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Heaviest Assault
Of Korea Conflict
Cuts Electricity
MIG Jet Fighters
Remain on Ground
Seoul, Korea U,R) More
than 500 Air Force, Marine and
Navy planes, combining forces
for the biggest air attack of the
Korean war, smashed power
plants at the huge Suiho dam on
r the Yaiu river and four other
North Korean hydroelectric
dams Monday,
The U. S. fighter-bombers pull
ed the switch on 90 per cent of
North Korea's electrical poten
tial in one hour and a half of
concentrated raids.
fMIGs On Ground
The planes that attacked Sui
ho on the Yalu counted 208 MIG
15 Communist jet fighters sit
ting on the ground at Antung, on
the Manchurian side of the Yalu.
The MIGs made no effort to
break up the smash attack.
While the power plants were
demolished in the raid, the
dams were left standing.
The Suiho dam was the
world's fourth largest. It was
built by the Japanese in World
War II.
Will Cripple Power
While the powerhouses were
located conveniently on the
North Korean side of the Yalu
river, the loss of the stations
were expected seriously to crip
ple the power available to Man
churian factories and cities.
Suiho alone generates some
60,000 kilowatts of power daily.
Air Force Spokesman Col.
John D. Nottingham of Houston,
Tex., said that undoubtedly the
tower operator at the Manchur
ian Air Base at Antung could
see what was going on. Howev
er, the MIGs, lined up neatly on
the airstrip, stayed on the
ground during the Allied at
tack. Ground War Eases
The aerial blow to Red power
installations came as the ground
war tapered off for the first time
jtn more than a week. The 8th
Army said only light patrol en
gagements were fought along the
Korean battlefront since mid
night. Lynde Sales Found
Dead at Home Here
Lynde Allen Sales, 54, of 804
North Riverside avenue, was
found dead in a car in front of
his home at about 8:30 a. m, to.
day. city police reported. Inves-
tigating officers said evidence
indicated he had taken his own
life because of ill health.
Sales' body was discovered by
his son, Richard Grant Sales, po
lice said. Officers sent to the
Sales home found a length of
vacuum cleaner hose had been
connected from the exhaust pipe
of the car to the trunk. A com
panion of young Sales had turn
ed off the car motor, police stat
ed Richard Sales told officers he
went to his father's insurance
office in Phoenix early today and
when he found the office still
locked he returned to Medford.
He found him in the car, he
said. Investigating officers said
the boy told them his father had
gone out to the car at about
7:30 a. m.
In addition to his son, Sales is
survived by his wife. Conger
Morris Funeral home is in
charge of arrangements.
Specialist Delayed .
A. E. Finnell, seed certifica
tion specialist from Oregon State
college, who was expected in the
Rogue valley today will not ar
rive here until Tuesday, accord
ing to County Agent Earle Jossy.
Finnell will check grain, seed
ing alfalfa and grass for all farm
ers with prior application for cer
tification. United Nations. N. Y. (U R
Japan formally applied for Uni
ted Nations membership Mon
day. Clyde BeaUy,
Trainer, Clawed by Lions
Portland U.R The Clyde
Bealty Wild Animal Circus left
Portland Monday for The Dalles,
but it left its famed leader be
hind in a Portland hospital.
Attacked by Lions
Beatty had a close brush with
death liere Sunday when two
lions attacked him, severely la
cerating one leg and putting him
out of his act for several days.
The incident occurred at the
climax of his animal act. Beatty
Viad all 18 of his big cats in the
arena and had Just commanded
them to lie down when two
beasts that had been fighting
Air Attack Smashes Red
UNAWARE STORK WAS DUE, Mrs. Jessie Mary Crum, 20, who
unexpectedly gave birth to husky boy In her San Francisco nome,
is still plenty puzzled as she admires flowers in hospital. "I guess
he's going to be awfully surprised," she said of husband, Al Crum,
a Navy man who left last year for duty in Korea. (International)
Campaign Smearing
Tactics Disgust Taft
Washington (U.R) Sen. Rob
ert A. Taft Monday condemned
what he called the "smearing
tactics" used by some persons
against Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower and California's Gov.
Earl Warren.
Taft told a news conference he
was "particularly disgusted" by
a piece of campaign literature
Catfish Derby
Champion Named
Mrs. Eva Boyd, South Pacific
highway, Sunday was named the
Grand Champion Catfisherman
at the 16th annual National Cat
fish derby, held at TouVelle
state park on the Rogue river.
Mrs. Boyd caught 37 catfish, the
largest measuring 13 1-4 inches
and weighing 1 1-2 pounds.
As grand champion, Mrs.
Boyd received a $50 merchan
dise award, a fishing reel and a
large stainless steel trophy deco-
rated with copper catfish.
An estimated crowd of 2,800
persons attended the derby, mak
ing It the largest in the history
of the event. Several hundred
fish were entered in competi
tion. The largest number enter
ed by an individual was 42 and
the largest fish measured 15 1-4
inches.
Entertainers for the event in
cluded an Eve Prentice accordi
an group, Ralph Eltel. Dick
Spain, Dolly Green, Jody Martin,
Beverly Jones, Sandra Buxton,
Oveta Walden, Sharon Roberts,
Lea Padgett, Karon Britton, Vir
ginia Walker, Corabell Racenor
Carol David and a group from
Colleen Hope studios.
Lumber Firm Work
Halted by Heavy Rain
A three-hour downpour of
rain halted operations at White
City Lumber company at Camp
White Friday night by filling
pits and shorting out motors and
transformers, company officials
said today. The Medford weather
bureau reported that the storm
apparently was localized to the
Camp White area.
While City Lumber company
officials said today that no dam
age was caused by the heavy
rainfall. The downpour was so
great at times between 8 and 11
p.m. Friday that trucks and
lumber moving vehicles were
halted because drivers were un
able to see, they stated. O.iiv
04 of an inch of rain fell at the
weather bureau during the same
period.
Wild Animal
earlier in the day turned on their
trainer.
Beatty fought off the lion that
attacked from the front, but the
other charged at him from the
rear and managed to claw his
right leg.
Act Completed
Beatty remained in the ring,
completed the act and got the
lions out of the arena before sub
mitting to treatment by a physi
cian called from the audience.
He was rushed to a hospital
where he was treated for loss of
blood and 20 stitches were taken
in his leg.
entitled "Headlines," written by
Joseph P. Kamp, executive vice
chairman of the Constitutional
Educational League Inc., and
distributed to the Maryland
GOP delegation.
No Taft Funds Used .
Asked if any Taft organiza
tion funds had been used to fi
nance such attacks on his two
rivals for the GOP presidential
nomination, the Ohio Republi
can snapped:
"Certainly not."
At the same time, Taft re
jected charges by the Eisen
hower camp that his delegate
victory in the Texas Republican
convention was "a steal." Jfe
said he was sure the dispute over
the Texas 'delegation would be
fought out before the GOP "Na
tional Convention which opens
in Chicago July 7.
Taft said he did not' believe
the Texas delegation would vote
in a convention contest involv
ing its own state.
Opposes Suggestion
However, he took issue with
suggestions made by Eisenhow
er's forces that contested dele
gations should refrain from all
voting in the convention until
the contests are settled.
"I don't see how General
Eisenhower can ask to rule out
every contested delegation,"
Taft said. He said "fake con
tests" could be filed by each side
in order to disqualify its rivals,
down to the point where "You
can't run a convention, you
would rule out the whole con
vention." Taft said he expected to an
swer fully Eisenhower charges
of a Texas steal in a speech or
statement of his own later.
Rural School Groups
To Meet This Week
Organization meetings for two
rural school groups will be held
this week, according to the coun
ty school superintendent's office.
The Jackson county rural
school board will meet Tuesday
at 2:30 p. m., in the superintend
ents office, and the county non
high school board will meet
Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock.
Both groups will count votes
with the two board positions
open on the rural board and
one position on the non-high
board.
Further returns from the June
16 school election show that Ed
mund Ramsey was elected di
rector at Ruch, Wallace Brill at
Oak Grove and Glen Allen at
Griffin Creek.
Dr. Hodges Reappointed
To Naturopathic Board
Salem (U.Ri Robert W. Saw
yer. Bend, and Dean Sidney W.
Little. Eugene, were reappoint
ed Monday ss members of the
Capitol Planning Commission for
four-year terms.
Gov. Douglas McKay also an
nounced other reappointments,
which included:
Dr. A. R. Hodges, Medford, as
a member of the State Board
of Naturopathic examiners.
Phoenix Budget Hearing
Phoenix A public hearing
will be held tonight In the Phoe
nix Community club hall at 8 p.
m., concerning the city budget
election to be held Tuesday on
$10,370 91 in excess of the 6 per
cent increase limitation, accord
ing to Mrs. Curt Fisher, city recorder.
Medford
United Press Full Leased Wtre
47th Year 12 Pages
Ike's Campaing
To Bring Attack
On Political Foe
Next Two Weekr
Critical Period
Denver, Colo. (U.R) The
tive participation of Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower in his campaign
for the Republican presidential
nomination enters its fourth
week with signs of a stiff new
onslaught against his political
foe, Sen. Robert A. Taft.
- It is less than a month now
since the retired five-star gen
eral, who commanded one of the
greatest military aggregations in
the history of warfare, embarked
on. a campaign considerably
alien to his past experiences.
Next Weeks Critical
How well he will succeed in
reaching his first objective the
GOP presidential nomination-
depends not on what has oc
curred during the first three
weeks since he began actively to
seek the presidency, but what
will lake place during the next
two critical weeks ahead.
Eisenhowe will appear on a
nationwide telecast Monday
night to give a "clear definition"
of his foreign policy. Sen. Frank
Carlson of Kansas said Eisen
hower would make clear how
his ideas on international affairs
vary from those of Taft.
There was a lull in Eisenhow
er's campaign last week after he
returned to his "second home"
of DenVcr to establish his field
headquarters. The general's ad
visors spoke only in off-the-rec-
ord whisper or gave guarded "no
comment" replies to most que
ries . V- .
"'Then, on Friday, one of ?he
general's original backers, Paul
G. Hoffman, former ECA admin
istrator and Ford Foundation
president, and Rep. Hugh Scott,
R.-Pa., arrived almost simulta
neously and things began to
move.
Hoffman scoffed at Taft's
claims of delegates while Scott
spoke his mind on the split of
the Republican party in Texas.
Farley Forecasts
Convention Deadlock
Washington (U.R) Former
Democratic National Chairman
James A. Farley Monday fore
cast a possible national conven
tion deadlock in the "wide-open
race" for the Democratic presi
dential nomination.
Farley, one of America's
shrewdest political observers,
said Sens. Estes Kcfauvcr of
Tennessee and Richard B. Rus
sell of Georgia "could easily
"deadlock the situation and then
someone else would be named."
He said In a copyrighted Inter
view with the U. S. News and
World Report magazine that Vice
President Alben W. Barklcy or
Speaker Sam Rayburn would be
possible Democratic nominees.
Canby, Ore. (U.R) The Can
by Shingle Co. mill at New Era,
Ore., was destroyed by fire early
Sunday morning. Firemen said
origin of the blaze was not
known.
GERM WAR DEBATE IN U. N. In unexpectedly mild speech to the United Nations Security Council
in New York, Soviet Delegate Jecob Malik skips expected charges that the United Stales used germ
warfare in Korea and asks that the nations ratify the Geneva protocol outlawing bacteriological
weapons. U. S. Ambassador Ernest A. Cross immediately tailed Malik's maneuver a "fraud." Left
to right are Malik, Council president for June; Coasts nun Ziocbenko, assistant secretary general;
,BritauXSir Glfdwyn iebb. and Gross.
MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE
WHO S EXCITED? Jack Rogoff, 9 years old. lies asleep under a bed, where he hid from his mother
while 40 Chicago policemen combed the neighborhood for him. Jack, playing hookey, hid several hours
before Mrs. Irving Rogoff reportedhim missing and started the search,
Methodist Church
Minister Appointed
To Succeed Groves
The Rev. Hardwick W. Harsh-
man, Ellcnburg, Wash., has been
assigned.,as pastor of First Meth
odist church qf Medford, suc
ceeding the Rev. Meredith
Groves who was assigned to
Roseburg, it was announced to
day.
Mr. Harshman, who has been
pastor at Ellensburg five years,
was previously minister nt Shol
lon; Wash. He obtained his bacn-
elor of divinity degree from Gar
rett school of theology, North
western university, and has
taught at Seattle Pacific univer
sity and University of Wisconsin.
His wife, Jewell, has been ac
tive in women's organizations ot
(lie church. At present she is
youth director of the weern
jurisdiction of the denomination.
To Arrive July 1
Mr. Harshman is expected to
arrive here on July 1.
Mr. Groves will preach his
first sermon next Sunday at his
new charge. A reception for Mr.
and Mrs. Groves will be held at
the Medford church on Thurs
day evening.
Reassignment of pastors in
southern Oregon included, S.
Raynor Smith, district superin
tendent; J. Ross Knotts, Ash
lRnd; H. A. Dicrdorff, Gold Hill:
Frank Brown, Grants Pass, and
Alice May Wooley, Talent.
Everett Fabcr, Medford, was
appointed by Bishop Gerald Ken
nedy to serve on a committee
which will hold conversations
with another group from Idaho
on a possible merger of the Ore
gon and Idaho conferences. .
Weather
Forerant: Partly floudv fo
ment and Tuesday. Few show
er In the higher tnoitnlam.
Low tonight 50, high Tuesday
74-10.
TRMPKR ATL'RE
Highest yetterdiy 72. Loweit
this morning 5.V
PRKCIPITATION
To 4:30 a. m. today, .OS.
is-
Power
Wilson Brothers Get
Stay of Execution
Walla Walla (U.R) Tur-
man and Utah Wilson, convicted
of the 1950 kidnap-slaying of 18-year-old
JoAnn Dewey, have
been saved from the gallows for
the fourth time.
A two - week stay of execu
tion was signed Sunday by
Judge Albert Stephens of the U.
S. Ninth Circuit Court of Ap
peals in San Francisco.
The double 'execution was to
have taken place at 12:05 a. m.
Monday.
Judge Stephens sighed the or-
Armed Robber Nets
$30 Early Sunday
From Gas Station
Money was stolen from the
Swayze service station, 1009H
West Main street, at the point of
a gun early Sunday morning,
city police reported today.
At 1 a.m. Sunday Attendant
Thad P. Coleman told the police
that a short, swarthy gunman
stole $25 to $30 in one dollar
bills from the station cash regis
ter. The robber took only one
dollar bills, leaving a ten, three
fives and some change.
The police said the robbery
was similar to one committed
Thursday night in Grants Pass.
The description of the Grants
Pass robber was said to be Iden
tical with that given Sunday by
Coleman. He said the man was
about 20 to 25 years of age, that
he was very short and dark and
that his build was slight.
Coleman said the gunman or
dered him to lie on the floor for
ten minutes after he left. Cole
man stayed there until he heard
what he thought was the rob
ber's car leaving the vicinity.
Then he called the police.
The city police are cooperat
ing with the state police in
searching for the robber.
laimts
Tribune
United JVeii Full Leued Wura
23, 1952
No. 80
der after a conference with the
Wilson's attorney, Orvin Good
man, Portland. The jurist then
issued another order directing
Goodman to file within 38 hours
a formal petition for a certifi
cate of probable cause.
Actually, the latest turn in the
two - year legal battle means the
Wilsons will have at least 30
more days of life. If all other av
enues of appeal are closed, I
new hanging date still 'will have
to be set by the Clark county
judge who tried them. The death
sentence cannot be carried out
within 30 days from the time the
new date is set.
Something Expected
When informed of the stay,
Turman, 26, said "it's another
chance. We've been expecting
somethingUtah, 23, refused to
comment.
Friday, Federal Judge Sam
Driver denied a writ of habeas
corpus, refused a motion for a
stay, and rejected a notice of ap
peal. However, he granted a cer
tificate of probable cause which
led to Judge Stephen's action.
Earlier, Gov. Arthur Langlle
had refused to Interfere with
their scheduled hanging, which
would have been the first double
execution In 30 years at Wash
ington State Penitentiary.
Petition Opposing
Elfstrom Dismissed
Salem (U.R) Marion Coun
ty Circuit Judge George Duncan
Monday dismissed a petition for
a writ of mandamus to compel
Gov. Douglas McKay to oust
Robert O. Elfstrom of Salem as
chairman of the Oregon Liquor
Control commission.
The petition was filed in be
half of State Sen, Richard L.
Neubergcr, Portland, by Charles
O. Porter, Eugene attorney. Neu
bergcr had questioned Elf
strom's right to remain on the
commission after he became a
Republican candidate for state
representative,
G.P. Man Drowns in Rogue;
Six Others Mishap Victims
By UNITED PRESS
Highway accidents claimed
four lives in Oregon during the
week-end, a Grants Pass man
drowned in a boating accident
and two 14-year-old boys wire
feared to have drowned in itie
John Day river.
Bud Litwlller, butcher at a
Grants Pass store, drowned Sun
day when a boat with four per
sons In it capsized 12 miles be
low Grants Pass. Lltwlller's
wife, and Mr. and Mrs. Tom
Owen, Grants Pass, managed to
reach shore.
Hung On to Tret
- Sheriff Lloyd Lewis said Mrs.
Owen hung on for 45 minutes to
a willow tree growing out of the
river until a boat could be
rougni irom uprivcr to rescue i
her. Litwiller's wit anH riunn I
swam ashore. Owen managed to
reach Litwillcr, who was pinned
under the boat, but could not
hold on to him because of the
heavy current. Litwiller'a body
had not been recovered.
Frank Sherrer and Lawrence
Soviets Give Up
Territory Grabbed
In British Zone
New Allied Message
Demands Patrol Right
Berlin (U.R) The Russians
freed 43 kidnaped West Ger
mans Monday and withdrew
from a strip of British Zone ter
ritory grabbed by the Reds a
week ago.
The Soviets' double backdown
came as the Western Allied high
commissioners sent a new note
to the Russians demanding again
the right to patrol the 110-mile
highway between Berlin and
Western Germany.
'Shots Were Firecrackers
U. S. Army headquarters also
disclosed that "shots" which the
Soviets charged had been fired
by American troops from a mil-'
itary train in Berlin's Commu
nist outskirts actually had been
firecrackers tossed out by Amer
ican Boy Scouts on their way to
a lamboree.
Forty-two of the 43 West Ger
mans set free by the Reds were
seized at gunpoint by two Soviet
troops and 30 East German po
lice in a raid across the border
Into the British Zone at Schoen
ingen, due west of Berlin. Sun
day.
Ten other West Germans
escaped the kidnapers in a hail
of bullets from East German
police machincguns. All 52 West
Germans had been working in
railway yards on the British side
of the frontier.
Released at Border
Following a British protest to
Soviet authorities, East German
police brought the 42 men and
an engineer seized with his loco--motive
in the same area Sunday
to the border early Monday and
released them.
The freed men said they had
been taken to the Soviet Zone
frontier station of Marienborn,
opposite Helmstedt. They said
they were well treated and were
not questioned by the Russians
or East Zone police.
Easter Lily Parade
Slated at Brookings
' Brookings What sponsors'
claim is "the world's only Easter
lily parade" will be held here
Sunday, July 13, in connection
with the annual Brookings Lily
Blossom Time.
During Blossom Time week
Croft Easter lilies are In full
bloom in the Brookings area.
The blooms are stripped from
the area's large acreage of plant
ings and are given away to all
persons passing through Brook
ings or attending the event. Blos
soms are distributed to bus pass
engers going through Brookings
during the week preceding the
parade.
Invitations to take part In the
parade have been extended to
all cities and organizations In
southern Oregon. Groups which
have indicated they will take
par tinclude the Shrine drum
corps from Crescent City, the
Grants Pass Cavemen, the Coos
Bay Pirates and others. No en
try fee will be charged.
Seattle (U.RI CIO Wood
workers and western Washing
ton logging, boom and sawmill
operators will vote early this
week on a compromise agree
ment aimed at settling a 57-day-old
strike of 8000 workers. ,
Sport Bulletin
New York (U.R) The Joey
Maxim - Ray Robinson light
haavyweight e h a m pionthip
fight, originality scheduled for
Monday night, was postponed
until Wednotday night becauia
of rain.
Kirby have been missing since
Friday when they left for an
outing on the John Day river.
Their footprints were found lead
ing to a section of a bluff along
the river that had caved into
the stream and a straw hat like
that worn by one of them was
found 50 feet downstream.
George C. Bates, 19-year-old
-sailor, was killed in a motorcycle-car
collision Sunday north
of Eugene.
Train Kills Trucker
John W. Lickiss. 43-year-old
Cottage Grove truck driver,
died Saturday when the gravel
truck he whs driving collided
with a Southern Pacific train
at a grade crossing south of
Cottage Grove.
Portland recorded its 25th traf
fic death of the year Saturday.
Irene Crorrwell, 58, Hilbboro,
was killed when her car crashed
Into a parked vehicle.
Horace Henry Bodenhammer,
80, of Medford, died Saturday
night from injuries when he was
struck by a car after he stepped
off bus in Medford.