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Newspaper Page Text( rn nn rn ULMiUYJ UvJ v Prlee five Cenl-ll run nTUc ,, ... By FRANK JENKINN Well. It's over. 1 wasn't watch ing llic clock, but II must have happened about quarter ol eleven thin morning, It wuh fairly obvious by Tursdav Ihnt It (U going tn happen, Aiid bv Wednesday night It wiui prnatlcallv certain. Tlie shadows cunt bv the turbu lent sessions ol Tuesday and late Wrdneivdnv accurately lurclold tile coiiilim event. How did It happen? History repented Itself. The old bhvo way to the new, There was brief moment, of course, of elmlon. But as these wordii are written, only few inlnulea after the final vote. 1 Imagine elation Is already being succeeded bv a sense of drove responsibility. f'oliticHl campaigns are waned with promises. Of necessity. Uint Iha.t to be. Promises are enallv rvade. But carrylnii them out li another mutter. That requires courage and wisdom. It . Inkcw FORTITUDE. Ai one of General Elsenhower's lollnwera. I'm sure he tiuii what It lakes. But I'm equally sure that at thla moment his mood It a eolemn and aerloua one. II In up to hint now to make good. And these are grave davi In our na tion's life. But when itravo decisions have to be made, he 1 capable of mak Inn them. Ha proved thai when he took upon hla boulders the responsibility of deciding to pom pone the Normandv Invasion for a day because of unfavorable weather, Hla country' fale could have rented on that decision. But he dlnn't shirk It. Once hla decisions are made, he Is capable of carrying them out. The success of tho Invasion proved lhat. We've chosen an able man ' as Ihe Republlotn party's candidate fo- President ln'USlt year ct deci sion. Now a word for the loser. There have been plenty of Charlies that Senator Tail, as the pilot of the steamroller, would bull hla way through to victory at any cost. So far aa he la personally concerned, II aeems to me, these chorees have fallen flat, He waned a hard-hitting: campaign, but I can remember no personal blow of his that was below the belt. With tho ambition of a lifetime King In ruins at his feet, he came forward frankly and I'm sure sin cerely to shake Ihe hand of his successful opponent and to pledge his best efforts In what la now common cause. That, too, lakes fortitude. It takes good sportsmanship. There was another (Treat Ameri can who set his heart upon the Presidency Henry Clay. Three times he sought It In 1824, In 1832 and In 1844. Three times he lost But hla name Is written tn the panes of our history as one of our Illustrious sons. I'm sure the same will be true of flenotor Tuft He Is still a sena tor. We'll NEED him In the sonate In the critical years thai face us. There has been much talk to the effect that the heal and the pas sions generated In this pre-onven-tlon Republican campaign will de stroy the Republican party. I don't think so. It It true thnt the convention 11 ' .vll-wss tense and emotional. The delegates nt times were strung to a high pitch. There were moments when It looked like a free-for-nll might break out on the floor that even the police couldn't quoll bo lorn violence was done. I think those were GOOD signs not bad. It Is In moments of high rmollnn thnt men rise to their best. We must remember lhat the mlr scle of birth Is accompanied bv pangs. What we saw there on the convention floor at Chicago were the birth pangs of a new and flghtingly sincere Republican party. . Polio Strikes East Oregon ONTARIO, Ore. W Five polio cases In the Ontario area in the last three weeks have put the dis ease In the epidemic stage, Dr. 1,. A. Mnuldlng, county health, ol ' fleer, reported Thursday.. There was one death, 16-year-old gli'l who died June 39. The other four persons, all youngsters, tie out of danger. Mnuldlng snld polio Is considered i epldemlo whenever there Is more thnn one case smong 30,000 per sons. The Ontario roa baa about 10.000 residents. The two most recent cases were reported early this week. No Pictures Herald and News 'photog rnphnr Don KetUer. has been oalled out of the city by the denth of his brother In a Texas plnne crash and during Keillor's absence there will be no Nine 0'Oloclc Special pictures.' KLAMATH FALLS, OKKGON, FKIDAY, JULY 11, 1032 Ffames WILLING I'ANDS WEREN'T HARD to find when it cms fo hauling hoi fo fight the Ellington Lumber Company bleie last night. Several fir departments and scores of volunteer! pitched in to battle th roaring flamei. Windstorms, Lash County Hurricane weather high winds, flashing lightning and electric at mosphere struck the Klamath country late yesterday and last nil! In. lenvlng varied conditions In Its wake. ; - CAA anemometers "recorded gusts ranging up to 60 miles an hour last night, with a bottom registering hour mark. At least 10 smokes were reported this morning by lookouts on both sides of the slatellne, started by a heavy eleclrlcnl storm that played over the southwest tkles through out the night. Heavy rains were reported In some pnrts, mostly below the state line. The Tulelake Ranger Station marked .up more than one Inch In rainfall within on hour period, and reports from Cnnby snld more than 1.1 Inches of rain toll within a 30-mtmite, period. . Klamath Falls felt 'biit a few scattered-' drops U any of rain fall. -....' i LANGKLL VALLEY . , Upper Langell Valley-reportedly suffered a houvy cloudburst, Mnlln had a fair rainf nil, Merrill had a sprinkle. ' - - Wind appeared to. do tho big damage, eiipeclrilly In farming arena. Troos fell throughout the Basin, one onto a barn belonging to Walter Bliss, and) the hny was reported blown olenr out of a field belonging to Frnnk' Gardner, in tho Crystal Springs area, windrows woro roportcd to hnve been blown right Into Lost River. Other hny fields were reported converted to straw fields when the leaves, were ripped off, especially in fields- on tho ridges,. .... , ., FOREST FIRES Modoc Nntlonnl Forest reported a half dozen smokes this morning, and the KFPA was working sev eral others. The county. fire warden headed for Btukel Mountnln, south of town, to handle a fire spotted from Poo Valley, 'but a cloudburst flooded the area t.beToro he oould get there, ' , i . - ' Power outages' were frequent In some suburban- areas, with high winds playing hnvoc with trees and oowerllnes. 8nnrks were often seen leaping' several' Inches fronv high voltage, lined -to the bonding ornnencs. 'iTansioi-mers in ninny outlying sections were blown, ac cording to reports: , Farm Work Slackened Agricultural employment slack ened up 30 por cent Inst month over me same momn a year ago, according to a, report from the Klamath Fulls office of Ihe State Employment Service,, However, n heavy demand for hay hands Is expected during the next few weeks. During June, 138 placements were made In agri culture as against '193 the same period a month ago. ' ' Some 144 weeks Were claimed In unemployment benefits . last Woods Fires month, as against 383 a year ago. Strike Mill ' 0 y Oregon Heat By The Associated Press Moist ocean air cooled most of Western Oregon and Washington Frldnv. but fire hazard In mnnv pnrts of the forests remained high. Ihe eastern parts of the states remained hot, as well. In British Columbia. Onltano Village, on the Island of the same name nines from Vancouver, was saved from fire Thursday night after a hard bnttle. The flames had spread from a 45-acre lire, biggest in the Pacific North west. . . Entry -bv permit only, was es tablished in 17 Snoqunlinle Nation al Forest areas as It had been earlier In a few nntlonnl forest areas of Oregon, where hazard al. ways Is high In hot. dry weather. similar action Is expected for sev eral areas of other forests. Southwest Oregon wns viewed as one or the danger points Friday ano Saturday because of forecast thunder storms coming at a period of low humidity. Oilier mountnln areas oi Oregon were expected to get some thunderstorms, too, and Eastern Washington was to have tnem Saturday. The heat wave had been. pushed out of the coastal area and east ol the Cascades. Spokane Frldnv expected a top of 93 which wns 6 degrees under Thursday's high Saturday's forecast for the eastern part' of the two slates said It would be hot nulte so wnrm. ,, Thursday brought 101 readings at four Northwest cities: Wnlln Wnlln, aicimn. Pendleton and ontnrio. ' Conslnl points were nil cool In the low 60s. Seattle. Frldnv morning, had a little unexpected drizzle In parts of the oltv which was too light to ue measurable, , . , Langlie Last Wilson Hope ,' PORTLAND' W) Attorneys for Utah and Turman Wilson say only wasnmgton uov. Aruiur ts, hung lie can save the brothers from death on the gallows for the 1950 Slaying or Jo Ann uewey. The Ninth U. s. Court of Appeals wiped out one of their last hopes' Thursday with , an order vacat ing an Indefinite slay of execution. The stay was granted July 3 to give me court time to determine u their was prooable cause lor ap peal from a denial of hnbens corp us. The court decided Thursday there was no probable cause. Irvln Goodman and Bnnford Clements. . attorneys or the Wil son brothers In their long court bnttle. snld In a statement here only Gov. Langlie "can now de termine whether Turman and Utah shall live or die on the gallows.' Goodman said he hnpod th gov ernor would commute the sent ences to life Imprisonment. Utah and Turman were convict ed In March 1950 of the slaying of 18-year-old Miss Dewey. Their ap peals have been carried twice to the U.S. Supreme Court, Each time the court refused to review the case. MEET CANCELLED Roald Lodge, No. 39, 8ons of Norway has cancelled tonight's Wave Fading meeting, Teleph No. 3887 High' Winds Whip Fire Over Stacks By HALE 8CARBROUGH A spectacular wind-driven fire last night destroyed several hun dred thousand board feet of stacked lumber on Ihe Elllngson Lumber Company planing mill yard, but an even larger amount of lumber and the mill Itself was saved from the flames. An accurate accounting of the loss and damage had not been made today. Some of the. lumber piles burned all night and all this morning. Almost every piece of fire equip ment In this Immediate area was pressed into service and at the iieignt or tne lire two nunarca men or more firemen, mill workers and volunteers were involved In the butlle. WIND CUST3 The fire broke out In the south west corner of the sprawling lum ber yard about 9:15 p.m., Lawrence Mueller, night watchman at the mill, said, and frenzied gusts of wind drove the flames toward the north and east. At one time the wind had thrown sparks two hundred yards or more and ignited brush some distance beyond the stacked lumber. The Elllngson planing mill, erect ed about four years ago. Is located Just off Memorial Drive south of town, near the Klamath River. The flames roared through about two dozen stacks of heavy rough lumber, most of It fir. and at one point was only a few steps from the main mill building. CORRIDOR- ire-' '-- - t, ;,.--.'- Finally, when enough ho6e was on the ground, firemen worked Into a 35-foot corridor dividing the lum ber stacks and managed to limit the flnmes to the western section of the lot. If Uie fire had jumped that corri dor and for an hour there was every Indication It would it prob ably would have taken the rest of the yard. Firemen and volunteers did. an excellent Job of standing against the flames In that corridor and fin ally after the wind calmed the blaze began to burn Itself out In the stacks already arire. Several persons who live In the vicinity of the mill said the fire started in the southwest corner of the yard. An open burner was lo cated at that end of the lot and whipped great showers of sparks from It. THREE HOURS. The fight lnsted for almost three hours before the flames could be considered under control. As a spec tacle, the Elllngson fire was a par allel to the fire wnich last Septem ber destroyed the old Ewauna and Big Lakes box factories on S. 6th, but It was considerably more costly. destroying new lumber while the (Continued on Page Four) Indian Pay Due July 27 KLAMATH AGENCY A payroll Is now being prepared for the distribution of 394.400 to members of the Klamath Indian tribe July 31. The per capita payment of S200 will go to 1,973 persons listed on the roll as eligible. Money for the per capita pay ments comes from the revenue of tribal timber sales. 4' 1 ft i'l Ml., I t r I i 1L AS SEEN FROM A DISTANCE, flamet jumping from burning lumber ttacki lit up the iky more brilliantly than did an electrical ttorm that was going en co Incidentally with th EJIingion planing mill tira latt night.-This pictur wac taken trom several hundred feat, away. The glow of the flamei eould b seen Againit the iky from all over town and hundradi of motorists juit drove by to take look, 1 . i Photo by Sam Thompson. DWIGHT D. Opposing Fortes Start Repairing GOP Harmony CHltAGO W Gen. Dwleht D. 1 Eisenhower called on Sen. Robert A. Taft Friday shortly after his triumph over the Senator for the Republican presidential nomina "on. ,, He arrived, for what was an ap parent tefforl to smooth over the bitterness of the' convenuon con- tesl, under police guard and tne - iwo went imo private coiucrcucc .ro, ... lh street from his Blackstone hotel quarters to Tail's suite In the Con rad Hilton hotel. The place was jammed. Officer Kills Self, 3 More HOUSTON. Tex. W A jilted Air Force officer killed liis sweet heart, two hospital guards and himself at a nurses home here Thursday night as screaming nurs es watched. The orgy of blood and gunfire occurred on the second floor of Memorial Hospital's nursing home where men are not allowed. The officer Capt. Rennrd Hay wood of Ellington Air Force base near here had forced his way at pistol point Into the nurses' sanc tuary. Besides the 34-year-old Haywood, the dead are: Miss Carroll Cooper, 24. pretty junior nursing student from. Oil man, Ala; - .' , c. v.'. Robert 'Peterson.:' 64K .'guard. Houston. .' - , -. ; J. C. Fair,- 69, guard, Houston. A nurse- eyewitness, .Miss, Sue Grantham, 19. said Peterson, was killed instantly and that Fair lived onlv a few minutes after Haywood shot Uiem down as Uiey ran to the aid of Miss Cooper. , After shooting the two guards, Haywood barricaded himself and Miss Cooper in her room, waving a German Luger pistol In the air. As hastily summoned police en tered the room, the . nurses said, two more- shots were fired. Hay wood shot the girl in the head and then turned the powerful pistol to his own temple, -... . Ml" I 1 f .v 11 (J- K EISENHOWER General Elsenhower wore a light grey suit and white shirt. He was bare headed. . Elsenhower and Taft came out of their conference at 11:15 a.m. PDT. ....... Taft appeared first with Gener al Elsenhower behind him. They walked side by side as-they walked, into the lobby of the ninth floor. A party of about 40 or 50 per sons stopped for a minute behind the two men. Elsenhower and the Senator chatted amiably, both smiling broadly as they posed together be fore television cameras. What they said however, was lost In the gen eral uproar; "You'll win the election," Taft told the general at one point. Finally a measure of quiet was restored. Taft himself held up his hand and pleaded for quiet. "I want to congratulate General Elsenhower on his nomination and assure him I will do everything possible for him in his campaign and after he wins the election," Taft said. Eisenhower, who had taken the initiative In this dramatic bid to heal party wounds, said he had come across the street "to pay a call of friendship on a very great American." Just a few minutes later, Elsen hower had returned to his own headquarters In the Blackstone Ho tel, just across the street. "I have no statement to make at this time," he said, "I have just been across the street to pay a call on Senator Taft to extend to him an invitation to cooperate with me." - i Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity and Northern California: Partly clouded with scattered alt-, ernoon and evening ihundershow ers Friday and Saturday. ' Highs both days 83, low Friday night 55. High temp yesterday . ... . t 91 Low last night . ' 60 Preclp yesterday 0 Since Oct. 1 17.11 Normal for period .13.17 Same period last year 14.84 (Additional Weather on Page 4.1 '- i Victory Comes On First Ballot By The Associated Press General Dwight D. Eisenhower today won the Republi can Presidential nomination. In a dramatic climax to a ding-dong- fight with Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio, Eisenhower crashed through to the GOP accolade on the first ballot. On the roll call, Eisenhower first received 595 votes to 500 for Taft. But before the vote could be announced, Min nesota threw to the general 19 votes it had first given to Harold E. Stassen. That put Ike across with 614 votes. It took 604 to nominate. Texas and other states which had split their votes then began jumping. It was a landslide in the end. And this feuding, wrangling 25th Republican National Convention pulled itself together into a vociferous show of unity behind the five-star general with a roaring demonstra tion around and around the big hall hired by the stockyards. nep. b. tarrou Keece, . Southern campaign manager lor 'J ait, said: "Of course I'm going to support the nominee but I feel Eisenhower's man agers should apologize to Sen ator Taft for their conspiracy to stigmatize htm." The convention floor was In an uproar at that point as state after state rushed to toss its votes on the Elsenhower.bandwagon. Elsenhower himself was not In the hall. As custom dictates, he had waited at bis hotel while the convention's rank and file decided who should lead their effort this year to break 30 years of Demo cratic national rule. With him waiting for the returns were Mrs. Eisenhower Mamie to the general and three grandchil dren. David 4, Barbara Ann 3, and Susan, six months. They are chU- Secret Steel Talks Start PITTSBURGH l Ton level secret negotiations In the 40-day old steel strike were underway Friday in this steel capital. Alter their first meeting Thurs day, spokesmen for both Industry ana uie uu sieeiworters were tightllpped. A union source said a second meeting would be held at an un specified, time and place Friday. " There Is every indication that most of the issues of the long strike were discussed at least gen erally at the first session. Ostensibly the meeting was called to talk over the industry's request to get iron ore production moving again. But a union spokes man, when asked if other issues were taken up, smiled, "You may assume that." Philip Murray, president ot the CIO and the Steelworkers, and General Counsel Arthur Goldberg, head the union team. Among in dustry leaders present were Vice- president John A. biepnens oi u. Larkin of Bethlehem Steel Corp.; and Ben F. Moreell, chairman of the board, Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp. Meanwhile, in Washington, Price Administrator EUls Arnau indi cated the government will answer in several days the latest demand for higher prices from the steel industry. The Wierton Steel Company, at Wlerton, W. Va., filed notice July 1 for a $5.50 per ton ceiling hike on its product and unless the oi fice of Price Administration ob jects the boost wlU go Into effect July 21. More Work In Oregon SALEM W Employment In Oregon during June exceeded that for June, 1951 the first time this year that employment was higher than for a corresponding month of last year. The State Unemployment Com pensation Commission said 473.600 persons were employed In non farm jobs during the month, or 3,900 more than in June, 1951. Employment In the lumber in dustry was 88,800, a gain of 200 over a year earlier. It was 7,000 less than the all-time high mark of August, 1950. t.'ft(!'Cttt.', dren of his son, Maj. John Elsenhower. The balloting capped a week of maneuver In which Elsenhower's strategists won the opening skir mishes and exploited, them to take we araoa prize. - The turning point had Its begin nings In the pre-convention prelim inaries ol last week. The long, uelv Argument aver delegate contests in which the words "steal." "thief," and even stronger were commonplace had their effect on many delegates, U not on the GOP National Com mittee. This was evidenced at tho lng day of the convention last Monday. Taft came to Chlracrn Mnflriont and riding high. Through months of long, hard campaigning mile iicr in ue up ana down and across the country he was far out in front of Eisenhower In pieagea delegates. But on the opening- 1v Ihm VI. senhower forces with support from backers of candidates Earl Warren and Harold Stassen whip ped the Taft men 658 to 648 In test vote on a rule regarding vot ing by contested Taft delegates from the South. SEVERE DEFEAT It was a licking from which Tft never recovered. uut o: mat breach In his atrate-. gic lines trickled not only dele gates from Louisiana. Texas and Georgia he had counted on it cost him, too, many votes among un committed delegates who conclud ed foni. .Ihis initial muscle feel-.. ing that Ike would come home the winner. For Elsenhower, the GOP's tap to its leadership Is another big moment of a packed decade in the life of a one-time Kansas farm boy. now reached 61. Little more than 10 years ago. when, as the march of World War n was sweeping toward the Unit ed States. "Ike" was an army lieutenant-colonel, unknown nationally- The swift years since have seen him direct the Allied drive that , defeated Germany and Italy, head Columbia University, and finally command the armies being built in partnership with European Al lies to defend against the threat of Communistic aggression. COMMAND ' He gave up that command and returned home only last June lor a fast - moving campaign that fi nally overtook Taft. For Taft, the defeat Is a bitter end to his third real try for the nomination. Now 63, he has said he would not try again and so with this decision here his dream of follow ing his father. President William Howard Taft, to the White House, is destroyed. "Bob" Talt was already a pow er In the Senate when Elsenhower was just one of many younger officers in the Army. Taft's name went as a favorite son before the 1936 GOP conven tion. He sought the nomination in 1940. and was licked to the roaring calls of "We Want Winkle." In 1944. he stepped aside so an other Ohloan. John W. Bricker, could have his chance. Bricker was beaten by Gov. Tho mas E. Dewey of New York but took second place on the ticket. The GOP went down to defeat. Taft made another effort for the nomination four years ago. Dewev whipped him. And it was Dewey, sitting in (Continued on Page 4.)