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r Recommended Weather MEDFORD A feature story en the meta equoU tree-, 60,000,000 years old, recently rediscovered in China and from which seeds have been taken all over the world. Including the Roue val ley, appears on Pace 8 of today'! Issue of The MaU Tribune. 3UNE FORECAST Partly cloudy to day with clear in e tonight Fair Monday, continued cool er. Hlih today 65-88, low tonight 38-40. High Monday, 70-75. Temp. n I Chest yesterday ... 41 Lowest yesterday 42 Unitad Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wirt 47th Year 26 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 1952 No. 73 4 A I AFTER THE BATTLE American medical men tend to wounded Communist prisoners after para troopers cleaned out Compound 76 on Koji Island, Korea. The compound was the resistance center for fMB fanatical Reds. Thoueh not a shot was fired in the wild, three-hour battle, one American and 31 " Communists were killed. Fourteen Americans and 139 Beds were wounded. UN Finds More Evidence Of Fresh POW Execution Beating by Reds Said Death Cause In Koje Compound Members of "Court" Believed Identified Koje Island, Korea, Sunday U.R) Camp authorities discov ered evidence of a fresh "execution" in one of the new 800-man Communist war prison er compounds here today. A prisoner doctor delivered a body to the gates of enclosure Number eight and stated the man died from wounds in last week's bloody fighting" in compound 76. An American doctor, however, said the prisoner was beaten to death after being moved to the new smaller enclosure. His bay onet wounds from the compound 76 fighting had already begun to heal when he was killed, the doctor said. American intelligence officers said today they believe they have identified a 15-man "kangaroo court" responsible for the execu tion of 16 men in former, "mur der compound 77." The Red "court" was picked out by an anti-Red prisoner in one of the 500-man compounds who escaped its sentence by flee ing under a barbed wire fence. Officers said it was probably the game Red "court" that operated in No. 77. Allied soldiers easily put down three minor rebellions in the new small compounds with tear gas Saturday. The pint-sized prisoner who identified the "kangaroo court" also pointed out 102 Communist ringleaders in his compound. The 102 hard-core Commun ists include a 15-man kangaroo court which a short time earlier had sentenced the four-foot en listed man to death. Also among them was a North Korean lieu tenant colonel Rhee identified as the No. 1 Red on Koje. The enlisted man's flight to nfntv frppH from Communist terror 273 other prisoners who violently denounced their Red comrades and asked to be separ ated from them. This brought to 783 the number of prisoners, wno have denounced Communisln in 'five days. George Owens, 18, Klamath Falls, suffered a broken leg Sat urday evening near the top of Greensprings mountain when his car turned over and is being treated in Sacred Heart hospital according to attendants. Details of the accident were not avail able at press time from the state police. SPORTSBULLEflNS Sacramento, Calif. (U.P.) - -Plump Kan Gables gave San Diego a run in the first Inning that blanked the Pidrei for the remaining eight Saturday night, while Sacramanto turned hit eight-hitter into a 4-1 victory over the league leaders. The win was the Sc ions' fourth of the series. Bandon defeated the Med ford Cheney Studs last night 7 to S. Derald Woolen receiv ed the lots. He was relieved in the third Inning by Cliff Py land who allowed only three hill and shut out Bandon the rest of the way. Frank Roe landt hit four for live times at bat for the Stud. TESTIFYING before Senate Foreign-Relations committee, Seore tary of State Dean Acheson urges ratification of German treaty. (International Soundphpto) Soviet Appointment Of Andrei Gromyko Brings Speculation Washington (li.R) Ameri can officials speculated Satur day that Andrei A. Gromyko, as Russian ambassador to Britain, may seek to divide Britain and the United States on a common approach to world peace. The significance of the major shift of Soviet diplomats in Washington, London, and Pei ping had American officials groping for some explanation of whether it meant the Kremlin's policies will change. May Work on Split Some saw in Gromyko's dis patch to London indications that his task may be to work on the growing split on foreign policy between the out-of-office Labor party and Winston Churchill's Conservative government. Britain's Labor party criticiz ed again Friday some major U. S. foreign policies and called for new elections in western Ger many before any German rearm ament begins. It may be Gromyko's task to play up the Laborites by offer ing concessions in a major new diplomatic peace offensive that would widen further differences between Washington, London, and Paris. The Soviets have been calling steadily for a new Big Four con ference with the U.S., Britain, and France on Germany unity to stop West German rearma ment. Postmaster Nominations Made for Valley Towns Parker T. Hess, Ashland, and Howard C. Nutt, Shady Cove, have been nominated for perma nent appointments as postmaster in their communities, according to press dispatches from Wash ington, D.C. President Truman sent the nominations lo the senate last week. Radio Highlights Sen. Wayne Morse. R-Ore., will be a guest on "Meet the Press" on radio station KMED (1440 ke) at S o'clock this eve ning. At 4:30 p.m. Sen. Estes Kefauver and Sen. Robert Taft will discuss their foreign and domestic pslicies on tiie "American Forum of the Air." .. .... . .JTT- . . . -:dC . . -XI . , v .W Allied Truce Team Agrees to Return To Monday Session No Progress Reported From Saturday Meeting Tokyo, Sunday (U.R) The patience of United Nations truce negotiators held for another day as the Allied team met with the Communists for 35 minutes at Panmunjom today . and agreed to return again Monday. ' " Before the session United Na tion's "'negotiators"" hinted they might walk out of the n Korean truce talks in another three-day recess if the Communists refused to say something new on the deadlocked issue of prisoner re patriation. Consents to Demand Chief U. N. negotiator Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison con sented to a Communist demand for another session. "Absolutely no progress" was the U.N.'s report on Saturday's meeting. Harrison imposed a three-day recess last week when he wear ied of long Communist tirades against U.N. treatment of war prisoners on Koje island and their refusal to discuss the ac tual matter holding up a truce. He agreed to meet yesterday only after a short consultation with other delegates as to whe ther the meeting was "worth while" in the absence of any new offers by the Communists. UN Stand Final In an 11-minute statement Harrison repeated that the U.N. stand on war prisoners is final, but he offered to explain or clar ify it if the Reds wished. The U.N. insists that anti-Communist war prisoners should not be forced to return to the Commun ist side; this is the only issue holding up an armistice. North Korean Lt. Gen. Nam II replied in mild tones but he gave no Indication the Reds have changed their own stand. Fruit Growers Between Anti The president of the Jackson County Fruit Growers league Saturday denied that anti-hail cloud-seeding has had any effect on rainfall in the area.- . W. G. Beard Jr., 119 Newtown street, president of the fruit growers, also pointed out that fruit men of the area have just as much at stake in normal rain fall as do members of the Mois ture Conservation league. The fruit growers, who have joined with the Traffic associa tion to hire pilots to seed clouds in attempts to prevent hail damage to fruit in the valley, have been under heavy attack because of a widely-held opinion that the fliers prevent rain from falling. Claims Ns Connection "If we had any reason to be lieve that the fliers are cutting down on rainfall, we'd stop spon soring them right now. Beard said. "We are convinced, how ever, on the basis of facts and figures, that there is no relation ship between anti-hail flying and precipitation figures that is, iraln." Attorney General Announces Three Top Resignations Circumstances Point To Clean-Up Start Washington (U.R) Attorn ey General James P. McGranery Saturday announced the resig nations of three top Justice De partment officials in circum stances strongly suggesting he was beginning his long anti cipated departmental clean-up. At a press conference In Phil adelphia, where he was spending the week-end at his home, Mc Granery said he had accepted resignations of H. Graham Mor ison, assistant attorney general in charge of the anti-trust div ision; Harold I. Baynton, assis tant attorney general and dir ector of the office of alien prop erty and William A. Underhill, Baynton's assistant in charge of the Lands Division. Rep. Patrick J. Hillings, (R- Calif.), who called the turn on the three resignations before McGranery announced them said "McGranery apparently is de termined to carry out his pledge to clean up the Justice Depart ment." Hillings also predicted "fur ther heads will roll." But he mentioned no names. Hillings is a member of the House Judiciary subcommittee, headed by Rep. Frank L. Chelf, (D-Ky.), which has been investi gating the Justice Department. Besides the three men who left the department today, the Chelf committee has, at var ious times, been critical of Dep uty Attorney General A. Devitt Vanech, Assistant Attorney Gen eral Joseph C. Duggan and, to a lesser degree, Solicitor Gen eral Philip B. Perlman. Hillings declined to predict whether any of these three might be on the way out. Senator McMahqn Urges Production Of Many H-Bombs Washington (U.R) Sen. Brian McMahon (D-Conn.) Satur day urged production of thou sands of H-bombs for battlefield use to deter the Kremlin from waging war "and win us time to wage peace." McMahon is chairman of the House - Senate Atomic Energy committee and the first respon sible official to i n d i c a t e that H-bombs, big brothers to the A bombs, could be used in a tactical role against enemy forces in the field. He made it clear that the Unit ed States is on the verge of perfecting the dread hydrogen bomb. But he did not confirm reports that the Atomic Energy commission will test its first H bomb at Eniwetok this fall. McMahon, who is a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, made his proposal in a speech delivered by tele phone from, Washington to the Connecticut State Democratic convention at Hartford. He outlined a five-point pro gram "for security, solvency, and peace"' should he be elected president. One point called for a meeting of the chiefs of state within the United Nations Secur ity council "to consider ways and means of disarming this earth and developing this earth." Head Says No Connection - Hail Flvinq and Rainfall Referring to two letters from readers, which appeared in Fri day's Mail Tribune and which indicated a belief that the pilots were responsible for dispersing clouds resulting In an unseasonal cold snap, Beard stated that weather bureau figures show conclusively that the cold was not a local situation. "Cloud seeding here could not have affected the weather pat tern over the entire Pacific coast," Beard said. Drouth "Dlitiieroui" to Fruit He went on to point but how and why fruit men, too, stand to lose from lack of rain. Last year. for Instance, the pear packout was only 57 per cent of the crop, compared to a normal 75 per cent, due to lack of sizing of pears, Beard said. The lack o( sizing was a direct result of last year's drouth, he added, and was "disastrous to fruit men. But he also said that the drouth could not be attributed to the hail experiment it was general all over the western part of the state. Senator Taft Says Delegate Disputes Must Go to States Convention May Get Hot Texas Argument Washington (U.R) Sen. Robert A. Taft said Saturday the Republican National committee was following a rule, written by his present opponents, in refer ring disputes over delegates to the National Convention back to the states for settlement. He added, however, that the most hotly contested argument over southern delegates, involv ing the 38 from Texas, may have to be settled by the National convention. Talks With Reporters The Ohio candidate for the Re publican presidential nomina tion discussed the southern con tests with reporters after the GOP National committee had announced the referral of some disputes to state Republican committees and conventions. Republicans ' supporting Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower for the presidential nomination are pre paring to carry fights over contested southern delegates particularly in Texas, Louisiana and Georgia to the convention floor. The latest United Press tabula tion gives Taft 468 delegate votes and Eisenhower 399. To win the nomination 604 votes are needed. Contests to States The national committee an nounced Friday night that it had referred contests over 11 sou thern delegates elected by dis tricts back to the states. Eight elected at large from Mississippi and Louisiana, were referred to the national convention. ' Taft commented that the com mittee had merely followed the rule written in 1944 and reaf firmed in 1948 by supporters of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, the GOP presidential nominee in both years. Dewey is now one of the leading backers of Eisenhower, Taffs chief rival for the 1952 nomination. Large Crowd Sees First Roundup Show A near capacity crowd of about 2,500 people braved heavy rains during part of the rodeo show last night at the 11th An nual Rogue River Roundup. There were no accidents despite slippery footing. The rodeo is also scheduled for 1 o'clock to day with competitive drills by mounted posse groups. A parade was held preceding the rodeo last night with posse groups from Jackson, Josephine and Douglas counties participa ting, and the Medford Senior high school band, a soap box derby float, and ancient red Model T Ford sponsored by the Larson-May company. L. Garland Ellsworth, Box 81, Talent, a clown in the parade fell from a wagon which broke in front of Fluhrer's building, and was taken to Community hospital by Conger-Morris am bulance. He was released after x-rays were taken which show ed no serious Injuries, hospital attendants said. This year, by comparison, has had good rainfall, with both May and June having above normal rains, and the seasonal ralnfa't figure is also above normal, he pointed out. Beard himself, as well as other members of the league, also are Interested in many acres of "dry" land, he said, and he added that their need for rain is as great as anyones. Protest Flights The Moisture Conservation league was organized recently in order to protest the hail-busting flights, and members say the fliers prevent rain. They cite thrpe dry years 1949, 1950 and 1951 during which flights were made. The fliers, on the other hand, have pointed out that weather bureau statistics show the three years were dry throughout the state, not just In the Rogue val ley. And they also say that rain fall this year has been above normal. They have seeded clouds several times since the hail sea son started April 1. First Atomic Sub Near Completion, President States Groton, Conn. (U.R) Pres ident Truman disclosed Satur day that the . first atomic sub marine engine will be in opera tion soon and predicted it would open a new era as revolution ary as that set off by the inven tion of the ocean steamship. Mr. Truman gave a glowing report on the nation's atomic energy progress at ceremonies for the laying of the keel of the $40,000,000 USS Nautilus, the world's fi r s t atomic-powered submarine. Significance Tremendous "The military significance of this vessel is tremendous," Mr. Truman told a crowd of 10,000 persons at the flag day cere monies. "The engine of the Nau tilus will have as revolutionary effect on the navies of the world as did the first ocean steamship 120 years ago. "... This vessel is the fore runner of atomic-powered mer chant ships and airplanes, of atomic power plants producing electricity for factories, farms and homes. Mr. Truman took the occasion British Government Worker Held as Spy London (U.R) A British foreign office employee with ac cess to Buper-sccet .British cod ed material, Saturday was order- Medford Fire Chief Announces Plans Of Home Inspection Medford Fire Chief Gordon Barker yesterday announced a new plan for the Inspection of the city's homes for fire hazards. The program which will be purely voluntary will begin to morrow morning, he said. 'Every house fire we've had in the past year has been pre ventable," Barker pointed out. The new plan is designed to as sist homeowners of Medford to find and eliminate the hazards which cause needless fires. Cites Carelessness "Practically all fires are caus ed by pure carelessness of one sort or another," Barker contin ued. The fires here Included those caused by stoves too close to walls, smoking in bed, frayed extension cords, and other caus es which a little care would have eliminated. Barker said that in Portland, when a similar home-inspection plan was inaugurated, home fir-' es dropped by 28 per cent. Simi lar results have been noted in the business area here since in spections there were begun. The Job, to be done under the direction of Fire Marshal Tru man Nelson, will be performed by trained teams of firemen. They will travel In a radio equipped truck, with one man staying in the truck to listen for calls, while the other will make the inspection. By Invitation Inspections will be made in homes where firemen are "invit ed in," either as they make tours of a, neighborhood, or by tele phon calls to the fire department headquarters, at 2-2790. Anyone wishing to have his home in spected is invited to call. The Inspecting fireman will make out a report on the house, and a copy will be given the homeowner, with any recom mendations which may be made Last year, Medford averaged one house fire each three days, Barker said. There were several deaths resulting, Nation- wide fire statistics showed that 8.000 people died in home fires each year; more than half of them children under 10 years of age. Salem (U.R) Elling Hal- vorson, president of the Halver- son Construction company of Salem, died Thursday In St. Paul, Minn., of a heart attack the firm announced here Satui day. fief NO to criticize Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, without naming him, for talking about a $40 bil lion tax cut. He warned against cut-rate, bargain counter" pol icies, which he said would severely hurt the nation's de fense effort. But most of the president's speech was devoted to the new submarine and the "marvelous new things it foreshadows. Nearing Completion Speaking under a bright sun in the boat yard of the Electric Boat division of t h e General Dynamics Corp., Mr. Truman proudly revealed that the con struction of a dry-land submar ine w i t h .a full-size working engine was nearing completion and "soon" would be ready for tests. When a similar engine is in stalled in the Nautilus, he said it will enable the submarine to trdvel at a speed of more than 20 knots, with a few pounds of uranium giving the craft enough fuel to travel thousands of miles at top speed. The Nautilus will be able to stay under water In definitely, he said. ed held for trial on charges of passing information to the Sov iet embassy in London He was identified as William Martin Marshall; 24, who served one year in the British embassy In Moscow. A foreign office radio opera tor, Marshall was charged speci fically with violation of Brit ain's official secrets act by pass ing information "useful to any enemy to Povel Kuznetsov, a second secretary in the Soviet embassy. . . The charge carries a possible penalty of from three to 14 years imprisonment. Information Not Told It was not disclosed what in formation Marshall is alleged to have given the Russians. In his capacity as radio opera tor in the foreign office monitor, station, authoritative sources said, he had access to both open and coded material. Although there was no official comment, well-informed sources said privately that there was no indication that the Soviets had broken any secret British codes. Marshall denied the charges against him and was ordered held for trial next week in an emotion-packed, four-minute ap pearance in London's tiny southwestern magistrate's court. Appointments Taken For Blood Donations Up to noon Saturday, 158 per sons had made appointments to give blood next Wednesday dur ing the visit of the area's blood mobile, it was reported by blood program workers. They said they hope to have 325 appointments by the time the blood center opens at 1 p. m, June 18 at the Elks Temple. Blood donation will continue un til 6 p. m. that day. Telephone number to call lo make an appointment is 3-3813. May Fireball Over Seattle Believed 50 Miles m Air Seattle (U.R) A meteor expert said Saturday that a fire ball that rumbled across the heavens, routing thousands of atomic bomb-conscious Seattle residents from their beds early May 11, was 50 miles high. J. Hugh Pruett, Pacific reg ional director of the American Meteor society, sent question aires and measuring instruments to some 80 persons who reported witnessing the most spectacular meteor ever seen in the North west. With reports received from as far south as the Oregon-California border and east to west ern Montana. Pruett plotted the path of the meteor. . Pruett'i charts thow the me DEALS General Urges US To Hit Corruption Where It Arises" Large Crowd Cheers Free-Swinging Speech Detroit (U.R) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower said Saturday night that he was a "no deal" nomination for the Republican nominatio nfor president and urged Americans to wipe out corruption "wherever lt arises." In a free-swinging political speech before a crowd of 10,000, the retired five-star general said he entered the presidential arena without obligations. No Deal" Man "Not a single soul has ap proached me," the general de clared. "I'm strictly a no deal man." He said he has "no political debts" except that a Virginia delegate the other day brought him a ham. Casting aside prepared texts on which he labored long and hard. Eisenhower set out in his speech before a shouting throng in Olympia stadium to answer some of the questions he has been asked since he returned to the United States as a presidential candidate two weeks ago. ' As the World war II comman der of Allied defense forces in Europe, one of the questions has been why he didn't capture Ber lin, which has been a focal point of East-West troubles since 194S. Explains at Length He explained it at length, list ing some of the military and po litical problems and the tremen dous costs Involved in taking tha German capital. He disclaimed any responsibil ity lor the much oritlcized decis ions of Yalta and Potsdam. He said he made two recom mendations at Potsdam and both were disregarded." The first, he said, was against a di vision of Germany into East West zones, the other was "that we do not Invite Russia to get into the Japanese war." "I have been asked about cor ruption," he said. "My reaction is the same aa that of any other American. We expect Americans to fight cor ruption wherever lt arises. And, we can do lt without besmirch ing the character of any man." Weekend Rainfall ; Ups Month's Total Rainfall during June Is now "above normal" following heavy showers Friday and Saturday, according to the Medford weath er bureau. The week-end rains, which started Friday afternoon, and resumed after a let-up, Friday evening and Saturday morning, brought a total of .64 Inches of rain up to 11 p. m. Saturday. The weather bureau said that normal June rainfall up to the 14th is .39 of an inch, and the recent rain made the June, 1952, total to date .82 of an inch, or an "excess" of .43, making a total of more than the normal total June rainfall of .76 of an Inch. In addition, the bureau report ed, up to Friday midnight, the seasonal average rainfall (since Sept. 1, 1951) totaled 20.17 inches, compared to the 15.99 inches which is normal. The bureau reported late Sat urday evening that the storrh was over with clearing Sunday night and fair Monday. The heaviest precipitation from the storm occurred In the southwest Oregon area, the bureau concluded. teor was first sighted at a point 30 miles west of Tacoma and traveled in a northeasterly direc tion before exploding Into sev eral pieces 50 miles beyond Seat tle at 1:26 a. m. (PDT). "Fragments m a y be found anywhere from Seattle to sev eral miles beyond this end point," he said. Two Seattle policemen said the meteor appeared to be about 2,000 feet overhead. However, Pruett said its height more like ly was 50 miles. A column by J. Hugh Pruett appears each Sunday In The Mail Tribune and may be found today on Page 11. '5
