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Newspaper Page TextTEN MIDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFORD everyone fn Southern Oregon Read! Tim Mall Tribune Publiihed Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTINO CO. J7.29 North Fir St. Phone 2-S141 ERNEST R. GILS TRAP, Manager HERB GREY, Aoverusing miia I C FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City .Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT1. SporU dlwr t-ERALD LATHAM, Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered second clan matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: .,. Dally and Sunday one year I1J00 Dally and Sunday six montha 6.50 Dally and Sunday three mos. 3.50 Daily and Sunday one month lis By Carrier In A d v a ;n c e Medford. Ashland. Centra Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill. Pho."ix. Shady Cove, Rogue River, Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday one year 15 .00 Daily and Sunday one month la All Terms Casta In Advance Olflrlal Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press FuU Leaaed Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York. Chicago. De. troll, San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. St Louie. Atlanta Vancouver, NATION A I IDITOtlAt NiWIPAMI PUeUIIHIM i ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County His tare (ram the tiles ot the Mail Tribune 10. 20. 10 an. 40 rears age. 10 YEARS AGO May 20. 1942 (It was Wednesday) Lt. Robert O. Emmem, Med ford, listed among air force pilots taking part in Doollttle'i bombing raid on Tokyo. From Arthur Perry'i Ye Smudge Pot column: Sugar ra tioning regulations have not hit full speed. They are taking their sweet time about it. 20 YEARS AGO May 20, 1932 (It was Friday) Amelia Earhart takes off from Novia Scotia In attempt to be first woman to make solo flight across Atlantic ocean. Don Faber, Central Point, named Ashland high school ath letic coach following his gradu ation from Willamette Univer sity. 30 YEARS AGO May 20. 1922 (It was Saturday) Rudolph Valentino arrested In Los Angeles on bigamy charge following marriage in Mexlcali. Applcgate residents vote 29 to 21 to continue operation of high school In that area. 40 YEARS AGO May 20, 1912 (It was Monday) More than 150 baseball fans take special train from Central Point to Grants Pass to witness game between teams represent ing two towns. Medford resident displays solid gold nugget weighing 30 ounces and valued at $563. Long and Colorful Parade Predicted At May Festival Phoenix The parade for the Phoenix May Festival being held this Saturday, May 24, will be "the longest and most color ful of any yet held by the Fes tival," according to Ernie Mad den, parade chairman. Many Well-known valley or ganizations are participating, in cluding the Phoenix high school and Medford senior and Junior high school bands; Eve Prentice and her accordion players; the Bliss Heine Drum corps; and the Scverson Candy Kids. Youngsters Division A separate division has been set up for youngsters, with a cash award going to the best decorated bicycle or wagon. The participating floats and decorat ed cars will be judged on gener al overall beauty, excellence of design and execution of theme, originality, and use of decora tions and color harmony. The winner's award will be a 32-Inch gold trophy, properly In scribed, which will rotate to each year's festival winner and may be permanently retained by any three-time winner. The tro phy Is currently on display at Barker's Mens store In Medford. All groups, clubs, organiza tions or individuals desiring to have entries in the parade are asked to contact Chairman Mad den or Curt Fisher, festival co ordinator. V Mali Tribune Want Ada Labor Courts Endorsed A week ago there was an important item printed in Marouia Childs' interpstinrr column in Thp firpo-n- 1 o - - nian but because of the late UNlamented (and UN- mourned) local campaign, it did not receive the notice in this department it deserved. This is it, quote : "Compulsory arbitration of labor disputes In this coun try is coming as sure as night follows day if the present trend continues. It will come not because any group or any Indi vidual wants it. But the plain fact is that nationwide strikes In vital industries can no longer be tolerated. In steel, oil, the railways, or the utilities a strike across the board can shut down the economy and in a relatively short time. Vital services of health, sanitation and safety are immedi ately affected. This is a measure of how delicate is the bal ance of our complex technological society. "Add to this the precarious balance between what Is left of the free world and the Communist threat of total ag gression and the situation becomes not just intolerable. It begins to look like self-destruction. With the upheavals In steel and In oil on top of election year uncertainty, it would not be surprising if the men who boss Soviet Russia should conclude that we in this country were hopelessly divided and therefore unable to meet new attacks." There may have been other endorsements of the "labor court plan" advocated by The Mail Tribune for several years, but if so they escaped this department's attention. jMR- CHILDS even uses the term which we sup posed apparently without justification we had originated and patented, the title a "Supreme Court of Labor," quote : "One can conceive of a 'supreme court of labor' with authority to arbitrate the basic issues in labor disputes that are held to be related to the vital interests of the nation. In order to achieve a fair balance, such a court might be made up of three men one nominated' by the senate com mittee on labor, one by the committee on public welfare and one by the President. All three would be subject to confirmation by the senate in the same way federal judges are now confirmed. They would have life tenure with pen sions on retirement." This is hard for the undersigned to believe for over this long period the idea has been spurned by all the authorities to which it has been presented includ ing two very close personal friends, namely: Senator Wayne Morse, and a brother-in-law who is a professor of law in the University of Denver. e e 1M0ST interesting of all Mr. Childs calls attention to V1 the fact the labor court proposal is not a new idea but has been the established custom in Scandinavia, where he says the results have been extremely satis factory. We have realized for years social reforms of all kinds and descriptions have been decades ahead of this country in Sweden and Norway, but missed the item about established labor courts providing in im portant cases, compulsory arbitration. "Ye Editor" better be doing some research! And here is the pay-off, quote : "Some such proposal is being considered by those who are preparing memoranda for General Elsenhower on do mestic issues. Not long after he steps from his plane he will be asked for his views on labor." There must be some catch in it, but before we wake up it surely gives the undersigned a thrill. R.W.R. How Come "Brief" To make the situation above perfect, the Supreme Court should hand down its decision on the steel case before the General hops off for Abilene. From what we have read which isn't very much our guess would be the Supreme Court will be unan imous or practically so on the legal question in volved in the recent presidential seizure of U.S. Steel, namely: "Mr. Truman exceeded his presidential powers direct and implied." A ND going further out on a limb our guess is the Supreme Court, while not explicitly defining the boundaries of the president's emergency powers, will suggest the matter be referred to Congress, and legis lation passed making the the chief executive ample gency, to protect the country rity is clearly and dangerously tnreatenea. mis Deing a government of checks and balances, moreover, this power should not be UNlimited, but should be subject to a congressional ok, which not exercised in a reason able time say 24 horn's would furnish a green-light to executive action. MO DOUBT any members of the local bar, who have ' not abandoned this column entirely, and happen to glance over the above will be filled with surprised pride and joy at the language almost as involved, lengthy and incomprehensible as some of their super legal pronouncements, filed away for all eternity in their over-taxed "brief" files. Incidentally, who is responsible for the term "BRIEF" as applied to the summation of a case to the judge for consideration? Was it Blackstone himself 7 If so he must have had a and of irony as well than have claimed! K.W.K. Jacksonville Lions Club Names Officers Jacksonville The Lions club here held its annual elec tion of officers recently, accord ing to H. L. Markwlth, secretary-treasurer. Elected president and Jubilee chairman was P. E. Matheny; first vice-president, Dr. Al Grif fen; second vice-president, A. G. Van Galder; third vice-president. Jack Long; serrotary-trr-as-u r r, Markwlth (reelected;; Tuesday, Mar 20. 1952 boundaries clearer, giving powers in a sudden emer when its peace and secu keener sense of humor most of his biographers SOLUTION SIMPLE Memphis. Tenn. U.P The bus driver had a simple solution when a car stalled In front of him. The driver eased up behind the automobile and gave it a shove. Its motor caught and away it went. Francis Guldry, tall twister and FlnvH Wvntt linn tnmpr ThrM n.,u Irarlnr. U'nr. len elected. They were Hal Math eny. Ernie Mclntyrt and Bob Ml near. Cross town 8? The LITTLE SCOUTS "Hey! Leave that curtain alone 'til wa get these, pictures developed!" Matter of Fact CLEAN UP BY CRONY Washington James P. .Mc Granery, the Pennsylvania judge the President has chosen to clean out corruption In the gov ernment, will probably be con firmed as Attorney General of the United States shortly after these words are printed. There is still time to note, however, that this event is likely to turn out to be another jolly joke on the American people. The peculiarities of the Mc Granery record have not yet been publicized because the chairman of the Senate Judic iary Committee, Sen. Pat Mc Carran, carefully closed the hearings when the more curious evidence was being given. Sen ator McCarran seems to have a fellow feeling for the Attorney-General-nominate, which per haps derives from their common friendship for Pan American Airways, The oddest testimony, now re leased on motion of the Judic iary Committee minority, was given by the young Turk Dem ocratic leader of Philadelphia, Richard Dilworth. Dilworth and McGranery, admittedly, are old time political enemies. Yet Dil worth's testimony was buttressed by an elaborate apparatus of photostats and court records. And it cannot be lightly dismis sed, since the main facts are not disputed. In brief, in the summer of 1939, when King George and Queen Elizabeth of England were due to visit this country, an Irish revolutionary, Sean Russell, came here with the av owed intention of assassinating them. He was promptly picked up by the F.B.I. The Clan Na Gael, an extremist Irish group, thereupon persuaded McGran ery, then a Democratic member of Congress, to try to get Rus sell released. And at McGran ery's request, President Roose velt allowed Russell to leave the country after $5,000 bail had been posted. TIMS $5,000, raised with great - difficulty from rich members of the Clan Na Gael, was depos ited with McGranery as surety against Russell's bail bond. Part of the money was trans mitted to McGranery by James McGnrrily, a Philadelphia chieftain of the Clan Na Gael. The rest was handed to McGran ery by a Clan Na Gael officer, James Brislane. Russell left the country, and In 1941, the Clan Na Gael began to ask for its money back. By 1944, al though there was no proof of Russell's whereabouts, his bail bond was dismissed. This re moved the only pretext for Mc Granery's holding the $5,000 of surety money, and the Clan Na Gael grew more insistent on be ing repaid. No less than seven lawyers applied, at different times, to McGranery. One of them, Thom as M. J. Vizard, testified that In 1945 McGranery offered him a deal, whereby he would give the Clan Na Gael half the mon ey and keep half himself thus, In effect, acknowledging the Clan's claim. Meanwhile, McGranery had first been ap pointed to a high Justice De partment post, and then, in 1946, had been named a District Court Judge, Possibly because no one likes to sue a Federal Judge, none of the lawyers pressed the Clan Na Gael claim until the Clan retained D i 1 worth, Dilworth brought suit against McGranery on the Clan's behalf In 1948. Despite his offer to Viz ard, McGranery now alleged that the $5,000 he was holding was really the property of the Clan's Philadelphia chieftain, McC.arrity. McCarrity bad died In 1940. McGranery had never made any attempt to acknow ledge his supposed debt of $5,000 to McGarrity's estate. McGranery's signed receipts to the Clan Na Gael were entered in evidence. Hence the court or dered McGranerv to repav the $5,000 to the Clan Na Gael, less about $1,200 of expenses he claimed to have Incurred in ob taining Russell's release. By Roland Cm Imms to QMMtuI am rwuu By Joseph anal Stewart Alsoaj TN HIS testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Dilworth characterized the whole business as a "shabby' attempt at "misappropriation.1 McGranery hardly attempted to answer Dilworth, except to point out that Dilworth was a member of Americans for Dem ocratic action. This greately out raged Senator McCarran and several of his colleagues who then denounced Dilworth as a probable subversive. In addition to Dilworth, Thom as McBride, one of the most re spected leaders of the Philadel phia bar, also appeared against McGranery. McBride testified that McGranery was a legal ig noramus, totally lacking in ju- d l c l a 1 temperament. As evi dence, he offered the enormous number of McGranery's judicial decisions by the Federal Circuit Court. Among the McGranery errors cited, were really fan tastic rulings as the denial of the right of counsel to a defend ant in a criminal case, and a charge to a jury grossly confus ing the nature of "reasonable doubt. Evidence was also of fered that after the Clan Na Gael case, McGranery sought to use his judicial power to re venge himself on Dilworth through one of Dilworth's clients. Peculiarly enough, the minor ity members of the Senate Judic iary Committee who are oppos ing McGranery's confirmation have subordinated these really shocking charges that McGran ery tried to misappropriate tunds and is a legal incomDet- ent. These Republican Senators voice their loudest dissatisfac tion with McGranery's com ments on President Truman's steel seizure, and with his ex planation of his role in the "Am erasia" prosecution while he was in the Justice Department. The explanation of McGran ery, both as Federal Judge and as Attorney General-nominate. is simple enough. When Senator and Mrs. Truman first came to Washington, Representative and Mrs. McGranery were good noignoors to them. In short McGranery is another Truman crony. He is also a man of con siderable surface charm. But whatever the rights and wrongs of the Dilworth and McBride testimony, the evidence certain ly does not suggest McGranery can be counted on for the great clean-up of the Federal govern ment, which he has said will be "as easy as pie." (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Court Records FIM.ICK COl'RT Claude Burton Elderktn. failure to stop at stop street. S3. Bill Wayne Fltuimmoni, driving wiin no leaciiinnu, 3. Charles Henry Hoyt, baste rule and lanure to nop ai nop street via. Dorance Lee Hayes, reckless driving, $10. William E. I go, failure to stop at stop ttim. 5. William Bverett Kennely, violation oi oasic ruie. iu. Claire Gazelle Brlngle, expired li cense plates, ,V . Harvey Hawley, Insufficient mmfler, 13 Montegene Finly Hall, reckless drlv Ins. S2Y Robert Irvin Byrd, failure to etop at atop sign, $ft. Ronald Luther Spinas, violation of basic rule. $10. Jerymiah Veatch Ward, violation of basic rule. $10. Gary James Pree, violation of basic rule, 910. DISTRICT COURT Roy Lee Howard N'ewsom, truck ipeed John Buel Johnson, no motor Ve- nicie license. .v DISTRICT COl'RT Monroe Marvin McGonagle, no oper axor s license, o. Luaan Walter Delo. overleneth. 20. Andrew Bennett Oingrick, overload, 124 Haskell Lee Stewart, no operator's license, o. Harold Eugene Rhtensburg. over lenith, M0. Alvy S. Kendall, truck speeding, 17. Vernon D. Curry, overwtdth. $7. Donald E Potter, overload. $19 William B. Johnston, no operator's ticrns, J- Ronald J- White, defective muffler, 10 Henry T. Single, overload, $50. CIRCUIT COURT Htle. Alta B vs David James. Probate Department Estate of Cora E Hentley, deceased. Inventory and appraisement. An estimated 30 per cent of the retail price you now pay for an automobile in taxes, accord ing to Time American Magazine. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Ike sweeps the Oregon pri mary as he has swept EVERY i primary where his name has j Deen entered on tne rjauot. But that isn't the real point. The nub of the Oregon story is that at Friday's election the Re publican voters of Oregon knew exactly what they were doing. They did lt on purpose. TN ORDER to do what they -'-did, Oregon Republicans had to use their heads. When they got their ballots, they found themselves confront ed by a bewildering maze of can didates for delcgate-at-large to the Republican conven tion. There were 50 of these names that appeared on ALL the ballots all over the state. Of these 50, 44 had filed by declar ation and were therefore bound under the law to support the ma jority choice of Oregon Repub licans voting in the primary. There were SIX who had fil ed by petition, and were free un der an older law to support in the convention (in the event they won as delegates) WHOMEVER THEY PLEASED, regardless of the preferential vote in the Re publican primary. It was pre sumed (although none of them admitted it) that these six were for Taft and filed by petition de liberately in order to be able to support Taft, no matter how Oregon Republicans voted as a whole. Nearly all of the six are well known, and it is always a reas onable assumption that well known names other things be ing equal will fare well in a statewide election. It seemed probable that one or more of the six would ride through on that basis. IT WAS a clever stratagem. But the Republicans of Ore gon solved it and checkmated it. As this is written, the top vote getter of the six unpledged dele-gate-at-large candidates is run ning well behind the BOTTOM vote-getter of the sure fire Eisenhower delegate list. It was a prize example of in telligent voting and as such is most encouraging. DON'T want to intimate that there was skulduggery on the part of the six candidates for delegate-at-large who filed by petition. What they did was en tirely legal. I'd say they simply took advantage of an opportun ity provided by Oregon primary election laws to slip through (maybe) a few Taft delegates in an Oregon primary that was generally expected to result in an overwhelming Eisenhower preference as it did. If these Six Musketeers skat ed close at any point to the edge of political deception, it was in their complete silence as to their preference among the candidates for the Republican nomination for President. If they nad all an nounced, openly and frankly, that they had filed (quite legal ly) by petition IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO VOTE FOR MR. TAFT even though the prefer ence of Oregon Republicans as expressed in the primary was for Eisenhower, there would have been nothing wrong with their strategem. I think it likely that in such an event one or more of them would have been elected, for there are many Taft supporters among Oregon Republicans and these people would have been inclined to concentrate on the unpledged six. My personal opinion is that complete frankness and sincer ity PAYS IN POLITICS, as it pays in business and social life. I think it would have paid in this instance. T DON'T want to appear to dwell too long on this incident of the Six Musketeers "all for one and one for all." It just seems to indicate that here was an instance in which consider able numbers of citizens voted Intelligently and discriminating ly in a situation in which they could easily have been misled by a clever political trick. That is ENCOURAGING for all the political ills that beset us could be CURED by more intel ligent and more discriminating voting on the part of our voting citizens. long Wire Used To Snitch Bed Blanket Dallas, Tex. (U.R) Frank Raynor said he doesn't know much about the college panty raids but reported to police Monday night that someone tried to steal a blanket from his bed. Raynor awoke to find his blanket crawling off the bed to ward an open window. He found a long wire had been shoved through the screen and hooked onto the cover. PUP CRAVESCOMFORT Amory, Miss. (U.R A pup owned by Mr. and Mrs. Nick Whitaker crawls into Mrs. Whit aker's bed promptly at 8:30 every night and tucks himself in like a child. American soldiers in Korea may now send film to a central point in Tokyo for developing, after which the prints are sent back by mail. Men Die as Result Of Military Action By Red Rebel Leader Df rniij nLiroun United Press Foreign Analyst A withered, soft-spoken little man celebrated his birthday Monday, and quite a number of persons died n n,,,r upuraka more or less as direct result, The little man, who also nas a mustache and a scraggly goatee In the best Mandarin manner, is Ho Chi Minh, pro fessional revo lutionary who I'hil Newsora is the leader of the Communist Rebels fighting the French in Indo-China, The Indo-Chinese struggle is a filthy little war, fought in the mud of the Red river rice delta, COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must beat Che name and address of the wrltei although under certain circum stances the use of a pea name or initial for publicaUon la permis sible. The Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clariflcaUon and conden satlon. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Politics in the Morgu To the Editor: I died two days ago, And now I am adorning a most intriguing marble slab. Might I add, I am in the most fashionable morgue in the city. As you walk through the por tals of this majestic palace, One can see long sultry, ornate curtains fanning the wall. But the most important facts about this palace Are the pictures of numerous past deceased coroners, All Republicans, of course. I gave up my personal struggle Amidst an even greater strug gle. The office of coroner was again open for public discussion. And my good Republican can didate was going to have a hard time winning the race. Now Pete on the next slab, whose soul has not been deliv ered yet, Is a staunch Democrat. The other morgues were full, And we good Republicans ac cepted him, But only on one condition: That he must not start any strikes in this morgue, Against the very controversial problem entitled "Personal Em balming Rites." Pete mildly stated that my candidate had not a chance, . And I told him the same for his candidate. I also stated that the day they put subsidies on death,. This nation .would be in a Grave situation. The election day was nearlng, and all of we corpses were quite uneasy. I was bound and determined to see that the individual death was maintained. And if during one's life span One made greater effort, One should deserve a better capitalistic death. Joe on the other side of me. was a devout vegetarian, And maintained that only the best, insipid vegetables should ornate the grave. Just then a group of men en tered and were broadcasting the results of the race. Well of all things, Socialist won. This of course means we all get equal treatment. Come to think of it, this makes death much simpler. Hope to hear your views soon Constance Inskeep, 2401 Hillcrest Rd. PAY BOOST SIGNED Washington (U.R) Presi dent Truman signed legislation Tuesday giving the armed forc es a pay boost of 4 per cent across the board and an increase of 14 per cent in food and quar ters allowances. Both hikes are retroactive to May 1. Dead line Sunoay Classifieds Is al noon baturdaya 'mm I You Are SURE of the Finest . . . . . PERL FUNERAL HOME 44 Years of Friendly Service from shadows along the jungle trail, and by bomb plot and sud den death in the alleys and cafes of Saigon. It is a war which, under pres ent conditions, no one can win, and is fought by and around peo ple sick of the whole thing. Costly to America It costs the French $1,000,000,- 000 a year, and the United States tons of war material. The French would like to be rid of this war, yet dare not for both moral and physical reasons. It is accepted that to lose Indo China militarily is to lose the whole of Southeast Asia. To abandon it morally, means to turn millions of loyal Viet Na- mese over to the tender mercies of the Reds. The shadowy figure who com mands this sector of the "bam boo curtain" from a mountain hideaway near Red China's bor der is Ho Chi Minh. Trained in Moscow Once he was an international figure and a Red revolutionary in the classic pattern. He has vis ited the United States, Britain and France. He was trained in Moscow and he has been jailed 1 both by the British in Hong Kong and the Chinese government of Chiang Kai-shek. After the Japanese defeat and the end of Japanese occupation of Indo-China in. 1945, he first worked with the French but -turned against them almost im mediately. They opposed his ideas of nationalism built on the framework of his Moscow teach ings. So, because of Ho Chi Minh, men died Monday. This Can Be the Turning Point . Safety and security are ours forever when we under stand how divine Love really "careth for its own." 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