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Newspaper Page TextSTEE L DISPUT INTO WMMH mm Oregon Scene of Presidential Bids By Party Hopefuls Portland U.R) Oregon this week becomes a key battleground lor presidential hopefuls of the two major political parties with many of the candidates or their main supporters stumping the state in preparation for the May 16 primary election. Although Oregon's primary isn't the last in the nation this year before the Republican and Democratic national conventions in Chicago, it will be considered nationally significant because of the number of candidates and the sampling of western politi cal sentiment as the races grow hotter in the stretch. Warren Starts Campaign Gov. Earl Warren of Cali fornia starts his drive for votes In Medford at a luncheon meet ing Monday and then flies on to Klamath Falls and Portland for what he promises will be an in tensive camoaiBn in behalf of his GOP aspirations. Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., of Massachusetts, national chair man of the Eisenhower cam paign, also flies into Portland Monday for a rally at the Port land Ice Arena Monday night. Sen. Lodge recently visited Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower at his Paris NATO headquarters and is spearheading the "Ike" cam paign until the general himself returns to the United States. Harold E. Stassen, former gov ernor of Minnesota and president of the University of Pennsyl vania, plans to arrive in Port land on Thursday while Sen. Wayne L. Morse, freshman GOP lawmaker from Oregon whose views frequently cross party lines, is scheduled late in the week. Sen. Morse is running for delegate-at-large to" the Republi can national convention and plans to tell the voters to forget him as a presidential candidate. Gen. Douglas MacArthur also is an "unwilling" Republican candidate in the Oregon primary and won't be here to campaign. Nothing has been heard from William R. Schneider, St. Louis, Mo., attorney and sixth' candi date vying for votes in the stale, and Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio is not on the GOP ballot, but something of a fight is shaping up over an alleged "hoax" perpe trated on Oregon voters by eight convention delegate candidates who filed by petition and who could go to the July convention Oregon Accidents Claim Four Lives BY UNITED PRESS Four persons met accidental death in Oregon during the weekend. Two of the victims drowned and two died in traffic accidents. Nine -year -old George Small drowned Saturday afternoon during a public swimming ses sion in the Klamath Falls high school natatorium. Mrs. Anna L. Garrett, 46-year-old houseboat dweller, drowned Saturday night in Portland. Po .. lice said she apparently fell into Oregon slough during a party. Two-year-old William Michael Delgard was fatally injured Sun day when run over by a pickup truck on a hop ranch two miles east of Independence, Ore. A 70-year-old pedestrian, John Cenci, was struck by a car Sat urday night and killed to be come Portland's 22nd traffic death of 1952. Strike Situation At Medco Unchanged The strike situation at Med ford corporation, where CIO Woodworkers have been on strike for a week, was unchang ed today. Some 150 woods and railroad workers are still idle, although the Medford sawmill, operated by AFL employees, is still operating. Pickets are posted at the approaches to the plant. Chinese-American Laundress Selected As Typical American Mother for 1952 New York (U.R) Mrs. Toy Len Goon, Chinese-born owner operator of a Portland, Me., laundry and mother of eight American born children, was named the American Mother for 1952 Monday by the Golden Rule foundation. Mrs. Goon, 57, widow of a World War I veteran, had no for mal education, the Foundation said. Her children, ranging in age from 15 to 29, include a doc tor, a merchant, a teacher, a government worker, and a mem ber of the United States Navy. Two are in school! another is working in the family laundry to earn money for further school ing. The doctor son is Carroll "unpledged" thus ignoring the popular vote. Gov. Douglas McKay has charged that the eight would support Sen. Taft In defiance of the vote for other candidates, in cluding Gen. Eisenhower, who is the governor's personal choice. The eight who filed by petition among the 85 Republican dele gate candidates are listed as Lowell Paget, Mrs. Irene H. Ger linger, John R. Latourette Jr., Irving Rand, Robert A. Bennett, Phil Metschan, and Ernest G. Swigert, all of Portland, and U. S. Balentine, Klamath Falls. Kefauver to Return On the Democratic side of the ballot, Sen. Estes. Kefa,uver of Tennesse is the only "willing" candidate and plans to return to Oregon during the week to carry his appeal directly to the voters. Other Democrats entered are U.S. Supreme Court Justice Wil liam O. Douglas and Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson. The latter has disavowed presidential am bitions and Douglas has taken a full-page advertisement in the Democratic voters' pamphlet to tell party members not to "waste" their votes on him. Wedemeyer Takes Chairmanship of Taft Committee Washington (U.R) Retired Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer took over chairmanship of a "National Citizens for Taft Committee" Monday and said his decision was influenced by Gen. Douglas A. MacArthur, among others. Supporters of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower for the Republican presidential nomination conced ed, meanwhile, that Sen. Robert A. Taft will make a primary sweep in his home state, Ohio, and "temporarily" regain the lead this week in the see-saw battle for national convention delegates. Urged To Accept "Numerous prominent citi zens, including Gen. MacArthur, urged me to accept," Wede meyer said in a prepared state ment read to a news conference. Wedemeyer said he decided to throw in with Taft because "he can and will turn our country away from socialistic trends and will restore the free competitive economic system . . . uproot sub versive influences . . . and elim inate coddlers of disloyalty." Clean Sweep Seen- Sen. Frank Carlson, R-Kan., director of the national Eisen hower campaign headquarters, said in a statement that Taft should pick up all 58 of the dele gates at stake Tuesday in his home state Ohio primary. But he said the gain will "soon be eclipsed" by new Eisenhower victories. The Ohio primary is one of three Tuesday. In Florida, Sens. Estes Kefauver, Tenn., and Rich ard B. Russell, Ga., square off in a Democratic presidential pref erence primary that will mark a "first" for each. It will be Russell's first primary test, and Kefauver's first In his native South. Oregon State Prison Escapees Recaptured Vancouver, Wash U.R) Two convicts who took a Sunday afternoon walk away from the Oregon state prison farm at Salem were back In custody Monday following a chase punc tuated by gunfire and a wrecked stolen car. The escapees were William H. Brooks, 27, serving five years for forgery from Tillamook county, and John Calvin God dard, 22. serving a three-year sentence for a burglary In Lane county. Goon. 29. Salt Lake City. "Her personal participation in f .nana was iiuiiicu ii.i.ausc of her continuous duties in her laundry and her home." the American Mothers Committee of the Foundation said. "As her children grew up they helped their mother in the laundry. They were taught and encourag ed constantly to participate in worthwhile civic projects of all kinds." American Cltiien Mrs. Goon has been a resident of the United States for almost 40 years and is an American citi zen. Her husband. Dogan Goon, lost a leg after he was discharg ed from service in World War I. He died 12 yean ago. . Medford -roll UuM Wire 47th Year 14 Pages Earl Warren Opens it' (Acme Telephota) OPENS CAMPAIGN HERE Pictured above is California Gov. Earl Warren, who opened his campaign for Oregon's Repub lican preferential primary election vote for president today at noon with a speech in the Pioneer room of the Jackson hotel. Candidate Asks: Why Doesn't DA Enforce Anti-Gambling Laws? Walter 'Nuniey, candidate for the- Republican nomination as Jackson county district attorney, today renewed his charges that the incumbent DA; Paul Havi land, is failing in his duty to en force many of the criminal laws of the state, especially gambling laws. Nuniey told The Mail Tribune that the district attorney not only can sign . criminal com plaints, but that it is his duty to do so. The young attorney said that Haviland's recent state ments regarding the duties of the district attorney were "made in an effort to excuse or mitigate his failure to enforce our crimi nal laws, particularly our anti gambling laws." Quotes Law Nuniey quoted Oregon law on the DA V duties as follows: Rail Passenger Rafe Hikes Asked ' Washington (U.R) Nine Western Railroads asked the In terstate Commerce Commission Monday for authority to increase passenger fare 10 per cent. There was no indication in the petition filed with the ICC why all Western lines did not join in the request. The petitioning railroads contended they are losing money in passenger operations.- The Western lines asking the increase are the Missouri Pacific railroad and subsidiaries; North western Pacific Railroad; Pacific Electric Railway; St. Louis Southwestern Railroad; St. Lou is Southwestern Railroad o f Texas; San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railway; Southern Pa cific Railway .and subsidiaries; and the Texas Sc New Orleans Railroad. FT MRS. TOY LEN COON Laundress Hamad "Mother" MEDFOKD, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 5, "Ha shall institute , proceed ings before magistrates ior the arrest- of persons charged wjth, or reasonably suspected of, pub lic offenses, when he has infor mation that any such offense has been committed-. . . "It is not necessary that the district attorney have positive knowledge and proof of absolute guilt of the offense," Nuniey said; "it is only necessary that the guilt be reasonably suspected. The candidate added that Haviland "has made use of legal technicality to confuse this issue in the minds of the citi zens. Can the district attorney take affirmative action in en forcing our laws?' He not only can; he is required to . . ." con cluded Mr. Nuniey. Nunlcy also indicated that too great a proportion of Havi- land's time is spent in private practice, to the detriment of his conduct of his office lie has spent many, many hours and days in preparing and trying civil cases and in handling various civil matters," Nuniey said, 'in a county as large Jackson county has become, the district- attorney's duties are many and varied. The Job has become a full-time one. It is my opinion that the bulk of the dis trict attorney's private practice should be left In the hands of a law partner, in order that he should be free to do the job at hand," Nuniey added. He concluded: "Do we have lower percentage of criminals sent to Salem according to popu lation than the other counties in the stale because we simply don't have the criminals in our coun ty? I don't think so. Why has Mr. Haviland failed to enforce many of our crimial laws, esne daily our gamhling laws? Is it because he doesn't have the time?" On Radio Nuniey will speak at 8:15 over radio station KYJC on this and related subjects. Haviland and Nuniey, both Republicans, are. contesting for the nomination for district attor ney. The nomination presumably will be the same as election this year, for no Democratic candi date has filed. LOGS DUMPED A loaded log truck of the Se curity Truck line, Medford, driv en by James A. Wooldridge, route Z, box 663, Central Point dumped its load at Front and Sixth streets today at 11:45 a.m. according to city police. No dam age or injuries resulted, and a crane from fhe Tru-Mix com pany re-loaded the truck by 1:10 p.m. Police said the driver had applied all his brakes to avoid hitting another car which "knif ed" his trailer dumping the load A crowd of some 50 people watched the re-loading. - - i 1 Oregon Campaign Here Today Governor Seeking States Delegates; Speaks at Luncheon Hits Back Biting, Scurrilous Propaganda California's Gov. Earl Warren opened his campaign for the Oregon primary election" prcfer enCial vote for the Republican presidential nomination here to day. The governor arrived at the Medford airport in a chartered DC-3 plane at 10:55 a.m., and was greeted by a group of some 40 city and chamber of commerce officials, and by the local Repub lican leaders. He fired the opening gun in his struggle for Oregon's 18 na tional GOP convention delegates by hitting at "petty criticism. back biting or scurrilous under ground propaganda" in the Re publican nominating contest. Noon Luncheon The governor spoke at a noon luncheon at the Jackson hotel, and was to leave for Klamath Falls at 2 p.m. for a 3 o'clock speech on the steps of the Klam ath county courthouse. He will then fly to Portland for a pri vate dinner there tonight. Governor Warren keynoted his talk this noon by pointing out that a Republican victory at the polls this year is far from sure. "We have a fight on our hands in November, let np one deceive us on that score," he said, and pointed out that the "solid South" has 128 electoral votes which traditionally go to Demo crats. Appealing for unity and good will among Republicans, he said he comes to Oregon "with admir ation and good will for every candidate in your Republican primary. I shall have nothing to say igainst any of them. I have every Intention of supporting the Republican whom our conven tion nominates." Disclaiming a highpowercd campaign, the governor said he does not have a "great organi zation," and is without great fi nancial means. Tribute To Oregoniant He paid tribute to many Ore gon Republican leaders of the past and present, including Gov. Douglas McKay and Senators Wayne Morse and Guy Cordon. "I believe my state has the same type of Republicanism you have in Oregon," he s-aid. "We believe that the development and conservation of our natural resources is a matter of basic concern for both the individual and for government , . . We be lieve also in developing and con serving our human resources, so life will be progressively better for all our people as time passes. "But we want these things to be done within the framework of our constitutional system. We believe everyone In and out of office in the United States is subject to the constitution of the United States, he said in an ap parent reference to President Truman's recent seizure of the steel Industry. Work Under Constitution "We arc not searching for In herent powers," he added. "We believe that every American problem can be solved in the American way under the con stitution. We not only believe that to be the fact. We work that way.". The usually mild-mannered governor appealed for a new administration in Washington "not a warmed over Democratic administration; not a reshuffling of the cards for another kind of deal, but a completely new ad ministration, with a new ap proach, new leadership, a new sense of responsibility to the people, and the will to restore time honored concepts of repre sentative government. Governor Warren charged the Democrats cannot do this, and that the present administration has lost its vitality, resulting in a situation where morale has suffered to a point where morals are actually impaired. "Corrup tion is viewed with a compla cency, and is often excused or condoned," he said, adding that there has been a loss of financial responsibility, and a dangerous centralization of administrative power. Atkt Social Progress He called for continued social progre.'i in domestic affairs, and said he is sure we can do these things without copying any for eign ideology or without depart ing from the spirit of our Ameri can institutions. In touching on foreign policy, Tribune United prtn rnl !.' 1952 No AIRLINES, FEEL PINCH AS OIL WALKOUT Denver, Colo. (U.R) Com mercial airlines and motorists in two Midwest cities Monday felt the fuel-shortage pinch as the nation-wide oil strike went into its sixth day without a settlement in sight. Washington (U.R) The government has no plans to ration automobile gasoline as the result of the nationwide oil strike. Secretary of Inte rior Oscar L. Chapman said Monday. Airlines started work to draw up emergency schedules to com- Most Stores Back On Regular Work Hours This Morning Most of Medford was back to regular hours on Pacific stand ard time today. A majority of Medford stores this morning abandoned the "summer working hour" sched ule opening and closing an hour earlier which had been adopted by most retail stores last week. Some employers, however, while maintaining regular store hours, were permitting employ ees to come to work an hour ear lier and leave an hour earlier. The city of Medford was one of these. ' ' iw , Camp White on DST "v ' The Camp White veterans domiciliary center today began observing daylight saving time, according to Manager Paul Hat ton, lie explained that the change resulted from a Veterans Administration directive which places all VA stations on the Pacific coast on fast time. Any further action on the lo cal time situation will have to await a meeting fo the city- council at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. It is expected that daylight saving time advocates will appear in an attempt to persuade the council to authorize fast time for Med ford. It was pointed out by city of ficials that any action by the city council would be purely advl sory, and a number of concerns have indicated that they would not change until and unless Gov. Douglas McKay reverses his de cision and legalizes daylight time throughout the state. Colonel Said Missing In Korea Air Action Seoul, Koi-ca (U.R) Col. Albert -W. Schlnz, deputy com mander of the U. S. 91st fighter wing, disappeared in an air bat tle with Communist MIG-15 fighters over North Korea on May Day, the Air Force an nounced Monday. It listed Schinz as "missing in action." He was presumed to have been shot down. Seeking revenge, Allied war planes ' Sunday shot down six Communist fighter, four of them MIG-15 Jets, probably destroyed a fifth and damaged four. Phoenix, Ariz. (U.R) The Arizona state board of pardons and paroles recommended to Gov. Howard Pyle Monday that trunk murderess Winnie Ruth Judd'i death sentence be com muted to life Imprisonment. Governor Warren said "the age of isolationism has passed . the peace of the world depends upon our ability to bring about collective security through world cooperation" through the United Nations, which he characterized as the world's best hope for ac compllshlng that result. Before his formal talk, Gover nor Wnrren told newsmen that great progress has been made against crime and gambling In California, and pointed out that his crime commission has been very effective In the fight. Among those meeting the gov ernor upon his arrival here were newspapermen. Mayor Diamond L. Flynn, Chamber of Commerce President Jorgcn Jorgenscn, and Mrs. Bereth Hopkins, chairman of the Jackson County Republi can Central committee. rather RECAST: Cloudy tontfht, partly cloudy Tueidiy. Few iprlnklei in mountain! thti evening. Low tonight 38-40. Hih Tuesday 10. Temp Highest Ytittrdiv 6 Lowest tbli Morning 31 AUTOISTS CONTINUES ply with the government's gaso line rationing order which be comes effective Tuesday. Airlines Restricted The government order restricts domestic airlines for the next 28 days to 65 per cent of the avia tion gasoline they used during March. Bruce K. Brown, deputy chief of the Defense Petroleum Ad ministration, said the order would become effective at 1:01 a.m. (CST) Tuesday. Motorists in the Great Lakes area were hit hard by the grow ing gasoline shortage. Detroit Supplies Cut Detroit's gasoline supplies were cut 70 per cent bv the strike, as eight of the motor city's it) major gasoline distributors were strikebound and hundreds of service stations in Michigan closed down for the duration. An oil company spokesman said the gas famine would hit the Chicago area in five days, unless tne strike ended. The area stretches from industrial Gary, Ind., to Waukegan, 111, Air Force Cuts Flights The Air Force already has cut the number of training flights in the United States to the mini mum. But the Air Force spokesman in Tokyo said flying in the Far East Air Force would not feel the pinch of the strike for at least two weeks, if the walkout con tinued that long. He indicated, however, that there might be a clamp-down on oil consumption after that time should the strike still be in force. Meanwhile; officials of the CIO Oil Workers International union said here that a West Coast wage agreement between Standard Oil of California and the Indepen dent Union of Petrolium Work ers would not set a pattern for other settlements In the walk out. Three-Day Measles Lead Disease List The common three-day measles led the list of communicable dis eases last week In Jackson coun ty with 14 cases In Medford, 2 in Ashland and 2 in Central Point, according to Dr. A. Erin Merkel, county nealth physician. There was one case of menln gitis reported In Medford, not communicable; influenza, four Ashland, three Medford; one rheumatic fever case in Jackson ville; one scarlet fever case in Medford; one case each of Infec tlous mononucleosis in Medford and Eagle Point; and one tuber-1 culosis case in Eagle Point. BULLETINS New York (U.R) Promoter Jim Norrii announced Mon day that Champion Joey Max im and Sugar Ray Robinson have been matched for a light heavyweight title fight at Yan kee Stadium June 23. Salt Lake City (U.R) Davli county commissioners late Monday declared a county wide state of emergency be cause of rising flood waters. The rampaging Weber river at the north end of the defense Industry-filled county, has cut roads and flooded many homes. Washington (U.R) Clorli D. Walker, under congression al fire for allegedly leaking trade secrets to an Egyptian broker, resigned Monday as director of the Agriculture Department's cotton branch. Montreal Prisoners Riot; Sunday Dinner Claimed Bad Montreal, Que. (U.R) Prison guards restored order Monday at Bordeaux jail where 550 inmates claiming they had been given wormy bologna and burned po tatoes at their Sunday afternoon meal, staged a fiery riot for more than three hours. Under Control "Everything is under control now," Provincial Police Inspect or Norbert Labbe said. The riot started at 4:30 p.m. Sunday in the dining hall when about 500 inmates rushed the guards. Two prisoners and three guards were injured. Then the rioters set fire to the Plans Not Known, Administration Official Declares Basis To Resume Talks Searched Washington U.R) The steel dispute dropped back into Presi dent Truman's lap Monday and a high administration official said, "we don't know what we're going to do now." Mr. Truman was reported to be searching for some basis to resume the White house-sponsored bargaining talks between the industry and the CIO Steelwork ers. which collapsed late Sunday. Wait Seen Possible But some officials conceded that the President and Acting Defense Mobilizer John R. Steel man might have to "let things simmer" until the Supreme Lourt opens hearing next Mon day on the legality of govern ment seizure of the steel mills. Some of the urgency was re moved from the situation when Steelworkers' President Philip Murray announced that he had "no intention" of calling out hia 650,000 steelworkers on strike against the government. Wildcat Walkouts Seen But Murray did not rule out the possibility of wildcat walk outs,, slowdowns or other scatter ed "protests" by the steelwork ers. He told reporters that "we hope our people will continue at work" during government op eration of the steel properties. Authoritative sources revealed that the extraordinary White House talks, which began Satur day morning and continued through the week-end, once seemed on the verge of produc ing a settlement. That was shortly after Presi dent Truman had called the ne gotiators into his office early Saturday and threatened to im pose a wage increase on the industry un.ess a settlement wai reached by Monday. This "club" was plucked from the President's hands by the Supreme Court Saturday after noon. It agreed unanimously to grant the steel companies' re quest for an order forbidding the government to raise wases in the plants pending the final decision of the constitutionality' of the seizure. Charles W. Clause, Ex-Policeman, Dies Charles W. Clause, 78, of 24S North Holly street died in a lo cal hospital Sunday. Although retired, he was well known in Medford where he was a police officer for 11 years, after coming here from Ashland, where he was on the police force for eight years, five of which he was the Ashland chief of police. Arrangements for funeral aer vics are in charge of Chapel Mortuary and will be announced later, Baby Blanket May Be Clue to Missing Infant The Jackson County Sher iff's office continuing Its search today for the missing infant ton of Russell Graham, Shady Cove, following the discovery yester day of a baby blanket and hot water bottle on the banks of the Rogue river. Sheriff's deputies are checking today on the possibility that the blanket and water bottle belong ed to the Graham's. They were found by Shady Cove Fisherman Phil Molschenbacher near the spot that Mrs. Graham'a drown ed body was discovered on April 22. . United Nations, N.Y. (U.R) The United States charged Mon day that Communists are smug ging dope into Japan and using proceeds from its sale to finance party activities and obtained strategic materials from Red China. BASEBALL NATIONAL Brooklyn S 0 Pittsburgh 1 4 Called end 8th, rain. ' Branca and Campanellat Friend, Main 6, and Garagiola. Home runsi Hodges 3rd, 2 on Pafko, 5th, none en. kitchen, the main switchboard, the chapel and two of the jail's five cellblocks before they were subdued with tear gas, night sticks and fire hoses. Inmate Strangles Pig During the riot, one of the In mates rushed into a walled-in courtyard, caught a pig that had wandered into the area from the jail farm and strangled it. Almost 1,000 policemen and firemen fought the rioters before the inmates gave up. Some of the men were orderly, but about 100 grumbling prisoners were taken to Quebec provincial police cells for overnight keeping.