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Jeering
Tank Troops Tear
Down Red Banners
Inside Compound
Fellow Captives
Care for Victim
By RICHARD APPLEGATE
Koje Island !U,B A South
Korean officer Monday night
shot and wounded a jeering,
rock-throwing prisoner of war
only a few hours after an Amer
ican Patton tank and bayonet
armed troops tore down taunt
ing banners inside a compound.
The new shooting was report
ed as Gen. Mark W. Clark, su
preme U.N. commander, flew
here for an inspection of pris
oner stockades and said that
"maximum force" would be ap
plied if necessary to get obedi
ence from the rebellious cap
tives. The 200 Communists inside
compound 60 carried the pris
oner, wounded in one leg, into
a tin shack about 30 feet from
the fence. They refused to turn
him over to American officers
for medical care.
The Korean officer fired three
shots from his .45 caliber pistol
after the prisoner and his com
rades jeered and stoned a pass
ing column of South Korean
soldiers.
Commander Gives Orders
Earlier, at Compound 602,
camp commander Brig. Gen.
Haydon L. Boaatner stood in a
machine gun guard tower and
shouted orders while his tanks
and men took direct action to
enforce his orders that-the ban
ners must come down.
Compound 80, where the
prisoner was wounded, is the
smallest of 17 enclosures and
confines only prisoners accused
of war crimes.
When American officers ask
ed the prisoners to give up the
wounded man the Reds formed
Into a solid mass just behind the
Inner gate.
They sang and shouted anti
American slogans while a cheer
leader spurred them on, waving
a scrap of North Korean flag
and giving them insulting
phrases which they repeated In
chorus,
A witness to the shooting said
the South Korean officer had
been goaded' beyond control by
the shouting and rock throwing.
Capt. Jim Miller, Washington,
D.C., head of the medical com
pany of the 187th Airborne reg
iment, asked the prisoners to
return him. They responded by
yelling belligerently.
For a moment it appeared
that the angry Miller was going
to charge alone into the com
pound, but after a few minutes
he and his men folded their med
ical kit and left.
Fair Weather Expected
To Continue in Oregon
By UNITED PRESS
Continued fair weather
through Tuesday was forecast
for most of Oregon Monday by
the weather bureau.
Some high cloudiness is ex
pected in some western sections
of Oregon. Temperatures will be
up to 70 to 80 degrees west of
the Cascades and from 72 to 82
east of the mountains.
Ontario, with 84, was the
warmest spot in the state Sun
day. Young Valley
But Only After Difficulty
A young valley couple got mar
ried Saturday but they just
barely made it.
The bridegroom, Eugene Davis
Cox, son of Mrs. Fern Elizabeth
Miller, 403 DeBarr avenue, is in
the Army, and is now stationed
at Ft. Lewis. Wash., after return
ing from Korea last January. He
was here on a three-day pass to
get married to Betty Mae Bean,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred H.
Bean, 411 Church street. Phoe
nix, a sophomore at Phoenix high
school.
Plans for the wedding were in
definite until 4 p.m.. according to
the girl's mother. There were
number of difficulties, including
finding a minister.
And to add to the confusion.
Mist Bean dropped her medical
MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1952
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NOT TO BE TAKEN LIGHTLY West Berlin youths ignore a new cold-war threat as they use a newly
erected East Zone road blockade for a game of "follow the leader" in the French sector of the city.
The recent signing of a peace treaty with the Allies by West Germany sparked retaliatory moves by
the Soviet much the game as those which resulted in the Berlin airlift of 1348-43.
Holiday Death Toll
Establishes Record;
Oregon Counts Nine
By UNITED PRESS
The week-end toll of traffic
deaths set a new record for any
three-day Memorial week-end, a
final tabulation showed Monday.
The nation counted 335 dead
in traffic crashes -4tom $- p-.m.
Thursday to midnight Sunday.
Drownings Claim 87
In addition, 07 persons died by
drowning, nine in airplane crash
es and 79 in miscellaneous mis
haps to give the country an over
all total of 520 violent deaths.
National Safety Council ex
perts had expected 310 persons
would die on highways.
California led the states with
48 deaths of ail types, including
31 auto fatalities and 10 drown
ings. Ohio, however, had the
most traffic deaths, 37.
New York state counted 19
traffic deaths and Texas had 18.
Florida reported only one
death- on its highways while Del
aware, South Dakota and Ne-
West Berliners Beat
Commie Policeman
Berlin U,R! Angry West
Berliners Monday beat a Com
munist policeman manning a
barrier between the city and the
surrounding Soviet Zone of
Germany. .
It was the first outbreak of
violence since the Soviets bar
red West Berlin's 2,500,000 in
habitants from all access to
Soviet-occupied Eastern Ger
many Sunday. Allied-occupied
Western Berlin is an island of
the free world more than 100
miles behind the Iron Curtain.
Allied officials said some 125
West Berliners, irked by the So
viet blockade tactics, went to
the Communist checkpoint at
Lichterfelde, on the border of
the American sector of Berlin
and the Soviet Zone of Ger
many, and pummeled the Red
policeman on guard duty.
Couple Weds,
certificate into the mail, through
some misunderstanding.
When she discovered her error.
a postal authority was summoned
and a search of mail sacks began.
Since the courthouse closed at
noon, a license bureau clerk was
standing by to issue the licepse.
u and when the certificate was
found. ,
It was. The bride and groom
went to the Bean residence, and
were married by the Rev. Clay
ton Brisman of the Friends
church at about 9:30 p.m.
The new Mrs. Cox accom
panied her husband as far as Eu
gene, and then returned to finish
the last two days of school. She
wilt join him at Ft. Lewis when
school is out.
He expects his Army dischuge
some time this month.
Xi. TJ r-r- '
vada reported no accidental
deaths of any type during the
week-end.
By UNITED PRESS
i -Oregon's ' holiday week - end
death toll stood at nine Monday
The state counted three deaths
in traffic accidents, four drown
ings, one suffocation and the
ninth was attributed to heart at
tack. Clifford C. Aldrich, 24, an air
man stationed at the Portland
airbase, died in an auto crash on
Portland's Northeast Marine
drive and John Marshall Hill,
38-year-old Portlander, was the
victim of another accident near
the Columbia river highway.
Oakland Man Killed
George S. Perrault, about 35,
of Oakland, Ore., died 12 miles
north of Roseburg In an accident
on Highway 99.
- At Danbury State park, near
Troutdale, Ore., a three-week-old
infant son of Mr. and Mrs,
Roger Oppenheim, suffocated
while sleeping in the back of
his family car.
James McCullough, Portland
drowned Friday night in an irri
gation canal 15 miles southwest
of Vale, Ore., in Malheur county.
Rogue River Searched
Jackson county authorities
were searching the Rogue river
for the body of eight-year-oid
Gary Larson, son of Mr, and Mrs
Einer Larson, Medford, who was
believed drowned near Casey
State park.
- Melvin A. Green, Portland, the
23-year-old father of two chil
dren, drowned in Columbia
slough.
The fourth drowning victim
was Roland Campbell, Sweet
Home, who died in the waters of
the South Santiam river 35 miles
east of Lebanon.
Russell Coder, 55, of Portland
was stricken by a heart attack
while fishing in Badger creek.
Acheson, Eisenhower
Broadcasts Scheduled
Three radio broadcasts of
special interest will be carried
over radio station KYJC today,
Tuesday and Wednesday, the
station reported today.
Secretary of State Dean Ache
son will speak from 8:15 to 8:30
o'clock tonight on his trip to
Europe when the peace contract
was signed. Tomorrow, between
3 -nd 3:30 p.m., the station will
broadcast Gen. Dwight D. Eis
enhower's last military press
conference from Washington,
DC, and at the same hour
Wednesday will broadcast Gen
eral Eisenhower's first major
speech after he takes off his
Army uniform. The latter talk
will be from Abilene, Kan., his
home town,
POOL TO OPEN
Hawthorne park's swimming
pool will open for the summer
season this Saturday. June 7, ac
cording to Darreil Huson, park
director. The pool will be open
seven days a week from 1 to
, 9 pjn.
Tribune
Unit! Prtti Full Lnnl Wilt
No. 62
Local Boy Missing,
Believed Drowned,
Along Rogue River
A search of the Rogue river
near Casey state park was con
tinuing today for the body of
Gary Larson, son of "Mr., and
MrsV Eiria'r F, Larson, 1011 West
11th street, Medford. The boy Is
missing and presumed drowned
after he fell Into the river yes
terday afternoon while fishing.
According to information giv
en the state police and county
coroner's office, the boy was on
a picnic with the Sam . Mete
family, 1038 West 11th street,
and was fishing with Alexander
Mete, 12, in the afternoon. The
reports said a fish line became
entangled on a log about eight
feet from the bank, and the Lar
son boy attempted to free it.
In the process he fell In the
river.
Starch Banks
The first call came to state po
lice at 4:15 p.m., and an officer
was sent to the locality to assist
in the search for the boy. Ac
companied by volunteers, he
searched the banks of the river
until about 1 a.m. today. Anoth
er officer was searching (his
morning.
The spot where the Larson
boy apparently went into the
water is just above the park.
There Is a large hole in the river
bottom below there, and police
speculated the boy's body may
have caught on rocks along the
bottom.
ffwo boats belonging to resi
dents of the area were used in
the search yesterday, it was re
ported.
Admitted Burglar
Gave Self Up Saturday
Ronald Lewis Ansted, 23, Box
1087, Eagle Point, who last Sat
urday admitted a series of local
burglary and larceny cases dur
ing the past two years, appeared
voluntarily at the Medford po
lice station and gave himself up,
police reported this morning.
Aisted was accompanied by
hit father L. B. Ansted, Eagle
Point. Young Ansted is married
and has one child 14 months old.
BASEBALL
AMERICAN
Cleveland 0 4 0
New York 2 4 0
Lemon and Hagan, Tabbels
7; Reynolds and Sarra.
(10. Innings)
Chicago ... 2 0 0
Boston ill
Holcemb and Leila?! Nix
en and Wilber.
Horn Runt! Leonard, basts
full.
NATIONAL
Brooklyn 11
Chicago 1
Loes, Sabintt t. Van Cuyk
1. and Walks Kally, Rams,
dsll I, and Alw.il.
Horn runs: Jtffceaf. I on;
Settaa. nona oat Ssuar nont
on.
Weather
FORECAST: Variibie fclll
Lew tonlfiU 3$. 8!f
Tudy nr $3
Highest Viry .....
Law this MorBi&f w-w. it
Loyd W. Whitney
Gets Democratic
Commissioner Vote
Write Ins Nominate
Mrs. Watson lor Clerk
Loyd W. Whitney, Jackson
ville, won the Democratic nomi
nation for county commissioner
by a close margin of 118 votes, it
was revealed today when the
canvass of Democratic vote in
the primary election May 18 was
completed by deputy county
clerks.
Whitney's vote wat 2.4S5,
compared to 2,389 for C, L.
Hockersmith, Phoenix.
Write-ins Give Nomiusfion
Luia G. Watson, 'Medford,
gained the Democratic nomina
tion for county cierk by write
in votes, the canvass revealed, A
write-in campaign for her nomi-;
natton was staged in the last lew
days before the election, and
she was given 520 votes, com
pared to 287 votes for George
Carter, Republican county clerk
who was nominated for reelec
tion on the GOP ballot.
Mrs, Watson, a Democratic
precinct committeewoman, re
sides at 1838 Stewart avenue.
Dr. M. P. Vogel received 682
Democratic write-in votes for
coroner, compared to 727 for In
cumbent Carlos Morris, Both
men are Republicans, and Vogel
received the Republican nomi
nation. The fact that Morris
gained more democratic write
ins, however, does not mean that
he can be the Democratic candi
date, because state law prohibits:
the candidate on one party ticket
from tunning for election on
the ticket of another party or as
an maepenaem.
- Andrew -Hawver, Talent was
given 4,138 complimentary votes
as unopposed candidate for, the
Democratic nommation at eoun
ty assessor. Ralph Sweeney,
county treasurer seeking nomi
nation for reelection, wat given
4,548 such votes.
Other Wrlla-Int
Here are other write-in votes
on the Democratic ballet:
For coroner, C. M. LitwUler, 4
D. Woods, 1; "Conger," 8: Frank
Peri; 15; and Meredith Groves, 3,
Fdr county Judge, S. S. Ster-
rett, I: J. B. Coleman, (incum
bent and Republican nominee)
325; Bob Brantley, 883 whs
cannot run on the Democratic
ticket for the tarn reason that
Carlos Morris cannot for coro
ner); L. Peers Wilmeth, 1; H, K,
Hannah, 13; William Herman, I;
Edward Kelly, 8; Paul Haviland,
1; George Goodman, 1; Walter
Nunley, B; L. G, Morthland, 2;
Kawles Moore, 11, and Lynn
Sanders, 1, :
Gats Dmo Nomination
For county surveyor, Paul
Rynning, 153 (giving him the
Democratic as well at the Re
publican nomination); R, E,
Aaer, 4 and W, P. Tucker, 1.
For county commissioner, L.
G. Morthland, 28; Robert Ly
tie, 1,
For county assessor, Robert G
Fowler, 73; John H. Taekker,
18; and Tucker (no turname giv
en), 28.
For county clerk, Ray Marks,
1; Lula Wagner, 1; and L. G,
Morthland, 1.
For treasurer, H. F. Cope, 15:
and Bob Fowler, 2.
Salem 8MB Gov, Douglas
McKay wilt leave Tuesday
morning for Abilene, Kn., to
greet Gen. Dwight D, Eisen
hower on his return to hit "home
town" Wednesday,
Theory of Troop Approach
Definitely Proven At Nevada
Las Vegas, Sev, U,B At
omic scientists announced Mon
day that troops in tanks and on
foot can safely attack an enemy
objective seconds after an at
omic explosion.
What had long been believed
in theory was proved definitely
Sunday when American GIs ad
vanced quickly to within 1,000
yarda of the area where an at
omic device had been touched
ott.
ltlh Explosion
The pre-dawn test was the
18th nuclear device to be ex
ploded to the Southern Nevada
desert.
Brig. Gen. Harry P. Storke,
the exercise commander, termed
'it "the most realistic atomic land
axerci yet attempted" and Hid
IMMEDIATE STRIKE BY
STEELWORKERS
Washington (UP)
8 seizure of the steel industry s unconstitntional Monday.
By 6 to 3 vote, the high tribunal held that Mr, Trtintan had no legal or eon
(titutional authority to seiie the nulla,
CIO President Philip Murray then ordered hit 650,000 United Sleelworkers
to strike immediately,
Murray, who personally heads the steel union, also called on the Industry to
set up new bargaining talks to write a contract based on the Wage Stabilization
Board's recommendations for a 26-cent hourly increase and union shop,
U. S, Steel Corp, at Chicago reported that picket lines were set up at the main
gates of the Gary, Ind,, and South Works plants, and that a walkout had begun
at a third. -
The picketing by members of the CIO United Steel workers began less than
an hour after the Supreme Court ruled against President Truman,
Technically, the government's control of the steel mills will not end until the
Court's mandate reaches Federal District Judge David A, Pine's court,
Tafl-Eisenhower
Nomination Race
Enters Last Week
Washington iil,B The nip-and-tuek
race between Gen,
Dwight D, Elsenhower and Sen,
Robert A,- Taft tor the Rcpubli
can presidential nomination
turned into the final big week of
delegate elections Monday for
the national convention.
Republicans will elect 124
delegates this week, most of
them Tuesday In South Dakota
and California in the last two
GOP presidential primaries be
fore the national convention
next month, .
Nw Heat Generate!
New heat was generated In
the left-Eisenhower race, mean
while, as Elsenhower returned
to enter the political wars only
to be met by a broadside Wast
against his foreign and military
policy by Taft,
Elsenhower, meanwhile, stuck
to his "no polities" rule for his
iirst day In the capital and briet
ed defense official In secret on
the progress of the North Atlan
tic treaty Army,
The retiring supreme Allied
commander in Europe will be
free to answer the foreign pol
icy challenge flung down by
Taft when he sheds his uniform
Tuesday to take mere direct
part in the political campaign.
Tali folding Lad
' As the two-man GOP race
headed into Its final weeks, a
United Press poll showed Taft
holding the lead with 4U dele
gates compared t Eisenhower's
SBS, It takes 604 votes to win
the nomination. The tabulation
is based on formal pledges and
known first-ballot preferences.
The South Dakota primary
Tuesday offers the last direct
test between Taft and Eisen
hower and the only one where
they have been matched in a
two-man race.
California Republicans eject
70 delegates to their primary
Tuesday, The slate pledged to
Gov, Earl Warren Is expected to
win. It la opposed by one pledg
ed to Hep, Thomas Werdel, Cal
ifornia, but considered friendly
to Taft
BULLETINS
WasMnftloB OiX) The
National Production Author
itr lata Monday banned ciccl
item warehouses to manufac
turers ef el-rtllen-lype goods,,
xetpt for small users.
Washington M9 The Su
preme Court Monday nicctad
the appeal ef Oscar Collaso,
Puerto Mean Rationalist eon
vlciad ot murdering a White
House policaman during as at
tempt to asMHinatc President
Trumas Ho. 1, 1SSS,
it was "an important and suc
cessful step in our atomic war
fare research,"
About 1,000 6th Army "house
keeping troops from Camp Des
ert Rock watched the blast from
foxholes and trenches 1,000
yards away.
Two minutes after the atomic
flash, the troops attacked a my
thical enemy objective.
Troops Move Fast
Two hour later, Just half the
time the Army had anticipated,
the troops were within 1,000
yards ot "Ground Zero," the
scorched spot where a 300-foot
steel tower vanished In the dust
and flame of the explosion.
At this point, the radioartiv
ity was too "hot" to permit the
troops and the tanks to nova
The Supreme Court voided
FrscMtu usually Delayed
Fer FeHttoa Ts Supreme Csort
FMs procedure usually fa delayed S5 days to g!vebath rides
time to petitEan the Supreme Court tar a rehearing, which ceUaES
is granted. It appeared passible, however, that in this eass th
Court mandate may be speeded up.
Justice Hugo L. Btaek, usually regarded as the most liberal
member of the Court, delivered the majority optoloo opholdtog
Pine's April 89 ruling in ordering the seized propertie restored to
prh?ate ownership,
Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson and Justices Stanley T. Heed and
Sherman Miatoia dissented.
In Its historic ruling, the Court met squarely th controversial
issue ot the President's "inherent" sefaurp power.
" "There fa no statute that expressly suihorisei the President to
take possession ot property as he did here, Kor is there any art ct
Congress to which our attention has been directed from which
such a power can fairly be tospHed, Black said,
Black said that, therefore, "The President's auUsority, U any,
must bs found in the Constitution itself,"
Eisenhower Starts
Top-Secret Talks
With High Officers
Washington M
Dwight 0, Elsenhower will ha
plaead en the wtlred Ms with
out psy Tuesday, She Atrey
ansouBsad Men-Sty,
Washington M9 Gen.
Dwight D, Eisenhower" plunged
into round of top-secret tnilt
tary conferences with pentagon
oftieiais Monday alter a imrrw
checkup at the Atmy't Walter
Reed Hospital,
Eisenhower arrived at the
Pentagon ahead of schedule and
went immediately into a ciosed
door conference with Gen, Omar
N, Bradley, chairman of the
joint chiefs ot staff.
Final Accounting
The meeting was called to
give Bradley a final accounting
of the progrea Eisenhower has
made toward building up Allied
forces in Europe against the
threat of Communist aggression.
The retiring supreme Allied
commander, who returned late
Sunday front hia 18-month tour
of European duty, went to
Walter Reed Hospital for a brief
checkup at the eye and dental
clinics,
Further Reports Planned
After meeting with Bradley,
Eisenhower arranged to deliver
further reports on his Worth At
lantic ConsBsand to other defense
officials.
Top officials of the Worth At
lantic Treaty Organisation
agreed at Lisbon Last February
to raise a European defense force
of 50 land divisions and 4,000
warpiancs by the end of this
year,
But, according to recent unof-
ficial reports, this program Is
togging, ,
COW JOWES AVERAGES
DowJoncs closing stock aver
ages: 80 industrials S8S.SI off
0 63; !0 railroads M.89 off 0.30;
13 utilities 3,83 oft 0.11; and 65
stocks IOi.22 off 0,28.
Sales Monday approximated
1,190,000 shares compared with
1,000,060 shares traded Thurs
day.
to Atom Blast
Test Site
any closer.
The CIs saw graphis exam
ples of the fury ot the atom, A
truck 500 yards from the deton
ating tower was torn in two. An
amphibious tank was hurled
through the air and overturned.
Another tank looked as if it had
been pounded by a giant ham
mer, and Jeeps and other trucks
were crumpled,
ghcaps Wool Scorched
Two live sheep tethered In
pens 000 yards from the tower
suffered scorched wool on their
backs but otherwise appeared to
have survived without harm.
Two more, to foxholes below
ground, were untouched.
Other sheep closer to the
blast above ground and in fox
holes were burned fatally or
blown to bits.
CALLED
President Truman April
Gsrammrt Aigumrsi
Rejected by Bcdslos
He rejected the government s
argument that the President has
setatae cower because he is com
mander-m-chlel of the armed
forces.
we cannot with faith-
fulness to our constitutional sys
tem hold that the commander-to-chief
el the armed forces has the
ultimate power as such to take
possession of private property in
order to keep labor disputes from
stopping production,"
"This, Black said, "Is iob for
the nation's lawmakers, not fof
Ms military authorities,
Separate Opialstai
The five justice who Itoed op
with Black Robert H, Jackson,
Harold H. Burton, WttUam 0,
WasBtoefen 0UB Secre
tary of Commerce Charles
Sawyzr Monday returned ft
nation's steal mills Is ifceir
owners In asesrdaaea nrlfit ia
stnnllons tram Prasldent ,
Truman,
Douglas, Fells Frankfurter and
Tom C, Clark wrote separate
concurring opinions. Burton and
Clark were named to the high
bench by Mr. Truman, as were
two of the dissenters tasoa
and Minton, The others r
Roosevelt appointees.
Chief Justice Vinson, Eeed
and Minton said to a 44-page dis
sent by "Vinson that history sup
ports ,Mr. Truman's position
when survival Itself rosy be
endangered,
Truman Silent
Mr, Truman received wori of
the Court's ruling and Murray'
strike call without comment.
There was no immediate hint
from the White House what Mr,
Truman would do to counter She
new strike in the steel Industry,
He has said previously he would
cross that bridge when he came
to it.
The steel controversy has been
sn the headlines since IBS', so
vember when the Steelworkera
Onion notified the Industry It
wanted to bargain for wage In
crease and other benefits effec
tive, when Its contract expired.
Driver found Innocent
Of Accident Cirefien
Hugh Cochrane Ingle, 333
Bessie street, who was cited Fri
day tor failure to yield right-of-
way with an accident Involves,
was found innocent to city court
today, according to police rec
ords. The collision accident occur
red at Third and Grape streets.
police said. The other car wm
operated by Donald Richard Ed
wards, route 2, box MI-B, to
wards was cited at the sama
time for violation of the basic
rule and was fined $10 to munl
eipal court
Mrs, Hugh Ingle was throws
from the Jeep which her hus
band was driving and taken to
the hospital with minor Injuries,
according to police,
Portland BUB Thomas G.
Warner, 61, lather of Oregon Su
preme Court Justice Harold J.
Warner, died early Monday,
Warner was a linotype opera
tor with the Oregon journal for
35 years until he retired to IMS,
Before that he worked on to
Pendleton East Oregooias,