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United Press Full Leased Wire 47th Year 18 Pages Arnall Discusses Possibilily With President Truman Truman Attentive, Price Boss Says Washington (UP.) Price Stabilizer Ellis Arnall told President Truman Wednesday "it may be necessary and pro per" to call a special session of Cangress if food prices "conti nue to get out of hand." Arnall conferred with Mr. Truman for 30 minutes at the White House but declined to discuss reports that he turned in his resignation. However, his as sociates have said he intends to quit Sept, 1. Broad Hint Given Arnall hinted broadly that Mr. Truman may reveal some thing about Arnall's future at his news conference Thursday. He said Mr. Truman was "very attentive" to his report on the increase in food prices and also the steel price increase impact on the economy. Arnall said Congress had so weakened the Defense Production Act and crippled funds for its enforce ment so badly that he feels it may be necessary to ask Con gress to patch it up. "I suggested that if food prices continue : to get out of hand it may be necessary and proper to call a special session," Arnall told newsmen after his talk with Mr. Truman. High Fire Danger . In Oregon Forests 7 Due To Continue By UNITED PRESS A drop in the fire danger in northwest Oregon resulting from a flow of marine air Wednesday was only temporary and the weatherman said higher temper atures and lower humidities would bring an increased fire threat to forests of the region Thursday. a High temperatures and low humiSities continued the high fire danger in southwest and south-central Oregon. Two Blazes Fought Fire-fighting crews, meantime, were battling two blazes in the Pacific Northwest. One fire in the Mt. Hood Na tional forest on Red Hill, about seven miles southwest of Park- dale, had burned 80 acres Wednesday. The blaze started Tuesday afternoon on the Louis Birkenfeld logging operation and spread through virgin and second-growth timber. Another fire was reported by Guy Johnson, regional fire dis patcher, in sage brush and wheatland near Chelan, Wash. Johnson said strong winds fan ned the 200-acre blaze, making it difficult to control. About 100 men were battling the blaze. SPECIAL SESSION SIEwfJEEi IF FOOD M0ES 'CLIMB' HieHER Drought Problems Studied As Requests for Aid Mount By UNITED PRESS The government Wednesday studied the enormous problems of aiding farmers in the grip of a multi-million-dollar drought that was spreading economic disruption over a fourth of the nation's agriculture. Seven additional states clam ored for an extension of a drought-disaster area already touching 10 states in the South and New England. New reports of crop damage signaled intensi fying drought conditions m a part of the Midwest. Forest Fires Raging Despite general cloudiness and scattered showers over the East, forest fires devastated New England timberlands and Dixie farmers found too little mois ture -for urgently needed re plantings. The U. S. Weather Bureau added to the bleak picture of dusty, fields, browned pastures and Jean stock herds a long range forecast that showers dur ing the rest of August "may Eisenhower Tells 1 O-Point Program in Address to VRfJ Denver (U.R) Dwight D. Eisenhower's second "platform" was laid before the nation Wed nesday in a statement of the Re publican presidential candi date's hopes for the future. The former five-star general outlined a 10-point program be fore the" 53rd encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at Los Angeles Tuesday night a few hours before returning to his temporary campaign head quarters here. Essentials Summarized Speaking before some 20,000 persons in the huge 100,000-seat Memorial Coliseum, Eisenhower told his former comrades-inarms that his 10-point credo summarized the essentials "in the dreams of each and all of us." Eisenhower's address, made on the occasion of his recieving the VFW's Bernard Baruch Dis tincniishpd Service Medal, cli maxed a brisk four-hour whirl wind arrival, reception and tour by. the candidate who termed his visit to Los Angeles non-political, although California's top political figures were on hand to greet him. Given Two Ovations The crowd gave Eisenhower a minute-long ovation when he was introduced by VFW Com mander Frank C. Hilton and an other when he finished. They in terrupted his speech about eight times with applause. Eisenhower chose the occa sion -ol his receiving the Baruch award to tell the ex-servicemen Narcotics Raid Nets Seven in Portland Portland U.R) Seven per sons, suspected of dope addic tion and peddling, were arrest ed early Wednesday at an up town Portland hotel. . Five of those taken into cus tody by Portland police vice squad were women. . : Police said the raid probably would put an end to narcotics peddling which netted dope ring leaders an estimated $500 a day. Among those arrested was Ed- die Lee, 42-year-old Chinese, who was charged with violation of federal narcotics laws. Police said they found an estimated 23 grains of heroin in his apart ment at the hotel. The five women, all with po lice records, were charged with state vagrancy. Loco Woman 'Improved' After Suicide Attempt Mrs. Myrtle Reichstein, 71, of 444 South Front street, attempt ed to take her own life yester day by drinking a disinfectant, according to city police who said they received the information from a Medford physician. After her stomach was pump ed out Mrs. Reichstein was tak en to Sacred Heart hospital. At tendants there reported her con dition was "much improved" to day. ' . . bring some, but not sufficient, relief." Loss of a harvest, necessity of buying feed for livestock and the coast of replanting spelled financial ruin for thousands of farmers unles ' sthey could be tided over. The Department of Agricul ture called farm officials of 10 states into session at Atlanta to set up procedures for rapidly processing government loans in the disaster area already, cover ing eight states and parts of two others. ... Governors Ask Funds Governors of Tennessee -and Kentucky requested President Truman to authorize use of his emergency fund to subsidize the cost of shipping in feed from states not hit by the drought. - A spokesman for Western rail roads said they are "obliged to refuse? .to provide, lower freight rates on emergency hay ship ments as authorized by the Inter state Commerce Commission be cause the rates "already are on a low basis." MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, what they had fought for, dreamed about and desired of their country. He said his 10-point program was the result of talking "with many an old comrade" and in GEN, DWIGHT EISENHOWER Outlines Program Wesfside Heights Annexation Okayed Westside Heights addition was incorporated into the city last night during the council meet ing at city hall. Councilman Dwight Houghton commended Contractor D. A. Parker for his efforts to make the area confirm with city spec ifications. No one appeared to speak eith er for or against the annexation during the brief hearing. A hear ing was also set for the inclusion of a peninsula of non-city land north of the Verde Hills addi tion. It was continued to the next meeting. The council also passed an or dinance calling for bids on a $100,000 bond issue for financ ing airport construction.- There is a deficiency of approximately $90,000, according to Dwight Houghton, ' chairman of - the fi nance committee. The rules were suspended to allow a sec ond and third reading for the finance ordinance last night. Councilman Paul Selby urged Superintendent Robert Duff to contact California Oregon Pow er company regarding the plac ing of street lights that are "badly needed on the east side." He cited several streets badly in need of additional lighting. (See Story on Page 3) Byrnes To Support Democratic Ticket Columbia, S.C. (U.R) Gov. James F. Byrnes, one of the sharpest Southern critics of the Truman administration in which he once played a leading role, threw his support to the Demo cratic presidential ticket .Wed nesday. This meant that the South Car olina State Convention, recon vened for a look at the national party ticket, undoubtedly would endorse the Stevenson-Sparkman slate and thus end the last real possibility of a major Southern bolt in November. South Carolina is ?na of the three Southern states which re fused to sign the loyalty pledge at the Democratic National Con vention in Chicago. But the state delegation was seated any how. Price Increases OK'd For Aluminum Producers ' Washington (U.R) The gov ernment Wednesday authorized price increases totaling about $50,000,000 a year for aluminum producers. The Office of Price Stabiliza tion regulation authorized an in crease of one cent a pound for producers of primary aluminum, alloys and ingots and an increase of 5 per cent for producers of other primary aluminum mill products. . making it public he merely was putting into words what they all had thought. "These points are not a pro gram of impossibilities," he said "Every one of them is within our reach provided only that you and I accept our responsibil ities as citizens and do our civic duty .... To Increase Strength "Let us look at them: Stated in the form of proposals, of positive objectives "To increase America's strength; spiritual, creative and material. "To win a just and lasting peace secured by the strength of the free world. "To build a prosperity not based on war. "To make America's promise of equality a living fact for every American. "To strengthen, and extend measures for the security and welfare of the people. "To protect the earnings and savings of the people from the double toll of high prices and high taxes. To Serve Interests of All . "To serve the worthy inter ests of every group of our peo ple, yet make the test of each policy: Is it good for America? "To restore honesty to govern ment. - "To insure, by means which guard our basic rights, that those who serve in government are Americans of loyalty and dedication.. ....... , . k "To revive in every American the faith' that he can achieves better future for himself and his family." Acquittal Requested For Convicted Reds Los Angeles U.R) Defense attorneys for 14 California Com munist party leaders convicted of violating the Smith act pleaded with Federal Judge William C. Mathes Wednesday to throw out a jury's verdict and acquit the Reds. The Reds, convicted Tuesday of plotting to teach and advo cate the violent overthrow of the government, were brought to court from county jail to hear their attorneys argue for a mo tion for a directed verdict of acquittal. Judge Mathes had postponed a decision on the motion earlier in the trial. Under , federal law, ' Judge Matties can vacate the jury's ver dict and issue a verdict of inno cent. If he denied the motion, however, the Communists face maximum sentences of $10,000 fines and five years in prison. Oregon Polio Cases Appear on Decline Portland (U.R) Polio appar ently is cn the decline in Ore gon the State Board of Health reported Wednesday. For the first time since early in July the number of cases re-, ported for a week has declined, the board said. Only nine cases were reported last ' week com pared with 14 the week before. In Umatilla county, where 24 cases were reported since July 5, only two cases were reported last week. Malheur county, which had five the week before, had none last week. Oregon has had 71 cases of polio since April compared to 46 for the same period last year. Rhee Cinches Election As President of Korea Pusan, - Korea (U.R) Presi dent Syngman Rhee cinched his election as South Korea's first popularly-chosen president Wednesday by running up a three-to-one majority over his two principal opponents with the vote from Tuesday's elec tion two-thirds in. Washington (U.R) Senator Wayne Morse left Washington by air Tuesday for Europe, where he will spend a month in specting United States military bases as a member of a senate armed services committee. Tribune 1952 OFF TO THE RACES Fifteen-year-old Richard Reeves, Grants Fass, is shown at right center, above, as he prepared to leave tne Medford municipal airport yesterday for the National Soap Box Derby at Akron, O. Seeing him off are Medford Mayor D. L. Flynn, left, and Grants Pass Mayor Morris Milbank, right, while Capt. Max Campbell, pilot of the plane, looks on. Richard won the right to compete in the national derby by winning the Rogue Valley Soap Box derby here July 13. He was accompanied to Akron, where the national derby starts August 10, by his mother, Mrs. Ralph A. Reeves, arid by Jimmy Dunlevy, chairman of the local derby. Also on hand to see the boy off were the Grants Pass Glad iolus festival queen and her court and representatives of United Air line. (Brainerd photo). New Scandals Found In Alcohol Tax Unit Washington (U.R) House in vestigators have dug up a whole new batch of scandals in the In ternal Revenue Bureau this time in its Alcohol Tax unit. Congressional informants said a thorough-going investigation Stevenson Manager Scoffs at Reports ADA Bossing Drive Springfield, 111." (U.R) - Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson's cam paign manager scoffed Wednes day ' at charges Americans for Democratic Action and the left wing of the Democratic party have taken over Stevenson's campaign. Wilson W. Wyatt, campaign manager for the Democratic pres idential "nominee, said ADA leaders had tried to draft Dwight D. Eisenhower, now the, Repub lican nominee, for the Democra tic presidential nomination in 1948. Wyatt said he had refused to join the move. Appointment Brings Charge It was Wyatt's appointment to the Stevenson campaign di rectorship that brought Republi can charges that the ADA. ana Democratic party left wing had taken over the campaign. Wyatt was ADA chairman when it was founded in 1947. Meanwhile, Stevenson prepar ed for a conference this . after noon with Sen. Richard B. Rus sell of Georgia. Schedules Address Stevenson also prepared for the first of his major pre-cam- paign speeches, an address to be delivered at the American ..Le gion National convention Aug. 27 in New York. The governor will speak two days after Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republican nominee. After the Russell visit, Stev enson expects to talk with Mu tual Security Administrator av erell Harriman, who is expected to arrive tonight . for an over night stav and a conference with the governor Thursday. Harri man is' another presidential as pirant who threw in the towel to Stevenson. Packinghouse Workers In Contract Negotiations Chicago (U.R) The CIO United Packinghouse workers met with three major meat packers Wednesday in negotia tions on new contracts covering about 70,000 workers. The current contract expires Aug. 11. The union said it is seeking "substantial" wage increases, but announced m specific fig ure. It also seeks a union shop, a guaranteed annual wage and other concessions. Weather FORECAST: Continued hot and dry with a few afternoon showers over the mountains. Low tonight 60. High Thurs day 95. Temn. Highest Yesterday 95 Lowest this Morning 58 United Press Full Leased Wire No. 118 conducted with the active help of the Treasury Department, has produced evidence that a num ber of liquor dealers were al lowed to settle large federal tax claims for "puny" sums. They said it also has been es tablished that liquor licenses were , issued to former prohibi tion era bootleggers and to oth er "shady characters" and that persons with "political influ ence' have wangled choice jobs in the Alcohol Tax unit. The findings are scheduled for a public airing later this year by the House" Ways and Means sub committee headed by Rep. Cecil King, D-Calif., which already, has turned up widespread cor ruption in the nations tax col lecting system. Car Theft Charges face 14-Year-0ld A 14-year-old Yakima, Wash., boy was in the Medford jail Tuesday, charged with the theft of a car from Medford Monday night. State police arrested the youth five miles north of Grants Pass on the Pacific highway Monday. He was kept in the Josephine county jail until he could be transported to Medford. The stolen automobile belongs to J. E. Stratman, Grants Pass. He left it at 17 South Riverside with the keys still in the igni tion. The car was halted by the state police less thn an hour aft er it was reported missing. The boy told the local police he was on probation in Yakima. He has been in truble for vari out petty larceny charges, he added. He ran away from home bunday and hitch hiked to Ash land. Oregon Socialists To Nominate Saturday Salem (U.R) Oregon Social ists will hold their state nominat ing convention Saturday - if at least 250 qualified voters attend a meeting n Bush school here. Darlington Hoopes, Socialist party candidate for president, will attend the meeting and his name will go on the state ballot in November if he is nominated by at least 250 voters the mini mum required by Oregon law. Hoopes has been a member of the Socialist party since 1914 and was Norman Thomas' running mate on the Socialist ticket in 1944. Widow Sticks At Movie on Night of Girl's Vancouver, Wash. (U.R) A Portland widow Wednesday stuck to her story that she saw Trman, and U"tah Wilson, con demned slayers of J o A n n Dewey, in a Portland theater at the time the brothers were ac cused of kidnaping the 17-year-old Meadowglade, Wash., girl in March of 1950. . Innocence Certain Mrs. Eva Adams told Clark County Prosecutor R. DeWitt Jones Tuesday she was certain the boys did not commit the crime. J'I know they were in the three-day bag OF RED' PLANES PLACED AT. 24' Seoul, Korea (U.R) United Nations jet pilots knocked down six Communist MIG-15 jets and damaged two others Wed nesday to run their bag of MIGs destroyed or damaged in the past three days to 24. The 5th Air Force said all eight MIGs Wednesday were victims of Sabrejets of the 4th and 51st Fighter-Interceptor Wings. The exact number of planes involved in the dogfights was not immed iately known. During the last three days Allied pilots destroyed 11 MIGs and damaged 13, bringing the August total to 15 shot down and 16 damaged. Fifth Air Force officers added three more damage claims to the list Wednesday after viewing gun camera films. The previous damage total for the three days was 10. Light Bombers Blast Korean Gold Mine WhUe Sabrejets battled the MIGs over -Northwest Korea, U.N. light bombers blasted a gold mine in North-Central Ko rea believed the primary source of gold used by the Korean Reds to buy war materials. Allied fighter-bombers also struck a tungsten mine near Yangdok. B-26 light bombers and Marine shore-based planes returned at night to take , up where the day shift left off. Pilots from the American car riers Essex and Boxer inflicted new or additional damage on four Communist hydro-electric plants and on one steam plant. Supply Train Destroyed The minesweeper Carmick destroyed an eight-car train on the East Coast supply route. The destroyer Pierce joined in the kill and remained at the scene to prevent removal of the wreck age. Ground action was light. The most "significant action Tuesday took place west of the Pukhan river, where the Allies repulsed three Red probing attacks. Eighth army officials an nounced that Communist casual ties during July were the lowest since March. Totals included 4,499 Reds killed, 4,389 wound ed and 84 taken prisoner. The number of prisoners was a rec ord low. Church of Brethren Pastor Transferred The Rev. Stanley G. Keller, pastor of the Medford Church of the Brethren, has accepted a call from the Covina, Calif., church and. will assume his new duties on September 1. He will be succeeded here by the Rev. Joseph R. Jennings, pas tor for a number of years at Santa Ana, Calif. Mr. Keller and his family came to Medford at the time of formation of a new congrega tion. Church of the Brethren members in this area at that time numbered about 40. A church was built. Membership is now about 100 and average Sunday attendance is 85. ine cnurch nas had mission status but now is almost self supporting, members said.' Mr. Keller will preach his farewell message at 11 a.m. this Sunday. Mr. Jennings and his family are expected here in about one week. They will reside in the new parsonage at 214 Stark street. Total of Park Visitors Larger Than Last Year Even though the roads and trails were not opened until far later in the month than last year, more people visited Crater Lake National park last month than did in July, 1951, according to Park Supervisor John B. Wosky. The park welcomed 88,893 vis itors this year. This was one per cent ''increase over July of last year. Only about half as many peo ple visited the camp grounds this year, but two of the camps did not open until late in the month. There were only 3,167 campers las, month. Salem (U.R) Edwin J. Stastny, Malin, has been ap pointed to the Oregon Potato Commission to fill the unexpir ed term of Scott Warren, Klam ath Falls, resigned, the gover nor's office announced Wednesday. to Story Wilson Brothers Playhouse theater in Portland that night. My eyesight is good. I saw them when the bright lights of the theater were turned on." . - Mrs. Adams, who said she had received a telephone threat last Friday not to visit the prosecu tor, was accompanied to Jones' office by the Rev. C. R. Lam bert, chairman of - a newly formed committee seeking to get the brothers' death sentences commuted. They are scheduled to die Aug. 15. Phone Call Threatens The woman said an unidenti Frye Candidate for Reelection to City Council Position Harold Frye, 803 West Second street, Tuesday announced he would be a candidate for re election to the city council. Frye is seeking a fourth term on the council as a representa tive of Ward 3. He has not yet obtained a petition, according to Miss Neva Samuels who is sub-" stituting this week for the vaca tioning city recorder, J. Ralph Woodford. Frye is proprietor of a grocery store at 803 West Second street. On the council, he is chairman of the park committee. He is the second councilman whose term expires in Novem ber to announce he will be a can didate. John Snider, from Ward 1, announced earlier that he will run for the council. Not Candidates The terms of Elmer Childers and Dwight Houghton also ex pire this year, but they have both announced they will not run for reelection. Two candiates for the council vacancies have filed petitions. They are Dick Woodcock, Ward 2, and Jack Fitzgerald, Ward 4. The deadline for filing for city offices is August 30. Petitions must be in the recorder's office by August 26 to provide time for checking of the signatures. Graduate Student Enrollment Heavy Ashland (U.R) More than twice as many students than ex pected have taken advantage of the graduate study program at Oregon's three colleges of edu cation since the program was ap proved in January, the Oregon State Board of Higher Educa tion was- told Tuesday. Dr. Charles Byrne, chancellor of the board, told the group at the close of a two-day meeting here that 217 students were en rolled this semester at the three schools. He said the original es timate was 105 students. The graduate program was ap proved after considerable de bate and started during the pres ent summer term. 5 Persons Fined for Illegal Sale of Beer Martin A. Hayes of Hayes Gro cery, 2743 North Pacific high way, Medford, was fined $55 yes terday in district court for selling beer to a minor girl, according to court records. The complaint against Hayes charged the unlawful sale of alco holic beverages to a 17-year-old girl. The girl purchased the beer for herself and three other girls, all 18 years of age. All four girls were charged with illegal possession of alco holic beverages and Judge Rawles Moore fined each girl $25. BASEBALL AMERICAN Cleveland 7-9-1 Chicago 1-5-1 Wynn and Hegan; Kennedy, Aloma 7, Dobson 9 and Lol lar. Home run: For Cleveland Doby. Slaying fied man telephoned her saying, "You are interfering in the Wil son case. If you go to Vancouver to talk about it you'll never get back home." She said she did hot worry about the call. Both Mrs. Adams and the Rev. Lambert said, however, that Jones remained unconvinc ed of her story. Sworn in Affidavit - Mrs. Adams swore in an affi davit several months ago she at tended the theater on the night of the kidnaping and that two youths, identified by her as the Wilson brothers? sat next to her.
