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47th Year 12 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1952 No. 117
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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.