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Newspaper Page TextWeather Subscribers t rr FORECAST: Continued hot and dry through Thursday. Pos sible thundersbowers - over mountains in late afternoon. Low tonight 65. High Thurs day 100-105. , Temp. Highest Testerda-r 104 Lowest this Morning 63 47th Year . First Round Ike's But Taft Retains Machine Control By R. W. RUHL " Chicago To resort to pugilistic terms, which certainly fit the general convention atmosphere, "Intrepid Ike" won the first round, and "Bruiser Bob", the second. Intrepid Ike's victory was unexpected. Bruiser Bob's was not. The nci result is a gain for Ike but nothing to crow about, for contest are, believe it or not, camp. In other words, Eisenhower controls the convention machine. And, as was pointed out repeat edly by the Taft supporters in last night's incredible credentials committee meeting, the rules and regulations of this convention are above the law, above the Supreme Court, above everything except the votes of the committee membsrs, unless their decisions are overruled by the votes of the convention as a whole. That is now the hope of the Eisenhower forces an appeal from the decisions, which give Taft most of the votes regardless of the evidence, to the floor of the convention. There Eisenhower backets believe they will win. After sticking with that Taft cre dentials committee meeting until 1 o'clock this morning, your cor respondent would not advise anyone to bet their shirt on it. But it isn't hopeless, nor is it the only hope, for Taft could win all the delegates in dispute and still not win the nomination. All the Eisen hower supporters have to do is to repeat what they did Monday. Can they repeat? Aye, verily that is the question. Our guess is: That vital decision, scheduled to have been on today's program, won't come up before tomorrow and perhaps not then. Hot Weather Continues; . Maximum Yesterday 1 04 Medford and Grants Pass shared the dubious distinction Tuesday of being the hottest spots in Oregon, according to weather bureau and United Press reports. Thermometer readings as high or higher were forecast for this afternoon and Thursday. The two Rogue valley commu nities had official maximums of 104 degrees. Temperature here today may exceed 105 degrees, the weather bureau reported. A maximum of 100 to 105 degrees is predicted. Not a Record The 104 heat, highest of the Reds Veto Demand On rGermr Charges United Nations, N. Y. (U.R) Russia Wednesday vetoed Amer ica's demand that the United Nations Svurity Council declare the Communist germ warfare charges false and condemn the spreading of such propaganda. Soviet Delegate Jacob A. Mal lik used Russia's veto power for the 51st time in the U.N.'s six-' year history to block the reso lution proposed by United States Ambassador Ernest A.. Gross. Vote 9 to 1 The Council vote was 9 to 1, with Pakistan abstaining. The rule of unanimity enabled Mal ik to kill the proposal with his lone negative vote. LastvThursday, his lone bal lot in an otherwise all favorable vote defeated an American pro posal for the Security Council to request the Red Cross Inter national Committee to conduct an on - the - spot investigation of Red charges U.S. troops had used germ weapons in Korea. Kerr Pays Expenses Of Oregon Democrats Portland (U.R) Two Oregon delegates to the Democratic Na tional convention took an expense-paid trip ten days ago to Salt Lake City to meet presi dential nomination aspirant Sen Robert "S. Kerr of Oklahoma, the Oregonian said Wednesday. Kerr paid expenses of the 36 hour trip for the Multnomah county Democratic Central Committee Chairman Bill Way and the two delegates, State Sen. Thomas R. Mahoney and James Shick, a Forest Grove attorney, the newspaper said. Panmunjom, Korea (U.R) United Nations and Communist truce teams wound up a year of dogged negotiations Wednesday in a 26-minute debate on prison er exchange, the only remaining obstacle to a Korean cease-fire. IViEBFORD United Press Full Leased "Wire 12 Pages : , , 1 the judges in this bare-knuckle ex-members of the bruiser's training has made a gain but Taft still year here, was no rdcord locally nor was it highest in the nation for the day. Medford on July 20, 1946, experienced an all- time high of 115 degrees. The record book shows 107 for July 19, 1946. Several 108s are on record, a spokesman for the weather office at the airport here stated. Medford and Grants Pass tem peratures yesterday were the same as the high at Phoenix, Ariz. Yuma, Ariz., recorded 113 and Red Bluff, Calif., 109. Humidity Low The humidity here dropped to 18 per cent yesterday and will be as low today, according, to the weather bureau report. Fire danger is considered extremely great when humidity drops be low 30 per cent. It was below 30 from 11:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. yes terday and below 20 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. .Despite the low humidities, no grass, brush or forest fires were reported this morning by the state forest patrol. By UNITED PRESS The thermometer hit three figures in parts of Oregon again Wednesday as Oregonians swel tered under a blazing July sun. The fire danger remained acute and most logging operations were halted. Only along the coast was there any relief. It was so hot in Portland Tuesday that the Morrison and Hawthorne draw bridges would not operate properly because of heat-expanded metal. Fireboats had to wet them down with cool water. Portland also was threat ened with a minor water, short age and officials said some re striction may be required on sprinkling. New York (U.R) Wholesale food prices . rose another six cents this week, bringing the Dun & Bradstreet index to the highest level since mid-March. US Colonel's Wife Accused Of Blackmarketing Coffee Wiesbaden, Germany (U.R) A colonel's lady accused of blackmarket activities bought 28 pounds of coffee monthly from the Army commissary for her three-member family, a United States commissary offi cer said Wednesday. Mrs. Katherine G. Reed, wife of Col. Allen W. Reed, former Wiesbaden military post com mander, is being-tried by a U. S. high commission court on 17 counts of blackmarketing in American dollars, military scrip and coffee. Her home is Mount Clements, Mich. Showdown Believed Near in Kidnaping Of Berlin Doctor American Commandant Insists on Return Berlin (U.R) The United States seemed headed for a show down with Russia Wed nesday on Communist kidnap ing of a prominent anti-Red from West Berlin. Maj. Gen. Lemuel E. Math ewson, American commandant in Berlin, sent a sharp demand Tuesday night to S. A. Dengin, chief of the Soviet Control Com mission of Berlin, for the re turn of kidnaped Dr. Walter Linse. Commandant Shocked T have been shocked not only by the outrageousness of this crime, but by the evidence of collusion of persons under Soviet control," Mathewson said. "I must warn you that I re gard this act, which could only have been carried out with the direct assistance of forces under your jurisdiction, as intolerable and one which must be recti fied. Insists On Return "I therefore insist that you utilize your powers in the Sov iet Zone to see that Dr. Linse is returned in safety and without delay to his residence and the criminals responsible for this abduction be turned over to pro per Berlin authorities for prose cution. Despite the peremptory tone of Mathewson's note, there was no indication . just how far he was prepared to go in attempting to force the Soviets to give up Dr. Linse, a prominent member of the anti-Communist under ground movement known as "Free Jurists" Investigating Committee." , Chinese Attackers Drive UN Troops From Central Hill Seoul, Korea (U.R) Chin ese troops armed with flame throwers and backed by heavy artillery and mortar finally drove Allied troops off a hill the Reds have been trying to retake for two days. The Reds had hammered at the hill for almost seven hours Tuesday, only to be driven back from the last yard by grenades, bayonets and clubbed rifles. The hill is east-southeast of Kum song on the Central Front. Reds Counterattack Early Wednesday they counter-attacked, using captured Am erican flamethrowers and 1,500 rounds of artillery and mortar. The fierce attack drove the UN forces back slightly after a half hour of fighting. The UN forces surged back four hours later and retook the hilL- Allies Dig In TheJReds threw a company of 200 men at the defenders, driv ing them off the top. The Al lies dug in farther down the slope to prepare for their own counter-charge. Before they could 'get it un derway, the enemy surged up and over the hiTSyrith 500 shout ing men under cover of a heavy artillery barrage. Despite a desperate try to hold with grenades and bayonets, the UN soldiers were forced to pull back shortly before dawn. . Capt. George BoutelL com missary officer, said Mrs. Reed habitually bought seven pounds of coffee monthly each for her husband, herself and her 20-year-old daughter, Janet. She also bought seven pounds in the name of Mrs. Flora B. Reed, the colonel's mother, who vis ited them for several months last year, he ssid.. Boutell told the court he esti mated "99 per cent of all the U. S. Army and Air Force families in the Wiesbaden area" drew their full ration of seven pounds of coffee per person each month I - last year. MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1952 GOP Delegates Give ThunderingOvation For Herbert Hoover Chicago (U.R) The old gentleman won't soon forget it. He stood before the 25th Re publican National convention, a wisp of a smile on his face, waving his hands in gentle cir cles to the thundering galler ies. Once or twice he opened, his mouth as if to speak, but there was no stopping the demonstra tion. He waited, his eyes shin ing with tears as they had four years before when he stood on another Republican Convention platform in Philadelphia to re ceive the acclaim of his party. Finally, the tumult subsided, the delegates returned to their seats, and the brassy crash of the bands died away. "Certainly Some Welcome" "Ladies and gentlemen," said Herbert Hoover, "that was cer tainly some welcome." 'I am grateful for it. I will long remember it." Then the only living ex-presi- 24-Hour Skywatch Starts in Oregon's 186 Posts Monday : Portland U.R) Oregon's tl86 ground observer -posts will go into full operation Monday with 24-hour schedules ordered by the commander of "Operation Skywatch." Maj. Donald E. Jones, in charge of detachment No. 3 at the Portland filter center, will be in command of the operation beginning at 7 a. m. and' will also direct the activities of 202 coast guard, national and state forestry observer posts. Starts In 26 Slates Twenty-six other states around the perimeter of the nation also go on the round-the-clock sched ule Monday. Volunteer housewives, Boy Scouts, foresters and retired bus inessmen will man the network of lookouts to augment the $300,000,000 radar screen. Most of the posts in the Oregon net are located on an eight-mile grid distribution plan and will be staffed by two-man teams. Col. Charles E. Stafford, Jackson county director of civ il defense, is out of town today and could not be reached for lo cal details on the operation. New Airport Building Under Construction Construction of the new ter minal building at the Medford municipal airport began on Mon day, according to Robert Duff, city superintendent. The Frank R. Fairweather construction firm, which offered the successful bid of $135, 039.05, is putting up the build ing. At the time of the contract awarding, the firm agreed to complete the project by 90 days. Cost for the construction is being financed by both the city of Medford and the Civil Aeron autics administration. Medford is paying 44 per cent of the cost with money from a portion of the $250,000 airport improve ment bond issue voted by the people last fall, and the CAA is paying 56 per cent, or not more than $97,096, on a grant basis. City Budget Approved Without Opposition Medford's city council adopt ed a 1952-53 budget amounting to $1,007,138 following a public hearing last night. No objections were raised to the budget as proposed, which includes $559,031 for the gen eral fund tef which $187,879 will be covered by property taxes. The latter amount is $33.56 less than the six per cent increase limitation, which is a legal in crease without calling a special election. dent, now approaching his 78th birthday, began reading his pre pared speech. "This is the fifth time I have had the high honor of addressing the convention of the Republi can party. "From the inexorable course of nature, this is likely to be the last time I shall attend your convention.'' A great roar of "No! no!" went up from the audience. Freedom Being Lost Mr. Hoover paused, smiling faintly ,and then went on in a calm, low-pitched voice to de clare that American freedom is being lost and that only a Re publican victory in November can save it. He accused the Democratic administration of spending too much, taxing too heavily, cod dling Communism, tolerating corruption, promoting inflation, and committing American boys unnecessarily to die on foreign fields. Needs New Declaration "America needs today a new declaration of independence that will raise the hearts of our people to their spiritual pur pose and their eyes into the sun light of freedom," he said. Delegates burst into a roar -of approval when he charged the administration . :, through . the Tehran, . Yalta - and Potsdam agreements wits "Sacrificing the freedom of 650,000,000 friendly foreign people "on the altar of appeasement of Communism." . English Commies Battle with Police As Ridgway Arrives London (U.R) Club-wielding police fought a brisk hand-to-hand skirmish with a .small erouo of Communist rioters Wednesday as Gen. Matthew, B. Ridgway arrived by plane from Paris for a two-day visit with top British leaders. The fight occurred, as about 30 demonstrators rushed onto the air-oort and scattered leaf lets when the Allied supreme commander s plane landed. Group Dispersed Police dispersed the group and later reported that seven were arrested. No casualties were reported. The leaflets read, "Ridgway go home Britons never shall be slaves." About a half dozen men who wore red neckties t o s s e a pamphlets into the air and shouted, "Go home, Ridgway., Police took them into custody. Ridswav and his wife stepped from the plane, which landed at 10:10 a.m., as the demonstration was broken up. Local Electrical Union Officials at Hearings Portland (U.R) Robert J. Wiener, district National Labor Relations Board of ficer, Wednes day heard arguments on the pe tition of four Northwest union locals of the AFL brotherhood of Electrical Workers to repre sent 1500 employees of the Northwest Line Contractor As sociation in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. The workers put up transmis sion lines and erect substations. Their locals are in Medford, Portland, Tacoma and Seattle. All workers involved are claim ed bv the electrical workers as members of the individual unions. C. W. Crary, business man ager of the local electrical workers union, is in Portland this week attending the hearing on the petition. His office was unable to comment on the sub ject. BULLETIN Washington U.R) Presi dent Truman signed into law a bill curbing his powers to call all military reserve forces to active duty. m d&1 I I GUESS WHO THEY'RE FOR? -The Oregon delegation showed up at Convention Hall in Chicago wearing these straw hats to show who they are for in the Republican presidential race. PLATFORM MEETING BEHIND LOCKED DOOR Chicago (U.R) The Repub lican platform committee met behiridVJocked doors Wednesday Ur approve a 5,000-word cam paign document pledging an end to inflation, support of collec tive security, and "quickest pos sible development of appropriate and completely adequate air power." As drafted by key party pol icy makers and top wordsmiths for consideration of vthe 100-man platform' group the document denounces the administration for fostering inflationary polic ies at home anti playing into the hands of the Communists abroad. Members were expected to approve these and most other main points of .the platform with no more'than minor change and without difficulty. Toughest hurdle was a controversial civil rights plank over which Negro delegates had threatened a fight on the Republican convention floor. It appeared the civil rights fight might delay the committee approval of the whole document for several hours. Unusual security precautions Water to Subdivision Off During Repairs The water for Pierce Heights subdivision was to be turned off for three hours this afternoon from 1 to 4 o'clock in order that the California Oregon Power company could install a new transformer at the reservoir, ac cording to City Superintendent Robert Duff. He explained that the old transformer, which cut out Mon day and Tuesday evenings, sup plied the electricity for the city's water pumps to the Pierce sub division and left the district without water for about three hours. The failure was due to the weather and increased load, he added.- . Savage Rapids Dam Money Given Approval By Truman President Truman today sign ed an appropriation bill which includes $700,000 for rehabili tation of the Savage Rapids dam on the Rogue river, according to United Press. This was part of a $541,729, 845 appropriation for the De partment of Interior. The bill includes $2,350,000 for construc tion work at Savage Rapids dam and two other Northwest recla mation projects. The Savage Rapids allocation consists of loaned funds for re habilitaiton of the dam and non reimbursible funds for screening its turbine intakes.. The latter will be charged to reclamation. Victor Boehl, president of the Grants Pass Irrigation district, and William F. Johnson, attor United Press Full Leased Wire I were taken as the committee oeuoeraiear- impjoyees - oi me Conrad Hilton- hotel .checked and locked" all doors to the South Ballroom, where the ses sion was held, and uniformed policemen were on guard .out side. Search for Mikes Committee staff members searched the room for hidden wiring or microphones. News men were barred from their cus tomary waiting stations in the foyer outside the ballroom anc! waited instead in an . outside hall. Committee Chairman Eu gene D. Millikin declined to pro vide copies of the platform for the members' inspection. Instead he read the text, a process tak ing more than an hour and pro voking complaints from some members. . - - Delegate Strength Chicago (ITR) -Here is how the candidates stand in Wednesday's United Press tally of first-ballot choices of Republican delegates. The count includes contested dele gates as decided to date by the GOP National Committee and the convention creden tials committee: Sen. Robert A. Taft ....1..537 Gen. Dwight Eisenhower 468 Gov. Earl Warren .2,... 76 Harold E. Slassen 25 "Gen. Douglas MacArthur 5 Gen. Albert Wedemeyer 1 Uncommitted or un known I.... 94 Tolal 1,208 Needed to nominate 604 Includes shift of contested delegates in Louisiana. The GOP National Committee vot ed last week to seat a delega tion that would have given Taft 13, Eisenhower 2. Today, the credentials committee, su perseded that action and vot ed to seat a delegation giving Eisenhower 13, Taft 2. ney for the district, traveled to Washington, D. C, to advocate the project. ' The other Northwest projects which drew funds were the Minidoka project; Norths,ide Pumping division, Idaho, $150, 000, and the Yakima project, Kennewick division, Washing ton, $1,500,000. The projects financed in this appropriations bill are the first to receive funds since Presi dent Truman announced a "no new start" policy after the out break of the Korean war. The final bill was 14 per cent $90, 421,995 below administration requests. The appropriation for Savage Rapids dam was $142, 000 less, than that requested by the Corps of Engineers. To report Improper or non-dclv-ery of The Mall Tribune phone 2-C141 before 6:45 p.m. dally and I8:S8 a.m. Sunday. It regular delivery arrives short ly after yoa call please notify of fice, thus eliminating special mes senger service. No. 94 Disputed Delegates From Louisiana Go To Eisenhower Californians Pledge Support on Contests Chicago (U.R) The Cre dentials Committee decided late Wednesday to present its report on delegate contests to the Republican National Con vention at 4 p.m. PST. . Chicago (U.R) The Repub lican Convention credentials committee Wednesday voted 27 to 24 to seat 22 Taft dele gates and 16 Eisenhower back ers from Texas. Chicago (U.R) Dwight D. Eisenhower's drive for the GOP presidential nod got two pow erful boosts in succession Wed nesday. The Republican Convention credentials committee awarded him 13 contested Louisiana del egates, 11 of them at the expense of Sen. Robert A. Taft. Then the big California dele gation decided to cast 57 of its 70 votes for the general's side in a floor flight that will rage later Wednesday over the 17 contested delegates from Geor gia. Day Behind Schedule Both developments came as the GOP's 25th National Con- Chicago-(U.R) Joseph N". Pew Jr., long a political pow er in Pennsylvania, said Wed nesday that Gov. John S. Fine has definitely decided to support Gen. Dwight D. Ei senhower for the Republican presidential nomination. vention, more than 24 hours be hind schedule, crawlecl through the third day of its 1952 meet ing. There was lots of mighty cam paign oratory at Convention hall, but the day's big show was in the ornate Gold Room of the Congress hotel where the cre dentials committee heard the last delegate contests from Louisiana and Texas. Meeting Crowded 'Nearly 1,000 spectators crowded into the marble and alabaster and gold-plated room to watch the televised battle of titans over Southern delegates whom the Eisenhower camp says were stolen by the Taft mach ine. The day's fiercest wrangle was over the 38 delegates from Texas. Award of the 13 Louisiana delegates to Eisenhower followed Tuesday s decision to hand the 17 Georgia votes to Taft. The committee vote was unanimous. Taft -men have a majority on the credentials committee. But they decided to let Eisenhower have the Louisianans for the i sake of harmony, they said, and to quiet Eisenhower charges of "fraud." No Mood for Harmony The Eisenhower forces, trailing Taft in assured votes for the presidential nomination, were in no mood for harmony. They in tended to fight to the- end on the convention floor to reverse the credentials committee on Georgia and on Texas if the committee goes against them on that state. California's decision to throw 57 of its 70 votes in with- Ike on the Georgia contest was an important gain for the general in this fight. For president, California is still holding out for favorite son Gov. Earl E. Warren on the first ballot. Fight for Texas - In the Texas dispute, the Re publican National committee awarded 22 Texas delegates to Taft and 16 to the general, ignor ing declarations by Eisenhower forces that they were entitled to 33. Taft men waged a no-quarter credentials committee war for their 22 Texans. The senator himself said his side would go all out on the convention floor for the 17 Taft Georgians. How the convention votes on those contests conceivably could be decisive in the Taft-Eisen-hower struggle for the nomina tion, on which balloting may start Thursday night. Buenos Aires (U.R) A bomb exploded Wednesday at the United States Information Serv ice headquarters in downtown Buenos Aires, shattering win dows on two floors and injuring two passers-by.