FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Monday. July 21. 1952,
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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management had "withdrawn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departments and had withdrawn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.)
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