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Newspaper Page TextRecommended A featnr itory ea the newly revised Gold Hill sewage dis posal plant appears on Pate of today's Issue of The Mall Tribune. Weather BEDFORD FORECAST Generally elondy today with occasional after noon showers or thunder storms. Expected high today 55-78, low tonight 48-50. Temp. Highest yesterday 76 Lowest yesterday 34 United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire 47th Year 26 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY JUNE 29, 1952 No. 85 11 II RIBUIE DUNKIN'S CABIN Pictured above Is the Elk creek cabin of George Baker Dunkin, eccentric 67-year-old miner, who is wanted by police in connection with the Tuesday murder of State Officer Phil B. Lowd. When Officer Lowd was killed, he was across a creek on the other side of a ravine, which is to the left of the cabin. State police said Dunkin came out of the only door of the cabin, around the left corner of the building, and ran down along the log, foreground, before firing at Lowd and Officer Charles Offenbacher. (State Police Photo) Search for Dunkin in Sixth Day; Airplanes Take Part in Manhunt The search for George Baker Thursday by several local pilots, Dunkin, 67 - year - old trapper wanted for the murder of State Officer Phil Lowd, continued for the sixth day today, according to itate police, with possible air support if the weather permits. Airplane passes over the dense forested area in Upper Elk creek have been made since Terry D. Schrunk Elected Chairman Of Demo Delegates Portland (U.R) Terry D. Schrunk, Multnomah county sheriff, Saturday was elected chairman of the 12-man Oregon delegation to the Democratic na tional convention at Chicago. Schrunk .was named after Wal ter J. Pearson, state treasurer, withdrew from the race. Schrunk and Pearson had tied 6-6 in the balloting for the office when delegates gathered in their first organizational meeting. Pearson withdrew after a five minute recess and told delegates: "We could sit here all day deadlocked, and I don't want this to happen because of my friend ship with Terry Schrunk. I wish at this time to withdraw in favor of him." Elected Unanimously Schrunk then was elected unanimously. Pearson had entered the race followine the withdrawal of Joseph K. Carson, former Port land mayor. Harry Boivin, Klamath Falls, was unanimously named dele gation vice chairman and Walter Dodd, Eugene, was chosen sec retary. James Schick, Forest Grove, was elected assistant sec retary. Monroe Sweetland and Nick Granet, both of Portland, were named to the convention plat form committee; Schick to the credentials group; Roy Hewitt, Salem, permanent organization, and Gene Conklin, Pendleton, rules. THREE-DAY HOLIDAY A three-day Independence day holiday for city employees was voted Friday in a special meet ing of the city council, Super intendent Robert Duff announc ed. The council voted to follow the example of the state and county governments by making Saturday, July 5, a holiday. sportsMetins ! The Medford Cheney Studs rallied for four runs in the eighth inning to trip Coos Bay North Bend 5 to 2 in a South western Oregon league base ball tussle at the fairgrounds Saturday night. " Six singles, a walk and an . rror were combined for the markers. Medford scored its other run in the fourth frame on a walk, hit and groundout. The Lumberjacks used a hit, sacrifice, error, walk and fly- -out for a first inning run and a triple by ' Jim Ruggles and an error for a second inning score. The teams will wind up a two-game series here with a mix starting at 2 p.m. today. Herb Karpel will chuck for Medford and Don White. Oregon State collegian, for Coos Bay-North Bend. as weather permitted. Officer Austin Murray, Roseburg, made several "passes over the - area yesterday," police related, but couldn't see anything in what was described as "pretty nasty" weather. Two Ashland pilots will "make passes over the area in which Dunkin is believed to be hiding today," police added, again if the weather permits. They expressed their apprecia tion to the response from private people who own airplanes. Search on Ground On the ground, nearly a score of armed men are circling the area where Dunkin is believed to be in hiding. The men are under orders not to take any unnecessary risks by entering the thick underbrush where the fugitive, an expert rifleman, might get a shot at them. No change has been made in the search strategy, police con tinued with the men staked" out at places where Dunkin is ex pected to eventually go for food or shelter. Tracks Washed out The only sign of the wanted man since the shooting occurred has been footprints, since wash ed out by the heavy rain. The total area under watch totals 50 square miles and is pitted with numerous mine shafts and places of refuge for the trapper. Police reported late Saturday that the search has settled down to routine work now and that the searching will continue til we get him." un- Klamath Radio Station To File for TV Channel Klamath Falls U.R) Radio Station KFJI of Klamath Falls will file application Monday with the Federal Communica tions commission for television channel No. 2, W. D. Miller, president of KFJI Broadcasters, announced Saturday. Miller said channel No. 2 was allocated to Klamath Falls by the FCC. Hawaiian Volcano Eruption Spectacular But Harmless HILO, TJI. (U.R) The vol cano Mount Kilauea, dormant for nearly 18 years, erupted vio lently but harmlessly Saturday, sending puffs of brilliant sul-phur-hued steam clouds tower ing over the island of Hawaii in a spectacle rivaling an atomic blast. - Eye witnesses reported the eruption was preceded shortly before midnight by slight earth quake. Then red-hot lava began flowing from the "Halemaumau fire pit," a smaller crater within the 15-mile round main Kilau ea crater, at 1:15 , a.m. HST (4:15 a.m. PDT). Looks Like Atom Cloud Several hours after the first eruption Capt. H. Lanier Turner, Oakland, Calif., pilot of a Honolulu-bound Pan American Air ways plane, circled the rejuve nated volcano. He said the scene "looked liked an atom . cloud when eruptions would send puffs of smoke into the air." Turner said there was plenty of boiling lava to be seen inside the crater, but there was no in dication it would overflow. During the pre-dawn hours flames from the eruption leaped wiigh into the sky,, lighting the Acheson To Deliver Warning To Russia In Berlin Outpost Strict Security Measures Ordered Berlin U.R) Secretary of State Dean Acheson flew to tense and isolated Berlin late Saturday to deliver a blunt warning to the Soviets that the West never will be intimidated or driven from this outpost, 110 miles behind the Iron Curtain. A reception in Acheson's hon or was boycotted by Gen. Vassily I Chuikov, Soviet commander in Germany, under whom the Rus sians are carrying out a program of "hate America" propaganda and tightening restrictions on the western sectors of Berlin. Chukov sent, instead, two of his aides, who munched hors d'ouvres and swapped jokes with the U. S. secretary for 15 minutes. They were the last to arrive and among the first to leave. Did Not Talk Politics Acheson's aides said the Sovi- et representatives "did not talk politics." That was left to the three western Berlin commandants. Shortly before the reception, they sent. the Soviets a sharp protest against increasingly tight restrictions on the move ment of German residents of the west sectors of the divided city. Strict security measures were ordered throughout the west sectors of the city during Ache son's 24-hour visit. As a pre caution against possible Com munist attempts to demonstrate, 10,000 West German police were mobilized. Templehof airdrome, in the American sector, was closed to the public for Ache son's arrival. Acheson was scheduled to de liver his warning to the Soviets in a speech at 11:30 a.m. (9:30 a.m. PDT) Sunday at a public rally. Taft States Unity Of Party Not Hurt Washihgton-U.R) Sen. Rob ert A. Taft, preparing to fly to Chicago in the climatic phase of his bid for the Republican presi dential nomination, said Satur day that party unity has not been seriously hurt by the turbu lent campaign. The Ohioan radiated confi dence and told a press confer ence that only the argument "Taft can't win" stands between him and certain nomination when the convention opens July 7. He conceded the argument is somewhat damaging, but claim ed nearly enough first ballot votes for nomination. He said his purpose between now and con vention opening is to hold the delegates already committed to him and find replacements for any wooed away. On the subject of unity in his party, Taft said the republicans have never had much trouble agreeing on a program. He said Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower, his principal opponent, has "had to take about the same position (as Taft) and that doesn't strike me as any ca lamity." area for miles around. Hilo police, 30 miles south west of the volcano, said there were no populated areas endang ered by the eruption, and the road leading to the firepit was re-opened about four hours after the initial -blowoff, although park rangers said there still was some danger. Fumes Choke Spectators Spectators . at the scene were choked , by the clouds of sul phurous fumes which poured from the crater from time to time. ' United Press correspondent Yoshio Matsuoka said one huge fissure split the fire pit along a 100-foot wide crack along the entire diameter of the crater, and hundreds of smaller cracks were opened. Hawaii National Park Ranger Elry Bohlin said the eruption "gives every indication it will last for quite awhile," but there appeared to be little probability the lava flow could overrun Kil aueau's rim. All the air lines serving the islands took advantage of the un scheduled spectacle by diverting their flights over the crater to allow passengers to view the fiery show. GALA RECEnTON:S,icker tape floats down through Tain and mist the seas, the S. S. United States, as she proceeds up the North River President Trunian Approves Measure Boosting Marines Washington U.R) : Presi dent Truman who once called the Marine corps the Navy's police force, signed into law Saturday a bill strengthening the corps and making, its com mandant a part-time member of the joint chiefs of staff. - Under the statute the Leath ernecks must be maintained hereafter at not less than three combat divisions and three air wings. The ceiling on its strength is set at 400,000 officers and men. The Marine corps command ant will have "co-equal" status with the Army, Navy, and . Air force members of the joint chiefs of staff when marine matters are involved. Although some marine boost ers had feared Mr. Truman would veto the measure, his action was expected to further mollify the corps which he has criticized in the past. - At one time, Mr. Truman com plained that the marines had; a propaganda jnaChine-cori4 only j to Stalin!s..AxuodarmL, the president subsequentry pub licly apologized to the marines in a personal appearance before the Marine Corps League. Sponsors of the new law said the measure will safe guard the corps on the home front against both its enemies and friends. Its enemies, they had said, wanted to dismember the corps or trim its functions to police and guard duty. Kader Sentencing Set for Wednesday Portland (U.R) Jada Z. Kader, back in her Rocky Butte jail cell Saturday will have to wait until 10 a.m. Wednesday to hear her sentence for the slaying of her three-year-old daughter Sherrie Ellen. The 22-year-old mother was convicted of manslaughter by a circuit court jury vote of 11 to 1 Friday and Judge Frank J. Lonergan set Wednedsay morn ing as the time for sentencing. He could send Mrs. Kader to the state penitentiary for 15 years and fine her $5,000. The jury began its . delibera tions at 10:37 a.m. Friday and announced the verdict at 3:35 p.m. At 2 p.m. the jurors return ed to the court room to ask new instructions on the differ ent degreesof homicide. Judge Lonergan repeated his original instructions. Mrs. Kader was charged with the first degree murder of her daughter after the body of the little girl was found in a south east Portland gas works sump hole in January. NLRB Sustains Finding In Central Point Case Washington (U.R) - The National Labor Relations Board said Saturday it . has sustained findings of A. Bruce Hunt, trial examiner, that - the - Howard Cooper corporation's Central Point, Ore., operations engaged in unfair labor practices. The unfair tactics allegedly were in 1951 against the AFL International Association of Machinests, local No. .1468. Hunt said the company failed to bargain collectively with the union and had interfered with activities of its members. The company appealed to the NLRB, which affirmed the examiner's findings and ordered the comp any to cease and desist in such practices. ' 500 Rhee Supporters Hold Korean Assembly Prisoner for 5 Hours Pusan, Korea, Sunday -4U.R) A mob of 500 shouting support ers of President Syngman Rhee held 103 members of the na tional assembly prisoner for five hours yesterday with a human barricade. The Rhee supporters, sur rounded the legislative building in this provisional capital at 1:30 p.m. when the assembly voted to adjourn without taking action on a proposal to dissolve itself. Korean home minister Lee Bum Suk freed the legislators by ordering police to form a path- Senate Passes Bill Providing Benefits mKottan Vets V-7 Washington . . (U.R) The Senate Saturday passed by voice vote a billion-dollar-a-year G.I. Bill of Rights for veterans of the Korean War. The measure calls for educa tional allowances, home and in surance loan guarantees, muster ing out pay and other readjust ment benefits such as those in the G.I. Bill of World War II. A Senate -House conference committee will have to reconcile the Senate bill with a similar measure previously approved by the House. The Senate adopted a provision by Sen. Homer Ferguson (R. Mich.), stipulating that an unem ployed veteran can receive the same unemployment compensa tion he would have received if he had been employed in private industry, rather than the armed forces. The House bill makes no pro vision for unemployment com pensation. This was designed to prevent a repetition of the "52 20" clubs of World War II in which some veterans preferred to receive maximum unemploy ment benefits of $20 a week for 52 weeks before looking for a job - Sen. Lister Hill (D.-Ala.), whose labor subcommittee draft ed the bill, told the Senate funds are available to start the pro gram. , , Veterans who have served in the armed services since June 27, 1950, are entitled to benefits under the bill regardless of where they spent their military careers. ' ' Private Darl Barlow Struck by Shrapnel Pvt. Darl W. Barlow, the son of Warren Barlow, 135 Almond street, and of Mrs. Pauline A. Barlow, 1065 Ellendale drive, was wounded in Korea June 21, the 'war department . has an nounced. His mother has received word that he has been hospitalized at Pusan. His wounds, received from shrapnel, were reported to be not serious. . Barlow was wounded "on Hill 200 on the western front, where the 45th had undergone fierce fighting. He has been overseas since March, 1951. Since Dec ember he has been at the front. Barlow has two brother's in Medford, Clyde, 842V. Taylor street, and Gene, 1065 Ellendale drive. . . ' in salute to the new first lady of ' to berth on arrival in New York. way through the shouting crowd. The crowd had refused to leave when he appealed to them earl ier and he called police. The hall was cleared by 6:40 p.m. after the crowd had severe ly beaten one legislator, Park Sung Ha, who tried to leave. He was carried inside the building and treated by other lawmakers when the crowd refused to per mit a doctor to enter. The siege of the 103 legisla tors was the latest outburst in Rhee's fight for reelection. The mob surrounded the assembly and shouted warnings that they would hold it prisoner until it made arrangements for new elec tions by voting to dissolve this session. Police made no attempt to dis perse the crowd at first and the only persons permitted to enter or leave the building were six American newspapermen and photographers "who made tele phone calls from a nearby office. Mid-Air Collision Kills Two Persons Dallas, Tex. (U.R) A two place private plane hit a four engined DC-6 that was trying to land with 56 persons aboard Saturday. The private plane went into a spin, crashed in a street and the two men in it were killed. The DC-6, already on an ap proach to Love airfield, com pleted its landing. None on board was injured and appar ently only one person on the DC-6, 1st Lt. Phil C. Brockman of Panama City, Fla., an air force officer, saw the private plane go down. Paul Winfield Brower, 19, and Don Edward Walker; 20, both of Denton, Tex., were killed in the crash of the pri vate plane, a two-place Swift. Brower was the pilot and the falling plane narrowly missed houses on both sides of the street. Capt. G. H. Woolweaver of Denton, Tex., who was flying the American Airlines DC-6, in bound from San Francisco, Phoenix, Tucson and El Paso, said he saw a flash of metal and felt a bump about 6:55 a.m. and asked the control tower what hit. him. Death Fails To Fulfill Tennessee Man's Prophecy Middlesboro, Ky. (U.R) James P. Longworth, 69, lay on his bed in what seemed to be a semi-coma here Saturday and insisted that death actually struck him at 7 a.m.. EST, just as he had predicted it would. A crowd of more than 200 people jammed the tiny four room house at the hour named by the white-haired, robust old man as his last on earth. Appearance Changes ' ' : .Death failed to keep the ap pointment, but many of the wit nesses asserted positively that they noted a definite change in Longworth's appearance. , The Rev. James Foster, who was at Longworth's bedside, said that Longworth told him, "death struck me at seven o'clock. I am dying now." Later Longworth's daughter, Mrs. Dora Tkach, said her fath er told her that he had , been "struck by death twice this mor CIST'S CUT-2 CHOUSE 7 Washington (U.R) The House Saturday slashed $3,731,025,250 or 27 per cent, from President Truman's budget requests for foreign aid, military construc tion, atomic expansion and a host of other items. The big $10,122,840,780 meas ure whipped through on a voice vote after the legislators dealt hefty new cuts in the already Angered Latlimore Attacks Charges Despite Apologies . Washington (U.R) An embar rassed state department publicly apologized Saturday for banning Owen-Lattimore from traveling abroad. The Far Eastern expert re plied immediately with a bitter attack on "the McCarrans and McCarthys" in congress, the central intelligence agency, the state department, and "government-by-informer." Refusing to be mollified by the department's action in lifting its ban, the John Hopkins uni versity professor made a free swinging attack on Sens. Joseph R. McCarthy (R., Wis.) and Pat McCarran (D.-Nev.), and govern ment agencies. Based on False Report The ban, issued June 6, was based on a false report that Lat timore intended to travel to Moscow and behind the iron curtain. The edict was issued on the basis of a tip supplied by the Central Intelligence agency. The FBI investigated and found it was false. Harry A. Jarvinen, a travel agency execu tive in Seattle, was indicted by a Seattle federal grand jury yes terday for allegedly giving false Linformation to thw government about Lattimore's "travel plans. After the state department ex pressed today its "regrets" for the "embarrassment" it caused Lattimore, the professor issued a blistering statement condemn ing the weird episode. He said the CIA should be taught that it represents a dem ocratic government and is not a "secret police in a totalitarian state." Eisenhower Relaxes With Round oi Golf Denver (U.R) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower moved out of his mother-in-law's rocking chair long enough Saturday to get in a round of golf. "Golf is relaxation for me," the Republican presidential hopeful said. Eisenhower said that except for a brief conference this mor ning with North Dakota dele gates to the Republican nation al convention that relaxation is all he' has planned for the week end. Earlier he had said that all he intended to do Saturday was sit in a rocking chair at the home here of his mother-in-law, Mrs. John Doud, and "maybe putter around in her flower garden." But the ardent golfing enthus iast decided on some more stren uous exercise after a brief bit of rocking. ning, and would oe leaving soon." Mrs. Tkach said her father tried once to rise from his bed, but fell to the floor, and was unable to walk without assis tance. Awakes From Coma At one point Longworth awoke from his apparent coma, shouted "praise the Lord," and smiled happily as he said, "I'm not going to fight it any more. I'm leaving you. Be good sheep of the Lord." ' The house was made stifling hot by the huge crowd which was on hand this morning to see if Longworth's prophecy of death, based on a dream he had three years ago, would come true. Most of them stayed on until noon, and many who left then did so convinced that Long worth was in the process of dying. BUDGET POT. ACTION hard-hit foreign aid and atomic energy sections. The new economy wave was certain to bring more complaints from the administration which already has charged Congress with dangerously slashing its se curity programs. The House lopped another $243,993,000 off the foreign aid bill for the year beginning Tues day, nearly doubling the slash recommended by the appropria tions committee. That reduced the appropria tion to $6,031,947,750 or nearly $2,000,000,000 less than Presi dent Truman requested and more than $460,000,000 below the fig ure Congress itself passed. The House also: 1. Atomic energy voted $1, 485,000.000 for the Atomic En ergy commission, sharply below the president's $3,191,000,000 re quest. The chamber also provid ed $85,000,000 of the $150,000,- 000 requested for atomic energy expansion by the Tennessee val ley authority. 2. Military construction voted $2,187,899,840 as compar ed with the $2,993,868,440 re quested in the budget. The House measure now goes to the Senate where the adminis tration will make another effort to restore some of the cuts. The appropriations committee slashed $13,750,796,030 or about 25 per cent from the administra tion's original budget request arid then the House itself axed off another $308,993,000. And most of the savings were at the expense of foreign aid. House, Senate Okay Weak Control Bill On Wages, Prices Washington (U.R) The House and Senate Saturday ap proved and sent to the White "House a weak'"lff-mbhths "wage -price controls extension bill which President Truman will not like but is expected to sign. The defense production (con trols) act was scheduled to die at midnight Monday. Mr. Tru man was expected to sign the new extension Monday, possibly with another blast at those who opposed his request for a straight two-year extension. The Senate first approved the bill by voice vote. The bill, a product of 16 hours of negotia tion by Senate-House conferees who reconciled differences be tween Senate and House bills, was then sent to the House. The House gave its approval in a 194-142 roll call vote. Be fore Senate passage, Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R-Ind.) led a fight against it. He said it was "nei ther fish nor fowl." The Measure lifts rent restric tions on September 30 in all but "critical defense housing areas" unless local governing bodies take positive action to continue them until April 30 the new expiration date for price-war controls. Although controls will be weaker under the new legisla tion, the administration did man age to salvage some sort of a victory by the measure. The House had riddled it with so many amendments that it virtu ally meant the end of price and wage controls next month. Rainfall Continues; Slide Closes Road Precipitation for the month of June keeps climbing over the average with a forecasted con tinued upward trend today. Up to last night the June total was 1.72. inches, while the mon thly average is only .72 an inch less. Rain falling since last Sunday, June 22, has amounted to .66 inches, the weather bur eau said. ' . The rainfall was believed re sponsible for a slide which car ried away a section of the road between Fourmile lake and Fish lake Friday afternoon. J. A. Hoffbuhr, manager of the Med ford Irrigation district, reported that the slide also took a wall of one of the district's canals. The road will be closed for about 10 days, Hoffbuhr said Five cars were temporarily trap ped by the slide. Closure of the canal will not affect irrigation in the valley as water from other sources is now being used.