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Newspaper Page Textm ' 1 Iranian Premier Mossadegh Resigns as Demands Denied Mrs. Truman Visits HST In Hospital; Recovery Continues President Expected On Job Saturday Washington ' (U.R) Mrs. Truman arrived here from Mis souri Thursday and hurried to the side of the president who is receiving treatment for a virus infection at Walter Reed gener al hospital. The first lady looked tired and rumpled as she stepped from the trajn at nearby Silver Springs, Md., after the long trip from Independence, Mo. But she gave the photographers a cheerful "good morning." Spent Good Night As she arrived the White House announced Mr. Truman spent a "very good night" but that he might run a "little bit" of fever later today. Nevertheless, it said, his condi tion continues good. Mrs. Truman was accompan ied by the President's naval aide, Adm. Robert Dennison. Secret service men refused to allow reporters to talk to her in the interests of hurrying her on to the hospital. Exhaustive Tests Meanwhile, medical special ists scheduled a series of ex haustive tests to determine the physical toll seven years in the White House have taken on the President. Mr. Truman's personal physi cian, Maj. Gen. Wallace H. Gra ham, wanted him to have a thor " ough checkup before he becomes embroiled in the hot-and-heavy political campaign coming up. Mar Return Saturday White House Press Secretary Joseph Short said that the Pres ident expected to be back in the White House by Saturday, but in the meantime he would not have any visitors except Mrs. Truman and his private secre tary, Miss Rose Conway. Washington Blaze Now Under Control By UNITED PRESS ; A 500-acre forest fire which killed a forester and his son near Marblemount, Wash., was under control Thursday, but two other blazes raged unchecked in Washington and British Co lumbia. In British Columbia, the Red Cross flew .supplies to aid 10 families' left homeless by a fire that burned across 2,000 acres 25 miles northwest of Prince George. In addition to the homes, the fire destroyed three portable sawmills and a logging camp. Damage was estimated at $30,000r More than 200 men, were fighting a blaze that already has destroyed 600 acres of timber north of White Salmon, Wash. The fire was out of hand near Gilmer, and at least six families in the area were evacuated. A strong wind hampered fire fighters. 10th Polio Case Listed In Eastern Oregon Area Ontario (U.R) Mrs. W. B. Wilson of Nyssa was confined today to the polio ward of the Malheur memorial hospital, the Oregon-Idaho border region's 10th victim of the disease. , Dr. L. A. Maulding, Malheur county heaith officer said Mrs. Wilson was, taken to the polio ward Tuesday night, less than 24 hours after her 9-year-old son, Kay, was confined by the same affliction. Mrs. Wilson's at tending physician said she had only a mild case without paralysis. Collie's Mysterious Vigil Starts Mine Shaft Search Joplin, Mo. (U.R) The mystery of a water-filled mine shaft and the faithful collie dog that has guarded it constanly was still unsolved Thursday when a big diesel pump broke down and stalled workers try ing to drain the shaft. The dog's mysterious vigil at the mouth of the hole wore in to its 18th day. Awaiting Return Volunteers and members of the Joplin ' Humane Society, who have taken charge of the draining project, were convinc ed the patient animal is await ing the return . of someone possibly hs master who dis appeared down the 140-foot abandoned mine shaft. A big diesel pump used to drain the shaft, which is filled with "hundreds of yards" of water 70 feet down, broke down Wednesday night. Pumping to Resume A voluntter rushed to Tulsa, Okla, for repair parts and pump MURDERED GIRL The murder of Eileen Fahey, pictur ed above, was believed solved today when New York police ar rested Bayard Peakes, a former Columbia university student, ! who said he killed her because the school turned down his the sis. (International) . College Employee Murdered Because Thesis Turned Down Boston (U.R) A former Columbia university student confessed Thursday he mur dered pretty Eileen Fraley, 18, because "I was mad at Colum bia" and she was "the first per son I ran into." I Bayard Peakes. 29. of Dover- Foxcroft, Me., arrested by New York detectives shortly after midnight when he walked into a police trap, said he wanted re venge against the school because it had rejected his "thesis on electronics." Acted on Tip New York detectives James Corcoran and Louis Behrens and Boston police, acting on . a tip supplied by an unidentified pro fessor at Columbia, surrounded the building in the back,, bay. section of Boston wherev Peakes lived. A few minutes after midnight Peakes returned from his work at a packing house and the de tectives closed in on him. "You got me I'm the one who killed her," Corcoran said the self-styled electronics expert told him at the time of his ar rest. Mad at Columbia "I was mad at Columbia be cause I had been refused read mission to the university and I just took it out on the first per son I ran into who I thought was to blame," Peakes told police. "He said he had written a thesis on physics," Detective Capt. Francis-G. Wilson of Bos ton said. "He claimed he could make men live 500 years." US Warships Carry War to Communists Seoul, Korea (U.R) U. S. warships carried the war to the Communists while bad weather bogged down U. N. ground and air forces. The 45,000-ton battleship Iova led the assault from the sea on Red ground positions Wednesday, hammering mortar and gun positions and dug-in troops at the eastern end of the battle line. The Iowa and the. destroyer Kimberly , destroyed four heavy guns, damaged four more, burn ed out four bunkers and wreck ed coastal installations. ing was expected to be resumed Thursday afternoon. The collie, whose owner has not been identified, relieved the tension of the project somewhat Wednesday when he showed in terest in a new doghouse furn ished" by' the " humane society to protect the animal from dren ching rain. . . But nothing, including an esti mated 1,000 spectators daily, rain, blasting or poisoning, has succeeding in discouraging . the dog's faithful watch. Receives Kind Treatment The belligerent collie backed away from the open mine shaft when spectators came in too close, but kind treatment and good food appeared to' be mel lowing him. . The dog was found near death at the mine shaft Monday night and humane- society members feared it had been poisoned. Dr. R. B. Koger, veterinarian who revived the collie, said the dog poisoned itself by eating lime: Disorders Expected As Army Garrisons And Police Alerted Ultra-Nationalist Seeks Dictatorship Tehran, Iran (U.R) Shah Mo hammed Reza Pahlevi announc ed Thursday the resignation of ultra-Nationalist Premier Mo hammed Mossadegh and at the same time ordered the Army and police to keep order in this restless capital. , Army sources said the general staff ordered all garrisons throughout the country to be alerted to deal with possible dis orders. Stores Close Stores started closing in-Tehran in a move to show support of Mossadegh. Mossadegh quit because the Shah would not agree to his tak ing over the war ministry per sonally. Had the Shah yielded and Mossadegh also won his de mand for unlimited economic and financial powers for six months, informed sources said, the premier would have become virtual dictator of Iran. Pledge Support Twenty-seven of Mossadegh's National Front supporters in the Majlis, lower house of Parlia ment, immediately signed a mo tion pledging to support the de posed premier "to the last breath." Many said they would take sanctuary in the Parliament building until Mossadegh has been "rehabilitated." Army troops and police guarded the building. The- Tehran army garrison sent tanks and other military vehicles into the city. Mossadegh left Tehran this morning for his home village of Ahmedabad, about 30 miles west of Tehran. Radio Tehran withheld news of Mossadegh's resignation for fear of stirring up demonstra tions among his followers. Blood Drive Said. Success, Despite Many 'Rejects' Despite "an unusually high number" of rejects, 201 pints of blood were collected during the Medford blood drive yesterday, and the project was termed a "rousing success" by Red Cross volunteers. Seventy-nine of the 280 indi viduals who arrived to donate blood yesterday at the Elks tem ple were rejected by the nurses on duty. This was offset by the high percentage of citizens who kept their appointments. "No shows" were almost non-existant, it was said. Appointments to fill only about 50 per cent of the 225 pint quota had been made by Tuesday morning, but great num bers made appointments Tues day afternoon and there were many who dropped in without appointments. Smaller Units A smaller than usual bloodmo bile unit was sent this month be cause of the expense and because of the usual lessening in blood donations during the vacation months. This made the lines of donors move more slowly than usual. Drive officials expressed thanks to the American Legion auxiliary, the staff aides and nurses', aides,' the Gray Ladies, the Junior Service ladies, the nurses' association and the Jun ior Red Cross, who helped con duct the drive. They also thank ed the local press and radio stations for the. publicity re ceived. Gl Bill for Korean Vets Signed by HST Washington (U.R) Korean veterans Thursday became eli gible for the same government paid readjustment privileges en joyed by World War II veterans. A new GI Bill of Rights, esti mated to cost the government SI, 000.000,000 annually, was signed into law Wednesday by President Truman. Like its World War II coun terpart, the new bill provides free schooling and- job-training, government guaranteed home and business loans, mustering out pay and unemployment com pensation. Generally - eligible are veter ans who served at .least 90 days any place in the world since the start of the Korean War, and who were not dishonorably dis charged , Schooling allowances may be drawn starting Aug. 21. Medford Cr.iUo Cress iull Leased Hru 47th Year 22 Pages Four Oregon People Killed in Flaming California Crash Private Plane Smashes Into El Segundo Homes El Segundo, Calif. UjR) A crippled private plane dove into a crowded residential area in the early morning fog Thursday killing all four persons aboard and setting two homes afire. The sleek blue plane was piloted by Dale Baker, Grass Valley, Ore., whose twisted body was found wedged at the controls. Others aboard the plane and nsiea Dy sneriii s deputies as killed were Baker's wife, Mur iel Joan Baker, 21, and an old er woman, possibly her mother Florence Joyce Jones, of Gresham, Ore. The fourth body that of a man, was tentatively identified from papers and bag gage as T. F. Jones, also of Gresham. Others Get Minor Burns Several persons, neighbors of the owners of the damaged homes, received minor burns as they pitched' in and set up an amateur hose brigade to fight the roaring flames. One home was leveled and the other, the home ' of Sam Cald well 21, was badly seared by the gasoline-fed flames. Only the quick thinking action of -the neighbors in bringing their gar den hoses into play saved bor dering homes. Hits Unoccupied Home The four-place Stinson sput tered low over the neighborhood shortly after taking off from the Hawthorne Municipal airport at 7:23 a.m., PDT, then dove into the unoccupied home of the va cationing C. B. Corley family. It ripped through the roof of the Corley home and slammed into the side of the bedroom of the Caldweirh6me- next door and ironically failed to awaken the Caldwell's two-year-old son, Sammy, Jr., Sleeping in a near by crib. Escape was Miracle "It is a miracle we escaped, ' said the breathless Caldwell minutes after the rumbling crash. "We were asleep and were awakened when it. hit the house next door. We grabbed Sammy and raced out the back to find our house on fire." Blood spattered on adjoining homes from two of the bodies, two of which were thrown clear of the small craft. Motormen Blamed For Subway Wreck New York--(U.R) Authorities blamed two motormen Thursday for a collision of subway trains in a steaming tunnel deep under Manhattan's financial district in which more than 100 screaming rush-hour passengers were in jured. A Brooklyn-bound express train rolled backward into an other train at the Fulton street station of the Brooklyn-Man hattan Transit Co. at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. Brief panic broke out in the stuffy subway tun nel when the impact knocked crowded straphangers off bal ance. Police reported that most in juries were slight. Only a few of the victims were forced to re main in the six hospitals where they were taken for emergency treatment after the crash. The. New York board of trans portation ordered suspension of the two motormen operating the trains pending completion of an investigation. Weather Cooler; Fire Danger Still High Weather considerably cooler than that last week has eased fire danger somewhat in north western Oregon's forests, al though the hazard is still high in the-southwestern area. The wea ther bureau forecast maximum temperatures in the neighbor hood of 95 degrees for today and tomorrow in Medford. No rain is in prospect, the weather bureau said. PARK ENTRANCES OPEN . James Bromley, district main tenance superintendent for the state highway department in formed state -police today that the north -and east entrances to Crater Lake National park have been opened to two-way traffic. The north entrance had been opened to one-way traffic since Saturday. MEDFORD, OREGON, ILL Bill rM"l" arr. 1 if r--...---.-.--,- v- .--.. - - , HW hP HI ill A:, THEY'LL BUILD A PLATFORM Chairman John McCormack of Massachusetts (arrow) opens the first meeting of the preliminary drafting committee for the Democratic national convention platform committee at the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago. $515,864 Low Bid For Highway 99 Project Accepted A S515.864 .bid by T. W. Thomas, Portland, for work on the Medford-Phoenix section of Highway . 99 was accepted last week by the State Highway commission, it was reported to day by Ralph Watson, the com mission's public relations con sultant. The bid was accepted the same day as the bid for the Rock Point-Blackwell Hill section was announced, but had not previ ously been-reported here. s . The project involves 5.36 miles of gradnigand "paving be tween Medford and the Jackson county farm home. The high way will be converted into four lanes, and the bid includes fur nishing 2,000 cubic yards of crushed material in stockpile, Watson's report said. Long Advocated The project has long been ad vocated by southern Oregon in terests, and is a portion of the high-priority construction pro ject of four lane highway from Ashland to Central Point. Other sections will be completed later. The Rock Point-Blackwell Hill project, to cost $704,706, will by-pass Gold Hill by mov ing the highway to the south side of the Rogue river, elimi nating two bridges across the river on either side of Gold Hill. The job was awarded to the Cen tral Heating Co. Ore.g. Ltd. and F. L. Somers, Eugene, on a low bid. Both jobs are federal aid pro jects, with the' state and federal government sharing the cost. Irrigation Ditch Fixed; Water Flows The Wreak in the Medford ir rigation ditch has been prepared and water should reach the val ley by tomorrow morning, ac cording to J. A. Hoffbuhr, man ager of the irrigation district. It had been reported earlier that the area served by the dis trict might be without water un til Saturday, but the break was repaired much more rapidly than was expected. This was Decause the Medford district borrowed a crew from the Rogue River dis trict and because the two crews worked 34 hours straight, Hoff buhr said. Water was turned into the ditch again at 11 a.m: Wednes day, Hoffbuhr said. The water has now reached Antelope creek, he added. The break occurred at the Eagle Gulch flume Tuesday afternoon. TWO AMBULANCE RUNS Conger - Morris - ambulances took two accident victims to Community hospital today, the hospital reported. Mrs. Cloe Fra zier, 70, of 2781 Howard avenue, suffered arm and leg fractures in a fall from a porch, and Don Jackman, 909V North Riverside avenue, was hit on' the jaw by a plank at Southern Oregon Planing mill on Beall lane, it was said. BASEBALL NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia 7-1 Pittsburgh 2 4 11 Meyer and Burgess; Hogue and McCullough. THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1952 1 FOR LABOR VOTES l1,, 1 f-- ' ' ' : :y : Tough Civil Rights Plank Demanded by New Deal Democrats Chicago (U.R) New deal Democrats Thursday spurned compromise offers of Southern ers, and demanded party plat 103-Mile Pipeline Project to Medford Announced by Firm L.-San Francisco" (U.R) The southern Oregon area will be served by a new 103-mile oil pipeline from Crescent City, Calif., to Medford, Ore. California - Oregon Pipeline announced Thursday it has been granted a government permit for a tax write-off and will lay the line as soon as surveys can be made. A spokesman said the firm hoped to have the project under way before next year.. At present, oil for southern Oregon is hauled by tank barge from San Francisco to Crescent City, then by truck inland. The new pipeline will utilize one pumping station and have a capacity of about 7,000 barrels a day. Reports Confirmed The San Francisco announce ment confirmed reports previ ously published' in The Mail Tri bune. Four options were reported filed April 25 by the Cal-Ore Pipeline company for a 15-foot right of way through a portion of Jackson county. The pipeline .was planned then to enter the valley at the Old Stage road near Gold Hill and to follow along the road in a southeastern direction toward Medford. Property for a terminal north of Medford was bought from Lu cille Chapman, William Foley and Henry Connell. The termi nal, to be used for ' distribution of the petroleum throughout southern Oregon, will be near the McCullough Chain Saw com pany, short distance north of the Valley Drive-In theater. Robert Choate, engineer for the Cal-Ore company, said that all types of petroleum products would be carried by the pipe line. He added that the products of all petroleum companies would be conveyed. Grand Jury Begins Criminal Docket The Jackson county grand jury today began consideration of a large criminal docket, according to District Attorney Paul Havi land. The April stabbing of Carl Blair, Shady Cove, is among the cases to be considered. Robert Dickey, assistant dis trict attorney, said the grand jury will consider negligent homicide charges against Roylee Howard Newsom, Friday. . Newsom, 603 North Bartlett street, was charged with man slaughter when an auto-truck accident in which he was in volved June 5 resulted in the death of a Torrance, Calif., cou ple, Mr. and Mrs. Dudley C. Ful lington. The accident occurred a mile north of Central Point on Highway 99. Tribune United Press Full Leased Wtr- No. 101 mm- SKlSj . form, planks calling for tough civil rights legislation, an end to Senate filibusters, and a denun ciation of "McCarthyism." Rep. Emanuel Celler D-N.Y., proposed the plank condemning "McCarthysim" the methods used by Sen. Joseph R. McCar thy (R-Wis.). to try to prove the administration is infested with Communists and fellow travel lers. Particularly Concerned : Celler said he was particular ly concerned about this issue be cause McCarthy addressed the Republican National convention "We will serve our country ill if we keep silent on this issue," he said. "This is a damnable evil." Celler was one of a rjumber of witnesses to testify before' the Democratic platform writing subcommittee, which will make recommendations for a plat form to the full resolutions committee. Middle-of-the-road Democrats and pro-administration South erners on the group hoped to work out a compromise on the civil rights plank in order to prevent a recurrence of the 1948 Southern bolt. j Reject Compromise But Celler and Northern and left-wing Democrats vehemently rejected any talk of compromise on the issue. "We dare not descend from the mountain peak of 1948 as to civil rights," Cellar said. "Let not the dead hand of reaction and intolerance guide our action." He called particularly for a compulsory fair employment practices commission to prevent discrimination in employment. He accused the Republicans, in adopting a plank opposing dis- crimination in principle, of merely uttering "palaver and in nocuous phrases." "Let us make one plank, plain, simple, unequivocal so that even Dwight D. Eisenhower, with all his naivete and gullibility, can understand," he said. Oregon Delegation to GOP Conclave Termed Congenial Bob Dickey, Jackson county's assistant district attorney who was an alternate delegate to the Republican National conven tion, returned home from Chica go this week. Long an Eisenhow er supporter, . he was pleased at the outcome of the GOP con clave. Bill McAllister, Medford at torney and delegate- whose al ternate Dickey was, has not yet returned. He is taking a vacation en route home. Robert A. El liott, insurance man here who was a delegate, is now taking summer training with the Army reserves, in which he is a ma jor. Delegation Congenial Dickey said the Oregon dele gation, which included Gov. Douglas McKay and Sen. Wayne Morse, was "an extremely con genial" one, working with the one purpose in mind of nomin ating General Eisenhower. "It was a harmonious and hard-working delegation, and was effective both on the floor Weather FORECAST: Continufd fair through Fridav. Low tonight 51; hifh Friday 93-95. Temt. Highest Yesterdav 95 Lowest this Morning 51 !ival Candidates Making Pitch for Big City Support Georgian Repudiates Taft-Hartley Act Chicago (U.R) Sens. Rich ard B. Russell and Estes Ke fauver made rival pitches Thurs day for big city support in next week's Democratic National con vention. The two men are currently the leading candidates, in delegate totals, for the Democratic presi dential nomination. Wants Arvey's Support Russell told reporters at a news conference that he is frank ly "very much interested" in getting the support of Chicago Democratic leader Jacob Arv ey. He talked politics with Ar vey, Russell said, but failed to get a commitment. Arvey's choice is Gov. Adlai E. Steven son of Illinois. The Georgian bid for union labor . support Wednesday night by repudiating the Taft-Hartley Act. for which he twice has vot ed. He said that he would fol low this up by conferring with CIO President Philip Murray when Murray comes here later. Backs Anti-Filibuster Kefauver, who has directed his appeal so far to the "little people" of the party, said at a news conference Thursday he is backing a proposal by Sen. Her bert H. Lehman, N.Y., for an anti-filibuster rules change in the Senate. Since the filibuster is South ern Democracy's strongest wea pon against civil rights and oth er legislation it doesn't like, Ke fauver's statement was an open bid for support by big city Nor therners who consider a strong civil rights plank a powerful campaign talking point. Harriman Gets Plug' The third-ranking candidate in unofficial delegate counts Averell Harriman of New York got a stout plug today from New York's Democratic state chairman, Paul E. Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick said Harriman will win the nomination "on an early ballot." But Harriman, as he left for Chicago from Washing ton, said he was making no ad vance victory claims. Fitzpatrick is building up the New York millionaire as the candidate of "the man in the street." He based his claim of an early ballot victory, Fitzpat rick said, on talks he has had "with party leaders from all ov er the country." Jacksonville Man Wounded by Bear Homer Meed, 21, Jacksonville, is confined to a hospital at Cor vallis as the result of an en counter with a huge black bear last Friday in Lobster valley near Corvallis. He is expected to recover from the mauling. Meed and his brother, Norm, who are employed by a logging company of .the Alsea area, re portedly were hunting and wounded the animal. They were searching for it in the brush and it jumped dn Homer Meed. His right leg was said "ripped" and he was bitten three times. Norm Meed killed the bear with three shots of a high-powered rifle and is credited with saving his brothers life. and in committee," said Dickey. "It was a key delegation, being already committed to Eisenhow er, and was 'solid' for the gen eral." he added. Elliott, who is chairman of the Oregon GOP central com mittee, was made a member of the national committee by a vote of the convention, and in other ways was an outstanding dele gate, Dickey reported. Elliott was one of four who' made speeches seconding the nomina tion of General Eisenhower, and as such . appeared on the nation-wide broadcasts of all ma jor radio and television net works. His speech generally was considered one of the better ones . made at the convention, Dickey said.- Dickey Casts Votes Dickey was given a chance ' to vote as McAllister's alternate twice during the convention once on the rules change which made GOP chairmen of Republi can states members of the na tional committee a vote on whi-h the Oregon delegation was split.