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Newspaper Page TextHouse uommittee votes to Extend trice, wage, Kent uontrois ' tt Jt jfL ilv 1 1 THREE FINALISTS Jeanne Shores (center), Miss California of . 1952, is shown with second- and third-place winners of beauty contest , at Santa Cruz June 8. Marilyn Davis (Miss Modesto) placed second, is shown at right, and third-place winner Joyce Engblom (Miss Oakland) is at left. Miss Shores entered contest ! as Miss Alhambra. Top Ringleaders of Compound 15 Victims Koje' Island,- Korea (U.R American military police seized seven top Communist leaders from prisoner Compound 77 where at least 15 victims of kangaroo courts were murdered brutally just before the com pound was evacuated. Paratroopers were searching for "possibly, hundreds", more, anti-Communist victims' of the Red commisars. Death Toll 38 While troops probed the earth for more bodies, camp headquar ters announced the death toll of the savage fight in Compound 76 Tuesday had risen to 38 pris- Roundup Stock Plans Complete Preparations for shipment of stock to be used in the annual Rogue River Roundup, schedul ed here June 14 and 15, have been completed by the Christen sen Brothers ranch in Eugene. The ranch owns one of the top strings of bucking horses and Brahma bulls on the coast, ac cording to the Jackson County Mounted Sheriff's posse, spon sors of the roundup. HiahliKht of the Sunday after noon program will be competi tive drills between SisKiyou, Josephine and Jackson county groups for the Dick Kay trophy. The Jackson county entrants could gain permanent possession of the trophy by winning this year. The "kids show" will start at 1 p.m. Saturday and is open to all children between the ages of 8 and 18. Officials of the event pointed out today that previous publicity submitted regarding a pony to be given to a winning child was in error. They stated the mistake resulted from confu sion regarding a separate pro gram being contemplated by a local business firm. FINED AND JAILED Dewey Hawlcy. 31, San Fran cisco, was fined $10 and given a 5-day jail sentence in police court this morning on a drunk charge, according to city police, They said he is also being held for Myrtle Creek police who hold a warrant charging him with theft of a billfold contain ing $40. Sergeant Who Criticized Clark Faces Court Martial Fort Ord, Calif. (U.R) A 24-year-old Army sergeant said Wednesday he was "astonished" the Army has ordered him to face a court martial trial for crit icizing Gen. Mark Clark's hand ling of the Koje prisoner-of-war camp incident. The court martial was ordered for Sgt. Colonel Dean Chase. Salt Lake City, who said he "could not refrain" from giving Clark a "personal admonition" in a letter written May 16. Clark turned the letter over to 6th Army headquarters in San 77 Seized; Murdered oners. Seven died in a hospital Wednesday. One American was killed ' and 14 wounded, and more than 150 prisoners were wounded. The seven were grabbed in one of the new 500-man com pounds as they were returning to their barracks from an hour of athletics. They had beentrans ferred Wednesday mdrning along with soms 6,000 other North Korean inmates of No. 77. Face QuMioning MP's marched them away, for questioning. It was assumed they would be held in solitary con finement as are some 20. other leaders of the 'Red fanatics. The 15 died at the hands of fellow prisoners in the last 12 hours before the compound was cleared. Troopers found the hor ribly mutilated bodies after tips from anti-Communist prisoners, one of whom said he too was slated for death but escaped. They had been strangled, stabbed and beaten. Men of the 187th Airborne Regiment, hardened to the grisly sights of the battlefield, were appalled by the tortures that had been inflicted on the victims. Eight in One Well Burned, garroted bodies were lifted from wells and ditches. Eight were found in one well, two more in a well 50 yards away. Four lay face down in the slime of a ditch and another was alone in a trench. Train, Car Collisions Kill 2 Oregon Women By UNITED PRESS Two women were killed with in 40 minutes of each other Wed nesday in separate accidents when their cars were struck by different Southern Pacific trains between Portland and Salem, state police reported. Doris Keith, Canby, was kill ed when the car in which she was riding was struck, by the Ashland-Portland local No. 330 at Hubbard. Mrs. Fred Taylor, 37 of Mil waukie, was killed when a car was struck by a northbound freight in Milwaukie. Salem U.R Cherry pick ing prices in the Willamette val ley may be as low as three cents a pound this season, compared to 4'4 cents last year. Francisco with the-notation the 6th Army could take "any action you consider appropriate." In his letter. Chase said Clark had committed a "repugnant and disgraceful" act in repudiating the agreement under which Communist prisoners of war on Koje released Col. Francis T. Dodd. former Koje camp com mander. "Koje is a name whose infamy will now echo through the pages of history in company with Da chau, Nordhausen, Buchenwald, et al." Chase wrote. Medford United Prtu ruU LHied Wkra 47th Year 20 Pages Knowland Boomed As Running Mate On GOP Ticket .Taft, Ike Backers Eyeing Californian . Washington (U.R) The hottest tip in the political books is the booming chance of Sen. William F. Knowland, R-Calif., to win the Republican vice-presidential nomination, regardless of who gets the top spot. The bitterly-warring forces of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Sen. Robert A. Taft have both been eyeing the husky 44-year-old Californian with fervent in terest since he led even Gov. Earl Warren in the recent Cali fornia primaries. Knowland won re-nomination for the Senate on both the Democratic and Repub lican , tickets under California's "cross-filing" system. Safe Prediction One nationally-known Repub lican figure, a declared neutral in the Eisenhower-Taft scrap ping, said the safest prediction in the nip-and-tuck GOP contest is that Knowland will get the second spot on the ticket regard less of whether Taft or Eisen hower gets the presidential nom ination. ..... The Taft camp cheered and the Eisenhower camp deplored the selection of Gen. Douglas MacArthur as convention . key noter. Taft called it an excellent choice, but Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.,.R?Mss. Eisenhower's campaign manager, said pointed ly that "we would have prefer red someone impasial.", Compromise Possible j Although MacArthur has dis avowed any interest in - getting the GOP nomination for himself, and has been identified as a Taft backer, some informed GOP sources speculated that the gen eral's appearance as keynoter will enhance his own stature as a possible compromise candidate in event of a Taft-Etsenhower deadlock. Sen. Richard M. Nixon, ' R- Calif., who is backing " Warren for the GOP nomination, said he is confident MacArthur will not use his keynote address to plug Tuft's candidacy. He said the general is "too big" for that. (See ttorr on Page 12) ' Committee on DST Abandons Efforts Portland (U.R) The Ore gon state committee for daylight saving time Wednesday aban doned the campaign for an ini tiative uniform daylight time in the state. The action was taken to avert "much needless ill will" between the cities and rural sections of Oregon. Officials of the committee said they felt voluntary adoption of fast time "was in the best democratic tradition" and that the committee believes in time the summer time system will be adopted in Oregon as it has been in widespread a r 1 1 1 of the world. California Soldier Guilty of Murder Nuernberg. Germany (U.R) A second 19-year-old soldier was found guilty by a U. S. army general court-martial Wednes day of the murder and robbery of two German civilians. Pvt. Richard A; Hagelberger, Chula Vista, Calif., faced a pos sible death sentence. The board of. 10 officers trying the young draftee will pass sentence Thurs day. The alleged trigger man in the murder, Pvt. John S. Vlgneault of Golfs Falls, N.H., was sen tenced to death by hanging by another court-martial here on May 22. Milton Woman Elected To Eastern Star Post Portland (U.R) Mrs. Fannie McGrew, Milton, has been elected to ' a five-year term on the Jurisdiction committee of the Eastern Star's grand chapter Of Oregon. SEIOTE MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1952 beats ( 1x4 WILLIAM J. WARNER Named President of Firm iam J. Warner Elected President Of Savings Firm Election of William J. Warner as president of the Jackson County Federal Savings and Loan Association was announced today by the board of directors of the institution. He succeeds John C. Mann whose death oc curred on May 25. The association has had but two presidents since its organization in 1917. C. M.-Kidd served from that year until his passing in 1946, and Mr. Mann since 1947. President Warner, a Medford residence since 1894, was post master from 1921 to 1934. After leaving that office he engaged in wholesale bulb growing until his recent retirement. He has long, been identified with the savings, and loan concern, and N? served' on theboarq of directors since 1934." ' "" "-' ' ".' ; The new president, in a state ment following his election, said a continuation of the associa tion's, conservative, policies, which have proved so successful in the past, would be his endea vor. The association, one of the largest in the state, now has as sets of over $6,500,000, having added $1,000,000 in the past year. . Body of Boy Found In Rogue River, Police Report Says State police were notified this afternoon that a fisherman to day found the body of a boy in about three feet of water in the Rogue river downstream from the Bybee bridge, which car ries Table Rock road across the river. The body was not identified up to 1 o'clock this afternoon, but officers pointed out that eight-year-old Gary Larson has been missing and presumed drowned in the Rogue river since June 1, when he fell in the water while fishing near Casey stale park, some 30 miles upriver from Bybee bridge. Police said that the finding of the body was reported to them via telephone by Craig Orange. 328 North .Central avenue. They have sent an officer to investi gate, and County Coroner Carlos Morris also was en route to the scene, accompanied by members of the Einer Larson family. 1011 West 11th street, parents of the missing boy. Orange told police the body was near the banks of the riv er about half a mile downstream from the bridge, on the Table Rock side. - Sound Proposals Requested by Allies Panmunjom, Korea (U.R) The Allies told the Communists Wednesday to lay down some useful truce proposals or face a newv walkout by negotiators of the United Nations command. Gen. Mark W. Clark, supreme commander, told the Commu nist high command in a note that dally meetings in the truce tent here are useless unless the Reds have "a new proposal to make which offers the possibility of substantial progress toward an armistice." Salem U.R) Gov. Douglas McKay said Wednesday he has appointed Wendell H. Tompkins of Albany as district Judge for Linn county. Tompkins will as sume the post July 1. -vri ' SEME Morse's Proposal For Temporary Authority Loses Taft-Hartley Use Considered Unlikely WaShington (U.R) The Senate Wednesday defeated an other attempt to give President Truman seizure power in the steel dispute. , It rejected by a 54 to 26 roll call vote a proposal by Sen. Wayne Morse, R-Ore., to give the President authority to seize plants for 60 days subject to congrtssional veto when na tional emergency strikes occur or threaten. Three Proposals Beaten Tuesday within six hours af ter Mr. Truman asked a joint session of Congress for tempor ary authority to seize the strike- idled iteel plants the Senate defeated three proposals that would have contained such authority. Instead, it had pushed through a proposal to "request" the President to invoke the Taft Hartley law and obtain an anti- strike injunction against the 650,000 CIO Steelworkers who struck June 2 minutes after the Supreme Court voided Mr. Tru man's April 8 seizure of the steel industy. Offered At Amendment Morse had offered his pro posal as an amendment to the pending defense production eco nomic controls bill. . ; White House sources consld ered it "extremely unlikely" that Mr. Truman would put Taft-Hartley machinery into roo: Hon on the basis of Tuesday s Seiiate action. - They - indicated the President was hopeful the Senate might reverse itself, or that the House might take a dif ferent view. , Would Return Bill Chairman Burnet R. Maybank, D-S.C, said he will try to send the entire economic controls bill back to his Senate Banking Com mittee unless the Senate gives Mr. Truman powers to deal with the steel crisis. He said that Con gress might as well let all eco nomic controls lapse at the end of this month if it is going to deny the President "effective weapons to get steel production rolling again. Morse said there is a "delu sion" that the Ttift-Hartley act would keep production going. "It just hain't so," the schol arly former law school dean said. Will Invite Russia To Meet With West London (U.R) Britain and France decided Wednesday to invite Russia to meet with the Western powers on the subject of Germany, provided the Unit ed States is willing. The French goverrunent for mally announced its decision aft er a three-hour Cabinet meeting Cabinet instructions were given to French Foreign Minister Rob ert Schuman in preparation for his meeting June 27 in London with U. S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson and British For eign Secretary Anthony Eden. American Casualties In Korea Now 109,712 Washington (U.R) The De fense Department said Wednes day that announced American battle casualties In Korea now total 109,712, an increase of 553 over last week. ' The total Includes casualties whose next of kin had been noti fied through last Friday. It does not include all casualties through that date because, it nor mally takes one to three weeks to notify next of kin. Plane Spray s Creek Areas for Mosquitoes Insect control spraying opera Hons was conducted over Bear creek, from Cottage to Jackson streets, and over Hawthorne park, early today, according to city officials. A Medford Atr service plane was used for the work, they stated. The spraying program is aim ed at controlling Insects, particu larly mosquitoes, along the creek and in Hawthorne park. It is the first time such a program has been tried here, . 1 nnTTiTTTn 7JL JL,J JL1JL United Prtii rull Lcaied W No.0V FINE SHAKE Gen. Dwight Eisenhower (Rep.) shakes hands with Gov. John S. Fine of Pennsylvania, at Eisenhower's Columbia University residence. Fine is chairman of Pennsylvania's 70-vote G. O. P. convetnion delegation. He said he was visiting the general to talk "practical politics." . Bid of $135,039 OK'd For Airport Building by Frank- R.- Fairweather. last! night, was: awarded the contract; for 'construction of a union ter-l minal building at the Medford' municipal airport. .Amount of the successful bid was $135,039, 05.,, . .,- ..' . City officials stated that Fair-! weather's specified completion time 90 days, was an important factor in awarding the contract. The next shortest completion time specified in the bids was 150 days, they said. Six firms five from Medford and one from Grants Pass, bid on the project. The contract was awarded on the basis of a "normal" bid plus five alternate bids. To Start Soon Work on the building will start as soon as preliminary d- tails have been completed, ac cording to City Superintendent Robert Duff, and is expected within 10 days. The council also accepted a Civil Aeronautics Administra tion grant offer to be used in construction of the building. The CAA will participate in con struction of the terminal with 58 per- cent of the necessary funds, or an amount not to ex ceed $97,096. A total of 44 per cent of the cost of the building will be sup plied by the city from a portion of the . proceeds of a $250,000 irport improvement bond issue approved by Medford voters lastl IHil. J Also In connection with the airport, the council authorized purchase of the United Air lines building for a price of $15,200, and lease of space in the new building to the air line. Cost of the UAL building was also shar Nearly Full Audience Sees Circus Last Night '. Clyde Bcatty's Wild Animal circus played to a nearly full house at the Medford - fair grounds last night, despite cold and rainy weather. A variety of acts was present ed by the three-ring circus which features Beatty's famous animal act with lions and tigers in the same arena. Acts Including tight and loose wire performers, trapeze artists, Juggling, trained horse, dog and elephant routines, and others were performed by members of the troupe. A light crowd attended the matinee performance which was about one-third full. The circus Is being presented today in Grants Pass. Phoenix, Talent Paving Contract Awarded Salem U.R) The State Highway Commission Tuesday awarded a Jackson county pav ing job to United Constructing Co. of Portland on low bid of $24,218 50. The project Involves .59 mile of paving In Phoenix and Tal ent. There were two higher bids, . V y jther .ECAST: Cloudy and cold rfith frequent ihowert to night. Decreasing ihoweri and ' lightly warmer Thursday. Low tonight 35-38. Hljh Thursday 60. Temp. Highest Yesterday 2 Lowest this Mornlnc 39 Terminal Council ed on a 58-44 basis by the fed eral- government and the city, Bureau Lease Renewed Alease for weather bureau facilities at the airport was re newed by the council In other action, the council approved a request by the city of Central Point for additional sewer connections outside the corporate limits of the city. Be tween 12 and 15 connections, on a meter basis, are involved. Superintendent Duff was In structed by the council to con tact attorneys for the Fluhrer estate regarding repairs to spur railroad track crossings on Fourth and Fir streets. Lots in Sutherland Terrace ad dition, near the intersection of 14th and Peach streets, were re moved from the city Darks and playgrounds system by the coun cil. It is expected that thev will be placed on the DUblic sale list in the future, according to city omciais. v (Set Story on Page II) Britain Dangerously Nearing Bankruptcy ''Lo'ndon-4U.R) Prime Minister Winston Churchill said Wednes day that Britain is In peril of losing all ' her possessions and glory because she is dangerous ly near economic bankruptcy. Churchill gave his warnings dramatically during a speech al a luncheon of the British Press Association. Britain, he said, Is standing on a "treacherous trap door" which may fall beneath It at any time He was urging newspaper men to put the facts of Britain's economic plight before Britons and the world when he startled his hearers with his warning, ran Grand Jury To Get Request For Bridge Safety Probe A request for an Investigation of the safely of the river bridge at Rogue River will be presented to the Jackson county grand jury sometime late this month or early next, District Attorney Paul Haviland said today. The city council of Rogue Riv er recently wrote the district at torney, making a request for "a grand jury, investigation of the safety of the county bridge which crosses Rogue river from our city to the highway." Bad Concrete Blamed A section of the bridge floor ing fell from the bridge May 28, and the failure of the defective section was blamed on bad con crete. A sample has been lent to the State Highway commission laboratory in Salem for analysis. Haviland explained that two members of the grand jury are out of town, and that the full jury could not be assembled be- fore the end of June or the first Action Would End Restrictions On nstallment Buying Government Price Support Approved Washington (U.R) The House Banking Committee vot- . ed Wednesday to extend price, wage, and rent controls until June 30, 1953, and to abolish ' all restrictions on installment buying and down payments on houses. In a surprise move, it also adopted an amendment which would force the government to keep price supports at present high levels of 90 per cent of parity for basic farm crops next year. , Ends Credit Curbs The committee's action on consumer credit would junk all remaining credit curbs on pur chase of housing. These curbs are contained in Regulation X. This regulation was relaxed, ef fective Wednesday, by the gov ernment and permits lower down payments on houses. The committee also would ab olish the present voluntary cred it restraint program and prohibit the government from restoring installment buying curbs which were suspended recently. New Legislation Sought The committee's actions were taken as it drove to hammer out new legislation to replace the present Defense Production Act which expires June 30. Aides said the committee may com plete final action on the bill Thursday. The Senate already has voted to extend controls over prices, wages and rents for eight months until February 28. 1953. The controls measure on which the Senate still is working pro vides, however, for a one - year extension of allocation and cred it control authortiy. president Truman had re quested a two-year extension'. Request Rejected The committee rejected Mr. Truman's request for restora tion of authority to impose slaughtering quota controls ov er meat animals. - The farm price support ami endment would assure continued nign level supports next year for wheat, corn, cotton, tobacco; peanuts ana rice. . ,..n ,. Approved overwhelmingly, It says that any price supports an- nounced for these crops while' price control authority is on the books must be set at 90 per cent of parity. - ! A Two Persons Hurt In Bus, Car Crash Yoncalla, Ore. (U.R) A south-' bound bus with about 40 passen gers aboard overturned after a collision with a car north of here Tuesday nifht but only two of the passengers required hos pitalization, state police, re ported. Police said a car driven by Thelma Geneva Wiley, Yoncalla, had Just made a left turn onto the highway when the accident occurred. Mrs. Wiley told offic ers she did not see the bus coming. " The bus. driven by Edwood Sterling Westphall, Eugene, started around her but could not avoid a collision, The bus ended Up on its side. ' Names of the two Injured pas sengers, who were taken to a Cottage Grove hospital, were not learned Immediately. Salem (U.R) Funeral ser ices were planned for Wednes day aflernoon for Mrs. Susan Alice Litchfield, 82 -year -old Salem resident whose badly beaten body was found in the shed of her home here Sunday.: Michigan City, Ind. U.R) Elsie, a three-year-old Holstein cow, nursed a rare set of quad ruplet calves Wednesday. of July. The jury meets at the call of the district attorney or upon its own instigation, he said. The Rogue River council's let ter to Haviland continued: "It is understood by the coun cil that County Engineer Paul B. Rynning has proclaimed the bridge safe for travel. However, citizens of the community and surrounding areas find it diffi cult to feel easy about the mat ter since the cement has begun to break and even fall through. Cite 'Deep Interest' "It is of deep Interest and con cern to us that everything pos sible be done to avoid any chance of accident, and it would be greatly appreciated if you would give this matter imme diate consideration." City Recorder Orva Jean Cruise signed the letter on be half of the council. Traffic Is now going over the bridge, which was repaired after the section fell through."