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Ireg on Automobile ...Insurance .. Rates fire To le Increased Sharply Wmnm srr EXHAUSTED These are the men of "Item" Company who fought for and won the strategic height f Bunker Hill in Korea. Here, back from the nightmare of battle, dirty, exhausted and uediueu, iney rest wnerever Oil on Highway Blamed for Death Of Ashland Driver Oil on the highway above Jacksonville was blamed for the death of an Ashland man late Monday. State Police and County Cor oner. Carlos Morris said that a pickup truck driven by Clif- iora rreancK rnorpe, as, el 271 North Mountain avenue, Ashland, turned over after skid ding on oil in the road about two miles above Jacksonville on Highway 238 shortly before 6 p.m., yesterday. Thorpe was dead when police and ambulancemen arrived. Officers reported that a large oil slick on the road appeared as though someone had dropped a drum of oil, and had reclaim ed the drum without cleaning the oil from the roadway. Thorpe's truck was eastbound at the time of the accident, ac cording to eyewitnesses. Anoth er vehicle following the truck also went out' of control, it was reported, but the driver was able to avoid an. accident. ;,; Thorpe's body was taken to Ashland by "Litwiller' funeral home. Funeral- services will be held there at 1:30 p.m. Thurs day, and interment will follow at Mountain View cemetery The family has requested that flowers be omitted. Survivors include his wife, Maybelle; two sons, George B and Richard B., and a daugh ter, Susan Caroline, all Ash land; and a brother and sister and his father in Los Angeles. Mr. Thorpe moved to Ashland four years ago from Los Angeles, and was a building contractor, belonging to Carpenters union Local 2067, Medford. He was born in Flint, Mich, Jan. 23, 1899. Annual Fair Opens Tomorrow Morning Contests at the annual 4-H and USA ciud iair wm begin in earnest tomorrow morning, ac cording to R. H. Cate, Jr., county agent in 4-H work. A clothing patching contest and cooking demonstration will begin at 9 a.m. and a crops judging contest and forestry identification contest will com mence the large agricultural sec tion at 9:30 a.m. ' Exhibit judging began Mon day and is continuing today, Cate noted, for all types of projects and foods that have been pre pared by county 4-H members. The fair will continue on Thursday, Friday and Saturday with the auction sale on Friday at 7:30 p.m., and the style revue and special awards division scheduled Saturday at 8 p.m. Salem ill.PJ J. J. Fitzsimons, Salem, has been appointed man , ager of penitentiary industries, George Alexander, superintend ent of the Oregon state peniten tiary said Tuesday. Morse Glad To Work for Ike Despite Disagreement Washington Sen. Wayne L, Morse, R-Ore., informed Dwight D. Eisenhower Tuesday that he will be glad to campaign for him this fall although he disagrees with the General "on certain specific issues." Replies lo Letter Morse wrote Eisenhower from London in reply to a letter in which the Republican presiden tial candidate called for an "un tiring effort" by all members of the GOP to assure victory in the campaign which lies ahead. Morse's letter was made public here. "It is unimportant that I dis agree with you on certain speci fic issues because, as to-those mere is space. Communist Munitions Plant Bombed by UN Panmunjom, Korea (U.R) United Nations truce delegate Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison said Tuesday he believes the Communists want an armistice in Korea if the price is right "I think they want an armis- tice," Harrison said. "It's just a question of what they're willing to pay for it." Negotiations Again Recessed Truce negotiations were re- Criminal Actions Occupy Attention Of Local Courts Robert Lewis Ferrier, 23 Dowgiac, Mich., was sentenced to two years in the state peniten tiary this morning for burglary not in a dwelling, according to District Attorney Paul Haviland. The, sentence imposed,, in cirr cuit court by Judge Orval;J. Mjllard of Josephine county .who' sat in the absence of Judge H. K. Hanna who is out of town. In other circuit court action, Herman John Newark, 41, Long vale, Calif., was put on proba tion for three years on a grand larceny charge. Clarence Myers, 57, route 1, box 101, Eagle Point, who was arraigned on July 31 for contributing to the delin quency of a minor, and Leland Henry Thomas, 52, of 308 "B" street, Eagle Point, who was ar raigned on July 29, for also con tributing to the delinquency of a minor, appeared before Judge Millard. The cases were con tinued until Judge Hanna re turns. Pleads Guilty Paul Raymond Scofield, 49, Lake hotel, Medford, pleaded guilty to a charge of petty lar ceny and was sentenced to six months in the county jail by Judge . Millard, according to Haviland. At the same time, a charge of larceny from a store against Scofield was dismissed. Monday action in district court included a guilty plea entered by Orville Ray Bogart, Jr., 20, of 1310 Sweet road, Medford, to a larceny charge, with the case continued for investigation. Milton E. Morgan, 25, charged with armed robbery of the Chris tian market in 1948, appeared in district court for arraignment but entered no plea. The case was continued by Judge Rawles Moore until August 20 for fur ther hearing. Morgan had been extradited from Rainey, La., and was returned last Saturday; BASEBALL AMERICAN Cleveland 5 11 2 Boston 6 9 1 Wynn, Garcia 9. and Hegan; Brodowski, Benton 8, and White. Home run: For Cleve land Easter. issues, only time will tell what is the correct solution. What is important is that our people have as a president a man, such as you, in. whom they can place their complete confidence and know that you will exercise an honest independence of judg ment on the merits of each is sued' Could Cooperate - Morse said that as a "liberal Republican" he could cooperate with the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket in the campaign and after "your election." He said it is a matter vf "great pride" to him that he was the first Senate Re publican to publicly urge Eisen hower's nomination. ' - - cessed again Tuesday for the fourth straight week. Commu nist, negotiators objected to the new recess asked by the UN, but did not put up much of a fight against it. They had noth ing new to offer Tuesday and it appeared any progress toward an armistice would hinge on high level Soviet-Red Chinese talks now being held in Moscow. The UN made a sharp attack on the Communists in Tuesday's 60-minute meeting the longest in a month. Harrison angered North Korean Gen. Nam II with a short statement in which he reviewed the ."facts of the con flict." The American general touch ed a tender spot when he ac cused the Communists of sac rificing "little North Korea" in their stubborn insistence on the U.N. returning Chinese "vol unteer" prisoners of war who have chosen not to return to Communism." Nam told Harrison, "Your at tempt .. to sow, -discord is doomed to" failure." ! ' ""' ' " After ' the meeting Harrison said: "I think an armistice is pos sible, but I haven't the faintest idea when." Eisenhower Expected To Shift Headquarters Denver (U.R) Associates of Dwight D. Eisenhower said Tuesday the Republican presi dential nominee will move his campaign headquarters to New York's Commodore hotel, leav ing only a rear detachment here. The spokesman said, howev er, Eisenhower s main base of operations, on or after Sept. 14, will be a headquarters on wheels his campaign train and that most of his advisers would travel with him. It also disclosed Eisenhower would make a strong pitch for the support of organized labor in an address to the American Federation of Labor convention in New York Sept. 15. Maggie's Bodyguards Criticized by Swedes Stockholm, Sweden - (U.R) Several incidents involving Mar garet Truman's three husky bodyguards brought sharp news paper cirticism Tuesday. Aftonbladet said caustically of the bodyguards: "Miss Tru man is certainly in no danger here . after all, she is not go ing to sing here." One newspaper declared ed itorally that the trio of guards ought to be sent home, and the liberal Expressen, devoting near ly a whole page to the story of the bodyguards, pleaded: "Please, Margaret, ask 'Dad dy' back in Washington to re call, the big "bully who is at your heels. He is destroying what you yourself are building up." Medford Man Bows Out In Golf Tournament Seattle (U.R) George Beech ler, Medford, Ore., bowed out in the second round of the U. S. National Amateur Golf tourna ment here Tuesday when he lost 1 down, to Ray Billows, Pough keepsie, N. Y. ANNEXATION HEARING DUE A continued hearing on the an nexation of a block north of Unit 1 of the Verde Hills subdi vision is the chief item on the agenda for the city council at 7:30 p.m. today at city hall. Sandy (U.R) Clark Lund, 44, Boring log trucker, was crushed to death Monday when three logs fell on him as he was un loading his truck at Tupper's mill near here. Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 47th Year 18 Pages Truman Quits Plan For Whistle-Stop Campaign Jaunt Will Deliver Series Of Major Speeches Washington (U.R) Presi dent Truman has abandoned plans for a whistle-stop cam paign this fall, but will deliver a series of major speeches on behalf of the Democratic ticket in pivotal Northern cities, it was disclosed Tuesday. Authoritative Democratic sources said Mr. Truman "read ily accepted" this restricted campaign role, assigned to him by Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson, the party's presidential nominee, and other Democratic strategists who met in Springfield, 111., last week-end. Tour Would Detract The conferees decided Steven son's big job is to make himself better known to the American people, and that any cross-coun try speaking tour by Mr. Tru man would detract from Steven son's own campaign. Informants emphasized that Stevenson and his advisers had no desire to shunt Mr. Truman out of the campaign entirely. On the contrary, they said, the pres idential role is regarded as the important one of "trouble shoot ing" for the Democrats in critic al areas. Mr. Truman's first campaign speech will be delivered in Mil waukee on Labor day. While no definite schedule has been work ed out for his subsequent appear ances, informants mentioned New York, Chicago and Detroit as likely spots for Truman speeches. Given Southern Role He is expected to carry the hod for the Democrats on such touchy issues as civil rights and labor legislation. The theory ap parently is that Mr. Truman can woo the Negro and union votes on these subjects without nec essarily stirring up as much pro test among Southern Democrats as would ensue if Stevenson himself made such speeches. Informants said budgetary problems, as well as strategic considerations, dictated the de cision to limit Mr. Truman s campaign role. Former Russ Captive Tells of Confinement Berlin (U.R) Charles A. No ble, 60, of Detroit, Mich., said Tuesday he was arrested by the Soviets in East Germany in 194o and held without trial for seven years in Red concentration camps. He was released July 4 Noble, a naturalized American but a native of Germany, said he was. arrested in Dresden July 5, 1945, with his American-born son, John. He said John, now 29, was taken to the Soviet Union and is still there. Noble said he was visiting in Dresden with his family when the war broke out in 1939. The Nazis, he said, refused to allow him to return to the United States. Anthracite Miners Open Negotiations New York (U.R) Negotiations for a new anthracite coal miners' union contract opened here Tues day with a management state ment that the industry "couldn't possibly, meet any wage in crease." p- The Statement, made by Ed ward G. Fox, chairman of the 10-man industry negotiating com mittee, was countered by. one from Thomas Kennedy, heading the union negotiating team. He said: "I think he (Fox) is anticipat ing probably a lot." Weather Forecast: Fair through Wednes day. Low tonight 50. High . Wednesday 85-88. Temp. Highest Yesterday . 81 Lowest this Morning 4 Stfceei MEDFORD, OREGON, os Stevenson Statement Was Misinterpreted, Journal Editor Says Portland (U.R) A Portland newspaper editor Tuesday said Sen. James H. Duff "deliberately misinterpreted" a statement by Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois when he asserted the Democratic presidential nominee admitted there was a "mess" in Washington. Tom Humphrey, editor of the Oregon Journal editorial page, said Stevenson used the words "clean up the mess in Washington" only in referring to a specific question put to him by the paper in a letter advising the governor it would support him in the presi dential campaign. Stevenson Quotes Phrase in Reply Humphrey had asked Stevenson if he "would answer the ques tion I hear most about your candidacy, that is: 'Can Stevenson really clean up the mess in Washington?' " In his reply, Stevenson wrote: "As to whether I can clean up the mess in Washington, I would bespeak the careful scrutiny of what I inherited in Illinois and what has been accomplished in three years." "Sen. Duff lifted the phrase out of context to make a political charge against the governor," Humphrey said. "It appears to be a deliberate misinterpretation." Humphrey said Stevenson "merely said back to us what we had asked him." Duff told newsmen at Denver Monday that Stevenson proved the necessity for a change of administration by admitting there is "a mess" in Washington. Tax Assessment Hike Report Said A spokesman for .the county assessor s oriice today - siatea that'reports originating in Gold Hill and Rogue River, to the ef feet that the tax assessment rate there has been' increased 16.6 per cent, are without foundation. The reports apparently ongi nated when a committee of coun try property owners recently pe titioned the' county board of equalization for a change in the assessment rates in Gold Hill, Navy Investigating Accidental Shelling Tokyo !U.R) The Navy began an official investigation Tuesday into the accidental shelling of the Navy salvage ship Grapple by the American minesweeper Chief off Korea last Friday. Two crewmen aboard the Grapple were killed and nine others were injured, three ser iously. The Grapple arrived Tuesday at Sasebo naval base, es corted by the chief. A Navy spokesman said the burden of responsibility for the shooting appeared to rest with Lt. Cmdr. Willard . C. Hatch (home address unavailable) of the Chief, although the investi gation may disclose extenuating circumstances. Police Summoned as Iran Tension Mounts Tehran, Iran (U.R) Iranian nationalists set fire to a Com munist "peace club" Tuesday and truckloads of troops were called out to prevent mounting tension from erupting into more violence. The fire was touched off with gasoline shortly after a United States Army sergeant was in jured by.Communists who stoned his jeep during a clash in down town Tehran between Reds and pro-government demonstrators and police. Firemen sought to prevent the fire from spreading to other buildings. Troo'ps wearing steel helmets rushed to the scene. KNEE INJURED Leonard Dusenbury, 27, of 219 Talent court, received a knee in jury this morning when a binder chain broke on the log truck on which he was working, accord ing to Conger-Morris ambulance service. He was taken to Com munity hospital by the ambu lance service. HEADS BLOOD PROGRAM Mrs. J. W. Burba, 300 Oak wood drive, has been named head of the Medford Red Cross blood program. She succeeds Mrs. Leston Huntley, 2439 Ly man avenue. The appointment was announced Monday by Col. Ben Stafford, Jackson county Red Cross chairman. . TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, Ayte Untrue Roguev River and Central Point, to restore them yto the level where they were prior to 1950. No Final Decision , The assessor's office spokes man said today that the equaliza tion board considered the re quest, but he emphasized that no final decision has been made. It is the intent of the board, he said, to keep the present assessment rate unchanged. The state attor ney general has been asked to rule on whether or not the board could assume jurisdiction in this matter, but has not yet sent an answer to the request for clarifi cation of the board's powers. The assessment rate in the three communities was lowered as a tax-relief measure during the depression, then raised in 1948. After this action, consider able opposition to the new rates was made known in the three cities, and late in 1949 a public hearing was held in Medford by the State Tax Commission, at which several hundred residents of the three communities pro tested the rates. Conduct Survey ' After the hearing, a group composed of a state appraisal en gineer, a representative' of the county assessor, and members of the local tax assessment protests committees, conducted a survey of assessment rates, which re sulted in the lowering of rates by 16.6 per cent early in 1950. Most recent action in the long- disputed rate issue was the peti tion to the board of equalization, signed by property owners in areas adjacent to the three cties. It asked the board to "restore the assessed value of Central Point,- Gold Hill and Rogue River, which were reduced 16 23 per cent in 1950, to their former assessed value in order to make these assessments corre spond with the values of the rest of the county." Signing the petition wre Otto Bohnert. Homer A. Conger, Carl A. Hoover, Frank Hammond and Dixon Saltsgaver, all of Route 1, Central Point, and H. E. Conger and E. H. Niedermeyer, both Route 2, Medford. The assessor's office Spokes man .pointed out that a reap praisal program of all property in the county is now nearing completion, and that when it is completed, the dispute will be come largely academic. The re appraisal job in this county is part of a state-wide program. ' OSC Expects J orge Crop of Freshmen Corvallis (U.R) The regis trar's office at Oregon State Col lege reported Tuesday a larger crop of freshmen was expected this fall than in 1951. The office said that up to August 15, 1385 applications for admission were reviewed com pared to 1238 at the same time a year ago. . . Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire 1952 No. 128 Pirk Housewives Asked To Help Enforce Grocery Ceilings Arnall Reluctantly OK's Steel Boost Washington (U.R) The . gov ernment formally authorized higher prices on steel and auto mobiles Tuesday, and enlisted the housewives of 54 cities to help enforce ceilings in grocery stores. Three orders, destined to af fect millions of American fami lies, rolled off the mimeograph machines of the Office of Price Stabilization. These were the highlights: Steel ....Price Stabilizer Ellis Arnall, still grumbling about having .to do it, gave the steel industry the official nod to raise the price of carbon steel by $5.20 a ton, and the prices of costlier alloy and stainless steels by -4.7 per cent across the board. The price increases were part of the deal that settled the 55 day steel strike, but Arnall took the unusual step of stating in his order that the increases aver aged $2.36 a ton more than the industry reserved under price rules. He said he signed the or der only because the White House told him he must. Automobiles - " Effective Saturday, automo bile dealers will come under a new pricing regulation which permits each one to figure his own ceilings and his own "con ditioning" charges for such serv ices as tightening up any bolts the factory left loose. Officials estimated the order will mean an "overall rise of about 1 per cent in retail car prices $20 on a $2,000 car. Groceries Arnall 'announced that begin ning October 1, grocers in the 54 cities where there are OPS offices will be required to post charts showing their exact ceil ing prices on various iiems. The idea is to let housewives see for themselves whether they are be ing overcharged. The system was used generally in World War II, and has been used experimentally in recent months in Fargo, N.D.; Fresno,' Calif., and Jacksonville, Fla. The price lists will cover about 300 market basket items. Fruits and vegetables won't be listed, because they are exempt from price controls. Fresh meats, on which ceilings are set on a regional basis, will not be listed at first, but may be added later. 'Strange as it Seems' Feature Notes Odd Medford Animal Pair Two Medford animals an English bulldog and a tiny runt pig are pictured today in Elsie Hix's "Strange as it Seems," a regular feature on The Mail Tribune comic and radio page. The item notes the unusual adoption of the pig by a pedi greed bulldog owned by Mr. and Mrs. Jim Clark, 4010 Crater Lake highway. The dog abandoned her pups to mother the pig. Her own youngsters were fed by eyedroppers. On June 1 The Tribune printed a picture of the dog and her adopted pig. . - Communists UN Truce Delegate Feels Seoul, Korea (U.R) Al lied Superfortresses skirted a typhoon to bomb a Communist munitions plant in far North Korea with "excellent" results, returning pilots said Tuesday. The target in Monday night's raid was a grenade factory at Nakwon, only three miles from the Yalu river which forms the boundary between North Kor ea and Communist China. 140 Tons of Bombs Dropped The 14 Superforts dropped 140. tows of bombs (on the fac tory, using "improved electron ics aiming methods" because of overcast skies. It was the first time in the Korean war the factory has Property Damage Protection To Be About Third More Increases To Vary In Different Areas Portland (U.R) Auto Insur ance rates are to rise - sharply once again for Oregonians. Robert B. Taylor, state insur ance commissioner, said Tuesday he has approved a new schedule under which insurance rates for autos in the state will be raised about one-third for property damage protection. Washington Declines Hike A similar increase was turned down in the state of Washington by Insurance Commissioner Wil liam A. Sullivan, who asked for more information before author izing the boost. The Oregon increase was au thorized for the 55 members in the state of the National Bureau of Casualty Underwriters. Inde pendent companies will apply later this week for similar in creases. " The boost will be about $6 to $7 in the Portland area for the class No. 1 combined rate on the basic $5,000 to $10,000 policy. Third About Average A one-third increase will be about average for the entire state, although the increases will vary in different districts. Exact schedules for districts will not be released until later. There may be slight reductions in some districts, but in areas where there have been population in creases, the boosts will be greater. Insurance men said the in creases were requested because of increasing frequency and costs of claims, coupled with heavier settlements. Gold Hill Park In Highway Plans . . Portland (U.R) The State Highway Commission Tuesday agreed to attempt to buy a quarter-mile of river frontage at .Gold Hill, Ore., for a state park to be named after Ben Hur Lampmaft, associate editor of the Oregonian. Although it is not normal commission policy to name state parks . for individuals, State Park Superintendent Chester H. Armstrong told the commission here an exception1 should be made for the proposed park on the Rogue river. The proposed state park would replace a present city park of Gold Hill, known as Ben Hur Lampman park. The city park has a three-fourths-mile river frontage. Lampman, Oregon poet laur eate, was editor of the Gold Hill News from 1912 to 1916 before joining The Oregonian. Ralph Cake To Join Eisenhower's Staff Portland (U.R) Ralph H. Cake, former Republican na tional committeeman from Ore gon, said Tuesday he will join the headquarters of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower at Denver on Wednesday. Cake is to be assistant to the political chief of the GOP nomi nee's staff, Gov. Sherman Adams of New Hampshire. He said there was no thought of moving the Eisenhower headquarters from Denver to the East Coast, al though the general will leave Sunday for his first major politi cal address in Philadelphia. ACCIDENT REPORTED An accident involving a car and a log truck was reported to state police early today, but de tails of the crash were unavail able. The accident reportedly happened on the Greensprings highway about six miles east of Ashland, and though there was considerable property damage, the preliminary report indicated no one was injured. The investi gating officer was not expected to file a detailed report until late this afternoon. Desire Peace, been bombed. The factory con sists of 17 buildings of steel and concrete and turned out 1,000 anti-tank grenades and 3,000 to 5,000 hand grenades a day. Civilians Warned Civilians had been warned by leaflets to clear out of the area. Other Superfortresses bomb ed a military target at the West Coast town of Sakwanni and the Red storage area at the Kyo mipo steel mill below Pyong yang. The ground war was virtually stalled by the weather and only minor patrol contacts took place. -
