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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.
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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,
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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
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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." ...
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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.
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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
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Detroit 1
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St Louis 8 10 0
Boston ... 3 13 2
Mizell and Fusselman; Bick
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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.