Hussion Jets Shooft Up
French Passenger koiroe
HESITANT SUICIDE SAVED-James Vickery, 27, of Atlanta, poises to jump off ledge of Venetian
Hotel roof at Miami, Fla. (left). He puts his hands to his face (center), threatening to jump if anyone
tries to grab him. After two hours of pleading with the would-be suicide, fireman John Lundstcdt
grabs Vickery under arms (right) at risk of his own life. Policemen closed in to help hold the youth.
He told officers he had a "fuss" with his girl friend. ;
CIO Woodworkers
At Two Valley Mill
Strike
Firms
About 225 CIO Woodworkers
in Eagle Point, Prospect and
Butte Falls walked off their jobs
this morning in a strike against
two lumber firm9 in the Rogue
Valley.
At the Medford corporation,
some 150 men employed in
woods operations and on the
company's railroad were on
strike. Pickets were posted at
all the approaches to the firm's
Medford plant. AFL union work
ers, however, showed up for
work, according to B. L. Nutting,
Medco manager.
To Resume Negotiations
Red Blanket Lumber company,
Prospect, reported that about
60 workers in the Simm's two
Prospect mills, and 12 or 15 men
in the planing mill at Eagle
Point, left their jobs this morn
ing. Negotiations are scheduled
to be resumed this afternoon, a
company spokesmann said
Another strike, at Fir Milling
and Planing company, in Ash
land, the only other Rogue val
ley mill employing CIO union
men, was narrowly averted at
10 p. m. yesterday, when a new
contract between local union
6-397 and the company was sign
ed, just two- hours before the
strike deadline at midnight last
light. The firm employs about
JSfl to 60 union members.
Over Fringe Benefits
In the case of Fir Milling and
Planing company the only issues
involved were wages and con
tract wording, it was reported.
In the case of Medco and Red
Blanket, so-called "fringe ben
efits," including increased deduc
tions for health and welfare
funds were the strike issues.
The firms have been represent
ed by the Pine Indlustrial Rela
tions committee, Klamath Falls,
In bargaining with the CIO un
ion, and the negotiations have
been conducted along the same
lines as those in the northern
part or the state.
additional paid holidays.
Negotiations broke down over
the union's demands for an in
crease in operators' contribu
tions to the Woodworkers health
and welfare fund. The operators
refused to regard it as tax ex
empt. The union asked for a
boost from 7'4 cents an hour to
nine cents an hour on employer
contributions.
A union source said the big
Weyerhaeuser Timber company,
whose 8,000 employees are not
involved in the strike, recently
agreed to pay the higher' health
and welfare fund and also to
continue to consider it as "not
wages.
The strike affects logging,
sawmill, plywood, boom and oth
er operations under jurisdiction
of the CIO Woodworkers in Ore
gon, Washington, Idaho, north
em California and western
Montana
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IMPEACHMENT SIDETRACK ASKED
Human Error Seen
As Possible Cause
Of Naval Disaster
Washington U.R High Navy
sources said Tuesday preliminary
evidence indicated that human
error rather than mechanical
failure caused the mid-Atlantic
collision of the destroyer Hobson
and the aircraft carrier Wasp.
There were demands, mean
while, for a congressional invest
igation of the accident. One
came fram a father of one of
the missing men. He said his son
Portland (U.R) Some 40,000
CIO Woodworkers went on
strike Tuesday morning in five
Northwest states against 700
operators of logging and saw
mill operations.
The strike call was issued
shortly before midnight by A. F.
Hartung, union president, after
the Woodworkers' negotiating
committee failed to reach an
agreement with the Willamette
Valley Operators association.
Except in the plywod indus
try, employers generally met the
union's demand for a 7',i cent
hourly pay increase and three
Pullman (U.R) The Rev.
yw us r., Aiocnson, pasior oi
the First Methodist church, Seat
41. ...ill
nc, win give lite wasiungiun
State college baccalaureate
speech June 1, the college an
nounced Tuesday.
Chrome Production
Quotas Increased
Grants Pass Production max
imum for chrome has been in
creased from 2,000 to 5.000 tons
yearly for individual producers,
it was announced here yesterday
at a meeting of some 300 persons
interested in mining of chrome.
The meeting, attended by
miners from all Pacific coast
states and federal officials from
a number of different agencies,
was called by the Oregon Mining
association.
There is a possibility, it was
reported, that over-all chrome
production in this area may be
increased from 200,000 tons
yearly to 350,000. ',
A number of Medford people
attended the session. Grants Pass
is the location of the only chrome
purchasing depot being operated
in Oregon.
Regional Farm Bureau
Meeting Set Tomorrow
A regional meeting of Oregon
Farm Bureau federation mem
bers in Jackson, Josephine and
Douglas counties will be held in
the Jackson county courthouse at
10 a.m. tomorrow, it was an
nounced today.
Marshall Swearingen. state
Farm Bureau president, will at
tend, as will several other state
officials.
Argentine Meteorologist .
Observing Fruit Work Here
Felix Albani, professor of ag'
ricultural meteorology at the
University of Cuyo, Mcndoza,
Argentina, has been a guest
since Saturday of Roy Rogers,
federal meteorologist, in Medford.
Albani, who will remain in
the United States until next Oc
tober, has been associated with
Dr. Frederick Brooks of the Uni
versity of California at Davis,
Cal., and is interested in obtain
ing data on fruit frost forecast
ing and hail control.
At University
At present he is associated
with the California university as
an assistant specialist at the Da
vis experiment station and has
worked with the fruit forecast
ing division at Riverside, Calif.
He w:ll leave the Rogue valley
tomorrow and will visit next
with Dr. Irvin Krick, Weather
Resources corporation, Denver,
JColo., in the latter part of May.
The Argentinian described the
corporation's group as special
ists in "rain increasing'' opera
tions and one of the leading con-
United States in
corns In the
this field.
At the present time, he said,
"I am in direct contact with the
Pasadena, Calif., firm of North
American Weather consultants
of Robert Elliott and Gene Bol
lay. mis nrm is very serious
and consistent in their weather
operations, he. said.
Notes Similarities
Albani described his section of
Argentina as "very much the
same as California -and Oregon.
ve grow lots of grapcs-600,
000 acres and are first in the
wine industry of our country.
We also have the two'main fruit
problems of the Rogue river val
ley each spring: frost and hail."
He has been studying the
methods of frost forecasting in
this valley and of the operations
of Harvey Brandau and Eugene
Kooser in hail prevention.
He stated that he was "very
impressed'' with the beauty of
the valley and that he hoped
some day that his friend here
would visit him in Argentina.
once had told him that the Hob
son was "unsafe."
Up to Naval Court
The Navy sources emphasized
that it is up to a Naval Court of
Inquiry to determine officially
who, or what, was to blame for
the disaster in which the Hobson
sank with the apparent loss of
176 crewmen.
Adm. Lynde B. McCormick,
commander of the Atlantic Fleet,
announced Monday night that he
will convene such a court soon
after the Wasp arrives at New
York on Friday or Saturday.
Signal Mixup Seen
On the basis of the partial
reports already received by rad
io, wavy men predicted that the
court will loook particularly for
a mixup in transmitting or re
ceiving turn signals as the war
ships executed a high-speed ma
neuver ,
They saw only a "remote dos-
sibility" that mechanical trouble,
such as fouled steering gear.
might have caused the Hobson
to pass directly under the Wasp's
bow . The 32,000-ton carrier
knifed through the 1.6000 ton de
stroyer, and the smaller 'ship
sank within four minutes, trap
ping many crewmen below the
decks.
Plausible Explanation
There's an old Navy expres
sion: "Somebody didn't get the
word,' "one highly placed in
formant said. "That seems to
be the most plausible explana
tion for what happened to the
Hobson Saturday night."
Ervin S. White Sr., Lynn,
Mass., father of one of the 176
missing men, said his son had
told him before the fatal voyage
that "the Hobson was an unsafe,
battle-scarred rust tub" which
was frequently in drydock for re
pairs.
Fear of Splitting
Nation 'Wide Open'
Told by Chairman
Resolutions Said
'Purely Political'
Washington (U.R) Chairman
Emanuel Cellar has urged the
House Judiciary Committee to
sidetrack,, three Republican
moves to impeach President Tru
man before they "split the nation
wide open."
The New York Democrat tag
ged as "purely political" the im
peachment resolutions offered by
GOP members as an outgrowth
of Mr. Truman's seizure of the
steel industry.
Ruling Expected
Federal Judge David A. Pine
was expected to rule Tuesday or
Wednesday on the steel indus
try's request for an injunction
against the seizure. His frank
surprise when Assistant Attor
ney General Holmes Baldridge
contended the President has un
limited emergency powers above
interference by courts or Con
gress led to the general predic
tion that he will rule in favor of
the industry.
Proof of Pressures
Economic Stabilizer Roger L.
Putnam told the House Banking
committee that the steel crisis
is proof of "continuing infla
tionary pressures." He said the
dispute showed that wage-price
controls should be extended for
two years after the Defense Pro
duction Act expires June 20
Putnam defended the federal
seizure, and said the "threat to
stabilization" in the steel case re
sulted from the industry's de
mands for "more of a price in
crease than the rules allow."
Would Lump Resolutions
Republican strategy was to
lump the three resolutions with
eight others four of them spon
sored by Democrats and refer
them all to a subcommittee for
"study and possible action." The
other proposals range from a
mere censure of the President to
a proposed constitutional amend
ment curbing his power.
House Republican leaders
have deferred for a week any
parly stand on the issue.
Rep. Paul Shafer, R-Mich..
dropped the latest impeachment
bill in the House hopper late
Monday. He called for "repudia
tion" by Congress for Mr. Tru
man s "high crimes and misdemeanors."
Bulletin
Washington (UP) CIO President Philip
M urray Tuesday ordered an immediate strike
of 650,000 United States Steel Workers in the
wake of a federal court decision ruling seizure
ot the steel mills illegal.
Washington (UP) President Truman's seiz
ure of the steel industry was unconstitutional, Federal
Judge David A. Pine ruled Tuesday.
The Justice Department was expected to ask
Pine for an immediate stay of the judgment pending
review by higher courts.
Pine said:
"There is no express grant of power in the Con
stitution authorizing the President to direct this seiz
ure. There is no grant of power from which it reason
ably can be implied.
"There is no enactment of Congress authoriz
ing it."
Never before in the history of the country has a
Federal Court enjoined an administrative act of the
chief executive.
"With all due deference and respect for that
great President of the United States," the opinion
said, "I am obliged to say that his statements do not
comport with our recognized theory of government,
but with a theory with which our government of laws
and not of men is constantly at war."
Portland Orders
Daylight Saving
'Portland (U.R) The Portland
city council Tuesday issued a
proclamation declaring the city
will observe daylight saving
time this summer despite a dec
laration by Gov. DouglUs McKay
that Oregon as a whole will re
main on standard time.
The decision by Portland was
expected to set of a chain reac
tion of daylight time proclama
tions particularly in northwest
ern Oregon and southwestern
Washington.
Unanimous Vote
The city council voted 5 to 0
in favor of the proclamation.
which initially is binding on city
employees and is to be followed
2 Ashland Men Admit
Guilt in Burglaries
Robert Leland Taylor and
Ray Floyd Harpham, both of
Ashland, who were arraigned on
April 21, pleaded guilty yester
day in circuit court to charges
of burglary not in a dwelling,
according to District Attorney
Paul Haviland.
They waived grand jury in
dictment and the case will be
continued for sentence, pending
receipt of complete criminal rec
ords, Haviland noted. "Officers
are also investigating the possi
bility that the same subjects
were involved in several other
similar cases," he said.
Both have served terms in the
state penitentiary, the district
attorney pointed out, and ad
mitted the theft of Gates Furni
ture store in Ashland as well as
Ebcrhardl's sporting goods store
where they were apprehended
by Ashland city police.
Weather
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IhU evening and llfht rain
tnntcht; thnwrrt HtJnidiiy.
Gutty southerly wind! IhU
rvtnlng. Low tonight 42, nigh
Wednesday 15.
Temp.
HlghMt Yeilerdav it
Lowest Thli Morning 12
Musicians End
Convention Today;
Elect New Officers
Howard Rich,- Tacoma, was
elected president of the North
west conference of Musicians at
the final session of the organiza
tion's 1952 convention here to
day. Rich, of Local 99, succeeds
Harry Reed, Seattle Local 176.
in the presidency.
The convention, held in the
Jackson hotel, was the largest
in the history of the NCM. It was
attended by 53 delegates from
more than 20 locals. More than
100 persons were registered for
the two-day session.
Other officers elected by the
group included Boyd Spcas,
Bellingham Locai 451, District 1
vice-president; Arthur Doll. Ta
coma Local 117, District 2 vice-
president; Fred Hartley. Spo
kane Local 105, District 3 vice
president, and J. Vernon Mar
shall, Medford Local 597. Dis
trict 4 vice-president. Marshall
succeeds William Hamilton, Eu
gene Local 689.
Ray Walker, Olympia Local
124, was reelected secretary-
treasurer, and Julian McCaffery,
Bellingham Local 451, was re
elected sergcant-at-arms.
Members of the executive
board include Ida B. Dillon. Se
attle Local 76, District 1; Charles
Wagner,. Olympia Local 124,
District 2; Ted Myrick, Pasco
Local S24, District 3; and Leo
Howie, Coos Bay Local 520, Dis
trict 4.
Yakima, Wash., was selected
by the delegates as the lite of
the 1953 convention.
Lumber Retailers
Will Change Hours;
Time Mixup Eases
Lumber retailers in Medford
will move their hours one hour
earlier tomorrow, to conform
with other retail establishments
in the city, it was announced
today. Open hours will be 7 a.m
to 4 p.m. on week-days, and
until 11 a.m. Saturdays.
Members of the Medford Re
tail Merchants association, who
moved their opening and closing
hours ahead yesterday in an at
tempt to conform with hours be
ing observed in daylight saving
time areas, reported today that
the system seems to be operating
smoothly.
Considerable confusion over
the exact situation was noted
yesterday, but most residents
seemed to be straightened out
today.
The two bank branches here
today resumed operation on their
regular hours of 10 a.m. to 3
p.m. for the United States Na
tional bank and 10 a.m to 5
p.m. for the First National bank.
Issue Joint Statement
In a Joint announcement, of
ficials of the two banks pointed
out that it has been found that
certain legal and other techni
calities exist which will prevent
them from conforming to the
retail merchants hours.
Both "are very cognizant of
their responsibilities in the mat
ter of service to the community,"
the statement said, but they can
not move their schedules up "un
til such time as daylight saving
time Is legalized by official proc
lamation of the governor."
Some mills In the Medford
area are considering the possi
bility of changing their operating
hours. It was reported, but no
general decision has yet been
made.
Schools will continue to op
erate on standard time for the
present. .
by the- Portland Retail Trade
Bureau, whose 400 members rep
resent major businesses and all
downtown department stores.
The fast time will be effective
at 2:01 a.m. Wednesday.
Earlier, Mayor Robert A.
Thompson of Klamath Falls said
the league of Oregon cities would
enter the daylight-time question.
Telephone Vote Asked
Thompson told the Klamath
Falls city council Monday night
he planned to telephone Herman
Kerhli, executive secretary of
the league in Eugene, and ask
him to take a telephone vote of
league directors as to whether
they favor fast time. Kerhli
would be asked to Inform Gov.
Douglas McKay of the results in
hopes of reversing or reaffirm
ing his standard time edict.
Meanwhile, the Oregon Jour
nal quoted a high legal authority
in Salem as tossing doubt on
the legality of the Rose City's
attempt to establish daylight sav
ing time In revolt against the
governor's order.
Right Questioned
The legal authority, who was
unnamed, questioned the rieht
oi tnc city of Portland or any
other municipality in Oregon to
adopt daylight time contrary to
the governor's ruling.
In support of this view, the
authority cited a Supreme Court
ruling of 1934 that a legislative
act supersedes or amends every
city charter or municipal ordi
nance with which It is In conflict.
UN, Communist Troops
In 19 Separate Tiffs
Seoul, Korea (U.R) United
Nations and Communist troops
clashed in 19 separate but brief
engagements along the Korean
front Tuesday, most of them pre
dawn fights on the Eastern sec
tor.
The Allies repulsed all Com-tcrcaso dIiis frinife honefils
munisi prunes alter short fights.
Record Vote Seen
In Massachusetts
Primary Election
Taft, Eisenhower
Supporters Scramble
Boston'U.R)Massachusetls voters,,
stirred up by a bitter battle be
tween Taft and Eisenhower forc
es, went to the polls Tuesday in
the hottest presidential primary
in the stale's history.
Even though weather forecasts
said rain wiuld fall intermittent
ly throughout the day, election
officials predicted the turnout
would top the previous high of
270,000 set in 1932 when Frank
lin D. Roosevelt and Alfred E.
Smith fought for the Democratic
nomination.
Republican Show
But the contest Tuesday was a
Republican show, with Sen. Rob
ert A. Taft of Ohio and support
ers of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhow
er scrambling for a heavy major
ity of the state's 38 delegates to
the GOP National Convention.
Ten delegates at large were un
opposedd. They formed a "har
mony" slate, with two pledged
to Taft, two to Eisenhower and
six remaining neutral. The oth
er 28 delegate contests were con
tested bitterly. Eisenhower and
Taft slates were entered in all
14 congressional districts. Unof
ficial. slates favoring Gen. Doug
las MacArthur were entered In
the 8th, 9th and 11th Districts,
even mough MacArthur has urg
ed his followers to vote for Taft
in addition, there was a state
wide preferential "write-In" pri
rrtary which was not binding.
Ihe "write-in" contest attract
ed considerable attention, how
ever, as the slate's attorncv gen
eral permitted voters to scribble
nicknames on the preferential
Dauots, such as "Bob," "Ike" and
Mac.
in another unusual move, the
slate permitted establishments
selling alcoholic beverages to re
main open during the voting
Hours, determined by local op
tion but in most places 6 a.m.
to 8 p.m.
72 Demo Delegates
Democrats voted for 72 dele
gates 16 at-large and 56 by dis
tricts. Each will have one-half
vote at the convention. Demo
cratic Gov. Paul A. Dcvcr, a
"favorite son," was assured con
trol of most of the 72-man dele
gation. However, Sen. Estes Kefauver
of Tennessee was favored to win
the Democratic preferential pri
mary because he lacked organ
ized opposition.
Little Progress Seen
In Oil Strike Threat
Washington (U.R) Federal
mediators reported little pro
gress Tuesday In their attempts
to avert a nationwide strike of
100,000 oil workers at midnight
Wednesday.
Assistant Mediation Chief
Clyde M. Mills said "both sides
are moving a little bit, in nego
tiations at 14 different points
throughout the country between
the Industry and AFL, CIO and
independent oil unions.
The unions have threatened to
strike unless a settlement is
reached by midnight Wednesday.
Further talks were scheduled
Tuesday.
The unions originally de
manded a 25 -cent hourly In-
nefits. The
workers average $2.10 an hour.
Attack Occurs
Over Soviet Zone;
Two Persons Hurt
Plane Riddled
By Machineguns
Berlin (U.R) Two Russian jet
fighter planes shot up an Air
France air liner over the Soviet
occupation zone of Germany
Tuesday and wounded two pas
sengers. The clothing of the plane's
copilot and steward was ripped
by missiles from the guns of
the two MIG planes, of the type
that Communists are using in
Korea, but the men were not
wounded.
Plane Kept on Course
Pilot Gilbert Schweninger
kept the plane on its course and
managed to land it safely at Tem
pelhof commercial airport in the
United States sector of Berlin.
The plane was riddled by can
non and machinegun fire. A
gasoline tank, right wing, belly
and front of the DC-4 liner were
ripped. One hole in the right
wing was one foot wide. In the
fuselage was a two-foot hole. An
American spokesman said it was
a miracle the plane did not ex
plode. 22 Holes Counted
Edwin Sippel, a Pan American
Airways pilot of Tulsa, Okla.,
counted 22 holes in the plane
when he inspected it.
The two wounded passengers
were a German woman, Mrs.
Irmgard Nebel, Frankfurt, and
a German man, Walter .Kurth,
Hamburg. Mrs. Nebel Wax fipri.
ously wounded in the stomach.
ivunn was wounded in the left
arm and left leg.
Pilot Schwallinger said the
Russian planes attacked without
warning while he was flying on
his regular run from Frankfurt
to Berlin at about 7,000 feet
along an air corridor approved
by the Soviets, in the Konnau
area at a point 90 miles south
west of Berlin.
Schwallinger radioed Tempel
hof that he was under attack.'
Maneuvered Into Clouds "
Schwallinger said he maneii
vered his big plane up into the
clouds as soon as he realized the
Russians were firing on him.
Only this, he said, enabled him
to save his plane and its 11 pas
sengers and six crewmembers, in
cluding himself.
Schwallinger and his fellow
crewmen said each Russian plane
made four passes at their plane,
opening up each time with ma
chine gun and small cannon fire.
Experts estimated that the can
non shells were of about 20-milli-
meter calibre, a little less than
one inch.
Wounded Removed
It took Schwallinger about
half an hour to get his Diane to
Tempelhof. Emergency crews
with stretchers were waiting.
They took off the two wounded.
Allied authorities at once can
celled all flights out of Berlin
and Air France suspended flights
into Berlin, in fear of further attacks.
Soviet planes have been en
gaged In extensive air maneuvers
over the Red zone.
The Allies started at once pre
paring a stiff protest to the Russians.
Cloudy Skies Ease
Utah Flood Situation
Salt Lake City U.R Cloudy
skies slowed record runoff floods
over most of the mountain West
ruesday, but thousands of acres
of farmlands, residential and
business areas remained covered
by muddy water.
The clouds carried threats of
rain during the next few days
for flood-plagued northern Utah,
but experts said the cooler tem
peratures that slowed melting of
double . normal depth mountain
snow batiks would help their bat
tle more than rain would hinder
it.
Woman's Fickleness Blamed by Man Held
For Embezzlement From Oregon Company
Pnrltnnrl Nl Pi mninn..l. r ti - , .. ..... . ..
Portland (U.R) Blaine Paul
Carroll, 28, Army veteran and
former University of Portland
student, Tuesday blamed the
'fickleness of woman" for get
ting him into trouble a charge
of embezzling $17,000 from the
Ontario, Ore., Wood Products
company.
"I guess she was one of those
girls that picks 'em up and drops
'em like flics." he glumly ad
mitted to arresting officers.
Carroll declined to name the
woman but said she was a young
diorcee and that he spent the
money on her In six weeks.
"I squandered It foolishly on a
woman I thought I was in love
with," he said.
Carroll, a graduate of Portland
university last June, was hired
as office manager for the Ontario
firm. He allegedly set up an ac
count for a non-existent lumber
firm In Boise, Ida., and used bo
gus lumber Invoices to steal
money from the wood products
company.
Work Uniaiiifaciory
Police said the embezzlement
occurred between June and Oc
tober last year. Carroll was dis
charged Oct. 15, 1951, because of
unsatisfactory work, but the em
bezzlement wasn't discovered un
til several weeks ago when the
firm discovered a $2,000 forged
check drawn against its account
Carroll was arrested here and
held on $7,000 bail as a fugitive
to be returned to Malheur coun
ty. In a signed statement he ad
mitted spending all the stolen
funds, plus his own savings, pro
ceeds from insurance dividends
and additional money he borrow
ed from banks, all on the young
divorcee within a period of six
weeks.
Items Included a $4000 auto
mobile, furniture and appliances
worth $3,500, two diamond ring
sets worth $t,300, $1,750 check
ing account. $1,500 in house pay
ments and $1,500 In jewelry and
"trinkets "
And alter that, he said, ha '
"lost the girl."