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Recommended Weather DFORD RIBUNE A feature itory en mmraer school activities tor undents of trades 1 through 12. sponsored by the Medford city schools, appears on Pace 9 of today's -lune of The Mail Tribune. FORECAST Fair today with little change of temperature through Monday. High todav and Monday will be 95, low tonight 50-55. ... Temp. Highest yesterday 91 Lowest yesterday si I'nited Press Full Leased Wire I'nited Press mil Leased Wire 47th Year 24 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 20, 1952 No. 103 U UUJ Me mm W m 4 Rescued From Raging Ship Fire New York U.R) A Coast Guard cutter docked here late Saturday with 44 persons who were rescued from a Norwegian freighter that a roaring fire fed by castor oil and napthalene had turned into a floating torch in the Atlantic ocean off Long Island. Two ambulances and a group of physicians and corpsmen were waiting at the dock to rush the injured to the hospitals. The survivors lined the cutter's rail Troops and Police Battle Nationalist Rioters in Tehran Tehran. Iran (U.R) Iranian police and troops manning tanks and Bren-gun carriers and using tear gas, bayonets, rifle butts and clubs Saturday fought fan atical Nationalists rioting in pro- test against the appointment of moderate Premier Ahmed Ghav am replacing the fiery National ist Mossadegh. The worst riots occurred in the the refinery town of Abadan where unofficial reports said "large numbers" of rioters were killed as they attacked tanks and attempted to disarm truck loads of soldiers. Reports reaching here said the military commander had called for military reinforce ments and for warplanes to help -drive off warlike tribesmen said to be converging on the city to demand the restoration of Mos sadegh to power. One Reported Dead At least one civilian was re ported killed in the Tehran riot ing and scores were wounded. Twelve were hospitalized with bayonet wounds after troops ran them through as they attempted to attack Sherman tanks sent into the Tehran bazaar. Unofficial reports said some of Mossadegh's fanatical support ers had signed pledges in their own blood to kill Ghavam "at the first opportunity." Ghavam answered the rioters with orders to military com manders and provincial gover nors through out Iran to assume "full powers" to suppress dis orders. He appointed an army general as chief of Tehran's of fice with instructions to take drastic measures to restore order in the capital. The new premier proceeded, meanwhile, to line up a pro Dosed cabinet which probably will be presented to the Shah today. 30-Man Crew Fights Fire in Area of GP Grants Pass About 30 men were battling a large fire 3Vi miles northwest of Grants Pass along the Southern Pacific rail road tracks late last night, ac cording to John Worth, assistant dispatcher -for the state forest patrol at Grants Pass. The blaze was visible for about 6 or 7 miles, Worth said, and the smoke could be smelled at the Grants Pass guard station. Due to the inaccessibility of the fire, contact with the fighters was not direct, the dispatcher said, so its size was not known. At last contact, the fire had burned about five acres of brush and was heading for some tim ber and a California-Oregon Power company right-of-way. A total of 16 men (three crews) were on the fire from the state patrol,, two crews from South ern Pacific (10 men) and one from COPCO (five men). Residents of the Merlin area were getting "worried" over the size and location of the fire, Worth reported." He said that crews would be kept on the fire until it was under control. The fire was first spotted by the Sexton mountain luokout at 7:30 p.m. Saigon, Indo-China U.R) Five children were killed and 33 injured when a terrorist threw a grenade into a crowd of youngsters attending a play at Vung Liem, 75 miles south of Saigon, it was reported Saturday. and shouted to relatives and friends clustered on the pier. The survivors, including six women, were plucked from the bow of the Black Gull and from the freighter's only undamaged life boat by the Swedish liner Gripsholm, whose crew braved blinding orange flames in the dramatic pre-dawn rescue. Another survivor of the Black Gull was burned so seriously he could not be transferred from the Europe-bound Gripsholm to the cutter Mackinac. Four of the freighter's crew men were missing and presumed dead. One passenger and seven of the crew members brought to Staten Island on the cutter suf fered second degree burns. The survivors of the burned ship waved bandaged arms and hands and called to friends and relatives waiting on the pier as the cutter tied up to the dock. An elderly couple aboard the cutter said they were alive only because a heroic stewardess fought through flames to get to their cabin and wake them up. Thomas Leason, 66, Antwerp, Belgium, said the stewardess handed them life jackets and led them to a lifeboat that was lowered over the side of the boat so close to flames that the couple suffered second degree burns from the searing heat. ''The crew played hoses on us as we went over the side," Lea son said. Crewmen Praised Another passenger, George Fulger of Switzerland, said all of the survivors owe their lives to "the bravery of the crew-1 men" of the Black Gull. The first survivor taken from the cutter by ambulances was Olaf Karson, a seaman who was the most seriously injured per son transferred from the Grips holm to the Mackinac. Karson's feet and hands were htavily bandaged . and his' burned face was slick with grease. The uninjured persons were taken to the Norwegian Sea man's home in New York by two buses that had been waiting at the Staten Island pier. The 440-foot-long Black Gull was nearing the end of her voy age from Bremen, Germany, to Brooklyn when the fire broke out about 65 miles east of Mon tauk Point, a haven for fisher men on the tip of Long Island, about 100 miles from New York City. (See Story Page 8) Grand Jury Dismissed; New One Called Monday The April county grand jury was dismissed Friday afternoon, after hearing a series of criminal cases, all of which were reported earlier Friday. The July grand jury term will open Monday, and seven jury men will be selected and impan elled. Among cases the new jury will consider will be that con cerning the river bridge at Rogue River, a part of which fell from the deck earlier this year The jury has been asked to affix blame for the bridge's failure, and to consider its present and future safety. Members' of the retiring jury were John A. Graff Jr., foreman, and Don Elliott, E. L. Frederick, Monta Davis, John Foster, Wil liam J. Albert and Harris Flowers. Mail Contributions Flood National Ike Headquarters Denver (U.R) Seven-year-old Ada Long sent her favorite presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower a $1 bill Sat urday to help him along in his campaign. "I know you will be the next President," Ada said in her hand printed letter. "I have Ike but tons all over my room. 'I saved this dollar for you." Typical of Thousands . . This letter from Ada, who lives in St. Louis, was in its way typical of thousands of letters and telegrams pouring into Eisenhower's headquarters from well-wishers all over the world. "I've never seen anything like it," said Abbott Washburn, who is in charge of handling the Re publican presidential candidate's mail. , "We've doubled and almost tripled our old staff and still we ALTERNATE for Presidsnt Tru man at Democratic national convention, Thomas J. Gavin flies to Washington from Kansas City for Instructions on how to vote. (International Soundphoto) President Truman Leaves Hospital; Says Health Good Washington (U.R) Presi dent Truman returned to the White House Saturday feeling "fine" after anexhaustive three day hospital checkup, and aides said he's ready to address the Democratic convention this week. Mr. Tifuman looking as chip per, as before, stopped to joke and talk with reporters and photographers as he left the Army's Walter Reed medical center and returned to the White House. He answered questions about his health by exclaiming: "Fine, fine. I feel all right." Will Address Convention Press Secretary Joseph Short said the president's illness would "certainly not" prevent him from addressing the Chica go convention next week nor would it prevent him from cam paigning for the Democratic ticket this fall. Mr. Truman, normally the picture of health, was hit by a mild virus infection last Sun day. He ran a slight fever for three or four days. When he was about recovered Sunday, White House physician Wallace H. Graham ordered him to the hospital for a series of "annoying" medical tests. Dressed in a light blue double breasted summer suit, Mr. Tru man stopped outside the White House entrance on his return Saturday to pose for photo graphers. "Are you fellows trying to take the limelight off the Dem ocratic convention?" he quip ped. He said that during the past week he had "nothing to do but loaf." But he acted on 233 pieces of legislation since he was stricken with the virus bug. Reporters thought that Mr. Truman looked as if he might have lost a pound or two, but he didn't think so. Waving a cheery , "glad to be back," the President went im mediately to his second-floor living quarters in the White House. don't seem to be able to handle all the mail. The General wants all these letters answered. And that's quite a job, let me tell you." . In addition to trying to keep the flood of mail straight, mem bers of Eisenhower's staff here also were busily engaged in formulating campaign plans. It was understood that Eisen hower has definitely decided to become the first Republican presidential nominee to make a campaign swing through the Southern states in an attempt to put the South' in the Republi can column in November. ' Under present plans the re tired General will visit Texas, Louisiana, Florida. Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia, as well, as such border states as Tennessee, Kentucky and Oklahoma. Immm if Loyalty from All Factions Anti-Filibuster Convention Floor Fight Shapes Up Lehman-Humphrey Bloc Wants Strong Plank Chicago (U.R) Unity Demo crats worked against overwhel ming odds late Saturday trying to head off a threatened conven- Medford radio stations KYJC (1230) and KMED (14 40) will bring lo the citizens of the Rogue river valley com plete coverage of the Demo cratic National convention in Chicago beginning Monday at 8:30 a.m. tion floor fight over a proposed anti-filibuster plank in the Dem ocratic platform. The harmony bloc was con centrating on influencing Sens. Herbert H. Lehman (D-N.Y.) and Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) not to take their fight to the floor if the platform committee refuses their request for a strong plank against the Senate's rule of unlimited debate. Members of this bloc have contended that a fight over such a plank -won Id -open 'Up-the whole civil rights controversy and perhaps lead to another bolt of the southern Democrats, as in 1948. : Walkout Unlikely There was little tendency on the part of the southerners to walk out this year, however. Many influential Dixie leaders were said to feel that the candi date not the mere statement of party principles is the import ant thing. The utility group was led by Sen. John J. Sparkman (D-Ala.) and Rep. Brooks Hays (D-Ark.). But it was known to include such civil rights advocates as Sen. Warren C. Magnuson (D Wash.) and former Sen. Francis J. Myers (D-Pa.). A series of informal confer ences have been sought, gener ally for today, in an effort to find some way of resolving the dispute. But they conceded they are working against time, and that their chances of success are not too bright. Bloc Adamant So far, the Lehman-Humphrey bloc has been adamant about an anti-filibuster plank, contending that this issue is the pivot of the whole civil rights fight. There was some talk of mol ifying the Lehman-Humphrey forces by calling for a change in Senate rules, but not connect ing this recommendation with the civil rights program. But even "harmony" southerners are opposed to this maneuver. A platform-writing committee has been hearing testimony since last Wednesday on suggested planks for the platform. More than 100 witnesses have testified on subjects ranging from foreign affairs, inflation, and the de tense effort to the partition of Ireland, women's rights, and var ious "peace" proposals. US Plana Blast Repairs at Chosen Seoul, Sunday (U.R) Car rier based U. S. Navy planes swept down on repair crews at the Chosen power plant in North Korea Saturday and tore up in stallations being rebuilt. atter the giant June 23 bombing. . Corsair and Skyraider. pilots from the Princeton and Bon Homme Richard reported the Reds had a tight ring of anti aircraft guns around the repair work. But the Navy planes pushed through the heavy fire and an overhanging fog to scat ter workmen and blast the plant's huge transformers. The heavy fog kept most other United Nations aircraft on the ground. Democrats Seek , .1 It sS&miB THE LULL BEFORE Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee relaxes on the rooftop of his hotel in Chicago. He will soon plunge into the fight for the presidential nomination. Steel Negotiations To Resume Tomorrow -Kashingtoa (UJi) Ind.ust ry and union leaders agreed un der government pressure Satur day to get together for a' new effort to settle the crippling, 48-day steel strike. Acting Defense Mobilizer John R. Steelman announced at the White House that both sides have complied with his request to resume direct negotiations in Pittsburgh tomorrow. . Follows Government .Threat The decision to reopen the marathon wage talks came as the government threatened par- Civic Auditorium Campaign Funds Start Rolling In Money to support a campaign for a civic auditorium is coming in rapidly,' according to A.A. Lausmann, who ' was named temporary chairman of the Civ ic Auditorium association which was formed recently to back the project. Lausmann reported Saturday that S600 has already been re ceived and around S300 addit ional has been pledged by tele phone from business and profes sional men of the community. . All Urged to Help The association sent letters to a large number of business and other people suggesting that fi nancial help be given in getting the auditorium drive started apd Lausmann explained Sat urday that contributions will be gratefully received from any one wishing to help,; whether they receive solicitation letters or not. . , Checks may be made payable to "Civic Auditorium Associa tion," and mailed to P.O. Box 1268, Medford, Ore. ; Suggestions and proffers of jielp in the campaign will also be welcomed, Lausmann stated. Gold Hill Voters Again Approve Budget Gold Hill Gold Hill resi dents, voting for the second time on the proposal, approved a city budget levy $14,085 in excess of the six per cent statutory limit. The election was Friday and the vote was 44 yes and 15 no. Total budget is .S26,985. Residents earlier- - approved the levy by a vote of 51 yes and 30 no but the balloting had to be conducted again because - a legal technicality, in posting election notices made the vote invalid. r tial seizure of the industry and ruled out any pre-contract "above-ceiling" price hikes. " The twin government moves were certain to figure in the new talks. But officials said an even bigger factor will be the CIO United Steelworkers' wage policy committee meeting Mon day. Industry leaders fear the com mittee may force CIO President Philip Murray to take a tougher stand on the union shop issue, the major remaining block to an overall settlement. May Compromise - Observers here said this just possibly may prompt the indust ry to settle for Murray's com promise union shop offer to pre vent an even more serious dead lock. The ' government announced firmly yesterday that it won't talk about "over-ceiling" price increases until there is. a con tract. But there still is said to be an "understanding" that the companies can expect between $5.15 and $5.20 more a ton sharply above the $2.84 allow ed by the Capehart Amendment when they come to terms with the union. The union shop issue literally is the only hurdle barring agree ment. If they get that, the steel workers are expected to accept the companies' offer of a 16 cent hourly wage boost plus some fringe benefits. Gun Toting Delegate Will Defend Rights Jackson. Miss. (U.R) An alternate delegate to the Democratic National Conven tion clutched a rifle in his hand as he boarded a train for Chicago here. "I'm going straight to the credentials com mittee." Fred Anderson is a member of the states' rights Mississippi delegation whose seals are be ing contested before the cre dentials committee by a rival "Loyalist" group. National Rotana Convention Here Elects Montana Woman Mrs. Mary Booth, Helena. Mont., was elected national . pres ident of Rotana club at the an nual convention here yesterday. She succeeds Miss . Helen Mac Quarrie, Bozeman, Mont. Other officers are Mrs. Marie Barr, Salem, Ore., first vice president; Miss Grace Stadal man, Laurel, Mont., second vice president; and Mrs. Agnes Sher idan, Butte, Mont., re-elected treasurer. The national secre tary is a board appointee. (Pledge Harriman, Kefauver Spearheading Drive For Unity of Party Southern Regulars Win Opening Round Chicago (U.R) Southern anti-Truman forces won a first round victory in Democratic convention delegate contests Sat urday, and administration back ers launched an immediate counter-attack after conferring with the White House. Democrats opposed to Presi dent Truman's policies scored an initial triumph when the Democratic National Committee temporarily seated "regular" Texas and Mississippi delega tions at the party's convention this week. The final decision will be made on the convention floor. Asks Loyalty Pledge Administration backers were given some salve for their wounds, however, when the com mittee also recommended that leaders of the Texas and Missis sippi delegations be asked to declare formally their loyalty to the party. But, with the knowledge of the White House, Averell Harri man's campaign managers planned to go farther. They de cided to ask the convention to adopt a "loyalty pledge" which would bind all of the delegates to support the party's presiden tial nominee, whoever he may be. Harriman was joined in his campaign for the loyalty pledge by Sen. Estes Kefauver, who called on all other major Dem ocratic presidential candidates to get behind the drive. Ke fauver said in identical letters lo the others that the heart of the problem was the "issue of civil rights." As the delegate and civil rights fight grew hotter, party veteran James A. Farley advised the warring factions on his ar rival here that they can beat the Republicans in November if they stop fighting over FEPC and other issues and unite be hind a "good strong ticket." But there was little immed iate indication that his words were heeded. Americans for Democratic action, a "left-wing" segment of the party, served notice that it will wage a floor fight in the convention to assure "no compromise platform planks on civil rights. Supporters of Vice President Alben W. Barkley claimed the civil rights row enhanced his chances of grabbing the presi dential nomination as a possible "compromise" candidate. Bark ley huddled with delegates from several states throughout the day. A poll of the 27-vote Indiana delegation showed that it lean ed toward Barkley and Kefauv er as-second ballot ' choices. In addition, Sen. J. Allen Frear of Delaware predicted his state's six convention votes will go to Barkley on the first ballot. Backers of Gov. Adlai Stev enson of Illinois held a secret strategy meeting on their plans to accomplish a draft of "the Illinois governor for the nomin ation. Illinois leaders said they were convinced Stevenson would accept a "genuine draft. New members of the board of directors named were Mrs. Leon el Heater, Grants Pass: Mrs Anne Amick, Bend, Ore., and Mrs. Berniece Zeiler, Billings, Mont. The club, classified service club for women in business and the professions, will close the convention today with a lunch eon and lawn party at Rogue Valley Country club. Organized in Montana, the club's member ship is confined to western states. Fourmile Lake Area Combed for Local Four-Year-Old Boy Child Reported Lost Saturday Afternoon An intensive search was under way late Saturday in the rough country around Four mile lake, about 30 airline miles east of Medford. for four-year-old Ern ie Lefler, son of Mrs. Marie Clark, 1985 Orchard Home drive, Medford. The child was reported miss ing at about 1 p.m. yesterday when he wandered away from two small playrnates at the lake while his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Jones, also of the Orchard Home address, were waiting to take the children boating. 50 Men Searching A search was organized al most immediately. When no trace of the four-year-old was found the search was expanded and by 8 o'clock last night approxi mately 50 men were scouring the vicinity of the lake. Search ers planned to stay at the job all night and if the child is not found by this morning, they plan to call for additional help. The searching party was und er the direction of Ranger Bob Cooper of the Lake O'Woods district. He was assisted by Sam Taylor, Medford. of Elk Lumber company, who sounded the first call fot additional help by means of the Southern Ore gon Conservation and Tree Farm association's county - wide radio network. Groups taking part in the hunt included Medford National Guard units, employees of Med ford Corporation. Kogap Lum-: ber company, Magnolia Lumber company, the torest service. state police and Jackson and Klamath county sheriff's depu ties. Numerous private citizens, including the boy's father, Her man Lefler, Klamath Falls, were also among the searchers. Hot meals for searching part ies were being provided by the Jackson County Chapter of the American Red Cross and by the Medford Veterans of IVjreign Wars club. Edward Branchfield, local Red Cross chairman, and other Red Cross officials left for the scene at about 9 o'clock last night. Pleas for additional help were broadcast by Medford radio sta tions KYJC and KMED yester day afternoon and evening. The SOCTFA radio network was co ordinating the search in the vicinity of the lake and between the lake and Medford. National Guard walkie-talkie units are also being used in the vicinity of the lake. The lake lies in lava country just across the county line in Klamath county. The Medford weather bureau reported that, while no rain is expected in the Four Mile lake area, it was expected to be "chilly" last night, with temper atures in the middle or high 40s. The child is the second to be come lost in timbered country in this area recently. Nineteen-months-old William Glaspie Jr. was found alive and well after being lost overnight in the Thompson creek area just a month ago. California Woman Hurt in Accident A critically-injured California woman was taken to the Joseph ine county hospital Saturday afternoon following a car-truck collision at Savage Rapids dam on Highway 99, according to state police. The accident occurred at 3:15 o'clock about 100 feet from the dam when a car heading south driven by Robert Davis, 51, North Hollywood. Calif., stop ped to turn around to view the dam and fishway and was struck by a Pierce Freight Lines truck operated by Jack Stallsworth, 24. route 3. box 349V2, Medford, police explained. Police reported that Isabell Davis, 46, wife of the driver. was critically injured, while Davis and their son. Robert Jr., 13, received cuts and bruises. Stallsworth was not injured. The Davis car was a "total wreck," police added.
