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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;
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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
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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
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MEDFORD, OREGON,
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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. -