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Newspaper Page TextedferaD OombyDffDQ Sod lliegoll . i .1 i imMHse'eaMsaaaaaaasaaaaaasaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa OPENS OREGON CAMPAIGN HERE Gov. Earl Warren of California is shown at let above here yesterday as he opened his presidential campaign for Oregon's 18 Republican delegates at a dinner in the Jackson hotel. Also in the pic ture, let to right, are Mrs. Bereth Hopkins, Smokeless Heaters Not Yet Effective, Fruitmen Here Say "Smokeless orchard heating is unfortunately not yet a reality," according to a statement issued by a representative of the Jack son County Fruit Growers league. , The statement was issued in response to recent -criticism of smudge smoke this year. "We have been interested in smokeless orchard heaters for many years," the spokesman said. "The present so-called smokeless heater has been used in Los Angeles county more than anywhere else and the re sults have been disappointing. These heaters still give off 50 per cent as much smoke as the conventional type heater now used in the Rogue river valley. "As growers, we are just as much interested as other citizens of the valley in the eliminating of smudge smoke. The replace ment of present orchard heaters would cost hundreds of thou sands of dollars at this time," he said. He pointed out that grow ers hesitate' to spend this sum and still have the people of the valley faced with smudgy cur tains and walls. This year was described as "unusually bad" regarding the amount of smoke. The quantity of smoke in the sky in the morn ing is "tremendously increased by long hours of heating the night before," it was explained. "We have heated for longer hours on two nights this year than we have during any time of the past 10 years," he pointed out. The league representative con cluded with the statement, "We are continuing our efforts to de velop a satisfactory smokeless orchard heater. Meanwhile, we must unfortunately continue to heal our orchards in order to save the fruit crop which each year means $10 million to the income of the Rogue valley." Vancouver, Wash. (U.PJ James Edward Neal, 38, of Oceanside, Calif., Tuesday was named city manager of Vancouver. Raging Utah Flood Waters Cut Highways, Slow Trains Salt Lake City U.R) Utah's raging spring runoff floods cut two major highways Tuesday, threatened a third, endangered two mainline railroads and drowned a boy who tried to ford a swollen stream. The victim, first in the 10-day crisis brought on by the rapid 'melting of a record mountain snowfall, was Robert Spaun, 17, Ogden. Waters Cut Highway Highway 30, the main route from northeastern Utah into southwestern Wyoming, was cut in several places by the ram paging Weber river which iso lated the community of Morgan and forced declaration of a state of emergency in Davis county. The Ogden stockyards were closed by the flood. Highway 189 waS cut in Provo canyon, where authorities warned all residents to evacu ate. Their lives were endangered chairman of the Jackson county Republican central committee; Jorgen Jorgensen, president of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, and Rodney Keating, vice-chairman of the county Republican central committee. . (See Story on Page 4). (Brainerd photo) Warren To Address Oregon Press Club In Portland Tonight By UNITED PRESS southern Oregon and an an- Gov. Earl Warren of Cali-1 nouncement of Harold E. Stas- forina was scheduled to address , ,, . the Oregon Press clubs annual awards banquet Tuesday night as Oregon's political pot reached the boiling point. - An Eisenhower rally in Port land, two speeches by Warren in Central Point School Bond Sale Announced Central Point United States National bank, Medford branch, is the successful bidder on .a $195,000 Central Point schoofs bond issue, it was announced here today by H. P. Jewett, su perintendent of schools. The bid was submitted jointly with Blythe and Company, Portland. The successful bid calls for an average interest rate of 2.397 per cent, Jewett said. Short term bonds maturing in 1954-56 will draw an interest rate of four per cent, the bulk of the issue ma turing in 1957-1959 will draw 2V4 per cent and bonds maturing during the last four years of the issue will draw 2Vfc per cent, he stated. The bond issue will cover ad ditions to Crater high school and Central Point junior high school. Construction bids will be called May 27 and work is expected to start early In June, the school superintendent said. Allied Planes Attach Enemy Railroad Traffic Seoul, Korea (U,R) Wave aft er wave of Allied fighter-bombers swept over North Korea Tuesday in a daylong effort to paralyze rail traffic around Sun- chon, a vital -junction in North western Korea . above Pyong yang. Jets and propeller-driven planes of four fighter-bomber wings roared into the Sunchon valley, cratering the tracks in 118 places in a five-mile stretch east of Sunchon. as continued warm weather melted snow at higher eleva tions. Highway 50, from Provo to Price, was threatened by Span ish Fork river. Crews battled to keep the road open but the Utah Highway Patrol said travel was "rough." The community of Spanish Fork fought to keep dikes strong enough to protect homes. Railroads Run Slow The Lcnver & Rio Grande Western railroad through Span ish Fork Canyon and the Union Pacific through Weber canyon were still operating on all major tracks, but speed was reduced as flood waters cut into road beds. In Salt Lake City, mountain runoff streams continued over their banks and more than 200 families were homeless from flood waters spread over parts or ait of 50 blocks. 'i's H' lighted the Republican presi- dential race Monday for Ore- gons 18 GOP national conven tion delegates. Warren Schedules Talks After dining with friends in Portland Monday night, Vjarren was scheduled to speak at Port land State college Tuesday morn ing, then drop in and say "hello to the Portland Rotary club and speak at a noon meeting of the Oregon Building Congress. Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., R-Mass., national leader of the Eisenhower campaign, told a rally in Portland he hoped Ore gon "would send to the national convention 18 delegates who would vote for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower on1 the first ballot and every other ballot." In Political Picture Oregon, he said, has gained its place in the national political picture because its primary comes late and because for 30 years it has been a primary in which the popular choice of the party voters carried with it a solid bloc of delegates. Lodge referred to the eight candidates who filled by petition, thus escaping the pledge which would bind them to support the candidate who receives the highest vote in the primary. Lodge said Eisenhower has been the subject of attack by those who first demanded he come home and campaign and by the same people who now want to know why he doesn't stay on the job. Slasien Sets Speech Stassen, another candidate for the Republican nomination, will make the first speech of his Ore gon campaign at Portland's Reed college Thursday. He is booked for a speech at the Portland Junior Chamber of Commerce May 14 and Jefferson high school later the same day. On May 15 he will deliver an- nttia. - .. U t C1 Vinci fl(ICCl.il ai Warren's major campaign speech Monday was delivered at Medford while at Klamath Falls he received a green 10-gallon hat and spoke to about 200 persons from the courthouse steps on Main street. (Se Story on Pag S) Pre-Dawn Atom Blast Expected Wednesday Las Vegas, Nev. OJ.R) U.S. atomic scientists Tuesriav , . , .. . .. .. . pleted preparations for the first) predawn nuclear detonation in side the United Slates since early 1051. Wcalher permitting, the scien tists are expected to explode a nuclear device alop a 300-foot steel tower in the early morning darkness Wednesday. This will be the first A-bomb explosion in the night since ear ly 1951, when the scientists christened the southern Nevada test site with five pre-dawn deto nations. Some of these were seen as far away as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Reno and Salt Lake City. Philadelphia Court Decides Against Fee, Registration Supreme Court Appeal Expected Philadelphia U.R The U. S. District Court here ruled Tues day that the $50 federal gam bling tax and registration of bookmakers and numbers is un constitutional. The decision by Judge George A. Welsh is expected to .be ap pealed directly to the U. S. Su preme Court by the government. Test Cast Welsh ruled against the stamp fee and . the furnishing of in formation to the International Revenue Bureau in an opinion sustaining a motion for dismissal of a criminal information against Joseph Kahriger, 36. Kahriger is one of 16 persons charged with falling to register as gamblers. Judge Welsh's decision c6m- mended the "high purposes" of the act, but termed illegal the provisions calling for payment of the $50 stamp fee, registration with the collector of internal revenue, listing the place of busi ness and posting there the gov ernment certificate showing that the registrant is engaged in gam bling, m Listing Objectionable Welsh also said the listing of names of employees is objection able because it makes gamblers informers for the State. The decision held that the 10 per cent tax on gross income of gamblers, also included in the law's provisions, is constitutional "though it might be unwise." ' The decision was the first in terpreting the legality of the law by any U. S. District Court. Kefauver, Taft Eye Ohio Primary In Delegate Race Miami, Fla. 0J.R) Sen. Richard B. Russell won the first two rural precincts re porting Tuesday in his Florida preferential primary battle against Sen. Esies Kefauver.' Russell got 20 votes and Kefau ver 1'. Washington (U.R) Sens. Estes Kefauver and Robert, A. Taft banked on Ohio voters Tuesday to boost them back into the lead in the race for delegates to the Democratic and Republican pres idential nominationg conven tions, respectively. Democrats voted in two other states Florida and Alabama. Kefauver Wins Maryland Kefauver, who pocketed Mary land's 18 delegate votes Mon day faced his biggest test Tues day in Florida where the Ten nessean was pitted against Sen. Richard B. Russell (D.-Ga.) in a "popularity" contest. Florida, which has 24 votes at the Demo cratic convention, actually will not choose delegates until May 27. Won't Bolt Party Russel, who has pledged that he will not bolt the Democratic party over the civil rights issue, won the first two rural precincts to report in Florida, getting 20 votes to Kefauver's 1. Florida voting was reported heavy. In Ohio, Taft was certain of winning enough home-state dele gates to recapture the lead from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in the GOP- delegate contest. The latest United Press tabulation gives Eisenhower 288 delegate votes and Taft 273. A GOP can didate needs 604 voles to win the nomination. No Identification Made on Baby Blanket Jackson county sheriff's depu ties "failed to find anyone to identify the blanket and hot wa ter bottle" yesterday in an effort to discover the missing Infant son of Russell Graham, Shady Cove. The child has been missing since April 22 when the body of its drowned mother was found on a sand bar in the Rogue river. The blanket and hot water bottle wntoisvumraouiiu., y i.sii- erman Phil Motchenbacher Shady Cove, and an attempt is being made by the sheriff's of fice to identify the articles. Members of the Immediate family are out of town at pres ent, tne 01 nee pointed out, malt ing the identification difficult. WEATHER roRr.CA.WT: Generally 1 1 1) B T with oreaslnnal Itfht rain this evening. Partly rlntidy wllh a fear shnwers Wednesday. I.ow tonlim 40, hlfh Wed- . nesday 65., Temp. Hlfhest Yesterday : Lowest this Morning . 47 Free To 4:30 a.m. Today 12 MEDFORDmJT United Press Full Leased Wirt 47th Year 16 Pages END OF Workers Agreeable To Reduction to I81 2C in Demands Strike Unaffected By California Action Washington (U.R) The Wage Stabilization Board urged union officials Tuesday to call off a nation-wide strike by 90,000 oil workers and summoned union and industry leaders to a board meeting next Tuesday. Denver, Colo. (U.R) Union officials representing 90,000 striking oil workers denied Tues day that a new settlement reach ed in California presages nation wide agreemnt ending their six day-old walkout. Although the union lowered its wage demands from 25 cents an hour to 18Vi cents, hopes for" large-scale settlement were gen erally not encouraging. Strikers Agreeable O. A. Knight, president of the CIO Oil Workers International Union, raid the strikers would be agreeable to the lowered figure as a basis for settlements. However, Knight said the "re ported settlement in California has nothing whatsoever to do with the current nationwide strike of oil workers." But there were a few encour aging signs on the negotiations level. Willingness Indicated Janus J. Spillane, regional di rector of the U.S. Mediation and Conciliation service in Chicago', said union leaders in the Chi cago area had given indications of their willingness to "bargain on a--raise between 18 and 22 cents an hour." West Coast airlines here an nounced today that their morn ing and evening flights will be cancelled, effective tomorrow. An airline spokesman said the cancellation is due to the oil strike. The northbound plane is leav ing at 7:45 a.m. snd the plane arriving at 9:25 p.m. arc the flights cancelled, the announce ment said. Other flights arriving at 1:10 and 4:40 p.m. and leaving at 2 and 5:30 p.m. are not affected. Oil distributors in Medford said this morning lhat they have so far felt no effects from the strike, and that for the time be ing they expect to be able to service their customers without difficulty. Steel Production Returning to Normal Pittsburgh (U.R) Steel pro duction in the nation's mills neared normal Tuesday as CIO United Steelworkers awaited the next move by union leaders In the stalemated wage contro versy. Across the nation blast fur naces and o en hearths were back in production from the country's biggest producer, U. S. Steel, with its far-flung plants, down to the smallest operations. U. S. Steel said all of its blast furnaces scheduled for produc tion were In operation and all open hearth departments had started making steel. Communist Desire For Truce Doubted Panmunjom, Korea (U.R) Gen. James A. Van Fleet said Tuesday that "apparently the Reds dont' want an armistice." A Communist newsman said the truce talks "appear to be enter ing Jhe most crucial deadlock since thry began. ' Van Fleet, commander of the 8th Army, said his soldiers "can outfight them or outsit them." The gloomy statements from both sides were made as senior delegalcf at Panmunjom ad journed after a 15-mlnute meet ing with no iidication of prog ress toward solution of the three major deadlocks holding up an armistice. BASEBALL NATIONAL Boston 0 3 0 Chicago 2 S 0 Bickford and Cocrer, Burrii 7; Klippsltin snd Alwell, MEDFORD, OREGO' OIL ST r-m i rr-Yitraiiirmia FIRST PHOTOI HOBSON SURVIVORS This motor whaleboat from the USS Wasp, with five survivors from the USS Hobson, pulls alongside the Wasp in mid-Atlantic to transfer, the rescued seamen. These survivors are: Rich ard A. Nelson, Waterville, Me.; Harry K. Man ning, Charleston, S.C.; Marion A. Sawmill, Lincoln Park, Mich.; Francis W. O'Connor, Dor Survivors- of Wasp-Hobson Ship Collision Tell Tales of New York (U.R) The crip pled aircraft carrier Wasp steam ed into port Tuesday with 61 shaken survivors who told tales of horror, courage and rescue in the mid Atlantic cdllision which sent the destroyer minesweeper Hobson to the bottom with 176 men. Most of the rescued crewmen were asleep the nighfof April 26 and did not see the Wasp knife into tlirir smaller escorting war ship. And the officers and men City Council Expected To Hear Pleas From Citizens For Daylight Saving Time A delegation of Medford citi- indicated that they would not zens is expected to request that the cily council take action on calling daylight savings time at the regular council meeting at 7:30 p.m. today, according to city officials. The expected action follows a change yesterday from experi mental "summer working hour" schedules to regular store hours by most Medford merchants. It has-been pointed out by cily officials that any action by the council would be purely advis ory. A number of concerns have ilipine Army In Search for Huks Manila U,R) The Philippines army sent out a strong unit Tues day to search for 50 Huks who killed nine persons and wound ed seven others in an ambush on three military vehicles 60 miles cast of Manila. An Army spokesman said the ambushed unit was ahic to kill four Huks and probably killed a fifth. The Huks are Communist-led outlaws. Pear Bureau Selects Portlander Manager Portland U,R) Fred J. Stralmann, Portland, Tuesday was named manager of the Oregon-Washington-California Pear bureau. Other officers named Includ ed: H. B. Murphy, Medford, fourth vice president. BULLETINS San Francisco (UR) Near ly half the S00 prisoners tin the San Francisco County Jail in San Bruno rioted Monday in a protest over food, Sheriff Dan Gallagher disclosed Tues day. One trusty was beaten up, and as a result two pris oner, were put in solitary con finement. Washington (U.R) The Sen ate Armed Services Commit tee Tuesday called Defense Secretary Robert A. Lovelt and Secretary of State Dean Acheson to testify in secret Thursday on the $8,900,000, 000 foreign aid program. jESDAY, MAY 6, 1952 KE NOT who saw the crash from the Hobson'!. flying bridge hinted they were requested to withhold their eyewitness accounts until they testify before a naval board of inquiry. Had Plenty to Tell But the men who were pluck-, ed .from the oil-covered waters that closed forever over their trapped shipmates had plenty to tell of the heroism, bravery and seamanship of Wasp crewmen who saved them from the worst change to daylight time until it is legalized throughout the state by a proclamation by Gov. Doug las McKay. Rezoning Hearing Due Regularly scheduled council business today includes a con tinued hearing over the rezoning of two sections of East Main street property. The proposed re- zoning would change the prop erty from a residential to a lim ited commercial area. The hearing, which was orig inally begun early this year. concerns the area between Cot tage and Myrtle streets on the south side of East, Main street and between Genessee and Gen eva streets on the north side of East Main street. Other business includes a con tinued hearing of paving of South Peach street from 13th street to Dakota avenue and hearings on trunk water main construction, according to City Superintendent Robert Duff. By UNITED PRESS Two more Oregon cities lined up with those going on fast time Tuesday, while another decided to remain on standard time. Klamath Falls decided to go on Daylight Saving time at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday while Hood River will go on fast time June 1. The Dalles decided to remain on standard time. Ammunition For Fiohtinq Washington (U.R) The Army said Tuesday that "ammunition is plentiful'' in Korea, although hand grenades and some types of cartridges are being rationed to frontline troops. Communique From Tokyo Officials made public a special communique from Far East Com mand headquarters in Tokyo on the ammunition situation. They said the communique was Issued to answer press reports of an ammunition shortage, and that it arrived at the Pentagon, "by coincidence," just after Gen. J Lawton Collins testified before a Senate appropriations subcom mittee Monday. Collins. Army chief of staff, told the subcommittee that cer RIBUNE United press PiKl Leased Wire No. 39 El SIGHT chester, Mass., and Von D. White, Elkland, Mo. Members of the whaleboat crew are: Stewart A. Kingsbury, Wilmette, 111.; Charles T. Paint er, Phoebus, Va.; John R. Webber, Newport, Pa.; Joe Growskl, Jere, W. Va.; Bernard R. Lepera, West Reading, Pa., and Samuel J. Huffman, Flint, Mich. (U. S. Navy photo) Bravery peacetime disaster in modern na val history. " Lt. William A. Hoefer Jr., of Thomaston, Ala., the surviving senior officer aboard the Hob son, said he was standing on the bridge with the ship's comman der and several junior officers when the Hobson rolled "almost 90 degiees", under the impact of the Wasp's bow. Standing on Windshield "I thought I was standing on the deck," he said, "until I turn ed a flashlight down at my feet and discovered I was standing on the windshield. "The sea swept up on us in a moment and I found myself washed out alone. I tried to find the captain, but neither I nor anyone else ever saw him again." The Wasp limped into port and anchored in Gravesend Bay at 8:30 a.m., completing a 1,500 mile Journey from the scene of the crash, 700 miles off the Azores. The battle-famed carrier had a 75-foot saw-toothed rip in its bow which on several occasions on the slow trip home forced the ship to travel stern first to keep out heavy seas. , But the Wasp swept into its emergency berth bow first, flags flying, and its Marine band play ing a rousing version of "An chors Aweigh." Tears Flow After dropping anchor, Wasp Capt. Burnham C. McCaffree, with Ihears flooding his eyes, spoke words of sympathy to his assembled crew and the Hobson men. McCaffree said that he was un able to offer a full and detailed story on why the Hobson and the Wasp collided. He said that any comments on the cause must be postponed to spare "needless an guish" for the "parents, wives, children and sweethearts of those who were lost." Anchorage, Alaska (U.R) Alaska's $100,000,000 military construction program was para lyzed Tuesday as AFL carpenters went on strike to support de mands for a wage Increase. Said Plentiful Men in Korea tain types of ammunition "have been rationed in Korea because production still does not equal normal battle expenditures and World War II stocks either have been exhausted or approached exhaustion." Testimony Not Contradicted The communique did not con tradict Collins' testimony, but it gave a somewhat different ex planation for the ammunition rationing, and emphasized the overall adequacy of supplies. It said: "Ammunition Is rationed, but allocations are considered ade quate In the present tactical situ ation. It Is rationed to save money anti maintain an ammuni tion reserve'. That is a normal military precaution."