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A n n iH urn J UviiLJ VilU 1 if Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Tuesday but with scattered showers over the mountains. Little change tn temperature. Temp. Highest yesterday 84 Lowest this morning 68 Precipitation past 84 hrs. 0 Thirty-ninth Year Delegates Flock to Dewey Bandwagon; Confidence Marks Convention Opening 721 PLEDGED TO NEW YORKER AS SESSIONS START Delivery of Keynote Address ' By Governor Warren To night Next On Docket Chicago Stadium, June 26. (U.R) Cheering thousands of Re publicans opened their first war time national convention since 1864 in a mood of confidence today as the rush of delegates to Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's bandwagon developed into an avalanche of first ballot votes. In the hours before the con vention belatedly got under way at 11:18 a. m. CWT, the 42-year-old New Yorker's strength jumped from 668 pledged votes, as determined by a United Press survey, to 721, a round half hun dred more than he will need on Wednesday for a first ballot nomination. Keynote Tonight Having delayed the conven tion opening for an hour and a minute past the scheduled open ing time, the Republicans quick ly got down to the business of getting preliminaries out of the way and electing Gov. Earl War ren of California as temporary chairman. He will deliver the keynote address tonight. The convention's first session lasted only an hour and four minutes. It recessed at 12:20 p. m. CWT, until 8:15 o'clock tonight. , While a music master tried to stir the sweltering delegates and visitors into song until the convention started, last minute state caucuses were swelling Dewey's total of pledged votes and cutting into those for Gov. John Bricker of Ohio. Shortly before Republican Na tional Chairman Harrison E. Spangler wiped the moisture from his stcel-rimmed glasses and called the delegates to-order, Bricker's total of pledged first ballot votes, a check show ed, stood at 77. Bricker Stays In Despite the apparent hope lessness of his position, how ever, Bricker refused to with draw and accept a reported pro posal by Dewey managers that he make the nominating speech for the New Yorker. The Dewey managers then selected Gov. Dwight Griswold of Nebraska to make the speech for their man on Wednesday, The convention was opened with a prayer by the Rev. John Holland of the Little Brown Church of the Air who, stand ing in the elare of batteries of great blue-white lights, asked that "what we do here may bring throughout the earth and. In America first government of the people, by the people and for the people." Gov. Dwight H. Green of Illi nois welcomed the 1,057 dele gates with the statement that the Republican party carries the hopes of the country for "res toration of free and constitution- al government." Speaking sol emnly. Green declared that the GOP is the only major political force in the United States "which stands forthrightly and four-square for the republic and its constitution." California First The last-minute swelling of the tide of Dewey votes was started before convention time when the California delegation decided definitely to cast its 50 votes for the New York gov ernor. Vermont and Nevada caucaused and followed suit with nine and six votes respec tively. Bricker's determination that hi. name sha 11 be Dlaced in nom ination was announced by his campaign manager, Roy D. Moore, who asserted that all ru- mnn ho would withdraw "are without foundation." In view of Bricker's determi nation. New York Republican leaders immediately turned to Griswold as Dewey's nominator because, according to State M EDFORD United Presi Warren Reaches Chicago Ski 4- ;?v - vW"i ;Mf,'3U a Headed by Gov. Earl Warren, leading contender for Republican vice-presidential nomination, the California delegation to Chicago G.O.P. convention raises a cheer on arrival. Mrs. Warren stands beside her husband. Warren Claims Vice Presidential Choice By John W. Dunlnp United Press Staff Correspondent Convention Headquarters, Chicago, June 26 (U.R) The up surge of enthusiasm for Keynoter Earl Warren, governor of Cali fornia, today swung Republican convention interest to the west coast and the strong probability that Warren will be the vice- presidential nominee. Warren has been the "man of the hour" ever since he swung off the California delegation train yesterday morning. His pictures blossomed in all the newspapers and his first press conference iampacked a spac ious room In the Stevens hotel. Warren persisted in his de claration he did not want the vice-presidential nomination but there was no stopping the trend for a Dewey-Warren ticket. All eyes were on the strap ping 53-year-old westerner, as well as gracious Mrs. Warren and 16-year-old Virginia War ren, only one of the governor's six children to come to Chicago. Warren's big moment will come tonight at 7 o'clock (PWT) when he keynotes the conven tion in Chicago's flag-bedecked stadium. Delegates hoped that his brief address 36 minutes reading time plus the probable presence on the ultimate ticket would help swing western states into the Republican column in November. Both California and Oitfgon delayed caucus meetings until today. Former President Herbert was due to arrive for his speech tomorrow night. JACKSON CO. BIRTHS SHOW SLIGHT DECLINE Births in Jackson county dur ing April numbered 67. accord ing to a report issued last week by the Oregon State Board of Health. This is somewhat lower than the same month of 1943, when births numbered 75. Births since January 1 of this year now number 256, as compared to 286 for 1943. the report shows. April deaths totalled 62, as compared to 40 in 1943, the chart shows. Deaths since Jan. 1, 1944, number 167 in the county and during the same period In 1943 numbered 173. Chairman Edwin F. Jaeckle. "many people over the country active in the Dewey movement though he was the ideal choice." "He was Ideally situated and has been associated with the Governor (Dewey)" Jaeckle said. Griswold s selection was inter - pretcd as a move to solidify mid western support behind Dewey. Full Laaied Wire Interest As PRE-VOTOE LINEUP Convention Headquarters, Chicago, June 26. (U.R) Here's how the assured votes shaped up today for the Re publican convention's first ballot on choice of a presi dential nominee: Dewey (721) Alabama, 12; California, 50; Contecticut, 16; Delaware, 9; Florida, 10; Georgia, 14; Idaho, 11; Illi nois, 50; Iowa, 23; Kansas, 19; Massachusetts, 30; Maryland, 16; Michigan, 41; Missouri, 19; Montana, 8; Nebraska, 14; Ne vada, 6; New Jersey, 34; New Mexico, 7; New York, 93; North Carolina, 23; Okla homa, 21; Oregon, 15; Penn sylvania, 70; South Dakota, 11; Tennessee, 19; Texas, 21; Utah, 8; Virginia, 2; Vermont, B; Washington, 10; Wisconsin, 17; Wyoming, 9; Hawaii, 2; Puerto Rico, 2. Bricker (83) Alabama, 2; Florida, 5; Mississippi, 6; Missouri, 4; New Jersey, 1; New Mexico, 1; North Caro lina, 2; Ohio, SO; Oklahoma, 1; Texas, 11. Stassen (36) Minnesota, 25; North Dakota, 11. Number of Delegates 1057. " Number of votes required to win nomination 529. Bus Drivers Balk ' At Overcrowding San Francisco, June 26. (U.R) Federal Conciliator Omar F. Hoskins today cancelled a con ference with officials of the Greyhound bus lines and the Amalgamated Motor Coach Em ployes Union, AFL, pending the war labor board's decision on the drivers' refusal to carry standing passengers. The Issue was referred to the WLB by the U. S. Conciliation Service late Saturday. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Clarence English proving his baseball astuteness while betting friends for cokes. 1 Ralph Green utilizing his day I off to swab down the windows of 1 hl confectionery. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1944 LOSES LIFE IN EMIGRANT LAKE Gary Allen Warner Drowns While Playing On Rocks During Sunday Picnic Seven - year - old Gary Allen Warner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam A. Warner of Ashland, for mer Medford residents, drowned in Emigrant lake south of Ash land late Sunday afternoon, bringing to a tragic end a picnic and boating party being enjoyed by his parents and the Vernon W. Conley family, also of Ash land. According to Deputy Coroner C. M. Litwiller, the little boy ap parently slipped while playing on some rocks out of view of the other persons in the party, and fell Into deep water about half way between the Pacific high way and Emigrant dam on the right side of the lake. Body Recovered Litwiller said he learned that Gary was missed by his parents about 5 p. m., Just as everybody was getting ready to eat. After a futile, lengthy search the Ash" land firo department was noti fied and asked to bring grappling hooks to the scene, but prior to their arrival Vernon Conley. em ploye of the Southern Pacific Railroad company, recovered the body with a casting rod. Artificial respiration was ad ministered by the adults In the party until the arrival of fire men, state police, a sheriff's dep uty and Litwiller, after which they continued to work over the boy for almost two hours. An Ashland physician, who was also called, pronounced him dead some three hours after he had last been seen. Born in Medford The boy, only child of the Warners, was born in Medford, March 13, 1937. Mr. Warner is employed by the Southern Pa cific In Ashland. Other survivors are his grandmother, Mrs. Ethel Miller of Ashland; his grand father, W. H. Warner of Fresno, Cal., and an aunt, Frances Mil ler of Asnland." Funeral services have been set tentatively for Wednesday at 1:30 at Litwiller's. No Enameled Ware On Early Horizon Washington, June 26 (U.R) Housewives today were given scant hope that their supply of enameled ware would be increas ed in the immediate future. The ndVne of the town of Yreka is a corruption of the In dian Wal-ri-ka, meaning moun tain. Anti-Regimentation Platform Effort Snagged by Foreign Trade Proposals Convention Headqu a r t e r s, Chicago, June 26. (U.R) The Republican convention's resolu tions committee, racing against time, tried today to weld Into an anti-regimentation platform var ious tentative planks submitted to it by half a dozen subcommit tees. A three-point proposed plank on foreign trade, drawn after a committee room fight threat ened to throw the subject into a convention floor contest, was submitted shortly before noon. It would commit the Republican party to: 1. Reciprocal trade agree ments only when such agree ments are "mutually beneficial" to the Unlttd States and the other nation In the pact, and re quiring that all reciprocal agree ments be ratified by congress; 2. "Adecuate" protective tar-' iff. and 3. Establishment and main LAST in mm TRAP Russian Banners Hoisted On Biggest , Building in White Russian Stronghold London, June 26. (U.R) The Red army captured Vi tebsk, where a German garri son of five divisions was trap ped, and Zhlobin, key rail Junction 1 60 miles to the south on the upper Dnepr, in smashing victories at both ends of the ' White Russian front today. Moscow, June 26 (U.R) Rus sian storm troops battled through the streets of encircled and tottering Vitebsk today, chopping down the survivors of its 50,000 to 75,000 trapped Nazi defenders and hoisting the Red Banner atop one of the big gest buildings in the White Rus sian stronghold. The Red army's general sum mer ) offensive wag spreading along 285-mile battleline ' to clamp a stranglehold on Vitebsk, outflank Orsha, and threaten Mogilev and Bobruisk, key stones of the defense of White Russia. Defense Broken "We have broken the so-called German defense wall for White Russia," a front dispatch said. "Panic is spreading among the German officers." (Nazi broadcasts a c k n o w ledged that the Vitebsk garrison was cut off, that the Russians scored a "rather deep tpenetra tlon" in the Bobruisk area to the south, and had gained more ground southwest of Bobruisk and east of Mogilev and on the Vitebsk front.) Highlighting the offensive launched against the strongest German hedgehog systems on the entire Russian front was the assault on Vitebsk, climaxing a brilliant flanking maneuver in which two Soviet armies sliced in behind the big base and sealed it off for a battle of extermina tion against the German gar rison. Orsha Dangered Some German elements which escaped from Vitebsk before the trap closed were reported fall ing back along the highway to ward Orsha, 47 miles below Vitcsbk. But with Orsha Itself in imminent danger, they encoun tered a new threat. The Red army attack was designated to smash the entire German network of defenses protecting White Russia, setting the stage for an advance to Poland and, eventually, Berlin. tenance of a privately-owned air transport system, together with maintenance abroad of "ade quate" air bases for American national defense. 'The foreign trade platform," a subcommittee member said, "gives recognition to the protec tive principle without foreclos ing weld economic cooperation. The committee room fight, one member revealed, flared when "some of our surprisingly internationalistically inclined" members proposed a virtual free tariff policy. During the night, this member said, the foreign trade subcommittee was "on the verge" of quitting all efforts to write a tentative plank and pitch the whole subject Into a convention floor fight. When the meeting resumed this morn ing, however, agreement was reached on the plank and it was sent at once to the drafting committee. Tribune United Press Full GOP Leaders Alf Landon (right), 1936 Republican presidential candidate, and Rep. Joseph Martin (R., Man.), permanent convention chairman, exchange views on party policy as they confer in Chicago on eve of national convention. BRITISH PIERCE CENTER OF LINE Rome, June 26 (U.R) British 8th army troops broke through the center of the German line north and west of Perugia after three days of bitter fighMng, while American forces on west coast captured the port town of Piombino and swept on to within 38 miles of Llvorno (Leghorn), the second largest Italian harbor left in German hands, a communique said today. Hard fighting was continuing along a 25-mile front from the Perugia area to the west shores of Lake Trasimcno and down In to the city of Chiiisi, but official reports said the Germans were being hammered back relent lessly by British, South African and Indian armored columns. The 8th army advances yester day were measured In hundreds of yards, but headquarters spokesmen said the strongest enemy defenses In the Perugia sector had been breached and that the British veterans were sweeping forward rapidly today. Tank columns spearheading the advancing Infantry rode hard on the heels of the retreating enemy, frequently surprising de molition squads left behind to destroy roads and bridges. The Nlcasio Indians of Marin county were one of the few Cali fornia tribes that never made peace with the white man. An overnight revision of the tentative agriculture plank by the subcommittee on farm prob lems accepted the theory of gov ernment crop controls as a last resort to prevent unmanageable surpluses of farm commodities. Based on a philosophy of full production, the farm plank pro posed that surpluses should be disposed of through develop ment of new uses, foreign mar kets, and efficient domestic dis tribution, and "by providing machinery which will enable farmers to make necessary ad justments in production of any given basic crop only If sur pluses exceed manageable pro portions." It was reported reliably that endorsement of crop control, such as has been exercised by the present administration thru the agriculture adjustment ad ministration, was inserted at the demand of the American Farm Bureau Federation. Leased Wire NO. 81. Swap Views JOl' ) L BY BUZZ BOMBS; RAF HITS RUHR London, June 26. U.R) Nazi robot bombs hit southern Eng land this afternoon In the first daylight attacks since Friday as hundreds of allied warplanes swept across, the channel to re new their assaults on the battle lines and ' enemy communica tions in France. The daylight raids followed wide attacks over the continent last night when allied planes hit Germany and occupied territory from the west and south. RAF bombers pounded indus trial targets In the Ruhr valley and military installations In France, while Italian based heavy and medium bombers raided Budapest, capital of Hun gary. Violent Sky Fights The German DNB news agency reported that allied bombers were over 'the Vienna and Danube areas again this morning, and said they were engaged In violent aerial com bats. Although there were no re ports from the sections hit by the Nazi robot bombs today. some casualties and damage were caused by pilotlcss planes which dropped. Into southern England before the blackout last night, breaking a lull of 14 hours in the attacks. Resumption of the robot bomb attacks came after allied bomb ers and fighters carried out four separate raids Sunday on the launching plutforms and more than 12 power stations scattered throughout the next of bomb bases in northern France. Flier Killed In Astoria Collision Seattle, June 26. (U.R) Thir teenth naval district headquar ters reported today that Lt. Ralph B. Butler was killed in the collision of two navy fighter planes off Astoria yesterday. Butler's Widow and 11-month-old daughter live at Astoria. Another crash Saturday cost the lives of two men when their naval training plane crashed on the north Jetty In the Columbia river near Ilwaco, Wash. The victims wcro Lt. (Jg.) Arthur B. SheeU and Robcr Earl Portcttcr, ARM2c. TO FEDERAL POST Salem, Ore., Juno 26 (U.R) Miss Florence R. Reardsley, supervisor in the office of the state department of public In struction, will be given a year's leave of absence starting July 1 to work with the United States office of education, it was an nounced today. rat mm wm IUUU 1 1 L.U I1L.UIU FERRETE DOUT IN Yankees Smash Straight Through City After Seiz ing Entire Eastern Portion Allied Supreme Headquarters, London, June 26. (U.R) The final battle of Cherbourg reach ed the . mop-up stage today as American forces weeded out iso lated nests of German resistance in street fighting of greatly re duced intensity after seizing the entire eastern part of the city and smashing straight through its heart to the waterfront. Cherbourg is not yet fully and officially occupied, supreme headquarters reported late to day, but all attacking United States divisions have advanced their forward elements deep into the city. United Press Correspondent Henry T. Gorrell reported in a dispatch filed from Cherbourg at 2 p. m. that with the battle virtually over, American shock troops were ferreting out the last German diehards after tak ing over command of all the city except a part of the northwest ern area. Forts Blown Up Nazi rear guards last night blew up most of the forts on both sides of Cherbourg harbor, and' ammunition dumps and the Armiot Aircraft Works, all of which were burning furiously and casting a vast pall of smoke over the subsiding battle. Headquarters spokesmen said that Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's seige army, ordered to seize Cherbourg as soon as possible. was driving spearheads through the city into the dock areas re gardless of the outlying flanks beyond which some enemy nests held out. E Pearl Harbor, June 26 (U.R) American troops captured towering M o o n t Tapotchau overlooking Tanapag harbor on Salpan, a front dispatch report ed today, and high ranking offi cers with the invasion forces expressed confidence that the entire Marianas group, less than 1500 miles from Tokyo, will be seized. The Japanese attempted counter-attack before dawn this morning, the dispatch said, but the assault failed as the Ameri cans held firmly to positions on the mountain, one of the prize targets on Saipan and focal for new drives against the enemy in tho northern part of the island. Seizure of the 1,554-foot peak came as the Japanese were reeling under the impact of American land, air and sea as saults which gave U. S. troops control. of half the island, de stroyed at least 747 enemy planes and 30 ships and dam aged 51 other vessels since the Marianas operations began. Oregonians Need No Caucus Before Convention Vote Republican Convention Head quarters, Chicago, June 26 (U.R) Oregon's delegations to the re publican convention, already pledged to a Dewey-Warren ticket, will hold no pre-conven-tion caucus, Henry E. Collier, Portland, chairman, said today at the delegation's first national meeting. Under an Oregon law, dele gates were required to sign pledges to support candidates favored In tho state's recent pri mary election. A write-in cam paign resulted In Dewey receiv ing approximately 50,000 votes and Warren approximately 30, 000. Collier said. The delegation's 15 votes, therefore, will be cast for Dewey and Warren on the first ballot for each position. The delegation Is headed by Collier, State Senator Howard Bclton, vice chairman, and State Senator Angus Gibson, secretary. Sales to date In the Fifth War Loan Drive $1,311,905.25 "E" Sale , Quota ....$289,036.23 ignnnnn Total Quota for County . 12.282,000
