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MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1952
No. 43
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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.
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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.