M
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.
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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.
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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.