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Ion Meoft Packing) Ift MS.es NFW COMMANDER James W. Cothran of Bishopvffle, N. C, the new Veterans of Foreign Wars Comman.vChief, is held up by buddies during the closing session of the 53rd encampment of the VFW at Los Angeles. US Marines Repel Enemy Attempt To Seize Bunker Hill Seoul, Korea (U.R) Hard fighting U.S. Marines threw back a horde of screaming Chinese Communists who tried in vain to retake Bunker Hill Tuesday and grimly braced themselves for another assault as night fell over the battlefield. The counter-attack on the strategic hill five miles east of the truce village of Panmun jom came at 4 p.m., less than 12 hours after the Leathernecks took it in a surprise move. Began Monday Night The battle for Bunker hill be gan Monday night with a Marine tank attack. The Leathernecks then caught the Reds off balance by feinting an attack at nearby Siberia hill with flamethrowers and infantry. Then they attacked and took the higher Bunker hill by dawn. During the day, Allied fighter bombers, tanks, artillery guns and small arms ffred shells, bul let and bombs at the Communists with the aim oi weakening the expected counterattack. Work Against Time The Leathernecks meanwhile worked frantically against time to set up pre-fabricated bunkers out of logs they had carried with them up the hillside during the attack . . When the grenad carryi' -Chinese began the attack, the Marines wereready;'.The sharp shooting Leathernecks mowed down the advance' Communist battalion as it moved forward. 'No Comment' From Haviland A "no comment" reply was made this morning by District Attorney Paul Haviland to a question regarding rumors that he may resign from his position about September 1 to enter pri vate practice. Haviland, who was a candi date for the Republican nomina tion for district attorney in the May primary, was defeated by Walter Nunley who will run for election in the November con test. There is no Democratic candidate for the office. Havi land would normally hold office until next January when the newly-elected prosecutor would take office. Were Haviland to re sign before next January. Gov. Douglas McKay would have to make an interim appointment. Haviland stated further this morning that he would make any such notices of resignation pub lic at the proper time and only after he had notified the govern or, who appointed him to the office at the death of the late George Neilson. Space Ship Possible, SOC Educators Told Ashland .(U.R) An aero nautics education official says a space ship could be built now for a cool half-billion dollars. Roscoe Bancroft, director of civil aeronautics education in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wy oming and Alaska, said he ful ly expects his nine-year-old son to have a chance to make a trip to the moon some day. Bancroft made his remarks to to group of educators at South ern Oregon college here. He urg ed teachers to teach in the light of the world in which children will be living 20 to 50 years from now. Such questions as "freedom of the air" and ownership of the strategic north pole are going to be vital ones in the future, he said. Weather FORECAST: Continued fair and warm through Wednesday. Low tonight 60, high tomorrow 92 95. Hignest Yesterday 94 Lowest this Morning 59 President's Role in Stevenson's Campaign Still Question Mark Washington (U.R) President Truman and Gov. Adlai Steven son had a "very satisfactory" conference Tuesday on plans for the presidential campaign. Stevenson, the Democratic nominee, and Mr. Truman will not make public their decisions on campaign plans until later. Thus, for the time being, Mr. Truman's role in Stevenson's campaign for the White House remained a question mark. Stevenson, governor of Illinois, and his running mate, Sen. John J. Sparkman of AlaBama, spent three and one-half hours at the White House. Mr. Truman escorted Stevenson and Sparkman to the west wing entrance of the White House where they made- brief statements after the conference ended. Stevenson said the talk was "very satisfactory" and he was "deeply grateful" to Mr. Truman. Stevenson said that he expected to be "richly rewarded" by the opportunity to talk about campaign plans with the President. Landing Strip at Crater Lake Park Will Be Proposed . Salem -U.R) Construction of a lending strip in Crater Lake National park -to accommodate the aviation tourist industry in Oregon will be proposed to the National Park Service, the State Board r.f Aeronautics said Tues day. A park service regulation, ai riest.? oW,. a? . aviation. ..vlielf, how forbids the.4anding of air craft within the boundaries of national parks. Rule Said Relic William M. Bartlett, director of the state board, branded the rule as "asinine" and a relic of the horse and buggy days. He said he has been directed to "in stigate proceedings", at once to abolish the ruling and take steps to establish a recreational and emergency landing strip within the park boundaries in southern Oregon. Site First Step Bartlett said the first step would be a preliminary site in vestigation by the board in co operation with the district engi neer of the Civil Aeronautics Administration to' find a suitable location for the strip. Later, the board would make a formal re quest to the parks service for a use permit to build the landing strip at state expense. Pilots have reported to the board that an ideal site exists near the rim of the lake and within walking distance of the lodge. At present, the closest landing strip to Crater Lake is at Beaver Marsh, on Highway 97 south of Chemult, Ore. Donors Still Needed For Wednesday Visit An appeal for all blood donors in Jackson county to make ap pointments for donations to the bloodmobile unit which will be at the Elks temple Wednesday from 1 to 6 p.m. was made to day by local blood bank officials. Appointments can be made by phone 3-3813 and walk-in donors will be welcome at the blood mobile unit. The uni is still over 150 short of making its 250 quota for the August collection. Blood for this drive will also come under the new disaster stockpile program started last Sunday for reserves in case of an atomic attack. Donations will be used first for the armed serv ices and local disasters, with the remainder going to a national re serve stockpile. Ex-Oregonan Takes Revenue Bureau Post Washington (U.R) Eldon P. King, son of the late Oregon Supreme Court Associate Jus tice William R. King, took of fice Monday as head of the In ternal Revenue Bureau's office of international tax relations. King, 58, has been with the bureau for 32 years. He left Oregon when he enlisted in the Army in World War I. After the war he studied law at Washing ton and Lee University. . Washington (U.R) Gov. Ad lai E. Stevenson explored with President Truman Tuesday whether the Chief Executive would be given a "give-em-hell" or "take-it-easy" role in the presidential campaign. The Democratic presidential nominee, who has been notice ably reluctant to associate hinv self too closely with the White House, flew into town for a five' hour round of conferences with Mr. Truman, the cabinet, and Democratic Party leaders. Rola Not Decided Before entering the White House for a top-level briefing on international and domestic ; af- itirs and a discussion of Mrf. Truman's part in the November campaign, Stevenson was asked whether Mr. Truman's role in .the campaign had been decided: "No," he replied, "but we'll probably talk about that today."; Briefed By Acheson First, the Illinois governor got a 20-minute briefing from Sec retary of State Dean Acheson and Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Then he went into the White House's state dining room for luncheon with Mr. Truman's Cabinet. The briefing included Stevenson's vice - presidential mate, Sen. John J. Sparkman of Alabama. Stevenson agreed to meet with newsmen after conferring with the President and the Cabi net. He also was scheduled to visit Democratic headquarters here. New County Juvenile Worker Starts Duties Mrs. Kay Kunkel, newly-appointed Jackson county juvenile probation officer, assumed her duties this morning at the court house. Mrs.' Kunkel was formerly chief probation officer of San Joaquin county, Calif.,, and was associated with work at Stock ton, Calif., for 10J4 years," ac cording to Circuit Judge H. K. Hanna. She is replacing Frank Sawacki, who recently resigned from the position. The new officer arrived here last night and will estabUsh a permanent residence as soon as possible. Her mother, Mrs. Cora Potter, will reside here . also, while Mrs. Kunkel's son, who is married, will remain in Stock ton where he is attending col lege. Billion Dollars Needed For Columbia Project Vancouver, Wash. (U.R) Rep. Henry M. Jackson, D Wash., Tuesday said $1,000,000, 000 would be needed in the next three years to keep the Colum bia river development program on schedule. Of the $1,000,000,000 requir ed for the Columbia river pro gram, Jackson said more than half will go for continued, or new construction of power dams at the rate of about $200,000,000 annually. ; Chicago (U.R) Federal and state agriculture officials met with meat packers and livestock producers Tuesday to discuss in demnity payments for hogs in fected with vesicular exan Medford United Presi FnU Lewd Wire - 47th Year 16 Pages Acheson Attacks . Czechoslovakia for Hvasla Treatment Failure To Supply Information Rapped Washington (U.R) Secre tary of State Dean Acheson de TaA r7prhnslovakia 11UUUI.CU ill-u Tuesday for "outrageous" treat ment of John Hvasta, a u.s. citi zen unreported for seven months since his "escape" from a Czech prison. Acheson cited Czechoslova kia's refusal to allow U.S. offi cials to see Hvasta in prison and for failure to supply full infor mation about his "escape." Consequences Pointed Up "This points up again the out rageous consequences that flow from the refusal of Czechoslova kia and other treaty countries to allow our consuls to see our citizens in their countries," he said. Hvasta, 25-year-old student from Hillside, N.J., ,was sen tenced nearly four years ago to 10 years in prison on trump edup spy charges. The Czechs reported last week he escaped Jan. 2. He has failed to show up on this side of the Iron Curtain, and U.S. authorities fear he again fell into Red hands, if he, in fact! actually escaped. There was some fear he might have been slain. Whereabouts Unknown Acheson said "we have no in formation" on Hvasta's where abouts but it might have been otherwise "if we had been af forded our rights." ; . Acheson pointed out this gov ernment is forced to.vjely on Communist authorities for it3 information and , he made it clear he felt they were not i liable. Acheson said he could report "nothing new" on efforts to free another American prisoner in Czechoslovakia . Associated Press Correspondent William N Oatis. He said this government is continuing its efforts "unin terruptedly" to win Oatis' re lease as well as to get news on Hvasta. European Armies Fail To Reach Agreement Paris (U.R) The six member countries of the proposed Euro pean army failed to agree Tues day on a uniform period of mill tary service. France and Italy ignored a last minnti anneal from Gen. Mat thew B. Ridgway and rejected any increase now beyond their present 18-month term for draft ed men. The six chiefs of the proposed European Defense Community met here at the request of Bel gium, where a Socialist-led cam- Daien of strikes and demonstra tions has erupted against the only two-year draft period in Western Europe. At a two hour and 15 minute session under the chairmanship of Herve Alphand of France, the experts from France, West Ger many, Italy, Belgium, The Neth erlands and Luxembourg failed to find any formula. No Food Price Crops Lagging Washington (U.R) House wives, already aghast at the highest food prices in history, were forewarned Tuesday to brace themselves for worse. The Agriculture Department reported that this year's produc tion of 23 popular food crops is lagging behind 1951 output. Fruits, Vegetables Hit Most of the foods for which re duced supplies are in prospect, are fruits and vegetables, which are exempt from price controls. They rose sharply in price last month, and officials can find nothing in" the latest crop report to indicate the trend will be re versed. There were some bright spots, however, to the statistic-laden re port which the Agriculture De partment issued late Monday. Despite widespread droughty far mers are expected to turn in a bumper wheat crop and the fourth largest corn crop on record. - - MEDFORD, OREGON, Man Held in Makes Getaway; Recaptured Bringing back a man wanted in connection with the armed robbery of the Christian market, Lozier lane at Stewart avenue, in December of 1948 is proving quite a task, according to Sher iff Howard Gault. The man, Milton E. Morgan, 25, was apprehended in Indian apolis, Ind., and extradition was arranged through Gov. Henry F. Schricker. A deputy was duly dispatched to Indiana to get Mor gan, susposedly being held on the warrant charging him with armed robbery. However, before the deputy isarmament Talks Urged United Nations, N.Y. (U.R) The United States Tuesday proposed a disarmament confer ence of the Big Five powers to consider permitted arms and agreement upon elimination of mass destruction weapons in cluding atomic bombs. U.S. Delegate Benjamin V. Cohn made the suggestion to the 12-nation disarmament com mission. In conjunction with Britain and France, he submit ted a supplementary working plan designed to meet Russian objections to an earlier proposal to put ceilings on armed forces. On May 28, the three powers proposed that the armed strength of the U.S., Russia and China should be limited to 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 men and Britain and France to 700,000 to 800, 000. Other countries would dis arm on a proportionate basis under the plan. Russia rejected! that proposal as "radically deficient" because it did not deal specifically with distribution of armed " forces among the : laria ' sea" and air services and did not restrict "ar maments permitted for the? sup port of the armed forces allow ed. "If our proposal for fixing numerical limitations on all arm ed forces is accepted," Cohen told the commission, J'and the powers principally concerned are prepared to undertake ser ious negotiations, the procedure we are suggesting is as follows: "Arrangements might be made for a conference of the five great powers which are perm anent members of the Security Council (U.S., Britain, France, Russia and China) with a view to reaching tentative agreement Poisonous Fumes Overcome Workers Seattle (U.R) Carbon monox ide fumes from a leaking com pressor used to operate a jack hammer overcame 23 women at the Cedargreen Frozen Foods factory here Tuesday. Ambulances, fire department first aid crews and police rush ed to the scene. They worked in relays to revive the victims. Eight of the women were given oxygen at the scene. All were taken to King county hospital where they are reported in fair condition. Portland (U.R) Junior Ray Fertig, 26, of Portland, was killed Tuesday when he appar ently lost control of his motor cycle and crashed into a power pole. Relief Seen; Behind 1951 That means that the livestock feed situation, while it may be tight, at least won't be desperate, Here are the food crops that will be in short supply this year than last: " Apples, peaches, dried beans, dried peas, grapes, pecans, sweet potatoes,, plums, watermelons, tomatoes, onions, cabbage, eel ery, sweet corn, snap beans,' cauliflower, cucumbers, beets, green peDDers. spinach, lima beans, eggplant and milk. Vegetable Crops Off Officials said summer produc tion of commercial vegetable crops for fresh market sale is running 4 per cent off last year. The main crops for freezing and canning show a 20 per cent de cline from 1951. Of chief concern to agriculture officials is how the prospective tight supply of livestock feed will affect future supplies of steaks and crops. . . TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, Indiana for Local Police arrived, Morgan obtained a re lease from custody through an attorney on a writ of habeas cor pus. He was released to the custody of the attorney and was supposedly to reappear in court a few days later. He apparently had other ideas and left town without notice. An immediate Midwest search began and Morgan was again caught, this time in Rainey, La. Gault said the deputy has been ordered to proceed to Lou isiana to pick up the man, who they hope will not be again let out of jail. Two other men involved in the among themselves by negotia tion on: "(A) The distribution by prin cipal categories of the armed forces that they would consider necessary and appropriate to maintain within the agreed num erical ceilings proposed for their armed forces; "(B) The types and quantities of armaments which they would consider necessary and approp riate to support permitted arm ed forces within the proposed numerical ceilings; "(C) The elimination of all Mountain Struck by One Dead, Wenatchee (U.R) Search parties located two missing Seat tle youths 6n Mt.Stiiart 25 "miles west of here Tuesday, one of them dead and the other badly burned by lightning. . The Coast Guard said Alan Robert Grant, 19, was found by a rescue party as he scrambled painfully down a ridge of the rugged, heavily wooded moun tain. He suffered second and third degree burns. Companion Dead Grant said his climbing com panion, Paul Brikoff, 20, was dead on the summit of the moun tain. The surviving youth said they were struck by lightning during a fierce thunderstorm in the mountains Sunday night. A Coast Guard helicopter was dispatched from Port Angeles, Wash., to rendezvous with the rescue party at the 3,500 foot level on the 9,470 foot mountain and bring out Grant and Bik off 's body. Reported Missing The pair set out from a camp on the north fork of the Tean- Ike Plans Campaign Start About Sept. 1 Denver (U.R) Dwight D. Eisenhower is expected to open his presidential campaign in a large Eastern city about Labor day with a speech on what he considers the overshadowing is sue, of the day world peace. The precise time and place of the speech have not been decid ed, but the GOP nominee made it clear at a' news conference Monday- he will discuss the sub ject of peace in just about every speech he makes.' "There never will be a talk in which I don't bring that in," he said. ; Tacoma Newspaper Resumes Publication Tacoma (U.R) Vice-President Delbert Baker of the Ta coma News-Tribune said the paper resumed publication Tues day after mailers and typo graphers accepted a company proposed contract which ended a labor dispute of more than 17 weeks. The Tribune was closed 14 weeks by the AFL Pressmen's strike which started April 12 The Tacoma. unit of the Seattle Newspaper Guild followed with a strike that lasted three weeks. SCHOOL OPENING SET . The elementary and junior high schools will open Monday, September 8, it was announced today from the city schools of fice. High school is scheduled to open a week later, September 15. Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire 1952 123 in Louisiana same robbery have already been sentenced. They are Joseph John Ginet, 23, who resided on Thompson creek, 10 miles above Applfegate, and Theodore Rich ard Nichols, 24, 1911 Hazel street, Medford. Both received four years in the state penitent iary. The robbery involved about $700 and was accomplished when Ginet, armed with a Lug er, and one of the other two men, who was masked and arm ed with a sawed-off shotgun iorcea iour employees into a walk-in cooler while looting the cash drawer of the market, armed forces and armaments other than those expressly per mitted, it being understood that all major weapons adaptable to mass destruction should be elim inated and atomic energy should be placed under effective inter national control to insure its use for peaceful purposes only." When the Big Five powers reached tentative agreement on their own armed strength, ac cording to the plan, regional con ferences would be held to decide similar ceilings for the smaller powers. Climbers Lightning; Other Hurt away river early Sunday. Albert Rodes, Seattle, a companion who did not make thwr.climb because of illness, reported- they were missing Monday. ' District Forest Ranger Gor don Holbrook expressed fear Monday they might have been injured and organized search partis. Copco Allowed To Amend Agreement Salem (U.R) Public Utilities Commissioner Charles H. Heltzel said Tuesday he had authorized the California-Oregon Power Co., Medford, to amend a credit agreement allowing it to sell $2,000,000 in notes for constuc tion expenditures. The original credit agreement authorized last year provided for a credit up to $12,000,000 with the Chase National Bank of New York, the American Trust Com pany, the Harris Trust and Sav ings Bank and the Commercial National Bank and Trust Com pany of New York. The sale of notes authorized in the amended agreement is to be made on or before Dec. 31, 1952, and to mature on June 30, 1953. Heltzel said the agreement was in the public interest and was approved by the PUC but that such approval was not ac tually necessary since the term of the loan was for less than a year. Ike's Sudden Concern For Old Age Chided Washington (U.R) Federal Security Administrator Oscar R. Ewing Tuesday chided Dwight D. Eisenhower for his "sudden solicitude" for the welfare of older persons. Ewing said Eisenhower's state ment over the week-end advo cating greater public assistance payments for needy old persons and expanded Social Security coverage does not square with his previous views on Social Se curity or with the Republican record in Congress. . While. Eisenhower was presi dent of Columbia University, Ewing said in a statement, the general declared in a speech: "If all Americans want is se curity, they they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads." BASEBALL NATIONAL St. Louis .'. 1 .10 0 Chicago ...1 0 6 0 Miller and D. Rice; Rush 'and AiwelL No Progress Told In Effort To End National Valkout Work Stoppages Hit Scattered Plants Chicago (U.R) Work stop pages hit scattered meat pack ing plants across the country Tuesday as federal conciliators here sought to head off a nation wide strike. A spokesman for the CIO United Packinghouse Workers reported "no progress" in pattern-setting negotiations here on new contracts to replace master agreements which expired Mon day night. Negotiations in Recess Negotiations between major packers' and the rival AFL Amal gamated Meat Cutters were in recess. At South St. Paul, Minn., CIO leaders charged that 2,300 em ployees of the Armour plant there were "locked out" when they sought to return to work after walking out Monday to at- tend a long union meeting. Union officials said Armour had demanded a guarantee that the workers would not walk out again. Kansas Work Hailed About half of the 2,200 CIO members at the Armour plant in Kansas City halted work in the pork department Tuesday. At St. Joseph, Mo., about 1,100 Armour employees were idle again today, but picket lines which had surrounded the plant were withdrawn. The company asked for a special patrol car for the plant area, but the sheriff's office said no trouble was antici pated. Cattle Killers Join At Fort Worth, Tex., 75 mem bers of Armour's cattle kill gang joined a walkout by 75 'em ployees of the sheep and hog departments who quit work Monday. Armour & Co. employees at the Chicago plant called a mass meeting for the noon hour to hear a report on the negotiations, but said there would be no work stoppage. The Armour plant here is the world's largest and em ploys about 7,000 CIO members. Armour's Atlanta, Ga., plant remained closed Tuesday and pickets surrounded the plant. Workers refused to work with out a contract. About 300 were idle at Ar mour's Tifton, Ga., plant, but production continued on a cu tailed basis. Karnes Sentenced To Gas Chamber Salem (U.R) Marion coun ty Circuit Judge George Duncan Tuesday sentenced Albert Wil liam Karnes, 24, to die in the state gas chamber Friday, Oct. 17, for the June 6 slaying of Mrs. Susan Litchfield in Salem. Karnes was convicted Satur day by a jury after J. William Stortz, court - appointed defense attorney, attempted to prove the defendant innocent by reason of mental incompetence. The jury's verdict of first de gree murder made the death sentence mandatory. Karnes be trayed no emotion when Judge Duncan read the sentence. Gold Hill Highway Contract Awarded Salem (U.R) A contract to relocate more than five miles of Highway 99 around the town of Gold Hill in southern Oregon has been awarded to the Central Heating Co. and F. L. Somers of Eugene,' the State Highway Com mission said Tuesday. ' The Jackson county project is known as the Rock Point-Black-well Hill section of the Pacific highway and will cost $704,706. It is a federal aid project. Bids were received in Port land July 11 and there were four bids higher than the one sub mitted by the Eugene firm. Iranian Premier Asks America for Loan . Tehran, Iran (U.R) The semi-official newspaper Bakhtar Emrouz reported Tuesday that Premier Mohammed Mossadegh has asked the United States for. an immediate S50,000,000 loan. The newspaper said the re quest was made to U.S. Ambass ador Loy Henderson for relay to Washington. The loan, it was said, was ask ed by Mossadegh "to help Iran export her oil" and to help com bat Communism. When he visited the U.S. last year, Mossadegh was turned down on a request for a $100, 000,000 loan.
