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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. THURSDAY. .TUNE 13. 1940. PAGE FIVE HAMILTON SEES NEW COMMANDER 186TH INFANTRY Grain Expert Dies Portland, June 13 ip) Niels P. Peterson, 87, retired grain ex pert, died yesterday at Emaneul hospital, which he helped found Peterson, a native of Denmark. came to the west Nebraska in 1900. coast from which burned over 200 acres In the scab-rock lands northeast of here yesterday was under con trol today. Weather Northern California: Fair to night and Friday but fog on coast; little change in tempera ture: moderate northwest wind of coast. Nest oa Airport. Seattle, June 13. (P) A mother duck is hatching ten eggs between the main run ways of Boeing field, the north west's busiest airport. The lawnmowcr has left her tht privacy of a little tall grass. Closing i.o for Too Let le Clas sify Ad Is I do p m. Fire Controlled Sprague, Wash., June 13 (IP) A grass and scrub pine fire Prom pedestal to torch, tha BUtue of Liberty Is soft', feet high. Osa Mai Tribune want ads. IN 110 TERM G. 0. P. Chairman Declares People Must Look to Re publican Party for Peace BUY ALL YOUR LIVING ROOM PIECES AT ONCE ON WARDS TIME PAYMENT PLANI SAVE AT THE GROUP PRICE . . . GET MATCHED PIECESI Col. Ralph P. Cowgill, For mer Commanding Officer Local National Guard Unit kmm mum I Last Call to Diner Philadelphia, June 13. (P) A Missouri-born Connecti cut Yankee in charge of ar rangements for the Republi can national convention an nounced today the forthcom ing session might be regarded is his party's "last call to the liner." "If we don't produce a leader to take us out of this trouble," Samuel F. Pryor, Jr., declared in an Interview, "this form of government is gone. It might be our last con vention." By "this trouble," he ex plained he meant the domestic policies of the new deal. Washington, June 13. W) John Hamilton, chairman of the Republican national committee, declared today that "there is very grave danger to our demo cratic Institutions in the pros pect of a third term and all that it implies in the trend to ward totalitarianism in this country." In a formal statement before leaving with his staff for Phila delphia, where the Republican national convention opens June 24, Hamilton added that "the people must look to the Repub lican party if the peace of the nation is to be preserved." Ten Candidates Loom. He disclosed that party lead ers expected at least 10 candi dates to be placed in the run ning for the presidential nom ination at the convention. The red-haired chairman re ceived reporters at party head quarters after Wendell L. Will ie ie, late entrant in the Repub lican presidential race, had spo ken out against the New Deal except for its foreign policy. Willkie left here for an eastern campaign tour. Hamilton said that nominat ing and seconding speeches at the convention would be limit ed to 50 minutes each. Tickets for the sessions, he added, had been printed for five days instead of the custom ary four. It was conceivable, he explained, that the conven tion might last a full week, but he thought it could be confined to five days. Convention Important. In his formal statement he asserted the convention would be the most important in the party's history because "it oc curs at a time of unparalleled crisis in both domestic and na tional affairs, when the leader ship of the Republican party is needed as never before." The people, he continued, will look to the Republicans to res cue them "from the mire of despondency In which the in ept, extravagant and wasteful New Deal administration has enveloped the American people. Willkie, whose 11th hour entrance Into the Philadelphia convention contest he described as a "Toosy-lt-Just-growed" can didacy, threw down the gauntlet to the New Deal on everything except its foreign policy in talk ing to reporters yesterday. He left last night for New York. THE GRANGE Sams Valley Grange The public is cordially invited to an evening's entertainment to be given at Sams Valley Grange hall Friday evening. June 14. through the cooperation of the Medford Rotary club, the Cham ber of Commerce and the Sams Valley Grange. The varied program will start about 8:30 p. m., and there will be no charge. Be sure to bring all your friends. Following the entertainment delicious homemade ice-cream, fresh strawberries and cookies will be served for a very small charge. Large quantities are benig prepared so no one will go home hungry. Don't miss this enjoyable evening. Church memberehipe in th V. fi. number about 53 000.000 persons. Father's Day Cards re ear Urt dl'plar of Father's Da? ranis. especially for Dad. Aim perlal Father's Ia card for Inrle. Grandfather. Hatband and others. SWEM'S GIFT SHOP When Ralph P. Cowgill comes here on inspection tours in his ; new position of commander of ' the 186th infantry of the Oregon j national guard, he will not C"me : as a stranger. He will, in effect. 1 Just be coming home, for he re- sided here for many years. I Mr. Cowgill became comman- j der of the 186th infantry last I Col. Ralph P. Cowgill Saturday, advanced from lieu lenant.colonel to colonel to take the place of Col. Alvin C. Baker who had retired. Among the units of the national guard to come directly under his com mand was Company A, Med ford's national guard unit with which he served as commanding officer some years ago. Civil Engineer A civil engineer by profession Cowgill has been a resident of Oregon since 1908. He was an engineer with the U. S. geologi cal survey from 1898 to 1908 and in 1908 became special agent and enginer of the U. S. general land office. In the same year he became assistant engi neer of the Rogue River Valley Water company, a position he filled until 1913 when he be came chief engineer of the Med ford irrigation district, serving in this capacity until 1918. During the World war Cow gill was a captain of engineers, from October 12, 1918, to Febru ary 17, 1919. After the war. Cowgill held the following positions here: as sistant engineer, Talent irriga tion district, 1919-1920; chief engineer, Eagle Point irrigation district, 1921.23; field engineer. Medford city water commission (new water system), 1924-27; engineer, Oregon state game commission, specified number and size of Bonneville fishways, 1927-35. He became an engineer in the Oregon national guard in 1935. One In Legislature Mr. Cowgill once took a whirl at politics and served as state representative from 1923 to 1927. 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