FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuesdey, April II, 1950
Truman Begins Sixth Year
As Head Man in White House
Washington. Apr. 11 (U.R1-
Harry S. Truman begins his
sixth presidential year this week
lull of heaitn, commence ana
plans for 1052.
He in a 100 to 1 bet to be the
next democratic presidential
nominee In his eatn year, tut
birthday Is May 8.
But if Mr. Truman chooses
not to run, his choice for the
democratic nomination proDaDiy
would be Chief Justice Fred M.
Vinson, who will be 62 years old
on Jan. 22. 1852.
Douglas Regarded
There is no plainly discernible
ovirienne that Mr. Truman favors
the presidential possibilities of
Justice William u. uousias.
Some persons here, including at
least one of Douglas' supreme
court associates, regard him as
a candidate. He will be 52 next
October.
Another to be considered if
Mr. Truman stepped aside would
be National Defense Secretary
Louis A. Johnson, who will be
59 this year. His slim chance for
the nomination hangs on the rec
ord of administrative clliciency
and economy he is making in
the consolidated national defense
department, which spends the
biggest chunk of the taxpayers
money.
Gas Turbine Truck
Completes Tests
Seattle, Apr. 11 (U.R) The
world s first gas turblne-powerea
truck using the experimental
Boeing 200-pound turbine has
successfully completed prelimi
nary road testf, the Boeing Air
plane company announced to
day.
The 175-horsepower turbine
under development for the U.S.
navy bureau of shipi, is similar
to tne jet airplane engine in
general design. Trial run were
conducted quietly for the past
month in a 10-ton Kenworth
motor truck chassis.
Thrusts Harnessed
The tremendous thrust of jet
airplanes is harnessed in the new
power plant by a secondary tur
bine which turns the shaft, com
nanv officials said.
The announcement added that
contrary to public expectations,
the new turbine-powered truck
ii considerably quieter than a
conventional diesel truck of
equal power. Exhaust gases are
about the same temperature as
those from a diesel or gasoline
truck.
Boeing engineers disclosed
that exhaust Eases are almost in
visible and without offensive
odor.
" Installation of the tiny tur
bine in a boat Is planned lor tne
near future.
Methodist Men To Hear
Dwight Houghton Talk
City Councilman Dwight
Houghton will address tne
monthly meeting of the Mcdford
Methodist Men on Mondny, April
17 at First Methodist church.
A buffet supper is planned for
6:30 p.m. and will be served by
members of Circle 7, Women's
Society of Christian Service.
The event will be ladies' night
and men are requested to bring
their wives.
The Gamay grape, produced
on California's conl upland coun
try, yields a smooth, red burgundy-type
wine.
But Mr. Truman Is not worried
nor much interested in these
possible successors.
He is a changed man since
April 12, 1945, when he solemn
ly took the oath a few hours
after Franklin D. Roosevelt died
in warm Springs, Ga.
Regretted Snap Judgment
During his first months in of
fice Mr. Truman formed the hab
it of snap judgment when events
proved a little caution would
have helped. He since has re
gretted snipping oil lend-lease
when hostilities ended. His care
less endorsement of Henry A.
Wallace's attack on administra
tion foreign policy put him in
the most embarrassing spot oi nis
career.
These and other factors includ
ing Mr. Truman's habit of pub
licly proclaiming himself un
equal to his White House tasK,
persuaded democratic strategists
to keep him out of the 1946 con
gressional campaign. The next
two years were a presidential
nightmare in which a republican
congress frustrated the White
House day by day.
The new dealers, left wingers.
socialists and big city bosses of
the Roosevelt coalition deserted
Mr. Truman by platoons and
brigades as the 1948 presidential
election drew near. They were
whooping it up for Gen. Dwight
. Eisenhower. Uouclas or al
most anyone else.
But the trim little man from
Missouri never lost his smile.
He accepted the presidential
nomination so reluctantly given
him in Philadelphia.
Far Beyond Policies
On taking office, he made the
usual pledge to carry out the
policies of the late president, but
he has gone far beyond them.
Under pressure to divert votes
from Wallace and his extreme
left wing progressive party and
at the urging of the left wing
"roups that unhappily accepted
him, Mr. Truman pitched his
give-em-hell 1948 presidential
campaign far to the left of cen
ter. Not even a states' rights re
bellion in the south unnerved
him.
He pounded on the republicans
Anti-Submarine
Plane About Ready
Burbank. Cal.. Anr. 11 (U.R)
Navy patrol squadrons soon will
be Hying the deadly new anti
submarine airplane, P2V-4. It
can spot a snorkel miles away
and launch torpedoes that invar
iably find their target, it was
learned today.
The hravily-armcd. long-rang
lng sub-killer is perhaps the most
significant advance mane to
counter one of the most feared
weapons that would be used in
new war.
Russia has been reported re
liably to have about 250 of the
German-developed subs, which
have high speed and can stay
submerged for long periods
while "breathing" through a tiny
pipe called the snorkel. The re
ported presence of submarines
off the California cast has creat
ed a big stir in high navy circles.
The PZV-4 eliminates the need
for one of the planes in the old
hunter-killer team because It can
both find and kill a submarine
with its powerful new radar and
armament. Even more advanced
versions of the Lockheed ship, of
which the world's long distance
record holder "Truculent Tur
tle" Is the forerunner, are under
development.
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a fire of challenge and denuncia
tion in the tradition of the brass
knuckle politics of Jackson coun
ty Missouri, where he learned
the trade from the late Boss
Thomas J. Pendergast.
From that campaign Mr. Tru
man emerged a party hero. Gov,
Thomas E. Dewey of New York,
the republican candidate, unex
pectedly became the political
bust of the 20th century, so far.
A combination of republicans
and conservative southern demo
crats has been able to kill or
modify most of Mr. Truman's do
mestic legislative program. Re-
Deal ot tne ratt-Hartiey law. civ
il rights regulation, higher taxes
all are lively Truman policies
at which congress has balked so
far.
A bi-partisan foreign policy
honeymoon continued well into
the president's first full term.
But the approach has been blast
ed by humiliating failure of
American policy in China, plus
expense and serious difficulties
in fcurope and proof to some de
gree of communist infiltration in
the state department. Sen. Ar
thur H. Vandenberg (R., Mich.)
and Mr. Truman now anxiously
are attempting to pick up the
pieces.
Political Trouble
There has been more political
trouble than comfort for Mr.
Truman in his first five White
House years. But you never
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PRESIDENT TRUMAN
Starts Sixth Year In White House
would suspect it.
the outsiders who see him
oftenest and know him best are
Washington's newsmen and wom
en, friend or foe, they almost
nvariably describe him not only
s contident, but cocny, cmn out
and ready for battle.
He has put William M. Boyle
Jr. in charge of democratic po
litical strategy and patronage.
Boyle, a graduate of Boss Pen-
dergaSt's hard school, is proving
himself the handiest political
Higgler hereabouts since Jim
Farley.
With Boyle at the wheel and
the memory of his 1948 conven
tion and election triumphs
against unholy odds, Mr. Truman
seems warranted in being what
he appears to be the happiest,
most contented man and confi
dent citizen of the United States.
Transient Count
Set Tonight by
Census Takers
Enumeration of hotel guests
and other transients tonight wUl
be a special project of census enu
merators in Medford, according
to Mrs. Dorothy Doty, crew chief
for the city.
The transient project is in line
with the census bureau's desire
to make the 1950 census the
most complete ever taken, Mrs.
Doty said. Individual census re
ports will be placed in the key
boxes or rooms of every hotel
guest in the nation today, where
the hotel has 50 or more rooms
with at least 20 per cent for
transients.
To Assist Guests
Census takers will be avail
able in the lobbies of all hotels
to assist guests in preparing the
forms. There will be one enu
merator for each 100 rooms.
Guests who receive the forms
are requested to fill them out,
seal them and hand them in at
the desk, or to the census enu
merator in charge.
The forms will be turned in
to the district supervisor's office,
sorted and sent to Washington.
Guests who fill questionnaires
tonight will be counted in the
tabulation for the city in which
they make their home and not in
the city where the hotel is located.
Russia tried to sell Alaska to
the United States iiM855 during
the Crimean war to prevent its
seizure by the British. The sale
was rejected by was completed
on a second try In 1867.
WEATHER
By United Press
Northern California: Variable
high cloudiness north portion
and fair south portion today and
tonight .with rain from Ukiah
and Red Bluff north tonight,
spreading south to Salinas and
Stockton Wednesday. Consider
able high cloudiness elsewhere
Wednesday. South to southwest
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The widow of Actor Richard Dlx
has married Walter Van De
Kamp, member of a prominent
southern California bakery fam
ily, it was learned here today.
wind 12-25 MPH off coast from
Point Reyes north, and west to
southwest, 10-20 MPH elsewhere.
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