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i - ....... Mnninnn H.ntnrv fHroncrthane Tnft'c I pari in GAP Prpcirlpiitml Rare If I Ull bUIIU UIVWVI Jf Wbl W 11 W w w hwmm w w wimwii bm w PRESIDENT ENDORSES ANTI-KEFAUVER MEN IN CALIFORNIA RACE Washington (U.R) A Cali fornia Democratic leader said at the White House that President Truman ha endorsed in the California Democratic primary a slate of convention delegates opposed to Sen. Estes Kefauver's candidacy for the presidential nomination. Edmund G. Brown, California attorney general who heads a "favorite son" 68-vote slate of delegates running against a Ke fauver slate in the June 3 Cali fornia primary, made the state ment. ' Permission Given "I hope that your slate of del egates is elected," Brown quoted the President as saying. Brown said Mr. Truman gave him specific permission to make this statement public. Brown said the President's ac tion and his slate of delegates did not constitute a "stop Kefau ver movement." "Actually, the President spoke in high terms of Kefauver and the senator is very high on our Death of Sterling Creek Man Termed 'Apparent Suicide' Frank Wanek, 62, whose mail address was route 2, box 12, Jacksonville, died of an appar ently self-inflicted bullet wound last night after being taken to a local hospital from his cabin in the Sterling creek area, accord ing to sheriff's deputies. They reported that Wanek had lived alone on a mining claim since his partner, Raymond Tu rek, died May 7. They noted he "had been despondent since the death of Turek, who died of a heart attack." Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Tu rek and two friends, William Wisheart and June Wilson, all of Klamath Falls, journeyed to Wanek's cabin with some grocer ies for him and found the cabin door barred from the inside, the deputies related. Upon hearing moaning from within, they call ed a neighbor who broke in and discovered the man bleeding from a .22 caliber wound in the forehead. The sheriff's office was noti fied and the wounded man was taken to the Community hospital by Perl ambulance. Funeral ar rangements are in charge of Conger-Morris funeral home. Wanek was a veteran of World War I. Fir Beetle Control Subject of Meeting Plans to combat douglas fir beetle infestations in western Oregon will be discussed Thurs day, May 22, in Douglas county courthouse. Roseburg, at 10 a.m., it was announced today. All in terested land owners have been invited to attend. W. D. Hagenstein, chief for ester of Industrial Forestry asso ciation, and a five-man subcom mittee appointed by the North west Forest Pest Action commit tee, will lead the discussion. Because of bad winter storms during the past two years which caused excessive vindthrow, and the large amount of timber kill ed by fires in 1951, the beetle population has built up to the point where it has become the primary menace to forest land, Hagenstein states. His group will discuss how to salvage beetle-killed timber and will also outline plans for aerial and ground survey work to de termine extend of damage and coordinate timber salvage, Ha genstein said. New Atom Smasher May Open Way for Scientists To Upton, N. Y. (U.R) A new atom smasher, capable of firing "bullets" almost as fast as the speed of light, opened a new era in science Wednesday that may enable man to create mat ter from energy. The doughnut-shaped mach ine, known as a cosmotron, pro duced atomic particles of 1.300, 000.000 volt of energy Tuesday in an historic test at Brookhavcn National Laboratory. Greatest Voltage Atomic Energy Commission scientists achieved the greatest voltage ever produced by man by shooting the bullets, or hyd rogen protons, through the cos motron at 167.000 miles a sec ond. The speed of light is 186, 000 miles a second. The speed and voltage exceed ed that loosened by detonation of our mightiest atomic bomb. Scientists said the protons, list of people who will be con sidered by our delegation," Brown said. Vote Record Cited Brown noted, however, that the Tennessee Democrat had voted against cloture in the Sen ate, for segregation in the arm ed forces, against the tidelands bill and for the Central Arizona project, all of which, according to Brown, was "not popular in California." Brown said that he could an alyze the assets and liabilities of other candidates, but had spoken of Kefauver specifically "because he is in there and thus becomes the focal point of attack." School Election Petitions Filed By Otto Ewaldson Otto F.waldsen, 20 Ross Court, has filed for election to the Dis trict 49 school board, serving the Medford public schools, the of fice of E. H. Hendrick, superin tendent of schools, reported today. Ewaldsen is the first to file pe titions for the position on the board left vacant by the comple tion of E. Ronald Rice's term in office. Rice, 302 Vancouver ave nue, indicated today he will not be a candidate for reelection. Former Army Man Ewaldsen has been a Medford resident for the past seven years and was previously stationed at Camp White during World War II as a major in the corps of en gineers. He is a partner in Swem'j Gift shop, 217 East Main street. The candidate is active in many civic affairs, including po sitions on the board of directors of Medford Plan and chairman of the Medford Retail Merchants association. He also takes part in activities of the Zion Luther an church, of which he is a member. . Ewaldsen is married and the father of three children. ' Deadline for filing of petitions is June 9. The election will be held Monday, June 16. Prisoner Death Used By Red Propagandists Pannmnjom, Korea (U.R) The Rpd truce delegation seized upon the Pusan prisoner of war riot to attack Wednesday what it called the United Nations "great hoax" of voluntary repatriation. North Korean Lt. Gen. Nam II, senior Communist delegate, lodged a "serious protest" against the killing of a Red pris oner during the uprising in the Allied prison camp at Pusan Tuesday. Eighty-five other pris oners and one Allied guard were injured Nam said the United Nations was guilty of bloody murder among the "barehanded" prison ers. He demanded that the affair be dealt with "unequivocably and responsibly." Price Controls Cased On Copper Products Washington (U.R) The government Wednesday relaxed price controls on- copper pro ducts to overcome a shortage of copper imports. The step was taken to let manufacturers of copper pro ducts buy imports at higher world prices. Portland (U.R) Fire destroy ed a small lumber and planing mill in north Portland early Wednesday with damage esti mated at $35,000. Create Matter each about 1-200.000. 000th of an inch, weighed four times as much at the height of their speed as they did when they began hurt ling through the 204-foot race track of the cosmotron. Since protons travel in straight lines until they are di verted, it was necessary to build a circular tube in the cosmotron. Waves Sent Into Tube The scientists said the protons were kicked around the "track" by a radio station that sent waves into the tube. A Brookhaven spokesman said the protons, which had been split off from the hydrogen el ectrons, moved so fast that they would have encircled the earth at the equator five times in 710ths of a second. None of the record-breaking amount of energy produced was released, because the scientists Weather rutttXAST: Fair tonlRht. In creasing cloudiness Thursday with possible showers in aft ernoon or evening. Low to night 40. High Thursday 70-12. Temp. Highest Yesterday 66 Lowest this Morning 41 Ued Captives Stage Demonstrations ai Gen. Ridgway Gives Solons Pessimistic View of Peace Talk Commander Testifies On Prisoner Turmoil Washington (U.R) Gen. Mat thew B. Ridgway gave senators a report on the Korean truce talks which one of his hearers described Wednesday as "cer tainly not optimistic." The former supreme com mander in the Far East testified at a closed hearing of the Senate Armer Services committee. He is on his way to Paris where he will succeed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower May 30 as supreme commander of Western Euro pean defense forces. Thursday Ridgeway will ad dress a joint meeting of Con gress. Reports on Violence Ridgway was called before the committee to report on Communist violence at the Koje Island war prisoner camp. But Senate Republican Leader Styles Bridges, N. H.. senior GOP member of the committee, said he also was questioned about the Korean war situation and the truce talks. Bridges said the general was not hopeful that the truce talks would lead to peace. Asked if that meant full scale fighting might break out, the senator re plied: ,'"I don't know, but he certain ly was not optimistic as to the results." Firm Control Asked As Ridgway began his testi mony, promising to tell the sen ators "all I know" about the dis orders on Koje Island, Commit tee Chairman Richard B. Rus sell, D-Ga., issued .a statement calling for firm control of Com munist war prisoners. Russell called the kidnaping of an American general by the Reds and his subsequent "ran soming" a national "humilia tion." High Court Reverses Murder Conviction Salem (U.R) The Oregon Su preme Court Wednesday re versed the first degree murder conviction of Mrs. Margrethe Hansen, Corvallis, under life sentence for the death of her husband, and sent the case back to Benton county for new trial. It was a four to three ruling. The dissenting judges held that the case should be dismissed out right for lack of substantial evi dence. Mrs. Hansen was convicted of murdering her husband, Sigrud Hansen, Sept. 10, 1950, and was sentenced to life imprisonment in Oregon state penitentiary on recommendation of the jury. Radio Highlights Radio station KYJC (1230 ke.) will broadcast the Med-ford-The Dalles baseball game, in the state tourney at Albany, t 2:30 p.m. (standard time) on Thursday, From Energy want to learn how much each proton can absorb before fall ing apart. A proton never has been split. If the cosmotron enables man to convert energy into matter, it will function in an exactly opposit manner as the atom bomb, which turns matter into energy. Experiment Witnessed About 500 persons, among them laboratory scientists and their wives, witnessed the exper iment. They were so jubilant over the results ihat they broke out bottles of champagne to cel ebrate. They had another reason for uncorking champagne bottles. two other atomic laboratories at the University of California and at Birmingham, England had been attempting to attain the energy production reached Here Tuesday, Medford United Praii-mU Leaiad Wlr 47th Year ' 20 Pages iewlk I 'AJL ft .A; . f 'Ess RUNNING AGAIN Only five passengers were aboard the first Greyhound bus when it arrived at San Francisco's Ferry Building terminal from Marin County. Greyhound expects to have normal service throughout the seven Western states involved in the strike within two or three days. City School Budget Approved by Voters; County Budget Leads Medford school district voters! yesterday appUiyed a b.Hdfiet, in excess of the six per cent limita tion for the coming fiscal year by a margin of 477 to 55, city school officials reported today. Xhe total amount of the budget for 1952-1953 is $1,265,196.09. It is $321,237.45 in excess of the six per cent limitation. Of the total budget, $557,607.58 will be derived from state, county and Local Man Missing In Navy Air Crash Ens. Leslie G. Monroe, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. Levi G. Monroe, 913 Alta street, has been listed as missing following a plane crash Monday north of San Di ego, Calif., according to word received by his parents. In announcing his identifica tion, Pacific Fleet Air Headquar ters said Ensign Monroe was missing and presumed dead. The crash occurred while he was en gaged on a routine training flight from Miramar air station in an F4U Corsair navy fighter plane. The crew of a fishing boat wit nessed the crash, the navy said, but found only an oil slick on the surface of the water at the scene of the accident. Ensign Monroe attended Cen tral Point high school. He enlist ed in the regular navy four years ago and in 1950 was ap pointed to the navy flight train ing program and was assigned to Pensacola, Fla., "naval air sta tion for training. Newbry To Be Speaker At Phoenix Festival Phoenix Earl T. Newbry sec retary of state, has accepted the invitation of Phoenix Mayor E. R. Claflin to attend the fourth annual Phoenix May festival May 2nd and will make the op ening address for the one day festivities. Mayor Claflin states that Med ford, Ashland, Jacksonville, Gold Hill. Central Point, Rogue River and Klamath Falls will be represented by their respective mayors. BASEBALL NATIONAL St. Louis 3 5 1 New York 0 4 0 Chambers and D. Rice: Jan sen, Lanier 6, Wilhelm 9, end Yvars. Home runs, for Si. Louis: D. Rice. AMERICAN New York S 12 1 Chicago ISO Reynolds end Berrai Pierce. Judson 8 and Lollar, MEDFORD, Ofc. .ON, WEDNESDAY, MAY other recipts and $707,588.51 will be raised by taxes, Unofficial and incomplete re turns from 13 of the 23 rural school districts on the special election held Monday for a bud get $819,377.12 over the six per cent limitation showed 366 fa voring the increase and 60 op posing it, according to Alf Mck void, county school superintend ent. The returns 'so far include all districts operating high schools and six of the elementary dis tricts and show a "favorable ma jority in all reporting districts, according to Superintendent Mekvoid. The budget totalled $1,081,642.21. The superintendent said that the rural school board will make the official count of ballots Thursday and a complete offi cial tabulation will be available by Friday, Greyhound Resumes Normal Schedules Portland (U.R) Pacific and Northwest Greyhound lines re sumed normal service Wednes day in the Pacific Northwest, Late Tuesday, the AFL bus employes union completed bal loting on a proposed settlement of their strike against Northwest Greyhound and the company said members had accepted new agreement. William Phipps, Portland su perintendent for Northwest, said service would be resumed from the local depot at 8:15 a.m. Pacific Greyhound has re sumed normal bus service to all points on its west coast lines, according to the Medford office this morning. Northwest Grey hound in Washington has also re sumed service, the office added, but Oregon Motor stages (from Portland to Astoria and Eugene to Newport) and the Overland lines (Portland to Ogdcn) are still without normal service. Pearson Pledges Vote for Kefauver Salem (U.R) State Treas urer Waller J. Pearson Wednes day pledged himself to vote for Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennes see for Democratic nominee for president at the Democratic na tional convention in Chicago. Pearson, who spent not a pen ny for campaigning, was chonert as one of Oregon's 12 delegates to the Democratic convention. PLEADS INNOCENT Cecil N. Cannon, 2827 Buck shot road, pleaded not guilty to a charge of petty larceny from the Big Y market at a district court arraignment Monday, ac cording to the district attorney's office. A Jury trial date was set by District Judge Kawlei Moore fur May 27. iTRIBUNE i Death of Enemy Prisoner Related In Latest Uprising Commander Meets Red Representative By RICHARD APPLEGATE Koje Island, Korea (U.R) Communist prisoners defiantly staged a new demonstration against the United Nations at no torious Compound 78 Wednes day. Authorities disclosed belatedly that a guard killed a Red cap tive last Saturday. These developments followed by less than 24 hours the death of another prisoner and the in juring of 85 more in rioting at a mainland prison camp near Pusan Tuesday; Steel-helmeted U.S. troops removed Communist agitators from the Pusan camp Wednesday and enforced an armed peace there. Threatening Gesture The slaying of a Chinese war prisoner at a Koje island com pound was disclosed by Brig Gen. Haydon L. Boatner, new commandant of the Koje camp Boatner said the prisoner was killed when he made what ap peared to be a threatening ges ture toward a UN guard at the gate of Compound 602, which holds approximately 5,000 pris oners. Boatner met with prisoner representative of the compound, Maj. Wei Lin, and discussed the incident He also permitted 12 Chinese prisoners to put flowers on the dead man's grave. 60 Prisoners Active The compound was In the next valley to Compound 76, where a new anti-UN demonstration erupted Wednesday. . About 60 prisoners took part In the dem onstration at Compound 76 gate only a few feet from the spot where Red captives kidnaped Brig. Gen. Francis T. Dodd, then camp cemmandant, May 7, and held him hostage for four days. Two representatives from each compound on Koje had gathered at the gate under Allied guard with Boatner's permission to talk with prisoners Inside. Prisoners Set Up Clamor Boatner wanted the prisoner delegates to see for themselves that their leaders, who went into Compound 76 during negotia tions for Dodd's release, were unharmed. When the prisoners Inside saw newsmen arrive in a weap ons carrier, they set up a clamor to be allawed to talk to them. One in Army fatigue trousers, a spotless white polo shirt and a red-starred military hat shouted in English: "Let us talk to these war cor respondents!" Authorities refused. Package Intercepted The polo-shlrted soldier then tried to shove a folded pack of notes through the barbed wire to newsmen. An American ser geant carrying a rifle snatched it from his hands. A few moments later a nar row manlla envelope was pass ed from one of the prisoners to a prisoner-delegate outside. The delegate tried to stuff the en velope Inside his shirt, but it was confiscated by an alert guard. Richard Applegate, author of the above article on the Koje prison camp demonstrations, is a former Medford newspaper man, where he was on the staff of The Mail Tribune. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Applegate, 615 South Oakdale avenue. Salem (U.R) Gov, Douglas McKay Wednesday appointed Edward E. Grant, Enterprise, as Justice of the peace for the enterprise district, Wallowa cpunty. BULLETIN Washington flJ R) The Sen ale Banking eommitlee Wed nesday approved e bill to ex tend wage-price controls only eight months Is next March I but Is continue the rest of the Defense Production Act for another year beyond the June 30 expiration date. (Jolted Preu Full Leased WUe 21, 1952 No. 52 New CCoje JAMES McGRANERY New Attorney General Senate Confirms James McGranery Attorney General Washington (U.R) James P.P. McGranery, confirmed as attorney general by a 52 to 18 Senate vote, waited for a strat egy talk with President Truman before announcing his plans to combat corruption in the gov ernment. The 56-year-old Philadelphia federal judge, who was nomin ated seven weeks ago to succeed J. Howard McGrath as head of the justice department, told re porters he would have "abso lutely nothing to say" about re viving the long-stalled cleanup drive until he checks signals with Mr. Truman. Not to Rehire Morris McGrath was fired by Mr. Truman for ousting Newbold Morris as the government's head corruption hunter. McGranery said previously that he had no Intention of rehiring Morris but will lean primarily on FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover to ferret out "wrongdoers" on the federal payrool. McGranery Is expected to take his oath of office later this week, perhaps at a White House ceremony. He gave up a life time job on the bench to accept the cabinet post, although Presi dent Truman's administration now has less than seven months to go. John Garfield, Film Actor, Dies in N. Y. New York (U.R) Screen act or John Garfield was found dead in a Manhattan apartment Wednesday. The 39-yenr-old actor died of a "cardiac condition," according to Dr. Charles W. Nammock, who pronounced Garfield dead. Garfield, a native New Yorker who was graduated from a school for problem children, was In New York preparing for sum mer stock roles. An outstanding performer on the Broadway stage in addition to his movie roles, he was fre quently cast In the role of a "tough guy." Garfield was born Jules Gar finkel on March 4, 1913, the son of a tailor in New York's lower East Side. rc Yi W I ' Boys Forced To Surrender Treasure Found in Old Pond Portland (U.R) Three Port land boys Wednesday had to give up a treasure of more than $2,000 In cash they found float ing in a stagnant pool yesterday afternoon. Lynn Edwin Hill, 7: Myron Ward Whltcomb, 9, and Melvin Weaver, 11, fished an odd-looking packet containing $2180 in currency from a pond. They split their find three ways but one of the boys' mother spotted some of the cash. It wan turned over to the sheriff's office. Believed Part of Hoard Authorities believed the mon ey was part of a hoard saved up for a trip to Russia by an aged hermit, 71-year-old James Ste vens, who died in his shack near the pond last February. The money, in $5, $10 and $20 Ike Supporters Eye Washington To Boost Tally Uninstructed Slate Elected Washington (U.R) A Mon-' tana victory lengthened the lead of Sen. Robert A. Taft in the contest for Republican National convention delegates. But supporters of Gen. Dwight ' D. Eisenhower were counting on the Washington state Republi can convention later this week to bring up their delegate score. Slate Uninstructed Montana's state GOP conven tion Tuesday night elected an uninstructed eight-man dele gation to the party's July 7 pres idential nominating convention in Chicago. Seven of the dele gates were avowed Taft sup porters, while one said he favors Eisenhower. That brought the United Press tabulation of delegates commit ted or publicly announced to 386 for Taft and 360 for Eisenhow er. Delegation Hat 12 Voiei Montana Democrats chose a 20-man delegation having 12 votes. It will follow the admini stration's lead at the national convention. There was insuffi cient support for any individual Democratic candidate to indi cate the delegation's possible sentiments. Washington Republicans elect 24 delegates Friday and Satur day. A few months ago, Taft was favored to win a substantial ma jority of the state's delegates. Since Eisenhower's victory in the primary In neighboring Ore gon last week, however, the Eis enhower forces have become op timistic about their chances of winning most of the Washington delegates. At the same time, the Taft camp has become pessimis tic. Hearing Date Set On Annexations . The Medford city council last night set Tuesday, July 1, as the date for a public hearing on the annexation of Verde Hills sub divisions Nos. 2 and 3 southeast of the present city limits. The two tracts involve 67 lots and ajoint Verde Hills Subdivision No. 1, .which was annexed to the city last fall. All three tracts are owned by John S. Day, Groveland avenue. If no opposition to the annex ation of the tracts develops at the public hearing, they will be brought Into the city without an election through 100 per cent ownership petitions. Councilmen stated that peti tions are also being circulated in an aria adjoining the Day tracts asking for annexation to the city. They stated that some op position is developing in that area and an election will be ne cessary after petitions are filed. The council also approved a change in setback from 30 to 20 feet for a lot owned by Hugh Erickson at Highland drive and Barneburg road. (See Story on Page 5) Eisenhower To Head Home On May 31 Paris (U.R) Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower will turn over his command to Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway May 30 and take off for Washington May 31. The Allied supreme command er, who retires June 1 to become an active candidate for the Re publican presidential nomina tion, will relinquish his post to Ridgway at a special ceremony at headquarters. Ridgway, now in Washington on his way from Tokyo, is to ar rive here Tuesday. bills, will be turned over to the Stevens estate. The currency recovered by the three boys was wrapped In tis sue paper, Inside a cardboard carton in a glass jar wrapped in a watertight jacket made of an old inner tube. The money was in good condition but slightly damp. Sheriff's deputies had no Idea how long the money may have been floating in the pond. Favorite Fishing Hole The pool was in an old brick kiln excavation and neighbors said it was a favorite catfishing hole of the old hermit. He had been receiving welfare assist ance up until the time of his death but told neighbors he had saved enough money to make trip to his native Russia wrnre his sole surviving relatives live. About $327 was found around hit shack after he died. I
