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Newspaper Page TextFERED'HdUSE NPHCHG3EHT MEASURE Maine Republican Asks Investigation Medford Tribune United Preia Full Leaied Wlro United pim roll Lined Wire Of President's Acts 47th Year 20 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1952 No. 27 . Pennsylvania, New York Votes Today Seen Ike Chances 'Golden Opportunities' ; For Delegate Strength Washington (U.R) Eisen hower supporters viewed the New York and Pennsylvania pri maries Tuesday as golden oppor tunities to pick up important delegate strength without much risk to their absent candidate's vote-getting prestige. , Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R.-Mass.), campaign manager for Gen. Dwight D. Eise. 'lower, said the Pennsylvania voting left Sen. Robert A. Taft (R.-O.), in the same position as Eisenhower in the recent Illinois preferential - primary. In Illinois, Taft was opposed only by Harold E. Stassen, with Eisenhower getting relatively few writein ballots. In Pennsyl vania Tuesday, it was Eisenhow er vs. Stassen, with Taft publicly urging his supporters not to write in his name because the preferential voting is not bind ing. Balloting Important The important balloting In heavily-populated New York and Pennsylvania involved choosing 150 delegates Tuesday 90 in New York and 60 in Pennsyl vania. In Pennsylvania, another 10 delegates-at-large already have been chosen. In New York, six will be named later by the GOP state committee and four by the Democrats. It looked like a shoo-in for W. Aver ell Harriman in the Democratic side of the New York balloting. The Mutual Se curity Administrator had the solid backing of 45 Democratic county chairman. No Demo Names In Pennsylvania, the Demo cratic preferential race was strictly a write-in proposition, with no names on the ballot. The Eisenhower forces were counting heavily on the two big states to cut down Taf t's lead in "solid" delegates already lined up. Although the Pennsylvania delegates go to the convention theoretically unpledged, Gov. John S. Fine will be a major factor. Fine has not announced gublicly whom he will support, ut he is not going along with the role of Sen. James H. Duff (R.-Pa.), as a leader in the Eisen hower drive. Fine is believed to favor Gen, Douglas Mac Arthur. Sabrejets Down MIG; Red Cavalry Spotted Seoul, Korea (U.R) American Sabrejetf shot down a Commu nist MIG-15 Jet fighter their eighth in two days and chased three others back to Manchuria Tuesday. On the ground, 300 white-rob ed Red cavalrymen were spotted moving across snowy slopes west of the Pukhan river. It was the first appearance of enemy caval ry since the Communists 1951 spring offensive. Long range artillery dispersed the riders, but smaller bands were noted in the same general area later in the day. The Allies continued firing at them. The four MIGs were caught while trying to sneak across the Yalu river border from Manchu ria at dawn. A flight of 24 Sa bres pounced on them knocking down one and sending the other three fleeing back to Manchuria The "kill" was credited to Capt Jere J. Lewis, Novato, Calif. Il Portland (U.R) Undcrwater blasting operations at The Dalles dam site will be discontinued until late October, after the fall salmon migration, Col. T. H. Lipscomb. Portland district Army engineer, said Tuesday. Education Board Approves $8,180,000 Building Plan Portland (U.R) An $8,180.. for the 14-story, $4,700,000 Uni- 000 building program to be pre sented to the next Legislature for the 1953-55 biennium was ap proved Tuesday by the building committee of the State Board of Higher Education. The board's finance committee adopted a 1952-53 operating budget of $13,247,240.05, for the eight campus instructional units and $4,759,730.80 for state-wide public services. Three Get Priority First three buildings in de sired priority for the program are a journalism unit at the Uni versity of Oregon, chemical en gineering at Oregon State and aj physical education structure at Southern Oregon College of Edu cation. , The request is part of a $20, 209.000 proposal to extend over llree bienniums through 1959 when enrollments are expected to pass post-war peaks. Also approved were final plans DAY OF CRISIS Today is the "day of crisis ' in the Missouri river flood picture, according to Army engineers. Shown above are the levees at Council Bluffs, la., as workers, standing in muddy water, pass material to bolster the walls against the "tremendous pressure" of the swollen river, levees. Record Flood Crest Moves South Slowly Kansas City, Mo (U.R) The Missouri river's record flood crest, rolling bluff to bluff in a sea 10 miles wide at some points, moved slowly Tuesday in the reaches between here and Rulo, Neb. For thousands of weary men manning the dikes, this was the day of crisis, the U. S. Corps of Engineers said. Today Tells Story "Today will tell the story," a spokesman said. "If we can hold the remaining levees through tonight, the worst should be over for the St. Joseph area." The engineers Were not yet ready to say that the front of the crest - stretching long and flat for more than 50 river miles had reached St. Joseph. The river stage had remained sta- Burglary Charges Face Ashland Men Two Ashland men charged with breaking and entering sev eral Ashland business places early Sunday morning were ar raigned in district court yester day afternoon, waived prelimin ary hearing and were bound over to the grand jury, accord ing to District Attorney Paul Haviland. Both men, Robert Leland Tay lor, 22, 195 Garfield street, and Ray Floyd Harpham, 23, Otis street, have prior records, ac cording to the district attorney. Taylor served four months at Woodburn in 1943 and has been fined for minor violations two times since. Served One Year- Harpham has served one year in the Jackson county jail for assisting a prisoner to escape, and was sentenced in 1948 to a year in the state penitentiary for eontributing to the delin quency of a minor. The two men were apprehend ed while in possession of goods in Eberhardt's sporting goods store in Ashland. Besides Eberhardt's, Gates furniture store was burglarized Sunday morning and entries were attempted at the A and B sport shop and Western Union, officials said. All but the entry at Eberhart's have been denied by the two men. They are rep resented by George Sennatt of the Ashland law firm of Briggs and Sennatt. Salem (U,R) - Mrs. Clara A. Heltzcl, mother of State Public Utilities Commissioner Charles H. Heltzel, died at her home here Monday. She was 70 years old. versity of Oregon teaching hos pital. Bids will be opened June 17 and construction will start in Julv. The budget includes, for Southern OreRon College of Edu cation. $397,326 The finance committee also ap proved a plan whereby the three colleges of education would pro vide facilities for speech and hearing rehabilitation centers in cooperation with the state de partment of education's special education program for handi capped children. The agreement is for one year. Contributions Told The State Department of Edu cation will provide $5,100 an nually, the Board of Higher Edu cation will provide $10,200 the first year with a yearly cost of $6600 thereafter if the agree ment Is renewed. The agreement will put a speech pathologist on each campus to serve children of the state in the three localities. which forces water through the (International) tionary at St. Joseph for six! hours, but engineers said they still anticipated a rise in the next five or six hours. That rise, they believed, would be small. River Drops Slightly At Rulo, Neb., 54 miles to the north of St. Joseph, the level dropped .05 of a foot in two hours, but the engineers declined to say that the crest had passed even that point, yet. It appeared that the dikes at most critical points would hold. Rains were continuing in the area, but weather experts mini mized the threat of a new and greater danger. Stab Victim Better; Suspect Released The condition of Carl Blair, 36, Shady Cove, who was severe ly stabbed in a brawl early Sun day morning, was reported "slightly improved" today by Community hospital attendants. District Attorney Paul Havi land reported late this morning that Kenneth (Tex) Burnett, one of the four men returned to Medford late yesterday from Salem, will be released immedi ately "because all the evidence to date shows that he was not present at the time of the scuffle. The other three men will be arraigned sometime late this af ternoon, Haviland said. They in clude Monte Stockton, 26, Dee Stockton and Donald E. Yule, 22. Both Monte Stockton and Yule have prior records, accord ing to the sheriff's office. Sheriff's deputies reported this morning that "partial state ments" had been obtained by the office last night and inves tigation would continue all day. Judge Sees County Budget Within Limit ' County Judge J. B. Coleman reported this morning that he didn't think "there is any possi bility of the county budget ex- ceding the 6 per cent increase limitation for the next fiscal year. Further consideration of de partmental requests will be made tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. when the citizen's commit tee meets with the county court. Judge Coleman added. The Judge pointed out that the court expects an increase in revenues over last year and there was a "possibility of an in crease in O and C land revenues from 50 to 75 per cent if cur rent legislation is passed by congress." QUIZZICAL look at .Walter Wan ger marks departure of Joan Bennett from Los Angeles for New York theatrical engagement. Wanger Is awaiting judge's ver dict after Jealously shooting wife's Agent, (Inltrnalwnal, V A-Blast Said Latest-Model Bomb Has Enough Force To Destroy Cities Dropped From Plane, Explodes Near Troops Yucca Flat, Nev. (U.RN Hell burst from the skies over Yucca Flat Tuesday morning as Ameri ca's latest model atom bomb ex ploded with enough force to devastate much of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles or any oth er city. The flash of the blast, the fire ball of gigantic and incinerating menace, the busily boiling atomic cloud seething with ra dioactive poisons, came from a bomb bigger than those which destroyed Hiroshima and Naga saki and brought the Japanese to surrender. The bomb was dropped from a B-50 warplane at approximately 30,000 feet. It blew at around 3,500 feet, pouring death upon any living thing which might have existed in the wide area below. But all that was below it this time was ground zero, an ex panse of desert. Boys in Foxholes Only a few miles from ground zero, American boys crouched in foxholes. As this is written they are pre paring to advance over the ground that has just been bomb ed as soon as radioactivity per mits. And the paratroopers are getting ready to jump. They are part of a military operation, the purpose of which is to demonstrate that the atom bomb, horrendous as it is In the smashing of cities and their in habitants, can also be used to expedite the winning of battles in the field and save casualties, and thus could be called an hu mane weapon. 'Eliminates' Strong Point This bomb theoretically elim inated an enemy strongpoint and the infantry and parachutists are to occupy a theoretical enemy communications and road center behind the strong-point with the whole operation taking only a couple of hours, whereas in old- fashioned warfare it would have required weeks of bombarding, air-raiding and attacking by in fantry to attain the same ob jective. The troops will also observe the effects of the blast on famil iar objects such as some out moded field guns which looked very puny and antiquated as they stood in a row awaiting the im pact of man's harnessed catas trophe. The psychological results on the GIs themselves, after having been closer to an atom bomb ex plosion than any other American soldiers, are being studied right now, down there on the field Waller Wanger Given 'Token' Jail Sentence Hollywood (U.R) Producer Walter Waneer received a token sentence Tuesday of four months in county jail on a guilty verdict that he assaulted actor's agent Jennings Lang with a deadly weapon. Judge Harry Borde, who found the movie maker guilty of shooting Lang, who Waneer feared was threatening his mar riage to screen beautv Joan Ben- nett, recommended that he be sent to the County Honor Farm or put on a counlv road camn. The judge granted a stay of execution, however, setting June 4 as the day Wanger must report to begin his sentence. The stay was requested by Wanger's a torney, Jerry Gieslcr. to cnnbl the producer to wind up pending Business affairs and visit with his two daughters. Anchorage, Alaska (U.R) An Air Fnrre P-47 rraehnA In towering range of mountains 100 miles west of here, and the Air Force said Tuesday all five .men aonara were believed killed. Portland (U.R) A union of ficial said Tuesday that local wesiern tirciric company stallers would return to work Wednesday. Weather FORECAST: Fair tonight with Increasing rloudlneii Wr-dnrt-4av. Orratlonal light thowrrf Wtdn'tdar. High tomorrow 70, low tonight IS. Tina. ntrh'it VMt'rdar . . Lowrat thlt Morning 75 It Rioting Pen Inmates Bargain; One Killed As Police Guns Blaze Rahway. N. J (U.R) Riot- ing convicts at the New Jer sey prison farm in Rahway surrendered Tuesday, ending a 114-hour revolt against the stale's prison system. Jackson, Mich. (U.R) Rioting inmates of the world's largest walled prison, held at bay by machine gun and tear gas squads, were ready to bargain for better treatment Tuesday with the lives of 11 terrified hostage guards. More than 2,600 maddened convicts, staging a brawling and destructive stampede in the worst uprising to hit Southern Michigan prison, were driven back to their cellblocks Monday by the blazing guns of state po lice. Two-hundred troopers directed by State Police Commissioner Donald S. Leonard aimed their fire over the heads of the ram paging convicts. Prisoner Killed One prisoner was killed when shot through the chest and eight others were wounded by bullets. One trooper was felled by a head blow from a baseball bat. Still holding out as smoke drifted skyward from the em battled prison were 179 inmates of Cellblock 15 where the hos tage guards were held at knife point. The fate of the 11 hostages seemed to hang on the whim of prisoner spokesman Earl Eugene Ward, 27-year-old admitted psy chopath. ' DEMAND NO PUNISHMENT Rahway,N. J. (U.R) A fa natical clique in control of 231 rebellious convicts at the New Jersey Prison Farm demanded a guarantee of no punishment Tuesday as the price of sur render. The hungry, thirsty mutineers, who are holding eight prison 'Telegrams by Mail' Charged by Union Washington (U.R) President Adolph Brungs of the Western Union division of the AFL Com mercial Telegraphers union has charged Western Union is "us ing the U. S. mail to handle tele grams, but is charging full tele graph rates for them." Brungs made the statement in a radio speech Monday night in which he scoffed at company claims that normal business Is being maintained despite the 18 day CTU strike. The CTU is striking for a 18 cent hourly wage increase and reduction in the work week from 48 to 40 hours with no loss in pay. Western Union claims these demands total 50 cents an hour and would cost the company $50,000,000 a year. Two 'Stay-Down' Fliers Will Get Discharges San Antonio, Tex. (U.R) Two "stay-down" flyers Tuesday were slated to be separated honorably from the service. They were found to be "lack ing in the spirit, stamina and resolution demanded by the air force. Military authorities announc ed Monday that court-martial charges of willful disobedience of orders of a superior filed against 1st Lt. James G. Bristol, a pilot, Sacramento, Calif., and 1st. Lt. Edwin L. Cox, a bom bardier, St. Louis, Mo., were be ing dropped. , Ceiling Suspended On 16 Commodities Washington (U.R) The gov ernment has suspended price controls on 16 commodities now selling below legal ceilings, In cluding wool, lard, and crude cottonseed oil, soybean oil and corn oil. The order, effective April 28, was the first major "decontrol" action since the government Im posed a general price freeze 15 monthse ago. Price Stabilizer Ellis Arnall said the order may be followed shortly by a similar relaxation of controls on raw cotton, tex tiles and apparel. The office of Price Stabilization is studyin, those three lines, Arnall said. 'Hell guards as hostages in a ruined two-story dormitory, already had gained an important concession in their negotiations with prison officials, Sanford Bates, commissioner of state institutions, said he had promised the rioters an inquiry would be marie into parole board operations. He revealed that the prisoners still were holding out for no disciplinary action. Senate May Vote On Bill To Prohibit Funds for Steel Washington (U.R Th Senate refused Tuesday io permit a showdown vote on a Republican-sponsored propos al to forbid the government to use any public funds to oper ate the seised steel mills. Washington (U.R) The senate may vote Tuesday on an amend ment to a supplemental appro priations bill which would pro hibit the government from using any public funds to operate the steel industry. Approval of the rider, spon sored by Sen. William F. Know- land (R-Calif.), would be a stiffer blow to the government than another Republican - sponsored amendment barring the execu tive branch from using any funds in the pending bill to run the seized steel mills. The Senate approved the lat ter rider Monday, 44 to 31. The effect was mainly a condemna tion of President Truman's seiz ure of the industry because the $06.000,000-plus bill contains no funds earmarked for steel opera tions, and only minor amounts for the office of Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, nom inal doss oi the mills. ASKS STRIKE LIMIT Washington (U.R) A steel in dustry spokesman Tuesday ask- ea congress to provide anti- strike injunctions running be yond the 80-day limit in the Taft-Hartley Act. vice President John A. Steph ens of U. S. Steel and negotia tor for "big steel," told the Sen ate Labor Committee unions have no inherent 'right to strike" if a walkout would harm the national health or safety. BULLETINS Shady Cove. A 28-year-old mother was reported misting with her baby son early today. Sheriff's deputies, residents and Boy Scouts wars called to search along the banks of the Rogue River, and to check the train and bus stations. Mrs. Ruttell (Jotephine) Graham, wife of the operator of the Roguedale Cash market, disappeared at 6:30 a.m. to day, her family said. She ap parently slipped out ol the house while the family wat sleeping. Her father-in-law said he mutt have heard her, although at the time he thought lt wat hit son. Mrs. Graham is the mother of two other children. 3 and 2 years of age. The baby is three weeks of age. Wathington IU.R) W. Averell Harriman, Director of the Mutual Security Adminis tralion, announced Tuesday he it an "active candidate" for the Democratic presiden tial nomination. Teacher Education Survey Gets Under Way in Oregon Portland (U.R) A survey of teacher education In Oregon was underway Tuesday wllh the ar rival of Dr. Earl W. Anderson, Ohio State university educator tailed by the State Board of Higher Education for the spec ial inventory of training. Recommended By Dr. Holy Dr. Anderson, recommended by Dr. T. C. Holy, another Ohio educator who did the Oregon sjirvey of elementary and secon dary schools two years ago, withheld specific comment on the state's specific teacher train ing problems, but said his study will be "strictly non-political what Is right for the state, and Em si' A LITTLE GRAYER Almost two years as a Communist pris oner in North Korea appears to have made Maj. Gen. Wil liam Dean's hair grayer. This photo is latest in series released by the Reds through Communist correspondent Alan Winnington. Spring Enrollment At Oregon Colleges Down 11.6 Per Cent Portland (U.R) A drop of 11.6 per cent in the Oregon state system of higher education from the same period last year was reported Tuesday to the State Board of Higher Education. Chancellor Charles D. Byrne said the drop was less than oc curred in the fall and winter terms and was slightly below what was predicted at the time of the 1951 legislature. "We have reached what ap pears to be our post-war low ebb," Dr. Byrne said, "... if military manpower needs do not change abruptly. . . ." A 46.6 per cent reduction In veteran enrollment accounts fjdr most of the decrease this year, Byrne said. Total number of vet erans now enrolled is 1,707 which compares with a spring term high In 1947 Of 8,970. System-wide enrollments total 11,470, which is 28 per cent above I he higher pre-war spring term figure of 8,942. Spring term campus enroll ments are: Oregon State college 4,417; University of Oregon 3, 962; Dental school 293; Medical school 575; Nursing and Medical Technicians 270; Oregon College of Education 434; Southern Ore gon College of Education 568; Eastern Oregon College of Edu cation 414, and Portland State 844. 'No Recommendation' On Senate Seaway Vote Washington (U.R) T h e Sen ate Foreign Relations Committee voted Tuesday to report the St. Lawrence seaway and power project to the Senate without recommendation. A move In committee to' re port the seaway project favor ably failed on a 6 6 tie vote. Then the committee voted 9 4 to report the long - debated measure to the Senate calendar. The committee action will give the Senate an opportunity to vote on joint construction of the sea way with Canada, which has served notice It is ready to "go It alone" if the United States docs not join In the program this year. If someone doesn't like it, that's too bad He said the general goal was to get the best possible people Into teaching and give them the best possible training, with enough classroom experience so they will "land on their feet" when they go Into the schools for the first time. Will Tour Colleges The educator said he would spend this week on a tour of the three teachers colleges, the Uni versity of Oregon, Oregon State college and the extension center in Portland before beginning the main Job on his return here June 1. 'Misdemeanor, Crime' Probe Requested Washington (U.R) Rep. Robert Hale (R-Maine) intro duced a resolution to start im peachment proceedings against President Truman for his seiz ure of the steel mills. Should the resolution be ap proved by the House, the Judici ary Committee would investigate "whether the said Harry S. Tru man has been guilty of any high crime or misdemeanor ..." The committee would report Its findings to the House with such resolution of impeach ment or other recommendation as it deems proper." Tried By Senate Should the House then ap prove the impeachment, Mr. Truman would be tried before the Senate, with House members serving as prosecutors. Should two-thirds of the Sen ate find the President guilty as charged by the House, he would be removed fr,om office. The Senate has sat as a court of impeachment in only 12 cases, and only one Involving a Presi dent Andrew Johnson, who was acquited. Hale told the House the Pres ident's action In seizing the steel mills had created greater indignation than anything he had seen as a member of Con gress. He said he has been "hu miliated" by statements that Congress was lying "supine" while the President acted. Disapproval Reiolution Hale also introduced a resolu tion to express House disapprov al of the seizure. House Democratic Leader John W. McCormack accused the Republicans of using the . steel dispute to launch a "per sonal attack on Mr. Truman, and argued the President, acting under the Inherent powers granted him by the constitu tion, "did the right thing in the best Interests of our people." Rep. Charles A. Halleck (R Ind). said the recommendations of the Wage Stabilization Board, plus the seizure action by the President, "sounded the death knell of collective bargaining," and that the Constitution does not give the President the power "to seize private property," Sir Stafford Cripps Claimed by Death Zurich, Switzerland (U.R) Sir Stafford Cripps, "Mr. Aus terity" of Britain's post-war la bor government, died Monday nfght In a Zurich clinic after a long Illness. Cripps. who would have been 63 on Thursday, was dubbed "Mr. Austerity" because of the belt-tightening measures he Im posed on Britain In the years 1947 through 1950 as chancellor of the exchequer to save the country from bankruptcy. It was he who finally dras tically cut the value of Britain's pound sterling from $4.03 to $2.80 to give the nation a better chance to sell Its wares In the world market. One of the most brilliant men In the labor party, he was re garded as a potential prime min ister. Tributes already were pour ing in on the family of the man who gave up a $150,000 a year law practice Inl929 to enter pol itics as a Socialist. Medford School Board Plan Budget Discussion Members of the District 49 school board, which serves the Medford public schools, and members of the district budget committee, will meet today for the first discussion of the 1952- 1953 fiscal budget, according to the city schools office. The meet ing Is scheduled for 8 p. m. In the school's office. The District 49 budget com mittee is composed of James Campbell. Mark Goldy, Eugene Thorndyke, William Barker and John Moffat. Portland Iron Works Foundry Has Bad Fire Portland (U.R) Nearly two thirds of the Commercial Iron Works' foundry and pattern shop went up In flames Tuesday as a three-alarm fire razed the block-long, two-story building In Portland's southeast industrial district. Ed Casey, president of the company, said damage would ex ceed $50,000 but Fire Marshal Miles Woodworth estimated it might run as high as $80,000. Salem (U.R) Community chest leaders of Oregon held an all-day conference here Tuesday with several national officials of the chest movement.