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Newspaper Page TextBirDinigs Mm D) 0 ft ODD, we Medford tinted Presi Full Leased Wire 47th Year 20 Peges Utah Authorities Question Man in Murder of Pair Kidnap Charge Filed; Double Deaths Denied Portland (U.R) The FBI here reported Thursday that a man, charged with kidnaping a Sears Roebuck truck driver at Lake Tahoe, Calif., was being held at Duchesne, Utah, for ques tioning in connection with the slaying of two United Motors Service Corporation executives at Crater Lake national park July 19. James B. Poster, FBI agent in charge of the Portland office, identified the man as William K. Russell. Money. Watch Taken Poster said according to re ports from Utah, Russell kid naped John Lovelace of Sparks, Nev., a Sears Roebuck driver, and forced him to drive to Fern ley, Nev. Lovelace told authori ties Russell robbed him of $36 in currency and took his wrist watch. He said Russell also boast ed of having killed the two men at Crater Lake. C. P. Culhane, 55, Detroit, Mich., and A. M. Jones, 56, Concord, Calif., were shot in the head. Sheriff's deputies arrested Rus sell at Duchesne and turned him over to federal authorities. Poster said federal officers at Duchesne questioned Russell but he denied the double murder. He claimed to have been elsewhere at the time the two executives cf the General Motors subsidi ary were slain. He said he told Lovelace he killed the two men to scare him and "make him be have." Russell is being held at Du chesne for further questioning, Poster said. Stevenson Will Chart Own Course Springfield, 111. (U.R) Gov Adlai E. Stevenson charted his own course for the 1952 presi dential campaign Thursday without promising unswerving allegiance to the White House programs of the last 20 years The Illinois "governor was re lying on the polished profes sionals of the Democratic Na tional committee to prepare his campaign itineraries, after con sulting with them and vice-presidential nominee Sen.. John J. Sparkman of Alabama But he planned to base the tone and nature of his campaign on his own ideas. "I propose to run my cam paign, as far as the ideas and content of the speeches are con cerned, entirely myself," he said. Stevenson, who was "drafted" for the Democratic presidential nomination last week, even as sumed that he would have "some control" over the cam paign plans of President Tru man, who has promised to stump the country for the governor. i)MS?lCT Slk. Ill Millionth Draftee Since Start of Korea War Wants To Be 'Just One Detroit (U.R) America's one-millionth draftee since the start of the Korean War wants to be "just one of the boys." A little nervous about the fuss being made over him, Ar thur Weinfeld, 22, went through the usual "hurry up and wait" routine of the induction center for formal induction at 2 p.m. CST Thursday. Honored Man Absent His desire to be "just one of the boys" threw pre-induction ceremonies out of kilter. The governor was on hand and so were a lot of other dignitaries, but no Weinfeld. Some one found him in his MEDFORD, OREGON, it '3 ! : - - . u CHARLES S. ADAIR Merchant, Nurseryman Dies Charles 5. Adair, Valley Merchant, Passes Suddenly Charles S. Adair, 59, of 924 West Main street, died suddenly this morning. Mr. Adair, was owner of M and M department store, 220 East Main street, dur ing the war. Mr. Adair was born in Mis souri and came to the Rogue valley prior to World War I. He worked at the Golden Rule store in Grants Pass until 1940, when he moved to Medford to operate the M and M store. He sold his holdings in the store in 1944 and operated Adair's Nursery, Phoenix, until h i s aeatix Mr. Adair was a long - time member of Elk and Masonic lodges at Medford and Grants Pass. He is survived by his wife, Eva, and by his mother, Mrs. Mary Belle Adair, and a broth er, William, both of Kennewick, Wash. Conger - Morris is handling funeral arrangmeents. Broadcast Permit Sought for Medford Washington (U.R) The Federal Communications Com mission Thursday said applica tion for license to ODerate a standard broadcast station ' at Medford. Ore., had been filed bv Clarence E. Wilson. PuvalluD. Wash., and P. D. Jackson, Chicka- sha. Okla. The two men propose to con struct a 1000-watt station 'to broadcast on 1540 kilocycles. They jointly own radio sta tion KWCO at Chickasha and KPUY at Puyallup. Jackson re cently was granted a permit for a new station at Cheyenne, Wyo. No information regarding plans for a new radio station here was available in Medford today. Wilson and Jackson are apparent ly not known in Medford. shorts in the physical examina tion line. Dressing hurriedly, he was ushered into the Fort Wayne auditorium to get con grtulations from his draft board, Gov. G. Mennen Williams and Col. Arthur E. Homes, state se lective service director. Big Sendoff Nice "It's nice to get such, a big sendoff when you have to enter service," Weinfeld said, with .a wan smile. ,' Weinfeld, whom selective ser vice headquarters at Washington designated as draftee No. 1,000. 000, was in a group of 165 get ting "greetings" from Draft - . THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1952 Atomic Program Doing Just Fine, AEC Report Says A-Bomb Production Increases Steadily Washington (U.R) The Atom ic Energy Commission made pub lic Thursday a semi-annual re port which gives Russian spies much to worry about but not much to send home. The 125-page report to Con gress said, in effect, that the U.S. atomic program is doing just fine! A-bomb production is "in creasing' steadily. "Substantial progress" has been made this year in perfecting new types of weapons. New Uranium Sources Larger supplies of uranium ore are pouring in from Canada and western United States, and new sources are opening up in Aus tralia and South Africa. Headway is being made on de velopment of atomic planes and submarines. But the diligent Soviet agent who rushes over to the Govern ment Printing Office to buy a copy of the report . will be hard put to get 50 cents worth of de tails. .The . security-conscious AEC for a long time has been putting less and less information in its public reports, and this time it carried the processto its logical conclusion. . For example, the report did not once mention the hydrogen bomb, which informed sources have said is about ready for test ing. . - Nor was there any allusion to the new types of tactical atomic weapons, for battlefield use. tested in Nevada this spring. There was just one sentence to comfort patriots and confound the enemy: "For reasons of security, it is impossible here to specify the record of accomplishment in weapons development but it may be stated that substantial prog ress was made." Output Increased Like all its predecessors, the AEC report conveyed the news that more A-bomb explosives were turned out during the past six months than during the six months before that. With a $3,500,000,000 expan sion program in the works, and all present plants operating at full blast, it is safe to predict the next report also will tell of "in creasing" output. SPORTS BULLETINS Helsinki (U.R) The United Stales and Russia gained the Olympic basketball tourna ment finals Thursday when the .Yanks downed Argentina, 85-76, and the Russians beat Uruguay. 61-57. Oslo, Norway (U.R) Lindy Remingo of Manhattan Col lege equalled Jesse Owens' 16-year-old record of 10.2 sec onds for 100 meters in a spe cial post-Olympic track and field meet here Thursday. of the Boys' Board 97. By numerical, chance to was a celebrity for a day. But really "just one of the boys" was Morris Spitzman, Detroit. ,. He drew No. 1,000,001. Mother Excited. Sad - "I don't know what to expect from Army life," Weinfeld said, "but I guess few other fellows do either." .. His father,. Joseph, 52, and mother. Vera, 49, gave a going away. party for him Wednesday night. . . ..-. : , , "I'm very excited but a little sad," Mrs. Weinfeld said. "I'm sorry he has to go away, of course, but I'm glad he can serve his country." ... Tribune Inlted Press Full Leased Wire No. 113 JUBILEE QUEEN Miss Kay Carrara, Medford, was named queen of the Jacksonville Gold Rush jubilee at a dance here last night. She was sponsored by Mary's Casa, 537 Mary street. The four members of her court are all Medford girls Donna Schrader, Elaine Sorum, Anne Weaver and Janet Welch. Miss Carrara received 155,000 votes. Her closest competitior, Miss Schrader,. had. , 131,300. votes (Also see r jubilee stories on Page 4.) ' Egypt Removes News Censorship; Titles Abolished Cairo, Egypt U.R) Egypt lifted military censorship of its newspapers Thursday and mov ed closer to democracy with ab olition of all titles. Military censorship of the do mestic press, which began dur ing the Palestine war in 1948, was lifted, although censorship of press cables addressed abroad continued, but also may be lift ed soon. The Cairo press hailed the government's abolition of the titles of pasha and bey as a pro gressive step toward democracy. Al Ahram called it "one of the greatest decisions of the new order." The decision to do away with titles was announced Wednesday night by Aly Maher, w;ho be came premier after Maj. Gen. Mohammed Naguib's military coup last week. Naguib said, however, that Egypt would con tinue a constitutional monarchy. The Cairo city government has proposed to Naguib that the Koubbeh and Mohammed Ali palaces be converted into na tional museums and their exten sive grounds into public parks. It also proposed that Abdine Palace be made the Cairo city hall. Informed sources said authori ties were planning to form com mittees of legal experts to make inventories of the contents of the four royal palaces in Cairo and Alexandria and assess then value. ? Lawrence Miles Among Model Plane Leaders ; Long Beach, Calif. (U.R) Lawrence Miles, Medford, Ore Thursday was among the leaders in the 21st national model air plane championships at Los Ala- mitos Naval Air Station here. The Medford boy's plane in the junior class free flight com petition for very small vest- pocket sized engines stayed aloft for 19 minutes, nine sec onds, longest of all entries in the class. Weather FORECAST: Cloudy with occa sional light sprinkles tonight and partly cloudy with scat tered light showers Friday.. Temp. Highest Yesterday 99 Lowest this Morning 65 Drunken Convicts At Oregoi n Prison Stab, Beat Guards Stabbing Blamed On Klamath Indian Salem (U.R) One prison guard was stabbed and another beaten-late Wednesday by con victs drunk on "pruno" at Ore gon state penitentiary. Warden Virgil J. O'Malley said" Thursday. O'Malley said prisoner James Quentin Anderson, 29-year-old Indian, had been drinking "pruno," highly alcoholic brew secretly concocted by the prison ers, and was creating a disturb ance near the sociology office in the main yard. Guard James E. Shultz was directed to bring Anderson in, and as he approach ed the Indian drew a concealed knife and slashed the guard's wrist. Guard Badly Beaten Guard Raymond O. O'Neil Jr. ran to the aid of Shultz and was attacked by three prisoners and badly beaten before a burst of fire over the head of the con victs from a wall guard scatter ed the rioters. Warden O'Malley said three other orisoners involved in the "pruno" party attack were appre hended. but said their names would not be disclosed at this time. The four involved were placed in isolation. From Klamath County Anderson first came to the penitentiary from Klamath coun ty April 23, 1941, on a 10 year sentence for manslaughter. He escaped August 23 of that year and stole an auto from Marion county. He was caught, then escaped again May 18, 1951, but was aoorenenaed aner Drier freedom. He now is serving sen tences totalling 12 years. This is the second pruno-pro- voked "caper" at the prison in recent days. Only last week two trusties went on a pruno jag. stole an auto end were caught when the car, careening as drunk- . enly as its occupants, crashed into a residence not far from the prison. Orchard Tour Plan Told By Growers The first stop of this year's fruit growers' orchard tour, which will leave the courthouse Friday morning at 9 o'clock, will be to see the wind machine and the frost damage at the Klam- am orchard. The machine was introduced last spring as an ex perimental substitute for orch ard heating. The next stop will be the ex periment station and a progress check on numerous experiments there, including a Krillium plot. Next the group will take a look at the use of sawdust at the Chris Wolff orchard. From there the party will travel on to the Talent Experiment station. The group will have the op portunity of discussing the many problems of growing fruit with Dr. Henry Hartment of Oregon State college, j pioneer in this field, at TouVelle park. Dr. O. C. Rawlings and other OSC staff members are also coming to the valley for the field day. Fol lowing a picnic lunch there will be an equipment demonstration, incuding many items, both those currently in general use and those of very recent devel opment such as a lug box loader and a rotobeater. SEEKS JUDGESHIP Gene R. Brantley, above, announced this week he will be a candidate for Jackson county judge in the November election, running on an independent ticket against Incumbent J. B. Coleman. Brant ley is the brother of Bob Brant ley, who was defeated by Judge Coleman for the Republican nomination in the May 19 pri mary election. ..Petitions to place his name on the ballot are now being circulated. Brantley said that groups of Republicans and Democrats are supporting him. Ijjjl llp 1 ? X 'v IN SATURDAY PLAY Two in this years Oregon ShaKespearean festival at Ashland, which opens tomorrow night, are shown above. They are Virginia Chesse, San Francisco, and Richard Risso, San Jose State college, who play Katharine, the French princess, and the youthful King Hal in "King Henry V," which will open Saturday. The couple will also play the romantic leads in "The Tempest," which is the opening play of the season tomorrow night. (Arbuckle and Moran photo.) Annual Shakespeare Festival Will Open Tomorrow Evening Ashland A special program of Elizabethan music, one of Shakespeare's most famous plays, and a buffet supper will feature the opening of the 12th annual Shakespearean festival in Ashland tomorrow. The festival will be opened by Chief Justice James T hirand of the Oregon supreme court at 8:30 Friday evening but activities will be many and varied before the curtain opens on the first production of the season. The buffet supper will be held at Susanne Homes hall on the Southern Oregon college campus. Press and radio repre sentatives, city and state offic ials, and other visitors will be guests of the festival association the city of Ashland, and the col lege at the buffet. Program at 8 At 8 p..m.. the program at the theater will begin, with 25 min utes of Elizabethan music before curtain time. The orchestra string ensemble, and madrigal singers, all under the direction of Hans Lampl of the Univer sity of Southern California mu sic department will appear.. Many valley musicians will take part in the program Opening ceremonies will be simple and brief. E. .H.. Sing master, association vice-president, will act as master of cere monies. Judge Brand, Nanetta Cuddie, Ashland, the festival queen, and Angus Bowmer, producing director, will be in troduced. President Rodney Keating of the festival associa tion will welcome visitors, as will Mayor Phil Stansbury of Ashland. The opening play, "The Tern pest," is a colorful fantasy- comedy, directed by Richard Graham, veteran actor and di rector at the festival, who di rected "Twelfth Night" last year. Playing important roles in the play are actors well-known on Ike Will Appear At Indian Rites Denver, Colo. (U.R) Dwight D. Eisenhower, in the best tradi tion of a presidential campaign, has accepted an invitation to at tend an Indian ceremonial. It was not known, however, if the Republican nominee would succumb to political hijinks and don an Indian bonnet. Arthur H. Vandenberg, Eisen hower's executive assistant, said Eisenhower would be a guest at the 30th annual Inter-tribal In dian Ceremonial at Gallup, N.M on Aug. 10. This is the third travel and speaking engagement Eisenhow er has accepted for August. He previously announced plans to appear before the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Los Angeles next Tuesday and before the American Legion in New York on Aug. 25. Portland (U.R) Sheriffs deputies said Thursday that Carl Albert Krittenger, 14-year-old resident of Sandy, drowned in the Sandy river Wednesday afternoon while swimming. of the manv plavers taking part the festival stage, among them Paul Kliss. as Prospero, and Bill Ball, as Ariel. Many newcomers also have choice parts. Included are Vir ginia Cheese, San Francisco. Mi randa; Douglas Meeker, Wash ington State college instructor, Caliban: Tom Brennen, Cleve land, Trinculo, and Richard Risso, San Jose State, Ferdinand. Another of the leading com edy roles,; the drunken butler Stephano, is played by John Taylor of San Francisco, who has appeared in past festival productions but who was not in the company in 1951. Longest Season The presentation Friday eve ning ODens the longest season in festival history. Following "The Tempest" will come "Henry V," "Much Mo About Nothing,' and "Julius Caesar." in that or der in rotation, with a different play every evening including Sundays, through August 30. August 29 will be music night at the festival, with a complete evening of selections from the time of Shakespeare by orches tra, large choral group, string ensemble, madrigal singers, and soloists. The Elizabethan music program Is an innovation this year. See Record Attendance Reports from the box office indicate another record attend ance this year. Season ticket sales, which end at midnight to night, are 60 per cent above last year. The box office at the theater will be open until midnight to night to sell season tickets and make reservations. This year for the first time in several years, both memberships in the association and reservations for the plays may be made in Med ford. Tickets are on sale at Purucker's Piano house and Pruitt's Music center in Med ford Reservations for opening night will be available there until noon Friday, and advance reservations may be made at any time during store hours. Despite the heavy advance sale, expanded seating facilities at the theater make reserva tions for opening night avail able, festival officials said. Big Bombing Said 'Good to Seoul, Korea (U.R) Lt. Gen. Otto P. Weyland, Far East air commander, announced Thurs day American B-29s scored "good to excellent" results in the biggest night raid of the Ko rean war Wednesday night on a factory only four miles from Red China's border. Metals Plant Blasted Pilots and crews of the 63 par ticipating Superfortresses from Okinawa and Japan said they saw their 600 tons of bombs "plaster" the Oriental Light Metals Company plant, a. recent ly-expanded North Korean alu minum alloy factory just south of Sinuiju, near the mouth of the Yalu river. In addition to being the big gest night bombing raid, it was the greatest bomber attack on a single target in the war and the Crews Battling 100 Blazes Assisted; Control Elk Fire , Rainfall Covers Much of County A "moist tongue of air" cut ting into the Rogue valley from California brought scattered showers today. It sharply de creased the forest fire danger which was becoming acute earl ier this week, according to the Medford weather bureau and forestry officials. The rain was The Medferd weather bur eau reported that .02 of an inch of rain had fallen up to 1:30 this afternoon. the first to fall here this month. The rainfall and increased hu midities also aided crews battling more than 100 forest fires start ed in southern Oregon and north ern California Tuesday night by a widespread lightning storm. United Press reported. Ten such fires in this area, seven on na tional forest land, were reported to be "under control" today. Over Much of County Rain was reported in the Ap plegate valley area and over much of the southeast corner of Jackson county. Ted Maul, state forest patrol district warden, flew over the area yesterday in an attempt to spot smoke from "sleeper" fires which had not been seen by lookouts, but no fires were found. A 35 to 40-acre fire on Elk creek, believed started by light ning, was reported under control last night, forest patrol officials said. The blaze broke out yes terday morning. Those fighting the fire included wardens from Mathews and Trail and crews from McLeod and Medford, crews from Elk, Ben Nork, Os car Hanson, Trail Creek and Wayne Ash lumber firms and other loggers of the area. Most of the fires touched off by the Tuesday lightning storm were in northern California, United Press said. The largest was still raging in Trinity Na tional forest after burning over 200 acres of fir and pine trees. Lower temperatures brought into the Rogue valley by today's showers were expected to be short lived. Tomorrow's maxi mums were forecast for between 90 and 95, although humidities were expected to remain high enough to hold down forest fire danger. Steel Production Speed-Up Gets Blow Pittsburgh (U.R) The drive to boost steel production in the wake of the long strike of the CIO United Steelworkers suf fered a serious setback Thursday when negotiations between Wheeling Steel Corp. and the union broke up without settle ment. Wheeling steel, still closed by the strike, charged the union had walked out on the talks al though it had met terms of the agreement between the CIO and the six major steel companies reached last week. Paul Rusen, USW district di rector, however, charged the company was . attempting to "take away from its employees Luijuiiiuna wiiiv.ii uicjr iidvc cii . invpri in Ihp na?t BASEBALL AMERICAN Philadelphia 2 Detroit 1 Shanlz and Astrclh; and Swight 7 2 4 1 Hoeft NATIONAL St Louis 8 10 0 Boston ... 3 13 2 Mizell and Fusselman; Bick ford, Chipman 5, Jester 7. Cole 9, and Cooper Home run: For Bosloiv Jethroe. Raid Results Excellent1 first major raid in the Yalu riv er area since U.N. planes hit the Suiho power plant June 23. All the B-29s returned safely despite opposition by Commu nist MIG-15 jets, propeller-driven fighters and radar-controlled anti-aircraft guns. Electronic Devices Used The bomber crews relied on electronic aiming devices and precision navigation to plaster the target and to avoid flying over or bombing Manchuria. They also were ordered to avoid hitting about 300 buildings near the factory, which were believ ed to" house civilian workers. The metal plants had been under aerial observation for about a year. Civilian workers had been warned by leaflets dropped from allied planes to stay away from targets of this type.