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Newspaper Page TextAttorney General Intensifies Efforts To Convict Hoffa Siwy Cofumrt 3 Th UgUlotur I Regional Edition Little Gold Pins Special 'Badges' Of Distinction' Editor's Hole: Where the money come, bom, nd what . . i i - -i w. leg laaiilature. most ollht moniT decisions were mid. by the Ways ." Sr.n. UmmW... Thi, l. ih. first in . ... el six articles on th recently concluded state legislature. ' cTUlf and ANN H. PEARSON Sa.em J- Fourteen member, of ? unrkoH and then went nome wearing, . of disinc?ion"-ii,,le gold pins in the shape of . meat These were the 13 men and one woman on the powerful WayYand Meatu .Committee, who had the job of deciding how ways ana m"1"1" K iom.rS hienmum. much the sute snou,a ..... " " Trcov Satfiefd who e'renTarks started the exclusive fad it meant the wmmittee was hacking away essential parts of his $405 million spending program. ... .... DiAhUmi w?lter-and to the legislature that supported most of their decisions, it meant this: B'laB!"r" done of striking a balance between what a healthy Oregon needs and what her finacially-stramed tax. WlK .3- "P with , get of $404 million In taxpayers- money, on ihe surface, about $1 million less dreamy counting considerable fund igufUng, ih. to.id.tuK came up with a spending program about $5 million under the governor's. Continued on pas SI Tax Commission Ponders Problems Created by New Law Salem (UPD Most Oregon taxpayers are going to have to dig deep in their. pockets fn .vtra money early next vear when they lrte-"their- ions inrnm. tax returns'H the new tax hike gowinto.ef- lect. ' i Tax commission- legal and oersonnel were pondering the problem today. They did not know, wmcn s.u.ral nlans to adopt. They were waiting to see if the new tax Increase will be trA hv the voters. - Tax Commission Chief Le li i-minsot Carlisle B. Rob- i. uiri ihe new income tax would not become law until Sept. 2. This is 80 days after adjournment of the legisia ; Legally the session ended at 12:09 a.m. June t, i i4")nH riav of the session, al though legislative records will show adjournment at 11-59 n.m. June 3, the 141st day. Probably Will Wait Roberts said the commis sion could make up tne new lahles immediately, but prob- ahlv could not have them bal Counsel Carlisle B. Rob- ning July 1. "- He felt the commission would decide to start the new withholding rates at the be ginning of the final quarter, Oct. 1. But we can't anticipate an early change in collection rates because the tax increase mioht be referred," he said. John J. Lobdell, director of the accounting division, said Hie commission could issue a temporary withholding sched- to cover the full year, but he doubted it would be done, I would sucss the commis sion will adopt new tables ef fective Oct. 1 to retleet tne rhanees resulting irom the new law." he said. "Refunds this year nave averaged $39 a return, so this will take up some oi tne slack. Others will Just have to pay the difference at the end of the year," Lobdell ex plained, : Medford United Press International Full Laiwd Win 58th Year Price 1 0 Cents 1RIBUNE UalM w lMarsaUanaJ rU Leaac Wire, 24 Paget Two Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1943 No. 5 Miss Carver Named i Judge in Phoenix Phoenix - Former Mayor- Fave Carver has been sworn in as judge of the Phoenix municipal court, following the resignation of Judge Wayne Romans. Romans letter of resigna tion was read at the Phoenix city council meeting Monday, He will join tne rnoenix po lice department, as a part time officer until July 1, and a full time patrolman after that date. Romans previously was a member of the department prior to his appointment as ii.rtoe following the resigna tion of Eddie Hcim several months ago. Miss Carver was mayor oi Phoenix through the end of last year. TO HEAD CENTER Portland -UTO- Dr. Samuel Diack. a Fortiana pnysiciau, n, .lected Dresident of the Oregon Graduate Center for Study and Research by the trie to pick up extra money ' board's trustees luesoay. MRVSBRIEFS m 1 I 1 AROUND THl OIQK Attorney General nfensifies Move Against Holla Jury Indicts Eight for Fraud Chicago - m - Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy has in tensified his efforts to get conviction of Teamster Pres ident James R. Hoffa. A federal grand jury In Chicago indicted Hoffa and seven other persons Tuesday on charges alleging they fraudulently obtained $20 million in loans from a Team ster pension fund and used more than $1 million of It for themselves. It was the seventh time since Kennedy and Hoffa first tangled while Kennedy was chief counsel for the Senate Rackets Committee that Hof fa has had court actions filed against him. The action Tuesday came after two years of investiga tion by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department. It came in the form of a 28-count, 55-page indictment. As the indictment was handed down, a 16-count mail and wire fraud indictment against Hoffa was dismissed on motion of Kennedy's de partment In Tampa, Fla. U. S. Dist. Judge Josepn P. Lieb dismissed the indict ment involving Hoffa's con nections with a Florida real estate firm. Sun Valley Inc.. so the case could be coupled with the Chicago prosecution The Chicago indictment ac cused Hoffa of deceiving fel low trustees of the Central States. Southeast and South west Areas Pension Fund headquartered In Chicago, to nntmn loans for favored com panies In six states. Most of the companies are in me w ami, Fla., area. The Indictment cited loans for financing of companies for construction of hotels, motels, shopping centers and other: projects in Florida, Louisiana, : Alabama, Missouri, New Jer- sey and California. j Pension tuna irusiees oncc were told, the grand Jury said, that 2 million tn loan; funds was used to buna a North Miami hospital where as a "substantial portion" of the money was diverted to other uses. The indictment said Hoifa used "fraud, deceit, misrepre sentation" to obtain approval of the loans by the seven oth er union and eight manage ment representatives who run the pension fund. Others named in the in dictment were: Benjamin Dranow, 56, for mer owner of the John W. Deoartment Store, Minneapolis, Minn., now in for mail fraud and income tax evasion; Abe T. Weinblatt, 67, retired Miami Beach, Fla., businessman and fnrmer associate of Dranow; S. George Burris, 85, New Vnrk Citv accountant who was a stockholder in Sun Val ley Inc.; his sou Herbert G. Burris. 41. New York City attorney: Samuel Human, oa. Miami Beach, a real esiaie operator who refurbished two hru ld Key wesi nmcis, Calvin Kovens, 39, Miami Beach builder who was con victed of a housing loan fraua last year; and Zaehary A. Strate Jr., 43, New Orleans builder and real estate man. Lumber w So $tnlm rflWS FtOM oTAi-rsa CTORM THROUGH TEHRAN - utin.iininua rioters stormed thiouoh tha -i T.hran today in an appartnt bid to toppla Mia . n Shin Rata Mohammed Pshlevi'i troops .mashed the insurgent rank, with tank, and machine Bu fire. today SUPERSONIC TRANSPORT PLANE PLANNED 1 ,j c.in. CalalPtt-Pretident Kennedy 1 announced a goyernment deeUion to go ahead with deyelop menu of a .'person commercial tr.n.port plan, capable of traveling at more than twice the .peed of .ound. Doctor's Office Is Damaged by Patient A Medford doctor's office was damaged Tuesday after noon when a patient became violent and city police had to be called. According to police reports. the 20-vear-old Jack&on coun ty man knocked Patrolman George L. Lucas to the floor Two ether olficcrs, Sgt. Lar ry Lusow and William Allen and Dr. Laurel G. case final ly subdued the man. how- ever, officers said, it was nec essary to restrain him while Unions in Three States Involved n Pay Dispute No Indication Walkout To Spread Portland - CUPS - An esti mated 6,000 members of two big lumber unions went on strike today in Oregon, Wash- ngton and California in dis pute over wages. The strike was cauea against the giant U.b. fiy wood Corp. and the St. Regis Timber Co. by the Internation al Woodworkers of America and the Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union. Negotiations broke down Tuesday after noon. Eicht operations of U.S. Plywood and five of the St, Regis firm were affected. Members of "Dig Six' These two firms are mem bers of the so-called "Big Six" which conducted nego tiations with the unions sepa rately from other lumber com panies throughout the Doug las fir region. There as no immediate in dication of when or if the strike would spread and what action the employer group might take. Representatives of the big six planned a meet ing here this afternoon to dis cuss the situation. A spokesman for the unions said negotiations were ter minated with the two nrms and "discontinued" against the other four large com- nanles-Weverhaeuser, Crown Zellerbach, International Pa per and Rayomer, Talks also were discon tinued with the Timber Op erators Council, which repre sents 196 separate operations from Alaska to Northern California. No strike against the TOC or the four large firms was planned at the time, a spokesman said. Contracts between tne em ployers and the unions ex pired last Saturday. One company remainea m nezotiations with the unions Scott Paper Co. Talks were scheduled for Thursday. An LSW spokesman sam talks would be carried on with Georgia-Pacific Corp. at some future time." The com pany is not a member of the big six. Demand. Cut The IWA said it had scaled down its demands from a 40- ccnt hourly increase over three years to 35 cents. The LSW had asked 60 cents per hour over the three years. Unions also sought pay lor, travel time and benefits In some job classifications. Harvey Nelson of the IWA said the employer group had offered in wages, 8.5 cents per hour for 1983, five ents for 1964 and 2' per cent in 1965. About 79,000 workers are in the two unions In the West. Nelson indicated this would be a "selective" strike -mat against those employers which are able to withstand strike. The last genera! strike was in 1954. 8,000 Involved About 6,000 workers in both unions were involved in hp strike. The IWA was striking U.S. Plywood opera tions in Reedsport, fcugene. Roseburg, Willamina and Mapleton in Oregon and Seat tle. Wash.: and St. Regis op erations in Olympia and two at Tacoma, Wash. The LSW was striking U.S Plywood at Lebanon, Ore.; and Redding. Calif., and St Regis at Morton and Seattle, Wash. HJ a left VWfTiifi!! ,e3: . I -.;' I f I a . I i - - f i r i ti'S- f-1 r'i K'-r- J I ' II I I 1 t '' " - Jt I .1 - - A 11 ii - - . .1 if 1 tl I Debris, Human Remains Found At Crash Scene Anchorage, Alaska - tTi - out.." He said he oid not be lts of wreckage and human remains from the crash or! tchtng tit a Northwest Ori ent Airlines DC? In the Gulf f Alaska were expected In Ketchikan today aboard the Coast Guard cutter Sacrell. Preparations for an investi gation of the third worst air isasier involving predomi nantly military personnel will get under way at the Annette stand Coast Guard Station, o Conclutiont Although the Coast Guard said no conclusions could be reached yet about what caused the plane with 101 persons aboard to fall Into he gulf Monday, s spokes man said whatever happened was fast. It appears either the Im pact was tremendoua or there was an explosion," Lt, Cmdr. Owen Siler, directing Coast Guard operations at Ketchi kan, said. whatever happened hap-l I IIt1 ...iT''rJ uve mm mxmm minutes alter it made Ms po sition report, ' he said. Siler tatd the possibility ot a bomb aboard the . air cratt "coud sot be ruled lieve any of the bodies touni so lar were intact. A Royal Canadian Air Force plane first spotted the floating debris about eight hours after the BCT last ra dio contact, Xo survivori were found. CuMer Relieved The Coast Guard ssiri tha Sorrell and a 95-Joot patrol craft remained at the crash scene until tate Tuesday night, when the Sorrell was relieved by (he cutter Sweet brier. It was estimated tha Sorrell would take about 10 hours to reach Ketchikan. One ol the passengers on the plane was listed as Mary Frances Dennis, 43, a eera tary at McChord AFB new Tacoma and a feraier resident of Klamath Falls, Ore. James Rowan Will if amiiK Under MS INSTALL NEW CUHBS-Conracfor' crews are shown here this week inatolling new curbs and gutters at Main st. and Riverside ave. The worK is part of a project jointly financed by the city of Medford and the state highway department designed to im prove draimtRe conditions in the central business district. Total cost for the project, which includes work on Main st. and Cen tral and Riverside ave., is estimated at $74,279. The city will pay .S3 per cent of costs tor work on. Central ve, and Main st., and the state the remaining 78 per cent. The state will bear the entire cost of work on Riverside sve. Work started about mid April and Is expected Jo be completed late in July, The state Is In charge at ail en gineering and traffic control tor the project. (Knackstedt photo) Vessels CoWide Oil San Francisco Jma,Bw8,.sa et Vt. and Mn. James P. Ro-wais, 62 MMinnota. st,., -wm spend th rammer in GotUr.aen. 0r many, as Me&lorci representa tive m the American Field Service branch cf Americans Abroad. Aboard Cutter Comanche - Bowan will Iivs. with Dr. Crew members of a (and Mrs Wolf von Buttiar Japanese . freighter took to j and ' ftml!y, which Includes Hfeboils today after uiefrf fo deughteri and one son. ship collided in dense tog with ! The Medford boy wjJJ le-v U.S. refrigerator ship 351 Portland with other Amej-j. miles ott San Francisco Jean; field Service students Solden Gate. I from the WtM coast June it. One crewman ot the Japs- J and will sail from New York Resignation of Attorney for Irrigation District Accepted HEUBERGER ASKS SHIPPING LAW CHANGES iu..u .-,iiwSan. Maurine B. Neuberger (D-Ore.1 call ad Tuesday for change. In U.S. .hipping law. to help eyt tefc . record flow of Canadian .oitwood lumber to U.S. j Atlantic Coa! markets, on the ambulence stretcher ; 7. en route to Rogue Valley hos- RUSSIA PLANS SPACEMAW luv,bm Waraw-Tt-SoTiel plans to launch an unspecified num ber of .peeemen thi. year alter a lO month break In man ea .pace flights-were annourced Tue.day to an Ea-We.t space meeting here. fr tar b vn t v tit GRADUATES - W..I Point, N.Yin-Colin P. K. IT HI. Poud bearer of nam. mad. famou. during th. ..rly day of World War II, gradualed from Ihe U.S. Military Academe today. His father wa. a bomber pilot who was killed three days aflar the J.p.n... attack on Pearl Harbor. Capt. Kelly order.d hi. trjw to bail out and went down ilh the plan.. nital. Officers said a sink in the doctor's office was torn from the wall, flooding the room and window and fixtures were broken. The Medford Irrigation dis trict board yesterday after noon accepted the resignation of Philip B. Lowry as their attorney and tabled the pend ing resignation of Secretary Manager Jack Hoffbuhr. Lowry stated in his letter he had indicated his desire to resign in January. However, Board Chairman Albert Huen ers then requested he eon tinue, Lowry pointed out. "t declined to act as legal counsel for a full year and reserved the riant to termi nate our services as conditions indicated," Lowry wrote. He was unable to attend yester day's board meeting due to a trial. However, Board Directors Gene Cameron and Hueners had decided to ask the dis trict's attorney to resign ear- lirr and Hueners had ordered the resignation be placed on the agenda. THORNTON'S OPINION Salem - fl'Pt - A member of the current legislature cannot accept appointment as state fire marshal, Atty, Gen. Rob ert . Thornton said today. Southern Pacific Granted fare Hike Salem - m - The Oregon Public Utilities Commission today authonred ijutncrn Pacilic Railroad to increase its intrastate passenger fare 10 per cent beginning June 18. The Increase will net SP $7,800 a year, the PUC stated The fare increase, first re auested last year when the federal transporation tax was removed, was twice suspend ed by the PUC to allow time foj investigation. Question Asked When Board Director Paul Cuibertson asked Cameron why he felt Lowry snouia resign Cameron answered, Because of you, raui. j nave felt for some time, this year rriimlarlv. that Phil was - . representing you as your at torney more than he was the district." H. B. Murphy, watcr-user and pear shipper, pointed out the district s contract is with the legal firm of Frohnmayer, Lowry and Dcatherage. Cuibertson declared that Lowry "is the greatest hu man asset this district has ever had and the best water attorney in the statcl" Cuibertson noted Hon- buhr's resignation was sub mitted in January and made a motion it be accepted. His motion died for want of a second, and the other two riirtor approved a motion made by Cameron that the; resignation be tabled. Reasons for the resignation were not given by the directors. Referring to Lowry's letter of resignation, Cameron said r - it was "snide and critical of the district's operation. "We have one of the best operated districts in the state, and one of the best managers," Cameron said this morning. "We're in better shape than we've ever been In, and it Is diip tn HoObuhr's work. I've w,n nn the board for JO and 1 know." . . . . i . Cameron protested uie iu nnlnia In Lowrv I letter as nnt bdoIvIiiB to the district, and that they would -jusi make trouble." Lowrv's 10 points were: 1. All decisions pertinent to the district should be op cnlv arrived at in properly convened public meetings with advance special and in- dividual commitments to be unswervingly avoided. 2, No d i s b u r s ement ot funds should be made except nurauant to budget authoriza tion or by the board's express authorization. On Comparable Bids 3. Ail capital asset Hems and substantial purchase! should be on a comparable bid basis. The bid approved should not be exceeded in dis hiirarmrnt of public funds. 4. Meticulous care should be taken that no director or officer have direct or Indirect interest in any contract en- tired Into by the district. S. D 1 s trict vehicle! and equipment should be used solely lor district purposes. 8. Administrative personnel should refrain from attempt ing to reverse decisions prev iously made by the board, ?. District records should be considered public and be open to reasonable Inspection of proper persona at reason able hours. 8. Audit procedure should be required, going beyond formal mathematical account ing so representative sample disbursement arc actually checked. Should Be Discontinued neae ship Kokoku Maru was killed, but the 43 othon were plucked irom bobbing life boats by two Coast Guard cut lers. Three ot the 43 were Injured, The second ship Involved in Tuesday night's collision, the Military Sea Transportation Service vessel Asterlon, head-; ed lor San Francisco Bay but i developed an oi) leak and stopped ott the Golden Cats, i Two tugs put a line aboard I the 6,23J-ton Kokoku Marul and took her under tow. The 1 vessel had a gash 30 feet wide and 45 feet high on il star board aide. The vessels collided at 10:0S p.m. pd, five mHes off Point Reyes, 35 miles north of San Francisco. The 7,771- ton Asterlon was en routs to San Francisco Irom the Far East, The Japanese veaael left San Francisco earlier Tuesday lor Japan. 9. Oral agreements between the manager and third parties should be entirely discon tinued. Such arrangements have led to frequent claims and disputes as to respective positions ot (he parties. 10. The secretary-manager should be specltically Instruct ed that consultations with directors outside boBid meet ings should Include all di rectors. "The sole purpose of the Ir rigation district Is deemed as Its capacity to drllvrr water to Irrigable land. It should nnt be an arena for disposing i of personal animosities," Lowry concluded, "The board should encourage wider par ticipation by the water-users within the district an they will be fully informed first hand of water problems." Calkins Accepts School District Job Grants Pass Thomas W. Calkins, supervisor of secon dary schools with the slate department of education, his been named superintendent ol the Josephine county school district, effective July 1. He will fill the vacancy cre ated by the death of Elmer Fleming last April, wetley M. Peters, district curriculum director, ha been acting su perintendent since that lime. Calkins was selected from 33 applicants. Before taking hii post with the state, he was City on the Seven Sea Jurwt 38, ; arriving in BottmrOam July S, To Arrive is Medfard Arriving ta Medford In August to spend the 196344 school year here will be Maria I. Castro rom Costa Jttoa, who will Jive with Dr. and Mrs. Bairn . Bibbs and ism. ily; and Bart de Beer, from The Netherlands, who will live with Mr. and Mn, Otto J. Frohnmayer. The students are beins nxm. sored here by the Rotery club of Medford and Crater Liens club. The ATS program wa begun here In 1938 when th Rotary club sponsored a s'.a- dent from Denmark, who ISv ea with the H. D. Chrbtensea family. Countries represented dur ing the last leven years by foreign studems here and by Medford students abroad in clude Denmark, Sweden, Nor way, trtrwsny, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, Malaya, Costa Rica, and Holland. Sirs. Robert Sleeter is presi dent of the local AFS ccny mlttee. Other committee mem bers Include Mrs. Say Menrke, Mrs. William Barker, Dr. Earl Johnson, Kenneth Cool', Miss Joe Kirtley, flow an, Steve Blackhurst, DeVtr Taylor, Mrs. Earl Lawson, Joe Naumes, and Mrs. Christ essen. Dellenback Accepfi Church Nomination Portland flOT State Rep. John Dellenback (R-Medford) accepted nomination Tuesday as moderator of the Synod ol superintendent of schools at I Oregon of the United Fresby Ontario. 1 terian Church in the (LS-A. WEATHER FOR F. CAST? OMral rfci. CflM4 caal HIB b Bllht S. Hi l"""'" -1a. llHHf.l VeraT l,Ht Tali ifcnHN - Frit, la J t.m. totty . Our Skies Tonight riill MaM $ 44 p,m., S:J a in t;I1 .' . inn 1 Mar aa ant ' mr i af aiteili'f elan t'ra BBl Man i HJ.see.aee nllaa ltm Hi HI tattrt; te , aural a aly la ! r, l ' J 1M miUt aar. Hundreds of Thousands Pay Respects To Pooe John in St. Peter's Basilica . T Vatican City - Kf - Hun dreds ol thousands of persons filed through St. Peters Ba silica today to pay a final tribute to Pope John XXIII, Within eight hours after the great doors ot the mas sive church had been flung .int-n. an estimated 230,000 mourners had moved past the red draped catfalque where the late pontiff i body lay In atate. Even as the crowd paid 1U last respects, the church ma chinery lor eliooaing a new pope began Its operation. The Vatican announced that the College of Cardinals is.ilS meet June 19 to begin selec tion of successor to John XXIH, Many of ihe 83 car dinal were In Rome, and other! were on their way fm all over the) world. Simultaneously, the Vati can newspaper Osservuore Romano published excerpts uyio irom the late Pope ajary in which he frequently ex pressed hi complete submis sion to the will of God and commented on Ms fcopes tor the Ecumenical Coell which he called to bring the. church into step with mod ern times anil to work lor union ol ill Christianity. The council was suspended auto matically with hi death Mon day, and It will be up to his successor to decide 'hether So reconvene it.