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Adlai's Pre-Conven
lion Plans Almost Backfire
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.R) The first
maneuvers in Adlai E. Steven
son's formal pre-convention cam
f"!fpsf?i paign for next.
S';'&-$ year's Dem0"
11 a i ; nomina
tion did not
quite backfire,
but almost.
Stevenson's
strategy, as
outlined prior
to last month's
announcement
of hi candi
dacy, was to develop an early
and overwhelming show of
strength. Such a showing oi
early foot is essential for a
front runner in any kind of con
test. But, Instead of scaring off his
Democratic opposition, Steven
son's announcement incited them
to hoots of criticism and new
enthusiasm to challenge his nom
ination." The No. 1 immediate de
velopment was announcement
by Carmine De Sapio that Gov.
Averell Harriman of New York
would be placed in nomination
for President at next summer's
Democratic National Convention
Lyle C. Wilson
to be held in Chicago.
De Sapio is the soft-spoken
leader of the New York County
Democratic organization, better
known as Tammany Hall. He is
New York's Democratic national
committeeman and secretary of
state in Harriman's cabinet. De
Sapio almost invented Harriman
as a national political figure.
De Sapio Thwarts FDR Jr.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. was
moving to kidnap the 1954 Dem
ocratic nomination for governor
in New York when De Sapio in
terfered. He and others stopped
Roosevelt, nominated Harriman,
instead. More amazing, they
elected Harriman against a
stand-out Republican vote-getter
Sen. Irving M. Ives.
De Sapio's response to Steven
son's bid was to put Harriman
in the contest without qualifica
tion. The governor, however
describes himself as a non-active
candidate. There is nothing non
active about De Sapio. He is
shopping for delegates, but has
decided to keep his man out of
the numerous presidential pref
erence primaries among the
states which begin with New
Hampshire next March.
Harriman was almost first up
last year with a plug for Steven-
Builder of Plane Engine
For Wright Brothers Faces
Prospect as
Los Angeles U.R Charles
Edward Taylor, 87, the man
who built the engine for the
Wright Brothers' famed Kitty
Hawk airplane, faced the dismal
prospect today of becoming a
ward of the county because of
his feeble income.
The aged inventor, who ex
ists on a pension of only $300
a year left to him in a fund by
Orville Wright is presently mak
ing- the Los Angeles County
General hospital his home be
cause he has "no place.to; go.
Health Generally Good
Hospital doctors said the vet
eran aviation figure is in gen
erally good health except for
asthma, for which he cams to
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iv. xie lias ueeii appruvea iur
discharge from the hospital, but
doesn't know where to go.
Upon hearing of his plight,
Southern California aircraft in
dustry workers planned to ob
tain financial aid for the inven
tor, who has lived here since
1928. Office workers .at the
Aircraft Industries association
said they would make collec
tions of donations at major lo
cal aircraft plants in hopes of
augmentig Taylor's meager in
come. But Taylor, still proud, was
indignant upon hearing that re
ports of his plight diad leaked
out. o
A Little Left Over
"Why, I've got more income
right now than when I was
building that plane," he fumed.
"Cjf course, it doesn't go as far,
nowadays. But I've had a place
to live and plenty to eat and
enough left over to play a game
of pool and buy an ice cream
soda." o
Taylor built the first success
ful airplane engine in 1902 after
Orville arid Wilbur Wright de
cided to put power into one of
their gliders.
Soloists Will Be
Featured At Band
Concert Sunday
Miss Gogi Grant, who present
ly is singing at Rogue Valley
Country-club, will be guest star
at the Medford High school band
concert at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec.
4, in the high school auditor
ium.
Miss Grant, who recently was
on television shows ' and in
Hollywood, will be accompanied
by Abbey Green at the organ
and Glen Parker at the guitar.
In addition to Miss Grant,
Miss Sonia Peterson, a Med
ford High school senior also will
be a featured soloist. She will
play the "Warsaw Concerto" at
the piano, accompanied by the
band.
Proceeds from the annual
concert will help finance the
high school band's trip to San
Francisco Dec. 31, for the an
nual East-West Shrine football
game. The Medford band is one
of two which will play during
time-outs at the game.
To Visit Hospital
The band also will visit the
Crippled Children's hospital in
San Francisco the morning of
the game for a short concert.
The band has played at the hos
pital - each year it has gone to
San Francisco.
High school Principal Lester
Harris said ' he has received a
lette? from Oregon . School Ac
tivities association Secretary
son's nomination for president
in 1956. Last month he was no
worse than second with "hoots
against Stevenson's political
compass course for 1956. Ste
venson announced his candidacy
in a speech which proposed a
"moderate" approah to national
issues.
Harriman Objects To Word
Harriman snapped back that
there was no place for modera
tion in the Democratic Party.
Michigan's Gov. G. Mennen Wil
liams, closely allied to and de
pendent on the CIO for much
of his political support, also ob
jected to Stevenson's choice of
words.
Stevenson wondered out loud
whether his critics favored "im
moderation." The incident is
typical of the manner in which
the pack must attack a front
runner. Harriman's chances, of
course, depend wholly on stop
ping Stevenson, some of whose
backers now claim they have
about four-fifths of the neces
sary delegate votes to nomin
ate him next summer.
On the record of his New
York performance, , Harriman
packs some political punch. So
does Tennessee's Sen. Estes Ke
fauver who is expected to an
nounce this month his candidacy
for the Democratic presidential
nomination. Kefauver's strategy
will be to beat down Stevenson's
prestige in various state prefer
ential, primary contests. Harri
man will sit back, hoping they
knock each other out.
OP Wrong in Charges
Of Politics in Mines
Case, Neuberger Says
Seattle (Special) The Re
publican party leadership in Ore
gon is totally wrong in charging
"politics" to the Senate-House
investigation into the Al Sarena
mining case, Sen. Richard L.
Neuberger said here today.
He issued a statement in con
nection with the federal timber
hearings now under way here.
Senator Neuberger said, "The
only politics involved is that cer
tain prominent Oregon Republi
cans exerted pressure to have
a private Alabama assay over
rule the expert judgment of For
est Service and Bureau of Land
Management officials, so that
more than 300 acres of valuable
timber in the Rogue River Na
tional forest could be transferred
to private hands."
His statement continued:
To Follow Up o
"Senator Pames E. Murray,
chairman of the Senate Interior
committee, has told me that he
intends to follow up the Al Sa
rena case until the full facts
are known to the people of the
United States, who were the
rightful owners of this timber
until it was transferred under
the most extraordinary circum
stances. "A private assay, conducted
in far-off Mobile, Alabama, was
made the basis for granting to
the Al Sarena company 15 min
ing claims on which grew timber
worth in the neighborhood of
$250,000 perhaps more. This as
say was used by the Solicitor
of the Interior Department, act
ing for Secretary McKay, to set
aside the rulings of experienced
Tom Pigott informing him offic
ially that the trip has official
approval of the OSAA board of
control and delegate assembly.
Approval was granted last
weekend. Status of the proposed
trip was in doubt because of an
OSAA rule prohibiting trips of
more than 600 miles.
The show is sponsored by ra
dio station KMED, and Russ
Jamison will serve as master of
ceremonies. Tickets may be pur
chased at the door, and will be
sold on the first-come, first-served
basis .
mineral examiners of the Forest
Service and BLM. If this pro
cedure is made standard, virtual
ly our entire National-Forest
system could pass into private
hands. Thus, Al Sarena is of
interest to recreationists, to
campers, to skiers, to genuine
loggers and lumbermen.
Little Man's Case
"Our committee heard at Rose
burg from a lonely, disabled
prospector who fears he may lose
his mining claims. There was no
evidence in this little man's case
that leading Republican politi
cians believe a private assay
should be allowed to cancel out
the recommsndations of Federal
forestry officers. Testimony al
ready taken by our committee
discloses that Al Sarena relied
upon a procedure without prece
dent in the careers of men who
have been with the government
for 35 years.
"Why was this flone? Why
was there one rule for Al Sarena
and a different rule for virtually
all other mining claimants on
Federal lands? Why was a Mo
bile, Alabama, assay considered
superior to the findings of vet
eran Forest Service and BLM
mineral examiners?
Not Consulted
"It is strange, indeed, that the
Republican party in Oregon does
not want a Congressional com
mittee to ask these questions.
The National Forests, after all,
are among the most prized pos
session of the American people.
Yet Forest Service officials were
not even consulted when the of
fice of the Secretary of the In
terior used Alabama assays to
give away a piece of the Rogue
River National Forest.
"Senator Murray has said that
further hearings will ' be held
shortly after the first of the year
in Washington, D. C, to deter
mine what happened at Al Sa
rena. No one who is blameless
has any cause to fear or de
nounce these hearings. Surely
a committee concerned with Fed
eral timber can properly deter
mine what happened to this
timber in the Rogue River for
est," Senator Neuberger con
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Officials Witness
Tucker Sno-Cat
Demonstrations
Four Tucker Sno - Cats were
transported to Crater Lake Na
tional park Wednesday for use
in a demonstration-training pro
gram in various terrains and
snow depths.
Three of the sno-cats, pur
chased recently by Pacific Tele
phone and Telegraph company,
were used to train 16 company
men from Portland, Eugene,
Roseburg and Medford in sno
cat operation, maintenance, and
lubrication.
The three vehicles, designed
for operation in areas of deep
snow, will be used by the tele
phone company to make routine
and emergency trips to micro
wave stations.
Micro-wave stations on Siski
you summit, Old Baldy, and'
King mountain, now in various
stages of completion, will go
into service next year as trans
fer stations for mobile service.
The stations will serve as tele
vision relays when television
traffic becomes heavier.
The fourth sno-cat, a double
drive freighter model, was dem
onstrated to' representatives of
the Trans-Mountain Oil Pipe
Line company of Canada. "The
sno-cat, subsequently purchased
by the company, will be used
for pipe line inspection and
maintenance in the Canadian
Rockies.
The freighter model is the
same type of Tucker sno-cats
'now being transported to Ant
arctica for polar expeditions.
Five of the sno-cats will be
used in Antarctica this winter
by United States, French and
English exploration parties.
Next winter, 25 sno-cats are
scheduled for use in Antarctica.
I Friday, December Z, 115
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE
Transfer Firm Files
Incorporation Papers
Salem Reorganization of
Eads Transfer and Storage Co.,
Portland, was indicated in three
filings of articles of incorpora
tion made with th state corpora
tion commissioner here this
week.
The three new corporations
constitute portions of the present
company, which will be divided
for operational purposes. Sign
ing the articles of incorporation
for all three new firms were
Louise Kurtz, Ronald M. Han
del and Ferris F. Boothe. Each
new firm is incorporated with
100 shares of stock with no par
HIGH BIDDER
Bend U.R) Brooks Scanlon,
Inc., of Bend, was high bidder
for an estimated 4,000,000 board
feet of timber west of LaPine.
The successful price was $39.65
for pine in the tract.
Catania, Sicily (U.R) A five
and one-half pound boy was
born Thursday night to the. wife
of a factory worker just 18 days
after she gave birth to a girl.
value listed.
It is understood that the
change in operational organiza
tion will become effective the
first of the year.
Eads maintains offices and a,
warehouse in Medford, at 123
South Front st. :
WRECKED CAR TAGGED
Bloomington, 111. (U.R) A po
liceman hung a ticket on a badly
smashed car parked by authori
ties near the courthouse as a
Safe-Driving Day reminder
Thursday. The car was facing
the wrong way on a one-way
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Winchell's Daughter
Charges Cruelty
Los Angeles (U.R) Walda
Von Dehn, daughter of column
ist Walter Winchell, charged in
a separate maintenance suit to
day t?iat her estranged husband,
Hyatt Robert Van Dehn, struck
her on at least 15 different occas
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ate maintenance suit against Van
Dehn yesterday, just 15 minutes
before he filed for divorce. She
charged extreme mental cruelty
and asked for a court order pre
venting the wealthy husband
from disposing of his property.
Von Dehn's suit for divorce
accused his wife of extreme
cruelty. They were married only
a few months ago. Von Dehn is
the former husband of vocalist
Ginny Simms.
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