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Weather Medford United Presi Full Leased Wire FORECAST: Fair tonight and ; Wednesday with a few iso lated thunderstorms in the mountains this afternoon and evening. High 95; low 60. Temp. Highest Yesterday 97 Lowest this Morning 61 United Press Full Leased Wire 47th Year 12 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1952 No. 117 CdvoIdoihis ion ;IMirlh; ECod fUlM warned Boo 28 DIE AS BUSES COLLIDE Rescue workers probe the twisted wreckage of two Greyhound buses which collided headon near Waco, Tex., killing at least 28 persons. There were 23 survivors, all of whom received emergency treatment. Education Board. Refers TV Study To Governor McKay Ashland (U.R) The State Board of Higher Education Tuesday referred a five-month television study to Gov. Doug las McKay as the best available research information on which to base further action for a state owned TV station. In transmitting the study to Gov. McKay, the board said: "It is recognized that it (the study) does not serve directly all the people in the state, and that it does not solve completely the Portland situation, although with the recommended equip ment it has possibilities of par tially serving the Portland area." The board at the same time recommended that "those inter ested in the Portland education al channel" be notified the board does not intend to establish a station in Portland. ihe television 'Udy recom mends the establishment ' of a state station via transmitter on Mary's tak near .Corvallis. Such a stnuon would serve an audience of about 394,000 per sons, recording to the study, and cou' i be served directly by pro gram talent on the Oregon State college, University of. Oregon and Oregon College of Education campuses as well as state agen cies in Salem. Capital outlay for the propos ed station was estimated at $649, 835 with annual operating costs of $166,300. Ashland (U.R) The Oregon State Board of Higher Education Tuesday accepted gifts and grants totaling $154,479 and ap proved 56 personnel changes. Largest grant was $23,750 from the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation to the University of Oregon Medical School fox re search on rheumatic fever. Cargo Plane Crashes; Four Aboard Killed Miami U.R) A private C-46 cargo plane crippled by jammed controls crashed and exploded at Miami International Airport late Monday night, in . stantly killing the four persons aboard. Witnesses "near the airport's 20th Street ramp said the big, two-engined plane plowed, into the landing field nose-first and soon was in flames. The dead were listed as pilot Robert Smith. 31, Miami; co-pilot John N. Goodman, 24, Vin cennes, Ind.; and Thomas and R. C. Slaughter, 15 and 13 years old, both of San Antonio, Tex. Norman A f wood Killed In Logging Accident Norman Atwood was killed today in a woods accident near Briggs Camp, north of Diamond lake. Conger - Morris funeral home is in charge of funeral ar rangements. No details of the accident were available here at noon S today. Lewis Ready To Shut Down Major Coal Mine Branches Washington (U.R) John L. Lewis was set Tuesday to shut down all major branches of the coal industry simultaneously at midnight, September 30, unless the operators provide a substan tial wage boost for his 475,000 miners. The United Mine Workers president served notice on an thracite producers and Southern' coal operators Monday that he is terminating their present wage contracts on that date. He pre viously had fixed the same dead line for Northern soft coal com panies. No Indication ' Lewis did not indicate imme diately when he plans to open contract negotiations with the anthracite'industry, which mines hard coal for home burning, and with the Southern Soft Coal Pro- Attempt To Withhold Names of Bus Victims Thwarted by Pentagon Waco, Tex. (U.R) An at tempt by two Air Force civilians to clamp censorship on the re lease of names of identified dead in Monday's disastrous bus crash near here was thwarted Tuesday. The Waco Times Herald ap pealed to top Air Force officials in Washington shortly after R L. Trask and R. W. Ralston 6f Wright-Patterson Air Force, Dayton, O., identification ex perts, sought to bar release of names of the dead. 28 Persons Lose Lives The accident worst of its type in the nation's history took 28 lives and injured 25 in a head-on collision at the crest of a hill at 4:05 a.m. Monday. Trask later was notified by Pentagon officials in Washing ton that he was to impose no censorship. Trask then told newsmen the ban was lifted and pledged his fullest cooperation The attempted censorship ap parently was imposed because some of the unidentified dead are believed to be military per sonnel. Airman's Body Identified , Only one additional body has been identified since Monday nieht. It was that of Charles W Wright, 27, an airman stationed at Carswell Air Force Base Fort Worth. Names of 11 dead have been established but not all the bod ies of these victims have been identified definitely. County, city and state high way patrolmen said no evidence was available at this time to indicate a third vehicle was in volved, though they did not rule out the possibility. The buses caught fire' after the collision when their gasoline tanks exDloded. turning them into- funeral pyres. F. Patras, maintenance man ager for Southwest Greyhound, inspected the charred wreckage and said "there is no indication that the steering mechanism was the cause of the accident." He said there were no wheel Annexation Hearings Scheduled by Council Medford council hearing will be held tonight in the city hall at 7:30 o'clock on two annexa tions and a trunk-line water main, according to City Superin tendent Robert Duff. Annexation hearings include the Westside Heights addition and inclusion of several owner ships directly north of the Verde Hills addition, bounded by High land drive, Keene Way drive and Linwood avenue. A hearing will also be held on a trunk line water main addi tion on .Western avenue from Main street to Sunset avenue. Duff explained. Other routine business matters will be han died at the meeting with Mayor Diamond Flynn presiding. ducers Association. Nor did he give any inkling of what his wage demands will be. ' He has already held two days of secret bargaining talks with Harry Moses, president of the Bituminous Coal Operators' Assn which represents about one-half the nation's soft coal output. The Moses group includes North ern commercial mines andv the so-called captive mines own ed by the steel companies. Out To Get More Informed sources said it was safe to assume that Lewis is' out to get as much or more than the 21-cent "package" increase re cently won by the CIO Steel workers. He may also ask the operators to increase their present 30-cents- per-ton payment to the miners' welfare fund. -- slide - marks or indication the brakes on either bus had been applied. J. E. Haydon, Fort Worth, of the Interstate Commerce Com mission, was conducting an in quiry. One investigator said he was ''beginning to believe" that an unknown motorist may have caused the two Greyhound bus es to crash. , On Wrong Side of Road The buses collided just be fore dawn at the top of a hill seven miles south of Waco. Both drivers were killed. The northbound bus was on the wrong side of the road. "It is possible, but strictly conjecture, that something could have shown up in front of the northbound bus" W. B. Stallings, Greyhound general claims agent said Dog Being Used In Dunkin Search The search for the fugitive George Baker Dunkin in the vi cinity of Brush creek. near the head of Elk creek in northern Jackson county was aided today by a dog, according to State Po lice Capt. Paul Parson. " He said the officers sent into the area will probably be there for several days. He had heard no report from them this morn ing, because there was no com munication between the search er's camp and police headquar ters. Dunkin, an elderly recluse, is sought for the. slaying of State Officer Phil B. Lowd, June 24. Started Fire Footprints, a bed and meal, all apparently left by Dunkin, were found Sunday where his camp fire spread out of control, near where the search is being con ducted. The blaze covered a small area before being extin guished. Captain Parson said there was no doubt that the fire was unin tentionally set by Dunkin. The fire was spotted 20 miles north of Highway 62 by a state fores try service lookout. Dunkin fled from the area when he realized the fire was out of control, Parson said. New Wage Board Takes Office Oath Washington (U.R) Eco nomic Stabilizer Roger L. Put nam said Tuesday the nation has "an excellent Wage Stab ilization Board . . but not an ex cellent law to start off the new wage program. Putnam's statement was made at ceremonies swearing in the new Wage Board members. He described the "restrictions" plac ed on the authority of the new board as well as the restrictions in appropriations. He referred to the board s lack of authority to handle labor disputes which Congress took away in the new Defense Pro duction Act and to the cutback in appropriations which forced a reduction in board operations. Only nine members of the 14 appointed to date were present to take the oath administered by Circuit Court Judge Charles Fahy. The 18-man board is still shy two members from the pub lic and industry. Fred Allen Ordered To Take Rest Period Harwich, Mass.- (U.R) Com edian Fred Allen was under doc tor's orders Tuesday to suspend professional activity "indefin itely" and cancel a contract for a television quiz show. Drs. James O'Hare of Brook line and Arthur J. D'Elia of Harwich said Allen was "re-, covering very nicely" from a vir us attack complicated by "too much sun." He became ill while staying at a hotel here July 20. Pacific Security Conference Moves Ahead of Schedule Three-Point Agenda Adopted at Sessions Honolulu, T. H. (U.R) The United States, Australia and New Zealand moved ahead of schedule Tuesday in their con ferences to establish a solid de fense perimeter against aggres sion in the Pacific. Top diplomatic representa tives of the three nations, pio neering in a historic pact, hur ried through the first day of executive sessions Monday by unanimously adopting a. three point agenda and agreeing to set up a Security Council which will meet annually. Interim Conferences Foreign ministers of the An zus countries agreed that the council also would be strength ened by interim conferences be tween their aides and deputies. The inaugural session of the Pacific Mutual Defense Treaty Conferences opened at Kaneohe Marine Air Station on a unified note. An American spokesman said no -points of disagreement had arisen. Acheson in Discussion Secretary of State Dean Ache son. Australian .External Aiiairs Minister Richard G. Casey, and New Zealand's" T. Clifton Webb hurried into, discussions on or ganization of the council. The speed with which the dip lomats progressed was indicated when they unexpectedly jumped agenda items and discussed Point Three-Va survey of situa tions of common interest."' Mississippi Governor Praises Stevenson Springfield, 111. (U.R) Gov. Hugh White of Mississippi, a state that deserted the Demo cratic Party in 1948, voiced warm praise Tuesday of Gov. Adlai E." Stevenson, the Demo cratic presidential nominee for 1952. While avoiding any direct pre dictions, White made it clear that he expects the Mississippi Demo cratic Party to stick with Steven son this year as Georgia Demo crats already have agreed to do. Calling Stevenson "an elegant gentleman and a very capable man," White expressed the be lief that the Illinois governor can "solidify" the Democratic Party "wherever he appears in person." Girl, 18, Disappears From Vessel at Sea Hoboken, N. J. (U.R) The Holland - American liner Veen dam docked here Tuesday with the heart broken family of an 18-year-old girl who disappeared from the ship at sea after writ ing a note despairing of her failure in a' London art school course. Patricia Ann Partridge, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse D. Partridge, and her sister, Har riet E., 17, had been bound for a month's vacation in a rented house at Short Hills, N. J. Patsy, a tall, attractive bru nette. was said to have Deen a talented and promising student of book illustration at St. Mar tin's school in London. But her family said she was miserably unhaoDv over the one failure on her fine school record.' Oregon Pris6n Escapee Captured in Illinois Salem (U.R) Authorities at Elgin, 111., have apprehended Oregon State prison escapee James William Wood, 25, War den Virgil J. O'Malley reported Tuesday. Wood escaped from the prison farm annex July 25. He was em ployed in the dairy barns and had served as a trusty for several months. Chicago (U.R) A partial quarantine was placed on hogs at the huge Union Stockyards Tuesday because of a suspected case of vesicular exanthema. Tokyo (U.R) Britain's big gest cruiser the 11,500-ton Bel fast, was hit by Communist shore batteries in Western Korea Sun day and one crew member was killed, the Navy announced Tuesday. HAIL DAMAGED FRUIT -Typical damage from Sunday's hail storm is shown on the fruit pictured above. The two pears at the top of the Rain from Storm Proves Beneficial, County Agent Says Although some orchard men reported losing nearly their en tire 1952 fruit crop during the fierce hail storm Sunday, the ma jority of Jackson county crops benefited, according to County Agent W. B. Tucker. Tucker said water was getting scarce in some areas and crops there - were greatly aided. ' The rains didn't do any great damage to most ground crops, he added except in the very center of -the storm. Considerable damage was reported by farmers around Oak Grove, Phoenix and Medford. Alfalfa Crop Hit But throughout the county only about two "per cent of grain and seed crops were seriously hit. The ground crop , heaviest hit was alfalfa that had been left for seed, A lot of the grain went down where the rain was heaviest, according to Tucker. Two weather . control planes seeded the clouds Monday after noon. The P-40 plane which vas unable to fly Sunday was in the air. They reported flying into heavy hail at about 14.000 feet in the hills around the Apple gate. Neon Signs Damaged Ninety per cent of downtown neon signs were damaged by the hail according to a report from Medford Neon Sign company. No damage to neon signs had been reported before. Five new lightning fires were reported on state forest service lands last night. All five are un der control. The more than 20 fires started Sunday were re ported out. City Superintendent Robert Duff said several roofs of Med ford homes were damaged by the hail. He said holes were actu ally punched in the roofs of sev eral Prune street buildings. Arnall Plans to Quit As Price Stabilizer Washington (U.R) Price Stabilizer Ellis Arnall plans to resign by Sept. 1 and may dis cuss the matter with President Truman Wednesday, . informed sources said Tuesday. Price officials said Arnall, former governor of Georgia, in tends to return to private law practice in that state by Sept. 1 "no matter what happens." These officials said Arnall is not leaving his job in a "huff." They said he took the job last February on the "understand ing" that he would stay six months. He will have spent six months as OPS boss on Aug. 19- Phoenix Voters Okay 1952-53 Fiscal Plans . Phoenix The city budget election to exceed the six per cent increase limitation by $10, 370.91 was passed yesterday by 49 yes and 9 no votes, according to Mrs. Elva Briscoe, council member. This was the third budget elec tion for Phoenix and was neces sary due to a legal technicality declaring the last election in valid. - Communists Asked To Permit Prisoners To Receive By RICHARD APPLEGATE Panmunjom, Korea (U.R) The United Nations called the Communists' bluff Tuesday. - Maj. Gen. William K. Harri son, chief Allied truce delegate, asked the Reds to let Allied war prisoners in North Korean camps receive parcels of food. medicine and clothing The requests will show wheth er the Communists were sincere in their acceptance last month of the 1949 Geneva Convention on the treatment of war prisoners. Request in Writing Article 72 of the convention provides that war prisoners "shall be allowed to receive by post or by any other means" in dividual parcels or collective shipments of food, medicine clothing, books and even musi cal instruments. Harrison addressed his re quest in writing to North Ko rean Gen. Nam II, head of the Communist armistice delega tion. "Since you have often ex pressed your interest in support- ine the humanitarian aims of the Geneva Convention," Harrison said, "You should be willing to recoenize the purely humani tarian purposes of Article 72 of that instrument. Similar Reouesis Declined The Communists have turned rlnwn similar reauests in the Medford Man Finds Whooping Crane Nest Prince Albert, Sask. (U.R) Two U. S. wildlife scientists said Tuesday they had spotted the summer breeding grounds of the whooping crane, one of the North American continent's rar est birds. Robert Henry Smith, Medford, Ore., and Everett L. Sutton, Ab erdeen, S. D., said today they believed they had cleared up the mystery of the virtually extinct species that winters on the Texas coast and then disappears every summer. Smith and Sutton said they had seen two adult cranes north of Great Slav lake, a remote central Canada body of water where a marshy lakeside makes an ideal breeding ground for the birds. Available city directories do not list Robert Henry Smith, who was said to be one of two U. S. Wildlife scientists who has found the summer breeding grounds of the whooping crane. i t $730 Burglary Reported At Ashland Drug Store Ashland The Ashland Drug store was burglarized last night between 7:15 arid 10:15 p.m. and $130 in cash and several checks was taken, according to Ashland Police Chief Vern Smith. The money and checks were inside a leather money pouch in the back of the store when taken. Smith reported, and an investiga tion of the suspects is being made. One of the checks amount ed to $174.22, he added. - picture and the peaches in the low left and right corners are badly bruised while the center peach has been split , by a hail stone. (Brainerd Photo) Packages past, alleging "various difficul ties" stood in the way. The note was handed Commu nist staff officers by Allied staff officers after a 44-minute meet ing here at which "all questions of text" of the armistice agree ment were settled. ... . However,- the U. N. said the settlement of textual . questions did not resolve the dispute over voluntary vs. forced repatriation of war prisoners.- The. main truce teams are still deadlocked on that question. California Reds Declared Guilty Los Angeles (U.R) Fourteen California Communist party leaders were found guilty in federal court Tuesday of plot ting to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the govern ment. The jury of eight women and four men returned the verdict after more than five days of de liberation. The panel announced at 10:45 a.m. (PDT) that it want ed to appear in court. A wait of nearly an hour and a half was necessary while the defendants, their attorneys, government . prosecutors and Federal Judge William C. Mathes got to court. The 14 defendants, .among them William Schneiderman, al legedly the former acting man ager of the national Communist party, hurried to court when it was announced that the jury wished to appear. The case went to the jury last Thursday afternoon. Lawrence Miles, 11, Dies in Los Angeles Lawrence Ray Miles. 11-year- old son- of Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Miles, 605 Highland drive, died yesterday in Los Angeles, where he had been attending the na tional model airplane meet. The remains will be returned to Medford for services and inter ment. Chicago Racket King Falls Victim to Gangland Guns Chicago U.R) Theodore (Teddy) Roe, king of a .huge gambling ring on Chicago's South Side, was shot down in the gutter Monday night by gangland guns, and his empire was up for grabsl No one knew "who would mount the throne and take over the 54-year-old Negro's lucra tive operations. Two Shotgun Blasts Roe was murdered in front of his home. Two shotgun blasts hit him in the chest and another blew a hole in the right side of his neck. He never had a chance to draw his own pistol. The millionaire Negro was the undisputed - king of the policy 1 X. 1 A. XI 1 1 J ! racket, about the only kmd of gambling still thriving strongly 1 78 Towns Marked For Assaults by Allied Warplanes Bold Move Designed To Save Loss of Life , Seoul (U.R) The United Na tions announced Tuesday it has warned North Korean civilians to clear out of 78 towns marked for attack by its warplanes. The bold new move was de signed to save needless loss of civilian lives even though it alerted Communist air power and anti-aircraft guns for com ing raids. Warning Leaflets Dropped Lt. Gen. Glenn O. Barcus, commander of the 5th Air Force, said American B-29 Superfort resses have dropped more than 1,500,000 warning leaflets over the designated target areas. "The United Nations com mand Air Force must destroy all Communist military supplies and installations," the leaflets" read, "and it knows where they are." Barcus said the Allies also are . broadcasting the names of the target towns at regular intervals over Radio Seoul up to the time U.N. planes reach them. Two Towns Already Hit Two of the 78 towns already have been hit. Sinchon and Yo nan, in the Haeju peninsula area, were attacked after leaflet and radio warnings. Far East Air Force officials said the Communist concentra tion points warned of impending attacks - included areas around Pyongyang, Chinnampo, Kyomi pol, Pyohggang, Sariwon, Sinan ju, Chongju and other important cities along the main supply routes from Manchuria. Seoul, Korea (U.R) United Nations jet planes,- flying pro tective cover for fighter-bombers attacking targets across North Korea, shot down four Communist MIG-15 jets and damaged six others Tuesday for their biggest toll of enemy planes in a month. The 10 MIGs were destroyed or damaged in five separate aerial duels this afternoon, one" of them between a flight of F-84 Thunderjets and eight MIGs. The slower F-84 seldom tangles with-the MIGs. Near 38th Parallel The Thunderjet-MIG duel oc curred between Haeju almost on the 38th Parallel, and Sariwon, about 35 miles above the paral lel. Fifth Air Force officials did not disclose the exact location of the fight, but . it was further south than the MIGs' usual cruising zone.- Disorderly Conduct Charged to Parker George T. Parker, Camp White, will be arraigned in dis trict court today on a charge of disorderly conduct, according to Deputy District Attorney Bob Dickey. Parker was involved, in a fight with Fred Warner. 318 New town street, Medford, Yellow cab driver, early Monday mor ning at Gold Hill, according to state police. Warner was exam ined at the Community hospital yesterday following the fight, but was not kept for observa tion, according to hospital at tendants. The complaint against Parker was signed by Warner. in Chicago since the Kefauver crime investigation and the fed eral gambling stamp law. Jt has long been known that white gangsters from the West Side were jealous of Roe's rich take from the policy wheels. Once three men tried to kidnap him, but Roe managed to whip out his own gun and shoot his way free. Found in Gutter A syndicate hoodlum, Leon ard (Fat Lenny) Calfano, was killed in that gunfight. Roe's body was found in the t gutter by Park District Patrol-' man Wayne Williams. Police could "find no eyewitnesses to the slaying, but several people. including the gambler's wife. heard the shots.
