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Newspaper Page TextHo use Committee Stashes Expenditures i BUFFETED BY NATURE St. Jeanne's Catholic Church at Corcoran, Minn., fell victim to heavy winds during a two-day storm. The roof and steeple (left) were ripped off. Inside the church was covered with debris, but left a Madonna and Child statue untouched. The storms caused heavy damage ' throughout the state. Eisenhower Will Move Headquarters To Chicago Soon Denver (U.R) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower will move his campaign headquarters to Chi cago next week, his campaign manager said here Thursday. Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., R-Mass., who is managing Eisen hower's campaign to gain the Republican presidential nomina tion, made the announcement. To Meet Delegates Lodge said the move to Chi cago would be made because "it is our plan to have him continue the process of meeting with dele gates because it has been impos sible for him to meet all the delegates who have wanted to see him during the short time he has been home." Meanwhile, Eisenhower is ex pected to make his final major campaign speech here Thursday night at the Denver Coliseum. His backers said his speech will be devoted to domestic affairs. Victory Predicted They said arrangements had been made to seat 11,000 persons Ai. the Coliseum for a rally and Eisenhower's speech. Lodge flew here Wednesday night to confer with the general. He told newsmen Eisenhower would win the presidential nomination on the "second or third ballot." Lodge claimed Eisenhower's arch opponent. Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio, "knows the Jig is up," because he had suffered "great reversals" in the past few days. 100 ConvTclsliol At Kentucky Prison Eddyville, Ky. (U.R) One hundred prisoners In the gar ment factory of the Kentucky State Prison rioted Thursday, seized a foreman and barricaded themselves in the factory walls. Warden Jess Buchanan said he was "not worried about the iluation at all." He .said the prisoners had made four or five demands for r changes in prison routine, in ' eluding a demand that one of the clothing factory foremen be fired. "They are In a position where they can't escape and all we have to do is wait them out," he said. BULLETINS Washington (UP) The House Thursday confirmed its earlier tentative vote io end practically all price controls at midnight M6nday. London (UP) U. S. Secre tary of State Dean Acheson told Britain today that Amer ica would welcome a British deputy for U. N. Commander Gen. Mark Clark In Tokyo, and admitted there had been a "tnafu" in Washington in not informing Britain of the Yalu bombing raids, Informed sources reported. Truman's Attempted Killer To Pay With Life August 1 Washington (U.R) Standing Blair House residence on Nov. 1, iraiohl and silent. Oscar Col-i lazo, 38-year-old Puerto Rican vho took part in the attempted assassination, of President Tru man Thursday was sentenced to die in the electric chair here Aug. 1. District Judge F. Dickinson Letts pronounced sentence on Collazo who was convicted of fcrst degree murder In the death ' il a White House guard when he and a fellow Puerto Rican tried to storm Mr. Truman's Taft Charges Dewey Organization With Spreading Washington (U.R) Sen. Rob ert A. Taft charged Thursday the Dewey organization is "tak ing over" Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower's campaign and spreading "pure propaganda" that Taft can't win. The Ohioan also told a news conference that pollster George Gallup has become a "straight propagandist" for the Eisenhow er forces and that his polls are being used for. that purpose. Taft Furious Taft became furious when asked to comment on a story in the Buffalo Evening News that Sen. Irving M. Ives, R-N.Y., would not seek re-election if Taft Drowning Verdict In Christy Death Ralph Adam Christy, whose body was found in Bear creek Tuesday afternoon, was deter mined by an autopsy Wednesday night to have died from drown ing, according to Coroner Carlos Morris. The autopsy was made neces sary when evidence indicated that Christy might have met death through murder or sui cide. An accidental death was in dicated bv the autopsy. Christy, 53. formerly of Grants Pass and Portland, had apparent ly been dead a week or more be fore his body was found by four children. The police report that he has been living at the Crater hotel with a man named Gerry Abbott. since arriving in Medford June 8. Abbott had worked with Christy at a Grants Pass restau rant for three months. Police records show that Christy was accompanied by Gor don Carol Stocking, an employee at the Greyhound Post house, when he came to Medford. Stock ing was able to help the police find where Christy had lived. Graveside services for Christy will be held in IOOF Cemetery Friday at 9 a. m., with the Rev. W. A. Dawes officiating. Conger Morris Funeral home is in charge of funeral arrangements. Search Begun for Air Force Transport Los Angeles (U.R) A giant air-ground search was begun at dawn Thursday for an Air Force C-47 transport that vanished mysteriously with seven men aboard Wednesday night on a 70-mile hop from San Bernar dino to Van Niiys. The plane disappeared on a flight in almost perfect weather. H left Norton Air Force Base near San Bernardino at 5:47 p.m. PST and should have ar rived at the San Fernando Val ley Airport 35 minutes later. The names of those aboard were 'vithheld. a3u, The Suprome Court has turn ed down Collazo's appeal from the death sentence and only commutation by Mr. Truman can save him now. Collazo's attorneys said "There is nothing further we can conscientiously do in the court." Attorney Leo A. Rover said the little Puerto Rican has re fused to let his attorneys take the only possible step that is left, an appeal to the President him self lor clemency. Propaganda wins the Republican presidential nomination because Ives did not think Taft could win. "That is pure propaganda," Taft said. "Senator Ives is not sincere in his statement. I could carry New York more easily than Eisenhower. "It is part of the general propaganda of the Dewey orga nization now running Eisenhow er's campaign and it is utterly unsound." Taft declared that Eisenhower backers would urge the general to carry on "the kind of cam paign Dewey conducted in 1948 . . . in which case we might lose." Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York lost the election to President Truman in 1948. Tafi flushed beet red and waved off other questions to continue his response. He said that the present pre convention battling is "more bit ter" and , more extensive than any previous nomination cam paign in which he has partici pated. Then Taft said that the meth od of campaigning for the presi dency is "far more important than the candidate; Dewey and Wendell L. Willkie lost because they waged the kind of cam paign I am afraid Eisenhower would wage. County '53 Goal Set By Community Chest Jackson county's 1953 Commu nity Chest goal to be raised this fall is $20,000 of the $774,477 budget set for the state at the Oregon Chest board of directors in Portland this week. Tony Manno, Medford, vice president of the Oregon Chest, reported that last year chari'. able aid received by Jackson county residents from the com munity chest totaled about $25. 000, while this county contribut ed only $10,000. Multnomah county assumes 50 per cent of the state budget, Man no said. The balance of $387,238 is to be raised by the other Ore gon counties. Numerous requests for funds were denied by the board be cause it was felt they did not serve the state at large, Manno said. The money raised will in clude funds for the maintenance and operation of U. S. O.'s as well as orphanages and similar charitable institutions. Maple Park District Slates Bond Election Residents of the recently formed Maple Park water dis trict, northwest of the Medford city limits, will vote on a $26, 000 bond issue Monday, June 30, district officials reported today. The election will be held at Med ford Spring Service, 917 West McAndrews road. If the bond measure passes bids will be let and installation of water pipe lines will be start ed late this summer, they stated. Preliminary engineering work is now being done. A census of the people in the area is also being taken at the request of the bond ing attorneys. The polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday. DOW JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow Jones closing stock averages; 30 indus trials 271.24 up 0.79; 20 rail roads 102.02 up 0.64; 15 utilities 49.63 off 0.02; and 65 stocks 105.30 up 0.35. Sales Thursday approximated 1.190.000 shares compared with 1,230,000 traded Wednesday. Medford (Jolted Press Full Leased Wire 47th Year 18 Pages 50-SQUARE-Mlt CONDUCTED FOR Warrant Expected To Charge Dunkin With Lowd's Murder Police Maintain Patrol Activity A warrant charging George Baker Dunkin, eccentric 67-year-old Elk creek miner, with the murder of Oregon State Police Officer Phil B. Lowd will be is sued in district court sometime today, Capt. Paul Parson in charge of the Medford OSP of fice, said this morning. A post mortum conducted here last night by Dr. Homer Harris, of the state 'crime laboratory, showed Lowd apparently was killed by a soft-nosed bullet, be lieved to have been fired from a 30-30 rifle. Only parts of the bullet were found, according to Dr. Harris' report. Authorities have blocked off a 50-square mile area around Dun kin's cabin,, near Buzzard Mine road, where the shooting oc curred T u e s day afternoon. Tracks found this morning led police to believe that Dunkin is hiding in the area and they hope he will eventually be starved out. Officers Sent to Area Four stale police officers and four Jackson county sheriff's deputies were dispatched to the area this morning, according to state police and the sheriff's of fice. Police said they were exer cising caution in patrolling on the theory that TXinkin may shout the first man he se-s. The search plan is to keep a "tight control on the area for the present," Captain Parson stated. If Dunkin isn't caught in the near future, police will "eventually have to begin a thor ough search of every trail and hiding place," he added. Terrain Rugged Police pointed out today that they are operating at a terrific disadvantage in the extremely rugged terrain. The area is cov ered with thick underbrush and big timber, according to loggers and other persons well acquaint ed with the region. Located on the site of an ancient lava flow, the search area has many bluffs, some dropping as much as 200 to 300 feet. First of a series of steps to keep Dunkin out in the open was sta ted today when police began b .lining all lean-to's, shanties and shacks in the Elk creek region to prevent him from "hole-ing up" in some protected area. Par sons has stated that, if Dunkin is able to kill a deer, or obtain food in some other way, he can remain at large indefinitely. However, he is not believed to have much ammunition for his rifle with him. The iirst police to enter his cabin, which they described as "the worst kind of hovel," reported finding a large amount of ammunition. It is be lieved that he could not have had more than five shells for the gun when he fled from the cabin late Tuesday afternoon. May Contact Residents Police expect Dunkin to make contact with residents of the area in an effort to obtain food and ammunition. They will pa trol all places where it woula be possible for him to obtain addi tional provision, as well as all roads, paths and other routes which he could use for escape. In addition to officers search ing the Jackson county side of the ridge between the Rogue and South Umpqua rivers, another group left Roseburg for the vi cinity of Tiller on the theory that Dunkin may have headed in that direction. Had No Coat Dunkin was bareheaded and had no coat when he left his cabin, police reported, and it is doubted that he has any food cached in the area. Despite these facts, and his age. however, of ficers are not discounting Dun kin's ability to cover a large amount of terrilor. They pointed out that he has previously walk ed from his cabin into Tiller overnight, a distance estimated to be about 30 miles by trails "which only he knows." Police do not believe that Dunkin will be able to obtain aid from residents of the vicinity of his cabin. "Everybody in the area is afraid of him," they said. It was added that it was com mon practice for anyone ap- MEDFORD, OREGON, Dunkin Will Give Up When "Spell" Over, Friends, Kin Believe By HARRY NORDWICK Mail Tribune Staf Writer "I never spent a better eve ning in my life than the lime when George and I visited one evening many years ago and dis cussed everything from his own personal religion to world poli tics," related Mrs. Adolph Lar son, Shady Cove, this morning. The George she was referring to was George Baker Dunkin, 67, wanted for the murder of State Police Officer Phil Lowd. Mrs. Larson and her husband have known Dunkin since 1929 and lived In the vicinity of his cabin in Upper Elk creek' for about 15 years. At one time they lived within' a half mile of Dunkin. "We never had any trouble with him. He stayed several Industrial Crisis Looms as Steel Strike Continues Pittsburgh (U.R) A nation' wide industrial crisis shaped up Thursday with mounting losses in production resulting -rnm the 24-day strike of the CIO United Sleehvorkers. The American Iron and Steel Institute predicted that by the end of Ihe week approximately 9,100,000 tons of steel will have been lost because of steel strikes in late April, early May and June. War Production Lags As the Korean War headed into its third year, there were evident lags in defense produc tion. V Before the week is out, nearly 56,000 workers in automotive and allied plants will be idle. Industry sources fear even great er lay-ofs next week. The steel strike had nearly immediate repercussions In oth er industries. Soon after 650,000 CIO United Sleclworkcrs walk ed off their jobs June 2, mass lay-offs followed in mining and railroad Industries. More than 45,000 miners were idled along with 25,000 railroaders, 6,000 lake boat employees and 600 river workers. General Motors workers are on the drastic list in the new layoffs. A total of 10,000 Chevro let workers at Flint, Mich., will be laid off before the day k is over. "Several hundred" were furloughed at Buick's Flint plant Wednesday. Approximately 5,500 workers at Chevrolet s Buffalo plant will finish their Jobs today. Lay-offs are scheduled Friday for 5.000 foundry workers and 1,200 oth er Chevrolet workers i.n Sagi' naw, Mich. Defense production will be hit in Ohio with Willys-Overland laying off 12.000 at its Toledo plant. Jet engine parts will be choked off at Cleveland where the Steel Improvement & Forge Co. laid off 300 and eliminated the third shift. proachlng his cabin, to yell or sound their automobile horns to keep from being shot at. Several residents of the area had been threatened by Dunkin, according to police. Another prospector was moved from the area by police, who feared Dun kin might attack him because the latter expressed intense dislike for him in the past. Funeral services for Lowd will be held in Conger-Morris Chapel Friday at 1 p. m. with the Elks Lodge of which he was a mem ber officiating. Committal will be in Siskiyou Memorial park Active pall bearers will bo fel low officers of the Oregon Stte police. Honorary pall bearers will be Harry Stokes, Harold Bellows, Hale Wheeler, Everett Body, Ed Hall. Orval Snavlcy, Clinton Kendall, Tom E. Parks Lee Skaass. Mr, Tien N. Harris. Orville Millard, and Clifford Wheelock. THURSP vv ,NE 26, nights at our place and used to tell us not to get bothered if we heard him up in the middle of the night as it was his custom to get up at odd hours." Larson said that "all the time I knew him, there was only one time when he acted strange. This was once when I was going to take him into town to buy some groceries and he wouldn't go be cause he said he wasn't feeling well." James Miller, a nephew of Dunkin who resides in Medford, said this morning that "he used to play with Dunkin when they were children in Gold Hill from 1899 to 1902. "I didn't see a lot of him until he came to see me in the veterans hospital in 1927 in Port land. George has never been the same since he returned from Alaska in 1926. I don't know what happened to him, but when he first returned to Riverside, Calif., he began having spells, which he would snap out of. We could always talk him out of them, though. We thought several times about sending him to a psychologist but he seemed to always snap out of it. Surrender Expactad Both Mrs. Larson and Mrs, Miller stated that they believed Dunkin 'would come out of the woods, after he snapped out of this spell, with his hands up. However, Miller cautioned that he "may not snap out of this one " Mrs. Miller stated that she had "always been a little uneasy in his presence." At one time, she said they had gone up to his cabin to give him some money and he acted queer in making them lower their voices to whisper because the "law might hear." His particular aversions to "the law" was always wilh him, she said. He seemed to grow to hate their intrusion, they re lated. On the other hand, she told of a brawl when another man hit him and he was very rational in overpowering his as sailant and making him promise to "be good" and that he would still be friends if his attacker would behave. She hoped that he would soon be captured and given medical care. In reply to a question on whether Dunkin could have sell the fires in that area of more than a year ago, Mrs. Larson said he only could have done it in "one of his spells." She said he often told her of his person al religion which "saw God In the trees, flowers and streams of nature. He loved nature and would never do anything to harm it, unless he wasn't right in his mind." Short Of Ammunition She spoke of his learning and the fact that he knew atronomy thoroughly from his reading of the stars and nature. Miller and Larson also said that theylhoug'ht he was with out much ammunition as they never knew him to have more than "one box of shells in his posession at one lime." They ex pressed the fear, however, that he might go to a neighboring rancher. Wcs Miller, a brother of James Miller, to seek more am munition. The rancher keeps a large supply of ammunition which Is a generally known fact in the area. Don't Monkey With Monkey, Cops Worn If you're walking down Haw thorne avenue and see a mon key in a tree, Just leave him alone. He has a bad disposi tion. Thai's the warning from Frenchy's pet shop, Jackson slrce and Riverside avenue, of which the monk Is an escapee. The police were called Thursday morning and in formed the monkey had escaped. But they were ad vised not to go up the tree after him, but to wait till he comes down and try then to trap him. The police agreed. At the last repoit Officer Don ald Dixon was "waiting." HIBUNE (JQlted Press Full Leased Wti 1952 No. S3 Harriman Credits Marshall Plan in Coos Bay Speech Russia Doesn't Want War, Democrat Says Pendleton (UP) Averill Harriman, mutual security ad ministrator and Democratic pres idential nomination aspirant wound up a fast political tour of Oregon Thursday with an ap pearance here. Harriman and his parly were to leave here by plane for Boise, Ida., later, in the day. Credits Marshall Plan In a foreign policy speech at Coos Bay Wednesday night, the mutual security administrator said the Marshall plan has kept the enemies of the United States out of western Europe. He said Russia's Marshal Stal in does not want a third world war. However, he wants to ex pand his power by infiltrating, dividing and then taking over the smaller countries of Europe and Asia one by one, Harriman said. On the Korean situation, Har rlman said: "Stalin does not know how to get out of Korea with any sav ing of face." Situation Serious The Democratic presidential hopeful said the situation In Ko rea and Berlin were Serious but that if the western powers could hold out for another two years they could talk to Stalin on their own terms. Earlier at Portland, Harriman called for. an "uncompromising stand on the program of Frank lin D. Roosevelt and Harry Tru man." He said he emphasized his determined civil rights stand in a speech in Arkansas, one of the southern states with strong feelings concerning its Negro problem. HST Not Influenced To Oust MacArthur Washington (U.R) The White House said Thursday President Truman was not influenced in any way by Britain to dismiss Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Emanuel Shinwcll, defense minister in the former British labor government, indicated in London Wednesday night that the British were responsible for Mr. Truman s decision to remove MacArthur from his Far Eastern Command on April 11, 1951. "No foreign government was responsible for or ever influ enced the decision of the Presi dent to recall Gen. MacArlhur," said White House Press Secre tary Joseph Short. L. J. Cooper Reelected To County School Group Lorcn J. Cooper, Star Ranger station was re-elected Wednesday to the non-high school board to represent the southwest part of the county, according to officials in the county schools office. Cooper was named during an organizational board meeting at the courthouse. At the same time A. E. Brockway, Medford, was re-elected chairman of the board. Carl Quackenbush, Lone Pine, was elected vice-chairman. SEARCH CULLER Allies' Questions Stymie Commie Truce Delegation Panmunjom, Korea (UP) Chief Allied truce negotiator MaJ. Gen. William K. Harrison had Communist delegates sty mied Thursday for the first time since the long hassle over repa triation of prisoners of war be gan. Harrison hammered at the em harassed Reds without lcttup at today's 35-mlnute armistice meeting demanding a satisfac tory explanation of how they could oppose voluntary repatri ation In Korea after Russia had Introduced the principle during World War II. Top Communist representative North Korean Gen, Nam II stam ilifary, Atomic Programs Affected In Spending Cut Foreign Aid, Other Items Feel Knife Washington U.R The House Appropriations Committee Thursday slashed 25 per cent from administration requests to talling $13,750,688,280 for for eign aid, military construction, atomic expansion and other items. The $10,282,532,030 which the committee okayed will be spent or in large part obligated during the 1953 fiscal year which starts next Tuesday. Military Program Cut The committee, serving notice in its report that it is determined to save money wherever possi ble, cut military construction program by $805,968,600, the Atomic Energy Commission's re quest by $1,706,000,000, the emergency-born agencies such as Civil Defense Administration by $579,920,00, and the foreign aid program by $150,120,000. Here, In brief, are the requests made by various government agencies and the amounts al lowed by the committee: Defense Department, $2,993, 868,440 asked and $2,187,899,840 allowed; Atomic Energy Com mission, $3,191,000,000 asked and $1,485,000,000 allowed; emergency agencies, $661,610, 000 asked and $81,690,000 al lowed; Mutual Security Admin istration, $6,526,060,750 asked and $6,275,940,750 allowed; labor-federal security, $110,710, 400 asked including $80,000,000 for school construction in de fense areas and $10,537,750 al lowed. Another Request Invited In cutting by more than half the funds requested by the AEC for a big expansion program trie biggest ever planned by the agency the committee invited the commission to come back later if it needs more money. But the committee insisted that the AEC be prepared to pre sent detailed specifications and plans for its building program if it expects to get the full amount. Washington U.R) Democra tic leaders, with an eye on the November elections, ordered the rebellious House to stand up and be counted Thursday on its ten tative votes to- kill price con trols. The final outcome was In doubt. Republican and Democra tic leaders agreed the roll call voles on which each member's vote Is recorded would be "close." As the House's amendment battered bill moved toward final passage, It was stripped of vir tually all economic controls ex cept those over strategic materi als and rents. High-Flying Balloon Causes Comment A clear plastic balloon travel ing eastward at great heights over the valley was an object of considerable curiosity this aft ernoon. The Medford offices of the U. S. weather bureau received "about a half-dozen" phone calls from various parts of the valley concerning the balloon and ex amined it with a telescope. According to the weather bu reau report, the balloon appeared to be of the type manufactured by GencrHl Mills for government use such as sending propaganda into Iron Curtain countries. Wind data Indicated the strato spheric traveler was 35.000 to 40,000 feet above the earth. It was moving at a rapid rate and was Just west of Medford ab-.Hit 1 p. m. Weather WRKCAHT: r'lr ind warnirr throuth Friday. !..-. !::!;!!! if. Illlll Friday S2-SS. TKMPKKATI.'KK: tllch"t Y'Ntrrday . Lowest Thll Morning 4 mered under the heat of Har rison's pointed remarks and the American general Indicated he intended to make the beat of the Reds' precarious position. For the first time in recent months, Hnrrison refrained from asking for a recess of the long stalemated truce tilks. He re peatedly had said that further meetings were useless until the Reds were ready to come up wilh new proposals on the POW prob lem. . Harrison told newsmen after the meeting that he had the Im pression Nam II "doesn't like the present situation" and that the communists' truce drfensce were "a little bit confused."