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Hand Of Assassin Hinted
In Siamese King's Death
BANGKOK, Siam, June 26
(PI A reliable report today
said medical evidence secretly
studied by a board of 18 physi
cians supports to a considerable
extent the theory that youthful
King Ananda Mahidol was the
victim of an assassin.
The 20-year-old monarch was
found dead In " his apartment
June 9. The official report to
parliament the next day said he
accidentally shot himself and
that the bullet went through
the forehead.
There were numerous ru
mors, however, that the king
either had committed suicide
because of a thwarted love af
fair while he was a student in
Switzerland or because of dis
satisfaction with his role as
monarch, or that he had been
killed by reactionary royalists
who disliked his democratic
tendencies.
As a result of the rumors the
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commission was appointed to
make an Investigation. The
commission ordered the body
taken from its great golden urn
in Dusit hall for examination
and X-rays were made to de
termine the course of tha bul
let. The medical board, which in
cluded one American, will re
turn its report suggesting as
sassination to the special in
quiry commission investigating
the strange circumstances of
the monarch's death, it was
learned.
The exact details of the medi
cal inquiry will be withheld
until the commission reports.
It was learned, however, that
the sensational medical finding
came in the course of a two
day investigation by doctors
who examined the body min
utely. Gunfire tests were made
on corpses. X-rays and photo
graphs of the body at the seen
of death were examined.
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Throngs Gather At Scene Of Medford Blaze
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offices are a s h o r t distance
i m (k American Dlant. He
was working in his office at
the time and noucea smoiwe
.rini from the northwest
corner of the big new plant.
An immediate call to the
Medford fire department was
followed by cans to h
land. Central Point, Camp
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partments which responded at
once. There was ample water
on hand to fight the flames
which were brought under con
trol at about 8 o'clock.
Fruit Spray Burns
The new American plant,
built In the fall of 1944 by a
chain outfit with headquarters
in Philadelphia, was the first to
go. Drums holding a highly in
flammable fruit spray, burst
with the intense heat, spraying
the wooden structure and turn
ing it into a sky-high leaping
mass of flames and smoke. The
burning barrels of oil resisted
efforts of the firemen to halt
the spread for more than an
hour. Great clouds of black
smoke, caused by the burning
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Madford'i moit tragic fir from an industrial standpoint was
viewed from S. Fir street by a horda of valUy citlt.nry early
Tuesday night. Above, persons from surrounding communities
thronged to Mtdford to gather around the entire ctrcumferance
of the fire. Laft, in the foreground, is tha Myron Root Packing
company which escaped tha blase. Below, a typical seen. Ap
proximately a doien families, whose homes in the west side
were menaced by the conflagration, moved out of their houses.
Wind bore the blase toward tha homes until equipment from
surrounding communities and army installations arrived and aid
ed in getting the fire under control. Furniture and clothing from
several of the homes were piled In the city park. Photos by
Brainerd. Medford; courtesy Medford Mall Tribune.
spray, rolled across the city as
thousands of spectators jammed
streets near the South Fir-Bart-lett
street area where the fire
burned.
Airline pilots reported that
flames were still outlining the
razed section at midnight, but
bv then firemen had ended the
threat to other sections of the
: city and only a few heavy tim
bers were burning.
The cement structure of the
Monarch , company plant was
credited with slowing the
flames sufficiently to permit
! firemen to concentrate their
i hose and eventually control the
fire.
The American plant faces Fir
street and covers an area of
about one-half a block. It is
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bound bv Fir on one IH
and the Southern Pacific tracks
on the other. Hoses across
tracks prevented movement of
SP trains and north and south
bound trains were delayed in
Medford several hours.
Fire Leaps Street
The Crystal Springs plant,
owned by Maurice and Ward
Spaatz is about 100 feet south
of the American plant and the
flames leaped easily across the
intervening space to catch that
building which was built a num
ber of years ago. Klamath folks
will be interested to learn that
Mrs. Maurice Spaatz is the for
mer Clarice Elliott Horun of
this city.
Next to catch fire was the
Porter Lumber company, owned
by George Porter of Medford.
Soon after the commercial
plants had felt the fury of the
flames, the fire swept into an
adjoining . residential section.
Only the home of Mrs. Helen
Tumy actually felt the damage
bv fire, hut rlflmnffA almntt
equally as harsh was suffered
uy nome owners wnen neat,
smoke and water swept their
hniUPB When t ho Tumv rr i
dence caught fire, firemen were
lorcea to use a n e a v y hose
which literally "blew the Inside
out" of the structure.
Residents became panicky at
the proximity of the flames and
Atcheson Says
Pact Violated
TOKYO, Juno 28 (,V) Chair
man George C. Atcheson Jr.,
told the Hllii'd council for Japan
today, In effect, that Hussia was
violuting the Potsdam surren
der terms by failing to repatri
ate Japanese captured in Mun
cluiriu. The Russian member said the
council wasn't supposed to talk
about that; it wasn't on the
agenda.
The American chulrman
made his point this way:
He quoted the Potsdam dec
laration, to which Russia wus
a party, as providing that "Jap
anese military forces, after liu
tng comtili'ti'ly disarmed, shall
be permitted to return to their
homes."
He followed with figures on
the percentage of Japanese re
patriated from various areas
Including: Soviet areas, zero
per cent.
(American news correspondents
who entered Manchuria last
February drew from the red
army commandant at Mukden,
Maj. Gen. Andrei Kovtoun
Slunkevitch, the statement that
disarmed Japanese troops In his
area had been sent by train to
work projects in Siberia).
Atcheson concluded: "I sub
mit the opinion that applicable
terms of the surrender should
bo carried out voluntarily by
all allied authorities as prompt
ly as practicable, From the
point of view of allied unity
alone, I should not wish to see
any terms of the surrender uni
laterally abrogated or disre
garded. French Cabinet
Wins Approval
PARIS. June 26 (A1) Tho
French constituent assrmhly
voted approval today of Presi
dent Georges Bidault's new coal
ition government, 317 to 4.
The president had called earl
ier for a truce among political
parties and promised Franco
would "maintain our friendships
and alliances with the great peo
ples who were our allies in the
war and In the victory.
He stood by his financial pro
gram of wage increases not ex
ceeding 15 per cent, as against
a demand of the powerful gen
eral confederation of labor for
a 23 per cent increase.
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Injured Indian Girl
Reported Improved
The condition of Christina HUI
,n ...1-IoiihIv Inlurcd In an auto
mobile accident near Klamath
Aguucy this ween, was rpuin-u
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at Klamutli Valley hiltal.
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Injured near the Agency on the
Spiugue ltlver road Monday, was
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and overturned.
N.Y. Holocaust
Flames Again
NEW YOHK. Juno 28 Ml A
smouldering bla.o aftermath of
yesterday's disastrous fire which
destroyed the Statt-u Island ferry
terminal and claimed three lives
spread today to emergency
piers and all but halted ferry
service to llrooklyn and Man
hattan. Soma 40 persons were
Injured.
Inconvenience which almost
amounted to Isolation faced
Sliiten island's .10.01)0 commu
ters, forced to detour by bus or
train through the traffic-congested
New Jersey aporoaeli to New
York City, up until noon.
The department of marine and
aviation began limited opera
tions at noon with four boats
putting In at a pier on the north
side of the Island, a quarter-mile
away from the terminal.
A fresh crew of firemen came
on duty at dawn, working with
pneumatic drills to penetrate
concrete flooring and get at
flames which stubbornly ate
through the highly Inflammable
creosote piling.
All told, 200 fire fighters were
hacking away at the scorching,
smoking lieup of rubble trying
to quell tho $2,000,000 blair,
worst In Staten Island history.
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10 Die As Train
Wrecks Truck
HAHL1NGEN. Tex.. Jun. Jj
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seriously Injured when a pani.
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truck packed with Latin Ainrr.
lean farm workers on a palm,
lined rlghlofway near hri
ImHlv Mflnr flunk Vrslnfiti.t.
The accident was strikingly
similar In one In 111-10 when 2u
were killed near Alamo, a frw
miles to the west. j
The victims and wreckuua I
yesterday were scattered fur i;!o
feet, Some were hurled uliiiot i
Into nearby oningn anil giupe. i
fruit orchards, fur which n,a j
seinl-tropUnl Hlo Grande vullry !
Is famous.
All were believed to be rn.
dents of nearby La I'alnma .Tin y j
were all Latin American-., r
American citizens of Mexican
heritage.
The dead and Injured lay along
the rails for half an hour until
ambulances from llarliugeii ul,(j
Mercedes arrived to pick Ihrm
up. No occupants of the truck,
which was believed to contain
21 persons, most of them stun. I.
Ing III the bed of the vehul.f
escaped Injury.
Picker Lack Causes
Cherry .Crop Crisis
SALF.M. June 2 (!) Cherries
nre rotting on the' trees in Ihef
Willamette valley, and fiirnirra
throughout the slate are getting
an Idea of how the farm labor
shortage may affect their own
harvests.
The shortage of cherry nlckrr.
Is caused by lark of housing. In
the Sulein arra alone, growers,
with the biggest crop In srvrrui
years, are railing for AO00 pick
ers. Thai's more than the Snlnn
area can provide, so migratory
farm laborers are needed.
The Oregon Slate college ex
tension service says that good
pickers ran earn more than (13
a day. Hut the Jobs go begging.
started carting furniture from
their homes. One excited man,
Medford sources said, threw an
end table through a window.
Soon the courthouse lawn and
city park were filled with fur
niture and this morning many
a householder was without her
own pieces of furniture which
got mixed up as people moved
back.
Records Destroyed
Heads of the American and
Crystal Springs plants said one
of their heaviest losses occurred
when flames consumed lists of
customers which have been
compiled throughout the years
and went to all points in the
world. When the fire hit tho
space which held piles of pine
cones, tissue paper and decora
tions for the thousands of gift
wrappings, the flames roared
with renewed Intensity. The
American specialized In gift
boxes.
Tall piles of box shook, used
by the two fruit firms, went up
In smoke but It Is understood
that southern Oregon lumber
firms can replace the shook be
fore the fall harvest.
Medford sources advised that
virtually all companies carried
sufficient insurance to "pretty
well" cover the losses sustained
in the Tuesday night fire.
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