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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.
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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. "
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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..