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'Loyalty Pledge'
May Bring Fight
On Floor Tuesday
Stevenson Makes
Plea For Harmony
Convention Hall, Chicago
(U.R) Feuding and rudderless
Democrats opened their 31st na
tional convention Monday with
little apparent hope of prevent
ing a factional split that could
jeopardize their chances of keep
ing the White House in Novem
ber. The party's 1,652 delegates,
flanked by alternates and thou
sands of guests and spectators,
trooped to the big meeting hall
by the stockyards for the angri
est and most confused Demo
cratic convention in 20 years.
Stevenson Makes Plea
The man many of them would
like to draft for the presidential
race, Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson of
Illinois, delivered an impas
sioned plea for harmony in the
main address of the opening
session.
But harmony hopes seemed
certain to explode Monday night
or Tuesday in a name-throwing
floor fight over a proposal to
write into the convention rules
a '-'loyalty pledge" aimed at anti-
Truman Southerners.
Democratic National Chair
man Frank E. McKinney gav-
elled the convention to order at
9 a.m. PST, 30 minutes late.
Delegates Warned
Stevenson, who doesn't want
the nomination but hasn t said
"no" to a draft, told the dele
gates to forget personalities and
concentrate on principles. Above
all, he pleaded with them not to
repeat the. hate-breeding "car
nage" which characterized the
Republican struggle two weeks
ago between the camps of Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower and Sen
Robert A. Taft.
Something . was inserted into
the schedule when the 52-year-old
Illinois governor stepped to
the speaker's lectern and faced
the delegates in this big arena by
the stockyards.
That "something" was a tre
mendous five - minute demon
stration which had all the ear
marks of a sponaneous salute
to the man whose friends hope
to draft him to head the party's
ticket in November.
Stevenson's friends, among
them some of the party's most
powerful leaders, saw the re
ception for their man as support
of their contention that a move
ment to draft the governor
would gain momentum.
OWE HEMES
'IMJY' 'VICTIMS
CALIFORNIA
Tehachapi, Calif. (U.R) A violent earthquake bucked through
California like a wild bronc Monday, leveling this little prison
town and leaving "many dead and injured" in its wake.
Ray Cloud, United Press Correspondent and one of the first
persons from the outside to reach this stricken community of 2,500,
counted 11 dead and 35 injured.
"And they are digging up more bodies as fast as the rescue
crews can break through the debris," said Cloud, who is news
editor of radio station KVAL at nearby Lancaster.
Another report from the scene, received by a ham radio oper
ator in San Francisco, said "at least 12 dead" had been recovered.
"All the dead and injured were in bed at the time of the
quake," Cloud said. Most of the dead were in the two-story brick
hotel in the center of the business district.
"The entire business district is flat," he added. "There is not
a building standing."
He described the town as "a scene of horror" with residents
gingerly picking their way through the broken bricks and twisted
metal looking for relatives or friends.
People Not Sure i
Lad, 5, Unharmed
After Wi Hours
In Wilderness Area
BULLETIN
Portland (U.R) Ben. W.
Olcoll, former Republican
governor of Oregon, died Mon
day in Physicians & Surgeons
hospital. He was 79.
What Hit Them
"It still is all confusion," he
added. "The people are not sure
what hit them even yet
more than four hours after the
quake."
The quake, described by Dr.
Joseph Lynch of Fordham Uni
versity, as "the second most
powerful to ever hit California,"
rolled across the Mojave Desert
shortly before dawn and was of
ficially clocked at 4:55 a.m.
The long, rolling waves of the
quake were felt in diminishing
strength for the next 45 min
utes. It was felt as far north
as Santa Rosa, Calif., 60 miles
above San Francisco; south to
Ensenada, Mex., 200 miles south
of Los Angeles, and east to Reno,
Nev., and the Arizona border.
Prison "Unusable"
The waves which twisted , in
every direction rendered the;
beautiful Tehachapi California'
women's -prisen --"unusable''' and'
forced the inmates to scurry
from the buildings in fear of
their lives.
While the Mojave Desert
area caught the brunt of the
recurring quakes, the rest of
Southern California was jolt
ed out of bed and in most cas
es onto the streets in terror.
Two huge oil fires were start
ed, at a refinery 25 miles south
west of Bakersfield and in an
oil field near Newhall. Two
Southern Pacific right-of-way
tunnels were collapsed and
eight' miles' of track twisted in
to a metal web.
A half dozen downtown Los
Angeles buildings spewed their
plate glass windows onto the
nearly deserted streets, while the
jarring set off hundreds of burg
lar alarms and set church bells
to chiming in Pasadena.
Four planeloads of Red Cross
doctors, nurses and rescue per
sonnel were flown to Tehachapi.
By ERIC ALLEN JR.
Mail Tribune City Editor
"Mummy, I'll bet you can't
guess where I've been."
This was five-year-old Ernie
Leffler's greeting to his weeping
mother yesterday afternoon. He
had just been found by search
ers after spending 29V2 hours
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No. 104
Mrs. Raymond Clark, moth
er of Ernie Leffler, called at
The Mail Tribune office this
morning and asked the news
paper to convey the family's
thanks for "all the wonderful
,help we had iniijdjLns. Ejrnje." ,-,
Mrs. Clark, whose husband
is with the Army in Germany,
is living with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Jones, 1985 Or
chard Home drive. She said
she, her parents, and the boy's
father, Herman Leffler of Kla
math Falls, wished they could
thank the hundreds of search
ers and others helping, per
sonally. But since they can't,
she wanted the newspaper to
convey her message of appreciation.
Drama
Demos
Lacking As
Seek Unity
BY R. W. RUHL
Chicago This is Hamlet with Hamlet left out. There is plenty
of ham, of course, but to date no mustard.
Governor Stephenson's welcoming speech was excellent. But
it was delivered not in the tense atmosphere or tones of the night
before the "Big Game." But rather a temperate and discriminating
appeal to the Democratic football squads.
In other words, this to date is not a bare-knuckle fight between
the party-champ and his young challenger with bitter feeling and
homicidal aims on both sides, rather it is a get-together meeting
within the lodge, to gain unity and quell inner conflicts, so, instead
of increasing excitement, and suspense as time goes on, there
promises to be less of both, and eventually a nominee who will not
represent the result of victory of one faction over another, but the
accommodation of all factions to a compromise candidate.
This is a perfectly natural and legitimate aim, but it does not
contribute to the dramatic or human interst of the gathering.
lost in the wilderness near Four
mile lake; east of Mt. Mc-
Loughlin.
Ernie was fine. He had a lit
tle patch of poison oak on his
neck, and a couple of scratches.
And he was hungry. 'Other than
that he was unharmed.
The youngster was found by
six members of a volunteer
crew of Medford Corporation
employees, part of an amazing
search effort which was organ
ized a few hours after young
Ernie was reported missing.
On Hillside
The men Bill Harris, O. R.
Abbott, C. A. Capello, Jess Fran
ces, Ansel Connelly and Bud
Tungate said they found the
boy oh a rough hillside about a
mile from Fourmile lake, and a
mile and a half or two miles
from the lakeside spot where he
was last seen Saturday morning
at 8:30.
ne tittle boy aidn t seem
particularly scared when they
found him, they said, but he was
a bit confused. Hearing their
voices, he started to run, but in
the wrong direction. They had
to chase him before they could
carry him back to camp in
triumph.
The boy's mother, Mrs. Ray
mond Clark, 1985 ' Orchard
Home drive, and his father, Her
man Leffler, an employee of the
FATHER GREETS SON At left above, Herman l effler,
Klamath Fails, is shown hugging his son, five-yeap$ld Ernie
Leffler, after he was found about 2 p.m. by six members of
the search parties who had been looking for the boy all night.
The boy's grandfather, Earl Jones, Medford, looks on.. The
youngster was unharmed, except for a couple of scratches and
some poison oak, and was mostly concerned about "my Mickey
Mouse sweater" and a cap pistol he had lost during the 29i
hours he spent in the rugged, forested wilderness near Four
mile lake. At right, Mrs. Raymond Clark, who lives with her
parents, the Joneses, is shown as she appeared at the camp
yesterday afternoon about an hour before her son was found.
As the picture was snapped Mrs. ClafXwas reading the story
of the search for her son in Sunday 'J fail Tribune.
11 Oregonians Lose Lives in Mishaps;
Automobile Accidents Account for Five
By UNITED PRESS
Accidents claimed more lives
in Oregon during the past week
end and Friday than in the three
day Fourth of July holiday
week-end.
Eleven persons died either in
mishaps or of injuries suffered
earlier in the week. Eight per
sons were killed over the
Fourth
Portlander Killed
Latest fatality was Arthur E.
Grebe, 50, of Portland, who was
dead on arrival at a ' Seaside
hospital after an accident Sun
day near Cannon Beach junction.
Donna Cox, 16, and JoAnn
Steen, 16, both of Albany, died
in a crash on Highway 99W 15
miles northeast of Eugene.
William LeRoy Brownlee, 55-
year-old logger of Castle Rock,
Wash., died Sunday at Oregon
City from injuries suffered earl
ier in the week when a flying
cable struck him on the head.
Thirteen-year-old Harry Rich
ard Cooper was killed Saturday
afternoon when he fell 110 feet
off an abandoned water tower
in the old Vanport City area of
Portland.
Hillsboro Man Killed
Percy Thayer, 51, of Hills
boro, died Friday in a Portland
hospital of injuries he suffered
in an auto accident near North
Plains on the Sunset highway
Thursday. Mrs. Barbara Moody,
30, was killed in the accident.'
Patty Drysdale, Beaver Creek,
arownea in tne Moialla river
near Liberal arid a Portland
girl, Ann Benedict, 12, drowned
in Bellingham bay in Washing
ton. Lavy Fulmer, 31, of Rock
Springs, ' Wyo., drowned while
swimming in the South Santiam
river 30 miles east of Lebanon.
Fire Claims Two
A fire claimed the lives of
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lee Rauch,
Springfield, Saturday. Their bod
ies were found by firemen who
were called to battle the blaze in
their home.
A crop - dusting plane struck
a 12,000-volt power line near
Jefferson Saturday, killing .the
pilot, 25-year-old Jack Lind Lar
sen, Salem. ...
Fluhrer bakeries in Klamath
Falls, were at the search camp
headquarters during most of the
search. At 2:10 yesterday after
noon, a member of the Klamath
County Sheriff's posse came can
tering into camp, saying the boy
had been found and was at the
other end of the lake camp
grounds. Mrs. Clark,, Leffler and
Mrs. Leffler, accompanied by
their friends and the boy's
grandfather, Earl Jones, Med
ford, began a running dash to
ward where Ernie was.
Perched On Shoulder .
The boy's father outstripped
the other runners. He saw little
Ernie perched on the shoulder of
a burij logger. He swept him
down and into his arms.
Soon Mrs. Clark arrived
weeping with thankfulness. Em
ie told her he'd been in the
woods, and then said:
"Mummy, I didn't want to do
it, but I lost my Micky Mouse
sweater and cap pistol.'
The crowd, which had magi
cally gathered as the quick
word, "He's been found he's
all right" swept through the
camp area, sighed and laughed
hysterically. Ernies grandmoth
er, Mrs. Jones, who had been
lying down, came to the edge
of the crowd calling . softly.
"Let me through, please, let me
through."
Moved By Experience
"Red" Capello, one of the six
Butte Falls loggers who found
the boy, was moved by the. ex
perience of finding the young
ster, miraculously alive and
well. Taking a swig fro A a bot
tle of beer someone had thrust
into his hand he 'said, "I'm al
most too shakey to talk."
A physician who was at the
camp then examined Ernie, . and
found nothing seriously the mat
ter. He'd been given a couple of
Hershey bars by the men who
found him. The boy said he had
slept some, and appeared fairly
fresh, despite his long ordeal.
The search, from frantic be
ginning to successful end, was a
story of cooperation and volun
tary work. It began early Sat
urday! The Joneses had taken
their three grandsons - Earl,
who will be 7 tomorrow, Ernie, i
SEARCHERS AWAIT WORD Shown
above is the search -headquarters established
over the week-end at Fourmile lake, high in the
Cascades on the east slopes of Mt. McLoughlin,
where the search for Erffie Leffler was directed.
The car at right is a state police vehicle, and
the one in the center is owned by Elk Lumber
company. It is etQpped with radios, and was
the means of comjjjunication between the camp
and Medford. At tire time the picture was taken,
about a half-hour before the missing youngster
was found, the boy's family and friends and
resting searchers were gathered around the
car listening to a radio report from a "walkie
talkie" with one of the search parties. The re
port said that what sounded like a boy's yells
had been heard. The youngster was carried
into the camp in triumph shortly thereafter,
and the entire group shown ran about a quarter-mile,
where the boy and his anxious family
were reunited. Ranger Bob Cooper of the Forest
Service ranger station at Lake O' Woods or
ganized and directed the successful search.
5, and Lloyd, 4 to the lake for
a week end camping. trip.
At about 8:30 a.m. they were
ready to go out in a boat to fish
The boys had to visit the toilet
house before they left, and the
three went together. The older
and younger were through first,
and told Ernie they'd meet him
at the boat. j- :
Last Time Seen ' "
That was the last anyone, saw
of him until Sunday afternoon
about 2. Somehow the young
ster had become confused, per-!
haps because the toiletjfcouse j
faced away from the. Iake With
in moments Jones said perhaps
five or possibly ten minutes
Mrs. Jones became tired of
waiting, and went to hurry
Ernie. He was gone.
There were many campers and
fishermen at the lake Saturday
and a search, of sorts, began
It was late morning before word
was gotten to the U. S. Foresl
Service Ranger station at Lake
O' Woods. Ranger Bob Cooper,
who has conducted other sue
cessful searches before, includ
ing the one for elderly Camille
Bowles last year, took charge.
Cooperation Begins
. Here is where, the story of co
operation begins. Before night-,
fall, more than 100 men were al
the lake men from Klamath
Falls and men from Medford
and Butte Falls. A commissary
was --grganized, and food was
supplijjil. The radio network of
the EYhern Oregon Conversa
tion and Tree Farm association
did vitally important work in
calling for volunteers,' and get
ting the news of the boy's dis
appearance and the need for
volunteer searchers to the news
papers and radio stations.
Some 27 scouts from Camp
McLoughlin patrolled the shores
of the lake, on the- chance -the
boy could have fallen in. Other
Executives Found
Bound and Shot;
FBI Called In
Details of Killing
Unavailable Late Today
Two motor firm executives,
missing in Crater Lake Nation- "
al park since Saturday vera
found dead this afternoon, ac
cording Jo Park Superintend
ent John B. Wosky. They had
been tied and shot to death,
Wosky said.
No other details of the
double killing were available
at press lime. Wosky said he
is getting in touch with th
Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion immediately.
There are "absolutely no new
clues" regarding two men who
have been missing under "mys
terious circumstances" in Crater '
Lake National park since Satur
day, park officials reported this
morning.
The two-A. N. Jones, 56, Con
cord, Calif., west coast sales
manager for United Motors
Service, and C. P. Culhane, 55,
Detroit, Mich., general sales
manager of UMS are the ob
jects of a search near First
Overlook, a viewpoint on preci
pitous Annie Creek canyon
about six or seven miles from
the park entrance.
Car Found Parked
John B. Wosky, park superin
tendent, said the men register
ed at the south entrance to the
park about 1 p. m. Saturday.
Their car was found parked at
the viewpoint at First Outlook
shortly thereafter by two Klam
ath Falls businessmen, with
whom they had an appointment.
Those who found the car were
F. W. Everlein, of Specialized
Service garage, and John A.
Vaughn, an auto parts dealer,
both of Klamath Falls. They
had planned to meet Jones and
Culhane, who were on a fishing
trip at a cabin near the lake
when Everlein and Vaughn rec
ognized the UMS-owned green
Pontiac sedan as they drove by,
and stopped. .
There was no sign of the two
men, but all their personal ef
fects, including clothing and
briefcases, were still in the car,
as were the car keys. Everlein
and Vaughn waited for a time,
and when the others did not
show up, reported to park headquarters.
A search party was organized
at once, and made its way to
the bottom of the canyon, some
350 to 500 feet below the view
point where the car was park
ed. Four searchers spent the
night on the canyon floor, us
ing sleeping bags which were
tossed down to them from the
canyon rim. The search contin
ued all day Sunday, and re
sumed this morning, with 15
men taking part.
State police were notified, and
aided in the search Sunday.
Park officials are operating
on the theory that the men fell
from the canyon top, or had
been involved in some other sort
of accident. The search is being
conducted in a fairly circum
scribed area. There is no spe
cific evidence thus far that there
might have been foul play,
rangers said.
One party of rangers entered
the canyon by ropes today while
others searched the forest area
on the other side of the road.
Park authorities said that be
cause of the "mysterious cir
cumstances" involved in their
disappearance, the FBI had
been contacted and another
executive of General Motors was
leported en route here by plane
to investigate the case. They
declined to elaborate, but said
it appeared most likely the pair
had halted their car to look at
the scenery and then lost their
footing at the side of the canyon.
crews patrolled the irrigation
ditch which runs from Fourmile
lake to Fish lake. Later it was
drained and searched, and later
a boat was taken down it, just
to make sure.
By Sunday morning, some
150 men were among the active
searchers. Ranger Cooper esti
mated. Later, as men became
exhausted in the struggle over
the rocks and logs, and through
the brush of the heavily-forested
areas, fresh crews replaced
them. Some 75 were actively
looking for the boy at the time
he was found.
Weathe
FORECAST: Partly cloudy and
slightly cooler Monday nlfht
and Tuesday.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday - 91
Lowest this Morning
56
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