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CANDIDATE AND SON Shown above in the rotunda of the
Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C, is Estes Kefauver, senator
from Tennessee and candidate for the Democratic nomination for
president, and his six-year-old son, David.
Democrats Hoping For
Four Day Convention
As Plans Drawn Up
Chicago U.R) . Democratic i
leaders crossed their fingers
yesterday and scheduled a short
national convention with an op
en door for organized labor but
no welcome sign yet visible for
conservatives.
Speaker Sam Rayburn was
the only top drawer Southern
er assigned a major spot so far
in convention proceedings. Ray
burn will be permanent chair
man. Mrs. Roosevelt Stars
Convention speakers uniform
ly were chosen from the East,
West and North. Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt will be the star of vis
iting orators. Two places on the
21-member preliminary draft
ing committee, which will rough
out the 1952 Democratic plat
form, were assigned to the CIO
and the AFL. The CIO was rep
resented by Joseph A. Beirne,
president of the Communications
Workers of America. The AFL
representative is President W.
H. Lee, of the Chicago Federa
tion of Labor.
The South's most significant
representative on this prelim
inary committee which began
work today was Rep. Brooks
Hays, Arkansas, who took the
lead in Congress toward a civil
rights plank compromise which
would hold the Negro and oth
er minority votes in the North
without inciting Southerners to
bolt.
To Truman's Specifications
Seventeen of the 21. drafting
committee members are from the
East, North or West, a tipofN
that Democratic National Com
mittee Chairman Frank E. Mc
Kinney was organizing this con
vention to President Truman's
" specifications.
Mr. Truman holds that the
party's 1952 presidential nom
inee must run on the Truman
administration record. An ad
ministration controlled conven
tion is being set up here to make
it stick. That means the Tru
man forces are out to stop Sen.
Richard B. Russell, Georgia.
Mr. Truman does not care
much for Sen. Estes Kefauver,
Tennessee, either. There was
pre-convention speculation that
administration strategists would
make one more effort to per
suade Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson,
Illinois, to head the 1952 party
ticket. Failing that, Mr. Truman
might help boost either Averell
Harriman or Vice President A
ben W. Barkley to the presi
dential nomination.
With the opening session
scheduled for 10:30 a.m. CST,
July 21, the standing of top
candidates for delegate votes
was: Kefauver, 267; Russell,
117V; Harriman, 113V2; Sen.
Robert S. Kerr, Oklahoma, 43Vi;
Barkley, 26 i. None was even
close to the 616 minimum nec
essary to nominate.
Chairman McKinney sched
uled nominating speeches for
July 23 and the first president
ial ballot for July 24 a four
day conventionn if two or three
ballots would suffice. But dead
lock and multiple balloting were
more likely than an early, easy
choice.
Angry Show Possible
The Republicans put on an
angry show here last week. The
Democrats may equal or better
it when they come to grips with
the issue which sharply div
ides the party in the South from
its affiliates elsewhere. That is
sue is civil rights and it comes
before the conventionn in two
forms.
The platform makers must
meet it in drafting the civil
rights plank. The credentials
committee must meet it in Mis
sissippi and Texas delegate con
tests. The credentials skirmish will
begin Friday with Mississippi
first heard.
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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1952
Pages 1-8
Plans for Capitol
Discussed in Salem
By Oregon Leaders
SalemdJ.R) Francis Keally,
New York architect who design
ed Oregon's modern capitol, con
ferred yesterday with Gov.
Douglas McKay and Secretary
of State Earl T. Newbry.
Keally, en route to Stockton,
Calif., said he would return in
a week for further conferences
regarding the drafting of a mas
ter plan for the capitol mall.
The Capitol Planning Com
mission headed by Robert W.
Sawyer of Bend as chairman,
recommended some weeks ago
that Keally be employed as a
consultant in drafting a master
plan for the capitol zone.
Members of the State Board
of Control, of which Gov. Mc
Kay and Newbry are members,
are considering the recommen
dation. State Treasurer Walter
J. Pearson, the third member of
the board, was in Portland 'on
treasury business Wednesday.
Gov. McKay said that when
Keally returns to Oregon, sev
eral questions regarding future
development of the capitol zone
will be posed. Members of the
Capitol Planning Commission
will be asked to meet here at
the time to confer with Keally.
Paid Demonstrators
Scorned by Democrats
Chicago (U.R) Democrats
scorned the use of paid demon
strators vesterday and said
they're going to run a business
like- convention geared to the
convenience of the press and
radio.
National Chairman Frank E.
McKinnev said the Democrats
intend to run their convention
better than the Republicans.
"We will gear it to the con
venience of the press, the dele
gates, radio and television," he
said. "We will hold speeches to
the minimum, both in number
and time."
McKinney said no paid march
ers, sign-wavers or "hollerers
will be allowed on the floor.
The Republicans allowed up
to 150 outsiders or "mercenar
ies" on the floor for demonstra
tions. Fifteen speeches have been set
up in the -tentative schedule,
plus an expected dozen nomi
nating speeches limit 15 min
utes each and 24 five-minute
seconding speeches.
Convicted Slayer of Small
Girl Requests His Freedom
Chicago (U.R) William G.
Heirens, University of Chicago
student who was sent to prison
for life for the sensational kid-naping-murder
of Suzanne Deg
nan, has asked for his freedom.
Heirens, who was a brilliant
college boy at the time he was
sentenced for 28 separate crimes,
including three murders, filed a
petition this week for a review
of his case.
Says Rights Violated
The bushy-haired youth, now
23, said in the petition that his
constitutional rights were vio
lated in 1946 when police- ques
tioned him in the Degnan case.
Heirens said he was given a
"truth 'serum" against his will
and that police used "brutal and
inhumane" treatment to break
him down..
Heirens was convicted of kill
ing and dismembering the six-
year-old Degnan girl after kid
naping her from her bedroom.
He was also found guilty of
murdering two other women in
1945.
Night Prowling Career .-
During his trial ,the state
pieced together, from Heirens'
confessions and other evidence,
the story of his night-prowling
crime career, which included
underwear stealing, window
peeping and murder.
The, youth, considered a bril
liant student at the University
of Chicago, escaped the electric
chair and was sentenced for life
to the state prison for the crim
inal insane.
Chief Justice Thomas E. Klu
cyhski of the Chicago Criminal
Court placed the petition on a
call for August 7 and indicated
he might rule on it himself.
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Parking Violations Lead
City Police Court Cases
Thirty per cent of the cases
handled last month in police
court were for parking viola
tions, according to Judge Warren
Lesseg.
4-H Club flews
GOLD HILL SHEEP FAIR
The big annual Gold Hill 4-H
Sheep Fair will be held July 24
at the Norman Gail ranch, 4V2
miles north of Gold Hill on
Highway 99.
All classes of sheep will be
shown and judged. Visiting club
members will have a chance to
work with the sheep. Refresh
ments will be sold at the food
booth by the Gold Hill club.
BEEF AND PIG CLUB
Gold Hill Beef and Pig club
will hold a pot Juck picnic Sun
day, July 20, at the Veltie Biles
ranch, two miles out on East
Evans Creek road. There will be
beef judging and showmanship
as well as pig judging and show
manship. Visitors are welcome.
Lois Biles, reporter.
Arctic Proof Raft
Shown by US Navy
New York (U.R) A new cov
ered rubber life raft designed
to keep 15 persons at a comfort
able 70-degree temperature in
either Arctic or tropic waters
was demonstrated yesterday at
the naval air station at Floyd
Bennett Field.
The raft, which inflates itself
in 30 seconds after release of a
cable on its deflated package,
is designed to hold the body heat
of its occupants in cold climates
and to provide, sun shelter, ven
tilation and water cooling in
warm climates.
. The rubber raft, with a cover
ing canopy, is constructed with
insulating dead air spaces as pro
tection against either heat or
cold. In warm climates, the in
sulating floor piece may 'be re
moved to admit the coolness of
the water through a single-layer
floor. Openings in the canopy
are sealed to preserve body
yarmth in cold climates or op
ened for cross ventilation under
the sunprotecting ' canopy in
warm waters.
4-H Community Fairs Starting in Valley
A series of community fairs by
by 4-H clubs in Jackson county
began today with the Bellview
Valleyview show at the Fred
Engle ranch this morning, ac
cording to R. H. Cate Jr., county
agent in 4-H work.
The shows will start at 10
a.m. with all 4-H club members,
leaders, and friends invited to
participate. The next show will
be this Saturday, July. 19, with
the Central Point 4-H group in
charge at the Gebhard ranch
on the Kirtland road.
Other shows will be the Gold
Hill Lamb show, July 24; Upper
Rogue, August 3: Applegate, Au
gust 6; and Antelope, August 8.
Applegate Dairy club held a
tour July 12 when the members'
animals were inspected. Ques
tions about the animals were
answered. No business meeting
was held. Cool drinks were
served by some of the members.
Sonja Smith, reporter.
Memphis, Tenn. (U.R) Ordi
narily, tulip trees bloom and
then put out leaves but one own
ed by R. L. Miller reversed the
process this year. The leaves
came before the blooms.
LEARN THE FACTS!
"THE IMPORTANCE OF THE
OREGON TRUCKING INDUSTRY"
OPEN MEETING
THURSDAY, JULY J7 8 P.M.
YMCA Auditorium
91 to 98 of all vegetables, grains, poultry, milk, eggs and live
stock is transported by truck.
In 1950 the industry paid in fees and taxes nearly 40 percent of
highway construction and maintenance funds available to the State
Highway Commission.
In 1950 Oregon trucks represented 19o of the registered vehicles
in trie state but paid 35 .a of all registration fees.
Private carriers, in 1950, paid 36 of annual fees collected by
the Public Utilities Commissioner.
0 One out of four non-agricultural workers in the state is identified
with the trucking industry.
YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND THIS MEETING:
OREGON HIGHWAY COUNCIL
Thirty-seven persons were
fined for parking the wrong
way on the street, 36 for all
night parking, 11 for illegal
parking and four for parking in
alleys. A total of . 294 cases were
in municipal court during June.
Fines received by the court
totaled $2,887.50, Lesseg said.
More than $780 was received
from parking meter fines.
Major cases tried by Judge
Lesseg were three for driving
under the influence of intoxi
cating liquor, one for hit and
run driving and nine for reck
less driving. Violation of basic
rule was tried 56 times in June,
more than any other single vio
lation. Police Chief Clatous McCredie
announced that his department
handled 199 cases .during June.
The greatest number, 46, were
drunks.
The department also investi
gated a robbery, 12 burglaries
and 41 larcenies. There were;
four vagrancies, three disorderly
conducts and two stolen motor
vehicles.
There were 313 traffic cita
tions filed during June.
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