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Newspaper Page TextTAFT -PROPO GONPEMOSE TEmS Medford lulled Prna rail Leased KM 47th Year 12 Pages HujgB Military- i SSI jgsl 1 JfSM THESE SCENE STEALERS are holding forth In "Senator, I'm Glad You Asked Me That," latest laugh riot by Constance Ban nister, one of world's foremost baby photographers. Vigorous infant at left screams "Lies! Vilification! Character Assassination" while skeptical toddler at right asks "What Safety Deposit Box?" Book was inspired by public's avid Interest in recent U. S. Senate crime Investigation, directed by Senator Estes Kefauver. (international) Eisenhower Carries Fight Against GOP 'Backroom7 Politics Aboard The Eisenhower Train-(U.R) Gen. Dwight D. Ei senhower carried his fight against "backroom" politics into Iowa Friday, confident that he has found finally a theme which will bring him the presidential nomination next week. ' , In a full day of campaigning Thursday, the general struck out hard at the "little clique" politicians he maintains are seeking to dominate the GOP nominating convention in Chi cago. Attacks Administration Speaking from the state Cap itol steps Thursday night at Lin- Full Inquiry Asked In RFC Money Deal Washington (U.R) Sen. Her man Welker Friday demanded a "full and complete senate inves tigation" of a $600 payment by former RFC Director Walter E. Cosgriff to Sen. William Benton, D.-Conn., in 1950. The Idaho Republican, a mem ber of the Senate elections sub committee, told newsmen he will consult with Cosgriff, a Utah banker, about the payment, which was revealed during the RFC inquiry last year by a Sen ate banking subcommittee. The subject was brought up Thursday by Sen. Joseph R. Mc Carthy, R.-Wis., Benton's old foe, who mentioned the payment in charging before the subcommit tee that Benton harbored and hired pro-Communists while he was assistant secretary of state. MacArihur To Sleep In Five-Star Bed Chicago U.P.) Gen. Douglas MacArthur will sleep on a five star bed here before delivering the keynote address at the Re . publican National convention. A firm supplying beds for the general's apartment sewed fiv star emblems on the mattresses. Washington (U.R) President Truman planned to stay, home over the Fourth of July because of the illness of his mother-in-law, Mrs. David Wallace, in In dependence, Mo. Man Grabs Officer's Revolver; Bystander Shot During Scuffle Charles V. Jones, 2198 Buck shot road, was shot in the leg with a police revolver here yes terday while Officer Robert F. James and bystanders attempted to disarm the man who fired the shot, according to city police. "It's a wonder James and one or more bystanders weren't killed," Police Chief Clatous McCredie said this morning. Bartender Asks Help Officer James' report said he was on a routine patrol in the Pine Cone inn, 17 South Front street, at about 5 p.m. yesterday. The fracas started when Bar tender Jalmar M. Jager request ed him to remove Wayne Rus sell Myers, 54-year-old Camp White logger, who the bartender said was intoxicated, James stated. i James said that as be took MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1952 III! coin, Neb., he turned on the Democratic administration by at tacking the "irresponsible poli ticians' in Washington. It was a double thrust and it required no crystaj.ball to under stand that Eisenhower was at tacking both the entrenched po litical forces of, his chief GOP rival, Sen. Robert A. Taft, and the Democratic leadership. But the general, in keeping with his harmony role, named neither Taft nor the Truman ad ministration directly. Friday his special train stop ped at Denison,- la., for a brief rear, platform appearance, . and at Boone, la., where he and his wife "my Mamie" will picnic and then visit Mrs. Eisenhower's birthplace. Appears On Television This evening Eisenhower will appear on a nationwide televi sion broadcast, the "We The People" program. The program originates : at Ames, la. Immediately thereaft er, he motors to an Ames foot ball stadium for another brief speech. Eisenhower headquarters ra diated confidence. They pointed to the thousands of persons who gathered at small Colorado and Nebraska rail towns to cheer the candidate. . And they were heartened by a big 35,000 turnout at Lincoln. Rhee Score Victory In Korean Struggle Pusari, Korea (U.R) Presi dent Syngman Rhee won a com plete victory Friday night over his political opponents in the long drawn out struggle for power in South Korea. By a vote of 163 to 0, with three abstentions, the National Assembly passed a bill that would allow the Korean people to vote directly -for president. That power previously resided in the national assembly. Opponents of the bill said its passage meant the reelection of 77-year-old Rhee. Omaha (U.R) A new outbreak' of vesicular exanthema, a rare disease, halted all hog shipments in and out of the Omaha live stock market Friday. hold of Myers' arm the man grabbed the officer's revolver from its holster. James attempt ed to take the revolver away from Myers by grabbing the barrel, but the officer's hand slipped "and Myers fired . the revolver in an attempt to shoot" him, James said. The bullet traveled the full length of the crowded bar without striking anyone. - - Grab at Gun Wielder ' . James went around an amuse ment machine "in an effort to get at Myers from the other side," he said, and Myers went around Jhe machine in the op posite direction. Leonard N. Grayson, 27Mr Newtown, street, grabbed Myers and two or three unidentified customers came to bis 'assistance. - i lets Money Included For Plane Buying; Carrier Permitted House Provision For Limit Junked Washington (U) Senate- House conferees Friday approv ed a $46,610,938,912 military spending bill, including money for a 143-wing air force by mid 1955. The compromise version of the defense appropriation bill would give the Air-Force just what it asked for to buy planes next year $12,685,300,000. Super-Carrier Permitted It also would permit the Navy to build another 60,000 ton "super-carrier" of the Forrestal class, but . would require the Navy to juggle its budget and find money for the carrier. Junked by the conferees was a House provision, sharply at tacked by defense spokesmen, for a $46,000,000,000 limit on military- spending in the fiscal year which began Sunday. Conferees Fail To Agree The conferees failed to agree on a Senate provision for a $45 monthly combat bonus for mem bers of the armed services in actual fighting in Korea. The House will be asked to vote on the proposal. If it is rejected, the conferees will have to meet on the matter again. The conferees went along with the Senate in eliminating a House provision which would have taken away military staffs serving Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower and Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur. The House had directed that aides for such five-star offi cers and retired Marine generals should be. eliminate!. Shooting for Adjournment Congress was shooting for final adjournment. Saturday, but the Republican reader; Sen. Styles Bridges, planned to try to keep the lawmakers oa call in case of a break in the ' steel strike. Bridges told a reporter he would move to recess the Senate subject to call of the leaders, in stead pf adjourning sine die quitting for keeps until the next Congress convenes in January. East German Police Jail French Airman Berlin t- (U.R) East German Communist police arrested a French airman on the West Ber lin .border Friday. At the same time, Communist police ordered East Germans liv ing in t h e border district of South Stolpe to barricade doors on their homes facing West Ber lin.-Some houses are only a few feet from the French sector of the city. Anti - Communist sources re ported that the Communists had started laying land mines along the border between eastern and western Germany to aid them in. sealing it off. . Rat Poison Fatal To Grants Pass Youth Grants Pass (U.R) Charles Reams, "J 9, of Grants Pass, died Thursday night after eating rat poison. -Josephine County. Coroner Vir gil P. Hull listed the youth's death as suicide but said no fur ther information about the case would be released until after further investigation. Myers struggled with them, James says, and kept edging to ward the rear of the building. While the struggle was going on, Myers fired another shot, according to the officer's report, and Jones, who was seated in a rear "booth, was struck in the calf of his left leg. At that point, James gained possession of the revolver and Myers was hand cuffed and removed to city jaiL Condition Good - 1 Jones was taken to Commu nity hospital by Perl ambulance. Hospital attendants this morn ing said his condition was good. Myers was charged with as sault with a dangerous weapon, police records indicated. Myers told police this morning that he bad.no recollection of the scuf- fie ox the sEootins. they 'said, Tribune United Press FuU Leased Win No. 90 Conference BULLETINS Washington (U.R) Sen. Robert A. Taft disclosed Fri day that he has been told Gen. Douglas MacArihur "would not reject" the vice presiden tial nomination of a Taft-Mac-. Arthur ticket. Taft said he had had no direct contact wiih MacArthur on the matter. And he refused to identify the source of his information. Aboard The Cruiser La Helle, Off San Pedro, Calif. (U.R) A spunky Florence Chadwick, game to the last, finally admitted defeat Fri day and was pulled from icy Pacific waters less than a mile from the goal of her 21-mile Catalina island channel swim. "I can't go on," she gasped to her mother, Mary Chadwick. and her faithful coach, Bert Rovere, who were riding along beside her in the wildly toss ing guide rowboat. Employment Active In June; Shortage Of Vorkers Seen The month of June was an ac tive one from the employment standpoint, according to the Med ford office of the State Unem ployment Compensation commis sion. Shortages of skilled and semi-skilled workers are expect ed during the next 60 days. Large numbers of high school and college students seeking em ployment for the summer now comprise the largest available source of local abor. The 'local commission office' 'urges that these young people Ve hired par tially to offset the on-coming la bor shortage season. The local office will issue temporary work permits for minors. A heavy pear crop despite frost and hail will result in a shortage of picking and field help, Manager John J. Patton said. Recent estimates place the crop above the five-year aver age, so an all-out recruitment effort will be required to find sufficient harvest labor. ' All sources of labor, including min ors, must be utilized, he added. An early frost reduced the amount, of fruit thinning req uired, but it did little ,if any commercial damage, according to Patton. Youth Kills Mother With Christmas Gun Milwaukee (U.R) A freckle faced lad who killed his mother with a deer rifle she gave him as a Christmas present sobbed to police Friday: "She hollered at me all the time." Thirteen-year-old Herbert Ha- bersetzer broke into tears and ran to the arms of his father, Lucian, 38, when he saw him at the sheriff's office following the shooting. The boy told police his moth er, Sylvia, 36, scolded him when he came home late from fishing in a nearby creek Wednesday night. He said she gave him , the weapon as a Christmas' present "because I always wanted a gun. Stuntman Attempting To Break Chute Mark Grand Prairie, Tex. (U.TO Stuntman Neal L. Steward wear ily parachuted from an airplane Friday and thudded to a landing in a 100-fo.ot plot of plowed ground. .The Birmingham, Ala., stunt man was landing in the corner of the-field with precision as he carried out his Fourth of July- ordeal in an attempt to snap the record of 123 parachute jumps made in one defy. . - . MOTORIST . INJURED Three people were treated at Community hospital early today for minor injuries suffered - in an auto accident, according to a hospital report. They were Mrs. M. R. Wiley and Sgt. Don ald Wiley, 601 West Jackson street, and Max Wimmer, 1115 West - Second street. Details of the mishap were not learned. ' Mexico City (U.R) The gov ernment called out 60,000 troops Friday, with Mexico's -national election only 48 hours away, to prevent recurrence of violence that already as cost 22 lives. Weather FORECAST: Continued fJr and warm through Saturday with high Saturday ' near normal. Low tonight 55-5S. Highest Yesterday ' 97 Lowest This Morning 60 Early Holiday Toll Reaches 90 As Roads Crowded Motorists Cleg Nation's Highways By UNITED PRESS A long week-end holiday and pleasant weather over most of the nation lured motorists by the millions to the highways today as Americans celebrated then- Independence Day. They were warned, Ly state police forces, by safety officials and by motor clubs, that death awaited the careless and the un wary on crowded roadways or at the beaches where many fled to escape the heat of the midsum mer holiday. SO Accidental Deaths By 11 a.m. (PST) accidental deaths totaled 90. Of these 75 were in traffic, 10 by "drown ing, one in a plane crash, the others from miscellaneous causes. The count was started at 6 p.m. Thursday. The National Safety Council estimated that 430 persons would die in highway accident before the week-end was over at 12 -midnight Sunday. St. Paul, Ore. (U.R) Three persons were killed and two oth ers injured about 1:30 a.m. Fri day when the automobile in which Ihey were riding failed to make a curve and overturned on the Hubbard -St. Paul highway about three miles east of here. State police identified the dead as Herman Joseph Schuetz, Woodburn, the driver; Rahno Louise Becken, Newberg; and Fred Neuman, Woodburn. Independence Day Quiet in Medford The Fourth of July, once the nation's loudest and most gala holiday, reached the halfway point in Medford today without so much as a single firecracker or a word of patriotic oratory, at least in the downtown area. In contrast to past years, when fireworks, speeches, and parades were the order of the day, no organized Independence day observance was planned here. All stores and offices were closed and most local residents apparently planned to spend the day quietly at home or in trips to the mountains and beaches. Drunk Reports Up Other than the deserted down town streets, the only indication that today is a holiday came from city police, whose officers reported the number of drunk in public and drunken driving charges was slightly above nor mal for a Friday. Only one traf fic accident had been reported by noon today. All city, county, state and na tional offices will remain closed tomorrow. Most retail business firms have indicated they will be open July 5. The temperature, which has reached maximums over the 90 mark for the past two days, is expected to be at or near that level again today and Saturday", the weather bureau said. The maximum Thursday was 97 for the second straight day and a high of between 92 and 95 was the forecast for today. SS United States Appears Near Record Aboard the S.S. United States at Sea (U.R) The United States Line flagship made an average speed of 34.11 knots in the first day out of New York and ap peared to be on the way to a record breaking Atlantic cross ing. In the first 696 miles on her crossing," the United States made the 34.11 knot average speed during 20 hours, 24 minutes. The Cunard liner Queen Mary, pres ent holder of the Atlantic speed record,, made an average of 31.13 knots in the first 685 nautical miles when she set the record in 1938. Democratic Donkey Used To Aid GOP Cause . Los Angeles (U.R) Republi cans flew a donkey, traditional Democratic party symbol, to Chicago Thursday night to help the GOP cause. The donkey, an eight-year-old critter named Diogenes, will be diapered at the convention and saddled with large signs pro- mi claiming: "Time For a Change.", RATED "MIRACLE MAN" of medicine, John Hoffer, who survived 110 degree fever, undergoes treatment at Bethlehem, Pa., hospital by Nurse Theresa Barath. When other methods failed Hoffer was Immersed lh ice which brought down temperature. (International) . Truman Confirms No Intention To Use T-H Law in Steel Strike Washington (U.R) The bitter steel .dispute headed into a new court fieht Fridav as President Truman confirmed he has no in tention of using the Taft-Hart ley law to end the nationwide strike. Ironically, the striking CIO Steelworkers had turned to the act just 30 minutes after Mr. Truman told his news conference Thursday that ho purpose would be served by an 80-day anti strike injunction. Union Charges Violation The union filed charges witn the National Labor Relations Board asserting that the Big Six steel companies had violated the law by forming a "conspiracy" to block bargaining by individ ual jfirms. Mr. Truman who also ac cused unnamed producers of conspiracy and tne union said many steel companies are ready to settle with tne union hut can't because of "pressure" from others in hte industry. Leaves No Question The President left no question where he stands in the steel fieht. Permitting direct quota tion of -his remarks, he told re porters: "I understand that a good manv of the steel companies are ready to settle with the union on all the issues. ' "I also understand that these companies are being prevented from settling because pressure is being put on tnem Dy ouier steel companies. "This appears to me to oe a conspiracy against the public in terest and not a labor dispute. In my opinion, it does not call for use of the national emergency provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act. "It calls for honest collective Truce Negotiators In Secret Session Panmunjtfm, Korea (U.R) Truce negotiators went into se cret session Friday in an effort to break the deadlock on ex changing war prisoners. An Allied spokesman said both sides presented opinions with "consideration and caution." The subject under discussion was not disclosed, but it obviously was a Communist proposal to reclassify" all war prisoners. In agreeing to the Communist request for secret meetings. Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison, chief Allied negotiator, said: "The United Nations Command has never been adverse at any time throughout these prolong ed negotiations to any step of any nature that might contrib ute . toward the achievement of just and mutually honorable and equitable armistice." :.- Harvest Starts; Berry 7952 Crop Seen Short Bovsenberries. nectarberries and raspberries are now being picked and the harvest will con tinue for about two weeks, Wal ter Kasworm, secretary of the Rogue Valley Berry Growers as sociation, has reported. . He said the boysenberry and nectarberry crops will be short this . year with the June frost having taken about half the crops. Frost and rain also hit the. raspberries and the crop is fair, Kasworm stated. Portland (U.R) Orders, ship ments and production of pine lumber in the west show, de creases so far in 1952 compared to the same period last year, the Western Pine Association report ed Friday, ' ' bargaining between the individ ual companies and the union." Portland (U.R) Thousands of unemployed within the next two or three months was foreseen for Portland Friday unless the na tional steel strike is settled soon. Spokesmen for the city's large metal working industry reported steel shortages are already seri ously curtailing some operations and will grow worse if the strike continues. Temporary layoffs are starting in several plants. . Manhunt Shifts North of Divide The manhunt for George Bale- er Dunkin "looked good" today, according to state police, with a cabin, "checkout" being made north of Ihe divide in the Ump qua drainage area. A six-man detachment left early this morning for the Ump qua area from a base . camp in northern Jackson county and was expected to be in the locale by noon today. No (jontact can be made with the searchers, however, until this evehing'when they return to their camp. This area is often used by Dunkin, police said, and he stays at one cr two cabins in the area when he is there. In the past, he frequently stopped off at a cabin on his way to Tiller where he went for provisions, they point ed out. The murder suspect's woods ability is unquestioned and attested to by ranchers in the area who report that he would go over the divide to Til ler "for an evening" a trek tak ing a good eight hours, accord ing to the forest service. State police reported this mornnig that nothing resulted from the search yesterday in an area about five miles from the spot where State Officer Phil Lowd was killed by a rifle bullet on June 24. Police were investi gating some tracks believed to be Dun kin's. Horse, Trailer Collide, Rider Hospitalized Hoyle Jordan, Eagle Point, was taken to Sacred Heart hos pital lor treatment last night fol)owing a collision between a horse and a trailer on Crater Lake highway, according to Conger-Morris ambulancemen. They said the horse "which Jordan was riding shied as the trailer went by, jumped against the trailer and then fell, injur ing Jordan. Hospital attendants this morning reported his condi tion as good. Police were not called to the scene of the accident and the name of the driver of the vehicle which was pulling the trailer was not learned. i Yankee Planes Year's Worst Seoul, Korea (U.R) Ameri can F-86 Sabrejets shot down 12 Communist MIG-15 jet fighters, probably shot down another and damaged six more " Friday to hand the Red Air Force its worst defeat in a single day this year. More than 70 Shooting Star and Thundefjet American jet fighters-were pounding targets along the Yalu river as a Fourth of July gesture to the Reds when 115 MIGs came up off their sanctuary north of the river at Antung. They were jumped by 95 American Sabrejets which had been watching from 40,000 feet. The attacks started at. noon when two wings of Thunderjets Plan Would Give Ohio Candidate 22 of 38 Seats Lodge Turns Down Compromise Plan Chicago (U.R) Sen. Robert A. Taft offered to compromise the party-splitting row over Texas delegates Friday with a plan giv ing him 22 of the 38 seats and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower tak ing 16. Eisenhower's campaign mana ger. Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., rejected the offer. He said Eisenhower in his recent speech at Dallas "courageously stated the position we have always tak en when he said he was a 'no deal' man." ' Letter to Gabrielson Taft made his proposal in a letter to Chairman Guy Gabriel- son of the Republican National committee as the committee started hearings on the conflict ing Texas claims of the two ri val candidates for the GOP pres idential nomination. National committeemen favor ing Eisenhower m$ and reject ed Taft's proposal. Sinclair Weeks, national committeeman from Massachusetts, who acted as chairman, said that about 30 to 35 committeemen attended the meeting. He said no formal vote was taken. In earlier contests this week, the Taft steamroller has rolled over the Eisenhower forces and the national committee has al lotted all but a handful of the disputed delegates to Taft. The Eisenhower managers have promised to fight these contests in the "convention credentials commitiee and onto the conven tion floor. The climactic Texas row is threatening to jeopardize Repub lican prospects for victory in No vember before the presidential nominee is even chosen. Concern over this possibility was report ed to be one factor in Tafts offer to compromise. Hoover Intervenes Taft's proposal came after for mer President Hoover had Inter vened in the pre-convention bat tle over disputed delegates by urging the national committee to seek "an amicable and equit able settlement" of the Texas argument. In a telegram to Gabrielson, he disclosed . that he had sug gested to Lodge and Taft that "a small group of eminent men" review the contests. He said Lodge refused but Taft "indi cated he would have gone along." "Despite my partial failure, it seems to be the crux of all this is the Texas delegation and that the Republican national commit tee could well review that situ ation in the thought of arriving at an amicable and equitable settlement," . Hoover said. Tail's Claims Don't Worry Oregonians Chicago (U.R) Two Oregon delegates to the Republican na tional convention in Chicago say they are not worried about Sen. Robert A. Taft's claim to victory on the first ballot. William E. Walsh, Coos Bay, Oregon credentials committee member, and Ralph H. Cake; national committeeman, say they are convinced "no matter what happens" that the final "say-so" will come in the credentials committee and in the conven tion itself but not before the national committee. 3ASEBALL National Philadelphia 1....7 1 Boston 2 5 3 Drews and Burgess; Surk ont, Burdelte 9. and St. Claire. American Boston - 10 11 0 Philadelphia 5 9 3 Parnel, Newsome 8, and White; Hooper, Kucan 9, and Astroth. Homers for Boston Step hens, Hooper, Zernial. Deal Enemy Single Loss roared in to drop 1,000-pound bombs, napalm and spray the area southeast of the Suiho pow er plant south of the Yalu with 50-caliber machine gun bullets. Pilots returning from the raid could not tell how much damage had been done because Etnoke from the first bombs obscured the target. Friday's battle marked the first time the Reds have sent more than 100 MIGs into the air since April 1. x The 5th Air Force reported Thursday that the Communists are increasingly reluctant to tan gle with- United Nations pilots in the air despite the fact they have 1.800 to 1,900 planes in Manchuria.