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Newspaper Page TextM EDFORD United Press Full Leased Wire 47th Year TRUMAN Enemy Post Own Sentries Seek To Prevent Escape of Fellow Captives Van Fleet Believes Violence At End BY RICHARD APPLEGATE Koje Island, Korea (U.P.) Communist prisoners of war posted guards inside the barbed wire of notorious Compound 76 Thursday nht to prevent fel low captives from escaping. There were unconfirmed re ports that the Communist sen tries grabbed one prisoner who tried to escape. Violence Seen Ended Their action Was noted for the first time by Allied newsmen shortly after Gen. James A. Van Fleet, 8th Army commander, vis ited the prison compounds here and declared that he believed violence had ended. Allied sources here indicated the sentries were posted by the prisoners themselves to prevent fanatics from attempting escapes that could lead to new bloodshed and probably would be unsuc cessful even if the captives got outside the compounds. Full Control Predicted Van Fleet predicted American guards would have full control in "a short time." He flew here from Pusan where it was disclosed that nine American soldiers were injured in Tuesday's rioting in a hospital compound there. An earlier an nouncement placed the. casual ties at one prisoner killed, 85 in jured and one American hurt. North Koreans wearing uni forms and armbands stood with out weapons at posts 50 feet apart in Compound 76 where more than 6,000 Communists held Brig. Gen. Francis T. Dodd hostage for 78 hours. Ashland Blood Quota Missed Ashland A total of 254 pints of blood was collected here yesterday during the reg ular monthly visit of the blood mobile to Jackson county, ac cording to officials of the drive The group in charge of the Ash land drive had set a goal of 350 pints for the visit. Those in charge of the Ash land drive included Sid Reed, secretary of the Ashland Elks lodge, in charge of recruitment, and Mrs. H. S. Ingle, Ashland chairman. Lotus Eaton and Eve lyn Reavis, Medford nurses, al so aided in the collection. An unusual feature of the Wednesday collection was the fact that three generations of one family aided In the pro gram. They were Mrs. C. E. Pratt, her daughter, Mrs. Oscar Silver, and her granddaughter, Mrs. Michael McLaughlin. The next Jackson county vis it of the bloodmobile will be June 18 in Medofrd. Rogue Valley Marine Wounded in Korea Marine Pfc. Linsley D. Dotson son of Mrs. Maybelle M. Rains route 1, box 174, Central Point, has been wounded during fight ing in the Korean area, accord Ing to word received by his mother. A letter from her son stated that he was wounded in the head, back, hand and arm, Mrs Rains said. He Is receiving treat ment aboard the USS Constitu tion. Navy hospital ship. Private Dotson was graduated from Central Point high school In 1930 and attended West Side school. He was employed by the Mt. Pitt Lumber company for few months and enlisted in the Marines in December 1950. He has been in Korea since July 1951. Weather FORECAST: Fair tnnl(M and Frtdav. Low tonight 42. High Friday sn-SJ. Temp. Hlthrst ttrda . -. . ' Lowest this Morning 41 22 Pages EXPECTS TO RETAIN SEIZURE POWERS Prisoners Guards BASEBALL NATIONAL Chicago 3.9 0 Boston 0 4 1 Rush and Atwelli Bickford, Jones 9, and St. Claire. Cincinnati 7 11 1 Brooklyn 8 10 1 Hiller, Smith 8, and Semi nick) Labine, Rutherford 6. Erskine 7. Black 8, and Cam panella. St. Louis 0 4 3 New York 8 11 0 Staley, Werle 6, Boktlman 8. and D. Rice; Kennedy and Wettrum. Home runs: Williams, none on. Pittsburgh 0 3 1 Philadelphia 6 10 1 Munger, Wilks 4, and McCul lough: Simmons and Lopata. Home runss Simmoni, 2 on. Ernest Langley, Prominent Valley Pioneer, Passes Ernest A. Langley, 84, who played a prominent part in the early history of Jacksonville and Medford, died at his home, 310 Oregon street,-Jacksonville, yes terday. Mr. Langley was born near Hutchinson, Minn., on October 11, 1867. and at the age of 14 came to Jackson county with his parents, David and Lucy Van Ness Langley, where he lived the remainder of his life. On March 15, 1900, he was married in Jack sonville to Maryann Bienvenu, who survives. In Medford and Rogue Valley history, he was one of the two remaining members of the first volunteer fire department in Medford, and a member of Med ford's first band. He was a fire man on the Southern Pacific railway when the first trainload of soldiers went through Med ford in World War I. For several years he operated the train that ran between Medfdrd and Jack sonville and on leaving the rail road he was a deputy assessor in Jackson county for 32 years. Next Tuesday he would have been honored at a banquet given by the Medford fire department. In point of membership, he was one ot tne oiaesi mem bers of Warren lodge No. 10, AF&AM, and one of the oldest Past Masters of that lodge. He was also a Past High Priest of Oregon chapter No. 4, R.A.M Past Patron of Adarel chapter No. 3, Order of Eastern Star, and a member of Crater Lake council No. 15, A. & S. M. Funeral services will be con ducted at 2:30 p.m. Friday in Chapel Mortuary, with Elder O. E. Schnepper of the Seventh Day Adventist church in charge. Interment will be in Jacksonville cemetery, with Warren Lodge No. 10, AF&AM, in charge. Pall bearers will be Masonic broth ers, Ray Coleman, Ernest Mcln- tyre, Tom Dunnington, Andrus Smith, R. C. Cummings and El mer Adams. Besides his wife, he is survived by a cousin, Alvin Langley, Spokane, Wash., and several nephews and nieces in Cali fornia. Woman Under Life Sentence Gets Parole Walla Walla (U.R) "Claire Richardson, who with her hus band was sentenced to life im prisonment in 1939 for the bath tub murder of 19-year-old Clara Compton, has been released on parole. The State Board of Prison Terms and Paroles considered Mrs. Richardson's case under a new state law permitting life termers to be released if they have good conduct records. She divorced her husband in 1949, and he still is in prison. The beaten and burned body of the Compton woman was found in a Seattle hotel room 13 years ago. Seattle flJ.R) Members of Local 81. Meatcutters' union (AFL), will strike May 29 if a wage agreement is not reached by then, Alfred Jussett- union business representative! said Thursday. - MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1952 Chief Executive ' Doesn't Expect Adverse Decision Promises To Abide By Court Verdict Washington (U.R) President Truman told a news conference Thursday he does not think the courts or the Congress can take away his power to seize funda mental industries in a national emergency. Under questioning by report ers, he said he does not believe this inherent, constitutional right of his is at stake in the steel case currently before the Supreme Court. Will Accept Decision He promised to abide by the Supreme Court decision on steel and said his news conference comments in no way constituted pre-judgment of the court deci sion. He said that if the court de cides that he did not have the power to seize steel, he would turn the mills back to steel man agement and see what happens. Mr. Truman, however, said re peatedly and pointedly that neither the courts nor Congress could take away from the presi dent his inherent right under the constitution to seize proper ties if such a step is necessary to protect the welfare of the nation. Means Courts, Too Three times reporters put this matter up to the president in vir tually the same language. Each time Mr. Truman said nobody could take from a president the inherent rights granted him under the Constitution. "That means the courts?" he was asked. Nobody, the president replied firmjy. Favors New Law Mr. Truman said he favored congressional enactment of a new law giving the President specific authority to deal with strikes in fundamental indus tries. He said he thought the law should contain a provision for seizure. Russell Counts on North Carolina Votes Washington (U.R) Sen. Richard B. Russell of Georgia counted on North Carolina to provide him with a big bloc of Democratic convention delegates Thursday but Florida campaign problems kept him worried. North Carolina Democrats were scheduled to name 40 na tional convention delegates with 32 votes the second largest Southern delegation at Thurs day's state convent'on. Before leaving to resume his Florida campaign, Russell told reporters that he expects to get the support of a substantial ma jority of the North Carolina del egation, although it may be of ficially "uninstructed." Willamette Expected To Reach 21 Feet Monday Portland (U.R) The Willam ette river Thursday moved up to 19.3 feet, or 1.3 feet above flood stage, and forecasters said it would reach 21 feet by Monday. The rise was caused by back water from the Columbia river. The spring freshet crest in the Columbia is due to level off in about three days, with the main runoff crest scheduled -for early in June. Firemen of State To Gather in Medford For Annual Convention Early Next. Week Medford residents will have fire protection matching any city on the Pacific coast during the first three days of next week when some 400 firemen, fire chiefs and fire equipment deal ers gather here for the annual convention of the Oregon Fire Chiefs association and the Ore gon Rural Fire Protection Dis tricts association. Governor to Speak A number of Pacific Coast dignitaries have been scheduled to speak before the convention delegates. They include Oregon's Gov. Douglas McKay, State Fire Marshal R. B. Taylor, Salem, Jack A. Hayes, state director of civil defense; Loren Bush, chief engineer of the Board of Fire Underwriters of the Pacif ic, San Francisco, and Chief Jay W. Stevens, chairman of the In ternational Fire Prevention Committee. San Francisco. Headquarters for the three- DEFYING AMERICAN GUARDS, are defiantly drilling with spike positions outside the compound West German Pact Would Decrease Unification, Chance Berlin (U.R) East Ger man premier Otto Grotewohl said Wednesday night that West Germany's separate peace trea ty with the Western allies would wreck chances for unification and bring the country to the brink of civil war. Grotewohl's warning came as Allied big three and West Ger man delegates announced at Bonn that the peace treaty technically known as a peace contract was now ready for signature by the four foreign ministers next Monday. ' s: The East German premier told' tne uommumst National t torn council that the treaty would "bring Germany into the imme diate neighborhood of civil war and a new third world war." He said signing of the pact would be "the final blow" to Communist attempts to bring about understanding and unity between the East and West Ger man governments. A communique issued after the council meeting called on East Germany to rearm to meet the threat posed by the new treaty. Wilson Brothers Will Hang June 23 Vancouver, Wash. (U.R) Utah and T u r m a n Wilson Thursday were ordered hanged June 23 for the 1950 kidnap murder of JoAnn Dewey, Mea dowglade, Wash. Superior Judge Eugene G. Cushing announced the new hanging date as the two broth ers appeared handcuffed togeth er in court before him. The Wilsons, twice saved from the gallows, were returned to the Clark county jail here Wed nesday night from Walla Walla. Two previous execution dates were passed because federal courts issued stays to permit ad ditional time for appeals, but each time the pleas were turned down. Paris (U.R) Tourist-season sign in a Paris cafe Thursday: "More or less we speak English." day conclave will be the Jack son hotel, but delegates and their families already have all of the city's leading hotels and motels "booked solid" for all three days, according to Fire Chief Gordon Barker of the host Medford department. Meet ings are scheduled in the Jack son hotel, the Holly theater and the Medford Elks club. Many Invited Barker stated that more than 500 invitations to the conven tion have been sent throughout the state to city and rural fire departments and to fire fight ing equipment dealers. Indica tions at this time are that a ma jority of those invited plan to attend, he stated. Approximately 30 dealers are expected to show equipment ranging from fire extinguishers and other small items which will be displayed in the Jack son hotel, to fir trucks which Trifjne these Communist captives in riot-torn Koje Island prison camp - tipped tent poles as 3,000 fully armed troops and 18 tanks take as a "precautionary measure." (International Soundphoto) American, Australian Bombers Blast Huge Enemy Supply Base Seoul, Korea (U.R) Amer-1 ican and Australian fighter- bombers blasted a huge manu facturing and supply center near the North Korean capital of Pyongyang into flaming ruin Thursday in one of the largest single air attacks of the Korean war. Pinpoint bombing from dawn to dusk reduced at least 117 buildings between Pyongyang and Chinnampo, its West Coast port to smoking rubble. At least 84 others were damaged as 2-Day Conference Opened by Utility Accountants Here A total of 76 persons were reg istered here this morning for the annual conference of the ac counting and business practice section of the Northwest Electric Light and Power association. Headquarters for the two-day conference is the Medford hotel. Delegates are registered from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Utah and British Col umbia. Those attending morning ses sions heard A. S. Cummins, Medford- president of the California Oregon Power company, outline a 1952-1956 program of expan sion started this year by 11 ma jor member firms. The firms plan to spend about $647,500,000 during the period. Cummins said ,and $297,000,000 of that total is earmarked for an in crease in population in (his area and a rate of domestic use 2V4 times the national average. Sen. Kerr Schedules Address in Portland Portland (U.R) Sen. Rob ert S. Kerr, D-Okla., will be in Portland next Wednesday to ad dress a public luncheon at the Columbia Athletic club. The appearance of the Demo cratic presidential aspirant will be sponsored by the Democratic party of Oregon. will be shown on a downtown lot. One of the convention high lights for local residents will be a series of competitive drills be tween the various departments. These have been scheduled for 1:30 p. m., Tusday, May 27, at the intersection of South Grape and Holly streets. "Old Timers" To Meet Also on the agonda is a meet ing of the Medford fire depart ment "old timers" Tuesday at noon at the new west side fire station at Eighth and Lincoln streets. Those expected to at tend include Eugene Amann, first paid chief of the Medford fire department. The convention will be the first held in Medford by the Oregon Fire Chiefs association since 1936. It will also be the first Joint convention with the Oregon Rural Fire Protection Districts association. United Press Full Leased Wirt No. 53 the planes unloaded "hundreds of tons" of bombs, the 5th Air Force reported. No Figure! Given The Air Force gave no fig ures, but extent of the attack and the damage inflicted indica ted the raid at least approach ed size of the May 8 assault on Suan, biggest fighter-bomber at tack of the war. In that raid 165 buildings were destroyed. Using tactics indentical with those of the Suan raid, th fighter-bombers struck at dawn after air intelligence officers re ported a weeks-long buildup of supplies had reached a peak. Planes in Relays Relays of jets and propellor drlven planes, screened by Am erican Sabre-, jets, slammed bombs, rockets, napalm and ma chine gun bullets into the area until nightfall. Marine and Navy fighters and Jets of the Australian 77th squadron joined American planes for the attack on the sup ply complex. Other fighter-bombers rang ed across the ground front and knocked out 45 troop shelters, three artillery pieces and six mortars. Screening F-86 Sabre Jets found no Communist Mig 15s. Quick Action Planned To End Rail Seizure Washington (U.R) A While House spokesman said Thursday President Truman will move swiftly to end government seiz ure of the railroads on the basis of an agreement signed by the carriers and three rail union. The agreement signed at the White House shortly before mid night brought to a close one of the longest and bitterest labor- management disputes in U. S. history. The dispute over wages and working rules began three years ago. Mr. Truman seized the rail roads 21 months ago to head off a nationwide rail slrike. Jet Planes Blamed For 'Blast' Reports Portland (U.R) Authori ties said Thursday that Jet plan es were responsible for a series of explosions ' reported by resi dents in Portland and Vancouv er, Wash. Newspaper and police tele phone switchboards were Jam med with calls from excited res idents who reported hearing loud blasts. Don Shepard, man ager of a sales book company, said a crack 50 feet long was op ened in the ceiling of his firm's concrete, tile and plaster build ing. One woman said her door blew open and other residents said their houses shook. Grants Pass Votes To Remain on PST Grants Pass, Ore. (U.R) Grants Pass has decided to re main on standard time. The decision was reached Wednesday night when the city council mulled the daylight standard time matter and ended up in a tie vote. The tie means that unless the council later changes its ml' I, ''rants Pass will not move Its clocks this year. Ridgway Reds May Plan Germ, Gas War Washington (U.R) Gen. I Matthew B. Ridgway said Thurs-! day that false Communist charg es against the United Nations dd up to "a monumental warn ing" that the Reds themselves may be plotting germ and gas warfare. But the former supreme U. N. commander in the Far East told the House and Senate in joint meeting that the 8th Army in Korea is ready for whatever hap pens. Ridgway said the U.-N. Army stands "proud, defiant and con fident of its capability for ac complishing any mission it might be assigned." His remarks echoed somewhat those made last week by De fense Secretary Robert A. Lov- ctt. Lovett told newsmen that germ warfare charges hurled by the Reds against the U. N., may be, as Communist propaganda has been in the past, a tipoff to the enemy's own intentions. Reasonable Formula Ridgway declared that the U. N. has given the Communists a formula for "a logical, reason able, and honorable settlement" in Korea. But their response has been vicious falsehoods." Con cerning the Reds' germ warfare charges Ridgway said: these allegations are false in their entirety. No element of the United Nations Command has employed either germ or gas warfare in any form at any time. Then he added: "In the whole black record of false propagan da, these charges should stand out as a monumental warning to the American people and the free world a warning as me nacing and as urgent as a forest fire bearing down upon a wood en village. Hammering this idea home, Ridgway continued: Deadly Danger "The extent to which Com munist leaders have gone in fa bricating, disseminating and persistently pusuing these false charges should impress upon the brains of those, who yet fail to refuse to see the purpose of Com munism, the deadly danger with which it confronts us and the free world." Ridgway blamed the slalemat ed Korean truce talks on the "blind hatred, vituperative ve nom, the vicious falsehoods'' of the Red negotiators. He asserted the U. N. truce proposals provide the basis for Rapid Passage oi Control Bill Eyed Washington (U.R) Senate Democratic Leader Ernest W. McFarland promised Thursday to press for quick passage of a watered-down controls bill de spite the threat of another labor walkout from the stabilization program. The wage - price - rent control extension bill was approved Wednesday by the Senate Bank ing Committee. It would extend wage' and price controls until March 1, and rent controls until June 30, 1953. President Tru man wanted a two-year exten sion. Stirring labor's anger was a provision which would overhaul the Wage Stabilization Board and set up a new board compos ed of just six public members without power to recommend settlements of wage disputes. Stockpiled Copper Ordered Released Washington (U.R) Presi dent Truman Thursday author ized release of 22,000 tons of copper from the strategis stock pile to keep essential produc tion rolling until imports start coming in at newly approved higher prices. The office of defense mobil ization said stockpile copper would be used to make up a shortage caused by stoppage of shipments from Chile on May 8. O Strike Settlement Reported Continuing Denver (U.R) Settlement of the 23-day old strike of the nation's union oil workers was rnnlinuing at a slow pace Thurs day on an Individual plant-by plant basis. A spokesman for the CIO oil workers union at Denver said it would be a "generous esti mate" to say that one-third of tne original 90,000 strikers -were buck at work. HiVsboro Woman Rebekah President Salem (U.R) Mrs. Ralph Ramey, Hillsboro, ti the new president of the Rebekah As sembly of Oregon Odd Fellows. She was elected at the Odd Fellows state convention here, which closes Thursday, Warns a settlement "on equitabla terms." "Acceptance or rejection, ces sation or continuance of hostil ities in Korea, is now the re sponsibility of the Communist leaders," Ridgway said. Only Reference This was Ridgway's only ref erence In his 2,500-word speech to the possibility of renewed large-seal warfare in Korea. He did not mention the recent cap ture by Communist prisoners of Brig. Gen. Francis T. Dodd, and the quickly-repudiated conces sions which were granted for Dodd's release. Many congress men have demanded investiga tions of the entire Koje affair. Admiral Joy Raps Enemy Attitude in Departing Speech Panmunjom, Korea (U.R) Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy stepped out of the Korean truce talks Thursday with the parting accusation that the Communists have used the period of nego tiations to rebuild their "shat tered armies." The senior allied delegate, who has served the entire 10 months and 12 days since the talks be gan, told the .Communists that there is "nothing left to nego tiate." The decision for peace or more war in Korea, he told them, "is In your hands." During a moving 1,200-word statement of United Nations aims, Joy said: You have increasingly pre sented evidence before the world that you did not enter these negotiations with sincer ity and high purpose, but rath er that you entered them to gain time to repair your shattered armies, and to try to accomplish at the conference table what your armies could not accomp lish in the field." He then turned his Job over to Maj. Gen. William K. Harri son with the words, "May God be with him." Leaves Abruptly Joy turned and left the arm istice tent so abruptly that the Communists thought for a mo ment he was breaking off the talks. Their translators quickly set them straight. Joy's statement took up most of the 48-minute morning meet ing. Harrison led the Allied dele gation back for a 32-minute af ternoon session, and will meet with the Reds again Friday. Joy told the Communists once more that the Allies will not go beyond their April 28 offer to return only the 70,000 Red pris oners who want to go back to Communism. The other 99,000 prisoners held by the U. N. have said they would forcibly resist repatriation. William Baillie May Be New OLCC Chief Salem (U.R) William Bailie, who has been in charge of the Salem office of the State Employment service for several years, may be Oregon's next liquor administrator. Robert L. Elfstrom, chairman of the Oregon Liquor Control commission, said Thursday that Baillie may be named at the commission's meeting in Port land Friday to succeed William A. Bingham, who has resigned. Bingham is returning to service with the Coca Cola Bottling Co. of Portland at a salary consid erably higher than that he re ceives as liquor commission ad ministrator. Columbia Basin Celebration Opens Pasco, Wash. (U.R) A cele bration began Thursday to mark the equivalent of adding a new state to the nation's economy the opening of the Columbia ba- sin, the largest irrigation project ever devised by the mind of man. In Just nine days, at a tiny Washington town called Othello, 42 lucky names will be drawn from more than 7,000 applica tions for Columbia basin home steads. Two days before that Thurs day, May 29 the water and the desert will be married. North Carolina Girl Wins Spelling See Washington (U.R) Doris Ann Hall, 13-year-old eighth grader of Hudson, N.C., won the 1952 national spelling champion ship Thursday. Astoria (U.R) Packers said Thursday the gillnet fishing sea son on the Columbia river Is shaping up as one of the best since World War II.