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Truman To Give All-Out Effort To Elect Democratic Candidate Filitor"s Not: With the pressure In creasing among rontenders for the Democratic presidential nomination, the itewt ot former President Harry S Truman take on added significance. The foilowtnc dispatrh if written br a tnlted Press correspondent who hat accompanied Mr. Truman on hit Euro pean tour and. arrordine to members of the prlv closest to lilm. closelv follows the former president's views at this time. man's candidacy could resolve. But the former president does not believe for one minute that the Democratic party is so short By EDWARD S. CORNISH United Press Correspondent Salzburg, Austria CUE Harry Truman, in fighting trim for the forthcoming political campaign, will go down the line for any candidate named by the Democratic convention. But a source close to the for mer President said today he be lieved no one not even Bess Truman knows If Mr. Truman has any personal preference for the lob of Democratic standard bearer. Mr. Truman has said he will attend the Democratic conven tion as "a private citizen and on looker." He has stated em phatically and repeatedly that he is not a candidate. Reporters who have been ac companying him on his trip about Europe believe that he is not being coy, that he means Just what he says. Yet they keep asking if he would submit to a draft a sub ject which Mr. Truman likes to call a "hypothetical question." He has avoided answering it di rectly. Might Accept Draft The feeling of those who know him, however, is that his answer might be a qualified yes. They believe he definitely does not wish to be nominated. If there was only himself and Mrs. Truman to think about, circumstances conceivably might rise which would demand his candidacy. But Mr.. Truman thinks them so unlikely that he is not even taking them into serious consideration. One very remote possibility would be a deadlock at the con vention which only Mr. Tru- Harriman as a candidate. But the ex-president does not con sider it in the best interests of his party to be identified with of strong and willing candidates any particular candidate at the that he might be the only man who could end a deadlock. His sole role at the conven tion, therefore, will not be that of a possible candidate. It will be instead that of a man anxious to help his party pick the best man for the job. Before the con vention, he will continue to keep a close watch on all the possible candidates without com mitting himself to any of hem. At the convention itself, he will try to preserve unity while doing his best to help se lect a man who can lead the Democrats to victory in Novem ber. A number of persons have claimed that Mr. Truman leans toward New York Gov. Averell Mother of Kidnaped Boy in Hospital Roseburg 'UP) Mrs. Evelyn Renhard, whose three-year-old son figured in a three-state kid-1 naping alarm last week, was in a Cottage Grove hospital today, the result of an auto accident that occurred north of Drain. . Mrs. Renhard's former hus band, Marcus H. Renhard, was free on $1000 bail on a charge of kidnaping the couple's son from a Eureka, Calif., day nur sery. The mother claims the son was awarded her in a divorce settlement at Grants Pass where the couple formerly lived. Renhard was taken into cus tody at Vancouver, Wash., Sat urday. Mrs. Renhard was en route to Portland after learning her son had been found when her car left the highway, skidded into a ditch and was demolished. present time. He probably won't announce a choice until the con vention actually is underway in Chicago. Will Support Candidate Once the delegates have gath ered, however, Mr. Truman's role as the Demcoratic party's only living ex-president and elder statesman may do much to enhance the convention's effec tiveness and harmony. When the candidate is chosen Mr. Truman will do everything in his power to insure his elec tion, even to the point of helping in a whistle-stop campaign if he thinks the party needs him for that task. Mr. Truman has no doubts that the Democrats can win this November against any Republi can candidate, including Presi dent Eisenhower. He also be lieves they will win if they get the issues across effectively to the people. He wants a hard hitting campaign by the Demo crats, with the party leaders missing no chance to bring their arguments directly to the voters. He believes there is plenty of ammunition for such a cam paign, including what he feels to be failures of the Eisenhower administration's farm policy. The 72-year-old Mr. Truman is in top physical form for a hard campaign himself. Even though he was hampered by a torn liga ment in his ankle, he kept re porters breathlessly puffing aft er him as he looked at the sights of Europe. In effect, private citizen Harry Truman believes the Republi cans are going to have a real fight on their hands and he believes that the same Mr. Tru man probably will be giving them some of their hardest knocks. ssssppv mm mi mittmftmwajmwrftmyrmt , m ussu m m ' U'' r e, f , ' SJfa. ' V V . J c i - '-v "v v Or-; f ' ' Tuesday, June 5. 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FTYE HAPPY CONFERENCE is held by Senator Price Daniels (D-Tex.) (left), author of bill providing possible death sen tence for those convicted of selling heroin to youths, and Harry" AnsKnger, U. S. commissioner of narcotics, after passage of the measure. (International Soundplioto) Demos Lead Slate House Nominations Portland U.R) Monroe Sweetland, Democratic nominee for secretary of state and for mer national committeeman for his party, said today that the Democrats, for the first time in the history of Oregon, nominat ed more candidates for seats in the state House of Representa tives than did the Republicans. Sweetland's a n n o u ncement said that the Democratic party has candidates for 59 of the 60 seats in the lower chamber while the Republicans nominat ed 57 legislators. London (U.R) The con servative Daily Express printed a letter critical of its attitude on the Cyprus issue under the headline: "This is a Wicked Letter." More Navy Vessels Arrive in Portland Portland (U.R) The arrival of three additional Navy ships, a rehearsal for the Festival court's queen selection and a vis it of the junior court to a Holly wood Lions club luncheon, high lighted the activities scheduled for today,, the second day of of ficial rose festival week in Port land. Queen Nancy Wyly of the 1955 festival officially opened the week in a proclamation is sued yesterday at the debut of the 1956 court at the annual Portland Chamber of Com merce luncheon. Osaka, Japan (U.R) Some 30 persons were injured Monday night when a mortared ceiling panel in a downtown theater collapsed and fell on them. Shell Premium with TCP outperforms competitive premium gasolines i - - - - - V-. st ' k - How tests were made. Here two KJentieil can fintdi a "widenspen" tbrottlc acceleration ran. The lead car had used only Shell Premium with TCP ia trailing twin used only a premium competitive gasoline. 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PREMIUM Geisha Union Moves To Prevent Influx Nagano, Japan U.R) Na tional Geisha Union moved to day to prevent an influx of prostitutes into its ranks as a result of the anti - prostitution law enacted by the Diet last month. The geisha, professional enter tainers, take pride in their name which means "persons of art." They held a national con vention at the Kami-Yamada Hot Springs resort and adopted a series of resolutions calling for: 1. Polishing up their dancing and singing so they will not be mistaken for displaced street walkers. 2. Screening the background of each applicant for any con nection with prostitution. 3. Requiring rigid examina tion of applicant's abilities at singing, dancing or musical accompaniment. Sun Rises Late for Train rassengers Bath, England U.P) Th sun was an hour late rising to day for passengers aboard a Penzance to London train. Ths train's engine broke down midway througn a l34-mile-long tunnel just as most sleeping car passengers were awakering. 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