COLORFUL Ambassador Tran
Van Kha of Viet Nam arrives at
the White House to present his
credentials to President Truman.
The colorfully dressed ambassa
dor is his country's first envoy to
tte United States.
Controversial Farm
Price Support Bill
Signed by President
Washington (U.R) P r e s i
dent Truman Friday signed into
law a controversial bill requir
ing the government to support
basic farm crop prices at rigid,
high levels for the next two
years.
Although some of the nation's
major farm organizations bitter
ly assailed the measure, Mr.
Truman said it would insure
"reliable" price supports and
promote "high" production for
consumers.
Falls Short of Demands
The president said the law
falls short of his demand for out
right repeal of the much-criticized
"sliding scale" price sup
ports. But it does set the system
aside for the next two crop
years. j
In short, the measure:
1. Insists that grower prices
for corn, wheat, cotton, peanuts
and rice must be supported at 90
per cent of parity through 1955
instead of according to the 75
90 per cent "sliding scale."
Extends Dual Parity
2. Extends for two years the
so-called "dual parity" program
on wheat, corn, cotton, and pea
nuts, providing that parity is
figured according to which of
two formulas will produce the
higher price.
3. Establishes price supports
for extra long staple cotton on a
similar basis as ordinary length,
staple, upland cotton.
The National Grange and Am
erican Farm Bureau Federation
charged that rigid supports
would lead to more and more
government control of farm pro
duction. President Expects
To Leave Hospital
Washington (U.R) President
Truman, comforted by the pres
ence of his wife, Friday spent
what he hoped would be his last
day of medical tests at the
Army's Walter Reed Hospital.
Mr. Truman is scheduled to
leave the hospital sometime Sat
urday and return to the White
House for a quiet week end be
fore settling down by his tele
phone and television set for the
Democratic National Convention
in Chicago.
Mr. Truman still plans to go
to Chicago next Thursday or
Friday to address the convention
after the delegates have selected
the Democratic presidential and
vice presidential nominees.
White House staff members
were optimistic about the Presi
dent's physical condition. Appar
ently he has thrown off most of
the effects of his virus attack.
Thursday was the first day since
Sunday that he had no fever.
New Engine Delivered
To Fire Department
The Medford fire department
added a new fire engine to its
equipment yesterday. Fire Chief
Gordon Barker said this morn
ing. The engine arrived yesterday,
but the piping is still being work
ed on. The pumper will receive
its test run next week, Barker
said.
The new truck, a Maxim, is
believed by Barker to be the only
one of its make in this part
of the country.
Weathe.
FORECAST: Fair through Sat
urday. Low tonight 49. High
Saturday 90.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday 94
Lowest this Morning SO
Limited Steel Seizure
Under Consideration
As Negotiations Fail
Washington (U.R) The
White House has instructed the
Justice Department to draw up
papers to seize the strike-bound
steel industry under the Selec
tive Service Act, it was report
ed Friday.
A high government source
said seizure under terms of the
act was being "seriously consid
ered" because the industry and
the CIO Steelworkers have fail
ed to settle the 47-day strike
through collective bargaining.
The decision to move ahead
with seizure plans was made at
a meeting Thursday between
Acting Defense Mobilizer John
R. Steelman and officials of the
Justice and Defense Depart
ments and the Munitions Board.
Seizure 'Very Limited'
It was reported the seizura
would be "very limited." Pre
sumably, the government would
channel defense contracts just
to certain producers and then
take over those plants if produc
tion was not forthcoming.
The White House spokesman
said every possibility of getting
the steel mills back into produc
tion was under consideration
but that no decision has been
leached. This left open the possi
bility that the Justice Depart
ment had been instructed to
draw up seizure papers for use
JURY INDICTS DRIVER,
STAB CASE SUSPECTS,
FREES RESTAURANT MAN
Jackson county's grand jury
returned five, indictments this
morning. Included were charges
of negligent homicide, and as
sault while armed with a dan
gerous weapon. It dismissed two
felony complaints against Henry
McGranary Orders
Jury Investigation
Of Big Oil Cartel
Washington (U.R) Sen.
Thomas C. Hennings Jr. praised
Attorney General James P. Mc
Granery Friday for ordering a
jury investigation into whether
a U. S.-British cartel controls the
world oil market.
The Missouri Democrat, who
has been waging a running fight
with the administration for an
inquiry into the alleged cartel
told a reporter the Justice De
partment's action was "a con
structive step toward a solution
of a problem which has been
all too long overlooked and ne
glected in this country."
Seven Firms Accused
McGranery announced Thurs
day night that he had ordered
Justice Department lawyers to
seek both criminal and civil ac
tion against seven of the world's
largest oil companies accused of
splitting up world markets and
fixing prices under a cartel
agreement.
McGranery's action followed
closely Hennings' charges Thurs
day that the seven companies
operate as an "independent
world government" controlling
the oil industry outside the Unit
ed States and "dominating" the
oil industry within this country.
The seven firms listed in the
anti-trust action by McGranery
were the same as cited by Hen
nings: Standard Oil Co. of New Jer
sey; Standard Oil Co. of Cali
fornia; Texas Co.; Socony
Vacuum Co.; Gulf Oil Co. all
U. S. firms and Royal Dutch
Shell and Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.
British-controlled firms.
G. E. Gerrell Named
To Draft Board Here
G. E. Gerrell, route 3, box 54,
has been appointed to Selective
Service Board 17 July 8 to re
place R. K. Rians who resigned,
ti was reported today.
Rians, 820 East Ninth street,
was an associate member of the
board. He resigned July 1 be
cause of ill health.
Ashland Barbers Raise
Haircut Price to $1.25
Ashland Barbers of this city,
who have held the price line for
a haircut to $1 longer than those
in any other southern Oregon
city, will raise the price to a
standard S1.25 effective Monday,
it was annou-ced this week.
GOLD HILL ELECTION
Gold Hill A city budget elec
tion to approve $14,085 over
the 6 per cent increase limita
tion is being held today at the
Gold Hill city hall from 1 to 7
p. m. The budget was previously
passed by the voters but due to a
legal, technicality that election
was declared invalid.
on an if-and-when basis.
Section 18 of the Selective
Service Act permits the Presi
dent to take over any steel
plants that "fail or refuse" to
deliver on defense orders.
The administration did not
use the seizure powers when it
first took over the steel indus
try, claiming it was "too in
volved" a process to determine
what plants were holding direct
defense contracts.
President Truman then seized
the industry under his so-called
"inherent" powers but this was
struck down in a momentous de
cision by the Supreme Court.
Efforts Collapse
The move was reported as the
latest efforts of Steelman to
bring about an agreement
through collective bargaining
collapsed.
Steelman instructed Union
President Philip Murray and the
Bethlehem Steel Corp. speak
ing for the "Big Six" steel com
panies to make a final stab at
an agreement last Monday. The
parties failed to bridge the final
issue in the dispute, the union
shop.
This indicated Mr. Truman
was standing pat on his refusal
to use the Taft-Hartley Labor
Management Act in an attempt
to halt the nationwide walkout.
Fpng, 450 Charlotte Anne road,
Medford, according to Bob Dick
ey, deputy district attorney.
A true bill indictment was re
turned against Roylee Howard
Newsom, 603 North Bartlett,
Medford, charging negligent
homicide. Newsom was involved
in the June 5 accident north of
Central Point in which two oc
cupants of the other vehicle, Mr.
and Mrs. Dudley C. Fullerton,
were killed.
For Armed Assault
An indictment for assault
while armed with a dangerous
weapon was entered against
Monte Stockton, 26, of 118 East
McAndrews road; Dee Stockton,
a brother, Shady Cove; and Don
ald Earl Yule, 22, Shady Cove.
Yule is now in the state penitem
tiary serving a term not to ex
ceed two years and eight months,
for parole violation.
The three men were involved
in the April 19 stabbing of Carl
Blair, Shady Cove, during an
early morning brawl. Blair has
since recovered from the wound.
Two felony complaints, threat
ening commission of a felony
and assault while armed with a
dangerous weapon,-which were
filed against Fong by Mrs. Grace
M. Teeple during a recent labor
dispute at Kim's restaurant,
were dismissed . by the grand
jury in a non-true bill.
Beating Involved
An indictment against Vernon
Clifford Smith. Sacramento,
Calif., and Jack Pete Roulette,
also California, for assault and
robbery while armed with a
dangerous weapon, was return- j
ed. The indictment concerned
the beating and robbing of a
Camp White man on the Airport
road earlier this year.
Other indictments returned
were against James G. MacCol
lister, route 1, box 93, Talent,
on a non-support charge and Ed
ward Cooper? Eugene, for at
tempting to obtain money under
false pretenses. The charge
against Cooper involved a bad
check passed on a Myrtle Creek
bank. '
All those indicted will be ar
raigned on the charges in the
near future, according to Dickey,
and if they enter pleas of guilty
will be sentenced. If they plead
innocent they will be given time
to obtain counsel and a trial will
be held, he added.
This was the last meeting of
the April grand jury. The term
of the new grand jury will begin
next Monday.
3,000 Gallons of Cyanide Accidentally
Dumped Into Wabash River in Indiana
Lafayette, Ind. (U.R) More
than 3,000 gallons of deadly
cyanide flowed down the Wa
bash . today, and authorities
warned Hoosiers to stay away
from the river.
A crew of state health and
conservation employees launch
ed a row-boat and floated along
with the poison to watch its ef
fects and shoo swimmers, fish
ermen and animals away from
the river. - v
Health and conservation au
thorities conferred hastily in In
dianapolis Thursday when they
learned that ; workmen at a
Lafayette industrial firm had ac
cidentally dumped the cyanide
into the Wabash.
They sent an emergency pa
SOME CHANGES MADE-Lennie
Dennis removes a portrait of
D wight Eisenhower as Estes
Kefauver picture takes its place
in Conrad Hilton Hotel, Chicago.
Two Forest Areas
To Be Closed To
Non-Permit Entry
Two forested areas of Jackson
county will be closed Monday to
all entry, except by permit, it
was announced today by Dis
trict State Forest Warden Ted
Maul.
. The two areas affected by the
order, issued by Gov. Douglas
McKay upon advice of the state
forester, are generally similar to
the territory similarly closed last
year. The areas are closed to
"menace to life and property due
to excessive amounts of dry
grass and inflammable debris
left on the ground by logging
operations, and fires in past
years."
The northernmost area lies be
tween Prospect and Butte Falls.
Permits for .entry may be ob
tained at state forest patrol head
quarters on Table Rock Road,
and at the Butte Falls, Prospect,
McLeod and Trail guard stations.
The other is the Jenny Creek
Dead Indian Creek area, lying
north and south of the Green
springs highway. Permits to en
ter there are obtainable at patrol
headquarters, and at the Ash
land, Lincoln' andJVIoon Prairie
guard stations.
Red warning signs telling of
the closure, which have maps
showing the area involved, will
be posted at all forest road en
trances to the areas by Monday,
Maul said. Violation of the per
mit order subjects the violator
to a fine of $25 to $250, and a
jail term of 10 to 60 days, or
both.
Dirt Slide Blocks
SP Railroad Track
A dirt slide in the vicinity
of Savage Rapids dam this morn
ing covered the Southern Pa
cific railroad tracks, delaying
the southbound train from Port
land by about 4V& hours, it was
reported today by SP officials.
Robert Holmes, district freight
and passenger agent here, said
that bulldozers were put to work
clearing the tracks, and that the
train was expected to arrive here
early this afternoon. Passengers
on board were brought to Med
ford by bus from Grants Pass,
where the train was held until
the tracks were cleared.
- Holmes added that due to com
munications difficulties, he did
not have details about the slide,
but he said he understood it to
be about 30 feet in length, and
varying from a few inches to
eight feet in depth. The railroad
runs along the north side of the
river in that section.
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trol to watch the banks of the
fabled river and to take samples
of the water all along the way.
The samples ' will probably be
tested in Indianapolis today,
said Dr. L. E. Burney, state
health commissioner.
The poison had already killed
hundreds of fish as it drifted
lazily southward, but no human
beings were reported dead or ill.
The cyanide is drifting at a
rate of about one mile per hour
and is expected to reach the city
of Terre Haute, Ind., sometime
Saturday. ,
Drinking Water Endangered
Terre Haute takes its drink
ing water from the Wabash, and
a state health expert has al
ready been sent there to test the
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Disputed Democrat
Delegations Go To
Credentials Group
Texas, Mississippi
Ballots Contended
Chicago tU.R) Rival "loyal
ist" and "regular" delegations
from Texas and Mississippi ap
pealed Friday to a credentials
subcommittee for formal recog
nition at next week's Democratic
National Convention.
Seventy convention votes were
involved in the two contests
52 for Texas and 18 for Missis
sippi. Time Allotted
The subcommittee allotted one
hour to each side for arguing
the Texas case and 30 minutes to
each side in the Mississippi dis
pute. The subcommittee will make
its decisions in closed session,
Chairman Calvin Rawlings of
Salt Lake City said, and these
will not be announced publicly
until they are handed to its par
ent body, the Democratic Na
tional Committee, on Saturday.
No matter what the subcom
mittee decides or the National
Committee recommends, the
contests will be fought out and
settled finally on the convention
floor.
Important To Russell
The cases are important to the
presidential candidacy of Sen.
Richard B. Russell of Georgia.
If the anti-administration ."regu
lars" from Mississippi and Texas
finally are seated in the conven
tion, Russell will get all 70 of
the votes. Neither pro-adminis
tration "loyalist" group is com
mitted, but probably would go
for any candidate who finally
gets the Truman administration's
nod.
Gov. Allen Shiver of Texas is
chairman of his state's "regular"
delegation. In Mississippi, Gov,
Hugh White has a similar role,
Separate Mishaps
Claim Four Lives
By UNITED PRESS
Highway accidents, a fire and
a drowning claimed the lives of
four persons in Oregon Thurs
day.
Mrs. Elsie K. Keeney, 57, Eu
gene, suflocated when lire de
stroyed her house about 12:30
a.m.
Mrs. Barbara Moody, 30, of
Portland, an expectant mother,
died of injuries suffered in a
collision on Sunset highway at
the intersection with North
Plains road.
Hugh Glenn, 55, veteran Bay-
Ocean rural mail carrier, was
killed when his automobile
swerved under a loaded log
truck three miles west of Tilla
mook.
Sue Ann Byers, six-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ken
neth Byers of Independence
drowned in the Willamette river
when a speedboat operated by
her father capsized.
Savage Rapids Dam
Work Bids Due Oct. I
Bids for rehabilitation of Sav
age Rapids dam across the
Rogue river on the Jackson- Jo
sephine county line have been
called for October 1 by the Bu
reau of Reclamation, it was re
ported by United Press from
Washington. D. C, today.
The portion of the project
planned for this fiscal year will
cost an estimated $700,000, and
a bill including an appropriation
in that amount was signed by
President Truman July 9.
water for contamination.
Sanitation workers doubted,
however, that the cyanide would
seriously poison the Terre Haute
drinking water.
The poison spurted into the
river Tuesday when workmen at
the Peerless Wire Goods Co.
here attempted(to transfer it by
hose from one tank to another.
Burney said the concentration
of poison at the point where it
entered the stream was 480
times more powerful than that
necessary to kill fish.
Robert W. Heider, assistant
chief engineer for the State
Health Board, said:
"It was one of the biggest fish
killings we have ever had in
Indiana."
MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1952
A
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STAND TOGETHER Governor Allen Shivers of Texas (left) and
Governor James F. Byrnes of South Carolina smile as they listen
to congratulations after Governor Byrnes threatened to bolt the
Democratic convention if Governor Shivers' delegation is not
seated at Chicago. " "
OREGON DELEGATES MAY
LEAVE KEFAUVER AFTER
EARLY DEMOCRAT VOTES
Chicago (U.R) Monroe Sweet-
land, Democratic national com
mitteeman from Oregon, said
Friday that there were indica
tions some of the Kefauver
pledged Oregon delegation may
bolt from the Tennessee senator
Reward Offered
For Information
On Killer Suspect
A reward for information lead
ing to the apprehension of
George Baker Dunkin, wanted
for the murder of State Police
Officer Phil Lowd, was offered
today. The money has been put
up by a group of Medford busi
ness and professional people who
feel that it is important that the
67-year-old miner and trapper be
brought to justice.
So far, S250 has been collected.
Those wishing to add to the
amount may make checks pay
able to "Reward," and mail them
to P.O. Box 100, Medford.
Seth Bullis, of the California
Oregon Power company, has
been designated to hold the
money, and to select the indi
vidual or individuals who win
the reward. Authorized peace of
ficers are not eligible, and if
Dunkin is caught by a policeman,
or if he is not caught within a
year, the money will go to the
widow of Officer Lowd.
Search Continues
The search for Dunkin is con
tinuing in the rugged northern
part of the county, State Police
Capt. Paul Parson reported to
day, with three officers assigned
to the search. They are still fol
lowing rumors and leads, me
thodically checking each one of
them.
Lowd was shot through the
head when he was approaching
Dunkin's cabin, to question him,
on June 24. The mountain recluse
has been sought since that time
in the area around his cabin,
and police say they have reason
to believe he is still in the general
area.
Central Point Fire
District Vote Monday
Central Point An election on
whether or not a rural fire dis
trict surrounding Central Point
shall be formed, and election of
five directors for the proposed
district, will take place next
Monday, July 21, according to of
ficials of the present rural fire
department.
Voting will take place from 8
a.m. to 8 p.m: in tnree polling
places situated at Howard, West
Side and Table Rock schools.
Candidates for director positions
are A. W. (Bill) Lingaas, Claude
Hoover, John Wheeler, Dr. Al-
vin Roberts, A. C. Thompson and
David DeArmond.
Washington (U.R) Presi
dent Truman Friday named
Walter J. Donnelly, present am
bassador to Austria, to succeed
John J. McCloy as U. S. High
Commissioner for Germany. I
unless he. wins on an early bal-
lot.
Two other Oregon delegates,
however, insisted the 12-member
delegation would stay with Ke
fauver to the end. They pointed
out Oregon law requires the
delegates to stay with their
pledged candidate as long as he
has a chance.
Great Variation in Loyalty
Sweetland said there was a
"very great variation in the in
tensity", of the loyalty of the
12 delegates to Kefauver. Three
of the group attended e confer
ence of delegates backing Sen
ator Robert S. Kerr of Okla
homa, he said.
Two of the delegates are
known to favor Senator Richard
B. Russell of Georgia, he said,
and added that his own prefer
ence is Gov. Adlai Stevenson of
Illinois.
To Stay With Kefauver
Delegates Walter Dodd of Eu
gene and Gene Conklin of Pen
dleton said they expected the
delegation to stick with Kefau
ver. The remainder of the dele
gation is to arrive here Sunday.
Sweetland said he was work
ing for a strong plank in the
party platform for public de
velopment of water and power
projects. He is a member of the
platform drafting committee.
Eastern Power Interests
The platform, he said, should
include a denunciation of what
he called attacks by "eastern
power interests" on western pub
lic power projects.
He said he expected the plat
form to call for an end to freight
rates that are "discriminatory"
to the West Coast.
Cooler Weather Trend
Continuing in Valley
The cooler trend in tempera
ture continued today with a
maximum reading of about 90
degrees forecast by the Medford
office of the weather bureau.
Maximum Thursday was 94. a
slight drop from 95 recorded the
previous day. A high of 90 de
grees is predicted here for Sat
urday. The five-day forecast for ths
western part of Oregon includes
occasional rain Sunday and
again Wednesday, but the bur
eau reported that the rain was
not anticipated in southern Oregon.
United Nations Throws Back
Red Tanks in 5-Hour Battle
Seoul, Korea UR) United
Nations soldiers and tanks hurl
ed back a Communist tank-led
assault on a hill northwest of
Chorwon in a bitter, five-hour
battle Friday and pushed on
north to take new positions.
It was the first tank-vs.-tank
engagement in months. The
U. N. tanks claimed victory after
destroying a Russian-built T-34
with a direct hit.
Starts With Barrage
The Red attack began about
10 o'clock Thursday night with
an enemy artillery barrage.
Shortly after, several T-34s and
a reinforced enemy battalion be-
i gan slogging through the rain
toward Allied positions.
Enemy tanks also supported a
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Seek Compromise
By Middle-of-Road
Democratic Leaders
Left-Wing Elements
Want 1948 Repeated
Chicago (U.R) Events were
building Friday toward a South
ern bolt from next week's Demo
cratic National Convention.
The trend was unmistakable,
but middle-of-the-road politicians
were moving in to keep the party
together with a compromise plat
form and presidential ticket.
With 72 hours to go before the
convention opens, it was still any
body's guess whether the peace
makers could prevail over the
left-wing elements who seemed
determined to repeat the 1948
pattern of sacrificing the "Solid
South" in order to woo votes
in Northern industrial states.
Battle Joined in Earnest
The North-South battle was
joined in earnest today before
the convention credentials com
mittee and the platform writing
subcommittee. The former faced
a decision on seating "states'
rights' or "loyalist"' delegations
from two Southern states. The
latter was enmeshed in the old
familiar row over a civil rights
plank.
Backstage, the candidates and
king-makers jockeyed for posi
tion in the biggest fight of all
over the presidential nomination.
Confusion still reigned in that
free-for-all race, with all of the
front-running candidates a coun
try mile short of the 616 conven
tion votes necessary to nominate.
Robert Kerr, Alben Barkley
and Gov. James F. Byrnes of
South Carolina were due in to
day, the governor to lead the
Southern rebellion against left
wing and administration domina
tion of this convention.
Sen. Richard B. Russell,
Georgia, knows a trend when he
sees one and has grabbed for
the tailgate of the administra
tion bandwagon by calling for
repeal of the Taft-Hartley law,
which he voted for twice in
1947.
His about-face on Taft-Hartley
produced the first firm evidence
the South may bolt this conven
tion if it is pushed too far. That
evidence came from Roanoke,
Va., where a convention of Demo
crats refused at the last minute
to pledge their 28-vote delega
tion to Russell as expected.
Reserve Battalion
To Leave for Camp
Thirty members of the 382nd
quartermaster battalion of the
army reserve will leave here
Sunday for a two-week summer
training camp at Ft. Lewis,
Wash., it was announced today
by Lt. Col. W. H. Prentice, com
manding officer of the unit. They
will travel by chartered bus.
Two quartermaster sales com
panies, one from Portland and
the other from Seattle, have
been attached to the local bat
talion for training and adminis
tration. The Medford unit will
be one of 22 attached to the
313th logistical command. Which
will control the operation.
Inspection trips will.be made
to the Auburn general depot and
the Seattle port of embarkation
' The 382nd battalion will re
turn to Medfort August 3.
DR. DIERDORFF NAMED
Atlantic City. N. J. Dr. G. A.
Dierdorff, Medford, Ore., has
been elected to the house of
delegates of the American Osteo
pathic association, now conclud
ing its 56th annual convention
here. Dr. Dierdorff will repre
sent the Oregon Osteopathic as
sociation in the national group.
light jab at another hill in the
Chorwon area, but it was easily
repulsed.
Red Casualties High
The Allies claimed they killed
or wounded near 250 Communist
soldiers in hot and frequent pa
trol actions in the Central
Sector.
The weather restricted U. N.
naval operations, but the 45,000
ton battleship Iowa pounded
shore installations Thursday on
the east coast, knocking out at
least two gun positions, and pos
sibly a third, and destroying two
bunkers.
Radio Peiping claimed Chinese
Communist troops beat off a
South Korean raiding party
which tried to land on Korea's
West Coast July 13.