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MEDFORDJlll!& Weather Tribune FORECAST: Variable elondl nrsi with afternoon and eve ning thnndrr storms through Thursday. Low tonight 60, high Thursday 95. Temp. Highest Yesterdav ... s Lowest this Morning (4 Prec. to 4:30 am. Today, Trace United Press Foil Leased Wire - United Press Full Leased Wire 47th Year 16 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1952. No. 112 Jury Jeelares River .1 t - Grand Bridge Safe FLYING SAUCER CHASERS Standing in front of their F-94's, jet crewmen discus mission which sent them swooping over Washington, D. C, in pursuit of elusive "flying saucers." Air Force "saucer" experts have been summoned to Washington for a conference on the second appearance of mysterious objects over the capital within a week. Left to right: Lt. F. Lamar Watson, Lt. John Fagan and Capt. John C. Casey, all of the 142nd Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, New Castle, Del. FLYING SAUCER! With count- , less flying saucer reports popping vp across the nation, Alan C. Dumas. 22, of Culver City, Calif., comes forth with the above photo of a saucer he claims to have ! seen over a year ago. "It looked like two straw hats stuck together with a dome on the top and bot tom," reports Dumas. Ike, Republicans Schedule Meetings Denver (U.R) Dwight D. Eis enhower and other top-level Re publicans will hold a series of week-end meetings here to lay the groundwork for a militant and "h a r d-hitting campaign," Eisenhower's headquarters an nounced Wednesday. One of the purposes of the meeting was evidently to work for harmony among dissident factions of the GOP and extend a welcoming hand to supporters of Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio. One of the Republicans sched uled to attend the conference was Sen. Everett M. Dirksen, R- 111., who placed Taft's name in nomination for the presidency at the Republican National Con vention early this month. Taft lost the nomination to Eisen hower on the first ballot. Gladiolus Festival Parade Friday Morning Grants Pass The floral float parade which will open the an nual Gladiolus Festival here will start at 10:30 a.m. Friday, it -was announced today by the commission in charge. The flow er show, at the junior high school auditorium, will be open ed by the "Glad Queen" and her court at noon, and will be open all afternoon and evening, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday. The Queen's ball will be at 9 p.m. Saturday in the Memor ial auditorium. Astoria (U.R) Columbia riv er fishermen were gillnetting for salmon Wednesday as the summer season reopened after a 15-day closure. Corvallis (U.R) Corvallis milk prices will be increased one-cent a quart Friday, making the retail price 24 cents. There will be corresponding increases in cream prices. Gen. Grow Faces Official Reprimand and Suspension Fort Meade, Md. (U.R) Maj. Gen. Robert W. Grow, for mer U.S. military attache in Moscow, Wednesday faced an of ficial reprimand and suspension from command for six months for letting his "war now" diary fall into Communist hands. A high -' ranking military court martial Tuesday found Grow guilty of two offenses improperly recording classified military information in private records and failing to safeguard properly classified military in formation. ' . Subject to Review The Courts Martial sentence, however, will be subject to re view by the commanding gener al of the 2nd army, the judge advocate general and the Court of Military Appeals before it becomes final. : The court martial, which con ducted the five - day trial in the strictest secrecy, acquitted Grow on a third charge, which was de FLYING SAUCERS CLAIMED 'PHONY' Washington (U.R) The Air Force offered Wednesday a com bination of summer heat waves and optical and radar illusions as a plausible explanation of the latest flurry of "flying saucers, Intelligence officers ridiculed the notion that the mysterious objects m the sky hail from Armistice Chance Said To Be Slim Seoul. Korea, Thursday (U.R) The United Nations early Thursday hurled the biggest night bombing raid of the Korean war at a vast Commu nis! war factory only four miles from the border of Red China. Seoul (U.R) Gen. James A. Van Fleet, commander of the U.S. 8th Army and United Na tions ground forces in Korea said Wednesday recent trends in Korea indicated "less chance of an armistice than ever before." Moreover, Van Fleet warned, the Communist strength in trotfps still is "close to 1,000,000" despite ' recent thinning out of enemy lines. "But I think we can defeat any enemy concentration at any point on the front," he said. Van Fleet said he was con vinced the Communists' needed an armistice in June and Novem ber, 1951, because they were "in bad shape both times" and were worried about the winter. "Well," he said, "they got through the winter and they have since been a very tough trader at the armistice table." Farouk Will Take Family to America Isle of Capri, Italy (U.R) Exiled King Farouk was report ed Wednesday to be planning to take his wife and their six- month-old son Egypt's new King Ahmed Fuad II to the United States within one to three weeks. Farouk, forced off his throne by a military coup last Satur day after a 16-year reign, :pent his first night as an exile on for eign soil Tuesday night with his family in a 25-room, 14-bath-room suite in the swank Eden Paradiso hotel at Anacapri. He was understood to have told Italian government officials and his personal friend, Italian travel agent Pier Busseti, that he planned to stay at Capri only one to- three weeks before leav ing for America. Child, Nine Days Old, Displays Two Teeth Astoria (U.R) When James Stanley Pearson Jr. smiled Wed nesday he showed the world two gleaming white teeth. Now, this isn't unusual for a healthy young tyke. But Jimmy is only nine days old. scribed by Army information of ficers as "more serious" and in volved classified information that could not be made public Grow's ' diary - was allegedly stolen and photographed by Communist agents while the 57-year-old general was in Frank furt, Germany on ' official bus iness. ' Passages Exploited Communists j exploited mili tant passages in the diary to sur port their "warmongering' charg es against the United States. Ra dio Moscow also claimed that the diary proved that Grow was a "spy" engaged in "subversive activities" within Russia. Exerpts from the diary as pub lished by the Communists quoted Grow as advocating "War! As soon as possible now!" and by "hitting below the belt," if necessary. Grow was also quoted . as saying he travelled through parts of Moscow look ing for 'anti-aircraft positions and likely military targest other plants or Russia or pose a menace to the United States, Confident of Explanation They were confident that new scientific investigations with powerful telescopes and special cameras would explain away the objects as "physical phenomena" such as mirages. And, maybe, cure the nation of sauceritis. As for three flocks of objects sighted by radar over Washing ton in the . past 10 days, Maj. Gen. John A. Samford, Air Force director of intelligence, told a news conference late Tuesday that "my own mind is satisfied" they resulted from temperature inversion. Explained in Detail This was explained in detail later by two electronics experts from the Air Technical Intelli gence Center, Wright - Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, O. They were Dr. B. L. Griffing and Capt. Roy James. Air temperatures, they point ed out, decreases with altitude. When a warm air mass passes over a relatively cooler one, tem perature temporarily increases and an "inversion layer" of warm air is formed. Radar Beams Bent This inversion will cause ra dar beams to bend earthward Radar impulses then bounce off ground "targets." What then ap pears as unidentified "blips" or tiny white lights on radarscopes are not objects in the sky but objects on the ground. With a large inversion, street or automobile lights may be sim ilarly reflected, as if in forma tion, on clouds. If there is suffi cient wind velocity or turbu lence, these lights will appear to dance or "dog fight" with the phenomenal gyrations attributed to "flying saucers." New Scientific Turn To settle the "flying saucer" mystery once and for all, Sam- ford disclosed that the Air Force investigation is going to take a new, scientific turn. Now the Air Force is going to concentrate on some precise means of measurement of the eerie objects so that scientists can be handed "manageable ma terial" for analysis, Samford said. One device to be used is a special camera that will photo graph the objects and break into its constituents the light- they give off. These basic colors then may be compared with colors cast by known objects say, a neon sign or an airport approach light so the source of "flying saucer" light can be determined. Another device is the Schmidt telescope, with which vast por tions of the. sky and what goes on there during the night can be recorded. Portland (U.R) Newspaper switchboards the police station and sneriit s ottice were swamped with calls Tuesday night from persons who reported sighting flying saucers swarming through the sky over Portland. Even filter center observers re ported seeing "things" within a 50-mile radius of the city. How ever, a radar check showed noth ing unusual and a jet plane from the Portland Air Base could find nothing resembling the saucers. Battle Casualties Increase in Korea Washington (U.R) The De fense Department reported Wed nesday' that American battle casualties in Korea now total 113,668, an increase of 305 over last week. The casualties include those whose next of kin were notified through last Friday. It normally requires from one to three weeks to notify next of kin. ' The casualties included 19,979 dead, 81,315 wounded, 9.507 missing, 1,482 captured, 1,385 previously missing but returned to service. Silverton (U.R) Maurice A. Cothran, Seaside, was killed Monday when a log rolled over him while he was working at the Elk Creek operation of the Crown Zellerbach Corp. near Silverton. Ten Forest Fires Started Last Nigh! By Lightning Storm All But One Under Control; Rain Helps At least 10 forest fires were started on state and federal land in southern Oregon by a lightning storm which swept over the area yesterday after noon and last night, according to national forest and state for est patrol officials. All of the fires were reported to be under control this morn ing with the exception of a blaze in Klamath county in the vicin ity of Aspen butte, where smoke jumpers from the Cave Junction crew were slated to be dropped at 11:30 a.m. today. It was the first time this year that the smoke jumpers had been called on a fire. Rainfall Helps Scattered rainfall in the moun tains helped to control at least two of the first, both on state land. Crews were sent to both of the blazes. There is also the pos sibility of "sleeper"' fires break ing out after the woods dry out. One such fire, believed start ed by a lightning storm last week was being mopped up to day near Desolation swamp, three miles north of Buck lake. Of the seven fires started last night on federal lands, seven were in the Klamath district and the other two were in the vicin ity of Bessie Rock lookout in the Butte Falls district. The storm apparently center ed south of here in norinern California. Verus Dahlin, Rogue River National forest fire con trol officer, reported that sev eral fires were burning in Siski you National forest and smoke jumpers had been dispatched to some of the blazes. Bureau Reports Rain ' The Medford weather bureau stated that heavy rain probably fell in some mountainous areas Heavy precipitation was repori pri in Talent and Central Point and light rainfall was noted in Medford and Ashland. The cloud seeders working under contract for the Rogue Valley Traffic association had two planes in the air for a total of about two hours last iugm They, described the clouds as havins a "high hail .potential." They seeded clouds, the tops of which reached about zu.uuu ieei, for an estimated 30 minutes and no hail fall was reported in the vallev. The weather bureau this morning forecast more lightning storms for this area tomgnt ana Thursday night. Last nigm s storm, which "brewed in tne area north of Redding, Calif., was typical of such storms for Thi time of the year, tney saia. The storm was mostly along the dorr a Nevada and Cascade mountains and only the edge reached here. No rainfall was re ported from Klamath Falls and the eastern fringe of the storm apparently was in the mountains west of the city. By UNITED PRESS Western Oregon will be kept comparatively cool through Thursday by morning clouds and ocean breezes, but southern and eastern Oregon will remain warm, with some temperatures up to 100 degrees. The weather bureau said sun nv. warm weather, however, would continue the fire danger over much of the state's forest areas. Humidities were expect ed to drop to near 20 per cent in the southern part or tne state. Safety of Americans Requested in Iran Tehran U.R) United States Ambassador Loy Henderson has asked the Iranian government to guarantee the safety of Amer icans in Iran as the result of anti - American incidents, it was reported Wednesday. The newspaper Keyhan said Henderson asked the assurances of Premier Mohammed Mossa degh and was told that Ameri cans could rest assured the auth orities would protect them. Centra Point Soldier Among Rotation Troops San Francisco U.R) The USNS Gen. E. T. Collins was scheduled to arrive in San Fran cisco Wednesday with 38 Ore gonians among the 2,849 army rotation combat personnel from Korea aboard. They include: Pfc. Frank E. Valencia, Cen tral Point. (Pfc. Valencia could not be lo cated in local directories.) Newspaper Editor Absent Without Leave Walla Walla (U.R) Warden John Cranor looked for an other editor of the Washing ton state penitentiary inmate publication Wednesday after Gene Kensler quit the job without notice. Kensler and a photographer were sent from the prison to the state game farm across the street to do a feature story. The photog rapher returned with his pic lures and casually reported. Kensler had "just kept going.". Threat of Coal Strike Official; To Schedule Talks Washington (U.R) Open ing of new wage contract talks in the coal industry became of ficial Wednesday but with no help from United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis who brought them about. The National Coal Associa tion published a letter dated July 22 from Lewis to Harry Moses, president of the Bitumin ous Coal Operators' association, saying, "I herewith give formal notice of termination of agree ment as provided ..." in the contract. Miners Free To Strike . The present contract allows either side to end the agree ment with 60 days' notice after February 1. The Lewis move last week leaves his miners free to strike September 20 if no new contract is signed by then. Lewis has refused to confirm that he served notice on the in dustry although coal operators reported the move the day his letter was received. Moses also has refused com ment on the letter, but his reply to Lewis was revealed today. He said his association "authorized me further to represent them in these negotiations.". :He pointed out that the Lewis notice "fixes no terminal date,. suggest that this agreement be reached by direct consultation over the telephone." ' .. Initial Talks. Private Both Lewis and Moses have stated they do not want the ne gotiations to become a "three ring circus" and are planning to hold initial talks in private. Lewis is expected to try to get his miners a wage increase at least matching the 21-cent "package" given the CIO Steel workers. He also may demand higher royalty payments into the miners' welfare fund, now 30 cents per ton. Communists Protest Killing of Prisoner Panmunjom, Korea (U.R) Peiping Radio said Wednesday night that Communist truce del egates have lodged a "strong protest" against the killing and wounding of North Korean pris oners of war at the Nonsan Camp last Sunday. . The Chinese Communist broadcast said the protest was lodged with the United Nations by Gen. Nam II, chief Red truce negotiator. j The United Nations announc ed earlier that one Korean was killed and seven were wounded, the result of beatings adminis tered by fellow prisoners in the compound. All the prisoners in the compound had said they would forcibly resist repatria tion to the Bamboo Curtain. Grants Pass Man Dies As Result of Burns Grants Pass (U.R) Carl Penry, 66, janitor at the Kelp Chevrolet company here, died Wednesday at Josephine Gener al hospital of burns suffered when an explosion and fire de stroyed the paint shop at the company garage. The explosion and fire broke out about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday but Grants Pass firemen confined the blaze to the paint booth. Penry was the only person in the booth at time of the explo sion. He suffered third degree burns over most of his body. Firemen said cause of. the ex plosion was not determined. BOND ISSUE PASSES Eagle Point Voters of the city of Eagle Point approved a bond issue of $15,000 for additional fire equipment yesterday by a 22-vote majority, according to Mayor Fred M. Bruegger. The vote was 51 yes and 29 no. The vote, a re-electioa, confirmed the earlier balloting results. O'Dwyer's Attack On News Reporter Creates Incident7 Mexican Newspaper Says Incident Serious Mexico City (U.R) Mexico's leading newspaper. El Univer sal, Wednesday described as "a serious incident" a press confer ence at which United States Am bassador William O'Dwyer an grily denounced United Press Bureau Chief Robert Prescott for a story about O'Dwyer's fu ture plans. Prescott said today he would stand' on his dispatch of Tuesday which quoted friends of O'Dwy er as hinting that the ambassa dor had considered become a Mexican citizen when he retires from diplomatic service. Serious Incident Charged El Universal bannered the story of the. embassy press con ference under the headline: 'Scandal About O'Dwyer Over Whether He Is Thinking of Na tionalizing Himself Mexican." A sub-head read: "? In Order to Elude- the- Action of Justice?" The story said that the form er mayor of New York "provok ed a serious incident yesterday upon insulting and menacing cholerically Robert Prescott, manager in Mexico of the Unit ed Press, in the presence of a large group of diplomats and foreign correspondents. Maximum Insult "The ambassador injured the newspaperman, calling him 'bas tard,' 'liar,' and other epithets which in English are equivalent to the maximum insult that would be used in Mexico," the newspaper continued. "The incident occurred with out Mr; O'Dwyer giving an op portunity for the manager of the United Press. of whom he had been. a personal friend to explain-. .'V . "'' j v,'It seems that this suggestion that-Mr. O'Dwyer would - re main in Mexico, which one could .interpret as a means of refusing to present himself be fore 'whatever authority might ask an accounting of his acts, was interpreted by Mr.- O'Dwy er as a personal . off ense, as a maneuver to make him 'admit indirectly and tacitly the guilt which his enemies in various illicit -businesses have attributed to him,'' ,the story said.. . Prescott said his dispatch ac curately reflected information he had obtained from members of the American Legion who had talked with the ambassador: Legionnaires said he told them privately his ideas were "somewhat nebulous" but he was giving "plenty of thought" to a decision whether to return to New York and resume his law practice or remain in his "adopted country." Prescott asked O'Dwyer if it would be all right to quote his friends. . O'Dwyer replied, "suit your-; self." Corvallis (U.R) Monte Blue, Hollywood radio and screen ac tor, will participate . in the 7th annual .Shrine trek to Mary's peak Sunday. 3 Days of Searching For Dunkin Fruitless Three, days of intensive work by five, state police officers, aided by a dog, have proved fruitless in the month-bid search for George Baker Dunkin, who is wanted for the June 24 fatal shooting of State Policeman Phil Lowd, Police Capt. Paul Parson said today. . The officers, using a dog trained for K-9 service with the Army, combed three areas of northern Jackson county Sun day, Monday and Tuesday, Gapt. Parson, police detachment com mander here, reported. Officers still feel that Dunkin is in the vast, rugged and for ested area on the Jackson-Douglas county line. But Captain Par son said they are "stumped" as to how Dunkin may be located in the 100 or more square miles w'here he cap roam virtually at will. :-... Won't GiTe Up Sgt. Mark O. Sullivan, a game enforcement; officer, is in charge of the continuing search for Dun kin. There is no thought of giving up, Captain Parson emphasized, and he is confident that sooner or later Dunkin ' will be appre hended. One of the reasons leading the police to believe that Dunkin is still in the area is the fact that he has spent most of bis life in DR. RALPH E. GREEN Funeral Services Thursday Funeral Services 1:30 p.m. Thursday For Dr. R. E.Green Private funeral services for Dr. Ralph Edison Green, 73, who died Tuesday, will be held at Perl Funeral home Thursday at 1:30 p.m. with the Rev. J. M. B. Gill, assistant pastor of St. Mark's Episcopal church, offi ciating. Concluding services will be at Siskiyou Memorial park. The body will lie in state at the funeral home from 11:30 a.m. to .1 p.m. Thursday. It is the request of the family that flowers be omitted. Dr. Green was a prominent member of the medical profes sion in Jackson county from 1920, when he moved here from the midwest, -until 1949, when he retired from the management of the Community hospital lab oratory, which he founded. Dr. Green retired from active prac tice in 1939., . Born at Chicago August 20, 1878, Dr. Green received his education at Rush Medical school, Chicago. He served a two-year internship at Milwau kee, Wis., and took two years of post graduate study in Vienna, Austria. For several years he was con nected with the Community hos pital at Creston, Iowa, before moving to Medford. From 1920 until 1939 Dr. Green was asso ciated with Dr. R. W. Stearns here. In 1906, Dr. Green was mar ried in Fontanelle, Iowa, to Jen nie Faurote, who survives. Oth er survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Clara J. Munter, San Jose, Calif.; a son, Ralph E. Green Jr., Merced, Calif.; two grandchil dren, Mrs. Nancy Munter Kane, Salinas, Calif., and Robert Edi son Munter, San Jose, and a great grandson, Robert Edison Kane, Salinas. Dr. Green was a member of the board of directors of the Jackson County . Savings and Loan association and had served on the Medford school board for more than 20 years. He was a member of the Elks lodge and a life member of the Sons of the American Revolution. the . woods and - "doesn't know any other way to live." An ex pert woodsman and a crack rifle shot, Dunkin could subsist almost indefinitely in the forest, pro vided he is able to obtain a few staple necessities. Many rumors and reports con cerning Dunkms movements have been reported to police, ana each is carefully checked Captain Parson reported. One of these was that he appeared at a store at Trail, and obtained gro ceries; another was that his tracks had been found (which in this case turned out to have been tracks made by someone else). Few such reports have been of any value. - . -Many Suggestions State - officers have been- de luged by suggestions and advice as to how Dunkin can be cap tured, some of them logical sug gestions which had already been put into effect, and others fairly fantastic. A reward for information lead ing to the capture of Dunkin has been offered -by business and professional people of Medford It now stands at $300. In the event Dunkin is not captured for a year, or if he is apprehended through police efforts, the money will go to the widow of Officer Lowd, County Officials Unjustly Criticized, Report Indicates Ingredient Excess Blamed in Fault Jackson county's grand jury, in a unanimous report on the fety of the county bridge at Rogue River, said today that "all evidence indicates that the bridge is entirely safe in all re spects." The report also deplored the fact that "some county officials" have been "unjustly criticized, without any basis for such criti cism."' in connection with the unage. , The report reviewed the case, which opened on May 28 when a thie-square-foot section of the concrete gave way. The reinforc ing steel did not give way. "and would have supported traffic without danger," the report said. Cement to Laboratory As a result of the failure, por tions of the concrete were sent to the state highway laboratory, and the examination showed that the concrete in the area of the failure was lighter and of poorer quality than specified, the grand jury said. This was the cause of the failure, and was brought about by too much "air entrain ing agent" (a material added in small quantities to permit the use oi less water and to mix the water more evenly). "Such an error could have been made and not detected be cause the appearance of the wet concrete would be the same as other concrete," the jury added. It also reported that it has ex amined other sections of the bridge, and considered engineers reports which, with one excep tion, indicate there is no neces sity for tearing these sections out for repairs, although County Engineer Paul Rynning has indi cated he plans to do so anyway. No Repairs Needed After inspecting the' bridge; the jury said, "it is the unani mous opinion that the hrirfoo ,-,- fleets an ' outstanding ink - bridge construction and, actually it appears that there is no need' whatsoever for the making of any repairs; that unfortunately, this grand jury was also misled' by examining certain published pictures that appeared in The Times, published in Rogue River, which pictures give a completely erroneous impression . . ." The report praised Rvnninir for his planned repairs because it will "serve to give the people U1 ""Bue mver a ieeiing of com plete peace of mind in using the bridge." In deploring the criticism of county officials, the jury said "it is the considered opinion of the members of this grand jury that the feeling of the people of Rogue River was brought about by unfortunate reckless state ments and wild rumors which were not supported by facts." The jury's report also pointed out that several witnesses, in cluding state engineers and others, Maxwell Thayer, pub lisher of The Times, and bridge inspectors, appeared before the jury. 'Human Element' Blamed Rynning today said that a mis take such as that resulting in the failure resulted entirely from "a human element, which in this case couldn't be helped. We do not know whether the inspector, truck driver or 'batcher' are to blame." In other business, the grand jury indicted George Baker Dun kin for the murder of Officer Phil Lowd; Everett S. Baker, 60, route 1, box 181, Gold Hill, on four counts charging sodomy; Mrs. Rosie Leland Peebler, gen eral delivery, Rogue River, and Arthur E. Hanson, Reviera apart ments. Grants Pass, on a charge of contributing to the delin quency of a minor; and Wayne Russell Myers, Camp White, for assault while armed with a dan gerous weapon. Myers was arraigned in circuit court yesterday and entered a plea of innocent. United States May Buy British Guided Missile Paris U.R) The United States may buy a sensational British guided missile, equipped -with supersonic "brains," and designed eventually to leave the present day fighter plane pilot without a job, military authori ties said Wednesday. The new missile is a 2,000-rnile-an-hour rocket that steers itself and can out-maneuver the world's fastest operational planes. Its mechanical "brains" work faster than those of the smartest humans. 1
