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Portland Leading Battle for DST; Washington Split Medford's Mayor Diamond L. Flynn said this morning that he has asked for a legal opinion as to whether the city could change the working hours of its em ployees. " He added that he fioubts if the city council would be called into special session to enact local "fast time" schedule for its employees before much of the rest of the Pacific coast goes on daylight saving time, Sunday. Portland iU.fi) A Rose City revolt against standard time was led by the retail trade bureau Salem (U.R) Gov. Doug las McKay said Thursday he would be willing to review his ruling on standard time for Oregon if it can be shown thai the state is suffering economic loss because he failed to pro claim daylight saving time. However, the governor told the Oregon Broadcasters As sociation he was standing pat on his decision until such evi dence is produced. The asso ciation favors fast time. Protests and plaudits con tinued to pour into the gov ernor's office because of his decision. Most of the protests came from the Portland area. and the city council here Thurs day. The trade bureau last night discussed recommending to its Blazing Vancouver Fire Ruins Property Worth $4; Vancouver, B. C. (U.R) A roaring fire which blazed a path of destruction across the Van couver waterfont ruined proper ty worth at least $4,000,000, fire department officials said Thurs day. Flames crumpled a $2,500,000 grain-loading terminal and gut ted adjoining warehouses which with their contents, were valued at $1,500,000 Wednesday before the fire was extinguished. The fire spread so rapidly that the 1,200-foot dock was ablaze ktrom end to end within 30 min- uica duel mc him tlltum Will sounded. Boats Fan Out About 30 tugs and fishing ves sels fanned out in all directions as the fury of the fire increased. Then a costly fireboat which had been considered a "white ele phant" chugged in and put out the flames. "That fireboat hit that fire like Niagara Falls," District Fire Chief J. E. Shaw said. Pumping 20,000 gallons a min ute from its six high velocity nozzles, the 80-foot, red-hulled fireboat cut the flames away irom the banks of concrete grain elevators. 'Those grain elevators could have gone off like atom bombs,' Vancouver Civil Defense Coor dinator F. V. Pearkes said. He had ordered the public out of a live-block surrounding area be cause of the blast threat. Portland Official Prepares Recall Fight Portland U.R) Portland City Commissioners J. E. (Jake) Ben nett Thursday prepared to fight a recall move after City Auditor Will Gibson notified him that official count of names on recall petitions were sufficient to order a special recall election. Gibson said 28.041 names were found to be valid. A total of 25.- 770 registered voters was neces sary to put the recall to a vote. Gibson notified Bennett that he has five days In which to re sign and if he does not resign, he must submit a letter of not more than 200 words, justifying ma yieaem policies and prac tices. Bennett said he has no inten tion of resigning. MRS'. SALTER OWNS BEES Some 30 hives of bees, which were mentioned in a story Wednesday on Page 1 of The Mai! Tribune, are owned by Mrs. R. E. Salter, 1103 West Ninth street, Mrs. Salter said today. The story slated they were owned by R. E. Salter of the same address. Mrs. Salter's bees were mentioned in connection with an ordinance forbidding keeping of bees within the city limits, which was passed Tues day by the city council. Weather nlnit and Friday with thunder ttnrmi In mountain. Low to night 42. H.(h Friday -. Temp. Htihrst yesterday ..mr... 7 Loweii Thli Morning . 47 members that stores adopt a day light saving time schedule de spite Gov. Douglas McKay's deci sion to keep Oregon on standard time. But the bureau finally de cided to write the governor its disapproval. Directors also voted to appoint a committee to work with other groups in an effort to bring day light time to Portland, at least, and possibly to the entire state. City Changes Work Hours The trade bureau's action fol lowed approval by the Portland city council of a measure to put the citys 3,100 employees on voluntary fast time starting at 12:01 a.m. Sunday, April 27 City employees will work from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. instead of from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Meanwhile, the council was scheduled to consider a resolu tion asking other business and governmental bodies in Portland to follow suit. Officials pointed out that le gally the city cannot shift to daylight time because time must be uniform throughout the state. But there is nothing to prevent the city, they say, from changing the working hours of its em ployees. By UNITED PRESS WASHINGTON STATE SPLIT Washington state is about ready to shift into "double time." Seattle, rural King county and several other western Washing ton cities and counties will turn ahead the clocks an hour at 2 a.m. aunuay morning to eo on daylight saving time, but all of eastern Washington, Tacoma and several other points will remain on standard time. Following Seattle's lead will be Olympia, Everett, Renton, Auburn. Kent, Fall Citv. North Bend, Edmonds, Marysville and Gig Harbor. Enumclaw will change June 1. stay btandard Going along with Tacoma and eastern Washington are Belling ham, Stanwood, Mount Vernon, Blaine, Snohomish, Chehalis, Hoodsport, Port Angeles, Port Townsend, Longview, Kelso and L-athlamet. iiiuiiB me unaecicied were Aberdeen, Hoquiam, South Bend, Raymond, Puyallup, Sum ner, bkamokawa and Centralia. In a few towns, such as Shel- ton, some clocks will be on stan dard time while others will be on daylight saving time. Former Hollywood Star Asks Divorce Mary June Storey Bohling, for mer Hollywood leading lady In western pictures, has filed for a divorce from her former Rogue vaiiey rancher husband, Fred W. Bohlmg, records in the countv clerk's office revealed today. The couple, parents of a two-year-old son, have been separated for sev en months. Mrs. Bohling's complaint al leges "cruel and inhuman treat ment" since the birth of their child in February, 1950. She charges that Bohling has been "cool and indifferent toward her" since that time. The com plaint requests $200 a month for the child's care and mentions a property settlement which has been agreed to by both parties. bhe is represented by Neff, Frohnmayer and Lowery, Med ford attorneys. ADMITS CHARITY THEFT Neil Benjamin Macauley, 49, transient, has admitted the theft of an Easter seal collection box containing about $8 to $10 in small change, city police re ported today. He admitted the theft after being arrested on a vagrancy charge, officers stated. The man will probably be ar raigned on a petty larceny charge today, according to po lice. Taft vs. Eisenhower Battle Moves to Western Primaries Washington (U.R) The Taft Eisenhower battle shifted toward the West Thursday with the ri val camps still squabbling about the New York and Pennsylvania primary results. Fifty-seven more delegates to the Republican National Conven tion will be chosen at four state conventions later this week. Arkansas with 11 GOP dele gates holds its state convention Friday with one of the chief con tenders. Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio, as the keynote speaker. Saturday conventions will be hold in Colorado (18 delegates), Utah (14), and Arizona (14). Prospects Said Good . Taft told reporters that his prospects in all four states "look pretty good." He said he expects to get seven and perhaps more of the Arkansas delegates. The campaign organization working for Gen. Dwight D. Eis enhower conceded Taft an edge: in Arkansas and Utah, but hoped M United Press Full Leased Wire 47th Year 24 Pages .i ICn v 'A nisi ni, ,..?. - i: 11 tZZ""; r0Cke'S send up smoke creamers to The left A B so away, were unharmed. Japanese Aid Pledged As Treaty Date Nears Tokyo (U.R) Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway has pledged on the eve of Japan's independence that "Japan can and will be de fended against any attack." The statement, made in an ex clusive interview with United Press, was the most unequivocal assurance yet given the Japan ese as the Allied occupation r.ears an end. Aligned with the West and technically at war with Russia and Red China, Japan faces an uncertain future. Ridgway will close his occupa tion headquarters and transfer the reins of government to the Japanese next Monday, when the peace treaty goes into effect. Assesses Red Threat The supreme United Nations and United States commander in the Far East soberly assessed the threat of renewed Communist aggression in Asia. A Korean armistice may in crease the danger of attack on the free nations around the rim of Red Asia. "It would free the major part of Communist mili tary forces for such uses else where as Communist leaders might wish to make of them," he said. Soviet and Soviet controlled forces in the Far East have been "greatly augmented since the start of hostilities in Korea." Offense Capability Communist forces now based Eastern Siberia, Manchuria and North Korea, one to four flying hours from Japan, "have capability of major offensive action against Japan. This capa bility for offensive action, par ticularly by air and sea, can be exercised with relatively little advance warning. What the in tentions with respect to its exer cise are, remain unknown. The United Nations' stand in Korea has been a direct defense of Japan. It has "resulted in preventing the development of the much greater threat to Ja pan of having Communist mili tary power, especially air power, to emerge wilh an even break or a majority from the four states as a whole. Taft and Eisenhower forces dis puted the results of Tuesday's primaries in which New York Republicans elected 90 National Convention delegates and Penn sylvania named 60. The Ohio senator told report ers that he can count on about 25 of the Pennsylvania delegates now. No Specific Claims Eisenhower supporters -made no specific claims on the Penn sylvania delegates and insisted that no acurate e.-Hmatcs could be made yet. They predicted that the size of Eisenhower's ma jority in the preferential vote would swing delegates to him. In New York, 'the Eisenhower organization claimed 85 dele gates and conceded only one to Taft, leaving four uncommitted. Taft believed 17 would support him. EDF0RD established throughout the Ko rean peninsula and separated from the vital areas of Japan only by the straits of Tsushima." Independence is Concern "The independence of Japan and of the Republic of Korea are of vital concern, not only to the United States, , but to the, en tire free world." "3- ; The four-star general jefused to speculate whether his U.N. forces could score a military vic tory in Korea if the armistice talks collapse and full-scale war fare is resumed. He answered wilh a flat "no" when asked whether he feared serious resentment would arise against U. S. security forces based here as Japanese nation alism is restored. Search Continuing For Missing Infant Search for the three-weeks-old son of Mrs. Russell Graham, Shady Cove housewife whose body was found Tuesday on a Rogue river sand bar, "is con tinuing today, according to Depu ty &nemf Guy Hughes. If the child's body is not found today, me search will be renewed Sun day, Hughes said. Three boats are combing the river between Shady Cove and Dodge bridge todav. accordinn In the deputy. Hughes said that the cnild's father, a Shady Cove gro cery store operator, "has resign ed nimseif that it will be almost impossible to find the child's body, if the infant has drowned Hughes pointed out that it took about five days to find the body of Ira Dale Poole, 13-year-old Butte Falls boy, who drown ed in the Kogue river last Au gust in a canoeing accident. He said, however, that the infant's tiny body might be expected to come to tne surface earlier than mat of an older person. Newspaper Strikes Decline During 1951 New York (U.R) There was an abrupt decline in newspaper strikes during 1951 and early iwo, a committee report dis closed Thursday at the Ameri- can Newspaper Publishers asso ciation convention. "The 15 months embraced bv the year 1951 and the first quar ter of 1952 produced an unprece dented period of industrial peace for daily newspapers," the report of the special standing commit tee on labor relations said. 'Only three work stonnaees. involving 31 employees occurred in 1951. None of the affected pa pers was an ANPA member at the time." Arbitration awards increased during 1951 with a total of 38, four more than In 1950. Tacoma 'U.R) Tacoma resi- dents still were without a local newspaper Thursday as the press men s strike against this city s only daily, the News - Tribune, entered it 13th day. MEDFORD, OREGON, " Kansas City Next Flood Danger Sporv As Crest Moves On Troops Lose Fight To Save Air Base Kansas City, Mo. (U.R) The Missouri river pounded greater Kansas City's reinforced and heightened dikes Thursday with what appeared to be the head of its long, mammoth crest. "the crest is right at our back door," said E. C. Corkill, U.S. Hydrographcr. The mighty river staged here at 30.6 feet at midnight and held steady, reading the same at 9:30 a.m. The dikes held and Kansas City hoped the 50-mile long crest would cary its 397,000 cubic feet of water per second safely past a community that took a $400, 000,000 beating in the flood of 1951. Base Flooded While Kansas City kept vigil, weary airmen and other troops upstream at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., counted off as lost their valiant, nine-day battle to save Sherman Air Force base as the $3,500,000 base disappeared be neath a sea of swirling, yellow water. The river found a weakness Wednesday night and punched througn the south dike. Damage to the airfield may run as high as $1,000,000, though planes and equipment were safely stored elsewhere. Parkville, Mo., just above Kan sas City, was awash in the sec tion that falls away from bluffs and normally operates peaceful ly on the river's edge. Table Rock Sanitation District Seeks Outlet The Table Kock Sanitation district applied to the Mcdford city council Tuesday night for connection with the local sew age disposal plant, according to Harold H. Shaw, chairman of the board of directors. -- "We are now -waiting for acf tion by the city of Mcdford," Shaw explained, "before we pro ceed any lurther. ' The district election was passed over a month ago, Shaw said, and the board of directors have met once on April 2nd. "We have no office as yet," he noted, "but have been meeting in the office of the district's attorney, O. II uiMifcMuu, ivieaioro. A secre tary for the district is yet to be appointed, he added. Walter I. Sutherland, Jackson county sanitarian, reported yes terday that the estimates and engineering for the project had rjeen made and a bond election is pending the reply from Med ford's council. Peace Negotiations Seem at Critical Point Panmunjom, Korea (U.R) Truce negotiators apparently reached a critical point in pris oner exchange negotiations Thursday. Allied and Communist staff of ficers met for 1 hour and 10 min utes. They recessed twice, the first time they have called more than a single recess in one day. A recess usually is called be cause one side wants to consider a new idea subjnittcd by the other. It was not disclosed which side asked for the recesses. All developments were cloaked by a news blackout. Troop 'Ultimatum' to Russians Told by President; Later Denied Washington (U.R) Presi dent Truman told his news con ference Thursday that he sent a secret ultimatum in 1945 to force Russian troops out of Iran. The While House two hours later corrected this version and said no such ultimatum was ever sent. Mr. Truman, In a general dis sertation on various crisis which have required emergency action comparable to his recent seizure of the steel industry, told re porters in some detail how the United States forced Russian troops out of Iran in 1945 by sending an ultimatum to Stalin. Specifically Said Ultimatum The President said specifical ly that It was an ultimatum and that Stalin was given what Mr. Truman called a day certain by which Russian troops would have to leave Iran or American forces would move In. Two hours after the news con ference and after considerable checking, a White house spokes O )AY, APRIL 24, ice Industry Asks Seizure Cancellation, Wage Increase Block Washington. fU.R) Steel companies asked Federal Court again Thursday to cancel Presi dent Iruman s seizure of the in dustry, but said they would be satisfied for the time being of Washington, 0J.R) The House, aroused by President Truman's steel seizure, voted overwhelmingly Thursday for ' a special investigation of the Wage Stabilization Board's handling of the steel wage dispute. the court blocks government-imposition of a wage increase. They also said they have no NATO Asks Nations For Their Choice On Ike Successor Paris (U.R) Italian sources said Thursday that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization lias asked member states to choose between Gen. Matthew B. Ridg way and Gen. Alfred M. Gruen ther to succeed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as supreme com mander. A dispatch from Rome said Paris NATO Headquarters had notified Italy and other Atlantic Pact members that the choice of a new supreme commander had been narrowed to Ridgway, United Nations commander in Korea, and Gruenlher. Eisen hower's present chief of staff. The U. S. was reported nearly two weeks ago to have offered pact members informally a choice between Ridgway and Grucnther. The new NATO move reported by Rome appear ed to be another step forward in ine process or designating Eisenhower's successor. The permanent council of the NATO will meet next Mondav in Paris to discuss the appoint ment. Eisenhower has resigned, ef fective June 1, as supreme com mander of the NATO armed luiues iu return lo tne u. S. as a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. Hope for Late Mail Collections Reported Washington (U.R) Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson hopes to restore late night mail collections soon in major cities. He said the service may also be resumed in some medium-siz ed and smaller cities, if a survey now being made shows that it would be advantageous. Donaldson emphasized that all of his plans are contingent on the amount of money Congress votes for posloflice onerations during the 1D53 fiscal year. The appropriations bill is now pend ing in the senate. The House cut about $28,300,000 from the $2, 800,000.000 requested by the ad ministration. Donaldson indicated that If the Senate votes as much or more than the House, the department will be able to afford some addi tional mail collection service. Cottage Grove, Ore. (U.R) Kenneth B. Hayes, 25. Cottage Grove, was killed late Wednes day when a log rolled on him while he was working 38 miles northwest of here. man said that no ultimatum was sent by the President to Stalin. Roger Tubby of the White House press office said Mr. Tru man was using the word "ulti matum" in a "non-technical lay man sense." First Disclosure During the press conference, a reporter pointed out to the President that "ultimatum" was a specific term in diplomacy re quiring action by a given time on penalty of counter-action. The President Insisted that the message to Stilin was an ultima tum and tha Russians had been given a dav certain by which to get out of Iran. Furthermore, the President said this was the first disclosure of this ultimatum. Tubby, however, gave this ver sion later: "He was referring to the United Stales' leadership in the United Nations, and particularly in the Security Council and through diplomatic channels, in the spring of 1946 which was a major factor In bringing about Tribune 1952 no present intension of applying for a $3 a ton price increase per mitted under the stabilization laws. The industry has insisted It would have to have a $12-a-ton price boost to offset the Wage Stabilization Board's recom mended 26-cent hourly 'package' wage hike. May Require Raise The government is expected next week to require the steel mills to put into effect a substan tial part, if not all. of that wage increase. Industry opened tile third round of its legal battle against seizure amid there other steel developments: 1. It was learned that the White House is considering nam ing a board of prominent citizens to decide whether industry's case for over-the-ceiling price increases is justified. 2. President Truman told a news conference that Republican-sponsored moves to impeach him for seizing the steel mills are political. 3. The U.S. Chamber of Com tion of Manufacturers told a Sen merce and the National Associa ate Judiciary subcommittee in vestigating the legal aspects of the steel seizure that Mr. Tru man's action was unconstitution al and illegal. EDITORS CONDEMN SEIZURE New York (U.R) The Ameri can Newspaper Publishers As sociation ended its 66th annual convention Thursday by adopt ing a resolution condemning President Truman's steel indus try seizure and the president's statement "implying that he has power to seize the press." Only four newspaper execu tives opposed the resolution in a vote taken In a closed session. There were 1,115 executives registered for the convention. Heavy Registration Delays Voter Count Clerks in charge of compiling final 1952 voters registration figures in the Jackson county clerk's office reported today that complete statistics may not be available before Saturday. The compilation has been delayed by the heaviest registrations in lo cal history, they state. L,ast registration figures re leased by the clerk's office show ed that Jackson county voters have already registered in great er numbers than ever before. Clerks said that they had about 5,000 registration cards to pro cess loiiowing close of registra tion places on April 15. These included change of address, change of party and new regis tration, they said. Byrd Still Sees Chance For RFC Abolishment Washington iU.R) Sen. Har ry F. Byrd (D.-Va.) said Thurs day his bill to abolish the Re construction Finance Corp. "still has a good chance" of Senate ap proval. The Senate, after three hours of heated debate and parliamen tary maneuvering, voted 39 to 36 Wednesday night to send the measure back to the Banking committee. Earlier, Byrd had won tenta tive approval of his bill to liqui date the RFC and transfer some of its functions to other govern ment agencies. The 42 to 37 vote caught administration forces with a damaging number of ab sentees. Soviet withdrawal In Iran. "On March 6, 1948, a note was sent from the U. S. government to the Soviet government, mak ing our position perfectly plain with respect to the situation In Iran. This note was published on March 7. As you recall, the Russians withdrew their troops from Iran in May, 1948." Reporters Press President Puzzled reporters pressed Tubby for some idea of what Mr. Truman was referring to when he said the ultimatum had never before been disclosed. "It was not an ultimatum In the usual diplomatic sense but it was a pretty strong note," he said. Tubby said there was no trace of any other note to which the President might have been re ferring. ' Asked flatly whether the Pres ident sent personal note to Stalin asking him to get out of Iran by a certain date, Tubby said: "1 don't believt he did." ' United Press Full Leased Wire No. 29 Mutinous Convicts Surrender Demand 'Dinner for King' 'Reforms' Granted To Save Hostages Jackson, Mich. (U.R) Muti nous convieti surrendered eight guard hostages and them selves Thursday to end the worst riot in the history of the world's largest walled prison. Jackson, Mich (U.R) Muti nous convicts at Southern Michi gan prison signed a formal sur render Thursday but refu-d to come out of their besieged cell block with eight guard hostages until a dinner "fit for a king" is served them Friday. To save the lives of the guards, some of them held at knife-point since Sunday, Gov. G. Mennen Williams bowed to 11 demands by the 171 felons for "reforms" at the prison. The end of the mutiny was de layed until Friday by the ca price of the psychopathic convict ringleader. Earl Ward, 28-year-old crimi nal psychopath, added the price of an "abundant meal of steak, ice cream and appropriate trim mings" for giving up. His reasons for delaying the dinner and the end of the worst riot in Michigan prison history were not known. But one of the mutineers, who sneaked out to find a "nice, warm, snug little cell," said Ward was "enjoying the pub licity." "He said he thinks he ought to be in Hollywood," commented Kenneth Moore, 26, who took ad vantage of the excitement in the release of the third guard hostage to make his escape. Moore came out behind a stretcher carrying Guard James Akins, 43, who suffered a nerv ous collapse from his hostage confinement. The state bowed to the pris oners "reform demands" in a fi nal "bargaining session" through the bars of besieged Cellblock 15 between Deputy Warden Vernon Fox and Ward. ' - Truman Says Press Seizure Idea 'Hooey' Washington U.R) President Truman has denounced as a lot of hooey any Idea that he be lieves he could seize newspapers and radio stations in an emer gency. Discussing the general subject of his seizure powers, the Presi dent said he had to seize the steel industry because the nation faced as great an emergency as it ever has. Many persons gained the Im pression from his news confer ence last week that he thought he had the inherent power to seize press and radio. The President said Thursday that such an Idea had never oc curred to him. He also said that frankly he found It difficult to imagine a situation under which seizure of the press and radio would be necessary. County, City Budget Studies Continuing Members of the county budget committee and county court will meet this afternoon in what may be the final session prior to ad vertising 1952-1953 fiscal plans, according to County Judge J. B. Coleman. However, further meetings with various county de partment heads may delay com pletion of the budget until to morrow, Judge Coleman said. City of Medford department heads have been instructed bv City Superintendent Robert Duff lo have final estimates in to his office Monday, city officials said this morning. The first city budget meeting will probably be held within the next 10 days, they said. TO ATTEND CONCLAVE Bend, Ore. Mr. and Mrs. George E. Gates, Mr. and Mrs. Shelby M. Tuttle and H. R. Ed wards are among the Medford Rotarians who have made ad vance reservations for the dis trict Rotary conference to be held here from April 27 to 29, inclusive. Bend Rotarians esti mate that there will be at least 500 here for the three-day meet ing. MAY RENEW SEARCH Sheriff's deputies and mem bers of the sheriff's police re serve and mounted posse may re new the search this week end for the body of J, M. Burrowe, 71 ycarold Applegate rancher who has been missing since Decem ber 27, they said today. Mem bers of the same groups con ducted a horseback search of tha Applegate area two weeks ago. a
