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Newspaper Page TextIteniira r 7 i r ' TsTx . A 1 FIRST REWARD received by Arml Kuusela, 19, of Finland, winner of "Miss Universe" crown at Long Beach beauty pageant, is a kiss from Mrs. F. G. True, her sister. (International Soundphoto) Housewives Notified Prices To Go Higher Washington U.R) House wives were put on notice Wed nesday that their food bills prob ably will go' up soon and push the cost of living to an all-time high. Price Stabilizer Ellis Arnall made the prediction and blamed the new controls law. All To Feel It He said the cost of living may not increase drastically as a re suit of the act but that it will rise enough so that "every Amer ican family will feel it." He gave his estimate ' after President Truman said the new law provides "very limited pro tection" against inflation. Mr. Truman warned that it will permit rent hikes in many cities after September 30 and clear the way for increases in prices of milk, vegetables, fruits, fertilizer and some other goods and services. Arnall, relieved to find he had any real price control authority left at all, said the law "is not as strong as we had hoped for but it could have been very much weaker than it is." Vegetables Exempt He based his cost-of-living pre diction mainly on the act's ex emption from price controls of all fruits and vegetables. They make up 20 per cent of the aver age family food costs and seven Man Arraigned On Felony Counts Marshal Craven, 46, Shady Cove, was arraigned in district court yesterday on two felony counts. No plea was entered and the case was continued until he obtains an attorney, according to District Attorney Paul Havi land. Craven was arrested Tuesday morning on a warrant charging threatening commisson of a fel ony and pointing a pistol at an other. A bail of $4,000 has been set on the two complaints by District Judge Rawles Moore. Carl Joseph Williams, 37, route one, box 538, Ashland, entered a plea of. guilty this morning in circuit court to a charge of obtaining money un der false pretenses. His case will be continued for sentencing receipt of complete records. He had been arrested by Ashland police on the charge of passing $254 worth of bad checks in that city. John Furzer Patterson, 41, Seattle, Wash., was sentenced Tuesday by Circuit Judge H. K. Hanna to two years and 10 months in the state penitentiary for larceny by bailee of an auto mobile belonging to Barnes Chevrolet in Medf ord. Patterson has served sentences in other states on larceny charges. Communist Negotiators Unexpectedly Ask One-Day Postponement in Meetings Panmunjom, Korea (U.PJ The Communists unexpectedly asked a one-day postponement in the Korean truce talks Wednes day, sparking hopes a break may be imminent in the long - dead locked negotiations. The United Nations agreed to the postponement, and the next meeting will be held Thursday at. 11 a.m. The Reds presumably wanted more time to study an "exhaus tive review" or the armistice discussions submitted at Tues !per cent of the average -family budget. This removed ceilings from prices of canned, frozen and oth er processed fruits and vegeta bles. Although some of these are selling below those ceilings, price officials estimated that 65 per cent are selling at ceiling levels at retail and therefore can be expected to rise. Plans To Show TV Here During Party Conventions Fail , Plans to bring j television to Medford during the Republican and Democratic ' National" "con ventions fell througs today, with an announcement from the Paci fic Telephone and Telegraph company that technical difficul ties would make the project vir tually impossible. The Mail Tribune, radio sta tion KYJC, and a group of deal ers had planned to "tap" a TV coaxial cable which runs through Medford, and "pipe" it to sets to be installed at the Elks tem ple. It was planned to throw the basement of the Elks building open to the public, free of charge, so they could watch the political spectacles this month. Negotiations with Columbia Broadcasting system, which has rights to the TV cable here, con cluded today with a telegram giving CBS' OK to the project. But the telephone company ex plained that with only a few days remaining before the GOP convention, and the fact that necessaiy equipment would have to be brought here and installed at considerable expense, would make the plan "impractical." Winston Churchill Gets Confidence Vote London (UP) Prime Min ister Winston Churchill won a confidence vote on the Allied conduct of the Korean war Tues day night after warning that fur ther criticism might lead to elec tion of an isolationist president in the U. S. The House of Commons back ed up Churchil by defeating La bor Party motion of censure, 300 to 70. Liberal Party mem bers lined up solidly with Churchill's own Conservatives in the crucial vote. Churchill outmaneuvered his Labor Party critics by deflect ing their attacks on his govern ment's part in the conduct of the Korean war onto the U. S., then playing on Europe's fears Amer ica may return to isolationism. day's meeting by Maj. Gen. Wil-j liam K.- Harrison, chief Allied negotiator. It was believed here that the Communist negotiators sent Harrison's statement to a higher level possibly Peiping or Mos cow for further study and de cision. Harrison had reminded the Communists the Allied proposal of April 28 to end the deadlock on exchanging war . prisoners, the only stumbling block to peace, contained a "face-saving" i TRUIW Bulls Shoals Dam, Ark. (U.PJ President Truman Wednesday advised the South to count its blessings under the New Deal and Fair Deal, and vote accord ingly in this election year. In his first overt bid for South ern support of his policies in 1952, Mr. Truman used language apparently intended as an anti dote to a threatened bolt by the region's Democratic leaders. In a ipeech prepared for joint dedication of Bull Shoals dam, where lie spoke, and of the near by, smaller Norfolk dam, which Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 47th Year 18 Pages Authorization Given For Work to Start On Airport Building Authorization for construction of the new union terminal buil ding at the Medford municipal airport was received today from the Civil Aeronautics admini stration by City Superintendent Robert Duff. Construction will begin as soon as Contractor Frank R. Fairweather can get started, Duff said. Fairweather's specif ied completion time for the $135,039 building is 90 days. Duff also announced the ap pointment of a" new airport manager. Ralph E. Pierce, 9 South Groveland avenue, will assume the airport duties for merly handled by City Treasur er Darell Huson. Pierce will work half-time at the airport. The job done by Huson in managing .the airport was prais ed by Duff. He said the airport revenues increased greatly dur ing Huson's administration but that the press of other duties forced him to ask release as air port manager. " Over-Ceiling Boost Assured Steel Makers Washington (U.R) Informed sources said Wednesday the steel industry can count on get ting an over-the-ceiling price boost when the steel strike is settled no matter what Price Stabilizer Ellis Arnall says to the contrary. They said the steel compan ies almost certainly will get the S4.50-a-ton increase already of fered to them informally, and perhaps more if they make a strong case. The finanl decision on a price boost is up to Acting Defense Mobilizer John R. Steel man. Arnall reiterated Tuesday that he would approve only the $3-a-ton steel price hike permit ted under the so-called "Cape hart" amendment. Legal Opinion Asked On Remarried Widows Cashing Bonus Checks Salern CU.R) A legal opinion on the confusion created by re married widows of veterans fil ing for the Oregon bonus has been requested by the bonus di vision of the Department of Vet erans Affairs. Checks already issued to the remarried widows are not being honored by the state treasury department. Fred Paulus, deputy state trea surer, said many widows have remarried since they filed appli cation for the bonus as next of kin. They are not eligible for the bonus, Paulus said, and a num ber of 1he checks are being re turned to the banks which cash ed them. ' LUMBER FIRMS TO CLOSE Retail lumber stores and plan ing mills of the area will be closed on both Friday, July 4 and Saturday, July 5, it was report ed today by a spokesman. way out of the deadlock. Basically, the U.N. opposes re turning Communist prisoners who do not wish to go back to the Red side. The Communists insist on the return of all pris oners. The U.N. compromise proposal would remove from the lists of prisoners the names of all who say they would forcibly resist repatriation. Then the U.N. could return "all listed prison ers'' and still maintain its stand against forced repatriation.. MAKES BID FOR SOUTHERN he visited earlier, the President said the South has made its greatest strides during the past 20 years of Democratic control. "Remember these things this year, when you see and hear the storm of political propaganda that will be put out to try and turn back the clock," Mr. Tru man said. "We don't want to turn back the clock." The President's appeal came a day after one of his principal Democratic foes in the South, Gov. James F. Myrnes of South Carolina, advocated a southern MEDFORD, OREGON, BASEBALL NATIONAL Philadelphia 4 12 1 Brooklyn 3 6 2 Roberts and Lopaia; Van Cuyk. King 1, Black 7, Schmitz 8, Labine 8, and Cam panella. Home run: For Brooklyn Robinson. New York 15 1 Boston 2 6 1 Kennedy and Yvars; Spahn and Cooper. Home run: For B o s t o : Ditlmer. Search For Ki Continues; No New Developments Told "Nothing new," was the re port today on the state police search for a man wanted for the murder, of a police officer last week. A detachment of six officers is still' patroling the wilderness of northern Jackson county-, Jiop ing to find George Baker Dun kin, 67-year-Old miner and trap per who is wanted for the fatal shooting of State Policemen Phil Lowd a week ago yesterday. Capt. Paul Parson, command er of the Medford police district, said that the officers assigned to the search under the direction of Sgt. Mark O. Sullivan are methodically checking the 50-square-mile area, section by sec tion. . Check Trails, Cabins Each trail and each cabin in the rugged forest and brush land, near the Jackson-Douglas county border, is being checked, Captain Parson said. It is a ted ious, methodical and dangerous job, he pointed out, but one which must be done if the sus pected killer is to be found. Lowd was shot and killed Tuesday, June 24, when he was on his way to question Dunkin regarding shots which had been fired at a forestry trail crew. Sergeant Sullivan, who has been reporting to Captain Par son daily by radio, is expected to come out of the area briefly tonight, and additional details of the search's progress may be available tomorrow morning, the captain said. Indian Land Sale Ordered Nullified Portland (U.R) The govern ment Wednesday won its federal court suit to have the sale of 800 acres of Indian timberland near Gold Beach, Ore., nullified. Federal Judge Gus J. Solo mon, in an oral opinion, ordered the Bureau of Indian Affairs to "forthwith put up for public sale the heirship lands involved . . . and sold to the highest bidder." Judge Solomon ordered that the $135,000 Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Taylor of The Dalles paid the government for the purported conveyance of the 800 acres of timber be returned. . . Weather Balloon Sought In Southern Oregon ' Klamath Falls (U.R) A representative of General Mills, Inc., conducted an aerial search Wednesday for a huge weather balloon believed to be grounded in southern Oregon. , The balloon was set free by the Grand Rapids, Mich., firm as part of a government testing project. A sphere, described as being 50 to 70 feet in diameter, was reported sighted over Lake view Tuesday, heading east. - Salem-4U.R) Mrs. Hetty Krei kenbaum, who was - with the State Industrial Accident Com mission for more than 33 years, retired this week from her post as assistant claim agent. : - Mr walkout if contested anti-administration delegates from Texas, South Carolina, Mississippi and other states are not seated in the Democratic National convention three weeks hence. Byrnes also said Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois, reputed to be Mr. Tru man's choice for the Democratic presidential nomination this year, is "not acceptable" to the South. ' The New Deal and the Fair Deal have done a lot for the whole country,", the President said, "but I believe they have done more for the South than WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, Incident Occurs As New Arrivals Drive Over Border Berlin (U.R) Russian troops arrested at gunpoint Wed nesday three American Catholic priests and their German wo man secretary when their jeep rolled a scant three feet across the East-West border in Berlin. U. S. authorities made an im mediate demand to Soviet head quarters for the release of the four. The priests were identified by a U. S. Army spokesman as the Revs. Martin Borowczyk, George Gorski and Bronislaus Sokolow ski. They arrived in Berlin to .dayfrom .-Frankfurt.. Catholic directories indicated that at least two and . possibly all three priests are from the Chicago archdiocese. The direc tories list a Father Martin Bor owczyk, Justice Park, Oak Lawn, 111.; a Father . George Groski at the Ascension Polish Fathers InsHtute, Evanston, and a Father Bernard E- Sokolow ski, Chicago. The three priests, who . work for Cralog, a Catholic relief agency, and their secretary, were arrested by border guards when they drove over the bor der at the Dueppel border cross ing point, West Berlin police reported. It. was the latest in a series of border seizures and kidnap ings which began just a month ago with the Soviet frontier crackdown in retaliation for the signing of the West German peace treaty. .In the past 13 days, 68 West erners five Americans, two British and 61 Germans have been seized by the Reds in fron tier incidents. Only a few re main in Soviet hands. Mrs. Kader Given 15 Years and Fine Portland (U.R) Mrs. Jada Z. Kader Wednesday was sentenced to a maximum term of 15 years in the slate pentitentiary for the manslaughter death of her three-year-old daughter, Sherrie Ellen. She was also fined 81,000. Mrs. Kader was convicted last Friday. Under the sentence, she will be eligible for parole after five years. Mrs. Kader, who wept silent ly, was asked after the sentenc ing if she considered, the sen tence a fair one. "No," she replied .refusing to comment further. MRS. JADA KADER Heart Prison Sentence us catholic puts ARRESTED BY - RUSSIANS erf - any other part of it. I know the New Deal and the Fair Deal have done more for the South than any other national adminis tration in this country's history." Mr. Truman did not mention his civil rights program, which has generated so much anti-administration feeling in the South. The president compared the situation now with the depres sion days of the early 1930's when the Republicans last ran the government. Mr. Truman opened up against one of his favorite targets the private power "lobby." He said Tribune United Press Full Leased Wui 1952 No. 88 Two New Areas Join City by Council Vote Verde Hills subdivisions Nos. 2 and 3, southeast of the Med ford city limits, were incorpor ated into the city last night by city council votes of 6 to 1 and 5 to 2. Both tracts were brought into the city through the 100 per Russia Accused of Prisoner Slaughter Washington (U.R) A House committee charged jRussi Wednesday with the massacre of . 15,000. Poles in World War 41- and;- accused Communists of slaughtering American prison ers in Korea on an "almost identical pattern." Rep. Ray J. Madden, D-Ind., chairman of a special committee set up to fix guilt in the Polish massacres, said Congress should launch a special investi gation next year of Red atroci ties in Korea. The committee said that the Communists in Korea appear to have taken the Polish slaughters as a "blueprint" for mass killing of American war prisoners. Ike To Go Fishing Before Barnstorming Denver (U.R) Gen. D wight D. Eisenhower yearned Wednes day for a last bout with Color ado's trout before beginning a 48-h our barnstorming trip across the Mid-west to a Repub lican National Convention bat tle at Chicago. Eisenhower kept one eye cocked on the heated delegate contests as he polished up the "on to Chicago" speeches he will make from the rear plat form of his "victory train" and from the steps of the Lincoln, Neb., state capitol. Before the train leaves Thurs day for the convention city where Eisenhower is prepared to wage an all-out fight for the presidential nomination, the general wanted to spend a last few quiet hours with Gov. Dan Thornton in his favorite Color ado trout haunts. fair, Warm Weather Foreseen on Holiday All indications are for gener ally fair and warm weather on Independence day. Friday, July 4, the weather bureau office here reported today. Low humidity for the holiday is foreseen and the bureau there fore, warned persons going into the woods for the day to exercise care with fire. Weatner should be clear on the southern Ore gon coast, it was said. Tired Pigeon Found, Is Awaiting Owner A tired out carrier pigeon alighted at Merrick's Motor inn here Tuesday and . is being car ed for by Proprietor Emerson Merrick until the owner can be found, Sheriff Howard Gault re ported. ; The bird bore a metal leg band with the inscription VRN 444 and a rubber band on which was written L361, Gault said. Klamath Falls (UR) The body of John Hobfes, 53-year-old Kirk, Ore., rancher, was recov ered from the Williamson river north of here Tuesday. " SUPPORT the private power companies had entered into an alliance with the American Medical association, the "real estate lobby' 'and other "special interests" to combat all progressive programs. "The special interests that have fought against flood control and power development are teamed up with the special inter ests that have fought against price support for farm products," he said, and . . . "have fought against minimum wages for working people . . . against ad vances in housing and health and education." Weather FORECAST: Continued fair through Thursday. Warmer and low humidities. Low to night 50. High Friday SO-92. Temp. Highest Yesterday '9 Lowest this Morning 48 cent petition plan approved last year by the state legislature. No election is necessary. Council President Paul Selby, who presided in the absence of Mayor D. L. Flynn, voted no on both tracts and Councilman Harold Frye voted no on tract No. 3. Selby stated he did not approve of the manner of pre senting the tracts for annexa tion and felt that he must vote no "to be consistent." "Long Finger of Land" The council president said he believed that "to follow prac tices of ' good city planning, 'a long finger of land' lying south of .the city , limits and north and east of the Verde Hills tracts should have been brought in at the same time to round out the city." Selby last fall voted against the annexation of Verde Hills No. 1 for the same reason, he stated. The licensing of 23 card tables in Medford clubs and tav erns was approved unanimously by the council after having been referred at a previous meeting. The council also approved li censing of 18 pool tables and 22 privately owned "free play" ma chines, as well as free play ma chines owned by Steve Crippen and Valley Music company. OK Avenue Widening The council also approved resolutions concerning state highway department specifica tions on widening of Riverside avenue, from the intersection with Central avenue to the city limits at Stewart avenue. The widening is a part- of the com mission's projected widening project between Medford and Phoenix, bids on which are to be opened June 10 in Portland (See Story on Page 9) Russia on Strike In Security Council United Nations, N. Y. UP) Russia, smarting under a series of resounding defeats in the United Nations in its germ war fare propaganda campaign, was on a "sit-down strike" in the Se curity Council Wednesday. Soviet delegate Jacob A. Mal ik angrily told the Council Tues day that Russia "will not partici pate in the debate" of an Amer ican demand for a Red Cross in vestigation of Communist charg es that United States troops have used ' bacterial weapons in Ko rea and warned that, in the end, he would veto the proposal. Enemy's Losses in Korea Total 12,416 Seoul, Korea (U.R) United Nations ground and air forces killed, wounded or captured 12,416 Communists in June, the heaviest enemy losses since Jan uary, it was disclosed Wednes day. The' 8th' Army said' U.N. ground forces killed 5,586 Com munists, wounded 5,581 and captured 149. The Air Force killed or wounded 1,100. In fighting Tuesday, a U.N. raiding party , killed 112 Chin ese and wounded 145 more in an attack on a hill northwest of Yonchon. Other Allied units sent to prevent any reinforcement of the Red position fought off Georgia Delegates Favoring Senator Seated, 62 to 39 Eisenhower Manager Denounces Decision Chicago (UP) The Re publican National Committee Wednesday voted unanimous ly lo seat an Eisenhower Kan sas delegate over a Taft supporter. Chicago (U.R) The Taft steamroller with the whistle tied down was crushing all opposi tion Wednesday in delegate con tests before the Republican na tional committee. Seventeen Georgia delegates pledged to Sen. Robert A. Taft were seated shortly after noon by a whacking 62 to 39 vote in preference to the Eisenhower "regulars." Alphabetical Older The committee is taking up contests in alphabetical order with bitterly disputed Texas last. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower can have a compromise if he wants it, but on Taft's terms. Eisenhower's strategists have decided to take their lumps in committee and carry the fight to the convention floor next week, on appeal. Eisenhower's campaign man ager. Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, denounced the Georgia decision of the national committee as an other "Texas steal." Mjve Criticized Senator Lodge said: "No wonder the Taft-domin-ated national committee wanted to keep television, newsreel and radio out of their sessions. "They have just voted to seat the so-called Foster delegation from Georgia. This is not just steamroller, this is another Tex as steal." Lodge added: "The Taft machine may think that they have won a temporary victory but they will find that public opinion will not stand for such disgraceful shennanigans and that the action of the com mittee will be reversed in the credentials committee and on the floor of the convention." Seet First Ballot Win Taft condfidently told news conference questioners today that he was looking for a first ballot nomination. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's spokesmen countered with claims that they were chipping Taft delegates away in numer ous states and believed they could speed the process. Fair Trade Debate Slows Adjournment Washington (UP) Debate on the so-called "fair trade" bill slowed the Senate's adjourn ment drive Wednesday with Sen. Wayne L. Morse, R-Ore., fore casting a presidential veto if the measure is passed. Morse predicted that President Truman will veto , the bill "be cause he ought to veto it." The Oregon Republican launched into a long attack on the minimum price legislation as backers of the bill accused its foes of attempting a fili buster. Morse denied the charge, but Senate Democratic Leader Ernest W. McFarland, Ariz., warned that the chamber would stay in session late into the night if necessary to finish the House approved measure. Hearing Set July 17 On Copco Lines Sale Salem A Public Utilities commission hearing on the appli cation of the California Oregon Power company for an order authorizing sale of electric dis tribution lines to the City of Ashland has been set for 10:30 a.m. July 17, at Ashland city hall. Copco applied June 24 to sell part of its distribution system within the city. The hearinng was set by Public Utilities Com missioner Charles H. Heltzel. During June an attack by three enemy plat oons, killing or wounding an additional 320 enemy soldiers. Another 112 enemy soldiers were killed in the Heartbreak Ridge sector of the Eastern front, when a battalion - sized attack against Allied positions was thrown back. Acting Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Nathan F. Twining and Air Undersecretary Roswell L. Gilpatric left for Washington after a brief tour of. Air Force installations in Korea, Okinawa, and Japan. The Air Force refused to dis close the purpose of the mission other than to say it was "to in spect Far East installations."