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Greyhound Buses Will Resume Schedules Soon &x LOCATED OFF KOREA COAST, this is Koje Island where Communists In United Nations' prisoner of war camp are holding Brig. UM. Francis T. Dodd, commandant, as hostage. (IntertwZ, Dodd Tells of Death Threat While Captive of Prisoners Seoul, Korea (U.R) Brig. Gen. Francis T. Dodd said Mon day Communist prisoners of war threatened to kill him and stage a mass break for freedom if 8th Army troops entered the Koje island camp where he was held hostage for four days. Statement Tells Story Dodd's story as a captive of the rebellious Red prisoners in Compound 76 was told for the first time in a statement released by 8th army headquarters here. The general, released unharm ed Saturday night, said the warning came Friday night. He had been seized on Wednesday. Dodd said a Colonel Lee and a prisoner of war whom he e lieved to be the commissar of the Koje camp came to the make shift room where the Commu nists had quartered him. "They discussed with me the , effects of the use of force," Dodd said. "They informed me that if troops entered the compound, they would resist; that my life would be forfeited and that there would be a simultaneous Com m u n ists Defy U N To Break Off Talks Panmunjom, Korea (U.R) The Communists defied the United Nations Monday to break off the Korean armistice nego tiations. They bitterly denounced the U. N.'s treatment of war prison ers and arrogantly served notice More Airline Flights Cancelled by Gas Lack Portland (U.R) Morei cancel lations of airline schedules out of Portland took effect Monday. The 13-day old strike of the nation's oil workers forced Unit ed Air lines to consolidate 'its flights through Portland, and three flights through Salem were cancelled. . The service restrictions affect only United's DC-3 service. DC-6 planes will operate as usual. West Coast started a new flight between Portland and Medford, but some other flights were cancelled. WCA's new flight will stop at Corvallis, Al bany, Eugene, North Bend and Roseburg. Cancelled West Coast flights . were the Seattle-Portland-Med-ford morning flight, the 5 p.m. PSf) flight from Portland to Seattle and the morning flight from Seattle to Port Angeles and back to Seattle. Klamath Falls-Medord Air Service Starts; m Tickets Unavailable ' Regular airline service be tween Medford and Klamath Falls a major objective of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce hat started, due to the gasoline strike. Bui, under ruling of the Civil Aeronautics Board, it it Im possible to buy a ticket be tween the two citiet, Walt Carton, station man ager for United Air lines, taid that one northbound and one touthbound flight daily are now routed through both Medford and Klamath Falls, thut eliminating other air tervic which in the pan hat gone down both tidet of the C a c a d mountains. The flightt were eliminated to conserve gatoline due to the strike of oil workert. But Carson said thai under CAB regulationt, tickets can b told only to regularly scheduled ttopt. and one can not buy a ticket from Medford to Klamath Fallt. But if you . want to buy a ticket to Port ' land, and then get off at Klam ath Fallt, there it nothing to stop you. Carton said. break from all compounds on the island. Protected by Guards When Dodd, who was com mander of the unruly Koje island camp, was seized outside the gate to compound 76; he said his captors stationed 15 to 20 guards around his quarters to protect him from fanatical pris oners of war. Dodd was released after Act ing Camp Commander Brig Gen. Charles Colson stationed flame throwing tanks and bayonet wielding infantrymen around the compound. , . - In Tokyo, Gen. Mark W. Clark, newly-appointed U.S. and UN Far East commander, issued a statement accusing the Com munist -prisoners of "unadulter ated blackmail" in seizing Dodd. He said the whole incident was plotted for its propaganda effect. To Influence Armistice He said the Dodd incident and two previous riots at the Koje island camp "were motivated by attempts to influence the armis tice negotiations." that they intend to use the daily negotiating sessions solely as a sounding board for Red propa ganda unless the Allies accept Communist truce terms or sus pend the talks. Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy, Chief U. N. delegate, emerged in an angry mood from the confer ence tent after the 52-minute session. He said the Reds had poured a flood of "Invective, dis tortions and palpable lies" on the Allies. North Korean Lt. Gen. Nam II, reading from a prepared statement, hurled charges against the U. N. of massacres, barbarous measures, blood-steal ing, forced tattooing, maltreat ment of prisoners and indis criminate insults. Included in the Ions list of charges was a serious protest for an alleged strafing attack by four Allied planes against a prisoner of war camp at Kang- dong in North Korea. Nam said four U. N. prisoners were injured in a recent attack on the camp, the same one Com munist negotiators claimed was bombed by Allied planes last January. The North Korean general formally requested that U. N "insure against a reoccurrence of such Incidents in the future.' Joy acknowledged the charge and said an appropriate investi- gaation would be made. DAY Chapter Meeting To Elect, Nominate An imDortant meetinc nf .Tank. son county Chapter 8, Disabled American Veterans, will be held at the courthouse auditorium at 8 Dm. Tuesdav. it wu an nounced by OAV officers today. A vote on the proposed pur chase of property will be taken; delegates to the state convention will be elected, and officers of the chapter for the coming year will be nominated. BULLETINS Providence, H. I. (U.R) Gen. Dwight D. Sitenhower Monday captured four at-large delegatei and appeared likely to get all eight of Rhode Is land's delegatet to the Repub lican National Convention. The GOP state convention voted 44 to 38 to adopt an all Eitenhower at-large tlate. Washington (UP.) The Houte Monday ordered a con grettional invettigation of "immortl" material pretented on radio and television program!. Gen. James Van Fleet, 8th Army commander, ordered Dodd's release by 10 a.m. last Saturday, threatening to use "all necessary force"' if he was not turned loose unharmed by then. The North Koreans, demand ing the right to organize and be represented by an elected group, did not release him until ff:30 that night, 11 and one-half hours after the deadline. Treated With Respect Dodd said his captors treated him with the "utmost respect and courtesy." He said they gave him flowers and medical treat ment while dickering for the right to organize." He said he was seized Wednesday at the end of a dis cussion or communist com plaints concerning their needs for additional food, clothing and medical supplies. They also made a number of political de mands "not appropriate for such an interview." "At about 3:15 p.m., I had de cided the interview was at an end and turned to depart, where upon I was rushed by some 20 leaders, dragged into the com pound and quickly carried to a building where I was searched and my personal possessions re moved." On the next day, Thursday, Dodd said he spent the day dis cussing the organization the prisoners had proposed. On Fri day, he was presented with a re vised written statement of the organization plans, plus a num ber of instances that concerned injuries to prisoners. The next three hours were de voted to discussions of prisoner grievances, Dodd said. ine meeting was conducted, accord ing to the best parliamentary procedure . . . ' "It appeared to me that In all cases Colonel Lee ruled in my favor." On Saturday morning Colson gave them an answer to their demands. At noon, Lee and the prisoners told Dodd the answer was unsatisfactory. After further negotiations and clarification's, the Communists decided the agreement was sat isfactory. Since the weather was bad, they told DMd they wanted to release him on Sunday. McCarthy Fitness Hearings Under Way Washington (U.R) The Sen ate Elections subcommittee open ed hearings Monday on charges against Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R.-Wij.) after warning that "charges, insinuations and inu- endoes will not stop it. First phase of the hearing on McCarthy's fitness to sit in the Senate concerned his dealings with the Lustron Corp., a now- defunct pre-fabricated housing company which borrowed neav ily from the Reconstruction Fi nance Corp. Sen. Guy M. Gillette (D.-Ia.) put into the record a series of letters he said tcame from Mc Carthy denouncing the subcom mitte and charging, among other things, it was carrying out the work of the Communist party. Democratic Committee To Plan Keauvtfr Visit Plans for the visit to Jackson county Thursday of Sen. Estes Kefauver will be made at a meeting of the Jackson County Democratic Central committee at 8 o'clock tonight, It was an nounced this morning by Mrs. Mary G. Kelly, chairman. Kefauver, leading "willing" Demcratic candidate for presi dent, will be in Ashland, Med ford and Grants Pass during the morning and afternoon. In addition, Mrs. Kelly said, plans for precinct organization will me made at tonight's meet ing. It will be at the Medford YMCA in Room B; Medford United Press full Letted Wire 47th Year 16 Pages Record Turnout Predicted in State Primary Election Extensive List of Candidates Available Portland (U.R) A record turnout was predicted Monday in Oregon's all-star preferential primary, featuring one of the most extensive lists of candidates in the 1952 battle for the presi dential nominations. Of the major GOP contenders, only Sen. Robert A. Taf.t of Ohio was missing from the six-candidate Republican ballot. First for Stevenson And the Democratic slate matched Illinois Gov. Adlai Stev enson against his will with Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennes see. The Friday contest will be the first time Stevenson's name has appeared on a primary ballot.' A record registration of 387, 717 Republicans and 380.075 Democrats prompted Dave O'Hara, state elections regis trar, to predict a 60 per cent vote. In the 1950 primary only 41 per cent of the registered voters cast ballots. The six candidates on the Re publican ballot are Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gov. Earl War ren of California, Harold E. Stas sen, Sen. Wayne Morse of Ore gon, Gen. Douglas MacArthur and William R. Schneider, St. Louis attorney. On the . Demnrratip tH nro kefauver, Stevenson and Su preme Court Justice William O. Douglas. Morse and MacArthur both have disavowed their candidacy and have asked voters not to vote for them. Morse is in the state campaigning for Eisen hower. And Kefauver is the only "willing" candidate on the Dem ocratic ballot. Stevenson has said he is not a candidate and has asked voters to ignore his name on the ballot. Portland (U.R) A revised schedule for Sen. Estes Kefau- ver's campaign tour through Ore gon was announced Monday by William L. Josslin, state director of the Kefauver-for - President Committee. The Tennessee senator is scheduled to arrive in Salem at 11:30 a.m. (PST) Tuesday'. He will visit Monmouth, Corvallis and Albany Tuesday afternoon and wind up the day wtih an 7 p.m. (PST) address at the Uni versity of Oregon. On Wednesday, Kefauver will visit Pendleton, Prineville, Bond, Hood River and Klamath Falls. On Thursday ha will be in Ash land, Medford, Grants Pass, Coos Bay and Roseburg. Portland (U.R) Gov. Earl Warren of California Monday started on. the second and final week of his campaign with ap pearances booked at Roseburg, Eugene and Coos Bay. Eugene (U.R) The first-degree murder trial of Elmer Bel cher, 15-year-old Black Butte, Ore., boy, was scheduled to open here Monday. Expl osion Resp FREE EFFE onsible for Seattle Blast Seattle. Wash. (U.R) Re sponsible observers believed Monday that a blinding blast which rocked this city of 500,000 persons may have been an ex ploding meteor. But talk of "flying saucers" and "guided missiles" could be heard on any street corner. The military was deep In a thorough but - close-mouthed in vestigation. An intelligence offi cer at AlcChord Air Force Base near Tacoma said an official statement may be released later Tuesday. Residents Awakened Thousands of startled residents were awakened at 1:30 a.m. Sun day by the blast which "rumbled like a freight-train." the eerie, blue-white light was seen at an estimated elevation of 2,000 feet and was visible 60 miles away. The explosion occurred direct ly over North Seattle and was witnessed by many persons, in cluding Northwest Airlines pilot MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 12, COUNT. GT OF OIL Local Attorney Gives Support to Haviland Medford Attorney Otto Frohn- mayer last night gave his sup port to District Attorney Paul Haviland in his campaign for the Republican nomination for reelection. Frohnmayer spoke on both Medford radio stations at 7 p.m. His talk discussed the gam bling situation in Jackson coun ty, saying that it would be im possible to stamp out gambling entirely, and that if attempts were made to do so, "the people of this community would still 40 and 8 Members Elect New Officers At Wreck Saturday At tho closing session of the Tri Stale wreck of the 40 and 8 in the - Elks Temple basement here' Saturday night, the voya geurs from three states elected Abe Henderson, San Francisco, chef de gare; Less Lessinger. Reno, chef de train and Val Dage, Reno, correspondent. Reno was selected as the place for the next wreck and the dates will be April 24 to 26, 1953. George Bonner, Cave Junc tion, and Lloyd Baldwin, San Francisco, were elected aids to the chef. The ritualistic work Saturday night was supervised by Dr. F, J. M. Ernest, Portland, sous chef de chemin passe; Harry Bah.1- man. Portland, grand chef de gare; C. J. Layton, Astoria grand chef de train; Bert Haf fenden, Portland, and Fred Pau lus, Salem. Mayor D. L. Flynn, Marvin Kahn, Donald M. Wilson, How ard McClure, Medford, and Les ter Mathes, Central Point, were initiated into the order. Southwest City Area Residents Awakened A series of loud explosions woke a number of residents in the southwest section of Medford early this morning between 1 and' 2 o'clock. Although reports of the noises came from a varie ty of sources, no one reported them to city police. One resident who was awak ened said he believes the bangs were caused by automobile back firing and that It sounded as though the exhaust was specially fixed to produce the noise. The explosions which sound ed to some like shots, were heard in an area which ran from South Oakdale avenue west to the Win chester street area. Vienna, Austria (U.R) Czechoslovak Minister of Inter ior Vaclav Nosck apparently has disappeared and may be the lat est victim of the ruthless purge which is sweeping Soviet satel lite countries, well informed sources said Monday night. of Meteor Believed Bert Carlson. He said he first sighted "an object" as he pre - pared to land at Seattlc-Tacoma International airport. "It was at about 7,000 feet when it suddenly shattered Into eight pieces which looked like chain lightning. Fireballs trailed to the earth," he said. Sidne owHick. a weather ob server at the airport, described it as a "sort of lights-on, lights off thing. It lasted two seconds at most. Everything turned blue." He also said he saw fire balls falling to the south. Bluish Hut Llghtt Sky United Press Staff Correspond ent Peter Hayes was returning to Seattle from Bcllingham, 60 miles to the north, when he taw the flash from the highway. "It lit up the whole sky over the city with a bluish hue," he said. "It- looked like lightning but somehow yo uknew It wasn't lightning." All observers agreed the my- S WALKOUT to a greater or lesser extent en gage in gambling activities be hind barred doors and in remote places where the problems of enforcement and control . . . would become far more serious and difficult." "The people of this county are entitled to have a reasonable en forcement of all laws, and that Mr. Haviland is doing," Frohn mayer said. Said Campaign Istue Frohnmayer said he believes Nunlcy has brought up the gam bling as one by which, "through some stretch of the imagination, he can convince the voters of this county that he should be elected. Those of us who have lived in the county for more than a year or two know that we do have a peaceful and law abiding community. If gambling, vice and crime were really on the rampage, as Mr. Nunley would have you believe, certainly more of us would have been aware of it before Mr. Nunley decided to run for office." In his talk Frohnmayer also touched on the equal enforce ment of the laws, and quoted a recent talk by Nunley in which he questioned the prosecution of men involved in a recent rape and contributing to the delin quency of minors criminal case. Questions Choice Frohnmayer asked: "How does your statement to the press that you . are for a government of laws, not of men, -square with your statement over the radio that you would not have prose cuted the seven so-called 'boys?' . . . Do you consider it more im portant to enforce the gambling laws than to enforce laws where the act committed is an act which is contrary to the laws of God, nature and man?" The record of Haviland, as an attorney, FBI agent, superinten dent of state pqlice in Delaware, and deputy district attorney and DA appointment of the governor, were reviewed by Frohnmayer, and were compared unfavor ably with the record of experi ence on the part of his opponent. "As one who is interested in good law enforcement, I urge the voters of Jackson county in the primary election next Fri day to vote for Paul W. Havi land and to keep him in office as our district attorney, Frohn mayer concluded. Ridgway Hands Reins To Gen. Mark Clark Tokyo (U.R) Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway handed over his Far Eastern commands to Gen. Mark W. Clark Monday and took oft on the first lap of a 12,000-mile flight to Paris to become su preme Allied commander for Europe. - He is exchanging the roles of commander of U. S. forces In the Far East and supreme com mander of United Nations forces in Korea for that of commander of the North Atlantic Pact arm ed forces In succession to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. ' -terious object was 'from southwest to travelling northeast when it blew up. Despite the force of the blast there were no reports of damBge and no fragments of the "thing" have been recovered. Cambridge, Mass. (U.R) S Harvard University's meteor ex pert says the giant fireball that split over Seattle, Wash., Sun day could have wiped out the city and Its ncalry 500,000 inhab itants if it had been a little near er the earth. Can Cauta Damage A big enough meteor can cause more damage than several hydrogen. bombs," said Dr. Fred L. Whipple, an astronomy pro fessor and widely-known author ity on meteors. He said a meteor which fell In the wilds west of Vladivostok Russia In 1947 "blew down trees and leveled everything within a radius of 30 miles." OUNE ted Pteti full Leued WUe L No. 44 FEEL Lack of Gasoline Felt as Far as Finland, Honolulu Non-Communist Nations Affected Denver, Colo. (U.R) Crip pling effects of the nationwide strike of 90,000 oil workers reached from Finland to Hono lulu Monday as the 13-day-old walkout continued to shut off fuel supplies. Ratification of a wage pact be tween Standard Oil of California and 20 locals of the Independent Union of Petroleum Workers was announced Sunday, The agreement, approved by a 96 per cent majority of the 5,000 West Coast oil workers, called for an average 18V4 cent hourly wage increase. Strike Unaffected The pact, however, had no ef fect on the nationwide strike by a coalition of 22 CIO, AFL and independent unions. The strike theatened to cut into the non-Communist nations' fuel supplies because the U. S sends gasoline to more than half the world market. The strike also hit commer cial airlines, which have ground ed a number of domestic and foreign flights, and the military was using its fuel supplies only for essential operations. Motorittt Feel Strike Some motorists and service stations were finding there wasn't enough gas to go around especially In the East and Mid west. The main pinch was in the supply of aviation fuel, how ever. . . United Airlines "announced H had cancelled temporarily 14 flights from San Francisco. On the East Coast, air service from ldlewild International Air port at New York also was hit. No U.S.-to-Europe flights from rome suspensions were expected. Plana Fuel Cuts Asked The U. S. and Great Britain Saturday joined In calling on all free nations to take cuts in use of aviation fuel to help make up the loss of 40 per cent of capacity production in this coun try, government officials said. Finland was one of the first of the non-Communist nations to respond to the reduction ap peal. Steel Seizure Arguments Start Washington (U.R) The steel Industry opened arguments In an historic Supreme Court heating Monday on the constitutionality of President Truman's April 8 seizure of the steel mills. John W. Davis of New York, 79-ycar-old Democratic presiden tial nominee in 1924 and one of the nation's foremost constitu tional lawyers, led off for the steel companies. The chamber was Jam-packed at Drvis started the oral argu ments In the great legal battle. Davis represented seven stc' companies which are challenging the seizure. After the Industry presents its side, Acting Attorney General Philip B. Pnrlman will present the government's case. , Reprisals Promised For Western Germany Berlin (U.R) The East Ger man Communists said Monday that "consequences for West Berlin" will follow the day after West Germany signs its proposed contract with the Allies. The threat was made by East German Deputy Premier Waller Ulbricht as the Russians for the fifth straight day prevented American and British military police from patrolling the high way leading to Western Ger many. "The government of the East German Republic will never allow without a fight the Ade nauer government's signature of the contractual agreement," Ul bricht said, referring to the agreement which Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and the west ern Allies are to sign late this month. Five-Day Week Won by Drivers n Long Walkout Ratification of Agreement Epected San Francisco (U.R); Grey hound buses, missing from high ways during a f.7-day walkout of drivers and terminal em ployees, will roll again by next Monday, officials promised. Many may be back in service by the end of this week, in ac cordance with an agreement for ending the drivers' strike, which extended over seven Western states. Drivers Win Demand Drivers won their main de mand, a five-day work week, in the negotiations, which were re fereed by Federal Conciliator Omar Hoskins. Before the buses can move. the agreement must be ratified by 51 per cent of more than 3.000 striking members of the AFL Amalgamated Association of Motor Coach Employees Union. This was considered automatic, and the only delay now is while mailed ballots are being returned by the drivers. Pattern Expected The new contract was an nounced by Hoskins Sunday. It affects striking workers of Pa cific Greyhound in California, Oregon, Arizona, Utah,- Nevada, New Mexico and parts of Texas. In addition, it is expected to set a pattern for settlement of strikes at the Northwest Grey hound, Overland Greyhound and Oregon Motor Stages which operates in Washington and Utah. The Agreement Includes, be sides the five-day week, an im mediate 4.6 per cent general wage increase and additional raises to compensat for the re duction in hours worked. Fur- . ther cost-of living wage boosts are scheduled for March, 1953, and the same month in 1954. - Anti-Cloud Seeders Sign Law Petitions At Friday Meeting Eagle Point One of a serlea of meetings sponsored by the Moisture Conservation League, Inc., to organize opposition to cloud-seeding, was held here Fri day evening. Petitions to place on the November general elec tion ballot a proposal which would outlaw private weather control attempts were given to circulators, and signatures were accepted. James Miller, Medford, who operates ranches in the Apple gate and Ashland areas, is pres ident of the league. He described the organization as a non-profit group, paying no salaries, with a membership fee of $1. More Than 100 Attend More than 100 farmers of the Rogue valley attended the meet ing, and heard arguments against cloud seeding, which concentrate on the assertion that flights to seed clouds for the prevention of hail have cut down on rainfall. (The Rogue Valley Traffic as sociation has hired two Medford pilots, Harvey Brandau and Eu gene Kooser, to make the anti hail flights. No hail damage has been reported In the past three years during the experiments, compared to reported hail dam age to fruit on virtually every preceding year.) Ed Hanley, Medford attorney for the league, said. "This is no question of putting anyone out of business. We had famous fruit here before cloud seeders were heard of. County Equalization Board Meets Today Jackson county's board of equalization met this morning In the county assessor's office to hear any complaints on property assessments and to check the assessor's rolls, according to County Assessor C. A. Myers. The board will investigate any complaints, he said, and is em powered by state law to "correct any incorrect assessments." Myers said he knew of only one complaint to be heard, although there could be others. The three-man board will meet for the first time today, the assessor pointed out, under the new state law which replac es the older five-ban setup. Members of the new board are County Judge J. B. Coleman, Arnold Bohnert and Ralph Cook. WEATHER rlotiriinets, mild temperatures tonight and Tuesday. A few showers In mountains Tues day afternoon. l,ow tonight 45. High Tuesday S-7lr. Temp. Highest Yesterday 6X Lowest this Mornlnc i
