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I Weather Subscribers BFQRJD RIBUIE To report Improper or non-delivery of The Mail Tribune phone 2-S141 before 6:45 pan. dally and 10:30 ajn. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives short ly after you call please notify of fice, thus eliminating special mes senger service. FORECAST: Fair and warm and continued dry through Tuesday. Low tonight 55. High Tuesday 95-100. Temp. Highest Yesterday 9J Lowest this Morning 55 J United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire 47th Year 14 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 7, 1952 No. 92 vr T vr JV IFF TO A Me REPUBUCAn MY START 'Same Old Story' in Hot and Sticky Convention City BY R. V. RUHL Chicago It's the same old story, only more so Heat is 90 degrees, humidity is 100 per cent, good will and humor 30 below zero. Sweating humanity is harried and harassed as it tries to get to the convention hall before the gavel pounds. The hall is situated, with remarkable foresight, in the stock yard area and one with good ears and nose can hear the dull thud of the sledge on bullock skulls, and breathe the sickly smell of blood and certain decomposing elements left over with the victims' squeal. All of which, it is feared, to follow. There is talk on all sides of tention will hurt the Grand Old date, talk. Taft Forces Aren't Smiling The Taft forces aren't smiling from ear to ear with each and every spotless bicuspid showing. High above, alone in the overcast sky, rides a silvery blimp with just three letters, "IKE," thereon. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, the opposing knives are being sharpened. Yes, it's "I like Ike," "Let's win with Bob," and coming down in the hotel elevator a large and moist matron from Texas told all and sundry (including the press) that "Bob Taft is the greatest friend of labor since Abraham Lincoln." Shades of Honest Abe before this is over what incredibil ities and blasphemies will be committed in thy name! Murderous Red Fire Stops UN Attackers; Truce Talks Continue Seoul, Korea (U.R) Mur-i derous Communist fire turned back attacking United Nations troops with heavy losses only two miles from the truce village of Panmunjom Monday. The Allies had begun their attack with tanks, flame-throw- ers, rockets and infantry under a bright moon at 10 p.m., Sun day, seeking to dislodge the Communists from three hills within sight of the search light - marked Panmunjom neu tral zone. Fire At Tunnels The U.N forces fired rockets Fastest Crossing Of Atlantic Made By Hew U.S. Vessel Aboard SS United States, At Sea U.PJ The new superliner United States completed the fast est Atlantic crossing in history Monday, clipping 10 hours and two minutes off the 14-year-old record set by Britain's Queen Mary. Despite buffeting by rain and 45-mile-an-hour winds in the final hours, the 53,000-ton Unit ed States sped past Bishop's Rock off the southwest tip of England three days. 10 ' hours and 40 minutes after leaving New York's Ambrose Light. Averages 35.6 Knots The big new ship completed its record run of 2.942 miles at an average speed of 35.659 knots equivalent to 40.9 land miles an hour to win the mythical Atlantic blue ribbon and become "the fastest passenger ship in his tory. The Queen Mary's record 1938 run was 31.9 knots. The Atlantic speed crown re turned to America for the first time in a century when the trim new black and white United States passed 8.1 miles off Bish op's Rock at 6:16 a., m. on its maiden voyage. Hotel Bellhop Nabbed On Burglarly Warrant Robert Leroy Cloyd, 22, who roomed at the Allen hotel, was arrested this morning by Med- ford city police on a warrant charging burglary of $118 from the Jackson hotel lounge, ac cording to police. Police said that Cloyd had en tered the hotel lounge Saturday evening and broke into three or four pinball machines . . from which he took the money. He had worked the past several months as a bellhop at the Jack son hotel. His arraignment is due sometime today. will prove symbolic of what is harmony this conflict and con Party but that's all it is to and flame-throwers at almost pointblank range at tunnel en trances to Communist bunkers protecting the hills, but failed to rout the defenders. - - . Second Lt. Thomas Talbot, El gin, Tex., who started out as platoon leader and came back acting commander of what was left of a company, said the Chin ese held their fire until one pla toon of about 40 men reached their trench lines. Couldn't Move Forward ' "e tried and we tried, at least six times," Talbot said, "to rescue the platoon that got on the first hill. But we couldn't move forward." - "You can call it Slaughter Hill, if you've got to call it something," said Pfc. . Charles DeCarlo, Naugutuck, Conn., aft er it was over. Panmunjom, Korea (U.R) United Nations and Communist truce delegates pored over ways to settle the deadlocked prison er issue Monday in the fourth straight day of secret meetings. Brig. Gen. William P. Nuck ols. a spokesman for the U. N., said the 48-minute meeting was conducted on a "business-like basis." Both To The Point He said both sides directed their remarks "to the point at issue" exchanging prisoners of war. He refused to comment fur ther lest it lead to a breakdown in the talks. New Delhi, India (U.R) Pre mier Jawaharlal Nehru said Sunday night that Allied bomb ing of Communist power plants along the Yalu River threatened to extend the Korean war and endangered world peace. Government Nominee Wins Mexican Vole Mexico City U.R) Adolfo Ruiz Cortinnes claimed the pres idency cf Mexico Monday in the first bloodless balloting in the nation's stormy political history. Ruiz Cortines' three oppon ents bitterly admitted defeat in Sunday's election but refused to make official concessions. Offic ial returns will not be an nounced until July 20. Election officials said not a shot was fired as almost 5,000, 000 citizens voted under- pro tection of 80,000 heavily-armed trocps and police. Only two per sons were arrested. Ruiz Cortines, 61, backed by President Miguel Aleman and the political organization that has ruled Mexico for 26 years, claimed the " presidency on in complete returns giving him 87 per cent of the vote. THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN DAM AGE Fire Friday destroyed a warehouse on West Main street. The warehouse (mostly burned to the ground in the left background) contained about a dozen washing machines, several sewing machines, two vacuum cleaners and an electric refrigerator and stove owned by Davenport Appliance shop, 2101 West Main street. The fire was spread when the large Weary Lawmakers Seek Adjournment Of 82nd Congress Washington (U.R) A small band of tired, frustrated law makers met at noon Monday in a new effort to vote the 82nd Congress into sine die adjourn ment and history. Congressional leaders strove feverishly to work out compro mises on the atomic expansion and so-called pork barrel rivers and harbor' " appropriations which - blocked adjournment : early Sunday after a marathon, 17-hour session. They said privately there was a fair, chance "the , two houses could agree on the measures. But there was a "lot of negotiating" to be done." Only Handful Present There was only a handful of legislators on hand. Most of the Republicans were at the GOP National convention in Chicago and "many Democrats had gone home. Arrangements were made to reach members by telephone if necessary to put the finish ing touches on any compromise. Congress did approve major appropriations measures, includ ing: 1. A $46,610,938 military spending bill for expansion of all the armed services and to meet the Air Force goal of 143 wings by mid-1955. 2. A measure to boost social security and public assistance benefits by about $5 a month; its cost will be $540,000,000 an nually. 3. A $1,015,981,710 measure to run . the State, Justice and Commerce Departments. Steel Agreement 0K'din8Plants Pittsburgh (U.R) The CIO United Steeiworkers union and the American Chain & Cable Co. reached a strike-settling "in terim" agreement Monday cov ering 5,400 workers in eight plants. A USW spokesman said the settlement brought the number of companies which have reach ed WSB-type agreements to more than 40, employing in ex cess of 60,000 workers. The USW announced the new agreement as CIO President Philip Murray prepared to make a "report" to a mass meeting of Monongehela Valley strikers at Duquesne, Pa. . - He was expected to detail the union's charges that the "Big Six" companies of the industry have joined in a conspiracy to block collective bargaining in the five-week strike. The union last week filed unfair labor practices charges against the companies with - the National Labor Relations Board. Fourmile-Fish Lake Road New Reopened The road to Fourmile lake from Fish lake, closed following a slide on June 27 for reconstruc tion, is open again to travel, ac cording to J. H. Hoffbuhr, man ager of Medford Irrigation district old drum at the right exploded. This happened when a grass fire spread into the shed, owned by Poe and Fossett Machinery company, 2131 West Main street, where the 500-gallon drum was kept. The explosion covered the ware house with burning oil. The fire was fought and kept from spreading by hose-toting resi dents of the area and members of the stale forest patrol, which had answered the call to put out the grass fire. 600 Americans Die On Holiday Week-end; Local Scene Quiet By UNITED PRESS More than 600 Americans were killed in accidents during the long July 4 week end. Traf fic deaths, although much few er than expected, set a record. A final count placed the acci dental death toll at 613 from 6 p..m. last Thursday to midnight Sunday. Of the .total, 356 died in-lraffic,-176 drowned, 7 died in plane crashes, 2 from fire works and 72 in miscellaneous accidents.- The National Safety Council said the total of 356 d.aa ir traffic was the highest on record for any three-day July 4 holi day," but it was considerably lower than the council's advance estimate of 430 By UNITED PRESS Oregonians Monday counted nine persons dead in accidents over the long Fourth of July week end. Five drowned . and four died in traffic mishaps. Latest additions to the holi day toll were Victor Daniels, 22, Delake logging contractor, who drowned Sunday when a boat capsized on Devils lake on the Oregon coast; five-year-old Al len Lloyd Hauer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hauer of Astoria, who drowned in the Clackamas river at Carver, and Patrick Jo seph Lynch, 47, a Lakeview sheep rancher who died from in juries suffered in an auto acci dent near Paisley. The earlier deaths all occur red Friday, the first day of the holiday week end. By UNITED PRESS Thirteen Washington residents met violent deaths during the long Independence Day holiday. Nine died in traffic accidents, three were drowned, and one died after a leg amputation re sulting from a railroad mishap. The July 4 holiday was a quiet one in and around Medford.. No official Independence day cele brations were planned. Events commemmorating the day in Ashland and Grants Pass drew crows in the neigh borhood of 4,000 to each city. , . Crowds lified Main street and Siskiyou boulevard in Ashland Friday to watch a parade that tied up traffic on Highway 99 for nearly two hours. The-mile-and-a-half parade, took 50 min utes to pass the reviewing stand. The Grants Pass annual Fourth of July jamboree out drew the .Ashland parade. - An estimated 4,500 persons attend ed the activities, which lasted from 9 a. m. until after 3 p. m. The city's public fireworks dis play was watched by a paid at tendance of 2,000 and by hun dreds who watched from outside the fairgrounds. Some 2,300 persons attended the Ashland Riding association's ninth annual rodeo and horse races. Other activities in Ash land included a street dance, children's races and band and organ concerts. Four Accidents Reported Four accidents were reported Saturday in Medforr! by the city police. Albert Henry Nixon, route 2, box 220, received slight injuries when the motorcycle he was rid ing hit a car on Court street near McAndrews road. Nixon was thrown to the pavement and received cuts and abrasions on his right leg, the police said. Carl Sternberg, . Seattle, : the driver of the other car. was cited for failure to "yield the right of way. No injuries were reported in the other three week-end acci dents. Extensive damage was done to a truck driven by Ron ald Devon Frey, Klamath Falls, when it and a car driven by Jay Thomas Dillon, Central Point, collided on North Riverside ave nue at Jackson street, police said. No citations were issued. Cars driven by Oscar Hilding Bengtson, 122 Oregon terrace, and James Frederick Armstrong. 812 Cedar street, were involved in an accident at the intersection of Third and Front streets. Bengtson was cited for his fail ure to yield the right of way. Three autos were involved in an accident at 320 South Grape street. Wayne Elton Reeves, who lives at that address, pulled from the curb and was struck by a car driven by James Robert Ackley, 521 Union street, police report ed. Reeves vehicle then crashed into a parked car owned by Lee Mae Marshall, 611 California street, the report said. Fire Danger High; Permits Required Low humidity, an east wind and the worst fire danger yet tnis year caused the State For ester's office today to stress the necessity that every lumber op erator obtains a permit for the area he plans to work. Every logging and sawmill ing operation must have a per mit before they can begin work. Failure to secure this permit will result in closure of the op eration and citation of the op erator, according to District Warden Ted W. Maul. The practice of allowing Josepnme and Jackson county operators to work after merely applying for such a permit at one of the local offices of the state forest patrol will be im mediately discontinued. The pa trol warns that all operators should apply for their permits at least one week before they plan on working in the area. Violation of this rule carries a penalty of a $500 fine, three months imprisonment for each day that the operation is con ducted without a permit or both. Forest patrolmen, forest ser vice fire officers and lumber industry spokesmen joined to day in appealing to all who use the forests to use extra caution during the period of high fire danger. Belgrade, Yugoslavia (U.R) Marshal Tito has indicated that Yugoslavia would help defend Greece and Turkey if those two North Atlantic Treaty Organi zation countries were attacked, Platform Drafters Disagree on Civil Rights Proposal All-Night Session Works on Document Chicago (U.R) Republican platform drafters, after a gruel ing night-long session, still had not resolved Monday the touchy issue of what to say about civil rights. A team of ace writers and top policy makers labored until al most dawn on a final draft of the party's basic campaign doc ument for 1952. They went back into session at 9 a.m. The group made "good pro gress" but had not gotten around to settling a subcommit tee squabble over the civil rights plank. The subcommittee split 3 to 2 and turned in two planks, both opposing a compulsory fed eral Fair Employment Practices Act but differing sharply from there on. The majority plank called for an advisory FEPC the minority for turning over most civil rights issues includ ing FEPC to the states. OK's Collective Security The foreign policy plank, draf ted largely by GOP foreign af fairs expert John Foster Dulles, commits the party, to support collective security and all for eign aid needed to attain it. It rejects "isolationism" and supports the United Nations. It blasts the Truman administra tion's foreign policies and prom ises that the Far East will be given equal consideration with Europe. Both Sen. Robert A. Taft (R Ohio), and Gen. Dwight D. Eis enhower were reported to be satisfied. Support 90 Per Cent Parity Farm experts on the platform group were trying to phrase a plank that would have the party "in effect supporting" not less than 90 per cent of parity sup port levels for basic farm crops. Other main planks call for balanced defense with emphasis on air power; support of the Taft-Hartley labor law with some revisions; easing of econ omic controls as fast as possible, and . a "progressive reduction" of taxes. The language will be broad enough to bridge the Taft Eisenhower differences on these questions. Michigan Prison Riot Curbed Sunday Jackson, Mich. (U.R) A state trooper's shotgun blast and a flying wedge of riot-sick con victs broke up Southern Michi gan Prison's second inmate up rising in less than four months Sunday night. One prisoner was wounded slightly by buckshot and several others were bruised and cut in a convict free-for-all as 150 riot ing inmates were pushed back into their . cells in Cellblock 9 after taking two guards hostage in a two-hour demonstration. After the "whiff of buckshot' quieted the men, a fast-talking deputy warden persuaded the rioters to release -one hostage. Then 250 "regular" convicts who also are housed in the cellblock charged the mutineers and forced them to release the sec ond guard. Medford Top Hotspot Of State on Sunday Medford, with 93 degrees, had the official high temperature in Oregon Sunday, according to weather bureau reports, and the mercury was expected to rise even higher here today and Tuesday. The Medford office of the weather bureau anticipated a maximum near 100 this after noon and forecast a reading of 95 to 100 for Tuesday. Weather outlook, it was said, is fair, warm, a-id continued dry through Tuesday. The bureau said that higher temperatures and lower humidi ties will increase the danger of forest fires in Oregon's interior areas through Tuesday. Teterboro, N. J. (U.R) The first of 64 flying housewives to reach the finish line in the 2,700 mile Powder Puff air derby formed a "welcoming commit tee" Monday to greet late arrivals. f n . .i ' "j-f 1 1 - -tit! f KEEPS EYE OUT William E. Wells, Eisenhower delegate from 13th Congressional District of Crowell, Tex., watches develop ments in the Texas squabble at Chicago. Gabrielson Warns Of Need for Unity As Conclave Opens . Convention Hall, Chicago (U.R) Republican National Com mittee Chairman Guy George Gabrielson warned his party's convention . delegates Monday that they must bury their fac tional differences and unite be hind the ultimate GOP presiden tial nominee to beat the Demo crats next fall. Speaking before the opening convention session, Gabrielson brushed aside Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's charges of "steam roller" tactics by Sen. Robert A. Taft. "This will be a fair conven tion," said Gabrielson, who has been accused by the Eisenhower camp of leaning toward Taft's candidacy. Voice of People" "The only steamroller in this amphitheatre will be the df l ?r- mined will of a majority of the 1206 delegates. The only dicta tor's voice in this hall will be the voice of the people as re flected through their chosen delegates ... "We have seen emotions run high in recent days and weeks," he added, referring to the bitter Taft-Eisenhower feud. "This is natural and, within bounds, it is proper. But after this conven tion makes its decisions, there can be no room for disunity in the Republican party. We must close ranks against the common foe." The GOP national chairman reminded the delegates that one major purpose of the convention is to "resolve differences with in the party, so that sincere Re publican men and women reach a meeting of minds." Resolved My Majority "Where these differences can not be resolved by agreement or compromise," he said in an ob vious reference to the Taft Eisenhower fight over the seat ing of Southern delegates, "they are resolved by the majority This is the American and the Re publican way, and it is the Am erican and the Republican tra dition." Gabrielson said all of the ma jor Republican candidates have agreed in advance to support whichever one finally gets the nomination. Police Continue Dunkin Search; 'Nothing New" The search for murder sus pect George Baker Dunkin con tinued in northern - Jackson county over the week-end, but Capt. Paul Parson, of the Ore gon state police, said this mor ning that there is "just not a thing new to report." The searching' procedure will remain the same. A detachment of men is working out of a base camp in search of the 67-year-old hermit trapper who is want ed on a warrant .charging the June 24 murder of State Officer Phil Lowd. Big Delegations Back Eisenhower Rule Change Plan Compromise Seen On Lodge Proposal Convention Hall, Chicago (U.R) Efforts to compromise a rules charge fight failed Monday and Eisenhower sup porters kicked off a floor bat tle over their so-called "fair play" amendment at the open ing session of the 25th Repub lican National convention. Convention Hall, Chicago (U.R) The 25th Republican Na tional covention got off to an angry start Monday with big state delegations backing Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's propos al for a rule change vital to his bid for the presidential nomina tion. Republican National Chair man Guy George Gabrielson called the 1,206 delegates to order after a series of state caucus votes which seemed to assure victory for the Eisenhow er rules maneuver. The convention, at which the Republicans will pick a man they hope can end 20 years of rule by Democrats, got under way at 11:33 p.m. CST. It had been scheduled to start at 10:30 a.m. , Compromise Conference Taft and Eisenhower leaders held a hastily called "compro mise" conference on the propos ed rules modification in" the waning minutes before the con vention opened. What they might work out was not clear. An Eisenhower leader said the change proposal was "being modified every minute." In another convention- time development, Eisenhower head quarters disclosed that Gov. Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin of Maryland will nominate the general when candidates are put before the convention on Wed nesday. McKeldin, "favorite son" choice of the Maryland delega tion, apparently will try to swing his state's 24 votes to Eisenhow er on the first ballot. May Lose Delegates Sen. Robert A. faft, Ohio, who may stand to lose a batch of contested delegates if the rules change goes through, crit icized the proposal as a move to change "the rules in the middle of the game." As things stood when the con vention opened, Taft had 538 delegate votes and Eisenhower 428 in the United Press tabu lation based on pledges and known first-ballot preferences. The change would bar con tested delegates from voting on any issue before the convention until they have been formally seated. The present rule, 40 years old, permits contested del egates to vote on all contests except their own. In preliminary maneuvering the Republican national committee gave Taft 76 and Ike 20 delegates out of a contested total of 96. Hall Newly Scoured The convention opened in the big arena, hard by the Union Stockyard, which is annually the home of the world's biggest livestock show. Scoured of re minders of the hall's major func tion, the newly air-conditioned hall was jammed with delegates, a like number of alternates, and thousands of ticket - holding guests. Seating capacity is 12. 000. Long before Gabrielson brought his gavel down on a thick oak post erected to save wear and tear on the lectern, supporters of the two major can didates set the hall jumping with the hoopla and nonsense typical of American political conven tions. Pennsylvania Leads Break The big Pennsylvania delega tion led the break-away to Ike's rule change. It voted 59 to 11 to support the motion to be in troduced for the Eisenhower camp by Gov. Arthur B. Lang lie of Washington. The California and New Jer sey delegations quickly followed suit and one by one other groups, large and small, announced they would support the rules change. The precise form of the rules change remained uncertain up to the moment it was offered. Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., (Mass.), Ike's campaign manag er, said the proposal was "being modified every minute." Portland (U.R) Hundreds of Portlanders saw the Republican national convention by televis-' ion Monday and the general ver dict of the public at its first mass demonstration of the TV medium appeared favorable.
