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E ui ll mm T P'0LITICAI"3P tombht mm Communists Fail In Try To Seize French Car Plant Workers Resist Efforts for Strike Paris U.R) Communist strong-arm forces tried to seize control of the huge nationalized Renault automobile factory in the Paris suburbsWednesday to enforce a general sit down strike. Loyal workers and plant guards held off the attackers in a series of wild clashes. Several foremen were Injured and work was disrupted in most of the sprawling workshops. Rail Service Attacked In three cities in central and southern France the Reds at tacked railroad stations and shops in a vain attempt to crip ple rail transportation. The American Embassy, the consulate general and American business premises were put un der heavy police guard in the belief that the Reds would turn out this afternoon i n riotous mass demonstrations. Police arrested scores of Red leaders in Paris and other cities in response to the government challenge to the Communists: If they get tough,' well get tougher." Part of National Plan The strong - arm Red forces seized the giant factory as part of a planned national sit - down strike in protest against the im prisonment of Communist lead er Jacques Duclos. The strike itself was a dismal failure. A government communi que sam that less than Z per cent of the country s workers re sponded. Similarly, tough police acting under orders from "Strong Man" Premier Antoine Pinay had smashed Red disord ers last week and had seized Communist head quarters throughout France in dramatic raids Saturday. Box Car Bounces, its Parked Auto Traffic was blocked on Fourth street for about an hour this morning when an empty box car being switched on a spur track collided with a parked car own ed by Robert Richard Purkey, 497 Kenney loop, Eugene. According to investigating po lice officers, the accident oc curred when the box car failed to couple with a switch engine and was bounced across Fourth street against the rear of the car, wedging it tightly against a cement building owned by Pa cific Feed and Seed company, 17 West Fourth street. Purkey told officers he had just parked the car, a 1951 se dan, and had gotten out when he looked up and saw the box car coming at him. The box car nar rowly missed an automobile crossing the tracks before hit ting his car, he said. He added that, if it had not hit his car, it would have collided head-on with a grain truck sitting astride of the tracks. A railroad crew used Jacks to lift the box car and allow re moval of Purkey's car, which suffered minor damage. Purkey, a Southern Pacific boilermaker in Eugene, and his wife are here on vacation. Wholesale Food Price Index Slips Two Cenfs New York U.R) The Dun & Bradstreet wholesale food index slipped two cents in the week ended June 3, as prices made their second successive decline, the agency announced Wednes day. The new index of $6.43 compares with $6.45 in the pre ceding week and $7.08 in the same week of last year. Father Slays Former Wife Before Shocked Courtroom Miami Beach, Fla. (U.R) The "fantastic" slaying of his ex-wife in Peace Court here brought burly David Brecher, 44, no nearer to fulfilling a fran tic desire to see his three-year-old daughter. Four bullets left his former wife, Ann, about 50, dead before the shocked courtroom Tuesday and also prevented a possible chance meeting with little Su san Roberts. Mrs. Brecher asked Peace Jus tice Kenneth Oka for a bond for the unemployed cab driver, claiming he slashed her with a knife when he last saw the child three months ago. Under Court Order Brecher, already was under court order preventing him from seeing their daughter until he could show evidence of "financ ial and emotional stability," quietly insisted to the judge: "I want to see my baby. Make her tell me where the baby is. BULLETINS Washington (U.R) The Senate voted Wednesday to nd federal rent controls next March I. By a 48-to-34 vote, it approved an amendment to continue the rent controls on ly until March 1, Instead i June 30, 1953, as recommend ed by the Banking Committee. Washington (U.R) The Senate voted 42 to 41 lo retain Industry and labor representa tion on the Wage Stabilisa tion board Wednesday with Vice President Alben W. Barkley casting the deciding vote. Probation Violators Given Prison Terms By Circuit Judge Donald Earl Yule, 22. Rogue Dale camp, Shady Cove, was sentenced this morning by Cir cuit Judge H. K. Hannah to an indeterminate state prison sen tence not to exceed two years and eight months on a charge of probation violation. Yule has been held in the county jail since April 19 on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon involving two others, and also for probation violation of a suspended sentence for lar ceny to which he pleaded guilty on April 28, 1950. - . Man Stabbed The assault charge involved the stabbing of Carl Blair, Shady Cove, in an early morning brawl on April 19. Monte Stockton, 26, 118 East McAndrews road, is still in jail on the assault charge and Dee Stockton, Monte's bro ther, is out on $3,500 bail. Blair has since recovered from the stab wound and has left the hos pital. Wilford Lee Longan, 21, route 2, box 195, Central Point, was sentenced to an indeterminate period not to exceed three years for violation of a probation giv en on January 14, when he was given a three-year sentence for burglary of Austin King's ser vice station, 12000 Crater Lake Grants Pass Raid Uncovers 154 Slots" Grants Pass A cache of 154 slot machines valued at some $120,000 was uncovered here yesterday afternoon in a raid conducted by District Attorney Max McMillan and state police Sgt. C. R. Borgman, they said today. McMillan said his atten tion was drawn to the cache by testimony in another case here. Arrested following the raid was W. A. Moore, owner of the premises at 2006 Tokay Heights, where the slot machines were found. He was charged with un lawful possession of gambling devices. McMillan said the machines in cluded 101 console types valued at about $1,000 each, and 53 "one-armed bandits" valued at $500 each. , Moore waived preliminary hearing In justice court this morning and was bound over to the grand jury under a $500 property bond. McMillan said he is asking Circuit Judge Orval Millard for a court order direct ing that the slot machines be de stroyed. The district attorney and state police are continuing the investi gation in an effort to establish the actual ownership of the ma chines. METEOROLOGIST LEAVES RoV Rnffprr fpHeral mat-nvnl. ogist in charge of frost forecast ing for the Rogue river .valley officially closed his 1952 opera tions Monday and left the valley ior nis nome in fomona, Cal., this week, according In th mi in ty extension office. Will you make her give me the address?" As Oka began to explain once more that the chances were against it Brecher sighed, pulled a snubnosed revolver from his pocket and emptied it at Mrs. Brecher. Four shots struck her body and two more hit the floor. When Oka emerged from 'be hind his bench Brecher handed him the smoking gun and said: "Here, I'm surrendering my self. I told her I was going to do this. She had me so upset I'd ra.her be dead than living." A moment afterward police intercepted relatives of the slain woman as they arrived be latedly on the courtroom floor with a little girl wearing a party dress and hair ribbons, and car rying a doll. While Brecher was led away in tears, his wrists cuffed be hind him, little Susan chatted happily with the officers. Fath er and daughter did not meet. Plan Introduced To Permit Federal Steel Mill Seizure Bargaining Session Scheduled Thursday Washington (U.R) Sen. Burnet R. Maybank introduced legislation to permit federal seizure of the steel mills as Pres ident Truman moved Wednes day to get industry and union representatives together for a n t w bargaining session on Thursday. Maybank, D-S.C, proposed to set up a National Emergency Wage and Price Board to settle the dispute in the steel industry. Would Prohibit Strike If either industry or labor balked at terms offered by the board, his proposal would per mit the government to move in and take over. The Maybank plan would pro hibit a strike or lockout for 120 days from the time the board began considering the case. Maybanks' proposal was of fered as an amendment to the Defense Production Act exten sion bill, which the Senate start ed debating Wednesday. Responsibility Cited Maybank, chairman of the Senate Banking committee, said he offered the measure because Congress has a "responsibility to act in the steel crisis" as the result of the supreme court's de cision Monday holding that Pres ident Truman s April 8 seizure of the industry was unconstitu tional. Sen. Homer E. Capehart, .R- Ind., ranking GOP member of the Senate Banking committee. urged Maybank to call a meet ing of the banking committee for a "quick hearing" on the amendment before the Senate considers it. To Ask Unlimited Debate Maybank said there was not time. However, he said, he would ask unanimous consent of the Senate for unlimited time to debate the amendment. Less than three hours before Maybank revealed the terms of his amendment. Presidential As sistant John R. Steelman, acting in. behalf of President Truman, summoned heads of six major steel companies and of the CIO United Steelworkers union to Washington Thursday for a meeting in Steelman's office. Pittsburgh (U.R) Govern ment and industry officials tried Wednesday to find ways of end ing the nation-wide steel strike which is idling thousands of workers daily in allied indus tries and threatening production of secret military items. Many Workers Idled The strike by 650,000 CIO United Steelworkers for higher wages already has idled nearly 50,000 other workers. An addi tional 25,000 are due to be laid off Thursday and another 25,000 by the end of the week. Most are employed in captive coal mines. railroads, iron ore mines and shipping companies. The gravity of the situation was noted by defense production administrator Henry H. Fowler in disclosing that production of some secret military items would be hurt if the steel walkouts lasts more than "four or five days." Iron Age, industry magazine, said the strike would result in the loss of 1,500,000 ingot tons of steel this week. Employment Rolls Cut . The pinch in steel consuming factories was not expected be fore the end of the month, but the strike effects were cutting sharply into employment rolls of the rail and shipping industries and soft coal mines. The New York Central Rail road furloughed 900 men on its lines west of Buffalo and said more layoffs will follow daily." The Pennsylvania railroad said It would lay off 9,000 Thursday. Floyd Hart Elected To Plywood Trustees Gearhart, Ore. Floyd Hart, Medford, president of Timbej Products company and Veneer Products company, today was elected to the board of trustees of the Douglas Fir Plywood asso ciation. The association is hold ing its annual meeting here. Veneer Products company was listed as one of seven new mem bers of the organization. Association members this aft ernoon were slated to begin work on a $1,500,000 plywood promotion program keyed to product improvement and broad er consumer acceptance. Mem bers were urged to "shoulder the responsibilities of business statesmanship" thrust upon them by the growth of the Industry. Portland U.R) The State Board of Health Wednesday named Allen A. French, Port land, as head of Oregon's general sanitation program to replace Clarence E. Cuyler who has been acting director since September. Medford United PressFull Ltued WUl 47th Year 16 Pages Taft's Lead Slim Warren in Easy Ohioan Slightly Increasing Margin With Rural Count Eisenhower Backers Remain Optimistic Washington (U.R) Sen. Robert A. Taft's headquarters Wednesday claimed a victory over Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower in the primary ballot ing for South Dakota's 14 delegates to the Republican National convention. "It appears Bob Taft's vic tory is clinched" in South Da kota, Taft's headquarters said. Pierre. S.D. (U.R) Sen. Rob ert A. Taft and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower were running a photo-finish race in the South Dakota primary Wednesday with Taft slightly increasing a narrow lead as rural returns came in, The retired five-star general was pulling abreast of Taft at the finish with the few remaining precincts to be counted in areas where Eisenhower had shown the most strength. Taft Leads by 896 Votes With 200 of the state's 1,953 precincts yet to be heard from, Taft was 896 votes ahead of Eisenhower. The Ohio senator had 62,279 to the general's 61,383. Taft's narrow lead was being increased slowly as reports crept in from isolated rural precincts throughout the . state. Returns were being reported slowly be4 cause heavy rains turned many of the roads into mud in the iso lated rural areas. ' , . It appeared that the final tin- official , tally would not be known until later Wednesday, and there was a possibility that the official canvass could re verse' the unofficial count. Ik Backer Optimistic Former Gov. George T. Mich elson, Eisenhower's spokesman in the state, was optimistic, and Taft's forces were hesitant to claim victory. Mickelson said that a gain of only 10 votes in each of the miss ing precincts would swing the victory to Eisenhower. In the Democratic race, Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee rode to an apparent easy victory with his slate of eight delegaes. He defeated an unpledged slate committed to vote for native son Sen. Hubert Humphrey, D-Minn., on the first ballot at the conven tion. With 1,621 of 1,953 precincts reported, Kefauver had 19,781 to 10,301 for the unpledged slate. (See story on Page 3) Kefauver, Truman Schedule Meeting Washington (U.R) Sen. Estes Kefauver disclosed Wednesday, on the heels of his latest primary victories In California and South Dakota, that he and President Truman will confer on the Dem ocratic presidential race Thurs day. The Tennessee Democrat, front runner in the wide open race for his party s presidential nomina tion, told a news conference that he asked for and received an ap pointment with Mr. Truman Thursday. "We will discuss what I have been finding in the campaigns throughout the country," Kefau ver said with a broad grin. US Troops Wipe Out Last Koje Defiance Koje Island, Korea (U.R) American troops stormed into three prisoner of war com pounds behind Patton tanks Wednesday and wiped out the last symbols of Communist de fiance on this strife-torn island. In a blitz operation, they rip ped down illegal flags and prop aganda banners, rescued at least 17 bound anti-Communist vic tims of "kangaroo courts." and arrested 75 Red leaders. The ar rested men Included five "com missars" who had directed the defiance of Allied authority and had presided over Red "courts which sentenced at least 115 men to death. Not shot was fired. MEDFORD, OREGON, KANSANS PUT IKE IN "WHITE HOUSE" A workman (left) puts on finishing touches to the "White House" float at Abilene, Kans., for the homecoming parade for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. An estimated 75,000 persons descended on the town of 6500 for the two-day welcome. Council Will Award Bids for Terminal Building at Airport The Medford city council will meet Tuesday, June 10, in the council chamber! of the city hU to awajjl contracts for construe-' lion of the union terminal bullet ing at the Medford municipal air port. The meeting will be an ad journed session from last night's regular council meeting. Bids for construction -of the terminal building will be opened Friday, June 6, at 10 a.m. in the city hall. For Improved Service The proposed terminal build ing will be constructed, in part, with a portion of the $250,000 airport improvement bond Issue approved last fall by Medford voters. It is designed to give im proved service, and to prepare for an expected 50 per cent in crease in use of the airport by 1955. , The building will be the first major construction of its type at the airport, by the city, since Allies Plan Firm Stand in Berlin Washington (U.R) Secre tary of State Dean Acheson served notice Wednesday that the Allies will stand firm in Berlin despite Soviet intimida tion. ' Acheson said the United States, Great Britain, and France agree completely on maintaining the Western toe hold In Berlin, come what may. The secretary told reporters at a news conference that he has made the position of this gov ernment very clear. He added that he had received assurances in conferences with British For eign Secretary Anthony Eden and with French cabinet minis ters that neither. Britain nor France will waver in their de termination to stick it out in Berlin. ON PROBATION Norman George Bursing, 18. of 425 Ross lane, who was sen tenced to three months In. the county Jail for disorderly con duct yesterday morning, was placed on probation at 1:30 p.m. yesterday with sentence suspend ed, depending on good behavior, according to the district attor ney's office. Vatican City (U.R) Pope Pius XII, was stricken with an "in fluenzal attack with fever" and canceled all his audiences for the day, the Vatican announced Wednesday. Weather rORKCASft rlr through Thurt. ttf. Low tanlsht St. Hlh Thursday SS. Temp. ss SI nishMt Yeitemir Lowttt this Morning WEDNESDAY, June 4, in South Dakota; California 17 in tll I the field was dedicated early in July, 1930 i f The council will meet Jointly at 7:30 O'clock tonight with the citizens budget committee. They are scheduled to complete work on the 1952-1953 fiscal budget at that time, according to city of ficials. (See Story on Page 5) Attempt To Curb Rhee Appears Successful Pusan, Korea (U.R) Great Britain supported the United States Wednesday in an appar ently succesful diplomatic pro test against President Syngman Rhee's seizure of power in Ko rea. President Truman, fearing new complications in the deli cate truce talks, induced Rhee to call off plans for dissolving the National assembly "for a few days." Rhee was expected to reply to Mr. Truman Thursday. Rhee has seized control by de claring martial law and has stripped the National assembly of power by forbidding his own supporters to attend. Predicted Rainfall Misses West Oregon By UNITED PRESS A predicted light rainfall for western Oregon failed to mater ialize Wednesday although part ly cloudy skies will dominate the stale's weather picture through Thursday) the weather bureau reported. A few scattered showers were forecast for east of the Cascades. A storm front which moved in land Tuesday was too far north to cause precipitation in west ern Oregon, the weather bur eau said. Ontario was Oregon's hot spot Tuesday with 93 degrees, while Portland had its warmest night of the jear with a low of 63. Contributing Charge Brings Guilty Plea Vernal Holmes Bumgardner Sr., 64, Table Rock road, pleaded guilty yesterday afternoon in cir cuit court to a charge of con tributing to the delinquency of a minor girl, according to the district attorney's office. Bumgardner was arrcsled by state police yesterday after an investigation since Friday of charges that he had been molest ing an eight-year-old girl resi dent in the area. He operates a saw shop on Table Rock road. The plea was made to a dis trict attorney's information after waiver of Indictment, and the case was continued for sentenc ing pending receipt of FBI rec ords, according to Deputy Dis trict Attorney Bob Dickey, Tribune UaJtad rtmruU Liuad WU 1952 No. 64 Kefauver Pockets Convention Votes In Golden State Sen. Knowland Wins Two-Party Reelection San Francisco (U.R) Sen. Estes Kefauver and Republican Gov. Earl Warren of California emerged as winners of the Gold en State's presidential primary election wednesday.s iteiauver pocketed 68 more votes for the Democratic Nation al convention in Chicago in July after beating a delegation of old-line Truman followers head ed by California Attorney Gen eral Edmund G. Brown. Kefauver Claims 251 Votas . Coupled with his victory in Tuesday's South Dakota elec tion, the coon-skin-cap senator from Tennessee now commands 251 convention votes. He needs did 10 win ine nomination. Warren, three times govern or in his home state and a pro ven vote-getter among both Democrats and Republicans, de feated an unpledged slate of del egates which openly admitted It favored either Sen. Robert A. Taft or Gen. Douglas MacArthur for the GOP nomination. Congressman Thomas H. Wer- del, R-Calif., was the nominal head of the Republican slate of delegates which opposed War ren. Knowland Reelected Republican U. S. Sen. William F. Knowland, an outspoken crit ic of the Truman administra tion and particularly of its for eign policies, won reelection, capturing both Democratic and Republican primary contests. He defeated Congressman Clinton D. McKlnnon, D-Callf. Returns from .. 13,346 pre cincts of 19,730 gave Warren 598,382 and Werdcl 260,080. Ke fauver tallied 669,397 and Brown 276,554. (See Story on Page 3) Foreign Aid Measure Approval Expected Washington (U.R) Chairman Tom Connelly of the Senate For eign Relations Committee said "there is no question" that the Senate will approve a compro mise $6,431,000,000 foreign aid bill. Senate-House conferees reach ed agreement Tuesday night on the measure, $1,469,000,000 less than the $7,900,000,000 request ed by President Truman for mili tary economic aid to the free world during fiscal 1953, begin ning July 1. Rep. Robert B. Chlperfclld, H.,j III., a member of the conference committee, said the House prob ably will approve the compro mise legislation, even though It would provide more money than originally voted by the House. Peron Takes Office Oath For Second 6-Year Term Buenos Aires, Argentina (U.R) President Juan D. Peron took his oath of office for a second six-year term Wednesday before a joint session of Congress which cheered his wife with the chant ed slogan, "evlta vice president." Baker, Ore. (U.R) The East ern Oregon District Medical So ciety will hold its 1952 meeting in Baker June 20-21, Dr. C, Pal mer McKim, president of the so ciety, announced Wednesday. Three Salem Attempt To Salem (U.R) Three Salem teen-agers were held Wednesday on charges of assault with in tent to kill for the shooting of Glenn Volz, 25, at his Salem speed shop early Tuesday. In Fair Condition Volz, who was shot four times after he surprised prowlers at his place, was reported in (air condition at Salem General hos pital. State Police Captain Roy How ard identified the arrested teen agers as Roger Allon Howard, 16; Robert L. Morris, 18, and Frank Delano Brewster, 18. Foreign, Domestic Issues Expected To Be Brought Out Retired General in Cornerstone Ceremony Abilene, Kan. (U.R) Re tired Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhow er, smiling broadly, stepped from his special train to home town soil at 12:25 p.m. (CST) Wednesday and was given a rousing greeting by one-time neighbors numbering in the hun dreds. Eisenhower and his party, in cluding Mrs. Eisenhower, pro- Radio Highlights Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhow er's first major political ad dress will be broadcast over both Medford radio stations tonight. The broadcast will or iginate in the general's home town of Abilene, Kan. Radio station KYJC (1230 ke.) was to broadcast the speech direct from 3 to 3:30 p. m., and will also carry a recorded rebroad cast at 10 p. m. Radio station KMED will broadcast a re cording of the speech at 10:30 p. m-, a station spokesman said. t v ceeded on foot about a block to the site of his boyhood home where a museum will be built to hold his war souvenirs. Speaks at Ceremony There, he spoke extemporan eously at the formal corner stone laying of the museum. Those remarks were strictly in keeping with the dedicatory ceremony. He was introduced by Kansas Gov. Edward F. Am. After this brief first public appearance in his home town, the former North Atlantic Treaty organization commander will plunge personally into the 1952 Republican presidential race. His political boosters predict ed he would speak out clearly on foreign and domestic Issues in a talk scheduled at 5 p.m. (CST) from Abilene. At Abilene, banners and bunt ing draped and arched the streets, the first thousands of vis itors were already there, and the forecast was for- clear weather with wheat-ripening tempera--tures of 90 degrees or better. "Eisenhower Day" committee men said the crowd would range from 36,000 to perhaps as many as the 75,000 who jammed the town of 5,736 residents when Eisenhower returned to Abilene after World War II. Formal Political Entry The general returned to Kan sas Tuesday night a few hours after doffing in Washington the uniform he has worn for 40 years. He retired early at the Town House Hotel in Kansas City, Kan., in preparation for the gala homecoming celebration which marks his formal entry into the political field. Returns from the South Da kota primary, in which he waa entered against Sen, Robert A. Taft in their race for Republican presidential nomination, were made available to Eisenhower, but he offered no comment. ' Graduates Eligible For Pilot Training Portland (U.R) Maj. Gen. Thomas E. Rilca, state adjutant general, said Wednesday that high school graduates now are eligible for pilot training in the air national guard. He added that those taking pilot training no longer have to serve two years in the regular Air Force but may be returned for training with air guard units in the state. Previously, two years of col lege was necessary before young men could apply for cadet flight training. BASEBALL NATIONAL New York 2 Chicago 6 Jansen, Wilhelm 7, 1 ( 1 Ken- nedy 8, and Westrumi Rush and Aiwell. Home runsi For Chicago! Sauer, none on. Youths Face Kill Charges Capt. Howard said young Howard signed a statement that he shot Volz. Capt. Howard said the others signed statements that they waited outside, armed with rifles. Painting 'Get-Away' Car Salem Detective Wayne Park er said Morris and Brewster were arrested while they were painting the "get-away" car. A burglary at a service sta tion In Salem suburb Keizer pre ceded the Salem speed shop in cident. Capt. Howard said the same youths burglarized the ser vice station. I 3