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FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday. July 21. 1952, M V V "1 4jflS&j tr I U - k l "I HI I 1 aSWSiK8Sai FRIENDLY FOES Democratic presidential hopefuls line up for a Chicago .TV program as prelude to national convention. Left to right: Averell Harriman, Vice President Alben Barkley, Senator Estes Kefauver, Senator Robert Kerr and Senator Richard Russell. Truman's Alternate Convention Delegate Keeps Vote Secret Chicago U.R) Thomas J. Gavin carries "the word" lightly on his broad Irish should ers. He is President Truman's al ternate delegate to the Demo cratic National convention. When Gavin casts his vote on the first ballot, probably Thurs day, the country will know the identity of Mr. Truman's choice for the Democratic nomination for president. He held a press conference Sunday. But he withheld "the word" he says he got from the White House on a receipt trip to Washington. Some Democratic politicos here hinted he may not have got it at all. They suggested he won't learn Mr. Truman's choice until just before the voting starts. If so, Gavin is a good bluffer. "I have received by instruc tions," he said. "I will make my choice known on the floor. Gavin, a Kansas City ward politician, knows his fame will be short-lived. He knows that once he releases "the word" photographers will stop taking his picture and reporters will stop asking him questions. "I know how hot I am now and how cold I will be after I cast that Sallot," he said. Other members of the 34-vote Missouri delegation look for Gavin to turn loose his secret during the first ballot just be fore the clerk reaches Missouri on the roll call. They expect him to pass 'the word" to Gov. Forrest Smith, the delegation chairman. They figure the dele gation will vole solid for Mr. Truman's choice. THOMAS J. Carries 'The GAVIN Word Second Strike Faces Tacoma Newspaper Tacoma (U.R) The Ta coma News-Tribune, which set tled one strike last week, was faced with another walkout Monday. The Tacoma division of the Seattle - Tacoma Newspaper Guild voted to reject a work contract proposal, thereby tak ing over the picket lines of AFL pressmen who had signed a contract ending a 14-week-old dispute. Howard Clifford, chairman of the Tacoma unit of the report ers' organization, said members voted to turn down the company-proposed contract because management had "withdrawn specific recognition of guild jurisdiction of inside circula tion and display advertising departments and had withdrawn satisfactory job and union sec urity clauses." PAYS TAXES FAST Swampscott, Mass. (U.PJ Clement E. Kennedy, hotel own er, who always pays the taxes on his New Ocean House, with in 24 hours of the time they are assessed, beat his own record this year. Fifteen minutes after the bill was presented, Kennedy handed the tax collector, Mal colm MacLean, a check for slightly more than $25,000. Members of Congress are not eligible to serve in the electoral college. Portlander, 73, Gives Up After Being AWOL 47 Years Portland (U.R) Lodged in the Portland city jail, awaiting a visit from Army criminal in vestigators in Seattle, is 73-year-old James T. Coss who after 47 years decided to give himself up for going AWOL from the Army. Coss. whose real name is Banks C. Roddey, deserted an is olated Army post in Alaska in 1905 after embezzling several hundred dollars of Army money. Sunday, he walked into Portland police headquarters and gave himself up. Conscience Bothers He said a preying conscience and an urge to square accounts led him to go to the police sta tion. In 1905, when he was 26 years old and a Signal Corps sergeant "too much booze" led him to em bezzle money from a govern ment account, he told detectives. A telegrapher, he was in charge of a four-man Army telegraph station in Fairbanks. He came to San Francisco dis guised as a prospector, wearing a Van Dyke beard and carrying a sourdough's kit. Worked As Mechanic About 30 years ago he came to Portland where he has work ed as a mechanic. His only serious brush with the law since his desertion was in 1931 when he got drunk and held up a local restaurant, for which he served six-months in the Oregon state prison. Detectives said his future is up to the Army. Notified of his surrender, the provost marshal's office said it is stumped as to what to do. CITY BARS WHITE MICE Mt. Clemens, Mich. (U.R) This city lost a vital industry when Gerald Schmitt moved out into the country. He raised white mice and sold 1,000 a month to scientific laboratories and hospitals for experimental purposes. When neighbors com plained, the city commission told him he would have to give up his mice or move out of town. Cooperation Draws Praise in Search For Missing Boy L. L. (Doc) Simpson, secretary-manager of the Southern Oregon Conservation and Tree Farm association, today told how hundreds of persons pitch ed in to "do a job over the week end, during the success ful search for five-year-old Er nie Leffler. Simpson, who operates the county-wide radio network of the SOCTFA, .was called upon early in the search, on Satur day afternoon. The radio was used to summon volunteer searchers, to arrange for food, and to coordinate search activi ties in conjunction with the U. S. Forest Service radio and telephone hookup. Provide Food Simpson particularly praised the Jackson county chapter of the American Re4 Cross, which took responsibility for supply ing food for the searchers. Ed Branchfield, chapter president, worked late into the night Sat urday, arranging for sandwich es and other food, and then drove the dirty, bumpy 60 miles to the lake with Simpson to de liver the groceries. Mrs. Enid Rankin, chapter secretary, also worked much of Saturday night on the same as signment. Macy Arnold, of the Vets club, was instrumental in seeing that the order for 250 sandwiches was prepared by early Sunday morning, and others working on the order in cluded the Trailways bus depot cafe, and Kim's restaurant. An derson's Super-Thrift market provided the supplies. Up All Night At the scene of the search, Mrs. C. A. Capello, wife of one of the searchers in the party which found Ernie alive and well Sunday afternoon, was tireless in cooking food, fixing sandwiches and making coffee. She stayed up all night Satur day, and remained at the job most of Sunday, serving tired, hungry and dusty searchers. Members of the search parties were furnished by a group of lumber firms, including Med ford corporation (six of whose men found the boy), Elk lumber company (which furnished the radio car which kept the search camp in contact with the "out side," Oscar Hanson, Ben York. Kogap and Magnolia. Simpson also expressed ap preciation to the valley's three radio stations, KYJC, KMED and KWIN, for their cooperation in broadcasting appeals for vol unteer searchers, many of whom made their own way to the lake. Other groups participating in cluded the Klamath County Mounted Sheriff's posse, the Klamath Air Search and Res cue Unit, Klamath deputy sher iffs, Forest Service personnel, and many -othersr including- a group of 27 Boy Scouts from Camp McLoughlin at Lake O' Woods. (See story on Page 1.) TITLE INSURANCE. TKUSTS'tSCROWS If you ve tasted todays SCHENLEY . . .you "know its the best-tasting whiskey I in ages ! BLENDED WHISKEY 86 PROOF. 65 GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS. SCHENLEY DISTRIBUTORS, INC.. NfW YORK, NEW YORK What does it Cost? The cost of title insurance is little compared with the loss you would face if your title proved to be faulty. . . or the expense of a lawsuit in prov ing your ownership were it challenged. 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