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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) ME&FORDvttiTRIBWl Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads Tne Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor ERNEST R GILS TRAP. Manager HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor ' HARRY CHIP MAN. Teiegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation MgT An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter t Medford. Oregon, under Airt of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Daily and Sunday one year $12.00 Daily and Sunday six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday three mos. 3 JO Dailv 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 CF 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 Vancouver. B C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASVodt-ATldN NEWSPAPEt PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Egyptians Choose Three Regenis Cairo 0I.R) The Egyptian government chose a three-man regency council last Saturday night to reign on behalf of in fant King Ahmed Fad II at least until November. The council included one rep resentative each of Egypt's royal ty, the amy, and politics. They were: Prince Mohammed Abd El Moneim. second Prince of tbfe Realm. Mohammed Aly, the only Royal Prince who ranks higher than Abd El Moneim, is 70 years old and in poor health. CaL Rashad Mehanna, a lead ing member of the military jun ta that seized power July 23. Me- fcanna had been serving as com' mimications minister, and he mill he replaced in that capacity by social affairs minister Zoheir Garrana. Bahi El Din Barakat, a politi cal independent who has servea as a cabinet minister and who was mentioned as a possible pre mier when Hussem Sirry gave iir tho nnst. in mid-July. Prince Mohammed is now in Switzerland, and the council probably will not be sworn m until he returns here, probably Tuesday. Phoenix Holds Third City Budget Election Phoenix The third city bud get election on $10,370.91 oyer Via fi ner cent increase limitation began at 12 noon today in Phoe nix and will last until 8 p.m. ai the city hall polling place, ac .rtrrfin! in TVTavor R. Claflin. The first election defeated the proposed budget, but a second election rjassed bv a considerable majority. The latter was later de clared invalid by the county as sessor's office due to a legal tech nicality. Court Records POLICE COURT William Junior Wood, expired oper ator's license. $5 bail. Eleanor Wright Denforth. void li cense plates, $5 bail. DISTRICT COURT Richard Lee Reedy, overwidth. $10 Thnnim O Smith, overwidth. $6. Emil John Zwan, sifting leaking load. $10. Bert Williams Rodgers. no red flag at end of load. S10. Fritz John Ruch. failure to stop at Stop sign, 510. Melvin R. Cooper, violauon of basic rule. S15. Alfred Andrew Larson, overwidth, sin William G. Holmes. " defective tail light. $5. Dcn--!d R. Brandfield, overwidth, $10 V 'i.l Rov Hooper, overwidth and ove U-.rd. S268.50. Dael! Lee Edwards, illegal posses sion ftf alcoholic beveraee. S15. Sandy Dee James, throwing burn ing substance from moving verucie, $10. Donald R. Frohreich. no emergency brake. S5. Rex Eugene Hopper, failure to atop. $10. Glenn L. Pittam, failure to stop at stop sign. S10. James Ned Starnes, Improper tail light. $5 costs. Weldon G. Bundock, no registration card. 55 costs. Carl F. Winebarger. violation of ba sic rule. $10. Bruce J. Manley. failure to stop at stop sign. $5 costs. Robert George Baker. Toketee Falls, reckless driving, $25. Roy Vernon Deutschman. passing on right side. $15. CIRCUIT COURT Ira W. Bishop vs. Elizabeth Bishop, divorce complaint. Kristine Larson vs. Ole Larson, di vorce complaint MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Richard JoseDh Camden. 21. Med ford. and Cecile Louine Morris. 18. Medford. George Thomas Frey. 21, Medford. and Venita Loy Roberson. 20. Ash land. Benjamin Robert Carter. 22. Cen tral Point, and Jan Freeman, 21, Cen tral Point. Herman Lee Huffman. 22. Medford, and Mary Lou Carr. 18. Medford. Earl Lee Royston. 58. Talent, and Dott Williams. 57, Ashland. MAIL TRIBUNE Nature Still Mother Nature, possibly - provoked by man's attempts to regulate her activities proved with unmis takable emphasis last evening that she is still all powerful and that while puny man may be able to control her whims in minor respects, she can do pretty much as she pleases, and THE near cloud-burst and smashing hail storm un- leashed over this portion of the Rogue valley was the worst within the memory of this writer, covering some 38 years. It built up to nothing; man could do could have had effect, at least after the situation became well developed. Aerial seeding of such a mass of thunderheads would have been like trying to stop a fly swatter. As this is written the estimated but it is feared has been dealt a heavy blow. OUCH an unusual visitation is disheartening not alone to the growers who had brought their crops along through the various laborious stages to a point where the harvest was near. Their loss is shared by everyone in this region for our economic well being is to a large extent dependent upon the iruit industry, If Mother Nature aimed to prove her power she certainly succeeded. E.C.F. As Goes Mississippi The fate of the Democratic party in the South in 1952 may be determined at Democratic state convention at Jackson on August t. It was the present governor of Mississippi, Hugh L, White, who led the state's Democratic convention m And it was at a "rump" Julv 1948. called bv Fielding L. Wright, then governor of Mississippi, that the (Dixiecrat) party was born. that party's candidate for nine electoral votes m ivo crats. THE nomination in Chicago of a Southerner Sen Cnofl-mnn "Ala fnr assauged the dissident Democrats from Ole Miss. The state rnnvention's two nominees to the Democratic national committee one T,. WnVht were accented dministration Mississippi ing to take the loyalty pledge backed by JNonnern " herais " was rin v seated sell on all three ballots for firm But the Mississippi delegation had come to Chi cago in July guided by these instructions oi me state rjemnrratip executive committee: "If the platform adopted at the national Democratic convention con- . - ... 1 I 1 J n lA - tains civil rights, JJiru, nlanks . . . Mississippi's vtiVinntinn in the sippi's delegation would not support Senator Russell or any other man willing to such a platform." . Similar instructions caused a row over the Missis sippi delegation in 1948. structed to walk out unless the civil rights program of tr.o nnventinn nnminated endorsing that program. seated the Mississippi delegates m j.yo, dui me un gates walked out when tne convention auopieu strong civil rights platform plank. M1 ISSISSIPPI like Alabama, South Carolina, and Georgia used the Democratic label and ballot designation m 1948 to choose electors who cast their votes for the Dixiecrat ticket. By not voting for the national Democratic candidate in 1948, Mississippi Democrats lost the four-vote premium normally awarded Democratic states, and their delegation to the 1952 Chicago convention was pared from 22 to 18. As the result of the 1950 census, Mississippi also loses one electoral vote this year. No matter how dissatisfied Mississippi Democrats may be with the platform expected to vote for the candidates, awarded the offic ial ballot designation. The Thurmond ticket in 1948 garnered 167,538 Mississippi votes, to 19,384 for the Truman ticket, and 5,043 for the Republicans, fhe situation was different in Virginia in 1948, where the Thurmond ticket took more regular Democrats, but left over the Republicans. Like Mississippi, five South Carolina, Texas, Georgia, Virginia have left the door open to independent action by reconvened state Democratic conventions. Some of them could be expected to follow whatever lead Mississippi makes. R.S.. Man, Navy Deserter for 25 Years, Gives Self Up Portland OI.PJ Peter Cor nelius Bos, 47, was in the cus tody of naval authorities Mon day after surrendering himself as a deserter from the Navy 25 years ago. "It's been on my mind for a long time," Bos said, "and I'm glad to get it over it's worried me all this time." . He said his son, Charles Ed ward Bos, 18, is to leave Friday for San Diego following an en listment in the Navy. Two other sons, aged 17 and 21, are in the National Guard, Monday, August 4, 1952 All Powerful when she pleases. such vast proportions that fleet of bombers with damage toll has not been that the valley's fruit crop the reconvened Mississippi 24 delegates out of the Philadelphia m iy48. convention in Alabama in Democratic state's rights White went on to become vice - president; Mississippi's weie cat iui me iiaic- viro nvpsi1anf mav have of them the same Fielding at Chicago. And the anti delegation at Chicago, will- and voted soiidiv ior nus the presidential nomina and otner anti-aouineui delegation win take no convention . . . Missis accept tne nommauun uu The delegates were in tne convention repuuiaieu President Truman or if Truman or anyone else The credentials committee or candidates, they can be than 40,000 votes from them a 28,000 plurality other states Louisiana, NOT AVAILABLE Omaha, Neb. U.R) Mrs. Jo seph Vanosi told court officials her soldier husband would be glad to report for duty as a juror after a notice had arrived for him. "If you could arrange for him to come home from Korea," she said, "he would be more than happy to serve." SMOKERS MADE SAFE Memphis, Term. U.PJ Aus tin Trousdale .has designed a "fool-proof" ash tray for those who smoke in bed. It has an ele vated center section and if the smoker is drowsy or forgetful the cigarette can fall only into a tray below the center part. Crosstown "Eccentric old lady, feed all the stray cats in the neighborhood." Matter of Fact DID HE CONNIVE? Washington "No man could be nominated, wise old Sen. Arthur Vandenberg used to say, when he himself was being pro moted for the Republican nom ination in 1948, "without con niving." He meant, of course, that no man can get his party nod without some sort of prior commitment to his party's key chieftain. The Vandenberg rule held true in his own case, as it almost always had before. Did Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, "connive" in order to get the Democratic nomination? This seems a good time to ask this question. A good many people are saying that Stevenson won the nomination in a partic ularly wily maneuver, and a good many more people are like ly to say so before the presi dential campaign ends. Sen. Paul Douglas, for example, has pic tured the Stevenson draft as an exercise in "planned spontan eity" and Republican national committee chairman Arthur Summerfield charges that Stev enson is the "hand - picked" can didate of President Truman. In short, the Stevenson draft was supposedly put over, with Stev enson's knowledge, consent and secret cooperation, by Truman and a handful of powerful pro fessionals. In fact, this is so far from the truth that both Truman and the professionals, like Col. Jacob Arvy of Illinois, actually gave up on Stevenson before the con vention was called to order. Tremendous pressure was brought to bear on Stevenson by these men, not to become an ac tive candidate, but simply to pass the word that he would run if nominated. ALMOST tearfully, Arvey pleaded with Stevenson to al low him to pass this word. When Saskatchewan Hosts Uranium Ore Rush Regina, Sask. U.P.) The first big uranium claim-staking rush of the atomic age opened in Northern Saskatchewan Mon day. Grizzled sourdoughs who traded gold-sifting pans for Gei ger counters and beardless youngsters seeking fast fortunes flew into the wilds as 500 uran ium claims were thrown open to prospectors. They converged on the lake- dotted wilderness around Bea verlodge, 600 miles northeast of here, in what Saskatchewan Re sources Minister J. H. Brockel- bank said was the greatest rush into the Northland since gold was found near Goldfields, Sask., in the 30's. To Ration Bullets For Training Units Washington U.P.) Acting Army Secretary Karl R. Bendet- sen Monday announced "strict austerity" rationing of ammunv tion for training units in order to supply combat troops in Korea. Most training units are in the United States; some are in Alas ka and Hawaii. Bendetsen said the recently- ended steel strike has resulted in "a conservatively estimated" 37 per cent loss of the expected production of heavier than 50 caliber ammunition for the fis cal year which began last July 1. Man Wins Free Car On Family Discount Hartford, Conn. (U.PJ Har old DeGray has a "free-wheel ing" $100 automobile which his 10 children "bought" for him. He acquired it gratis from a dealer who offered a $10 dis count for each child in any fam ily buying a used car. . i Soap is good for lubricating nails or screws before putting them into wood. .. . j By Roland Coe By Joseph and Stewart Alsop Arvey's efforts were unavailing, Truman dispatched Democratic Chairman Frank McKinney to Illinois to try again. Various other leaders, like Gov. Paul Dever of Massachusetts and May or David Lawrence of Pitts burgh, also tried to get Steven son to make this simple com mitment. And finally, shortly before the convention, Samuel Cardinal Stritch of Chicago saw Stevenson in order to assure him that his divorce was no bar to his candidacy. All this effort was absolutely unavailing. As a result, Truman and the key leaders like Arvey reasoned with plenty of his torical precedence that no convention was going to nomin ate a man who might turn the nomination down. Truman there fore let it be known that Vice President Alben Barkley was "acceptable" to him. Arvey, Lawrence, and the other leaders also turned to Barkley. Arvey even telephoned Barkley in Ken tucky a few days before the con vention, to promise the Vice President his support. The plain fact is that Truman and the "bosses" who are sup posed to have maneuvered the Stevenson draft were them selves caught flatfooted when it became clear that the conven tion wanted Stevenson and no body else. In effect, the profes sionals simply rushed to the head of the Stevenson parade which was already forming, and began frantically waving their banners. The only shadow of substance in the charge that Stevenson "connived" lies in the fact that he could have taken himself straight out, and that he never did so. In fact, he came very near to doing so on at least three occasions. The first time was just after President Tru man's withdrawal, when Stev enson wrote out in longhand his own version of Gen. Sherman's famous statement. He was only barely prevailed upon to keep it locked in his desk. a OTOE SECOND time was short ly before the Republican con vention, when W. Averell Har riman's manager, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., almost persuaded Stevenson to issue the withdraw al statement, and throw his whole weight behind his old friend Harriman. And the third time was on the second day of the convention, after the Illin ois delegation had infuriated him by defying his express wish not to support his nomination. Stev enson telephoned Roosevelt and seriously discussed taking hinv self out even then. The first two times, Steven son's friends dissuaded him on the grounds that his withdraw al would strengthen Robert A. Taft. The third time, Stevenson was persuaded that his with drawal would help, not Harri man,. but Sen. Estes Kefauver, whom Stevenson did not want to see nominated. Yet these were really only surface reasons for Stevenson's failure to take him self right out. Stevenson is, after all, a pol itician, and although he did not want the nomination this year, he is by no means an unambit ious politician. He knew, that a politician signs his own death warrant when he flatly refuses to accept his party's nomination, and Stevenson had no political death wish. This is the real rea son, one strongly suspects, why he never made public his hand written Sherman statement. In short, Stevenson did not want to be drafted, and he did everything possible, short of political suicide, to prevent a draft. But he was shrewd enough to know that he might be drafted anyway, and in this case he wanted to be nominated on his own terms an "honest draft," with no strings tied. Stevenson got the nomination he did not want on precisely the terms he did want no mean achievement. But certainly the answer to the question "did he connive?" is an emphatic "no." ' (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) - In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS I suppose you've read in the papers or heard on the radio this Russian propaganda tale about the way we Americans run elec tions in Tennessee. It's a lulu. I like especially the Moscow-painted picture of the bossman sher iff and his family. He sits at one table dealing out FILLED-IN ballots with one hand and dollar bills with the other. Another table is held down by his wife and the rest of the family, all heavily festooned with six-shooters. Their job is to check the ballots to see that no low-down trash sell their votes and then renege. If they catch a guy trying that, it's BANG and the sexton has another job digging a hole. fTHE WAY it comes over the Moscow radio it's funnier than a crutch. But it has a serious side. IT COULD BE THAT WAY SOMEDAY, even here in free America, IF WE PERMIT TOO MUCH POWER TO REMAIN IN TOO FEW HANDS TOO LONG. I T'S THAT WAY in Russia now. It GOT that way because in Russia too much power has been permitted to remain in too few hands too long. u PPER bracket politics: Eisenhower CAMPAIGN LEADERS gather in Denver for high-level STRATEGY confer ences. DON'T LET 'em load you up with a lot of fancy "strat egy," Ike. We voters are fed up with that stuff. All we want in this year of decision is a leader we can BELIEVE and TRUST. We think you're that kind of man and we have faith that if elected President you'U sur round yourself with that kind of men. That will be good enough. Just go on being yourself and don't let anybody clutter you up with a lit of outworn ballyhoo. IKE himself, speaking in Den ver, says he wants the GOP campaign to give as much em phasis to the CONGRESSIONAL RACES as to his bid for the Presidency. Paste that in your hat. If Ike is elected President, he will APPOINT his administra tive assistants, from members of his cabinet on down." But (thank the Lord, this being America) he can't appoint the members of Congress. They must be ELECTED. You and I and tens of millions of other Americans will have to do that job because under our system nobody else can do it. If we elect Ike, let's at the same time elect a Congress that he can WORK WITH. T SUPPOSE you read that -1- thrilling mystery tale the oth er day about a supposed spy parachuting down from a plane into the super-secret Hanford atomic works up in the state of Washington. It seems to have been a dud. What happened, apparently, was that a piece of building paper, about the .size of a man, was caught up by a whirlwind and carried aloft. Since what goes up must come down, it came down and somebody saw it and jump ed to conclusions. A LOT of our fears, both for the nresent and for the fu ture. arise out of the unfortunate fact that so many of us see so many things that DON'T HAP PEN and know so many things that "am t so." rpHIS IS from Salem: "A forgotten 88-year-old law (enacted in 1864) is being dusted off for use against an Oregon convict accused of knifing a guard a couple of days ago. The old law provides the death pen alty for an attack on a guard with a deadly weapon. It is un usual in that it doesn'tgive the jury a choice whether or not to inflict the death penalty. The death sentence is mandatory." The guard who was knifed suf fered only a minor hand cut. IF YOU CAN SEE an Oregon jury sentencing a 'convict to death for gashing a guard's hand, you can see things L can't see. I'd say a law like that is like a lot of the old stuff most of us keep around in our attics. It may have been all right in 1864, but it isn't any good now. We'd bet ter get rid of it just as most of us would better get rid of the old stuff in our attics. CiO Calls Strike at International Plant Chicago (U.R) About 4,000 members of the ClO-United Auto Workers went on strike at the International Harvester- Tractor works at suburban Melrose Park Monday after a breakdown of negotiations on revised job standards. . The plant, idle for four weeks because, of the steel shortage, had been scheduled to resume production Monday. Picket lines were thrown around the plant at 5 a.m. CST. The main issue, according to a union spokesman, was : loss of pay caused by increased job standards on piece work. MacARTHUR ACCEPTS REMINGTON - RAND CHAIRMANSHIP Gen. Douglas MacArthur (right) confers with James H. Rand, president of Remington-Rand, Inc., after accepting chairmanship of the corporation's board of directors at annual board meeting in New York. The Army announced that MacArthur can remain a general of the Army while serving as chairman of the bccrd. On The Side (Distributed by King At this time of the year my thoughts frequently turn to the career of Arthur Brisbane. That is, I think of the time the great editor and columnist wrote 30 columns in advance. Consider that, my friends, 30 columns filed and no columns to write for a month. As some fellows dream of what they would do if they made a million dollars. I dream of what I would do if I had written 30 columns in ad vance. Right now I think if that were my extremely happy situa tion I would immediately push off for Del Mar, Calif., where the turf meets the surf. At Del Mar is the cosiest little race course in the United States of America. It is a place where relaxation reigns and contentment rules. Even the horses are influenced by the atmosphere. They prance to the post in a gay mood. Or so it seems. Maybe I could start saving up extra columns and by this time next year have 30 in advance and spend the month of August being swept by ocean breezes where the turf meets the surf at old Del Mar. As It Was During the Capone era in Chi cago there was a gangster known as "Golf Bag Sam" Hunt. Nick name was inspired by the fact that Hunt carried a machine gun in a golf bag. He wanted to be different. Most of the other gangsters were carrying their machine guns in violin cases. Snoring Husbands Harassed wives of snoring husbands continue to ask this department for a solution of their sleepless situation. At present there is no' known cure for snor ing. All I can continue to suggest is that the wife use ear plugs or arrange to sleep in a separate room. Favorite Meal Who was it that said: "Tell me what you eat and 111 tell you what you are?" Anyway, the favorite meal of Vice President Alben W. Barkley according to his charming wife is as follows: turnip greens, corn bread, chest nut pie and country ham. Asking Queries from clients. Q If Cleopatra was not a redhead as you stubbornly insist why is she always portrayed as such in stage and screen plays? A Cleo patra was a Greek and originally a brunette. Later in life she wore a red wig. She has not always been portrayed on the stage as a redhead. In a stage production of Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopat ra," Lili Palmer played Cleo as a brunette. Q You apparently read the Frank Merriwell stories when a. boy. Many famous men say these stories had an influence on their after life. How about you? A I never went for Frank Merriwell as a hero. Nor did most of the kids on our block in southern Brooklyn. We just couldn't go for that stuff about Merriwell pitching a curve called the double inshoot and some of his other extraordinary athletic feats. Getting Married In France the sympathy for QUALITY Truly thoughtful service is a precious quality which money olone cannot buy. It is most often found among those experienced, trustworthy institutions which have achieved a name .through many years of serving the public. k We provide such service need it. k CONGER-MORRIS West Main at Sixth Medford Funeral Directors Ambulance Service By F. V. Durling Features Syndicate, Inc.) those having difficulty in acquir ing suitable matrimonial mates i. great. The happily married do all they can to aid the unhappily unmarried. One of the world's largest "Lonely Hearts" club is the French Club National des Liseres Verts (National Green Ribbon Club). Sponsoring the organization are some of the best known people in France. Now the powerful Paris weekly, France - Dimanche, has estab lished a marriage market. Ia every issue it carries a 1,000 word article by a person seeking either a wife or a husband. The article details the writer's back ground and characteristics. Also what type of matrimonial mate is desired. The anonymity of the writer is preserved. Only the most desirable persons in the way of matrimonial prospects are given this opportunity. Many marriages have resulted from it. Passing By Bill Strang. Distinguished sportsman. Bill, a Brooklynite, is a harness horse enthusiast. Has owned many good harness horses including one winner of the Hambletonian. Harness rac ing is often referred to as a sport of rural origin. Fact is the first harness horse meet in this country was held in New York City. Historical Note A feminine subscriber says she has a United States flag in which there are forty-five stars. If you have a daughter who is a high school co-ed or a son who is a freshman at college ask him at what period in our country's history did the Star Spangled Banner have forty-five stars. Go Ye Says He Geo. N. Taylor Tell them that God had a Son who died for their sins. Then God himself takes up. By the Holy Spirit, He tells them that having sinned they are lost forever, with; only Judgment Day and Eteiv nal Hell ahead. To escape these, they must re ceive Christ as If 1 dying for all 'ft J their sins, hi Geo. N. Taylor and little. Let them receive Christ and face about. Then God will welcome them with their sins blotted out and eternal life written in. With the gift of eternal life God gives them such peace, hope and strength as this world can never know. No man goes to glory with sins written against him. Ro mans 5:9 teaches that being set right with God by Christ's blood, we shall be saved from wrath thru Him. Pray for the lost and tell them how to be saved. For details as to reaching out with the Gospel, thru the news papers, write Geo. N. Taylor, S-W McChesney Rd., Portland 1, Oregon. This space sponsored by a dairy farmer. adv. oil times for those w ho j
