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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
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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.
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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
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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."