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.
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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
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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.
They spent more than an
hour in darkness while train
men walked out to call for a
relief engine.
MIXUP COSTS 60 DAYS
Chicago (U.R Arthur Trease
gets out of jail today 60 days
late. Judge Alphonse Wells said
he had meant to sentence Trease
to seven months on a traffic
charge, but that Trease had been
kept nine months through a mis
interpretation. Trease's plight j
was discovered when he wrote
a newspeper that "I Ihink there
must have been some kind of
mixup."
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