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Newspaper Page TextRecommended A ftaturt ttory on Cht com- pietlon of pre-election work In the Jack ton county clerk'i office appeari on Page IS of today'i Uiue ot The Mail Tribune, WEATHER FORECAST Conilderable cioudlneii today with icat tered thunder thowers mostly over mounulni In afternoon; partly cloudy tonight and Monday Cooler Monday. High today 72, low tonight 34. Temp. Highest yesterday 78 Low en yesterday .. 46 TRIBjNE EDFORD United Press Full Leased Wir United Press Full Leased Wirt 47th Year 32 Pages MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1952 No. 43 M SPOTLIGHT ON State Important In National Scene To GOP, Democrats Four States Select Convention Delegates . Washington (U.R) More na tional convention d e 1 e g a te s were chosen Saturday in four states as the political spotlight swung to the Pacific North west for next week's Oregon presidential primary. Three states had party con ventions Saturday. Nevada Re publicans selected 14 national convention delegates. Michigan Democrats picked a 40-delegate bloc, and Utah Democrats named 12 delegates. In Virginia, where six of 23 GOP delegates already, had been selected, four more were named in district meetings. Twenty delegates were chosen by the Nevada Democratic con vention in Elko, each to have one-half vote. The delegation will go uninstructed and not under the unit rule, leaving them free to vote as they want to individually. Highlight of the coming week Is the Oregon primary where eight nslmes appear on the pres idential ballot five for Repub licans and three for the Demo crats. The only other primary of the week Is in West Virginia, where Sen. Robert A. Taft (R- O.), goes against Harold E. Stas en. The coming week also will bring about selection of many delegates for both parties at state conventions. Republicans nave four conventions, to pick 40 national delegates; Demo crats, live, with 52 delegates at take. . Sen. Richard B. Russell (D- Ga.), with a Florida victory be hind him in his first presidential primary, picked up announced support Saturday of his two col leagues from Alabama, Sens. John J. Sparkman and Lister , Hill. Besides the influence they can swing for him in Alabama, the two Senators are In position to give practical aid at the Chicago convention with their votes. Both are delegates-at-large from Alabama. Both parties have a lively in terest in Oregon s primary on Friday. The result is binding on the delegates 18 for the Re publicans, 12 for the Democrats. On the Republican side, voters will choose among Sen. Wayne Morse, a "favorite son" entry, uov. Earl Warren of California; Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower; Stassen and Gen. Douglas A MacArthur, who has said he is not a candidate and indicated a preference for Taft. The Ohioan is not entered In Oregon. On the Democratic ballot, are Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennes see, Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, and Justice William O. Douglas of the United States Supreme Court. Douglas is not an active candidate, and Steven ion has tried to eliminate him self from the race, bflt talk per sists that he would yield to a convention draft, especially if the Republicans nominate Taft, Frustrated Motorist Gives Vent to Wrath Hollywood (U.R) Harbor ing a grudge against traffic signals and armed with a screwdriver, a frustrated .mo torist gave vent to his emo t tions Saturday and attacked ' more than a doxen signals in downtown Hollywood. Witnesses said the .man went from box to box with his screwdriver, but escaped in the ensuing traffic jam before police arrived. Survivor of Ship Disaster Blaims Commanding Officer Bayonne. N. J. (U.R) The senior surviving officer of the destroyer - minesweeper Hobson Saturday blamed his dead com manding officer for the vessel's disastrous collision with the air craft carrier Wasp. Testifying before a naval court of inquiry. Lt.' William A. Hoe fer. Jr., 27, of Ocean Springs, Miss., said the U. S. Navy's worst peacetime disaster would not have happened if the Hob son's master. Lt. Cmdr. William J. Tiernely had ordered only one turn instead of two. Moving Too Fast He also said the Hobson prob ably was moving too fast and that he never before had seen plotted the maneuver of two left turns that Tierney ordered after a right turn had put the Hobson on course with the Wasp. DA Haviland Responds To Opponent's Charge His office is not an investigat ing one, Paul Haviland, district attorney and candidate for the Republican nomination for re election, said in a radio talk Friday. Responding to charges from his qpponent in the campaign, Tha two candidates for the Republican nomination for Jackson county district attorn ey, Paul Haviland and Walt er Nunley, will continue their election campaign In a series of radio talks this week, they reported. Nunley has tentatively scheduled talks for 9 p. m. Monday over KYJC, and 9:15 or 10:15 p. m. (definite time to be announced later) over KMED. Haviland will speak at 9:15 p. m, Tuesday on both sta tions, and at 9:45 p. m. en Thursday on both stations. There may be changes or additions to these schedules as the week advances, they said. There is no candidate for the Democratic nomination. Haviland made his first major political talk over radio stations KYJC and KMED at 9 p. m. Most district attorneys "do not go out to conduct investigations for the obvious reason that to do so puts the district attorney in a position where he cannot be fair and impartial as the evi dence may come before him, and General Ridgway Calls Reds Liars On Germ Charges- Tokyo, Sunday (U.R) Allied and Communist truce negotiators met briefly at Panmunjom today after Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway blasted the Red delegates as liars whose charges of germ warfare and chemical warfare "are an international crime of the first order." There was no sign of progress when the 20-minute bargaining session adjourned and observers expressed belief the talks faced either complete collapse or ,a prolonged series of unproductive meetings unless one side or the other altered its " final" stand on prisoner exchange. Senior United Nations and Communist negotiators agreed to meet again at 11 a.m. tomorrow Ridgway pointed out the near crisis of the talks at his farewell press conference yesterday, warning the debate will end with complete failure unless the Reds accept the U. N.'s final offer on the prisoner Issue. Ridgway, supreme U. N. com- mander and chief of U. S. Far East forces, will turn over his commands on' Monday to Gen Mark Clark and leave for Paris where he will succeed Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower as su preme Allied commander for Europe. Ridgway refused to predict whether a n armistice might eventually be reached. Yesterday's session at Pan munjom lasted only 11 minutes during which North Korean Gen Nam II attacked the Allies for "coercing" prisoners into reject ing Communism. Delegates scheduled another meeting today. Hoefer served in the Navy for 14 months. He had previously served five years In the Mer chant Marine. Tierney, the Hobson's skipper, was in the naval reserve trom 1942 to 1946, transferred to the regular Navy and served as exe cutive officer of the USS Furse for 17 months, after which his commanding officer recommend ed him as a destroyer captain Ordered Turns e Hoefer said Tierney, who went down with his ship, ordered the right turn, then the two left turns after the Wasp signaled it was changing course so planes could land Hoefer said he believed that a dispatch Tierney received from the commander of the destroyer flotilla, which included the Hob son, had some bearing on the collision. . OREGON would tend to lead him to act overzealously to convict a per son ..." Haviland sam, inm catting that this is the practice which he follows, as well as the DAs of Roseburg, Josephine and Klamath counties and elsewhere throughout the nation. Denies Refusal Haviland denied charges by Walter Nunley, his, primary el ection opponent, that he had failed or refused to prosecute on charges of illegal gambling in Jackson county. He said: "In no case where evidence indicating guilt has been pro duced in my office by any indi vidual has he been refused the right to sign a criminal com plaint, regardless of the nature of the crime or the person ac cused, and I very definitely in clude the crime of gambling in that statement. That will con tinue, to be my policy as long as I am your district attorney, and will vigorously prosecute in all such cases." In response to Nunley's state ments that Haviland does not himself sign criminal com plaints, Haviland answered at length, giving his reasons why he does not do so. Tells Reasons In part, he said, "It is nec essary that each person making a complaint be carefully inter viewed to determine if a crime has actually been committed and if there is legal evidence to sup port conviction, I realize that it is hard for you to believe that on numerous occasions individ uals have attempted to com mence criminal prosecutions for personal reasons-, and may even have gone so far as to base their attack . . , against an innocent person. It is our duty to protect those cases. .; r - . - " "For this reason, the ' com plaint must be signed by the person charging another . . . and must be supported by an affidavit . . , that the facts there in are true. "It is obvious that for this reason I do not sign complaints, nor does my assistant, or the other district attorneys through out the state." Duties Complex During his talk, Haviland pointed out that the duties of the office are complex, due to rapid population increases, and include protection of the inno cent, prosecution of the guilty, and serving as legal officer for the various county offices. '.'Your district attorney must be constantly aware of the re sponsibility to protect the inno cent, and always, and this is extremely important, to main a position that is fair and im partial to all persons," he said. " ... To remain impartial, he must hear both sides. I have not, and will not, be a party to witch-hunts, in which innocent people are found guilty by . ac cusation and convicted upon hearsay evidence prior to being brought to, trial. Even though they are subsequently found 'not guilty' by trial jury, they have been damaged irreparably, and this damage can never be completely erased." Cites Record He added that the record will bear out his job has been done efficiently, without favoritism, fear or prejudice and to mate all decisions based on exper ience, knowledge and with due regard for the public interest. "I have no commitments at this time ... I have never had any, and I will not have any . . . I will continue to do my best to give fair treatment to all of those with whom I am dealing, regardless of race, creed or pol itical affiliation," Haviland con cluded. In a signed statement issued Saturday, Haviland denied that George Goodman, 212 . Valley View drive, had ever been in his office to file complaints on gambling. (The Mall Tribune, in a report on a speech given last week by Nunley, quoted Good man as s a y I n g he bad called at the DA's office and told the deputy district attorney, Bob Dickey, t hat "he wanted to file several complaints .against the slot machine operators in the county.") Haviland's statement contin ued: "He (Goodman) has never been la the district attorney's office to my knowledge nor has he ever identified himself with any complaint by telephone. "I have bad no conversation World-Wide Slash In Gas Use Asked As Strike Goes On Local Plane Service Curtailed by Shortage Denver, Colo. (U.R! The na tions of the free world were asked to slash aviation gas con sumption late Saturday as the 11th day of the crippling oil strike saw unions and industry accuse each other of bringing pressure to block settlement of ! the nationwide walkout. The state department revealed that both the United States and Britain called on free nations to reduce aviation gas consump tion by 30 per cent to make up a 40 per cent loss in production. The United States and Britain are reducing aviation gas con sumption by at least 30 per cent. The U. S. order went out Tues day and the British directive is scheduled to become effective Monday. The threatened spread of the walkout to California, chief source of oil supply for United Nations troops in Korea, was at least temporarily averted at the eleventh hour when union head quarters told the Pittsburg, Cal., local to stay on the jorj until after a scheduled meeting of union and management repre sentatives with the Wage Sta bilization board Tuesday. The petroleum administration for defense issued an order for large service stations and gaso line storage depots to reserve five per cent of their gasoline for possible emergency use by fire engines, police cars and am bulances. On the civilian front, only four midwestern cities Detroit, Toledo, Springfield, 111., and Madison, Wis. reported short ages of gas and even in those cities motorists could get gas by shopping around. The East Coast. the South and the Southwest were in best shape. In Medford it was announced that a new West Cpast Airlines sc.hedu.le effective May 12, has been slightly modified to com ply with an order allocating gasoline from the federal' gov ernment. The schedule states flights north from Medford will depart from the airport at 1 and 5 p.m., Pacific standard time; flights from the north will ar rive here at 11:40 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., PST. United Airlines flight sched ule for the Medford airport ef fective Monday was announced Saturday by Walt Carson, sta tion manager. Northbound flights revised are as follows: the commuter flight leaving Medford at 7:10 a.m. for Seattle is cancelled; the 10:45 a.m. flight to Portland is being cancelled and replaced by a 11:40 a.m. flight through Klamath Falls and Bend to Port land; and the 4:40 p.m. Medford to Portland flight via Eugene and Salem will run as usual. Southbound trips are as fol lows: the Seattle to Medford flight which arrives here at 8:40 p.m. is cancelled; the 10:05 a.m. flight from Medford south via Eureka to San Francisco will run as usual; the regular 5:25 p.m. flight from Medford with a Sacramento stop to San Fran cisco is cancelled and Is being replaced with another 5:25 p.m. flight which will stop at Red Bluff, Sacramento and Oakland en route to San Francisco. Kefauver Slates Medford 'Address . Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn ), the only "willing" democratic candidate for president running in the Oregon primary election, will be here next week, it was announced Saturday. Dr. Arthur Kreisman, chair man of the Ashland Kefauver for President committee, said that Senator Kefauver will speak at an assembly at South ern Oregon college at 9 o'clock Thursday morning, and then will speak at a mass meeting at the front of the Jackson county courthouse in Medford at 10:30. Kreisman said the senator is flying from Portland by private plane, and will land at the Ash land airport. with Mr. Goodman since I have been district attorney. In any conversation which I had with Mr. Goodman while I was dep uty district attorney I have spec ifically told him that I would prepare a complaint or affidavit covering his charges and prose cute vigorously." His statement Concluded with a reiteration of the portion of his talk dealing with his will ingness to accept complaints. STEEL General Dodd Released Unharmed bv Red POWs Ex-Prison Officer Will Tell Ordeal To Gen. Van Fleet Release Prevents Attempt at Rescue Seoul, Korea, Sunday, May 11 (U.R) American Brig. .Gen. Fran cis T. Dodd flew to the South Korean capital of Seoul today after being released "unharmed and in good spirits" by fanatical Communist prisoners who held him within a Koje island stock ade for four days. The former prison camp com mandant was to describe the ordeal behind the barbed wire to Gen. James A. Van Fleet who directed negotiations for Dodd's "ransom." Van Fleet, 8th Army com mander, revealed the Allies had agreed to make "minor conces sions" to the prisoners, but he did not disclose all of them. An 8th Army spokesman said some demands "could be construed as political. Appeared Nervous Dodd appeared pale and ner vous as he climbed from an air plane at a military field outside the limits of Seoul. He was helped from the plane by Brig Gen. Charles W. Christenberry deputy Eighth Army chief of staff. "I do not have to be helped," the haggard officer told Christ enberry. "I am perfectly capable of getting down by myself. "You look tired," Christen berry said. "You are the one that ought to be tired." Dodd replied. The special plane arrived at the airport at 11:45 a.m. (10:45 p.m. Saturday EDT). Dodd was accompanied in the aircraft by Brig. Gen. Paul Young, com manding general o f th e 2nd logisitical command. Before being taken to a wait- Armed Russ Guards Bar Use of Highway To Allied Patrols Berlin !U.R Armed Rus sian guards Saturday barred American and Allied military police patrols from the Interna tional Highway which connects isolated West .Berlin with West ern Germany. American, British and French commandants in Berlin pro tested the action to Gen. Vassily I. Chlukpv, Soviet commander In Germany, and demanded that the blockade measure be lifted. Not Momentous The Western commandants, in a Joint announcement, said the Soviet move might have been caused by a "misunderstand ing." A spokesman described the Incident as "serious but not momentous." But the tactic was reminiscent of events leading up td Russia's 1948-49 "starvation blockade" of the American, British and French sectors of Berlin. Cou pled with a new Soviet charge that a French plane violated the permitted air corridor to Berlin, and warnings of serious conse quences of such actions, the highway restriction seriously disturbed West Berlin's 2,500, 000 residents. The Russians also ordered all their rail traffic running be tween Soviet zone points and Eastern Berlin diverted from stations in the American sector to a station in the Russian sec tor of the city. All trains normally passing through West Berlin to Soviet stations were rerouted to keep thpm outside Western territory. This was believed to be a Soviet precaution against possi ble Western retaliatory meas ures, if the Soviets increase their blockade restrictions. Sport Bulletin Seattle (U.R) Lyman Llnde, supported by Harm Riech's towering home run In the third inning, betted Vernon Kindtfather In a hot pitching duel Saturday night as Port land edged Beaitlt 2 la 0. I'm - ,s . v J war M FATHER RELEASED Betty FrancisT. Dodd, is shown above left learning of her father's cap ture; bslanatlc communist prisoners at a Korean POW camp. Gen eral Doaa was released unnarmoa ing sedan- to be whisked to Eighth Army headquarters where Van Fleet, was walling, Dodd posed willingly for photo graphers. Van Fleet announced Dodd's release while veteran American and South Korean troops stood by. ready to shoot their way Into the notorious compound 76 and rescue him by force if neces sary, an appeal from Dodd him self stayed such action. LOCAL IKE SUPPORTERS ENDORCE 14 CANDIDATES Jackson county Eisenhower for President backers FridHy re ceived a list of 14 recommended candidates for delegate at large during a rally at Medford senior high school. Issuance of the list marked a departure from long established procedure on the part of the state Eisenhower group. The move was an effort to elect a solid slate of Ike sup porters in the May 18 primary election. Candidates endorsed Included Zylpha Zell Burns, Frank E. "Ned" Fowler, Catherine Holt., .Samuel H. Martin, Douglas Mc Kay, Wayne -L. Morse, Gordon Orput, Robert Ormond Case, Mark O. Hatfield, J. O. Johnson, William M. McAllister, Lesley (Mrs. Charles E.) Miller, Alf O. Nelson and Jkilmarigc F. (Jack) Stalcy. Highlighting the Elsenhower rally was a speech by Republican Senator Frank Carlson of Kan sas. General Eisenhower is the only man, according to Carlson who can give this country both a domestic unity and world wide peace. The senator cited Eisen- Petitions Circulated For Zoning of County The Rural Life committee of the Jackson County Agrlcultur al council is now circulating pe titions asking the county court to placna county zoning measure on thcTNOvember general elec tion ballot. The measure would authorize Ihe court to enact zoning and land use regulations. Similar proposals have been on the county ballot twice pre viously and have been rejected twice, the last time by a small margin. Copies of ihe petition can he obtained at the county agent's office in the courthouse by others who wish to circulate them. The pot t'ons must be tiled by the county clerk by early In July. Dodd, daughter of Brig. Gen Dy tne neas oaiuraay. . ; Dodd, 52, was seized Wednes day as he and Lt. Col. Wilbur R. Raven of Newton, Tex., talked with leaders' of the com pound at the entrance gate. Raven wriggled free, but Dodd was dragged behind the barbed wire barricade and hidden, Dodd was commander of the prison, but he was relieved immediately upon his seizure. hower's ability to present the United States with a united pro gram and stated that he is the only man whom the Russians fear and respect. Eisenhower's military back ground will not be a shortcom ing, but an asset In the presi dency, Carlson said. He pointed out that, with need of a strong military force In coming years coupled with an absolute neces sity of cutting the budget, Eis enhower has a background which qualifies him to state positive ly how the budget can be cut without endangering the coun try. The sppaker urged that all persons, Republicans and Dem ocrnts, vote for Eisenhower in the Oregon primaries. He point ed to the large Democratic write-in vote for the general in the Massachusetts elections. Carlson also spoke before the student body of Southern Ore gon college today in Ashland. Death Sentence Commuted For Murderess Winnie Judd Phonnix, Ariz- UR Win nie Ruth Judd, notorious trunk murderess who escaped the gal lows 20 years ago when she was declared insane,, had hor death sentence commuted to life im prisonment Saturday by Gov. Howard Pyle. The 48-year-old doctor's wife was the center of one of the nation's most gruesome murder trials In 1032. The slHte charged originally that she had shot to death, two women friends, and dismem bered one with her husband's scalpels. Both bodies were shipped to Los Angeles In a trunk and suit case, where they were found in a freight depot. Pyle said he approved a recommendation by the state board of pardons and paroles because three superintendents of Opposing Briefs Filed Saturday With High Court Arguments Scheduled Before Court Monday Washington (U.R) Tha. government and the steel -In dustry filtjd opposing briefs with the Supreme Court Saturday in showdown test of the steel industry seizure that may define the emergency powers of the presidency for the first time in U. S. history. The CIO United Steelworkers joined the action as a "friend of the court," filing written arguements explaining the un ion's position.ln the steel contro versy. Hew Legal Lin The government and industry briefs generally hewed to tha legal line argued before Fed eral Judge David A. Pine in district court here last month. The government asked the Su preme Court to reverse Pine's ruling that the seizure was un constitutional. It said he should have ruled on non-constitutional grounds. But lt argued that in any event the president did have authority under the Con stitution to prevent, by seizure, a steel shutdown which would "gravely endanger the national interests. The companies contended in their brief that the seizure was "without any vestige of support In the Constitution." They warn ed that this case could set a precedent by which some future occupant of the White House could compel labor to work on terms dictated by him. "It Is not the rights of these (companies) alone which are at stake here. Out system of gov ernment has no place lor any such concept of arbitrary pow er which, if once established, must be fatal to our liberties," they said. The union skirted the Consti tutional question and dismissed as the "veriest nonsense" tha Industry's contention that t h president should have obtained a Taft-Hartley law injunction, instead of seizing, to head off a strike. The steelworkers asked tha court to modify its ban on government-imposed wage increas es as soon as oral argument ol the case ends. The nine-Justices took all three briefs under consideration and recessed until Monday noon, when the government and the steel companies will get 2Vi hours each to buttress their arguments verbally in open court. Decision in Two Weeks The high court may hand down Its decision in two weeks on the great Constitutional is sue that has torn the country in to partisan, factions even since President Truman seized the' steel mills on April 8. In the interim, the actual wage-price dispute between the steel companies and the union seemed likely to remain dead locked, with the government still dangling Its offer of a $4.50 per ton price Increase as bait to the Industry to settle on the 28 - cents - an - hour pay raise recommended by the wage stab ilization board. Informed observers said today the court's decision should lead to a quick settlement, whichev er way it goes. And, they said the union stands a good chance of winning either way. the state mental hospital had stated no patient should be de nied the opportunity to recover from their insanity because of a death sentence. Supt. Dr. M. W. Conway told board last Monday that Mrs. Judd probably would never re cover competcly, because of the deterioration of 20 years of mental Illness. Might Improve But he said she would be easier to handle and might Im prove to a point where she would have less tension and would not have so disturbing effect upon the other patients. The "hard to handle" Mrs. Judd has escaped five times from the ancient state hospital since 1939. The most recent escape was the night of. last Feb. 2, 20 years to the day from the time she was sentenced.