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lepiuiblkoirii Mp foe Umiotiy Thiro"oiied Medford Tjnlted Preu Fall Leased Wire . 47th Year 16 Pages MM Five States Named Disaster Areas in Face of Dry Spell Harvest Prospects Hurt by Rain Lack Nashville, Tenn. (U.R) Farm officials of nine drought- stricken states held an emergen cy session called by the Depart ment of Agriculture Friday as estimates of crop damage in the Southeast passed the $o00,000, 000 mark. The department has designated disaster areas in five states and may extend it to include the others as a result of one of the most damaging dry spells in the region's history. 1 Salvaga Means Sought Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan called the meeting here to find some way .to salvage the South's agricultural economy and tide farmers over until thev can reap another harvest. . Knox T. Hutchinson, assistant secretary of agriculture, was ex pected to represent Brannan at the meeting. Harvest Prospects Cut Two months of rainlessness coupled with unusually hot weather cut heavily into cur rent harvest prospects, totally damaging some crops, and forc ing stockmen to buy feed to suDDlement dried up pastures. The Agriculture Department enabled the farmers to obtain emergency loans from the Farm ers Home Administration and qualified them for "other bene fits to help them recultivate fields. - - , Reserve Unit Sets Summer Camp Trip The 55 officers and men of 304th Logistical Command (A), headquarters here at 33 North Riverside avenue, will leave Sun day at 7 a.m. for two weeks of summer training at Fort Lewis, Wash., officers reported today. The unit, made up of reserve of ficers and men from Jackson, Klamath and Josephine counties include 18 from the Medford area. An advance party headed by Maj. George Bruse, Medford, left yesterday for Fort Lewis to pre pare for the unit's arrival there. The unit is commanded by Col. Tom Gunn, Grants Pass. While at Fort Lewis, the local unit will serve as administration and training and supply head quarters for 15 attached units from Oregon, Washington and Utah. . The Jackson and Klamath county unit members will leave here by bus and will pick up the Josephine county members in Grants Pass. They are sched uled to return August 17. Springfield. Ore. (U.R) Wey erhaeuser Timber Company's new plywood plant here began producing its first Douglas fir veneer early this week, John R. Titcomb, manager of the firm's lumber division, announced Fri day. JUVENILE OFFICER Mrs. Kay . Kunkel, pictured above, was recently named to be the new head of the Juveniledepart ment of the Jackson county cir cuit court. Formerly chief pro bation officer of San Joaquin county, California, she will as sume her new duties here August 12. mi W . f r INJ J r t - 1 MEDFORD, OREGON, LOSS jsJf'J km mi 1 PLANNING NEW DEVILTRY, no doubt, Marine Sergeant John E. Boitnott (left), Comfort, N. C, and his buddy, Pfc. Henry A. Fri day, Mikoosa, Wis., are checking their score of nine Reds bagged In two days on North Korea front. Friday would draw Red snipers fire and Bcitnott, a crack shot, then went into action. Command ing officer has ordered them to be more carefuL (International) Annual Shakespeare ival Opens Today Ashland The 12th annual Oregon Shakespearean . festival will be opened at 8:30 p.m. here today by Chief Justice James T. Brand pf ' the Oregon supreme court. A capacity audience is ex pected to witness the opening play, "The Tempest," a fantasy directed by Richard. Graham. A 25-minute program of Eli zabethan music, starting at 8 p.m., will precede curtain tiaie. The musicians and madrigal singers, under the direction of Hans Lampl of the University of Southern California, will be ap pearing for the first time at a performance here. During the brief opening cere monies, E. H. Singmaster, asso ciation vice-president will act as master of ceremonies and Judge Brand, Nanette Cuddie, Ash land, festival queen, and Angus Bowmer, producing director, will be .introduced. President Rodney Keating will welcome visitors, as will . Mayor Phil Stansbury of Ashland. Britain Gives OK To West German Pact London (U.R) The House of Commons approved the Allied peace contract with Western Germany Friday after a debate that cracked long-standing Bri tish bi-partisan foreign policy and widened a split between orthodox and leftist labor fac tions. Foreign .Secretary .Anthony Eden said in a closing debate that approval of the contract which Russia bitterly opposes would not remove the possibil ity of four-power talks on Ger many. Britain is still ready to talk with Russia in a four-power conference, he said. Acheson To Assist Pacific Defense Council Washington (U.R) Secretary of State Dean Acheson left for Honolulu Friday to help set up the Pacific Defense Council, pos sible forerunner of a Pacific wide alliance against aggression in the Far East. It marked the first time in history that an American secre tary of state has taken a trip into the Pacific. Egypt Turns Down Big Three Proposals Cairo (U.R) Egypt's biggest political party announced Fri day its "categorical rejection" of Western Big Three proposals for a Middle East defense command The declaration was contained in a Wafd Party manifesto is sued by party leader and former Premier Mustapha el Nahas on the "opening of a new era" with last month's Army coup and ab dication of King Farouk FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1952 $500,000,000 A buffet supper will be held at Susanne Homes hall on the Southern " Oregon . college cam pus : before " the performance. Press and radio representatives, city and state officials, and other visitors will be guests of the fes tival association, the city pf Ash land and the college at the buffet. Independent Steel Firm Starts Work Pittsburgh (U.R) Production resumed Friday at one major in- defendent steel company follow ing settlement with the CIO Steel workers, but another firm remained idle after negotiations with the union collapsed. Crucible Steel joined the "Big Six" in reopening its mills after reaching an "interim" agree ment with the union Thursday affecting 16,000 employes in five plants in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey. Wheeling Steel balked at set tlement terms for its 15,000 workers and the strike there en tered its 60th day. Bank Robber Flees With $25,720 in Sack Ankeny, la. (U.R) A tall, husky bandit carrying a pair of guns held up the State Bank of Ankeny today, forced an assist ant cashier to give him $25,720 and fled in a light-colored car. The bandit, wearing dirty light tan clothes, crawled into the bank through a basement window, forced assistant Cash ier Wayne Roland to open the vault and safe and scooped the money into a sack, officers said. He then locked Roland in the vault and escaped. Russians Claim Aviation Day Posters Show Actual Events of U.S. Violation of Borders Moscow (U.R) Pravda, Rus sian Communist Party news paper, Friday said three Avia tion Day posters which offended the United States portrayed ac tual events. The posters purported to show Soviet fighter planes driving off American planes which violated Russian or satellite territory. Display Boycotted Display of the posters caused American Ambassador George F.- Kennan, the British ambas sador and the French charge d'af faires to boycott the aviation dis play Sunday. Pravda's foreign editor, Yakov Victorov, said Friday the artist who painted the posters showed actual events and showed the vigilance of the Soviet air de TRIBUNE United Press Full Leased Wire No. 114 Jack Fitzgerald Files for Election Tc. City Council Seeks Ward 4 Post Vacated by Childers Jack Fitzgerald, 1728 Wood lawn drive, has filed a petition for the councilman position 'in Ward 4 - according to Ralph Woodford, city recorder. The election will be in November. This is the second filing for city councilman. There will be four positions up for election and Fitzgerald's application is for the position currently held by Elmer Childers. Childers is not a candidate. Dick Woodcock was the first councilman appli cant and filed for the position up for election in ward No. 2 held by Dwight Houghton. Positions will" also be up for election which are presently held by Harold Frye and John Snyder. Deadline August 30 Petitions require 25 registered voters to place a person's name on the ballot with filing dead line on August 30. Woodford noted that submission of peti tions should be before this date as they had to. be checked for legality and some names might be disqualified. Fitzgerald has been a Medford resident for 17 years. He is mar ried. He has been chairman of the Red Cross Fund drive for two years, is a member of the library board, Kiwanis director, member of the Chamber of Commerce, and city iralfic com" mittee. He is vice-president and a stockholder of the Davis Transfer and Storage ''company and president of. the Ashland Moving and Storage company. Radio Station KWIN Suspends Operation A suit in equity for foreclo sure of a mortgage against the owners of KWIN, Ashland, was filed yesterday in circuit court, according to records in the coun- 'ty clerk's office. The complaint was filed by M. S. Hamaker and Bessie B. Hamaker against the Rogue Val ley Broadcasting company for $16,973.33 plus $2,314.80 in real and personal taxes, accrued in terest and attorney's fees. The complaint stated that the mortgage included "all of the real and personal property of KWIN" and was a combined real and chattel first mortgage. The original loan was advanced on May 10, 1948, by M. S. Ham aker and H. H. Hild under the firm of Hamaker and Hild, for $17,000. This amount was chang ed to the other sum on Oct. 15, 1951, the complaint sets forth. James Strickland, station manager, left the station yester day and operations were sus pended at 4:29 p.m. Strickland expressed his gratitude to his staff "which stuck by me during the last few hard months." A station attache said today nothing definite was known as to plans for resuming broadcast ing. - Washington (U.R) Sen. Wayne L. Morse, R-Ore., said Friday that he and Sen. Earl Long, D-La., will leave here next "Juesday on a 25,000-mile tour of the nation's overseas air bases. fenders. Victorov said, the posters por trayed three American aerial violations " of Communist terri tory: 1. In April, 1950, when Soviet fighters pursued an American "Flying Fortress" south of Lie paja, Latvia; 2. In November, 1951, when an American plane "violated Hungarian territory and was forced by Soviet fighter planes to land; 3. November 6, 1951, when an American Neptune plane crossed the Russian Far Eastern frontier. Violation Charged The United States charged Russia ' with shooting down an unarmed Navy Privateer plane over the open Baltic April 8, Weather FORECAST: Partly cloudy with thunder showers over moun tains this evening. Fair and warmer Saturday. High 95-100 Temp. Highest Yesterday 73 Lowest this Morning 64 Prec. to 3 p.m. Yesterday 04 Elk Creek Forest Fire Cause Under Study by State Men Lightning Ruled Out By Investigating Crew Possibility of incendiarism in a 35-acre fire in the Elk creek area was being investigated to day by the state forestry office. District Warden Ted Maul said incendiarism is a possibil ity, but that it has by no means been" proven. He said lightning has been ruled out as a cause but that the fire, although in vir gin timber, is near roads and might have been started acci dentally. The fire broke out Wednesday noon on state forest protected land. It was still being patroled today. Dunkin Not Blamed Capt. Paul Parson, of the state police, said this morning it was unlikely that George Dunkin, wanted for the murder of State Patrolman Phil Lowd, had set this fire. He would not be ex pected to set any fire near a road, Captain Parson said. "We'll just have to face it," he added. "Dunkin is going to be blamed by the people for every thing that happens in this part of the country." Crediting Thursday's rais with a definite assist. Maul said there are no fires burning on state lands today. Officials at Rogue River National forest said this morning that all of their fires are out. also. ' Rain Helps Fire Fighters , Light rain in southern and northeastern Oregon and in northern California helped fire fighters control more than 150 forest fires, United Press report ed this moring. But the weather bureau warned that the fire dan ger has decreased only slightly and was expected to build up again soon. Most of the, .fires were started by ' lightning Wednesday and Thursday. Five Oregon fires were still .burning but all were Under control, United Press re ported. The largest was a 2,400 acre blaze east of Coos Bay. Fire danger in this area was expected to increase over the week-end. The weather bureau expected a high of 95 to 100. Thy said the woods woidd soon be dried out with temperatures that high. v The variation yesterday be tween high and low temperature was only nine degrees. The high est temperature reported was 73. The lowest was 64. Four hun dredths inch of rain fell yester day. Thus the only rain to fall in July came July 31, the last day of the month. A-Powered Aircraft Carrier Engine Asked Pittsburgh (U.R) The gov ernment moyed closer Friday to making atomic power the chief driving force of all its fighting machines. Westinghouse Electric Corp. spokesmen disclosed t h a t the government had asked the firm to develop an atomic engine to power a gigantic aircraft carrier for the U. S. Navy. Westinghouse presently is con structing an atomic power plant for a super-submarine. The com pany reported recently it was making "considerable" progress on its project. Boulogne, France. (U.R) Port authorities announced 11 men were believed killed Friday when a dredge snared a sub merged mine or torpedo head in the outer harbor and blew up. 1950. Its 10 men were lost. Rus sia said the plane was a "Flying Fortress" and violated Russian territory. A C-47 cargo plane strayed off its course on a flight from Ger many to Yugoslavia in Novem ber. 1951, and was forced down in Hungary by Soviet planes. The United States paid a ransom of $120,000 to the Hungarian gov ernment, in the form of a "fine" for violation of Hungarian terri tory, to get the four-man crew released. Ten Lost in Pacific Ten Navy men were lost when Russians shot down their Nep tune weather reconnaissance plane over the Pacific off Vladi vostok, Siberia, last Nov. 6. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, then Al Denver (U.R) Dwight D. Eisenhower said Friday lhat the great issue confronting this country and th world is "the initiation of a sound program for peace." ' At his first newt conference since winning the Repub lican presidential nomination, Eisenhower said that it would be over simplifying to say that foreign policy was the only b:g of the presidential campaign. But he said thai "we have got to get on the right road ' to peace very soon." ' Denver (U.R) An unprecedented proposal by the "Citizens for Eisenhower" organization that it be given at least equal status with the Republican National Committee Friday threatened to set back hopes for unity in the GOP. The citizens group, which played an important role in obtaining the Republican presidential nomination for Dwight D. Eisenhower, proposed that it be given a campaign status equal to and possibly superior to, the Republican National Committee. Walter Williams, Seattle, Wash., and Mrs. Oswald B. Lord, New York; co-chairman of the citizens' organization, were prepared to lay their plan before a group of top-level Republicans who assem bled here today for a series of week-end conferences. Chamber Manager Resigns To Accept Portland Position Don Lane, secretary and man ager of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce since Aug: 1, 1947, has resigned to become manager of the East Side Com mercial club, in Portland, it was announced today. Lane submitted his resignation to the chamber's board of di rectors at a meeting yesterday noon.. He will leave for his new post about September 1. The chamber officer came here from Springfield, Ore., where he held a similar position. Before that he was with the Lakeview chamber. A Navy veteran of World War II, Lane is a gradu ste of Oregon State college. He and Mrs. Lane and their two daughters have made then home at 340 Mae street. , Draws Praise Directors of the chamber had high praise for the manner in which Lane has served the group. With his assistance, a wide program of effective, com mitPP work has been continued and improved, they said, includ ing work on such important phases' of the valley's economy as improved highways, addition al irrigation projects, wider utili zation of lumber products which before had gone to waste, de velopment of a broader attrac tion to the tourist trade in the area, now the third ranking in dustry of southern Oregon, and the attraction of new industrial concerns to the valley. In addition, Lane has been ac tive in a wide variety of civic and fraternal affairs, and has assumed large responsibility for many projects, such as assistance in the holdifig of the annual Shrine Pear Bowl game here in November, and for development of the unique Medford Plan for channeling individual charity do nations through a central dis bursing agency. . He was chosen outstanding junior citizen of .the year several years ago by the Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce. Man Hospitalized After Knife Fight Earl Armitage is in the Camp wv,ito infirmary after being ,rM,nHpri hv a knife in a fight this morning, it was learned from the camp. District Attorney Paul Havi- land said warrants charging dis orderly conduct have been issued against both Armitage and Rob ert Taylor, the Camp White man who was said. to have stabbed him. The two started fighting in the bus from Medford, Haviland said, and they continued after they got out. Taylor said he took out his knife in self defense. . It was learned from the camp that Armitage suffered cuts and a loss of blood. lied supreme commander in the Far East, rsla the plane was 20 miles from -the coast when at tacked. Pravda accused the State De partment of inspiring a violent anti-Soviet campaign in the American press, and cited ar ticles in Collier's Weekly, For tune, The American Magazine, the New York Times and the New York Journal-American. Leaders Blamed - "Not only the reactionary press, but Cabinet members, gen erals, admirals and top political leaders incite war," it said. It cited Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower, Adlai E. Stevenson,- Air Secretary Thomas K. Finletter and Adm. William M. Fechteler, chief of Naval operations. 4 Advance Presentation Of Proposal Made Williams and Mrs. Lord made an advance presentation of their proposal to Eisenhower Thurs day and told reporters later that the GOP nominee "likes it." One Republican source said he expected the recommenda tion to meet with stiff resistance from spokesmen for the regular GOP organization. There was one report that the Republican National Committee would ad vocate . the assigning of a com pletely subordinate role to the citizens' group. Chairman in Agreement Williams said Arthur E. Sum merfield, Republican national chairman who was scheduled to arrive here this afternoon, was in "general agreement" with the organizational plan. But Wil liams conceded . that Summer field had not seen details of the proposal. West Coast Vessels Sail Without Trouble San Francisco (U.R) West Coast ships sailed unhampered by labor difficulties for the first time since May 26 Friday after the most recent maritime union dispute was cleared up. The American Radio Associa tion miv), involved m a juris dictional dispute with a deck officer's union, reached an agree ment with ship-owners Thursday. Radio operators had started picketing .38 vessels up and down the coast earlier in the day but were called off when the Pacific Maritime Association resolved the trouble. However, William Steinberg, president of the ARA, warned that the union's fight with the AFL masters, mates and pilots union over manning of radios aboard ship, -had not been set tled permanently. UN Agrees to Minor Armistice Changes Panmunjom, Korea (U.R) United Nations staff officers agreed Friday to minor Commu nist changes in the proposed draft of a Korean armistice in an attempt to clear up petty de tails before high-level truce ne gotiations are resumed Sunday. The chief Allied and Red ne gotiators, .Maj. Gen. William K Harrison and North Korean Gen. Nam II, will take up again their bitter debate on exchang ing war prisoners after a seven day recess called by the U. N. in protest against Communist stalling. . The deadlock is over the Com munists' demand for the return of 116,000 war prisoners held by the Allies. Indian Men Suspended Pending Court Hearing Portland (U.R) E. Morgan Pryse, head of the Portland of fice of the U. S. Bureau of In dian affairs, Friday said Bureau Special Officer Charles Hoskins and Indian Policeman Lawrence Goudy of Klamath county had been suspended from service pending outcome of a federal court case against them. The two men are charged with infringement . of civil rights in the handling of a prisoner. 3 State Institutions Hike Patient Care Salem (U.R) A $5 a month in crease in charges for care and treatment of patients in three state institutions was announced Friday by the State Board , of Control. Charges we're raised from $67 ! a month to ,$72 for patients in the state hospitals for the men ally deficient in Salem. BULLETIN Washington (U.R) Charles Patrick Clark, Washington at torney was found guilty of as sault Friday for socking col umnist Drew Pearson on the jaw. Stevenson To Call Defeated Aspirants For Conferences National Campaign Plans To Be Aired Springfield, 111. (U.R) Gov. -Adlai E. Stevenson announced Friday that he is inviting the men he defeated for the Demo cratic presidential nomination to confer with him about plans for the national campaign this fall. He telephoned an invitation this morning to Sen. Estes Ke fauver of Tennessee, who led on the first two ballots at the Dem ocratic National Convention last week before Stevenson forged, ahead to win on the third. To Meet Kefauver "I have talked with Senator Kefauver, who is heavily en gaged in the reeledion cam-, paign of Gov. Gordon Brown ing." Stevenson said in a note read to reporters by his press secretary. William I. Flanagan. "He will come up to Spring field to see me after the Ten-, nessee election, which is next. Thursday." , Will Invite Harriman Flanagan said the governor will extend similar Mutual Security Administrator w. Averen mrriman and Sen Richard B. Russell of fjpnrcria two other defeated presidential aspirants. He already has confer red twice with another, Sen. Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma. Flanagan said Stevenson wants to talk about thp cam paign." He presumed the invita- uons were extended in an effort, to promote party harmony. Reds Handed Double Defeat by UN Forces "Seoul, Korea (U.R) The Unit ed Nations handed the Commu nists a smashing double defeat Friday, destroying or damaging five enemy jets in an air battle and recapturing strategic Old Baldy hill on the Western front. The Allied victories came as the Communists celebrated the 25th anniversary of the "tri umphant" Chinese Red army. Among the congratulatory mes sages announced by the Chinese was one from Soviet Premier Josef Stalin. Three enemy MIG-15 jet fight ers were shot down and two damaged in a 10-minute air bat tle between 32 F-86 Sabrejets and 60 MIGs just below the Yalu river in northwest Korea. It was the first Communist challenge to U. N. air superiority since July 23. Dr. Stevenson lllhilpp tnoalror Dr. Elmo N. Stevenson, presi dent of Southern Oregon Col lege of Education in Ashland, will be speaker at the pioneers' gathering in connection with the Jubilee Saturday in Jackson ville. His address. "The March of Science Since Pioneer Days," will be part of the program which will be held on the lawn of the Jacksonville Museum, starting at 2 p.m. Frank J. VanDyke of Medford will be master of ceremonies. Other features will include in vocation: "God Bless America," by the Eve Prentice Accordi anas; Salute to the Flag, led by Boy Scouts; western music by Vertis Flood; a talk on the mu seum by Miss Claire Hanley, president of the Southern Ore gon Historical Society; remarks by County Judge J. B. Coleman. The address of the day by Presi dent Stevenson will conclude the exercises after which it is expected that old time residents . of the area will enjoy visiting and resting under the shade of the old trees which surround the former county court house. The museum will be open to the public from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, and from 9 a.m. to 6 p m. Sunday. DR. ELMO STEVENSON To Address Pioneers
