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
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Col. Ralph P. Cowgill, For
mer Commanding Officer
Local National Guard Unit
kmm mum
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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.
So there are many things to
make Mr. Cowgill feel at home
whenever he comes to Medford
and there are many here who
know him well. There is one
other tiling for which he is re
mtmbered here: he was the first
commander of Medford post of
the Amrican Legion.
About 8 540. ooo men lost their
Uvea In the first World war.
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