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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.
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Lowrat thlt Morning
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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.