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1 ni JVU O-DELEGATES READYFOR RALLOT Stevenson Cause Gains Momentum; Two Men Drop Out Balloting Likely To Start Tonight Convention Hall, Chicago flj.R) The band wagon rolling Adlai E. Stevenson toward the Democratic presidential nomina tion leaped ahead Thursday as the convention boiled over in a spate of nominating speeches and staged demonstrations. With presidential balloting likely to get under way Thurs day night, two candidates with drew from the race in moves ex pected to throw new strength to the Illinois governor. Bulkey, McMahoa Quit Former Sen. Robert J. Bulkey bowed out as "favorite son" can didate from Ohio and announced. that he will vote for Stevenson. Of Ohio's 54 votes. 27 had been pledged to Bulkey and 27 to Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennes see. The other withdrawal was by Sen. Brien McMahon of Connec ticut who is ill in a Washington hospital. John Bailey, chairman of the Connecticut delegation, predicted that "easily more than half" of its 16 votes will go to the Illinois governor on the sec ond ballot. At about the same time, Mas sachusetts decided to throw 15V of its 36 votes to Stevenson on ballot No. 2. KtfauTer. Harriman Mt . But other candidates were keeping up the fight. Kefauver, still front runner in unofficial pre-balloting tabulations, and Averell Harriman met secretly in a Palmer House room to plan stop-Stevenson strategy. Apparently near an agree ment on pooling their strength against the governor, the two candidates said only that they had a "satisfactory discussion." But with word circulating that President Truman himself considered Stevenson a sure shot winner, here and against the Republicans in November, a successful coalition against the governor seemed unlikely. As the convention pushed through its fourth day with the delegates knocking themselves out in staged riotsfor their .fav orites, three Dixie rebel delega tions called for a showdown on their disputed right to vote in the presidential balloting. Loyalty Pladga Refused The issue arose because Vir ginia, South Carolina, and Louisiana refused to sign "loy alty pledges" required under a new convention rule. Govs. James F. Byrnes, .S.C., John S. Battle, Va., and Robert F. Kennon, La., sent Permanent Chairman Sam Reyburn a joint letter demanding that he rule 'whether we are, or are not, members of the convention" en titled to full participation. Rayburn already has said he believes the Dixie delegations have a right to be here, and the understanding is that he will rule they have voting rights, too. Tan Nominations Planned Thursday's orgy of speech making and accompanying whooping and hollering will last through the afternoon and into the night. Around 10 names are being put before the convention. First man placed in nomina tion was Georgia's Sen. Richard B. Russell. His nominator was Sen. Walter F. George, also of Georgia. Alaska yielded to Tennessee, whose Gov. Gordon Browning put Kefauver in nomination. The Kefauver demonstration was even noisier and longer than Russell's. It was the fourth day of the Democrats' 31st national con vention, and it was the big ses sion set aside every four year3 for the delegates to knock them selves out hollering and knock ing for their favorites. Buckshot Hill House Burned to Ground A house on Buckshot hill, northeast of Medford, burned down early today, it was report ed by the state forest patrol. A two-man crew which answered the alarm arrived two late to save the house. Th owners of the house were away, patrolmen were told, and they were unable to gotain xneir names. The patrol frequently answers fire alarms such as this, despite the fact that the forestry department is not charged with thU responsibility. The burned house is in the boundaries of the proposed Med ford Rural Fire district, the for mation of . which will be voted on tomorrow. Washington (U.PJ Sen. Jo seph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., who faces a stiff re-election fight this year, underwent a major hernia operation Thursday at the near by Bethesda, Md., Naval Medi cal Center. Medford United PreJ Full Lnd Wire 47th Year 18 Pages Conventions Alike In "Stop" Efforts By R. W. RUHL Chicago, July 24 (Special by wire) The similarity between these two national conventions continues. As the nominating soeeches start there is a last-minute effort headed by Franklin Roosevelt to stop Governor Stevenson, just as there was a last- minute effort on the part of Taft two weeks ago. Now, as then, it looks as if the effort had come too late, Steven son beine too far in the lead to stop. But only those with a crystal ball can be certain before the votes have been counted and that crystal ball must work. Meanwhile, if the many balloons of many colors, pictures and slogans of many candidates on many standards on the floor, arm ing of the galleries with confetti balls, whistles, cow bells, noise producers of all kinds and sizes, are any indication, it will be a long, long time before the actual balloting starts. Democratic Platform Promises Americans Continued Chicago (U.R) The Demo crats dodged a floor fight on civil rights Thursday and adopt ed a party platform pledging the American people continued pros perity and "world peace with honor." The uneasy truce was reach ed in the stockyard Convention hall shortly before 1 a.m. (CST) after three days of clamorous dispute over racial discrimina tion that threatened for a time to blast the South clear out of the party. Great Chorus of "Ayes" House Majority Leader John W. McCormack of Massachusetts read the 8,500-word platform to the convention delegates. Speak er Sam Rayburn of Texas, con vention chairman, called for a voice vote. A great chorus ' of "ayes" welled from the amphitheatre, followed y a loud roar of "no". Rayburn slammed down his" gav el and announced that the "ayes" had it. Gov. Herman Talmadge of Georgia grabbed the microphone to demand that his state be re corded as voting against the platform. Rayburn agreed, and said he would comply with a similar request from Mississippi. Gov. Allan Shivers of Texas said his delegation also "wanted to vote no" but didn't get a chance to have its opposition recorded. No Plans Indicated There was no indication that the Southerners planned to do anything more than register their displeasure with the civil rights plank, which was a com promise hammered out at an all night session of the platform drafting subcommittee Wednes day. The platform the statement of principles and promises on which the Democrats will try to keep Dwight D. Eisenhower and his Republicans out of the White House included these key claims and promises: The American people, farm ers, labor, businessmen, never had it so good as they have un der the past 20 years of Demo cratic rule. Our foreign policy of aid to and alliances with anti-communist nations abroad is costly and will continue that way. But it is halting Russian expansion and keeping the peace. The Democrats want strong and "balanced defense forces land, sea and air. No Tax Reduction Promised Taxes are high because of that military spending, and the Dem ocrats aren't making any "reck less promises" like the Republi cans did to reduce them. Farm prices will continue to be supported under Democratic rule at 90 per cent of parity to keep farmers prosperous and to insure plenty of food for con sumers at reasonable prices. The Taft-Hartley law is unfair to labor and should be repealed. The controversial core of the platform came in the last two of its 13 major planks: "Improving congressional procedures," and "civil rights." Historic Departure The first was an historic de parture for the Democrats. It called for action as soon as the 83rd Congress convenes in Janu ary to end the Senate filibuster the one effective weapon the Southern minority holds to ward off federal legislation enforcing racial equality. That doesn't mean the filibus ter 'will die in January. The Southerners can and probably will talk to death any such move. But the Northern "lib eral' Democrats hailed it as a big advance in the civil rights fight. The Southerners succeeded in MEDFORD, OREGON, supporters to stop Eisenhower Prosperity separating the filibuster plank from the civil rights section, where the North had wanted to put it. (See story on Page 2) Rural Fire District Election Tomorrow An election on the formation of a Medford Rural Fire district will be held tomorow from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at two polling places, according to Mrs. Floyd W. Fogelquist, chairman of the temporary district committee. Precincts involved, and the polling places for them, are Nos. 29, 30, 31, 57 and 59, at the Lone Pine school, and Nos. 28, 58, 60, 64, - 67 and 68, -at -Oak- Grove school. The election will also name five directors, who will serve if the' proposal passes. The nine candidates for the five posts are Eugene Shelton, Carl Norris, Al len Harris, J. R. Chenault, Floyd Fogelquist, Leigh Campbell, Oscar Chinn, Glenn Harrison and David Holmes Jr. . Mrs. Fogelquist urged all legal voters residing in the area of the proposed district to go to the polls to give a representation of the opinion of residents. Talent Solicited tor Footlighter Audition Sopranos who can put heart throb into "Only a Bird In a Gilded Cage," soft shoe dancers with authentic "Oh, You Kid" era rhythm, and pianists with bona fide nickelodeon day tre molos, are urged to turn out to the public audition for olio acts to be used in connection with the Footlighters summer show, "Only An Orphan Girl," this evening at 7:30 at the Jackson school auditorium. Mrs. C. Ivan Burton, Dick Kline and Bob Corliss, in charge of olio acts for the show which will be presented beginning August 19, will be on hand to audition and select the talent. ' Anyone interested in aiding is invited to attend. Barkley 's Convention Hall, Chicago (U.R) The Democratic party handed its heart Wednesday night to Alben W. Barkley.. It was in part payment of the gigantic debt it owes its grand est old man. For one hour and 42 minutes the 74-year-old vice-president stood gallantly in the heat and glare before 12,500 other Dem ocrats. Addresses Off The Cuff For 36 minutes of that time he talked, delivering off the cuff an address so packed with the old time religion of Democratic politics that at times he had his hearers shouting and all but weeping. The other hour and six. min utes he spent receiving hum bly but gaily a great outpour ing of unashamed affection. Since 1905, long before a good half of the thousands jammed in Convention hall were born, Alben William Barkley has been serving his party's causes. This year he got in his head that the Democrats, having made him a vice-president, might need his services as president. He THURSDAY, JULY 24, No Clues Reported By Police, FBI, In Lake Murders Search for Dunkin To Be Intensified Police and FBI agents today reported no new clues in the search for the murderers of two men whose bodies were found in Crater Lake National park Monday. FBI agents working on the case, out of their Klamath Falls headquarters, said they have eliminated quite a few possibili ties concerning the slayer or slayers. A few strong theories remain, none of which is being given priority over the others, the agents said. As is frequently the case, the FBI men declined to go into de tail on their progress in the case. It is known, however, that they are checking on cars which en tered the park last Saturday, when the two men were shot in cold blood as they were seated, gagged with their own neckties and without shoes. A skull fracture and abdomi nal bruises on the body of A. M. Jones, one of the two victims, indicated he may have struggled with his assailant before he was murdered. The other man was C. P. Culhane, Detroit, Mich. Both wer executives of a General Motors parts subsidiary. Dr. George Adler, Klamath county coroner who performed an autopsy on the bodies, said both deaths were due to wounds caused by a .32 caliber pistol. In Medford, State Police Capt. Paul Parson said that the search for George Baker Dunkin, 67, who has been sought since the fatal shooting, one month ago today, of Officer Phil Lowd, is being intensified. Although police discount the theory that Dunkin Is involved in the Crater lake murders, Cap tain Parsons said that he now has -sufficient' manpower "avail able to step up the search for Dunkin. His men who were as signed to the Crater lake case are now back, and other mem bers of the force who have at tended an annual police school in Corvallis this week also have returned. "We're using all the means at our disposal to get Dunkin," Cap tain Parson said. Jim Forbes, of the Butte Falls Ranger station, reported this afternoon that an Oregon Journal carrier had picked up James Marion Hurst Tuesday, and brought him to Medford, dropping him near the out skirls. Forbes reported this to the sheriff's office early today, he said. No further word was immedi ately available this morning on the disappearance of James Marion, Butte Falls, who was re ported missing Tuesday by his wife after he failed to come home after quitting his job on the Willow Creek dam above Butte Falls. A deputy sherif was in Butte Falls today investigating the case. The man was known to have been in Butte Falls after he was seen on the road to there. George L. Johnston, 16 Laurel street, Medford, said last night, after reading Hurst's description in The Mail Tribune, that he be lieves he gave the man a ride on Tuesday. Speech came to his party's 31st nation al convention here ready and willing to take on the job. Last Monday he was told that the men for whom he had done the most, the leaders of organiz ed labor, didn't want him and would not support him. They told him bluntly that he was too old. Hurt Deepest of All The Veep had been hurt be fore when the party sidetracked him for vice - president in 1940, when his beloved FDR stinging ly vetoed a tax bill he had guid ed through the Senate, on num erous occasions when other men for various reasons were pushed ahead of him in the party's hon- f ors list. This time the hurt was deep est of all. r He said the hell with it; he issued a bitter statement with drawing from the race. He . left a sorely divided con vention and got ready to go home to Paducah. He was an angry man. His "walk" lasted just two days. Democratic National Chairman Frank E. McKinney told him he was the one man who could pull , the Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire 1952 No. 107 PLENTY OF CONVERSATION features Democratic national con vention and James Roosevelt (left), son of late President, does his share of talking in huddle with State Senator George Miller, chair man of California's Kefauver-pledged delegation. (International) Coal Industry Faces New Wage Battle as Walkout Threatened Washington (U.R) John L. Lewis and the coal industry squared off Thursday for a new wage battle amid threats of a nation-wide coal strike within two months. The 72-year-old United Mine Workers chief has served notice on the bituminous coal industry that he wants a new contract for Two Councilmen Not Candidates For Reelection Two of the Medford city coun cilmen whose terms expire this year announced 'today -they will not be candidates for reelection. They are Dwight Houghton, Ward 2, and Elmer Childer, Ward 4. Houghton has served on the council for the past six years. Childers has served for the past 3V years after being appointed to fill the unexpired term of Lee Watkins. Childers had pre viously served a term on the council about 10 years ago. John Snider, councilman from Ward 1, whose term expires this year, stated this morning that he plans to be a candidate for election. Snider was appointed by Mayor D. L. Flynn in 1950 to fill the unexpired term of Neil Davidson. He will be run ning for election for the first time. Frye Undecided The fourth councilman whose term expires this year, Harold Frye. said he is so for undecided whether to run for reelection. City Recorder J. Ralph Woodford and City Treasurer Darrell Huson both indicated they will run for reelection. Woodford said this morning that "there are four or five, pet itions out for mayor and several petitions for councilman." Pet itions, which must carry 25 signatures, must be in the hands of the county clerk on August 30. The city recorder pointed out that he must receive the pet itions in advance of that date in order to forward them to the county clerk before the deadline. Brings Tremendous Ovation ALBEN W. BARKLEY Given Great Ovation party together. So Wednesday night Alben Barkley took on one more chore for the Democrats. Undiluted Drama ' For the people out i:ci.i, the delegates and alternates on the Weather FORECAST: Fair through Fri day. Slightly warmer. Low tonight 48-50; high Friday 88. Temp. Highest Testerday 83 Lowest this Morning 48 400,000 soft coal miners within 56 days. Could Strike September 20 If the negotiations are not successful and indications are that both sides are set for a long, hard fight the miners will be' free to strike Sept. 20. The walkout would come just as the nation prepares for cooler weather. Industry spokesmen reported that Lewis notified the soft coal industry's chief negotiator, Har ry Moses of the Bituminous Coal Producers' association, that he was severing the present coal contract 601 days from last Mon day. The white - haired, shaggy browed miners' boss maintained a stony silence in his headquar ters iiere;' refusing "'to comment on the reports. He did not deny that they were true. Lewis Delayed Move The present contract allowed Lewis to terminate the agree ment on 60 days notice as early as Feb. 1. The shrewd-bargaining ex-miner decided to delay his move until now. Observers felt the delay might have been due to the drawn-out steel strike. In the past, Lewis has kept an eye on wage increases won for Steel workers by CIO leader Philip Murray, and has often won a greater boost for his miners. Lewis feels that now is the strategic time to move. How ever, the situation is not bright for a quick settlement. Stockpiles High One reason is the high stock pile of coal. Another is the sell ing price of coal. Prices have not risen for several years, due to the competition from other types of fuel, and operators feel their profit margin is already too low. Lewis has not revealed what he will ask for his miners, but it probably will include a wage boost, another payment to the miners' welfare fund and a shorter work week. New London, Conn. (U.R) Lammott . duPont, 71. former president and chairman of the board of the huge duPont Com pany, died Thursday in Law rence Memorial hospital. floor and the lucky guests who got seats in the gallery, it was an occasion of undiluted drama. The first cheers went up at 9:03 p.m. (CST). In the galleries blossomed blue "Barkley for President'' banners. On the floor, state delegations scrambled to get their standards into the pa rade for the old man. Barkley gave the crowd the boxer's salute and it went wild Bands played "Dixie," "My Old Kentucky Home," "Happy Days Are Here Again," "East Side, West" all the right tunes. For 28 minutes that went on. Finally Barkley began his speech. There was no self-pity. Right off he said he was not there "as a candidate for any office that this convention can offer." He noted that Dwight D. Eisen hower, the Republican nominee, says he is leading a "new cru sade." Well, said the Veep, if the Republicans lead a crusade it will be new, all right, because they have never yet crusaded for anything that meant the wel fare of the American people." . Crusade Continuing The Democrats, . he said, are ; Sealed Washington (UP) President Truman an nounced Thursday that the steel industry and CIO steelworkers have reached agreement for settlement of the long steel strike. Mr. Truman said the agreement was reached be tween CIO steelworker president Philip Murray and U. S. Steel President Benjamin Fairless in negotia tions in the White House cabinet room. He said the union was calling its 170-man wage-policy com mittee to a meeting here Friday "for the purpose of ratifying the agreement." "This should lead to a speedy resumption of steel production," he said. The settlement came just seven hours after the President called Murray and Fairless into his office and demanded that they settle the strike. Fairless, as leader of the industry negotiators, and Murray then met together with presidential assistant John R. Steelman to bargain out the agreement. Less than 20 minutes before the settlement was announced, negotiators for the other major steel companies and other union representatives joined the talks. President Reads Short Statement of Settlement The President, sitting at his desk and flanked by Murray and Fairless, read a short statement advising of the settlement. He said it was not a press confer ence and no questions would be permitted. The settlement terms were not learned immediately. How ever, the contract was expect ed to call for a wage increase for 600,000 striking steelworkers of about 16 cents on hour with more than five cents in fringe benefits. It was also expected to pro vide for a modified union-shop which was the major issue hold ing up the settlement for so long. Immediate End Expected The union was expected to call off the strike immediately after the wage-policy committee ratifies the agreement. But it was expected to take between four days and a week before full steel production could be re sumed. This is due to the time re quired to fire up furnaces. The end of the -steel dispute came as a result of a dramatic appeal by President Truman to the leaders of the industry and union. He warned them that the strike had already seriously hurt the defense economy and that any extende'd walkout from this date would deal a crippling blow to the nation. Man Found Guilty 0! Obstructing Road A jury in Judge Rawles Moore's district court yesterday found W. J. Easter. Jacksonville, guilty of obstructing a county highway. Deputy District At torney Robert Dickey said this morning. Involving the building ot a fence on county right-of-way were brought against Easter by county Engineer Paul Rynning. Judge Moore has not yet sen tenced Easter. Carl Joseph Williams, 37, Ashland, was sentenced to three vrars and six months in the state prison vesterday by Circuit Judge H. K. Hanna, according to District Attorney Paul Havi land. Williams plead guilty to obtaining money under false pre tences July 2. Salem (U.R) Gov. Douglas McKay Thursday announced the appointment of Winston L Bradshaw, Oregon City, as dist rict attorney for Clackamas county. continuing a crusade they start ed 20 years ago a crusade for "a happier and fuller life to all mankind in the years that lie before." After 36 minutes Barkley cut it off. He said the time will come when all mankind without re gard to race, religion, color, poli tics, or economic condition shall "stand erect before al mighty God ... as free men and women." "God grant," he said, "that it may come in your day and mine. Thank you, and goodbye." That was at 10:12 p.m. (CST). They didn't let him really say goodbye for another 38 minutes filled with more noise and music and mass singing than conven tion goers are likely to hear for a long time. Hammered Air The Barkley who started the speech was not thesame Bark ley who ended it. As he flung out the phrases and sounded the call to arms, he hammered the air with his fists, chopped it with his hands, made it vibrate with the power and timber of his voice. Egyptian Premier Completes Cabinet; Names Submitted Cairo (U.R) Premier A 1 y Maher Pasha was reported Thursday to have completed his anti-graft and corruption Cabi net only one day after he was returned to office by a military coup. Maher arrived in the summer capital of Alexandria by train from Cairo and submitted his list of ministers through which he hopes to end government corruption and force the British out of the Suez Canal Zone and the Sudan. Cabinet Independent Maher said his Cabinet would be mainly independent, al though he- would "leave the door open for all those who would like to support me in the service of my country inde pendents or partisans." The pre mier was expected to hold the key foreign and interior port folios himself. King Farouk named Maher premier Wednesday on demand of Maj. Gen. Mohammed Naguib Bey, who had proclaimed him self commander in chief of the Egyptian Army and seized con trol of the country in a blood less early morning coup. Naguib told newsmen he had no political ambitions and said the Army would resume its regular functions as soon as the new government has been form ed. Plant Completion Due by November t John Dingley, president of the Medford Veneer and Plywood corporation, said that the new plant at White City will be in complete operation by Novem ber 1, if construction goes as is planned. The 36,000 square foot floor has been completed, and the erec tion of the side wall and trusses is now in progress. Workmen are also erecting a steam plant in which the steam boiler will be installed this month. Dingley estimated the cost cf construction of the plant to be about S350,OO0 to $400,000, and said that the company is selling stock and inviting local people to invest in it. "Several local people have already invested in the stock." he said. Most of the machinery is scheduled to arrive at the plant during the next three months. At present concrete foundations have been poured for a 12-ton ander and 60-ton hydraulic press which are to arrive this month. Oregon Delegation Voles to Seat Texans Chicago (U.R) The Ore gon delegation to the Democrat ic National convention voted along with the majority Wednes day to seat the anti-Truman Tex as delegation, although the Ore gonians disagree with the south ern group. "We don't agree with any thing they stand for in the Shiv ers group," Chairman Terry Schrunk said, "but our creden tials committee member, James Schick of Forest Grove, said the right thing to do is seat them." Schick said the issue was a matter of law and the law was all on the side of the Shivers group. Astoria (U.R) Astoria fisher men and cannery workers pack ed their gear Thursday and pre pared to head home as the Bris tol bay fishing season ended in Alaska.
