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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Total Quota
for County .
12.282,000