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Weather Recommended FORECAST Fair today through Monday with warm er temperature. High today SS-88. low tonight 52, high Monday 90-92. Temp. Hlgheit yesterday 83 Lowest yesterday S3 RI A feature story on "Southern Oregon's Wireless Party Line." the Southern Oreton Conserva tion and Tree Farm associa tion's radio network, anpears on Page 7 of today's issue of the MaU Tribune. United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire 47th Year 24 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 6, 1952 No. 91 BUNE Prisoner Release Charged to Allies In Red Broadcast Truce Negotiators Meet for 70 Minutes Tokyo, Sunday (U.R) The Communist Peiping radio ac cused the United Nations today of releasing war prisoners in order to reduce the number to be returned to Red hands if and when an armistice is signed in Korea. London Daily Worker Cor respondent Alan Winnington, in a Peiping dispatch, said the U.N. was ''dispersing" prisoners in a number of ways so that it could later claim to hold only "some small fraction of the total on the lists they exchanged in De cember." Arbitrary Action Charged The broadcast indicated that one thing the Reds would de mand at the secret talks in Pan munjon, if they- have not al ready, is that no prisoners be released as long as the secret talks continue. "A discontinuation of the ar bitrary disposing of war pris oners during the discussions in secret sessions becomes a card inal point," Winnington said in the Peiping radio dispatch. In an earlier broadcast Peip ing said a final agreement was possible if the "American del egates are really willing to ne gotiate a settlement on equal terms." The negotiators met in closed session at Panmunjom for 70 minutes yesterday " the long est session in recent weeks. Al lied spokesmen said the meet ing went off in "business-like fashion." Ana Pauker Fired By Romanian Reds; Unknown Gets Jobs London U.P.) Ana Pauker, the beefy, lantern-jawed one time "glamour girl" of world communism, who started down the communist skids six weeks ago, hit bottom Saturday. She was fired from her jobs as foreign minister and deputy prime minister of red Romania. Previously she had been ousted from the all-powerful politburo and secretariat of the Roman ian worker's (Communist) party. Diplomatic sources here fore cast that arrest and trial before a "people's court" are all the fu ture offers for Ana who once was the most powerful woman behind the iron curtain and the personal "darling" of Premier Josef Stalin in Romania. Curtains For Ana An official communique is sued in Bucharest, the Romanian capital, put it this way: "Ana Pauker has been re lieved of her functions by the presidium of' the national as sembly." In Communist terms that means "curtains." The official communique an nounced that Ana's former for eign minister's post has been given to Simon Bughici, Ro manian ambassador to Moscow and a comparative unknown in the Romanian red hierarchy. Ana's career started down the red toboggan slide at a sitting of the Romanian Communist party's central committee on May 26-27. She was accused of having helped minister of in terior Georgescu and finance minister .Vasile Luca. Both men had been purged on charges of "rightest deviation." Truman's Alternate Awaits Instructions Kansas City, Mo. (U.R) President Truman's Missouri al ternate to the Democratic Na tional convention said Saturday he has yet to receive the "word" from the White House on how to cast his first ballot vote. Mr. Truman shot Thomas J. Gavin, 54 - year - old Kansas City councilman, into the pol itical limelight when the Pres ident told a press conference Thursday in Washington that his choice for the Democratic Pres idential nomination would be re vealed in Gavin's vote. Gavin and Mr. Truman each will have a half vote in the 34 man Missouri delegation to Chi cago, but since Mr. Truman does not plan to go to the convention until after the nomination is nailed down, the burden falls to Gavin. "I haven't got the word yet,' Gavin said, "and if I had,- I wouldnt be saying anything. D. L. Flynn Announces He Is Not a Candidate For New Term as Mayor Mayor Diamond L. Flynn an nounced Saturday that he will not be a candidate for re-election. The mayor, who is now com pleting his second two-year term, said that he has been urged strongly to become a candidate, but that personal considerations will prevent him from doing so. "The city has grown greatly in recent years," Mayor Flynn said, "and imposes a much greater burden on its chief ex ecutive, both physically and fi nancially, than it has in the past. It has gotten to the point where to do a good job, a mayor must devote almost full time to the position." Recommends Pay Flynn said that he urges the city council, and the people of Medford, to give careful consid eration to the possibility of mak ing the job a paid one at least enough to cover expenses. He pointed out that the duties of the post impose financial obli gations on an individual, and that he believes anyone holding the job of mayor should not be expected to pay these bills out of his own pockets. During Mayor Flynn's admin istration, which began Jan. 1, 1949, the city has undergone many developments and im provements. A $3,000,000 pipe line has been completed to bring a more adequate supply of Big Butte Springs water to the city; the fire department has been expanded and improved, with one new station constructed and another to be built soon, Haw thorne park has been completed, and a swimming pool construct ed and opened to the public; a new addition to the city library has been completed; an exten sive program of street widening, caving and improvement h a s been inaugurated and great pro gress has been made; 'the city administration has been reor ganized, with greater efficiency resulting; the police department has undergone a revamping; on expansion and improvement pro ject at the municipal airport has been started; cooperation between southern Oregon cities has been developed through the League of Oregon Cities and regional meetings; traffic lights have been modernized and im proved. Pride In Record In looking over the record of his administration Saturday, Mayor Flynn permitted himself to say he was proud of what has been accomplished with, he pointed out, "the assistance and help of the people of Medford, the work of the city council, and of an able group of municipal employees." Only candidate who so far has made known his intention of seeking the mayorality is City Council President Paul Selby, for whom nominating petitions were circuited last week. Circulating the petitions is Ex-Mayor James Collins, who said Saturday that a story in Thursday's Mail Tribune, indi cating that City License In spector Lynn Brown had cir culated them, was incorrect. Col lins -simply asked Brown to take the petitions to the city hall for him, he said, and Brown had no part in circulating them. . Selby, proprietor of an auto top, awning and glass company, has been on the city council for several years, and has served as chairman of the safety com mittee and as council president, "sitting in" as acting mayor when Mayor Flynn has been out of town. Nominating petitions, which must bear 25 signatures, must be filed by September 4, or 60 days before the November gen eral election. The office is non partisan. Illegal Negotiation Charge Said Untrue New York (U.R) Six of the nation's leading steel com panies branded as "ridiculous" Saturday charges they are ' ne gotiating illegally. The "illegal negotiation" ac cusation was made by the Unit ed Steel-workers Union (CIO) in connection with the month old strike that has reduced the nation's output of steel to a trickle. A spokesman for the six, steel companies involved, with others, in the dispute said: "The union apparently will go to any. length, ridiculous though .it may ber in its effort to force employees in the steel industry to join the union." MAYOR D. L. FLYNN Not Seeking Reelection Radio Station KYJC Sets Full Coverage Of GOP Convention First gavel of the Republican National convention will be heard over KYJC, the Mail Tribune station, at 8:30 o'clock Monday morning. The opening session will continue uninter rupted until 10:30 or 11, and will resume again at 5:30 p.m. for another three or four hours direct from the convention floor, through the American Broad casting company. More than a million dollars worth of equipment has , been assembled-. in Chicago by t h e I ABC io prqvidelfor its blanket coverage of the Republican National convention there this week. Complete radio and television studios have been constructed in Chicago's vast International Am phitheatre, where the main con vention meetings are held, and in the Conrad Hilton hotel, headquarters for the two politi cal parties. Miles of Lines Miles of expensive cables and trunk lines have been installed and activated. Cameras, micro phones, mobile pickup units, and countless telephones have been set up. This will provide the mechan ical means of transmitting the reports and comments of the largest and most diversified news staff ever assigned by ABC to cover a single series of events. Some 200 top newsmen and tech nical experts will keep the ABC audiences informed of develop ments in the race for the Repub lican presidential nomination. Latlimore May Face Charges of Perjury ; Washington (U.R) The Sen ate Internal Security subcommit tee has sent testimony of Far Eastern expert Owen Lattimore and State Department official John Paton Davies Jr. to the Justice Department for possible grand jury action-. Earlier the subcommittee rec ommended the Justice Depart ment submit the records to a grand jury to determine whether Lattimore and Davies committed perjury during the hearings on the Institute of Pacific Relations. The subcommittee has charged Lattimore testified falsely at least five times and Davies at least once. Blaze, Explosion Mar Holiday Here; National Death Toll Hears New Mark A grass fire, which spread into a Shed containing a 500 gallon drum of oil, and the re sulting explosion, caused damage estimated at several thousand dollars here Friday afternoon. The blaze destroyed the shed containing the oil drum, owned by Poe and Fossett Machinery company, 2131 West Main street, and a warehouse containing about a dozen washing machines, several sewing machines, two vacuum cleaners and an electric refrigerator and stove, owned by Davenport Appliance shop, 2101 West Main street. A small shed owned by the ap pliance firm was also damaged. Satch Bianchi, who lives next Senators Believe Fighting Liberal Need of Democrats Adlai Stevenson Jolts Party Heads Washington (U.R) Seven Democratic senators said Satur day night their party must nom inate a "fighting Libejpl" and adopt a new deal-fair deal plat form in order to beat the Re publicans in this year's presi dential race. The senators, all strong ad ministration supporters, men tioned no specific candidate in their joint statement but said "we have a number of such out standing Democrats to choose from." Need Fighting Liberal "This is a year when our party must nominate a fighting Liberal, a courageous Democrat who will not compromise upon any of the fundamental issues," the statement said. "The people deserve the right to have a choice between a fight ing, forward-looking Democrat ic presidential candidate" and "the reactionary forces of the Republican party." The statement was signed by Sens. James E. Murray (Mont.), Herbert H. Lehman (N.Y.), Wil liam Benton (Conn.), John O. Passtore (R.I.), Hubert H. Hum phrey (Minn.), Warren G. Mag nuson (Wash.), and Harley M. Kilgore (W. Va.). Stevenson Jolts Leaders ' The senators expressed their views on candidate and platform as reluctant Adal Stevenson gave a new jolt to party lead ers who want him to declare himself "willing" to accept the Democratic nomination. Stevenson partisans had an other reason to fret. They ac cused supporters of mutual se curity administrator Averell Harriman of trying to under mine "liberal" support for the Illinois governor by "planting" reports that President . Truman favors Harriman over Steven son' Flying Housewives Reach Texas City El Paso, Tex. (U.R) Frances Bera of Santa Monica, Calif., grabbed a six-mile-an-hour lead Saturday on 42 flying house wives and secretaries in the 2,-700-mile all-woman "Powder Puff" air derby. Miss Bera landed at El Paso International airport after a seven-hour-and-16-minute flight from Santa Ana, Call.'., where the derby started. She piloted the winning plane in last year's race. Hers was not the fastest fly ing time from Santa Ana, but her Cub plane was handicapped at 103 miles an hour. She aver aged 109 miles an hour from Santa Ana, giving her a six-mile edge. The Dietrich twins Jan and Marion of San Mateo, Calif., were tied for second with Mar garet Calloway of Travis Air Force base, Calif. Their Cessna planes were handicapped at 106 miles and hour and they averaged 111 from Santa Ana, giving them an edge of five miles. Officials checking the planes here said a total of 42 planes were in the race. Of these, 35 landed at El Paso. The others flew on to Odessa and Abilene, Tex., the next approved refuel ing stops. It is permissable to fly over one approved refueling station and go on to the next, if a pilot can make it, but stops may not be made at unapproved airports. The next approved point beyond Odessa and Abilene is Oklahoma City, OKla. door to the appliance shop, was attempting to keep the fire from spreading when the explosion occurred. I'M sent a ball of fire several hundred feet in the air," he said. Bianchi's three children, Billy, 7,, Johnny 9, and Linda Sue, 2, were knocked down by the blast, he added. . Two state forest patrol fire fighters were working between the shed and the warehouse, which caught fire after the blast covered it with flaming ; oil. When the explosion occured, they were forced to run between the two fires, but escaped with minor burns. The fire, outside the city lim its, was handled by " the state forestry patrol. -The city fire AE3DIDAT CONVENTION HALL Delegates' GOP Platform Plank Gets Approval of Eisenhower Atomic Energy Bill Halts Adjournment Of House, Senate Congressional Session Carried into Sunday Washington -.(Sunday) ':r-fy (U.R) The Senate blocked' the .drjyejfor sine' die '"congressional adjourn ment early today- by refusing to accept a House atomic energy "rider" that President Truman said would jeopardize the na tion's security. The surprise move threw an entire $10 billion appropriations bill back to a Senate-House con ference committee and . carried ; the marathon w i n d u p of the 82nd Congress into Sunday. The House had already voted for sine die adjournment and was standing by waiting for the Senate to finish up when the roadblock developed. The con troversial rider was an amend ment to the atomic energy ap propriation." President Truman had sent Congress a' message earlier strongly protesting this provi sion, which would force the atomic energy commission to have the money in hand before starting to work on its multi million dollar exp'insion program. The stalemate came after a lengthy debate between Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper (R-Ia.), member of the joint atomic en ergy committee, and members of the Senate appropriations com mittee, who wanted the bill passed. Hickenlooper said the rider would tie up the entire j atomic program. After rejecting the rider by a standing, tie vote, the Senate quickly passed a $46 billion mil itary spending bill. It then re-; cessed at 12:17 a.m. subject to "the call of the chair." Aboard the S.S. United States at sea (U.R) This new first Lady of the American Merch ant fleet cut through the sea with the ease of a limousine on an express highway Saturday to . reach a new top speed of 35.6 knots and threaten to slash the Atlantic crossing record by about -10 hours. . department stood by inside the city limits. The fire and- a near drowning were the only acci dents here .over the holiday, which was generally quiet. Holiday casualties soared past the 400 mark Saturday night and the. National Safety council said it appears a new record will be set for' death on the highways. At 11:30 pjn., CDT, a check showed 413 persons had died violent deaths since the holiday period started at 6 p.m. Thurs day. - : " ' 1 Traffic accidents accounted for 249 of the victims and drownings for 114 There were seven plane deaths and 43 fatal miscellaneous accidents, only two of which were caused by fireworks. seats in foreground. Balcony seats . DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Receives Support MacArthur Boomed For Second Spot With Senator Taft Chicago (U.R) A boom was on Saturday for Gen. Douglas MacArthur for vice-president on the Republican ticket. Taft forces are glad of it. : The five-star general was not talking. He was in New York putting the final touches to the keynote speech he will deliver Monday night to the Republican National convention. But the supporters of Sen. Robert A. Taft were circulating the. word that a Taft-Mac Arthur combination would be their dish. A major factor in a Taft-Mac-Arthur ticket could be former president Herbert Hoover. Hoo ver is for Taft. He is a neigh bor of ..MacArthur in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York. He appointed MacArthur to be Army Chief of staff when he was president. . ' Furthermore, Hoover has been rebuffed by the forces support ing - another five star general, Dwight D. Eisenhower. There was"a sharp exchange of letters between Hoover and Eisenhow er's campaign manager. ' Hoover will address the. con vention Tuesday night. His role will be that of elder statesman. But a word from the former president at the right time could help build a Taft-MacArthur ticket. Taft supporters believe that the prospect of such a slate might - offset some convention enthusiasm for Eisenhower for a top spot on the GOP's Novem ber slate. Bill Tjo Deepen Eureka Harbor Gets Approval i Washington (U.R) Congress Saturday sent to the White House a bill authorizing deepen ing of Humboldt Harbor at Eu reka, Calif. . Sponsored by Rep. Hubert B. Scudder (R-Calif .) the measure approves deepening of the chan nel from 30 to 40 feet and the inner -channel from 26 to 30 feet. " ch UVJ 7T'?''"LiJL- rg?n.i (background) are for guests. Statement Follows Dulles' Assurance On Foreign Policy Question of UMT Cleared by General .Chicago'j-S(U.R) - Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower" said Sat urday John Foster Dulles had sent him word the foreign pol icy plank in a proposed new Re publican platform includes "all the essentials'' which Eisenhow er demanded. . "That's a great satisfaction to me"," Eisenhower said at a press conference his first since ar riving at this convention city at 12 noon CDT today. His statement tended to dis pel reports that Eisenhower might refuse to stand on the foreign policy plank tentatively drafted by a resolutions sub committee dominated by sup porters of Sen. Robert A. Taft. Scuttled Rumors The general also scuttled ru mors of another possible stum bling block to his acceptance of the still-building platform its failure to include a pledge to a program of universal military training. "Until we get (the Korean war) settled there is no possibil ity of devising a satisfactory program of UMT," he said. Eisenhower said UMT a term covering the training of all young men, without calling them to actual military service cannot proceed while it is nec essary to draft men for military duty. ' A defense plank drafted for the new platform by a subcom mittee calls for a well-rounded military force with emphasis on air power. Eisenhower indicated this also is satisfactory to him. "No one has fought for air power more than I have," he said. "It s a dominant factor in war." Search for Dunkin Continues in Hills The search for murder sus pect George Baker Dunkin shif t edback into northern Jackson countv Saturday and today aft er a "checkout" was made Fri day by state police of cabins on the Ump'qua drainage side of the divide which failed to pro duce Dunkin, according to Po lice Capt.' Paul Parson. The search procedure for to day will remain the same. Capt. Parson pointed out, with a de tachment of men working out of a base camp in an effort to track down the 67-year-old trapper wanted for the murder of State Officer Phil Lowd. No radio contact was made by late Saturday night with the searching party which usually radios the results of its activi ties for the day by 7 p. m. Capt. Parson said this was not unusual as the group has failed to make contact before. urn Angry Eisenhower Promises Battle; Senator Confident Warren Wants Unity For November Fight Chicago fU.R) An angry Dwight D. Eisenhower and a calmly confident Sen. Robert A. Pittsburgh (U.R) The Pitts burgh Press, in a copyrighted story in its Sunday edition, said late Saturday that Penns ylvania Gov. John S. Fine "told lop slate GOP leaders he favors Gen. Dwight D. Ei senhower" for the Republican presidential nomination. The paper said: "The news leaked out after a luncheon confer ence in Chicago with U. S. Sen. James H. Duff (R-Pa.) and state Republican chairman M. Harvey Taylor. Taft came to Chicago Saturday to take personal command of the last days of their bitter-end fight for the Republican presidential nomination. Eisenhower rolled into town by train from the west for the convention opening Monday. He promised a toe to toe "slugging match" and ultimate reversal of Taft's preliminary victories in the hot contest over a good-sized bloc of Southern delegations. Talks Like Winner Taft, on his arrival from Wash ington by plane six hours later, talked like a candidate who al ready has surmounted the nom ination hurdle and was looking forward to Republican success in the November election. "The Republican party will set up a campaign based on lib erty, Democracy and American ism that will drive Socialism out of government," Taft told an airport cfowd. He previously had discounted the Eisenhower explosion over the delegate contest as a lot of "wild charges" designed to cov er up lack of votes in the con vention. Taft Extends Lead The latest United Press tab ulation of known first - ballot strength, including the national committee's contest decision, gave Taft 530 and Eisenhower 425. It takes 604 to win the nomination. A t hi r d presidential candi date, Gov. Earl Warren of California, also reached town but with less fuss and fanfare. A 14-piece band greeted Warren as he stepped off the train with his 70-vote delegation, his wife, and his three pretty daughters, Nina, Dorothy and Virginia. Asked whether he expected the Taft-Eisenhower b a t tl e would help his own bid, Warren said: "I'm not looking to be helped by any fight. I'm looking for ward to solidarity in the party so that the GOP can win in November." Girl Hospitalized After Swim Mishap JoAnne Richards, 10, a resi dent of Medford for only three days, rested last night in the Community hospital after a swimming mishao in Hawthorne Park pool late Saturday after noon, according to hospital at tendants. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Richards, formerly of Eugene, and, together with her parents, is temporarily re siding with friends at 338 South Riverside avenue until they can establish a permanent residence. Condition Good Attendants reported her con dition "just fine" but that she needed a little oxygen and would remain under observation dur ing the night. Mrs. Richards told hospital authorities that the girl. was be lieved to have been swimming under water and when she tried to stand up it was deeper than she had thought, causing her to Uwallow water. City police said Lifeguard Dick Camden applied artificial respiration and re vived the girl at the pool. Conger-Morris ambulance took her to the hospital. Washington (U.R) The National Labor Relations Board ruled Saturday that the Taft Hartley Act prohibits an em ployer from locking out h i s workers to force them to accept his terms in contract bargaining..
