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."
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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!