House uommittee votes to Extend trice, wage, Kent uontrois
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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.
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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
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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.
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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,
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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
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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
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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."