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hiffistry QhCGSSIOIl Steel Pill Price to Commies Riot in Stalin Reviews Americans Target Of Violence in Japanese Capital Autos Overturned; Americans Stoned Tokyo (U.R) Communist led rioters shouting "go home Americans!" terrorized Tokyo on this third day of Japanese inde pendence in a wild outburst of violence that killed two persons and injured more than 500 in cluding scores of Americans. Surging t'h r o n g s estimated from 260,000 to higher than 350,000 rampaged through the streets after listening to violent anti-American speeches by Com munist leaders. They burned automobiles, stoned and clubbed Americans and other foreigners and smashed plate glass win dows. Sailors Mistreated An ! angry mob hurled two American sailors into the Im perial palace moat and stoned them as they struggled in the water. They crawled out with the crowd jeering and shoving at them. One of their wives was mauled. Seven American newspaper men were injured by stones and clubs. A medical corpsman said an American army ambulance was overturned. Scores of American civilians and servicemen took shelter inside the Dai Ichi build ing, headquarters of Gen. Mat thew B. Ridgway, and other gov ernment offices. ' 300 Demonstrators Hurt Police arrested 60 rioters in Tokyo and 68 in other parts, of Japan. They said nearly 300 demonstrators were injured and about 240 policemen injured. There were unconfirmed reports that two other rioters were killed in addition to' the one known dead. In the downtown Meiji park where the rioting began 20,008' unionists and Communists sparked the demonstration that called in thousands of other May day celebrants including students, laborers and assorted rabble-rousers. Parade Through Tokyo They paraded, through down town Tokyo eight and 10 abreast in weaving columns that splin tered into smaller groups to at tack automobiles and smash win dows in government buildings. They broke windows in head quarters of the U. S. Far East Air Forces. At nightfall the rioters appar ently went home. There were no reports of attacks on U. S. hous ing or on the homes of other foreigners. Deputies Continuing Missing Baby Search Sheriff's deputies reported to day they are continuing the search for the infant son of Rus sell Graham, Shady Cove gro cery store operator. The child has been missing since April 22 when his 28-year-old bother was found drowned on a Rogue river sandbar. f Deputies Guy Hughes and Earl Fichtner were in the Shady Cove area yesterday investigating the case, representatives of the sher iff's office stated. Hughes said this morning that an effort will be made to organize another search this week-end. Taxicab Fleet Aids Police In Seizing Arson Suspect Portland (U.R) A fleet of ..i,.,h. ihoH nMlno ThnrsHnv in running down an arson sus pect after what officers described as one of the wildest chases in their memory. Two men were injured and four taxicabs wrecked before of ficers captured Richard Edward McAfee, 39. and charged him with reckless driving, hit-run driving ''and disregarding a sig- nal. They said an arson charge probably would be filed against him later in the day. Car Bursts Into Flames A Radio cab driver, Lylc G. Tate, first saw a man, later identified as McAfee, run across the street from a parked Cadillac and get Into another car. At the same moment, the interior of the Cadillac burst into flames. Tate radioed for help and started the chase through down town Portland streets. A police V prowl car Joined him and an--f other cab picked up two patrol men while several other cabs, alerted by radio, closed in four abreast at one time on the flee- J SPEAKER Ralph Moody, Salem, above, well-known con stitutional lawyer and authority on the history of southern Ore gon, will be the speaker at the opening of Republican head quarters in Jacksonville this af ternoon. The GOP office, serv ing the Jacksonville-Old Stage road Applegate area is the first such headquarters to be opened there in about 50 years. A variety of events were planned for the opening. Gov. Earl Warren To Open Campaign Here Next Monday California's Gov. Earl Warren will open his campaign for Ore gon's Republican preferential primary election vote for presi dent in Medford on May 5, it was announced here today. The governor will arrive here next Monday by private plane, and will speak at a public lunch eon meeting at noon in the Pion eer room of the Medford hotel Following his talk here he will fly-to- Klamath Falls for a 2 p.m. meeting ,and then will go on to Portland for a private dinner. Schedule Tentative On Tuesday he will speak at the Press Club of Oregon in Portland for its annual awards dinner. His schedule beyond that is tentative, but a spokesman said he may travel down the Wil lamette valley, stopping at Mc Minnville, Albany and Corvallis on Wednesday. The public will be welcome at the luncheon, but because of the large crowd expected reserva tions must be made on or before May 3, by telephoning 2-9422. Mrs. Berelh Hopkins, chair man of the Jackson County Re publican Central committee, is handling arrangements for the dinner, but emphasized that this is only as a service which will be performed for any candidate, inasmuch as the committee is of ficially neutral in primary cam paigns. HELD FOR INVESTIGATION Edwin Raymond Phillips, 49, of 330 North Front street, was arrested by city police and held for investigation yesterday after one or more worthless checks had been passed to Medford mer chants, according to city police. They said a bad check for $12.55 was accepted by the Rogue res taurant, 422 South Central ave nue, and more similar checks may be unreported. ing McAfee. At one time. Mc Afce squeezed through a 'road block" by striking the rear fen der of one cab and sliding past another occupied by the patrol men. Another cab was forced out of control making a sharp turn and knocked down a traffic signal. Police and the taxi fleet lost the fugitive for & few minutes but picked him up again speed- ing across the Broadway bridge McAfee ran through a signal and struck a Broadway cab driven by Douglas A. Swank,. 35. Swank was hurled from the cab and his fare, Walter Leonard, 38, was thrown out another side. Both were taken to Good Samaritan hospital with injuries. Disabled by Crash McAfee's car was disabled by the crash. He started to flee on foot by officers nabbed him as he sobbed: "You've got the wrong boy." Police said they didn't believe McAfee was responsible for a rash of other fires set in autos by a so-called "firebug," but booked him for investigation. Tokyo; Forces USSR Preparedness Parade Dedicated Against the West Diplomats Remark At Chief's Briskness Moscow U.R) Premier Josef Stalin reviewed Russia's military and air might Thurs day at a May day parade dedi cated to preparedness against Anglo-American "imperialist ag gressors." Stalin, standing with other Politiburo members atop Lenin's mausoleum, acknowledged with a vigorous waving of his arm to the cheers of some 100.000 spectators packed into Red Square. Stands Erect It was Stalin's first public ap pearance since the meeting of Russia's Supreme Soviet parlia ment last March. He wore a cream-colored marshal's summer uniform. Diplomates remarked on the springiness of his step as he mounted to the parapet of the mausoleum. Stalin stood erect throughout the hour-long military parade and the mass civilian demonstra tion which followed. After the last of the soldiers had filed past the reviewing stand, a crowd estimated at. 1,000,000 to 2,000, 000 persons converged on Red Square from eight directions. The colorfully dressed civil ians marched and inter-marched across the square carrying plac ards bearing Communist slogans and the portraits of Communist leaders around the world, among them American Party Chairman William Z. Foster. Most of the Western diplomatic colony gathered at the U. S. em bassy opposite Red Square to watch the spectacle. Afterwards, they compared notes and lunch ed there. The military' review was the highlight of ,tie ,dBy, Medford Hospitals Increase Rates Sacred Heart and Community hospitals announced that an in crease in their rates becomes ef fective today. The new rates will vary according to accommoda tions, but will bring the ward rate of $10.50 per day up to $12. A joint statement issued by the two hospitals said: "We regret the necessity of raising the rates. However, in creased operating expenses com pel us to take this action, which is in conformity with the hospi tals' schedule adopted by the Oregon State Hospital associa tion effective April 1, 1952." The Josephine County General hospital also recently raised its rates. The hospitals said factors lead ing to the price increase include general wage increases, increas ed prices for materials and sup plies, more complex procedures, and more private and semi-private service demands. Funds Requested To Expand Military Bases Washington (U.R) The De fense Department asked Con gress Thursday for authority to spend $3,027,752,000 to build and expand military bases in this country and around the free world. A total of $2,027,752,000 would be spent on bases for the Army, Navy and Air Force, in this country and abroad. The re maining $1,000,000,000 would go into bases "for collective de fense" In foreign countries. Breakdown of the authoriza tions requested by the Defense Department included: International airport, Port land, $973,000. , Rites Being Arranged For Prospect Logger The body of Alvin Ray Kar jala, 33, a Prospect logger who was killed in an automobile accident near Chemult Tuesday night, will be returned here to iay by Perl funeral home. Karjala was driving at the time of the accident, reports said, and failed to make a turn. The car turned over, throwing Kar jala out and then rolling on him. A passenger, Lauchlin McColIu, Prospect, was not hurt, the re ports added. Karjala, who is married, has lived in this area about four years. His address was Box 23 Prospect. Medford United Preu Pull Leased Wire 47th Year 22 Pages BULLETINS Washington !U.R) Presi dent Truman laid Thursday the nationwide oil dispute is "very close to a settlement" and that the question of sell ing the industry has not been put up to him. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (U.R) The pilot of a search plane radioed Thursday that he had spotted the wreckage of a missing Pan American Stralocruiser near the Ara guaya River in wild central Brazil. He said there was no sign of life around the plane, which was carrying 50 persons in cluding 19 Americans when it disappeared Tuesday. City Settles Down To Work Routine On 'Summer Time' Medford settled down today to a mostly-uncomplicated rou tine on Pacific standard time. Many retail firms and other busi ness and industrial firms, how ever, were going along with yes terday s recommendation of ear lier opening on standard time, said the plan appeared to be working smoothly today. California Oregon Power com pany has not changed its office hours, nor has the Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph company, although the latter may do so later if the earlier opening be comes more universal. City employees are on the ear lier shift, although city hall open hours remain unchanged. Any change in school hours will have to wait a meeting of the Med ford school board. Churches apparently will hold services at their regular hours Sunday. None has announced plans for any change. By UNITED PRESS The switch to daylight saving time was spreading to other Ore gon cities Thursday as a legal test was readied to test Port land's action in going on 'fast time over the head of Gov. Douglas McKay. Oregon City. West Linn. Glad stone, Milwaukie, Rose burg. Forest Grove and Bcaverton joined the list of fast time com munities, while Vancouver, Kel so and Longview in Washington also joined up. Join Movement Portland schools and the city traction company joined in the movement to daylight time Thursday. Meanwhile, attorneys for Har old F. Anderson, described as a Portlander "who feels he has been injured," were to go before the state Supreme Court to try to get an order to force Portland to rescind its daylight time and comply with state law. Salem (U.R) The Oregon Su preme Court refused Thursday to take jurisdiction in the con troversy over Portland's procla mation recommending Daylight saving Time. The effect of the court's decis- on was that any communitv in Oregon so desiring may go on fast time despite the statement of Gov. Douglas McKay several days ago that Oregon would re main on standard time. Communists Lose 44 Planes During April Seoul, Korea (U.R) Far Eastern Air Forces shot down 44 Communist planes during April, the highest number for a month on record, it was dis closed Thursday, But the United Nations paid a heavy price, losing 38 planes, five of them In duels with Com munist jets. Nineteen were lost to Red ground fire and 14 to other causes. ' In addition to the kills, 5lh Air Force pilots probably de stroyed nine MIGs and dam aged 44, probably destroyed one type-15 Jet and damaged two more and damaged two pro- pellor-dnven Yak-9 s. WOMAN CoXlaTsES Conger-Morris ambulance attendants reported that Mrs Minnie Potter, Lookout, Calif. collapsed at a downtown store early this afternoon. She was taken to Community hospital. Weathei FORECAST: rlf ihroiik.i rrt Siy. Low toniiht 12-35. Hlch Frld.y 7. Tlmp. Hltheit Yitrdiy 57 Lowest this Morning ........ 3 MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 1, Leathernecks Play Part in Dropping Of Atomic Device Mt. Charleston, Nov. (U.R) I An atomic device, dropped from I flash an Air Force bomber, exploded , ....... ... , , . Thursday s test, believed to be high above Yucca Flat proving ,he detormtion of another in the grounds Thursday as more than fast growing family of medium 2,000 battle-hardened Marines size A-bombs, was staged in the huddled in foxholes only 7,000 ! same general area used by ma yards away. The blinding explosion came at 9:30 a.m. (PDT), 48 hours be hind schedule and after the his tory making Marine atomic maneuvers had been twice post poned by bad weather. Marines Begin Assault Seconds after the nuclear ex plosion shot a huge fireball, plus the fapiliar mushroom cloud, high over the desert test center, the Marines climbed from their carved foxholes to begin an as sault on mythical Yucca Island. The flash was a brilliant red, one of the brightest seen by ob servers from this observation post 40 miles south of the test site. Then the cloud shot up like a geyser, a rainbow of purples, wliitts a.id rods. ' Mushroom Head Forms Three minutes later the typi cal mushroom head formed, huge white and grayish clouds. The cap was based on a long slender column of dusty gray. In Las Vegas, 70 miles south west of the blast area, the AEC confirmed that it was an air drop. Observers in the resort city said the flash "was the brightest CIO Woodworker Strike Continues Portland (U.R) No negotia tions were scheduled Thursday in the strike of 40,000 CIO Woodworkers against 700 log ging, sawmill and plywood op erators in the Pacific Northwest and northern California. A few small firms signed up with the union soon after the walkout occurred Tuesday, but all the larger operations under CIO jurisdiction were idle. The tieup Is the largest and most widespread in the industry since 1935. The main issue in the dispute was over the manner in which payments are to bo made into the union's health and welfare fund. About 150 woods and railroad workers of the Medford Corpor ation were still out on strike today, is was reported, and pick ets are active at the Medford plant of the firm. Oalis Visited by AmericanAmbassador Washington (U.R) American Ambassador Ellis O. Briggs talk ed Wednesday with American newsman William N. Oalis for the first time -since he was ar rested by Czech secret police on April 23, 1951, the Stale Depart ment reported Thursday. Briggs advised the State De partment that Oatis said his health was "good." The ambassa dor said Oalis' statement regard ing his health was supported by his appearance. The ambassador had a 30-mln-ute meeting with the imprisoned Associated Press correspondent. The State Department had been demanding such a meeting for 53 weeks. Drunk Driving Verdict Scheduled for Appeal The conviction in district court last week of George Joseph Supcrnont, 401 East 12lh street, Medford. on a drunk driving charge, has been appealed to the Jackson county circuit court District Judge Rawlcs Moore said today. Supernant was convicted on the charge by a unanimous jury vote Thursday after a three-day trial. The trial involved a col lision between the defendent and Harold Martin north of Eagle Point on Crater Lake highway March 30. Transcripts on the district court trial have not yet been filed with circuit court, accord Ing to Judge Moore, and no date for a new trial has been set. Hanley tnd Manley, Medford at torneys, are counsel for Supernant. it yet seen." But they emphasized that it was "not the largest neuvering Army troops in ine first "public" nuclear blast ever held in the United States. Newsmen Deprived But scientists and military of ficials tacked up the "top secret" sign again Thursday to deprive newspapermen of their "ringside" scats of the test 10 days ago. Consequently, unoffic ial observers were forced to take their posts high on the. side of this rugged mountain for their birds' eye view of the 16th nu clear detonation held in Nevada. Interim Committee Tells of Weather Control Proposal Portland The state legislative interim committee studying wea ther control released detajls of a proposed law for regulation of weither experimentation. State Sen. Ben Day, Gold Hill, chairman of the committee, re ported ihat the bill would pro vide ior a f i v e - m a n board appointed by the governor to be in charge of weather experi ments. Cloud seeders would have to post a liability bond and have a permit under the bill, and Day suggested, that the minimum bond be set at $10,000, with a maxi mum of $200,000. Plan Further Study Permit fees would be used to conduct further study of weather control, Day reported. The state engineer and stale director of agriculture would be members of the board. The interim committee held a hearing in Medford recently, at which time they heard testi mony and opinion from oppo ncnts to cloud-seeding, and from Harvey Brandau and Eugene Kooser, who have been flying for the Rogue Valley Traffic association in attempts to elimi nate hail, which in the past has caused great financial losses by damaging pears. Communists Request Full-Scale Meeting Panmunjom, Korea (U.R) The Communists asked Thursday for a full-scale meeting of truce delegations, presumably lo give their reply to a United Nations plan to end the Korean war. The U.N. promptly agreed to the meeting. It will be held at 11 a.m. Friday. The truce meetings have been recessed at Communist- request since Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, chief U.N. delegate,- on Monday handed North Korean Gen. Nam II a proposed "over-all" solution to the armistice deadlock. The Allies assumed that the Red proposal for a meeting Fri day meant that the Communist delegates had completed talks with their governments at Pyong yang and Peiping and perhaps with Moscow and have their answer to the U.N. proposal ready. Watershed Seeding To Increase Snow Had Little if Any Effect Report Reveals Cloud seeding over southern Oregon's high Cascade water shed, conducted during the win ters of 1949-50 and 1950-51 In an attempt to increase snowfall, had little if any apparent effect, it was revealed today. The conclusions were con tained in a paper written by four snow survey and water forecast experts, and was pre sented at a recent technical meeting In California. The authors are Arch Work, senior Irrigation engineer and super visor of snow surveys, Soil Con servation Service; W, T. Frost, hydraulic engineer in charge of Oregon cooperative snow sur veys; R. T. Beaumont, assistant water forecaster, Oregon Agri cultural Experiment station, and Manes Barton, assistant cloud- RIBUNE United Preu FuM Leaied Wire 1952 No. 35 Taft Backer Sees Rough Time for Ike In Midwest States Background Seen Harmful Washington (U.R) Sen. Mil ton R. Young said Thursday Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower would have more trouble carrying the Midwest farm states than "al most any candidate" the Republi cans could nominate for presi dent. The North Dakota Republican, a backer of Sen. Robert A. Taft, R-O., said Eisenhower's back ground would hurt him in the farm belt. Swell Said Illustrated Sen. Leverctt Saltonstall, R.- mna?,, an jiat-iuiuwci utiLlYn said tne general s Massachusetts success over Taft "illustrates the great ground swell for Ike Eisen hower he got a higher percent age of the Republican vote than he got in Minnesota, New Hamp shire and New Jersey." Saltonstall said the "astound ing" fact of Eisenhower's finish ing second to Sen. Estes Kefau ver, D-Tenn., in the Democratic b a a 1 1 o t i n g shows that he is wanted by Americans of both sides." Support Unexpected Taft said Wednesday night that "Democrats are voting in the Republican primaries in sup port of General Eisenhower." In an Interview, the Ohioan said "the Democrats took over the Republican party for one day" in Massachusetts, but that he did not expect to get support from the New Deal Democrats. He said the State Department and International newspapers are actively supporting" Eisenhower, 3 Persons Injured In Accidents Here Two persons received Injuries In a one-car accident here early today, acording to city police Margie Virginia Johnson, 30, Pasco, Wash., received head cuts and possible internal injuries, and Edgar Lee Jones, 54, of 39 North Columbus avenue, driver of the car, received head cuts, police stated. The accident occurred at about 1:15 a.m. near the intersection of North Riverside avenue and Alice street, according to the acci dent report. It stated that Jones' car struck a California Oregon Power company light pole. Dam age to the car was not reported Jones was cited by police for reckless driving. Hit-Run Accident Susan Ann Gustison, 14-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Leight E. Gustison, 806 North Riverside avenue, suffered cuts and bruises yesterday when she was struck by an automobile which failed to stop at the scene of the accident, city police said The accident occurred at about 5:15 p.m. on Crater Lake avenue, between Bennett and Summit streets, officers stated. The girl was unable to furnish complete details about the mishap, her father told police. She is an eighth grade pupil at Medford junior high school. Two Convicts Missing From State Penitentiary Salem (U.R) Convicts La Verl Fred Bowles and James Howard Eaves were still missing from Oregon state penitentiary Thursday. The two stole away from a gun guard work crew cutting wood near Jefferson, 12 miles south of Salem, Wednesday. seeding analyst at the expert ment station. The experiments were con ducted over a curved 300 square mile area along the west slope of the Cascades, between Hyatt reservoir and Mt. McLoughlin. The first year planes seeded clouds with a variety of ma terials; the second winter ground silver iodide from a ground generator supplemented the sec ding flights. . The report concluded that snow survey records are a valu able tool to evaluate results and that further studies are needed to determine what results cloud seeding could have. As far as results themselves are concerned, the report said: "There Is no evidence that cloud seeding increased the Government Wins Another Round In Court Battle High Court Action On Seizure Awaited Washington (U.R) The gov eminent won another round Thursday in its court battle over the steel industry seizure and hinted that it may make a price concession to the companies in an effort to end the steel strike. The legal victory came when the U. S. Court of Appeals re fused, 5 to 4, to bar the govern ment from increasing steel wages until the Supreme Court acts on the seizure case. Settlement Seen ' At the same time, Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, nominal "boss' 'of the seized in dustry, said he thinks there is "enough leeway on all fronts" both wages and prices to get a settlement of the steel dispute. Sawyer also said that he was confidenLJhat the 650,000 strik ing steelworkers would not long strike against the government. Although the appeals court ruling left the government free to impose a wage increase, Saw yer told a news conference he will do nothing about it in the next day or two In the hopes that the steel companies and the CIO Steelworkers union can re sume negotiations. He urged them to renew their wage talks. May Stretch Regulation Sawyer hinted at his news con ference that the government may be willing to stretch the so-called Capehart regulation- to give the steel industry more than the per missible $3-a-ton price increase. He said the Capehart regulation Is "elastic, as you know." He said he understands that Price Stabilizer Ellis Arnall at one time offered the Industry a $4.50 price boost under the Capehart regulation. Sawyer s remarks about new wage and price talks led to speculation that Mr. Truman himself might issue a call for resumption of negotiations be tween the union and the In-: dustry. Court Rejects Attempt ' The- appeals Aurt rejected In dustry's attempt to bar a government-Imposed wage increase after acting Attorney General Philip B. Pnrlman told the court that "if it .adn't been for this very motion- by industry the men would be back at work this morning." The steelworkers went on strike Tuesday immediately af ter Federal Judge David A. Pine ruled that Mr. Truman's April 8 seizure of the mills was il legal and unconstitutional. Order Stayed Wednesday morning. Pine signed an order directing the government to return the mills to their owners. But Wednesday night the appeals court stayed the order, temporarily restoring government seizure until the government appeals Pine's rul ing to the Supreme Court. Thursday morning, the steel companies went back to the Court of Appeals and asked It to modify its stay order so as to forbid the government to im pose wage Increases while the mills are under federal control. Stevenson Would Vote for Kef auver Portland (U.R) Gov. Adlal Stevenson of Illinois said Thurs day if he were an Oregonian he would vote for Sen. Estes Kef au ver of Tennessee in the state's May 16 Democratic presidential primary, but he did not say he was supporting Kefauver for the nomination. -.- - Stevenson, who was scheduled to deliver a Jefferson-Jackson day speech Thursday night, re iterated that he was not a can didate for president. He already has publicly asked Oregon voters not to vote for him. amount of precipitation stored as water in snow over the southern Oregon target area in either 1949-50 or 1950-51. "Cloud seeding may have been responsible for the stati tlcally significant decrease of water stored in the snow from that expected. under normal cli mate regime." '' As a result of the report, which was made available to th Medford, Talent and Rogue River Irrigation districts earlier, the contracts for continued ex periments were not renewed for the winter of 1951-52. Harvey Brandau and Eugene Kooser, who also have seeded clouds In the Rogue valley in attempts to prevent hail held the contract for the watershed project. 4 1
