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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 7, 1952
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'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.
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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.