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Low tonight 65. High Thurs
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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
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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.
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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.