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10 TEARS AGO
April 6, 1942
(It was Monday)
Two small children killed in
lire at their home on Pacific
highway near Central Point.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: After June
30 there wjll be no new lawn
mowers. This contraption has
been cussed more than the
weather and with less results.
20 YEARS AGO
April 6, 1932
(It was Wednesday)
Total of 50 candidates file for
Jackson county offices by dead
line; 11 candidates for sheriff
listed.
Medford city council ap
proves appointment of sanita
tion expert to make survey of
city's sewage problems.
30 YEARS AGO
April 6, 1922
(It was Thursday)
Marshal Jacques Joffre, French
"Hero of the Marne" during
World War I, visits Medford on
trip of Pacific Coast.
Automobile association offi
eials believe hard times on Pa
cific Coast are. over; predict
1922 will be biggest tourist
year in history.
40 YEARS AGO
April 6. 1912
(It was Saturday)
Indignant local citizens de
mand action against IWW offi
cial who issues circular defam
ing Medford and the Rogue val
ley. Medford high school gradu
ating class announces that cloth
ing for commencement exer-
' cises will be simple; girls plan
to wear dresses costing less than
$7.50 and boys will wear flan
nel shirts and overalls.
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The Apology Is Accepted!
To the Editor: Please refer to
the Encyclopaedia Brittannica,
Volume 5, Castir to Cole Pages
166 to 174, Sub j ect CETACE A.
This article reads as follows:
Cetacea, an order of mammals,
divisible into three suborders:
Archaeoceti, exclusively fossil;
Mystacoceti, whalebone whales;
and Odontoceti, toothed whales,
comprising sperm whales, bottle
nosed whales and dolphins. Etc.,
etc.
I doubt that your Zoology I
Professor was a liar as you say,
but I will bet that "some" of his
students slept now and then dur
ing class, and of course I am not
referring to you.
On the other hand the Encyclo
paedia Britannica is ' no doubt
wrong, like your professor and
all three of us owe you an
apology:
C.R. NageL
Talent, Oregon.
' Henryetta. Okla. (U.R) A
Henryetta man, whose ambition
was to draw a pistol "Just like
Billy the Kid," ended up by be
ing a Hopalong. Bob Barnett
shot himself in the leg while
practicing his "draw" with a J22
caliber pistol. . .. . j
En route from SF to Medford via "Friendly SP," April 3
It's always the same.
When we get up early In the morning we wonder why we
don't always.
This is especially true in a big city ANY big city and In
the Summer or Spring. Everything then is so fresh, dean and cooL
no crowds, no traffic, and here in SF a nice ferry-boat trip, with
a hot breakfast in prospect on the "Daylight " diner.
Yes, one of those "grand and glorious feelings' which be
come rarer and rarer as one Jogs along and 'along!
The "Shasta Daylight", as before remarked, is one of the few
really -praiseworthy achievements of the contemporary S.P. At
the outset it cost a lot of money and involved some risk not much.
but SOME more than the S.P. usually takes, or ever has taken
in southwestern Oregon. '
And as so often happens when courage Is exercised, the In
vestment paid out. A similar amount of courage displayed in giv
ing Southern Oregon from Roseburg to Dunsmuir, California, the
kind of rail service it DESERVES, would, we are convinced, also
pay out. But it would be foolish for anyone who knows the "hard
ened-artery" outlook of the S.P. board of directors to expect any
such demonstration in the present century.
More people got on at Oakland and Berkeley than at the
Ferry Building in SF many more.
The time is probably not far distant when the population
"across-the-bay will be far greater than in San Francisco proper.
We don't know of a city in the country where there is such a mark
ed difference in climate, within a few miles, as in this Golden
Gate area. Why anyone with a car, lives in the city is difficult to
understand, when they can enjoy the climatic advantages of Marin
County and the Lower Peninsula, with more room, land, and
health, at lower taxes and only a few minutes away. Perhaps it
goes back to that strange trait in human nature, which accounts
for the fact that the natives who lived and suffered through the
centuries on the lava soaked slopes of Mt Vesuvious, return and
rebuild after each and every eruption. It's "Home Sweet Home."
More than the usual amount of news in the morning paper
mostly political. The final act of the "Comedy of Errors" which
started far back when Mr. Truman was not as wise or as good
a President, as he is today, has finally been played out and the
curtain has come down. What a relief!
"Jim" McGrath, of course, should never have been named
U.S. Attorney General in the first place. He was no more fitted
to head the Justice Department of this country, than his prede
cessor Tom Clark was fitted to take a place on the U.S. Supreme
Court which is only another way of saying that when the his
tory of the Truman administration is written, the one outstanding
BLACK spot in the record will be in the direction of the Truman
appointments. Recently an improvement has been noted, but as a
whole, we grant they have been terrible. (And if anyone is Inter
ested they will find such condemnation iu this column when the
appointment of Tom Clark was announced.)
By the same token, of course, Newbcld Morris, should never
have been selected to head a moral clean-up crusade within the
present administration. Not that Newbold is not, by nature, a
moral "crusader." He definitely is one of the most idealistic
types "sans peur et sans reproach."
But he definitely suffers from the faults of his virtues, and
our belief is McGrath realizing this when he made the appointment,
banked upon it But he failed to perceive another quality in the
Morris make-up, complete honesty and fearlessness.
The fact that Newbold Morris was the impractical, more or
less naive "do-gooder" type, and at the same time a Republican,
led McGrath undoubtedly, to conclude he would make an ideal
"cats paw" to pull out some of the administration hot chestnuts.
He assumed Mr. "Silk Stocking' 'would go through the motions
of a moral uplift without really going beneath the surface, and
at the same time be immune to the charge that the clean-up was
conducted by Democrats or friends of the administration.
It was a good idea from the McGrath viewpoint that is the
viewpoint of the typical, cynical ward-politician. But it failed to
work with Morris as anyone who knew the man would have
known at the outset.
- And it failed to work with President Truman also, for Mr.
Truman, in spite of his limitations and his mistaken and impul
sive loyalties, is at heart at straight-shooter and a fair-dealer
particularly when the chips are down. It has not been recorded
as yet, just what the President said to his "double-crossing" Attorney-General
at the Washington airport, but we have a fair idea
of the main thesis and we doubt if "Jimmy" McGrath, derby-hat,
triped pants, greeters-grin and all, will soon forget it!
The pity is that President Truman did not get wise to the Tom
Clark, Jimmy McGrath, Bill O'Dwyer type of political mercenary
in the first place many years ago! v
"Mr. Republican" this morning is executing a war-dance over
his "ground-swell" victories in McCarthy's Wisconsin, and Sena
tor Butler's Nebraska. And as far as we have thus far observed in
the papers, only one pretty-well discredited figure in public life
dares dispute it. His name is Stassen.
' This seems strange in view of the obvious facts. For as an
index as to how the members of the Republican party feel to
ward Senator Taft and his reactionary isolationism, the results in ;
these states, clearly show a majority are against him. In fact, the '
Taft group failed to secure over 40 of the votes cast, and in
many precincts, the total was nearer 30 that is 70 were
against him.
Well, in view of how Mr. Republican has been treated by the
voters in the past, and his dismal record until last Tuesday, we
can't blame him for being all cheered-up and making the most
of it. As time goes on, we perdict he will need all these rays of
sunshine he can get, as far as his White House prospects in 1952
are concerned.
But in this instance the fact remains, former Governor Stassen
is entirely right in declaring the results in Wisconsin and Ne
braska add up to a Taft defeat, not a victory.
Taft did get more votes than either of his opponents. NOMIN
ALLY. But ACTUALLY the votes that went to Warren and Stassen
in Wisconsin, and to Eisenhower and Stassen in Nebraska were
ALL ANTI-TAFT votes, and no fair minded objective analysis of
the returns, can justify any other conclusion.
Of course, the Ohio Senator denies' this. (He WOULD.) He
claims those Republicans who refused to vote for him in the pri
maries, will be for him as their party's candidate in the July con
vention. Not a chance! But the unfortunate feature, from the stand
point of the Republican party and the country, is not many of
them will be there in the convention to vote.
"Tour lunch, dear."
a majority of the dclrgates to the Chicago convention will be un
aware of it but who knows they might be.
Anything can happen in a political convention and usually
does.
In this direction we have found in the morning paper the
following statement from Mr. Taft, regsrding a recent Gallup
poll, which showed that voters aged from 21 to 29, listed them
selves as follows:
Democratic: 41 per cent
Republican: 24 per cent.
Independent: 35 per cent.
Mr. Taft. quote:
"With all allowances for non-voters, this is not a poll
to give Republicans any overconfident. Only among
those over 50 do the Republicans get a majority, and
then it is by a narrow margin with still 23 considering
themselves INDEPENDENT. This means that we Reoubli
cans have to do a first class job of public education if
we expect to win any elections.
How right you are Mr. Taft!
This Mr. Taft does not happen to be Senator Taft of Ohio.
He is the Senator's brother Charles in our judgment a far more
honest, enlightened, intelligent and liberal member of the Taft
clan. Incidcntly he is running for Governor of Ohio this year and
his big brother. Senator "Bob what a pal! is opposing him!
In other words there are almost as many voters in the coun
try of all aces who call themselves "Independents," as there are
orthodox 100 Republicans and let anyone figure out how many
classified Independents will EVER vote for the GOP party with
"Mr. Republican" as spokesman and leader!
Add them up Jumbo and change your tactics before it is too
late.
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Quite a transformation since we came down on the Streamliner
Washington's Birthday. Then everything was dull, dark, grim and
snow-covered. Trees were bare, fields ditto, it was a forbidding
world and now .
"Spring has CAME!" Everything is bright and green all
shades of green the red-buds are out, probably the wild lilacs
and the boxwood, altho none of the latter, as yet, along the right-of-way.
There is water everywhere, every creek is a torrent and the
Sacramento and Pitt rivers are raging toward the sea, Mt Shasta
just coming into sight on the far northern horizon is a solid ice
cream cone not a bare spot! sparkling in the brilliant sunshine,
"God's in his Heaven," all's not only right with the world, but
all is growing the annual re-birth of perennial Youth has come!
m
And now on the Friendly S.P. AGAIN, the train has
replaced the stricken and struck "Greyhound" and WHAT a
train! One coach (no cafe car), captured at the fall of Rich
mond, Va., and has just been dusted and repaired as it came from
the Civil War museum, one engine and 25 passengers on a train
that was supposed to have no excuse for being.
However, the service is as good as ever just one big family
including the engineer who operates his old wreck without a
single bump, and the brakemen and conductor who arrange the
seats for comfort and act as red caps without a suggestion it is
against the rules of the R.R.' brotherhood. And best of all, here
we are in dear old Lithia Ashland with "Home Sweet Home" at
the bottom of the hill! R.WJL
In the Day's Hem
By FRANK JENKINS
From Washington:
"Elated friends of Senator
Taft and Senator Kefauver
talked of them today as VIC
TORY BOUND candidates in the
presidential nomination races,
but opposition camps sounded
counter-claims."
rpKESE POLITICAL FRIENDS
of candidates are thinking in
terms of GETTING THE REINS
OF POWER INTO THEIR
HANDS.
We grassrooters out in the
sticks are thinking in terms of
better and more efficient gov
ernment, so that after paying
our taxes we may have enough
left over to pay our cost of liv
ing bills.
What they want is POWER.
What WE want is more to live
on after the cost of government
has been deducted.
TF YOU'LL keep that funda-
mental distinction clear in
your mind, you'll be able to vote
more intelligently when the
time, comes.
Squabble of Atomic
Weapons Example of
Unification Failure
VfORE from Washington:
111 "Representative Priest,
Democrat, from Tennessee, call
ed Kefauver's victories in the
two primaries (Wisconsin and
Nebraska) 'proof that the rank
and file of the Democrats are
going to insist that he be nominated'."
Well, it is all very interesting. And in one direction the re
sults' in Wisconsin and Nebraska could be considered Taft vic
tories. That is, if Taft had not led the race in both states, he would
have been out of .it completely, no matter what might have hap
pened subsequently. As it is, he will be a contender, and in view
of the reactionary make-up of the convention, he might even get
the nomination although, if we were running LLoyds we would
make the odds about 10 to one against it
In the past five or six weeks, roaming around the Bay Area
box-fights, hoss-races, ball-games, hotel corridors, parks, dentists,
doctors and now on a "streamliner" train; there is one comment
we have heard repeatedly and this is the literal, nonprejudicial
TRUTH the whole truth and nothing but the truth. .
That remark has been this, quote:
"Well, if they nominate him they will lota AGADfr
The "him" refers to Taft, and the "they" to the Republican
party. -
We heard it in the smoking room of this car only a few hours
ago. And it was couched in imperfect English, but there was no
doubt of the speakers complete and unquestioning conviction.
Let anyone who f avors'"Mr. Republican" as their partys candi
date this year, climb down from the ivory tower or the Waldorf
Astoria Tower suite and mix with the rank and file, anytime,
anywhere. If from the standpoint of what is best for his own party,
he doesn't proceed to get off the Taft bandwagon and climb on
the EISENHOWER bandwagon or at least stay off the Taft he
must be, from a purely party standpoint in a desperate suicidal
frame of mind. It makes little difference, from a practical politi
cal standpont, whether this sentiment is well founded or isn't IT
IS THERE! It is all over California and we see no reason, to doubt
it is country-wide. Under such circumstances it Is hard to believe
Eisenhower Report
On Europe Situation
Features Week's News
By PHIL NEWSOM
United Press Foreign Analyst
The week's balance sheet be
tween the good and bad news in
the hot and cold wars: .
THE GOOD
1. Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower
said in his first annual report on
the status of his European com
mand that the military tide now
is flowing toward the West Eu
ropean newspapers reacted well
to the report which they regard
ed as a facts-of-life statement
that the United States could not
afford forever its present rate of
spending for aid to Europe.
2. Britain, the United States
and Italy began talks to give the
Italians a greater voice in ad
ministration of the free territory
of Trieste. Secretary of State
Dean Acheson moved to quiet
Yugoslav fears that the dispute
was far from settled but at least
the way seemed to be opening for
eventual direct talks between
Italy and Yugoslavia over the
Trieste zone which Italy claims
but Yugoslavia occupies.
3. London reported that the
British government has managed
to halt the disastrous drain on
her gold and dollar resources
which only recently threatened
the sterling area with bank
ruptcy. At one time, gold and
dollar reserves wre flowing out
at the rate of $63,000,000 per
week. With that halted, the trick
now win be for the sterling area
to sell more goods to the VS. and
Canada.
THE BAD
1. Nationalist ambitions and
religious ties kept the North Afri
can trouble pot boiling. Moslem
demonstrations broke out in Mo
rocco and Algeria and continued
in Tunisia as result of strong
French action against the Tunis
ian Nationalists. Arab and Afri
can nations moved to get the dis
pute before the United Nations,
ever strong French objections. (
2. Belgian Prime Minister
Jean van Houtte said in Brussels
that Belgium had reached the
limit of its financial capacity
and that the Western Europe
rearmament plan "cannot be
come a reality" unless a new
currency regulation system has
been worked out It was another
example of the artificial barri
ers standing in the way of Eu
ropean unity mentioned by
Eisenhower in his NATO report
- 3. Reports from Rangoon told
of a clash between Chinese Com
munists and Chinese Nationalist
forces who had taken refuge in
wild Northern Burma. It appear
ed that the clash had taken
place inside the poorly defined
Burmese border, a possibility
that had been foreseen when
Burma first protested the pres
ence of the Nationalist troops.
Burmese regular Army forces
were reported heading north
to drive the Nationalists back
into China, or at least out of
Burma.
rpHIS is a time for plain speak
ing. So here goes.
I hope Senator Kefauver isn't
nominated bv the Democrats
BECAUSE HE IS A NEW DEAL
ER. He was elected as such
first to the House and later to
the Senate. He is perfectly frank
and honest about it. He has said
frequently in his present cam
paign that he is opposed to Presi
dent Truman personally but be
lieves in what Truman believes
in.
I admire Senator Kefauver
personally. I concede his right
to be a New Dealer if that is the
way his beliefs run. I respect
his frankness and I grant his
sincerity.
But I fear his political philos
ophy. I hope we turn away from
the concept of the welfare state
BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.
ONE more from Washington,
"Senator Maybank, Demo
crat, from South Carolina, told
a reporter in Washington this
morning that Senator Russell,
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington -rUJO The tax
payers would get an eye-full if
they could read the secret rec
ords about the atomic artillery
which the Army Department
says it must have for national
defense.
After the taxpayers read the
with the Solid South" sewed up,
has the Democratic edge."
SENATOR MABANK, of
course, like the other profes
sionals, is talking for effect. I
don't think Senator Russell, Sol
id South or no Solid South, has
the Democratic "edge." I think
the fact that he is from the Deep
South precludes the possibility
of his nomination.
The Democratic party is split
almsst as sharply on North
South lines as it was in the
1850s. Its BIG problem for the
past decade has been to walk
the fence without getting pushed
off on either side. That as much
as anything else, explains Harry
Truman. As a border-stater, from
Missouri, he could maybe hold
the party together. That think
ing could result in Kefauver's
nomination on the theory that
he is from Tennessee, another
border state. Or it might nom
inate Vice-President Barkley of
Kentucky, also a border state.
Russell is from the DEEP
South. He'is a states-righter. The
basic concept of the New Deal
(or the Fair Deal, which is just
a new suit of clothes for the
same idea) is BIG FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT.
The voting power lies in the
North. That, I'd say, lets Russell
out
CONTINUING this monologue
on personal beliefs, I find
I'm a states-righter, too. Not in
the Civil war sense, but in the
Jeffersonian sense. Jefferson
was a states-righter because he
feared big central government.
What has happened in the past
20 years proves the soundness
and the RIGHTNESS of Jeffer
son's fears.
What we need, perhaps more
than anything else if the Amer
ican way of life is to be pre
served, is to bring the bulk of
our government back to the
state houses, the court houses
and the city halls.
record . they probably would
have enough to say to give
somebody an ear-full. The story,
in brief, is that the Army feels
that the military outfit which
fails to get a slice of the atomic
weapon pie will be in for an in
ferior position. So the Army De
partment wants what it calls
atomic artillery.
Emphatic "No"
Furthermore, . the Army re
fuses to take no for an answer.
The civilian heads of the Na
tional Defense Department say
no very emphatically. Never
theless, the Army has ordered
from -the Baldwin Locomotive
Works 20 giant howitzers to fire
atomic shells.
The Army got around the ci
vilians by designing the guns to
fire ordinary shells as well as
atomic projectiles assum ing
that they can actually fire
atomic projectiles at alL
Weight Raises Question
But the guns are huge. They
are costly. They weigh so much
that the question has been rais
ed whether they could be mov
ed from place to place efficient
ly in or out of battle. Their
weight has raised another ques
tion: Whether they could be
moved across any but the very
strongest bridges. A gun which
cannot be moved across a bridge
would be of limited service.
It is difficult for civilians to
know for sure whether the gen
erals are right or wrong. But the
civilians' decision has been made
and it was against the guns the
Army says it must have and of
which it has ordered a few at
considerable expense.
The Army's determination to
get some of the atomic pie is put
down here by the best informed
people in town to competition
among the services. Each wants
to be at least equal to the other.
The Army's anxiety to get in
on the act is being cited here as
another serious failure of armed
services, unification. The facts
are that unification is not work
ing as well as it 'should and the
atomic weapon squabble is a
sample of it.--
The taxpayer may get a
break, however. Congressional
Atomic Energy Committeemen
began Thursday to inquire fur
ther into the Army's atomic ar
tillery plans.
Matter of Fact
By Joseph and
Stewart Alios-
Final Allocations Set
For Washington Schools
Olympia OJ.PJ The Washing
ton State Board of Education Sat
urday made final allocations of
state matching funds for school
building projectstosix more
school districts.
The allocations included: $60,
453 to Spokane district for addi
tion to Longfellow elementary
school; $254,747 to Bellevue dis
trict for new Enatai elementary
school;
$141,458 to Peninsula district
for new elementary school; $31,
098 to Rochester district for ad
dition to elementary school; $42,
177 to Naches Valley district for
addition to Upper Naches ele
mentary fchool; $1? 087 to Con
conully district for new elemen
tary school.
TAFT'S NEXT HURDLE .
Washington Sen. Robert A.
Taft, looking amazingly spry for
a man of his age who has been
through what he has been
through, positively exuded gen
iality and optimism at his press
conference the morning after the
Wisconsin and Nebraska prima
ries. Only once, in fact, did the
familiar note of acerbity creep
into the flat Taft voice, when he
characterized the goings on of
Harold E. Stassen as "ridicu
lous." The comment seemed a poor
return for a most important fa
vor; for there can be very little
doubt indeed that Stassen saved
the Taft bacon by splitting the
pro-Eisenhower vote in both Wis
consin and Nebraska. As a prac
tical matter, however, it is also
undoubted that Sen. Taft has
won a victory. His captures of
Wisconsin and Nebraska dele
gates keep him very much in
the ring, even though the com
bined vote of his opponents was
far larger than the Taft vote in
both cases. (
The real question remains,
meanwhile, whether the kind of
showing Sen. Taft made in Wis
consin and Nebraska can pos
sibly compensate, in the long
run, for the immensely heavy
setback he almost simultaneously
received. This setback was, of
course, the announcement by
President Truman that seven
years in the White House were
enough for him. On balance, the
defection of Truman can quite
possibly end by hurting the Ohio
Senator even more than his
much publicized defeats in New
Hampshire and Minnesota.
fPHE reasons are obvious. In the
first place. Sen. Taft's whole
campaigning strategy and meth
od have always been keyed to
Truman as his opponent. Against
Truman, the special form of Taft
attack was undeniably effective.
It will lose much of its effect
against Gov. Adlai Stevenson, of
Illinois, or Sen. Estes Kefauver.
or any other Democratic candi- j
date who cannot easily be de
nounced for "corruption," "soft ;
ness towards Communism" and 1
the like. i
Second, and far more impor
tant the Republican profession
als who favor Sen. Taft both
thought he could beat the Presi
dent and expected that the Pres
ident would be the man Taft had
to beat. Why they were all so
sure Truman would run again
cannot be easily explained. But
their confidence that Taft could
beat Truman was well-founded
on soundings of popular senti
ment and buttressed by the in
quiring Doctor Gallup. In the
last Gallup poll, Taft edged Tru
man out by a margin of 45 to
42 per cent
So long, then, as the profes
sionals could look forward to a
Tsft-Trumpn race, theN Republi
can gamble on Taft seemed very
reasonable indeed. In the new
situation, however, different sets
of odds are likely to be quoted.
Last August, Gallupf gave the
Ohio Senator a trial run against
Chief Justice Fred Vinson. His
great office has taken Vinson out
of national politics for a long
time, and he certainly has no
personal following in most parts
of the country. Yet Vinson led
Taft by a comfortable margin of
43 to 37 per cent.
e
OLLS ought to be suspect in
general," and this kind of trial
heat between candidates who
have not yet been nominated
ought to be viewed with special
suspicion. Yet it is very hard to
imagine a Republican conven
tion choosing a standard-bearer
who is marked in advance as
having less vote-appeal than any
of the probable , choices of the
Democrats. And if the polls con
tinue to be as unkind to "Sen.
Taft as they have been to date
(except of course in the tests
against Truman, which Taft has
been winning for a year), the
argument that "Taft can't win"
is going to have a cruel force
at Chicago.
In addition, the Taft forces
have, to get over another, more
immediate hurdle which almost
everyone seems to have forgot
ten about. In the Massachusetts
primary on April 29, full slates
of Taft and Eisenhower delegates
have already been entered, and
a preferential vote, on a write-in
basis, is also provided by law.
In other words. ' this will be
something quite different from
GOP State Leader
Quits in Seattle
Seattle (U.R) W. Walter Wil
liams Friday night announced his
resignation as chairman of the
Washington state Republican
central committee for "the best
interests of the party."
Williams, who recently accept
ed the post of national chairman
of the Citizens for Eisenhower or
ganization, made the announce
ment at a meeting of the execu
tive committee of the GOP cen
tral committee here.'
The Seattle financier had been
under fire from some GOP quar
ters, notably those backing the
Taft-for-President movement for
aligning himself with a Republi
can presidential possibility while
chairman of the state committee.
the complicated voting in Wis
consin and Nebraska a direct
trial of strength between the two
leaders, with both of them out in
the open for the voters to see.
If Gen. Eisenhower wins hand
somely, as his backers confident
ly anticipate, it will be at least
as hard a knock to Taft as his
New Hampshire defeat. -
Over all, therefore, the wisest
observers are still calling it a
hard race, but they are still giv
ing better odds on Gen. Eisen
hower than on Sen. Taft The
Michigan and Iowa state con
ventions will shortly show more
clearly how matters really stand.'
(Copyrignt, laaz,
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
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