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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
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o
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ships we've made through a long-standing policy
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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.