, Derailment Sends
Burning Fluid
Down City Street
Lowell. Ind. (U.R) Thirty
cars of a 69-car Morion freight
were derailed Thursday, and al
colohl in six tank cars burst into
flame, threatening the business
section.
Burning alcohol flowed down
the streets and into gutters be
fore volunteers brought the
blaze under control with foam
ite and water some four hours
after the derailment.
The Lowell depot was "smash
ed into kindling" by three
freight cars, but most of the
damage was confined to an area
at the crossing of Indiana High
way 2.
Freight cars piled up four
deep in the center of town,
blocking highway traffic for
miles, state police said.
Firemen Hampered '
Intense heat, which kept fire
men 100 feet away, hampered
efforts to bring the blaze under
control, according to Harold
Heuson, 43-year-old volunteer
from Lowell.
Officials reported there were
no injuries although several per
sons had been in the depot a
' short time before the crash.
f Engineer Claude Smith of La
fayette, Ind., said the derail
ment probably was caused by a
locked wheel.
TURNIP COMES BIG
Jackson, Miss. (U.R) Sam
McRae Jr., grew a 10-pound pur
ple top turnip on his farm at
nearby Raymond.
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Music Sermon Slated
At Foursquare Church
A musical sermon based on
the old hymn, "I'll Not Have To
Cross Jordan Alone," will be
presented at the Foursquare
church, East Jackson street at
Morrow road, at 7:45 p.m., Fri
day, May 23, it was announced
today by the pastor, the Rev.
Harry Hansen.
The service will be conducted
by Dr. Jacques Little, an evan
gelist, who will be assisted by
the Rev. Paul Gray, pastor of
the Foursquare church in Grants
Pass.
An 18-vojce choir and a male
quartet from Grants Pass will
be featured. The service, which
Mr .Hansen described as inspir
ing, has been presented in a
number of citiies throughout the
United States.
American Soldier
Hears Death Sentence
Nuernberg, Germany (U P.)
A U. S. Army court-martial sen
tenced a 19-year-old American
soldier to death Thursday for
the premeditated murder cf two
German civilians.
Pvt. John F. Vigneault of
GoI Falls, N. H., was found
guilty by a 10-officer court of
shooting the Germans who gave
him and another GI a ride and
then stealing the car last April
19.
The sentence by the 4th Infan
try Division court is subject to
review by higher authority.
Town Commissioners
Uphold Parking Meters
Graham, N. C (U.R) This
city's parking meters, which
have stood as mute symbols of
indecision and legal controver
sy for nearly three years, final
ly will have some meaning
again.
The board of town commis
sioners has decided to enforce a
parking meter ordinance to re
place one repealed in 1049. The
company which installed the
meters won a court suit, carried
to the U. S. Circuit Court of Ap
peals, to force the town to use
the meters and use proceeds to
pay some $10,000 still owed on
their cost and installation.
Couple Arrested
For Robbery at
Naval Air Station
New York (U.R) FBI agents
held a champagne-drinking for
mer private detective and a red
haired nightclub singer Thurs
day in the $100,000 robbery at
the Quonset Point, R.I., Naval
air station.
G-men arrested Howard Hilde-
brandt, 25, and Gloria Dale, 30
Wednesday while they were eat
ing at a Times Square restau
rant.
Money found on Hildebrandt
was identified as part of the
loot.
Another Man Held
At the same time, FBI oper
atives apprehended another
man, Robert La Plante, 27, at
West Warwick, R. I., in con
nection with the bold daylight
holdup in front of the station's
credit union March 7.
The men were charged with
robbery on a government reser
vation. Miss Dale, who sings in
a Greenwich village night spot,
was detained as a material wit
ness. She did not meet Hilde
brandt until after the robbery.
Face Arraignment
Hildebrandt, father of tw(o chil
dren, faced arraignment and La
Plante awaited similar action at
Providence, R. I. i
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
said in Washington that his
agency was not looking for any
one else in connection with the
robbery at the moment.
Driver of Varied-Make
Car Gets First Ticket
Detroit (U.R) When
Charles G. Laing was ticketed
for going through a red light
he told the judge it was his first
traffic summons in 50 years.
"If you've been driving that
long," said the traffic referee,
John M. Wise, "what kind of car
is this?
He held up a picture of an
experimental car made in 1908
out of parts from other cars.
"That," said Laing, "is part
Rolls Royce, part Reliance and
part Pierce-Arrow with a dash
of Ford."
"You're right," said Wise.
"Case dismissed."
Pedestrian Protection
ELDERLY
Nearly 30 of all pedestrian
fatalities are suffered by only 7
of the population those past 66
years of age! To avoid trouble in
traffic they should be alert, watch
ful and should carefully observe
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Search Abandoned
For Three Bodies
in Missing Sloop
Seattle (U.B& Coast Guards
men abandoned Thursday their
search for the bodies of three of
seven persons aboard the sloop
"Prelude," missing in northern
Puget Sound since Sunday night.
The 35-foot Prelude disap
peared on a 20-mile return leg
of a cruise from Orcas Island to
Bellingham, Wash. Veteran mar
iners believed the vessel struck
an uncharted reef and sank.
Four Bodies Recovered
Bodies of four passengers were
discovered Tuesday. They were
those of Ed Jukes, Mrs. Don
Card, Mrs. Paul Fordyce, and
Mrs. Fordyce s 12-year-old son,
Kenneth. Still missing were Mrs.
Jukes, Don Card, and Fordyce.
All were from Bellingham.
Coast Guardsmen said it has
been their experience that per
sons who drown in those tide-
ripped waters rarely are found,
unless the bodies are washed
ashore.
Ratification of
Overiand Stages
Agreement Waited
Portland (U.R) Ratification
of a proposed settlement by AFL
Overland Greyhound lines em
ployees Thursday remained the
only obstacle in the way of re
storing full Greyhound service
in the Pacific Northwest.
But little progress was report
ed in negotiations to end the
CIO woodworkers dispute.
One Line Still Out
The Overland Greyhound
lines reached a tentative agree,
ment with its AFL union em
ployees Wednesday.
The only remaining transpor
tation tie up in the Portland
area was that of Oregon Motor
stages.
The new pact, similar to the
agreements that brought peace
on the Pacific and Northwest
Greyhound lines, is subject to
union ratification by midnight
Sunday. If accepted by union
members, Overland busses may
roll within 24 hours from then
Pay Increase Included
The agreement includes a 4.6
per cent pay increase retroac
tive to April 7, a 4.4 per cent
hike next Oct. 1, and a 9 per
cent boost Oct. 1, 1953. Em
ployees will go on a 5'4 day
week next Oct. 1, and on a 5
day week Oct. 1, 1953.
Negotiations with the Coos
Bay Lumber company and the
CIO Woodworkers union open
ed in Coos Bay today after a
bargaining session with the Ore
gon Coast Operators Associa
tion failed to produce agreement
yesterday.
Thursday. May 22. 1952
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE
Oregon Students
Put Pantie Raid
To Useful Purpose
Eugene (U.R) University of
Oregon students Wednesday .
night turned the latest college j
craze, pantie raids, to construe- j
tive purposes and at the same 1
time poked fun at rival Oregon
State college.
Under the slogan, "Clothes
for Korea, Panties for the Beav
ers,'1 students carried out an or
ganized collection of old cloth
ing after the 10:30 p.m. closing
hour, with representatives of
men's living organizations call
ing on the girls' houses.
To Be Sent to Korea
The old clothing was turned
over to campus chapters of the
YMCA and YWCA to be sent to
Korea as part of a nationwide
drive.
But panties and other items of
underclothing were set aside for
"the poor deserving men stud
ents" of Oregon State college
who staged a pantie raid on two
women's dormitories and three
sorority houses Monday night.
One of the pleasantest youth
hostels in the world is at Stock
holm, Sweden. The fullrigged
ship Af Chapman has been con
verted into a luxurious 130-bed
hostel and moored in Stockholm
harbor.
LAWN CANNON HIJACKED
Jacksonville, Fla. (U.R) Po
lice were called into an unusual
case. Someone had stolen an
ornamental cannon from the
lawn of an irate resident.
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VETS FORGIVE TAXES
Plainville, Conn. (U.R) The
local VFW post doesn't bear
grudges. As "Plainville Man of
the Year" it named George W.
Bartlett, for 20 years the town's
tax collector.
'Wide Field' Exists for
Foreign Farm Mechanization
Geneva (U.R) A "wide I
field exists for stepping up
mechanization of agriculture in
Africa, Asia and Latin America,
according to a study of the world
Commission for Europe.
The survey found that the
world industry produced 906,
000 tractors in 1950. Actually,
however, it estimated total pro
duction capacity during that
period as 1,103,000 tractors.
"It has been suggested that
China, for example, could use
125,000 tractors during the next
five years, and the need in In
dia and Africa is equally
great," ECE said. "The principal
difficulty will be to convert po
tential requirements into actual
effective demand. Herein lies
the real problem of the tractor
industry.
The survey reported that al
though countries are receiving
some aid from the U. N. techni
cal assistance program, "there
remains, however, a wide field
where no real steps have yet
been taken on an organized bas
is to assist countries in the mech
anization of their agriculture."
A shortage of capital in the
underdeveloped regions and pro
duction at less than capacity in
western nations which are re
arming are among the factors
blamed for failure of the world
industry to achieve the targets
it could.
Were It not for re-armament,
the survey said the world in
dustry could raise total output
for the period 1951-54 from a
probable 6,500,000 tractors to
10,000,000,
The desperate need for In
creased mechanization of una
erdeveloped areas is shown in
statistics in the survey. They
show that Latin America, the
Near East, the Far East and Af
rica account for about half the
world's arable land but in 1951
owned only 4.3 per cent of the
total number of world tractors.
Within that group, the Far
East is the least developed area,
with one tractor per 12,900 hec
tares. (A hectare is 2.471 acres)
The Near East has 2,600, Africa
1,730, and Latin America 2,600
in 12,900 hectares.
That compares with one trac
tor for every 23 hectares in Brit
ain, the most highly mechanized
country in the world, one for ev
ery 48 in the United States and
one per 171 hectares in Europe
as a whole.
The survey predicted that in
south and southeast Asia "cap
ital investment in the form of
tractors and farm machinery ap
pears likely to proceed slowly
under the conditions prevailing
and in the absence of large
scale external assistance."
Forest Radio Network
Begins Operations
Grants Pass Sexton Forest
Industries Communications, an
organization of lumbermen who
operate their own radio network,
began operations yesterday. The
land station, on top of Sexton
pass north of Grants Pass, serves
25 mobile radio units owned by
25 companies.
The communications network
is operated in connection with
the Southern Oregon Conserva
tion and Tree Farm association,
which operates a similar net
work in Jackson county.
Daily Weather Report
FORECASTS
MedTord and vicinity: Fair tonight
and Friday. Low tonight 42. High Fri
day 80.85.
Western Oregon: Clear in south.
Fartly cloudy in north tonight. Most
y sunny Friday. Little temperature
change. Lows tonight 42.92. Highs Fri
day 68-78.
LOCAL DATA
Temperature a year ago today:
Highest 8!): Lowest 48.
Total monthly precipitation 1.27
Inches.
Excess for the month .47 Inch.
Total precipitation since September
1. 1031, 19.70 Inches.
Excess for the season 4.40 Inches.
Relative humidity 4:30 p.m. yester
day 26; 4:30 a m. today 80.
Tomorrow
Sunrise 4:43 a.m. Sunset 7:32 p.m.
Observations Takrn At 4:10 A.M.,
120 Meridian Time
High Low Prec.
Boise 64 3
Boston 6.1 35 .11
Chicago 71
Denver 63
Eureka 57
Havre 66
Klamath Fall
Los Angeles
Medford
New York
Omaha .... 71
Phoenix 05
Portland 62
Reno 70
Eugene 63
Salt Lake 58
San Francisco 63
Seattle 60
Spokane 66
Washington. D C 73
Yakima 73
64
, 71
. 71
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48
43
57
43
58
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59
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Sandwich Bags h. 10c
Zee Napkins vv. 15c
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Spoons, Forks h. 17c
Foil Plates 33c
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Assorted
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CARROTS 19c
SNOW WHITE '. EACH
CAULIFLOWER 19c
FANCY FIELD GROWN
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Cereals
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STRAINED OR
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