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Newspaper Page TextIM M Ml W U Medford I'nittd Presi Full Leased Wirt 47th Year 16 Pages iecret Negotiators Quit Attempt To Reach Pact on Exchange Observers Fear Resumed Fighting Panmunjom, Korea (U.R) United Nations and Communist negotiators abandoned Friday their attempts to reach agree ment in closed sessions in an ex change of war prisoners, last obstacle to a Korean armistice. Maj. Gen. William K. Harri son, chief U. N. negotiator, dis closed that the 17 secret meet ings held since July 4 had prov ed "completely fruitless." He said the two truce teams were no nearer agreement than when they started the secret sessions. Renewed Fighting Seen . ' Observers feared the collapse of the secret meetings gravely increased the chances of renew ed and heavier fighting. There appeared little likelihood future "open" meetings would bring the two sides any closer to gether. The neeotiators will meet gain at 11 a.m. Saturday . in "open" session. Newsmen will not be permitted to attend, but will be briefed after by an offic ial U.N. spokesman. U.N. Hopes Up When the Communists asked for secret talks July 4, the Al lies had hoped for "realistic" discussions of the prisoner is sue. The U.N. disclosed the Reds instead adamantly insisted on repatriation of all Chinese pris oners held bv the United Na tions. The U.N. told the Communists it holds 170,000 Chinese and North Korean prisoners, of whom onlv 83.000 wish to re turn to the Red side after truce. The U.N. said again it nositivelv will not force any prisoner to return to Commu nism aeainst their will. Of the orisoners. the U.N. said, only 6.400 of the 21.000 Chinese held by the Allies wish to go back behind the Bamboo Curtain. North Korean Gen. Nam II in sisted on the return of all Chin ese "volunteers.' Panic Averted in Fire on Demo Floor Convention Hall, Chicago- (U.R) A quick-thinking Massa chusetts politician headed off a possible panic among 12,000 del egates and spectators at the Democratic convention early Friday when a small fire broke out on the floor. Peter J. Cloherty, Massachu setts state Democratic commit teeman and an "honorary" Bos ton fireman, yanked a micro phone from the hands of South Carolina Gov. James F. Byrnes and began shouting: "Don't get excited. Don't panic. It's only a little fire. It's only a' newspaper burning. Don't worry about it. It'll soon be put out.. "Firemen are right there on the job." The fire apparently was start ed by' a cigaret falling in a mass of discarded campaign material. . Corvallis (U.R) The 21st an nual Oregon state convention of the Loyal Order of Moose open ed here Friday with more than 1000 delegates attending. Miss Medford Seeking Miss Seaside (U.R) Twelve pretty girls, all outstanding beauties in their home towns, vie Friday and Saturday for the title of Miss Oregon and the right to enter the Miss America contest at Atlantic City, N.J., later this summer. The girls, accompanied by their chaperones, arrived here Thursday night and were given an orientation course and a round of entertainment. Actual judging in the annual Miss Oregon beauty and talent contest will begin Friday night. All girls will participate in the competition both nights. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 25, Thugs Sessions Convention And Stevenson Drive Heat Lengthy Session By R. Chicago (Special by wire) crats. They will put on a good place down to get it. They didn't exactly burn the one did start a fire on the floor, not much than they were before, until the hall firemen came to the rescue with fire extinguishers and put it out. They also put out the determination of the organization forces to keep in session until the -nomination of Governor Stevenson, even if they died in the attempt, When your correspondent staggered that's the correct word out of the "crazy slaughter house" at 2 this morning, there was the aluminum dirigible high in the starry sky, with the single word "Kefauver" on its side brought lights turned on it. That was a perfect symbol of the incredible evening. Estes Kefauver was down but he wasn't out, that steel hand beneath that velvet glove came out and fought a rear-guard action with the aid of Senator Douglas of Illinois, Senator Humphrey of Minnesota and the two Roosevelt boys which can hardly defeat Stevenson, but will probaly leave no doubt he has been in a fight, and may leave scars he will carry throughout the campaign if he has one. The odds are still about five to two he will. But after last night even with the support of President Truman's alternate, there are not many takers, in the press gallery at least, who care to put up and money if they have any Incidently the Oregon boys and ard up higher than any other in the hall, in spite of the emotional surf breaking all around them and for fourteen solid hours, held the fort against all invaders. It's a 'bleary-eyed and battle-weary bunch of delegates filing into the "slaughter house" this morning, but that Kefauver dirigi ble is still high in the sunny sky, being taken off for anyone. We predicted it would be a started; but we never thought it would be the following morning. P.S. It's a shame Mary Greiner Kelly of the fighting Kellys isn't here. What a time she would Egyptian Head Jails Seven High Cairo (U.R) Egypt's new army "strong man," Mohammed Naguib Bey, arrested seven high Interior Ministry, police and Army officials Friday and seized control of Alexandria, King Fa rouk's summer capital. Five of the officials were ac cused of plotting against Naguib. Another, Lt. Gen. Hussein Sirry Amer, former commander of the Frontier Corps, was arrested on the Western Desert while trying to escape into Libya. A high Coast Guard official also was ar rested. Premier Aly Maher Pasha an- No New Reports On Crime Cases No new reports on southern Oregon's two major and current unsolved . criminal cases were made today. The Federal Bureau of Investi gation, investigating the murder of two auto parts firm executives last week end, had no report to make on the progress of their work. The men, A. M. Jones and C. D. Culhane, were found Mon day, gagged and shot through the head near the south entrance to Crater Lake National park. ' State police in Medford said today, are intensifying their search for George Baker Dunkin, prime suspect in the June 24 murder of State Policeman Phil Lowd. Dunkin is still thought to be in the northern Jackson coun ty area where he has been sought lor a month. Among Dozen Oregon Crown Those entered included Joan Davis, 18, Wallowa, Miss Wal lowa County; Marilyn Ann Lun dell, 18, Miss The Dalles; Loret ta Mason, 18, Miss Hermiston; Marlene Gayle Olson, 20, For est Grove, Miss Washington County; Mary Lou Teague, 18. Miss Eugene; Joyce Farnstrom, 18, Miss Portland; Dolores Cai-y, 18, , Portland, Miss Yamhill County; Katherine Litchfield, 18, Newport, Miss Lincoln Coun ty; Betty Jo Buolin, 21, Miss Hood River; Norma Mae Glaser, 22, Albany. Miss Linn County; Margaret Green, 20, Miss Gear hart, and Carol Wikstrom, 18, iMiss Medford. Floor Fire W. RUHL You can always trust the Demo show even if they have to burn the place down last night, but some and things became a trifle hotter and some of them nearly did. into sharp relief by the search left on this as any sure thing. girls held their Kefauver stand and the coonskin caps are not long, long time before the voting have. Officials nounced in Alexandria that Na guib had been appointed com mander-in-chief of armed forces, increa5d in rank from major general to full general, and given the pay of a cabinet min ister. Economic Adviser Quits Maher announced the resigna tion of Elias Andraous Pasha, the king's economic adviser and Egypt's delegate in the Suez Ca nal Co. Naguib was moving swiftly to remove all possible opposition to his three-day-old military coup and the Maher government he obliged King Farouk to accept. The Army occupied the state broadcasting station in Alexan dria to "maintain order and se curity." Naguib flew to Alexandria by Army plane to confer with Maher. Reckoning Finally Comes On Parking Violations John B. Hamacher, 724 King street, let his violations against city parking ordinances accu mulate over a three-month pe riod. Yesterday the reckoning came. He was fined S45 for 12 .parking violations between April and July 24, police said. . Police records showed Ham acher with seven citations for violation of the all-night park ing ordinance and five tickets for meter violations. None of the tickets were paid for. ac cording to the police. Early Thursday morning Hamaeher's' car was again found parked in the street and was lowed into the police ga rage. His fine and towing charge totaled $45. POLLS OPEN TO 8 P.M. Polls for the election to form a rural fire district adjacent to Medford will be open today un til 8 o'clock this evening. Bal lots can be cast at the Lone Pine school for precincts 29, 30, 31, 57 and 59, and at the Oak Grove school for precincts 28, 58, 60, 64, 67 and 68. Radio Highlights A nation - wide National Broadcasting company radio network program on the Jack sonville Gold Rush Jubilee will be carried by radio sta tion KMED (1440 kc) Satur day at 7:30 p.m. The program will be rebroadcast Sunday at 2:30 p.m. by KMED. Tribune United Presi Full Leased Wire 1952 No. 108 Collapse Union Committee Meets To Approve Steel Settlement Fairies; Sits in With Policy Group Washington (U.R) The CIO United Steelworkers, wage-policy committee rati fied the White House sieel agreement late Friday, for mally ending the longest and most costly steel strike in the nation's history. Washington (U.R) The long est and most costly steel strike in the nation s history neared an end Friday, as the CIO Steel workers met to approve a White House-prompted settlement. The union's 170-man wage- policy committee met to put its formal stamp of approval on the agreement reached at the White House late Thursday between CIO President Philip Murray and U. S. Steel President Ben jamin Fairless to end the 54-day om strike. Fairless had repre sented the "Big Six steel firms. Invitation Accepted A reliable source said Fairless accepted Murray's invitation to attend the committee meeting and answer any questions the members might have about the new contract. As soon as the committee act ed, Murray was expected to is sue an immediate return-to-work call to 600,000 workers in the .basic steel industry. The workers have been on strike since June 2, when they walked out minutes after the Supreme Court ruled President Trumans seizure of the industry was un constitutional. - Last Offer Matched Closely Settlement terms matched closely the industry's last offer to the union during negotiations last week in Pittsburgh. - The agreement provides for an average 16-cent hourly wage increase retroactive to March 1. The industry had proposed the boost be paid back only to March 16. Prior to the strike, the Steelworkers averaged $1.88 an hour. The pact calls for a modified union shop, the main issue in the drawn-out dispute. The union security clause requires new workers to sign a union mem bership card to take effect with in 30 days, unless a worker chooses to leave the union dur ing the last 15 days of the first month. Other contract improvements include six paid holidays and in creases in differentials and oth er "fringe" benefits amounting to about five cents an hour. The total package settlement was about five cents below the 26.1 cents recommended by the Wage Stabilization Board. Immediately after the agree ment Acting Defense Mobilizer John R. Steelman announced that the steel industry will get price increase averaging slightly more than $5.20 a ton The industry was entitled to only S2.84 under the Capehart amendment to the economic con trols '"V. Park Concession Controls Removed Portland (U.R) Price con trols were removed Friday from sales by concessionaries at Crat er Lake National Park. Carl C. Donaugh, Portland district director of the Office of Price Stabilization, said the OPS had removed controls from all national parks at the same time. Donaugh said the National Park Service itself exercises control over such concession op erations and has developed a system of approval, review and policing of rates. Price ceilings, therefore, were deemed un necessary, he said. Weather FORECAST: Fair and warm through Saturday. Scattered afternoon thundershowers over the mountains. Low tonight 60, high Saturday 95-98. f Temp. Highest Yesterday 92 Lowest this Morning SS DELEGATES CHEER BARKLEY Banners of all the states gather before the rostrum as Vice Presi dent Alben Barkley, his wife beside him, receives the biggest ovation of the Democratic rational convention in Chicago. He gave the same kind of a fighting speech, and received the same kind of a demonstration, as he did in 1948 before becoming Vice President. French Soldiers Hold Off Commie Assault Seoul, Korea (U.R) French troops holding "T-Bone Hill" on Korea's explosive Western Front beat off an assault by screaming Chinese Communists Friday in a savage, close-in battle that choked French bunkers with enemy dead. The hard-fighting French bat- California Woman Picked To Assume juvenile Court Job Mrs. Kay Kunkel, formerly chief probation officer of San Joaquin county, California, will be the new head of the Juvenile department of the Jackson coun ty circuit court, it was announced today by Circuit Judge H. K. Hanna. Mrs. Kunkel, comes highly recommended. Judge Hanna said. She has worked with the four snnprior rourt itidees in Stock ton for lOVi ye&rs, and was chief administrative officer for her department at the time she re signed, for adult and juvenile probation work, and for the San Joaquin county detention facili ty. The area which she served had a population of 200,000. Headed Association Mrs. Kunkel is the only wom an who has been elected presi dent of the California Probation and Parole association, and she has served five years, on its board of directors. Judge Hanna said she will report here to assume her new duties on August 12. Mrs. Kunkel will succeed Frank Sawacki. Sawacki resign ed recently, and will leave this week end to accept a new posi tion in Fresno, Calif. His resigna tion closely followed the adop tion of the 1952-53 budget for the juvenile department, which was cut from last year's figure. Sawacki said today his new post will be as field supervisor for social work for the Univer sity of California at Los Angeles. Working with social agencies in the Fresno area, Sawacki will be responsible for the advanced training of UCLA graduate stu dents who have had social work experience, who have returned to obtain advanced degrees, and are doing field work in this con nection. Since 1950 He has been head of the de partment here since September, 1950. when he arrived . irom Madison, Wis. The other probation officer in the countv department, Miss Alice Grace, also is leaving. She has accepted a post as probation officer on the staff of the King countv. Washington, juvenile court in Seattle. Her work will be in connection with the Youth Service center in Seattle. Miss Grace came here from British Columbia in July of last year. She will leave for her new post in time to arrive there Au gust 18. . , School Janitor Held : On Morals Charge - William Henry Engelbert, 38, of 1116 Reddy avenue, Medford, has been arraigned in district court on a charge of contribut ing to the delinquency, of a minor, , bat has not yet entered a plea, according to District At torney Paul Haviland. - District Judge Rawles Moore set bail at $2,500. Engelbert has been janitor at the Eagle Point school for the last seven years, according to records in the sheriff's office. talion, which has won more U. S. heroism awards than any other UN unit of its size in Korea counted more than zuu enemy casualties from a force of 600 ordered to seize their hill posi tion. Of the casualties, 64 were kill ed and 150 wounded. Chinese Army Assigned The Chinese have assigned an army of about 30,000 men to pummel UN positions blocking the Chorwon "gateway" on the classic invasion route to South Korea. From this army, the Chinese hurled a battalion at the French unit. The attack, which began about 2 a.m. was preceded by 2,000 rounds of artillery and mortar explosives. Artillery of the U. S. 2nd In fantry Division, to which the French battalion is attached caught the Chinese attackers on their way into the French posi tions. Medford CAP Cadet Off for Scotland Washington (U.R) The Civ il Air Patrol's "good will" Euro pean aerial tour took off Friday aboard Air Force planes carry ing members of the 1952 inter national cadet exchange pro gram. Cadets Rodger K. Mcnzies of Portland, Ore., and Albert R. Eaton Jr., Medford, Ore., were among the group of 50 youths flying the Atlantic. The 17-year-old Menzies will be assigned to the Netherlands while Eaton, 18, is to be in a group assigned to England and Scotland. Menzies and Eaton were chosen by the Oregon CAP wing for the exchange program and arrived here early this week in an Air Force C-47. Eaton is the son of Mrs. Mil dred C. Eaton, 626 Park Place 5, and completed his junior year last spring at the Medford high school. He is the second Med ford boy to be chosen for the CAP exchange program. Last year James Merritt, then a Med ford high school student, was selected and visited Denmark where he studied airplanes and aviation. Astoria (U.R) The U. S. Pub lic Health Service has ordered its Astoria office closed August 1, despite protests from civic and other organizations. BASEBALL NATIONAL Cincinnati 1 New York 3 4 7 Raffensberger, Podbielan 6, Hiller 8, and Seminick; Hearn and Yvars. - Home runs: For New York Hearn. Public Debate Gets Under Way in Meeting Astoria U.R) The first public debate in Oregon on the controversial truck issues, which will go before the voters in the November election, was held be fore the Astoria Chamber of Commerce Friday noon. . In attendance were several of ficials of the Oregon Highway Council and of the state of Ore gon. George H. Flagg, former state public utilities commission er, who is secretary of the Ore gon Highway Council, spoke in Zoning Petitions Circulation; Time Of Filing Unclear Initiative petitions for county zoning are still being circulated in Jackson county, according to County Judge J. B. Coleman. He said that at his last con tact with the group backing the measure, there were not enough signatures to make the initiative valid. A meeting is being held this afternoon in the county court chambers between the court and petition backers, Cole man added. Another initiative measure for Jackson county only, the anti cloud seeding initiative, has al ready been submitted with the required number of signatures. Before State Deadline The cloud seeding measure was submitted before the deadline for state-wide initiatives which was July 3, but the law is somewhat "hazy" regarding the date for filing local measures after this date. Judge Coleman said he be lieves the date is 90 days be fore the general election, which would make the filing August 4, but wasn't definitely sure. Depu tv county clerks and a district attorney's office spokesman were likewise not clear on the matter, due to the indecisiveness of Ore gon law. A check on the exact date is now under way. Camas Valley Blaze Fatal to Firefighter Roseburg (U.R) Fire crews Friday attempted to halt the spread of a 50-acre fire in the Camas Valley section of the Old Tioga burn after one firefighter was killed and another injured in battling the blaze Thursday night. , Dead was Joe Johnson, 65, Camas Valley, recruited from the Coos County Forest Patrol, who was crushed while falling a snag in the fire area. The injured man was John Stanley, 62, also of Camas Val ley. BIG GRASS FIRE A grass lire burned over about 10 acres on Kirkland road, north of Central Point, shortly after noon today, according to the state forest patrol. A forest patrol crew handled the blaze until a Central Point rural fire district crew arrived on the scene, they said. No property damage was reported. ABANDON SEARCH The sheriff's office reported this morning that it is not con tinuing the esarch for James Marion Hurst, Butte Falls, miss ing since he quit his job at the Willow Creek dam last Tuesday. It was learned yesterday that Hurst had been given a ride to Medford and was not lost in the woods as originally suspected. on Oregon Truck Issue favor of the so-called state truck referral which would increase truck taxes in Oregon. Sen. Elmo E. Simth, John Day, chairman of the Legislative High way Interim Committee, spoke in favor of the 1951 legislation as being "reasonable." Other members of the High way Interim Committee were Sen. Angus Gibson, Junction City, and Warren Gill, Lebanon, and State Rep. Jack Geary, Klamath Falls, and Pat Loner gan, Portland. Kefauver Holds 67-Vote Margin On Initial Count Delegates Hope To Finish Tonight Convention Hall. Chicago (U.R) The first presidential bal lot of the Democratic national convention ended Friday with no candidate getting nearly enough votes for the nomina tion. The official vote for the four front runners: Kefauver 340. Stevenson 273. Russell 268 and Harriman 1231'. Chicago (U.R) Thomas J. Gavin, President Truman's alternate delegate in the Mis souri delegation, today dis closed the President's choice for the successor to the While House when he cast his one half vote for Gov. Adlai Ste venson of Illinois. The entire convention had been in suspense since Monday with Gavin steadfastly refus ing to disclose the President's choice until voting time. The winning candidate needs 616 votes. Remaining Votes Scattered The remaining votes are scat tered as follows: Sen. Robert S. Kerr of Okla homa 65, Gov. Paul Dever of Massachusetts 371 2, Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota Sen. J. William Fulbright of Ar kansas 22, Vice President Alben W. Barkley 48ls, President Tru man 6, Sen. Paul H. Douglas of Illinois 3, Federal Security Ad ministrator Oscar R. Swing of New York 4, Sen. James E. Mur ray of Montana 12 .and Supreme Court Justice William O. Doug las Vi. Absent 1. Individual Polls Asked But numerous demands for in dividual polls of state delega tions dragged out the proceed-' ings. Pennsylvania was the ninth state to be polled, delegate by delegate. Even before the roll call drag ged past the half-way mark state delegations were caucusing on their second ballot intentions and campaign managers were trying to swing deals all over town. Among the caucusing delega tions was Michigan which decid ed to shift its 40 votes, cast for favorite son Gov. G. Mennen Williams on the first roll to Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee. Ready for Second Count The delegates, punchy from Thursday's marathon session and Friday's dragged out balloting, dug in for the second roll call. The first roll call started at 12:21 p.m. CDT shortly after the 31st Democratic national conven tion went into its fifth day. At 3 p.m. the roll call had pro gressed no further than Pennsyl vania. Tired delegates hoped to wind up the whole business late Fri day night with a speech by Presi dent Truman and an acceptance address by the nominee. Mr. Truman was flying here even as the ballot was taken. Highway Construction Bids Due in August Ashland Bids for construc tion of a four lane highway from the Jackson county farm south to Billings hill, totaling 4.65 miles, will be opened by the State Highway Commission at its August meeting, according to word received here. The project, estimated to cost a half-million dollars, will com plete the four-laning of the high way from Medford to the north boundary of Ashland. The bid on the Medford-county farm sec tion was accepted at the June meeting of the commission. On both sections, the new highway is planned to follow the present right-of-way. Prineville (U.R) Francis J. Fox, 57, of Prineville, died Thursday when a load of logs slipped off a truck and pinned him to the ground. at Astoria Among the group that accom panied Flagg to Astoria were Ed Mills, Western Highways Insti tute engineer, who is cooperating with the Oregon Highway Coun cil in compiling data on Oregon truck problems and taxes. The Oregon Highway Council, which was organized after the 1951 legislation increasing truck taxes, also has initiated a con stitutional amendment to elimi nate the weight -mile tax on trucks.