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Newspaper Page TextTEN MEDFORD (OREGN) MAIL TRIBUNE Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune I ublished Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-4141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor ERNEST R. GILS TRAP. Manager HERB GREY, Advertising Manager E C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under A-t of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Daily and Sunday on year f 12 00 Daily and Sunday sis months 6.50 Daily and Sunday three mos. 3.30 Daily and Sunday one month 1.25 By Carrier In A d v a n c e Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River, Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday one year $15.00 Daily and Sunday one month 1-25 All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY, INC Offices in New York, Chicago, De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Va n rou ver. B C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOdl-ATfdN J OlV NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County His tory from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 22, 1942 (It was Wednesday) Medford city council renews pleas for additional government funds to be used for enlargement of city sewage disposal plant. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A rumor, shaped like an enemy para chute, flew over the Albany Corvallis area last Monday. Even if a rumor-monger doesn't, a rumor should keep its feet on the ground. 20 YEARS AGO July 22, 1932 Members of American Legion here start registering for nation al Legion convention in Port land. Medford all-star "kittenbaU" team defeats Chiloquin, 18 to 6; prepares to play Crater Lake stars. 30 YEARS AGO July 22. 1922 Special investigator leaves Los Angeles for Medford to study Ku Klux Klan activities here at the request of Oregon state officials. From the Local and Personal colums: Jerry Jerome, delegate from the local lodge of Elks to the annual convention at At lantic City, N. J will return next week. 40 YEARS AGO July 22, 1912 Three-year-old girl found alive and well after beig lost for 24 hours in the Antelope area. Railroad gets temporary re straining order to halt construc tion of brick building at Eighth and Fir streets when freight cars knock bricks from the walls. Kefauver Retains Vi-Vote Margin Over Nearest Foe Chicago (U.R) Standing of candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination as the convention went into its second day, based on pledges and known first-ballot preferences of convention delegates: Sen. Estes Kefauver 266V4 Sen. Richard B. Russell....200 x Averell Harriman .....107V4 Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson 77 Vi Sen. Robert S. Kerr Gov. G. Mennen Williams Got. Paul Dever Robert J. Bulkley President Truman Sen. Hubert Humphrey Sen. J. Wm. Fulbright Sen. Brien McMahon Oscar Ewing Sen. Paul Douglas Justice Wm. O. Douglas Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt Speaker Sam Rayburn .... 50 40 36 27 27 26 22 16 7 2 1 1 Vx x The Russell total includes 18 Mississippi and 52 Texas dele gate votes. The Democratic Na tional Committee has voted to seat the "regular" Mississippi and Texas delegations which un der the unit rule will cast their votes for Russell on the first ballot. The seating of these two delegations, however, is sub ject to challenge by the conven tion itself. Editorial Correspondence Rockford, 111., July 19 -"The national Democratic party as at present constituted cannot long endure." "Its very vitals have been eaten away by insidious rot,' foisted on it by politically ruthless, unprincipled and con scienceless men, concerned more with winning elections and a distribution of favors than preserving a free government. "A vast burocracy grown fat, wasteful, corrupt and ar rogant under the leadership of a Pendergast machine poli tician has been saddled upon the nation. "We have refused to consort with the union racketeers, or the gamblers, who have, sought to make government their puppet, with so-called labor leaders pulling the strings. We have declined to abdicate to a group of would-be usurpers whose insatiable appetite for power already has sapped the strength of the national government." How many of our readers can identify the source of that scath ing indictment of the Democratic party and the Truman adminis tration? Sound3 a bit like a keynote speech for the Republican party. But it isn't. It is an extract from a recent "keynote" speech delivered by William M. Tuck of Virginia, before the Democratic state conven tion in the great DEMOCRATIC state of Virginia. Governor Tuck is a life-long Democrat. And yet some of the wiseboys hereabouts are declaring the approaching Democratic convention will be a festival of sweetness and light, of high resolve and harmony, all for one and one for all, as they march on to victory over their hated traditional foe which has been divided and prostrate as a result of their recent slaughter house assembly. Oh Yeah? If anyone believes the Truman and the anti-Truman sections of the Democratic party are going to lie down meekly as the pro verbial lion and lamb in this coming conclave, they are far off the beam. Just how sanguinary the free-for-all will be, no one can tell, but that it won't be any Quaker prayer-meeting is certain. In fact your correspondent has never yet attended a Democratic conven tion which was peaceful, though as the Irish dominance has de clined, fighting for the plain love of fighting, has not been as noticeable as it was 30 or 40 years ago. But don't worry. There will be plenty of action, and plenty of oratory and plenty of color the Democrats, New Deal, Fair Deal or Old Deal, can always be depended upon to give a good v.ow. Here is another $64 question, quote: The 41 year old mother of four children wore a black and white tablecloth checked sunback dress, topped with a black linen bolero with jet button trim. Bobbing on her bolero was a pink felt stuffed donkey with a rhinestone neckband. Her accesiories were a three strand pearl choker and dangling pearl earrings. She took off her large brimmed black fur felt hat to keep it from shading her gray-green eyes. Who COULD that be? Her first name is Nancy, she was born in England, and in ad dition to being vivacious she has bronzy red hair, and a wonder fully attractive smile. That's right, she is Mrs. Estes Kefauver who is going to have her equally charming husband nominated or know the reason why. . Which reminds us that Mrs. Eisenhower who isn't anything of a glamour girl, still has a winning way and a very engaging, simple manner which will do her husband no harm and may do him a great deal of good when he goes "on the road." That thunder-storm we described in our preceding letter never got in the newspapers. But the rain-storm that accompanied it did. In fact the Chicago papers bannered the Rockford "Flash Flood" that cost two lives and caused a loss of a million, with bridges washed out near Roscoe and basements all over this part of the country so full of water the occupants had to flee. As usual the Red Cross has come to the rescue. They give no more heed to thunder-storms around here than they do to hold-ups in Chicago. The precipitation was torrential, eight inches in 24 hours! It is still raining buckets and thundering, too. At this rate we might be marooned here and miss the opening of the conven tion. Rockford boasts one of the crack WOMEN baseball teams in the country the "Rockford Peaches." We had hoped to see them play before departing, but thanks to the deluge that's out. They say the big problem with female baseball is getting um pires. Male umpires don't want the job, and the women players refuse to play with umpires of their own sex. Well there's a lot of human nature in such an impasse, and we should say good material for a funny movie starring, let us say Joe Brown and Marjorie Main. Here is a good example of the most stupidly vicious and de structively reactionary editorial page in the country that of the Chicago Tribune quote: If the Communists do it (make peace in Korea) there will be one good and sufficient reason. Mr. Stalin values Mr. Truman too highly to let him go. He wants Harry for an other term. He wants to build him back into the Presidency. Harry is Joe's secret weapon, the most valuable he has. Harry is the fellow who messes up the country with foreign involvements and executes Lenin's favorite idea that the way to defeat the United States is to get it to spend itself broke. It is a sound hunch that Moscow wants more of Harry, because the chances of getting another such patsy in the White House are too slim to be taken seriously. And to think the people of Illinois not only fail to condemn such journalistic hooliganism, but applaud it and vote to support it! The "SUCKER State" was The Tribune, incidentally, of its hero Robert Alphonso Taft and throwing mud at Eisenhower. Every day letters from all over the state are printed on the ed. page, endorsing this "PATRIOTIC stand," with many declaring they will never vote for "Europe's candidate for President" on the Republican ticket. One this morning even favored voting the Democratic ticket! Our prediction word-swallowing and back-tracking Oregon Delegates Disclose Desires Chicago (U.R) Oregon delegates to the Democratic con vention told their platform com mittee members- Tuesday to make sure the subjects of graz ing, public power and freight rates are in the party platform. Want Act Amended Terry Schrunk, the delegation chairman, said the group: asked for endorsement of an amend ment to the Taylor Grazing Act, regulating livestock grazing on public lands, to give small oper ators "a better break." The delegation also called for a plank favoring development of public power projects, and for legislation to end "discrimin atory" freight rate differentials for the Pacific Northwest. ' To Stay With Kefauver Schrunk denied reports that members of the delegation were wavering in their pledged sup port of Sen. Estes Kefauver. He said the group would be "with Kefauver until he wins." However, several members of the delegation said they were impressed by Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson's speech at the con vention Monday. Schrunk said that if the dele gation is released by Kefauver, Tuesday. July 22. 19S2 well named! is still squawking over the defeat is there will have to be a lot of one of these days. R.W.R. it will split among several can didates, with the largest share of the votes going to Averell Harriman, several for Steven son, and "a few" to Sen. Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma. Army Couple Visiting Her Mother in Medford Lt. Col. and Mrs. Charles O. Reed are visiting. Mrs. Reed's mother, Mrs. Rosa A. Young, 509 North Riverside avenue, this week. Colonel and Mrs. Reed recently returned from Japan, and he soon, will be assigned , to the 31st Infantry division at Camp Atterjbury, Ind. The Reeds were in Japan for more than ZVz ' years, where Colonel Reed . was on the staff at General Headquarters of the Far East command. He was in the public safety division, and had to do with the administration of prisons, police, fife protection and coast guard work with the occupation forces. A son is in the Signal Corps in Japan, and a daughter is mar ried and living in Portland. Dead line Sunday Classifieds Is at 5:30 p.m for following day: 10 a.m Monday lor Monday; noon Saturday Crosstown tUlstd hy CMae4kUiS Nwt Tmiirm "We must have been worse than usual today! There goes another aspirin." Matter of Fact '44 AND '52 Chicago There is a smell of 1944 about this convention. Eight years ago, it may be re membered, Franklin Roosevelt had the greatest difficulty mak ing up his mind about his vice presidential running mate. But the Democratic party leaders had no difficulty whatever in making up their minds that they wanted Harry S. Truman. Roosevelt was in Washington, distant from the scene. The bosses were in Chicago, on top of events. So the Democratic party named Truman. That is the real parallel for the growing movement to nom inate Alben Barkley for the Presidency. The word has come from Washington, through the several different channels the President is employing, that Barkley "has the nod." The Presidential nod, plus the far more important maneuvering of the most seasoned party chieftans, is quite likely to get the top spot for the 74-year-old vice-president. Yet the circumstances of this development remain the best commentary on the Presidential nod. In effect, the President has now nodded to a man he does not much like, and does not really approve as a candidate. Only a few days ago, Truman was still pointing out that if he feared leaving the White House in a pine box at the age of 68, the vice-president, at 74, was even more plainly debarred by his age. But the leaders have been working on the President. His communication with Chi cago is mainly through them. They have brought him to Barkley by the system of "nine blue bottles hanging on the wall." TiRUMAN MIGHT well hav seized the real leadership of this convention by deciding to organize a willy-nilly draft of Gov. Adlai Stevenson. But Stevenson had written the in discreet letter previously report ed in this space. Matt Connelly and other White House allies of the pro-Barkley party leaders have been doing their efficient best to set the President against the Illinois governor. Truman would not "stick his neck out for Stevenson." Truman might also have pre served his own consistency by backing W. Averell Harriman, as, indeed, he was three-quarters committed to do. But again, the pro-Barkley leaders warned the President, probably entire ly accurately, that at least two thirds of the convention dele gates would gang up to stop a Harriman nomination. They pleaded with the President not to run the risk of "repudiation." So Truman sadly decided not to back Harriman. Among the candidates accept able to the President, only Bark ley was left. So Barkley got the famous nod. The question still remains how much this nod. is worth. The pro-Barkley leaders di vide naturally into two fac tions. The -first faction is the Senate group, master-minded by the always adroit . Senate ' sec retary, Leslie Biffle. These men are for Barkley all the way. Faction number two comprises such local potentates as Col.. Ja cob Arvey of Illinois, Mayor Da vid L. Lawrence of Pittsburgh and National Committee Chair man Frank McKinney. These men are not all-outers. : . - - rTHEY ARE for Barkley be cause - they like him, think him a good campaigner and be lieve he will hold the Demo cratic party together. They would much prefer to draft Governor Stevenson, but they o not dare start a draft-Stevenson movement at this' time with out a lead from the White House. On the other hand, if Vice-i By Roland Coe By Joseph and Stewart Alios President Barkley does not get a majority in a fairly early bal lot, a draft-Stevenson movement will get going all but spontan eously. In that case, those who really prefer Stevenson will soon begin deserting Barkley as well as the other candidates. The snowball can then roll up rather rapidly. Nor will the President try to stop the snow ball. His nod to Barkley is only intended to give the vice-president his chance. It is not a prom ise of last-ditch support. No one can tell, meanwhile, whether Barkley will or will not be able to get an early bal lot majority. The labor and lib eral groups are in arms against him, not because they dislike him but because they regard his as a losing candidate. They may even persuade Truman to modify his stand. Then too, the forces of Sen. Estes Kefauver and Averill Harriman have now united to fight Democratic Chairman Mc Kinney's intended compromises of the civil rights issue and the delegate contests in -Mississippi and Texas. If McKinney is beat en on these issues, it will be a heavy setback for the Bark ley strategists. FINALLY, THERE is the ruck of delegates, now just arriv ing in Chicago. Rightly or wrongly, the great majority of them have recovered from the defeatism which the mere name of Gen. Dwight D. Eisnhower formerly inspired. They think their party can win again, and most of them have an acute per sonal interest in victory. They do not seem to be too pleased by the news that Barkley, so widely advertised as the "care taker candidate," has got the nod. ' Summing up, Barkley is now the favorite, because he has the kind of support from the lead ers that Truman got in 1944. His chances are all the better because, again as in 1944, the lib eral Democratic forces are di vided and distracted. But Bark ley's age and the "care-taker label" are still most heavy han dicaps, and this is still very much a horse race. Copyright, 1952 New York Herald Tribune, Inc. Grandfather Clock, Long Idle, Started by Quake Hollywood (U.R) Mrs. Marguerite Franks reported Tuesday a century-old grand father clock that had not run for 12 years suddenly began to "tick-tock" immediately after Monday's earthquake here. Mrs. Franks said she heard the clock strike a few minutes after the 'quake She said she set the clock and "it has been sounding the hours and half hours and keeping correct time ever since." GYPSIES BLAMED Hudson, Wis. (U.R) Sheriff Lawrence Hope chased a band of gypsies out of town Monday after a farmer reported his cow suddenly had ran out of milk. 'Next time you take a girl en this ride, Jorgensens nemegenued, Mutti In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Politics: President Truman came home from the hospital Saturday "feel ing fine and fighting mad at the Republicans." TAEMOCRATIC Senator Benton " of Connecticut moves to wrest from Southern senators the filibuster weapon they have used in the past as a last resort to kill compulsory federal civil rights bills. He demands that . Democratic platform drafters call upon the senate to revise its rules to pro vide that a simple majority of senators PRESENT AND VOT ING can end a filibuster (fili bustering means talking a bill to death). .Under present rules, it takes a two-thirds vote of ALL 96 of the senators, whether present and voting or not. IF I KNOW anything about the feeling of the South, that will make a lot of Southerners fight ing mad. If they get mad enough, they might walk out or or vote for Ike. TJALTIMORE'S Democratic Mayor D'Alesandro says President Truman should RE CONSIDER his decision not to run because, says D'Alesandro to Truman: "YOU ARE NEEDED BADLY." That's the "indispensable man" theme. It has worked in the past, and it might work again. A CHICAGO dispatch says: "The merry-go-round among the Democratic candidates al ways seems to come baek to the reluctant Stevenson, who seems to have some of the politicians almost beside themselves with frustration. "But after a conference with the Illinois governor, one of the Democratic powers Jake Arvey, Chicago boss says that if there is a convention deadlock he is certain Stevenson will accept the nomination." THE will-he-or-won t-he talk turned out to be a wonderful builder-upper of interest in and sentiment for Ike. Maybe the Democrats are doing a little copy-catting. "PRESIDENT Truman's conven- tion alternate, Thomas uavin of Kansas City, says he's been GIVEN THE WORD on how to vote on the first ballot. Gavin won't say whom the President favors, but Senator Maybank of South Carolina claims a reliable informant has told him the Presi dent wants Averell Harriman. IT ISN'T any of my business, because I'm going to vote for Ike anyway, but I'm getting per sonally fed up with these silk stocking rich who go into poli tics and start hob-nobbing with the overalls to GET VOTES. THERE is no indication of prog ress in Korea as this is writ ten toward settling the truce blocking issue of exchange of prisoners. At the moment, the tempo of the fighting on blood soaked Old B a 1 d y has been stepped up sharply. It's off-ag'in, on-ag'in so far as a Korean truce is concerned. I expect that's the way it will be as long as the masterminds in the Kremlin can make us dance every time they call the tune. T WISH we could find somebody smart enough to call the tunes and MAKE THE KREMLIN BOYS DANCE. I have a lot of faith that Ike could and would build up a state department ca pable of doing just that. QPEAKING of foreign policy, -what do YOU want first and most of all? Me, I want PEACE. Not peace at any price. Wise and just peace A peace that will enable the world to move forward toward new and better things instead of slipping back toward all that is old and outworn and bad. If there is to be peace of that sort, the United States of Amer ica will have to LEAD THE WORLD TOWARD IT. We're the only nation on earth with the resources of men and ma terials to do the job. TF WE are to induce our kind of people throughout the world to accept our leadership willingly and cooperatively, we must BE OURSELVES again. you better not pick one who drinks - Vitamin, Multi-Mineral Milk." American Crackdown On Russ Propaganda In US May Boomeranq By HOMER JENKS United Press Correspondent The American crackdown on Russian propaganda publications in the U. S. may boomerang. The Soviets started it all by strangling Amerika, a profusely illustrated slick-paper magazine published in color by the U. S. State Department to tell the So viet people in their own lan guage the truth about America. Publication Suspended The State Department retal iated by forcing the Soviet em bassy in Washington to suspend publication and distribution of its English language information bulletin and other propaganda sheets. But the Soviets may have the last word. For the U. S. embassy in Moscow is still circulating an American viewpoint behind the Iron Curtain. The American bulletin special izes in foreign news and com ment and exerts considerable in fluence, at least in the diplomatic circles. May Ban U. S. Bulletin United Press Staff Corre- spondet Henry Shapiro reports from Moscow that the Soviet government may ban the Amer ican bulletin in retaliation for the American crackdown on the Soviet embassy bulletin. Russia's method of strangling Amerika was as devious as it was complete. The Soviets never openly banned circulation of the magazine in Russia. They accom plished the same result by cen sorship and a gradual - curtail-1 Congressional Quiz Questions and Answers on What Goes en at the Capital Furnished by Congressional Quarterly News Features Q What was the point of passing a special law to allow federal prosecution of crime committee in airplanes? A Congress wanted to plug a legal loophole that kept the government from convicting a man for assaulting sereval per sons during a flight from Puerto Rico to New York in 1948. To take care of the "blind spot" in the law, Congress July 2 passed a bill to include planes as well as vessels in statutes authorizing prosecution of a crime of vio lence committed on U. S. planes flying overthe high seas. Q Would the new GI bill ap ply just to veterans who actual ly fought in Korea? A No. As agreed on by Con gress July 4, it would provide education and loan benefits for all persons who served in the Armed Forces after June 27, 1950. Q What educational benefits does the GI bill provide? A Length of schooling for veterans with 90 days service since the start of the Korean war, a day and a half for each day of service, up to 36 months. Amount the government pays for full-time GI students, $110 monthly with no dependents. $135 with one dependent, and $160 with more than one. Time limit veterans must start train ing by Aug. 20, 1954, or two years after discharge, whichever is later, and finish in seven years. We must make people like us and admire us as they did when we were the unquestioned cham pion of liberty throughout the world. We'll have to quit just making faces at Russia, which is ineffective and DESTRUC TIVE, and start all over again winning friends who will like us FOR OURSELVES instead of merely honeying up to us in the hope of getting more of our money. A foreign policy of that sort would be CONSTRUCTIVE and effective. TF WE'RE going to GET that - kind of foreign policy, I think we'll have to change our leader ship at the top and make a fresh start. I think Ike is the man who can do it, and that's why I'm for him. Yes, ARE We Proud . . . o of the mora than four decades of service we've rendered this community ... of the many friend ships we've made through a long-standing policy of fair prices in line with the express wishes of those we serve ... of the beauty of Perl's impres sive tributes ... of the sympathetic understand ing attention given to all who come to us in their hour of need. PERL FUNERAL 44 Years of Friendly Service ment of its distribution. Test Run Successful The U. S. introduced Amerika to Russia in 1944. when we all were allies against the Germans. A test run of 10.000 copies was made and it proved so successful that we signed an agreement with Russia in 1946 to send her 50.000 copies. The magazine was turned over to the official Soviet distribu tion monopoly :i)ation in all parts of t" r Soviet Union. Its popularity was evident from requests by Russians to the em bassy for additional copies and back numbers and from favor able comment sent in by Rus sian readers. Insulting Remarks Printed The honeymoon lasted less than a year. By then, the Soviet press had begun printing insult ing remarks about the magazine with the object of intimidating its readers. Soviet censors, to whom all matter intended for distribution in Russia must be submitted, be gan wielding their blue pencils with increased fevor, often elim inating whole articles. By December, 1949. the So viet distributing monopoly on which a direct American check could be made reported circu lation was down to 25,000. The decline continued and reached 13.000 last month. The State Department decided that the limited circulation no longer justified the $220,000 an nual cost of the magazine and publication was suspended. Q How much did Congress increase federal public assist ance payments? A About $240 million a year. It increased by $5 a month the federal share of payments to the aged, blind and disabled, and raised aid to dependent children by $3 a month. Residents of public assistance include 2.685. 000 aged, 97,000 blind, 132,000 disabled, and 1,531000 depend ent children. In approving the measure July, Congress also in creased social security insurance payments by $300 million. Q What did Congress finally do about guaranteeing service men a chance to vote? A It did nothing to guaran tee, but it handed out some ad vice. The Senate June 20 passed a bill to provide for absentee voting for servicemen from states which do not provide ade quately for away-from-home bal loting. But a House Subcom mittee, after starting hearings on the bill, July 3 decided to postpone action. So two days later, the Senate approved a sim ple resolution calling for cooper-. ation between federal and state governments in giving service men a chance to vote. (Copyright 1952, Congressional Quarterly) Laziest Man Mows Lawn From Hammock Hutchinson, Kan. (U.R) ' Lee Hausman became a candi date for the nation's laziest man Tuesday by disclosing he had found a way toajnow his lawn from his hammock. Hausman said he drives a stake into the ground in the cen ter of his back yard, ties a guide line from the stake to a power mower and opens the throttle. All he has to do is lie back and watch the self-propelled ma chine mow the big lawn in a steadily shrinking circle. Chicken Thieves Warned Of Infected Foul Madison, Wis. (U.R) The chicken thieves who stole 50 White Leghorns from the Uni versity of Wisconsin farm Fri day night would have been bet ter off if they hadn't. University investigator Joe Hammersley said the chickens had been infected for experi mental disease research and should not be eaten.