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Hunker Mill Hefenders' Promise 'Slobbering' For Chinese Ms WILSON BROTHERS' FATE RESTS WITH GOVERNOR; UTAH TO BE QUESTIONED Convicted Killers Scheduled To Hang Early on Friday ' Langlie Gets Report On Truth Serum Test Olympia flJ.R) Gov. Ar thur B. Langlie must make a life or death decision for Turman and Utah Wilson, brothers sched uled to hang at 12:05 a.m. Fri day for the 1950 kidnap - mur der of JoAnn Dewey. The governor received a de tailed report Thursday on the testimony the condemned bro thers gave after taking truth serum (sodium pentothal) at the Washington' state penitentiary Wednesday night. To Study Heport Langlie will go over the re port with Van Hinkle, supervise or of public institutions who questioned the brothers after Dr. Sol Levy of Eastern State hos pital administered the drug. A preliminary report of the tests was telephoned to Harold Van Eaton, director of institu tions, but he said only the gov ernor was in a position to re lease any of the testimony. Turman Goes To Sleep Turman was first to take the truth serum test, but the initial dose put him to sleep for two hours and it was necessary to begin all over with him. Should the test fail to save the Wilson "brothers 1 from the gal lows their 'attorneys were ex pected to attempt last-minute le gal maneuvers aimed at a fourth stay of execution. Three times in the past two years Irvin Goodman and San- ford Clement, Portland attorn eys, have been successful in pre venting the executions. Twice the case has gone to the. U.S. Supreme Court only to have the higher court refuse to review it. During the past few weeks petitions asking the governor to commute the death sentence of the brothers to life imprison ment have been circulating in Washington and the Portland area. AnA airai cinno tVi o firct PYP- cution date was set, a standing request for commutation of the sentences to life imprisonment has been before the governor. Langlie's position consistently has been that he must be shown evidence which indicates the courts were wrong before he can step in and change the judg ment of the courts. From the date of their arrest and throughout their confine ment, the Wilsons have stead fastly maintained they are in nocent of the murder of 18-year-old Miss Dewey near Van couver, Wash. Crewmen Bail Out; B-29 Demolished Ritsville. Wash. (U.R) An Air Force B-29 was demolished when it ploughed into a wheat field near Ritzville early Thurs day after its crew of 15 had bailed out safely. Col. M. G. Zumwalt, com mander of Fairchild Air Force Base at Spokane, said the crew members suffered only minor cuts and light bruises in their "very satisfactory" bailout. The bomber, piloted by CapL John Heraty, was attached to the 111th strategic reconnais ance squadron at Fairchild and was on a routine training flight. Names of- the other crew mem bers were not immediately available. J 1 DEMANDING $1,000,000 DAMAGES .Film Actress Corinne Calvet (right) files suit in Los Angeles against Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian born thespian, charging she was slandered by statement she was "Cockney English girl." Corinne Insisted she was born In Paris, said her fan mall bad dropped 80 per cent. (International) Sweetland Declines Request To Seek Help For Wilson Brothers Portland (U.R) Monroe 'Sweetland, Democratic na tional committeeman from Oregon, said Thursday he had turned down a request to seek help from President Truman to try and halt the scheduled execution early Friday of Tur man and Utah 'Wilson for the 1950 slaying of JoAnn Dewey. Sweetland said the request was made by Rev. Allen Lam bert, Portland, who is a mem ber of a group working for clemency for the brothers. He said he did not believe such action was within the jurisdic tion of the president. Top Hungarian Posts Shuffled; Rakosi Premier Budapest -MU.Pi Matyas kosi, secretary-general of Ra the Hungarian Communist party and undisputed leader of the country was elected premier Thursday in a reshuffle of two of the nation's top posts. Rakoski, who has been vice premier since February, replac ed Istvan'Dobi, who resigned as premier and was. promptly elect ed president of the Hungarian presidium. Ronai Resigns Dobi replaced Sandor Ronai who also resigned in the shake- up. No new post was announced for Ronai. The presidium, or presidential council, is a 21-member group which exercises the functions of parliament in between parlia mentary sessions. It has power to dissolve government" bodies and annul legislation and is the nation's top official authority, i Elected by Acclamation Rakosi was' elected by accla mation with an eight-minute demonstration in a special ses sion of the national assembly. Rakosi, balding boss of the nation's Communists for many years, has been considered the actual head of the government ever since he moved into the vice premiership. Strikes Continue In Meat Industry Chicago (U.R) The nation's meat packing industry walked on cats paws Thursday as hit and miss strikes hit plants across the country and contract negotia tions bogged in Chicago. Officials of the CIO United Packinghouse Workers said they would meet Thursday with Ar mour and Co. and Wilson after all day sessions with Swift and Wilson Wednesday failed to produce an agreement. Top union officials maintained their stand they would not call a walkout as long as negotiations continued, but individual union groups gave notice they might walk out at any time. Southwest Sizzles in Prolonged Heat Wave By UNITED PRESS The Southwest sizzled in a prolonged heat wave Thursday while portions of the Midwest cleaned up damage from torna does which took one life. Elsewhere, scattered thunder storms were forecast for the East Coast south of New Eng land, and for drought-stricken Tennessee, the Upper Mississip pi Valley, the Rocky Mountains and the Northern Plains. Possibility Seen Linking Brother With Two Slayings Multnomah County Murders Studied Walla Walla (U.R) Utah Wilson, condemned io die with his brother, Turman, at 12:05 a.m. Friday for the 1950 kidnap-slaying of JoAnn Dew- ' ey, said a Portland, Ore., sheriff offered him his life . Thursday in exchange for a confession to two 1948 mur ders. The sheriff immediately de nied he had made any such offer. . Multnomah County Sheriff Terry Schrunk talked with Utah in bis death row cell Thursday morning about two Multnomah county murders. Schrunk said he did not talk about the Dewey case at all, since his office ' did not work on that case. He said there were three deputies in the cell with Utah and himself during the" questioning and said they would verify his denial. Portland (U.R) Sheriff Ter ry Schrunk said Thursday that Utah Wilson would be question ed about two unsolved 1948 slayings in Multnomah county. Utah and his oluer brother, Turman, were scheduled to hang at 12:05 a.m. Friday for the 1950 kidnap - murder of JoAnn Dewey. Strong Possibility Schrunk said, "we think there! is a strong possibility that Utah was responsible for, or involved in, two Multnomah county mur ders. We are investigating those murders; not getting involved in the JoAnn Dewey murder." The sheriff said the new-in vestigation was based ' on wire recordings of conversations in the Clark county jail between Utah and Turman which were recorded by Earl Anderson, former Clark county sheriff. He added that other leads have also been run down. Slayings Listed The unsolved slayings listed by Schrunk were those of Ro man Marion Podlas, 29-year-old merchant seaman, and Pierre Alfred Schultze, 47. Podlas' body was found floating in a shallow creek the day before. ' Schrunk said Deputy Sheriffs Walter Graven and Jack Willis had worked for a week on the case. He said efforts were re doubled when the word "Pod las" suddenly emerged from continued playing. Since then, the sheriff said, much other re vealing material was discovered in the recordings. Last-Minute Response Puts Qver Blood Drive A "gratifying last - minute response" was credited with put ting the August blood drive far over the quota,' according to Red Cross volunteers. Yesterday at the Elks' temple 227 pints of blood were donated. The bloodmobile unit proces sed 283 persons. The quota here was processing of 250 persons and 200 pints of blood. Blood drive officials said it was the large number of "drop-ins" that made the program a suc cess. The Medford Elks were par ticularly commended for their cooperation in the drive. ; Byrnes Would Placje Ike as Independent Columbia, S. C. (U.b Gov. James F. Byrnes, who re cently whipped South Carolina Democrats into the party fold, has thrown his support to a move to put' Republican presi dential candidate Dwight D. Eis enhower on the South Carolina ballot as an independent Dem ocrat. . Byrnes declined to comment on his signature at the top of a number of petitions being cir culated to enter an independ ent Eisenhower slate upon the general election ballot. BULLETIN Washington " (U.f0- Her bert H. Hoover. 40, first civi lian ever to fly faster than ' the speed of sound, was killed Thursday in a B-45 jet bomber crash 85 miles northwest of Langley Field, Va. MEDFORD United Press Full Leased Wire 47th Year ,18 Pages MAYOR D. L. FLYNN Agrees To Run Mayor D. L Flynn Bows to Requests To Seek Reelection Mayor Diamond L. Flynn has changed his mind and will seek a third term as mayor of Med ford, he announced today. "His petition containing 45 signatures was filed this morning with Deputy Recorder Neva Samuels. The mayor announced July 6 that he would not be a candidate for reelection because of person al considerations. He said then that the city's growth has made the mayor's position a much greater burden, both financially and physicially. In announcing his change of mind, Flynn said he-has been I urged by many to continue in the office. Both common citizens and civic leaders have asked him to remain as mayor, he added. Would Complete Program Flynn said he decided to run for reelection because he wants to. see the. program outlined-by the ..city council, carried ' through to completion. Mayor Flynn took office Jan. 1, 1949, and besides his Medford duties he -is a director of the League of Oregon cities. This group also urged him to remain in office because the progress of the league is so closely identified with its member cities Mayor Flynn Is the first can didate to file for the mayor s office. Five Candidates There are now five candi dates for the four city council posts up for election this Novem ber. There are two candidates in Ward 1 the incumbent John Snider and , Granvil Brittsan. Candidates in other wards are Harold Frye, incumbent, Ward 3: Jack Fitzgerald, Ward 4. and Dick Woodcock, Ward 2. Less than two weeks remain before the deadline for filing petitions, for city offices. CIO Urges Support For Adlai Stevenson Washington (U.R) The CIO urged its members Thursday to support Democratic nominee Adlai E. Stevenson for president to ensure "an unfaltering con tinuation of the best traditions and ideals of the tfew Deal and Fair Deal." The CIO executive board, top policy making body of the or ganization, said the Illinois gov ernor is well equipped "by back ground, training, and exper ience, to fill with honor the presidency." The CIO added that Steven son will "lead the fight to en act into law the great promise of the Democratic platform,'" which it hailed as "the most lib eral, forward looking, and realis tic ever adopted by any politi cal party." Stevenson May Visit Oregon Next Month Portland (U.R) Adlai Stev enson, Democratic candidate for president, may visit Oregon early next ' month, Monroe Sweetland," Democratic national committeeman, said Thursday. Sweetland said "it looks pret ty definite that Stevenson will be here early in September." He said he thought the nominee would stop in several Oregon cities in a swing up the Pacific coast. Sweetland said he received word of the impending visit from Democrats mapping Stev enson's campaign itinerary but "I can't give you the exact source of my information." Mejitiuii-H ,iwfW 11 . i iibiiiiii I uiu ;x-f. J..VW ,-&(, 1 I mm r v . A: U Uu Vy7 -m UU 2): U S Id MEDFQRD, OREGON, Candidate Feels rieffing Would ring Confusion Denver (U.R) Dwight dential nominee, politely but firmly rejected Thursday an invita tion from President Truman to attend a White House briefing on the foreign situation. Eisenhower told Mr. Truman in a 300-word telegram he felt that under present circumstances any communications between them "should be only those which are known to all the American people." He thought it would be "unwise and result in confusion in the public mind" if he were to attend a White House meeting. The GOP nominee thus took a position contrary to that of Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, the Democratic presidential cand idate, who attended a White House 'Cabinet meeting and foreign policy briefing Tuesday. Eisenhower had been sharply critical of Stevenson's visit to Washington. He said it showed the Democratic nominee is "sub servient" to Mr. Truman's political forces. In his telegram to the President Thursday, Eisenhower made a ! coint of noting that he was not j after Stevenson had returned to Greyhound Bus Overturns; None Seriously Hurt r Bandon, Ore. (U.R) A north bound Pacific Greyhound bus skidded and overturned on U. S. Highway 101 about three miles south of here early Thursday but company officials said none of the 25 passengers was serious ly injured. One woman, Mrs. Margaret Kotzman, Sandy, Ore., was hos pitalized at Coos Bay but at tendants at McCauley hospital said x-rays showed she had no broken bones. Bus driver James Wesley Clark, Santa Rosa, Calif., told state police the bus was travel ing down a slight grade behind another Greyhound bus when the vehicle hit a wet streak on the pavement, skidded and roll ed over. There were four - children among the passengers but only one of them was renorted to fyave suffered any injury. Joy Spencer, infant daughter of Mrs Phyllis Spencer. Trinidad, Calif., suffered a slight cut over one eye. The child was traveling with her mother and older brother. Some of the other passengers were treated for minor cuts and bruises at Leep hospital here and released. They were taken to Coos Bay by another bus. Eugene (U.R) Eugene vot ers will decide, in November if commercial television stations will be permitted to . operate from the summit of Spencer's Butte, which towers 2065 feet immediately south of the city. BASEBALL NATIONAL Boston 3 ' 9 1 Philadelphia 5 10 2 Spahn, Cole 7 and Cooper; Meyer and Lopaia. Cincinnati 4 11 1 Chicago 15 1 Raffensberger and Semi nick; Hacker, Leonard 9, Schultz 9, and Chiti. Home runs: For Cincinnati Kluszewski. For Chicago Jackson. New York 4 6 1 Brooklyn 3 11 1 Maglie, Wilhelm 6, Corwin 6, and Westrum, Yvars 6; Rutherford. Roe 7, and Campa nella. AMERICAN ' ' (13 innings) Philadelphia . .... 4 12 1 Boston ............ 5 13 ( Byrd and Murray; Brodow ski McDermott 4, and White. Home runs: For Boston Ger nert. Washington 2 6 " 0 New York : 7 16 2 Haynes, Johnson 2, Moreno 5, and Kluttx; Schmits and Berra. THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, lira D. Eisenhower, Republican presi invited to attend a brief ine until Springfield, 111. Eisenhower's Staff Members Included At Washington the White House disclosed that the invita tion was for next Tuesday and included ar;y member of Eisen hower's staff that the GOP nominee wanted to include at a Cabinet luncheon. White 'House Press Secretary Joseph" Short said the invitation to Eisenhower had been "in the works" prior to the visit to the White House by Stevenson. Short said it was Mr. Tru man's intention to follow the same briefing procedure with Eisenhower that he did with Stevenson. In giving his reasons for turn ing down Mr. Truman's invita tion, Eisenhower said he felt it was his duty "to remain free to analyze publicly" the policies of the present administration whenever it appeared to him to be proper to do so. People Deciding Leadership "During the present period the people are deciding our country's leadership for the next four years," Eisenhower told the man who, as commander-in-chief, was the boss when Eisen hower was a five-star general. "The decision rests between the Republican nominee and the candidate you and your Cabinet are supporting and with whom you conferred before sending your message. Confusion Seen "In" such circumstances and in such a period I believe our com munications should be only those which are known to all the American people. Conse quently I think it would be un wise and result in confusion in the public mind if I were to at tend the meeting in the White House to which you .have invited me." The GOP nominee did accept cne offer of Mr. Truman's. He said he would welcome the weekly report of the Central Intelligence Agency. Head of this agency, Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, was one of those who participated in the briefing of Stevenson. Klamath Still Without Candidate for Mayor Klamath Falls (U.R) Klam ath Falls was still without a can didate for mayor Thursday, with the deadline for filing only six days off. Backers of incumbent Mayor Bob Thompson said, he had re fused to run for reelection. They added, however, that Thompson still favored a city manager form of government and they would try to persuade him to run on that platform when he returns from Seaside this week-end. Weather FORECAST: Continued fair through Friday. Low tonight 52. High F-iday 88-90. Temp. Highest Yesterday SI Lowest this Morning 52 United Press Full Leased Wire 1952 No. 125 CLARISSA CHURCHILL . Weds Anthony Eden . Eden Takes Boss' Niece As Bride In London Rites London U.R) Blushing For eign Secretary Anthony Eden was married to his boss' niece Thursday with Prime Minister Winston Churchill standing by as chief witness and some say matchmaker; 10-Minute Ceremony The handsome 55-year-old Brit ish foreign service glamour bov and Misg Clarissa Spencer Chur chill were married in a 10-min-ute ceremony at Caxton Hall the scene this spring of the mar riage of actress Elizabeth Taylor and British actor Michael Wil ding In the cream painted marriage room tden and Miss Churchill sat on red leather upholstered cnairs before Registrar J. B. Holiday, who also married Miss Taylor. The guests sat on plain wooden chairs behind them or lined the flower-banked walls of the little room. There were no curtains on the windows. They were sent to the laundry and had not been return ed in time for the ceremony. - Giadolus and other flowers from Churchill's country home at Chartwell banked the room. The civil ceremony was neces sary because Eden has been di vorced. It does not contain the obey clause of church wed dings. Approximately 7,000 persons jammed the narrow street out side. . Aly Khan Leaves for Reunion With Rita New York (U.R) Prince Aly Khan walked up a red carpeted airplane ramp Thursday and took off for Hollywood with 175 pounds of excess baggage, bent on winning back his princess, Rita Hayworth. The handsome Moslem said he didn't think they'd meet at the airport, however. And he said he would be staying with "friends," not with his wife. But "obviously, I'll see her when I get there," he said. (See Story Page 1, Sec. 2) MOT McCarthy's Opponent Ends 25-Hour Radio Talkathon' Madison, Wis. (U.R) An oppo nent of Sen. Joseph McCarthy finished a 25-hour radio "talka. thon" in good voice, and the Florida idea man who engineer ed the scheme said it would free politics of the "smoke-filled room." Leonard Schmitt, who hopes to win Wisconsin's republican senatorial nomination from Mc Carthy, finished his oral ordeal at 9 p.m. Wednesday. His hair was tousled and his shirt unbut toned to the second button, but his voice was still firm. Summarizing Opposition Schmitt answered questions from 8 p.m. Tuesday until 8:48 p.m. Wednesday and then spent 12 minutes on a summary of his opposition to McCarthy's charges of Communism in government. - He fired answers to the ques tions, which came from the stu dio audience and by telephone from the listening public, at the rate of one-per-minute. j Marines Set for V Another Assault By Communists Planes Concentrate Support Missions Seoul, Korea (U.R) Rain soaked U.S. Marines, their trig ger fingers itching, steeled themselves Thursday for anoth er Communist night assault on bloody Bunker Hill and this time they promised the enemy a "clobbering." Col. Walter F. Layer, regi mental commander of the Ma rine unit now holding the height east of Panmunjom, expected the Chinese Communists to launch a fifth counter-attack Thursday night Ready for Them "And if they do," he said, "we will clobber them. We're ready for them now." Leathernecks defending the strategic hill have battered back four Communist assaults, crip pling an entire Red regiment in the process. The last two attacks came Wednesday . night and early Thursday. Support Concentrated Fifth Air Force waiplanes concentrated their close support missions in the Bunker Hill area Thursday, hitting enemy bunk ers, soldiers and gun positions. For the third straight day, UN Sabrejets failed to sight any Communist MIG-15 jets, but fighter-bombers struck troop concentrations near Yonan and.' Sariwon and bombed a Red air field north of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. Heavy Rain Falls Heavy rain that fell Thursday gave a brief respite to the dirty, tired Marines who have fought and won against 2,800 veteran Communist soldiers in scorching heat for the past three days. Earlier Thursday, the victor ious Marines planted a torn and stained battleflag dedicated to Saint Michael the archangel on Bunker Hill. It was later re moved when the unit to which, it belonged was relieved. . Aviation Groups bday The aviation committee of the Jackson" County Chamber of Commerce will meet with rep resentatives of the aviation com mittees of the Grants Pass, Kla math Falls and Ashland cham bers this evening to "help for mulate the basic thoughts" con cerning proposed air service between Medford and Klamath Falls. The group will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the Pioneer room of the Jackson hotel. Don Lane, man ager of the Jackson county chamber, said representatives from the other organizations have been invited to attend be cause this entire area is affect ed by the proposed service. Frank J. Van Dyke, chairman of the local chamber's aviation committee, will preside over the dinner meeting. Cooler Temperatures Ease Fire Dangers By UNITED PRESS ' Cooler temperatures and high er humidities eased fire dangers over Oregon Thursday, but one major fire broke out in eastern Lane county and continued to burn uncontrolled despite the efforts of a large crew of fire fighters. Guy Johnson, forest service regional fire dispatcher, said au thorities believed the Lane coun ty blaze started from a fisher man's campfire on the. Blue river about 45 miles east of Eu gene near the McKenzie high way. The Miami, Fla., advertising man who invented and copyright ed the "talkathon" said his new campaign device will push the "smoke-filled room" out of poli tics. "It's a philosophy," Bob Venn said of his "talkathon." "It means the smoke filled room is gone ... in time anyway. It makes a candidate's commit ments public." Can't Tell Lie "If a guy tells one lie," Venn said, "people will gang up on him. A candidate can't tell a lie if he wants to use the talka thon." - The "talkathon" is a marathon type radio question and answer show, combined with . a fund drive, in -which a candidate airs his political views and aims. The next politician who will use the "talkathon" will be for mer Price Stabilizer Mike Di Salle, who is running for the Senate against incumbent Sen. John Bricker, R-O. Set Meeting!
