un attended and burned part of the house. The owner's name was not available. SPORTS BULLETINS Portland (U.R) The Oale land Oski finally made it. They defeated the Portland Beavers 3 to 2 here Saturday night In a Paciile Coast league baseball game. Seattle (U.R) Los Angeles made use of power hitting and Seattle errors to defeat the Rainlers here 8 to 4 Saturday night and push Seattle back Into the Pacliie Coast League batebaM cellar. i
