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A feature story on the survey
of southern Oregon's water re
sources appears on Page 8 of
today's issue of The Mail Trib
une. United Press Full Leased Wire
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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 1952
No. 126
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Hopes for Austrian
Peace Treaty Axed
By Russian Tactics
Soviets Reject
Big Three Plans
Washington (U.R) Moscow's,
delaying tactics Saturday threat
ened to throw Western plans for
an Austrian peace treaty back
to 1946 when Big Four talks on
the important East-West issue
first began.
American, British and French
hopes that a four-power treaty
could be written this year de
spite six years' of futility
plunged to a new low when the
Soviets rejected Big Three pro
posals for a quick, streamlined
treaty for Austria.
The "diplomatic gleom was
broken by only one possible new
move. Austria is building a case
on its long-overdue treaty for
debate before the United Na
tions General Assembly this fall.
If the Soviets can be swayed by
world opinion, progress may be
made. But no one really expects
any surprise shift in Soviet ob
structionist tactics in Austria
For one thing, the Russians
are determined to keep their oc
cupation foothold in Austria in
order to benefit from its rich
industrial, petroleum and agri
cultural resources.
And continuing occupation of
the Soviet Zone of Austria pro
vides an excuse for the Reds to
keep troops in satellite Hungary
and Romania "to guard their
lines of communication into Aus
tria," officials said.
The ' Western powers have
tried everything in their bag of
diplomatic strategy to get Soviet
shackles pried loose from Aus
tria. But the Soviet rejection of
their latest plan, the State De
partment said, looks like a re
turn "to the punitive spirit of
1945" when the war ended in
Europe. ,
Eagle Point Woman
Hit by Automobile
Mrs. Howard Short, 52, Box
1149, Eagle Point, suffered a
fractured pelvis at 4:10 o'clock
Saturday afternoon when she
was struck by an automobile
while crossing North Central
avenue near Main street, ac
cording to Community hospital
attendants.
City police reported that Mrs.
Short attempted to cross the
street at th alleyway in the mid
dle of the block when the traffic
in the right hand lane was
stopped and the left hand lane
"was moving. She was struck
by the bumper of a vehicle driv
en by Cleo Marguerite Milton,
Box 334, Rogue River, police
continued, which was traveling
from five to 10 miles an hour.
No citation was issued, police
said, and no damage resulted to
the car.
Hospital attendants expected
Mrs. Short to be confined to the
hospital for several days,
Perl
ambulance took her to the hos
pital. Two Small Oregon
Areas Quarantined
Salem (U.R) Only two small
areas were still under the federal
quarantine involving vesicular
exanthema, a hog disease, Dr.
R. R. Younce, state veterinarian
said Saturday.
The State Agriculture Depart
ment received word late Friday
that all of Multnomah county,
except the two townships in
which the quarantined hogs are
now held, has been released from
the federal quarantine.
Red Propaganda Hopes Seen
In Repeated Truce Delays
Washington !U.R) The Chi
nese Communists may be dodg
ing a Korean truce in hopes of
propagandizing against the. West
at two important international
conferences, Allied diplomats
said Saturday.
None of these officials pro
fessed to know for sure why the
Chinese and North Korean truce
negotiators have stalled the talks
which have been near agreement
for months. But they pointed
out that the Communist world is
fanning Red enthusiasm for a
forthcoming Communist confer
ence on the "Peace and Securi
ty of Asia and the Far East." .
Set for September
The Red time table has set the
meeting for late September in
Peiping, Red China's capital.
Less than two months from
now, the 60-nation United Na
tions general assembly opens its
fall session in New York. Soviet
foreign minister Andrei Y. Vish
inski tried but failed to get U. N.
WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE Stephen Mitchell (right), newly
appointed chairman of the Democratic national committee, confers
with President Truman at the White House.
Blistering Campaign
Document Lashes Ou
At Demo 'Betrayals'
Washington (U.R) Congres -
sional Republican leaders as
sailed President Truman and the
Democratic controlled 82nd Con
gress Saturday for a "wanton
betrayal of public trust" and
with, failure in every phase of
foreign and domestic policies.
Blistering Document
The charges were made in a
blistering campaign-year docu
ment prepared by Sen. Styles
Bridges and Rep. Joseph W. Mar
tin Jr., the Republican floor lead
ers of the Senate and House. It
was published in Saturday's Con
gressional Record.. ... ' ...
They asserted that Mr. Tru
man and the Democratic Con
gress blazed a "trail of corrup
tion, crime, favoritism and wan
ton betrayal of the public trust
such as never before has ap-
Research Balloons
To Fly Over State
Washington (U.R) The
Navy announced Saturday that
research balloons will be re
leased in Oregon soon and that
they will float across the coun
try from west to east a flight
that may set off another epi
demic of "flying saucer" reports.
For months there has been
speculation that some of the
persons who claimed to have
spotted a "saucer" may have
actually seen only one of the
huge ballons the armed forces
and private agencies use for
weather research.
In announcing the coming ex
periments, the Navy said the
37-foot balloons would be
launched near Tillamook, Ore.,
by General Mills, Inc., under a
contract with the Office of Naval
Research.
The balloons will carry electri
cal equipment designed to de
termine the characteristics of
atmospheric radio waves. They
will also contain instructions
telling balloon-finders where to
return the instruments.
debate started on the Korean
truce issue at the last meeting in
Paris. His signal may be to try
again,
Diplomats speculate that the
conferences could affect Red
strategy at the truce talks in two
ways:
Two Possibilities
1. The Reds might permit an
armistice just before either of
the conferences in order to make
the claim that they alone were
the champions of world peace.
If there were a Korean truce,
the Reds would stand a good
chance of whittling off "neutral
ist" support for Western policies
during the U.N. session.
2. The Reds might further de
lay an armistice in Korea to
continue use during the two
meetings of their "Hate Amer
ica" charges with all the famil
iar complaints of alleged Allied
use of germ warfare, bombing
of civilians, terrible treatment
of war prisoners and other "bar
baric" practices.
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1 peared in this Republic." They
said further that the Democrats
have shown they "cannot resolve
the critical isuses of our time.
Among the allegations made
in the 37-page document were
that Democrats, by "coddling"
Communists, permitted atomic
bomb secrets to slip into Russian
hands, contributed to the Red
capture of China, and plunged
Americans into an "unnecessary"
war in Korea.
The report will be used as Re
publican campaign ammunition.
It will be presented to Dwight D.
Eisenhower when .Bridges and
Martin confer with the GOP
presidential nominee in New
York Aug. 26.
The "charges drew immediate
counter-fire from Democratic
Sen. Theodore F. Green of
Rhode Island. He said it repre
sented "abuse' 'of the privileges
of the Congressional Record and
was billed "falsely" as a record
of Republican accomplishments.
Four Persons Hurt
In Traffic Mishap
Four persons were injured fol
lowing a two-car collision at
6:55 p.m. Saturday, according
to Medford city police.
The accident occurred when
a vehicle driven by Lyle C. Per
kins, Ideal court, Medford, hit
the rear of another vehicle driv
en by Bonnie Lue Haubensack,
16, route 1, box 384, Central
Point, which had stopped for a
dog crossing North Riverside
avenue in front of the North Riv
erside cafe, according to police.
Perkins Family Hurt
Perkins received minor in
juries and lost several teeth, po
lice said, while his wife, Bar
bara Lucille, received "severe
lacerations" on her face, and
their child Gary, 19 months, had
a severe blow on his forehead.
All three members of the Per
kins family were taken to Osteo
pathic hospital and Perkins and
the baby were released after
treatment.' Mrs. Perkins was hos
pitalized for further observation
and was expected to be released
sometime today, according to at
tending physicians..
An occupant of the other car,
Mrs. Marguerite Haubensack,
mother of the driver, was also
examined at the hospital for
neck injuries and later released
after no fractures were found,
the physician reported.
The Perkins' car received con
siderable damage to its front end,
police added, while the other ve
hicle drove away under its own
power. i
Baruch Says Government
Has Wasted $80 Billion
San Francisco (U.R) Ber
nard Baruch, elder statesman
and adviser to presidents, has
charged the federal government
with wasting "$80,030,000,000 in
the last six years by inflation
and incompetence."
Baruch began a trip Saturday
to Sonoma Valley where he will
be honored in Northern Cali
fornia's redwood empire on his
82nd birthday. He arrived here
Friday. . -
He would not discuss any of
the problems facing the nation
except to offer the opjnion that
the present administration had
wasted $80,000,000,000.
Stevenson Outlines
Arduous Campaign
Throughout Country
Candidate Meets With
Demo Strategy Board
Springfield, 111. (U.R)-Gov. Adlai
E. Stevenson gave the voters a
first look at his campaign plans
Saturday and promised to take
his campaign into "every part of
the country."
His campaign manager, Wilson
Wyatt, promised "one of the most
intensive campaigns in American
history."
These remarks came as Ste
vension, the democratic presi
dential nominee, started a two
day meeting with his newly
formed nine-member campaign
strategy board.. Sen. John J.
Sparkman of Alabama, the vice
presidential nominee, also at
tended. Several Trips
Wyatt told a news conference
earlier that the governor's ten
tative travel plans called for
"several swings" from Spring
field and back during the fall
campaign instead of one or two
continuous trips. Stevenson, who
is fond of air travel, intends to
use both train and plane for his
tours.
In mid-afternoon, the govern
or, Sparkman and the committee
emerged from the executive
mansion for newsreel photogra
phers and sat around a table on
the sloping lawn under an. elm
tree.
Dressed in a white linen jacket
and grey slacks, Stevenson said:
"I can only tell you that we
intend to carry the campaign to
every part of the country and to
inform the people as fully as
our resources will permit, both
by -personal appearances and by
television.
"This is the first campaign in
which television will play a ma
jor part and through it we hope
to reach as many people as we
can. I have no doubt that once
our objectives are understood
there will be no question as to
the outcome of the campaign."
Participating in:' the confer
ences were a dozen or more staff
officials" from' the Stevenson
campaign headquarters here and
from the democratic national
headquarters at Washington.
Chinese Reds Seize
Shanghai Dockyard
Tokyo, Sunday (U.R) T h e
Chinese Communists have mov
ed in and taken over the large,
modern Shanghai dockyards and
the Moller Shipbuilding Works,
both British-owned properties,
Peiping radio said today.
The seizure occurred Friday
upon requisition orders issued
by the Shanghai military control
commission.
The shipbuilding properties,
among the , most modern in
Shanghai, represent an invest
ment of millions of dollars.
Since the Communists occupied
Shanghai, however, they have
lain idle because of the lack of
shipping in the once-great coast
al port.
Peiping radio said the seizure
was made "for the benefit of
the Chinese people." 1
The action was in line with
the recent British decision to
give up its investments in Com
munist China. The broadcast
made no mention of compensa
tion. Mme. Chiang Arrives
In SF for Treatments
San Francisco (U.R) Madame
Chiang Kai-shek, first lady of
Nationalist China, arrived here
Saturday night "for my health"
to complete an extended trans-
Pacific jaunt for treatment of a
skin- ailment.
The wife of Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-shek stepped off. a
Pan-American World Airways
stratocruiser at San Francisco
International airport at 9:25
p.m. (PST). She was flown from
Honolulu where physicians had
advised her to go to San Fran
cisco for the diagnosis and treat
ment she requires.
SPORTS BULLETINS 1
Seattle, Wash : (U.R) The
Portland Beavers jumped on
Lefthander Steve Nagy for
five runs in the third inning
Saturday night and then coast
ed io a 6-1 victory over the
Seattle Rainiers.
Central Point defeated Till
amook, 1 to 0, in the first:
round of the stale Softball
tournament last night at Mill
City. Vera Collins Central
Point hurler, pitched a no
hitter for the 13-inning contest,
and struck out 24 batters.
UMW U4
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PREDICTED FAR EAST THREAT
A secret U. S. Military Intelli
gence report, signed by Brig.
Gen. P. E. Peabody (above),
predicted seven years ago that
Russia would try to "dominate"
Korea. The report, recently dis
closed in Washington when the
document was published in the
Congressional Record, also advo
cated strong steps to avert Com
munist control of China.
Warren Says Ike's
Chances Excellent
On Pacific Coast
Denver (U.R) Gov. Earl War
ren of California said Saturday
Dwight D. .Eisenhower , has -..an
"excellent chance" to ' carry' the
western states in November but
that the difficulties should not
be minimized.
Adopting the same cautious
attitude that other GOP leaders
have shown . in talking about
their prospects of victory, War
ren expressed the opinion that
the Republicans must wage a
vigorous, fighting campaign to
win.
Eisenhower has said on sev
eral occasions that this is the
type of campaign he proposes
fo conduct. He will fire his first
frankly political broadside at
the Democrats next Wednesday
at Boise; Ida., where the Repub
lican governors of 10 western
states will confer with him.
Eisenhower's Boise speech will
be made from the steps of the
state capitol after the conference
there .has ended.
It was announced from Wash
ington that the GOP nominee's
first formal speech of the cam
paign, involving use of radio and
television, will be in Philadel
phia September 4. But other po
litical speeches, similar to the
one in Boise, will precede this,
Eisenhower's associates here
said.
Warren, unsuccessful candi
date himself for the Republican
presidential nomination, visited
Eisenhower's headquarters here
for a lengthy discussion of cam
paign strategy and the best way
to approach the west's problems
of water and resource develop
ment, reclamation and power.
Temporary Housing
Deadline Extended
Washington (U.R) Presi
dent Truman Saturday extended
the deadline for tearing down
temporary housing built by the
government during World War
II.
The deadline, which previous
ly had been delayed several
times, was extended from Dec.
31, 1952, to July 1, 1954.
Mr. Truman said the extension
was in the public interest. He
said he ordered it after consid
ering defense needs and the gen
eral housing situation and the
national economy.
'. About 35,000 housing units,
built under the Lanham act, are
affected by the order, housing
officials said. They said the units
are in cities all over the country.
BULLETIN
Eldon Nelson, 24, Spring
street, Medford, received "ser
ious" facial injuries when the
car he was driving in the hard
top races at Ashland last night .
smashed up, according to state
police. Ashland hospital at
tendants said he received a
possible broken jaw. ' .
Minn
Victorious Marines
Braced for Commie
Suicidal Attacks
4,000 Chinese Troops
Sacrificed in Battle
Tokyo, Sunday (U.R) Victor
ious but weary Marines braced
today for additional suicidal at
tacks by Chinese Red forces
who, in the past week, have
sacrificed nearly 4,000 veteran
troops on bloody "Bunker Hill."
A marine spokesman said the
Chinese have lost over 3,700
men killed and wounded in eight
fanatical but futile attempts' to
drive the leathernecks from stra
tegic Bunker and Siberia hills,
five miles from the Panmunjom
truce site.
Smash Each Attack
Although heavily outnumber
ed in several of the Red assaults,
the Marines have smashed each
Communist attack with artillery,
machine guns, mortar fire and
grenades. "
Early yesterday the Marines
added powerful searchlights,
which United Press Staff Cor
respondent Frederic C. Painton
said lighted the corpse-strewn
battleground "like a movie set."
The dazzling floodlights en
abled the Marines to mow down
wave after wave of Chinese.
Keep Coming Back
The Communists, apparently
under orders to take the hill or
die, have kept coming back in
spite.; of staggering losses, and
marine officers said today they
anticipate s.till more of the reck
less, screaming Red attacks to
recapture the hill.
Two such attacks were launch
ed Saturday.
While Red ground troops
mounted their fanatical assaults,
Red air power remained safely
in its attack free bases in Man
churia.' For the fifth straight
day American Sabrejets roved
the skies over North Korea with
out encountering a single Red
MIG-15.
Oregon Journal To
Support Stevenson
Portland (U.R)-- The Oregon
Journal in its .Sunday editions
will announce its support of
Gov. Adlai Stevenson for the
presidency of the United States,
it was learned Saturday.
The Journal, in a three-column
page length editorial will
indorse the Illinois Democrat
"without reservation."
The Portland afternoon news
paper said it would support Ste
venson in the coming campaign
"not on a partisan political basis,
but on the record and because of
a firm conviction that, all things
considered, Stevenson is the
abler man, the man more likely
to provide the kind of leader
ship America needs and must
have in the crucial years ahead."
The Journal supported Repub
lican Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of
New York in the 1948 presiden
tial campaign.
'Aggressor
Northwest
Salem (U.R) There was mock
war in the western United States
Saturday as the aircraft of "ag
gressor forces" penetrated out
lying defenses and reached parts
of the Northwest. .
While Oregonians slept, the
state civil defense headquarters
in the basement of the State Of
fice Building here buzzed with
activity. , It was the nation's first
joint exercise between the mili
tary and civilian agencies, test
ing facilities at the local level
that would be called into action
if war should ever be carried to
the boundaries of the United
States. . .
Crackles With Reports
Teletype machines and ham
operated radio sets crackled with
simulated reports of "aggressor"
strikes -and near disasters; Boy
Scout messengers carried the
messages to men posting the sit
uation charts and a dozen or so
heads of civil defense depart
ments went to work to bead off 1
Shyftdbwn
TSv ?
OFF TO PRISON - Gambler
Frank Costello arrives at the
Federal Courthouse in New York
to surrender to the United States
Government and begin an 18
month prison term his first in
37 years for refusing to testify
before the Senate crime investi
gating committee.
British Columbia
Forests Hit by 150
Fires; One Killed
Vancouver, B.C. (U.R) Some
150 fires burned iij British: Col
umbia' forests Saturday, includ
ing a 35,000-acre blaze in the
Burns lake area in the north-cen
tral part of the province in which
one person was killed and an
other was missing.
Many Uncontrolled
Many of the fires still were un
controlled but foresters said the
situation was "improved" by
cooler temperatures and higher
humidities.
British Columbia forest serv
ice officials said dense smoke
and a rash of small "spot" fires
made difficult determining ex
act extent of the Burns lake fire
but they estimated it had cover
ed 35,000 acres by Saturday
morning.
The blaze, about 400 miles
northeast of here, was spreading
through slash and virgin trees in
the timber-rich northern interior
of the province.
200 Men On Lines
The forest service said 200
men were on the fire lines at
tempting to trail the flames. An
other 1300 firefighters were bat
tling an outbreak of smaller fires
throughout the province, includ
ing two blazes on Vancouver
island.
Howard Gordon, a bulldozer
operator, was burned to death
Wednesday while combating the
Burns lake fire. His companion,
J. H. Hunter was last seen Fri
day and was listed as missing by
forest service.
Tokyo (U.R) An erratic Pa
cific typhoon which battered the
American military base on Oki
nawa with 110-mile an hour
winds, switched directions Sat
urday and was believed headed
toward the southern Japanese
island of Kyushu.
Forces1 Penetrate Into
Defenses in
disaster and protect the civilian
population.
At the entrance of the base
ment headquarters, a girl sat at
a registration desk, screening
and demanding identification
from everyone seeking admit
tance. Even Director Jack Hayes
himself had to show his "ID" to
get into his office. Hayes' desk
adjoined one Gov. Douglas Mc
Kay would use if his state should
become involved in enemy ac
tion. Nerv Center
In the main room of the ehad
quarters, the nerve center, more
than a score of military men and
civilians read the messages post
ed on the situation charts and
then took the action the inci
dents seemed to call for in their
departments. .
State Fire Marshal Robert B.
Taylor dispatched his fire crews
to danger spots; Mrs. Loa How
ard of the Public Welfare Com
mission alerted relief agencies;
rd!
'Memorial Holiday'
Set for One Veek
By John L. Lewis ,
Adequate Stockpiles
Of Coal Above Ground
Washington (U.R) John
Lewis Saturday ordered his
United Mine Workers to stop
coal production from August 33
to September 1 in a week-long
"memorial holiday" to mourn
workers killed and maimed in
"this savage industry."
The shutdown, third of its
kind ever declared by the burly
union boss, comes while the
UMW is in preliminary stages
of negotiating new contracts
with the entire industry and
when coal stockpiles above
ground are extremely high
about 84 days' supply.
Will Reduce Stock
The mourning period will
cause a reduction in the stock
pile. Lewis mentioned neither
the stockpile nor contract re
newals. But a sharp reduction
would strengthen his hand in
negotiations for wage increases
and other benefits. He has not
yet announced his demands.
Lewis published official no
tice of the shutdown in his Unit
ed Mine Workers Journal, a bi
monthly magazine, and said:
"Production of coal will be
resumed Tuesday, Sept. 2, 1952."
He took the action despite
existence of the new mine safety
law which permits the federal
government to close down pits
deemed unsafe. Secretary of the
Interior Oscar L. Chapman has
promised rigid enforcement of
the statute but UMW sources
said Congress failed to provide
the necessary enforcement
money.
334 Miners Killed
Lewis said that from Dec. 23,
1951, when the West Frankfort,
111., disaster killed 119 miners,
to July 31, 1952, accidents killed
334 miners and maimed "ap
proximately 20,400."
"With the coming of the au
tumn equinox, we enter a period
of sharp barometric changes
which will intensify the ever
present perils of the mines,"
Lewis said.
Democrats To Revive
Old Custom at Picnic
The Democratic party of Jack
son county, sponsoring a public
testimonial picnic for Judge
Frank L. TouVelle at TouVelle
State Park beginning at noon
today, will revive a historic cus
tom as a feature of the varied
program.
Acting upon a resolution pre
sented by Frank DeSouza, the
crowd will vote upon the ratifi
cation of the presidential and
vice-presidential nomination of
Stevenson and Sparkman. Noti
fied in advance about the con
templated action and invited to
attend the gathering. Governor
Stevenson wired his thanks
along with a special message of
greeting to Judge TouVelle and
wishes for success of the picnic.
Mock
ar
Supt. H, G. Maison of the State
Police sent his district headquar
ters into action and public infor
mation director Tom Brubeck is
sued regular dispatches to news
papers and radio stations to keep
the public informed of what was
going on. The office of the gov
ernor issued an appeal to citi
zens to keep calm and to remain
off roads and highways.
There was a sense of urgency in
the headquarters Saturday as the
40-hour exercise picked up speed
and reports of the simulated
emergencies became more .fre
quent. It wasn't so much the re
ports that tensed the civilian de
fense workers as it was their de
termination to show the military
that Oregon is ready to do its
share in taking care of its own if
war or disaster should strike.
Th exercise ends. Sunday after
noon. After that, the military
will critique the civilians and
tell them whether they did their
job adequately.