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By FRANK JKNKINH
Politics:
Vice-president Berkley, whose 14
' yeara limy not loi him from be
coming a (nriulclnbla candidate Inr
the Democratic nomination for
I'ronldoiit, echoes In C'hlcuuo to
day President Truman'a demand
i Hint Iho party aland oil It record
In office.
. Roclllng what he Mid were tin Inn
nude by fnrmnra. labor, buslneaa
mid the (iced mid unemployed, he
asserted lht Die Democratic par
tv has "eiiriied the confidence o(
the American people,"
niie Veen U talking (and boast
ing I In terms ol dollars. In Wash
button tliln morning, the Fodrrul
llrnerve ltord tulkn to the report
ers in terms of BUYINO POWEIl.
'It av:
"Tli Federal Reserve Board's
urvey at consumer llnmicea tjust
-Issued) shows Hint average total
income ol -spending units' (motly
families) row from 83M0 In 10&0
to WHO In 1981 a rise ol about
nine per cent."
BUT. It adds!
"Conaumer prices also went up
nine per cent. WII'INO OUT Uie
Income Kaln. And Increased taxca
lipped the scales AOAIN8T the av
rr.no famllv, CUrriNO BUYINO
POWER BELOW THE PREVIOUS
YEAR."
There"! tha aiorv of Inflation for
you. Inflation gives us MOKE DOL
LARS thai BUY LESS, In lime, it
CUTS our buylna power Instead of
Increasing It. Dial lime is now
here.
New York! ' ,
, "Three coualna arrested early
this morning while going Uirough
the pocketa of a man sleeping in
a hallway Indignantly drnied they
were plckpockete. Ond of them ex-
P"8ome monev had fallen out of
his pocket and we were tfylng to
put II back."
You know, H MIOHT have been
Irue. There ABE good ix-apl
well aa bad penole In thla world.
Personally. I choose to believe
that for each bad pcraorrlliero ale
ten good persona.
Bilk-
One haa lo admit
Whenever some baa person does
something bad. and eu caught at
It, and It gets Into Uie papers, he
cornea ur with a high-sounding
alibi thai makea what ho did aound
good.
Aa a member"of"the rourth F,s
tale. I'm cynically convinced Uiat
a whale of a lot of people don I
worry about WHAT THEY DO but
WOIIBY FRIGHTFULLY when
they get caught at )t.
Bv the wsy.'who knowa. just off
hand. Uie origin of the term Fourth
lSsUM? . ,, ,
11 Is supposed to have been llrat
used by Uie great IngHsh states
men, Edmund Burkt. In the course
ol a speech In Iho house of com
mona. h pointed lo the reporters'
gallery and aatd; "Yonder alia the
Fourth Estate, mora Important
than all the others."
That leads to another quia dues
Hon; What (In Burke's day) were
the other three estates?
They wero Uie three claaaea ol
people thai made up Uie States
Genera! of Franco the clergy, or
the Flral Estate the nobility, or
the Second Estate, and the com
mon people, or the Third Estate.
The Btatea-Oeneral waa France's
flral (quite rudimentary) parlia
ment. It waa formed In 1303 and
lasted until Iho French Revolution
In 1189. ,
It lldn't meet at regular times.
It wis called bv the king in Umes
of "emergency," when he wanted
advice, or MONEY, or moral sup
port. Recalling- the charaoter of the
kings of France of that day. I
Imagine thev called the Slates-qcn-eral
Into session only when uiey
needed an alibi.
I'm beginning to suspect that II
congress met ONLY on the call ol
the President it would be used In
' about the same manner today.
) S,
What Burke really meant when
j he referred so flatteringly in the
' house of commons to Uie Fourth
Estate waa thla:
By telling the people what la go
ing on and why, the press enables
the people to OUARD THEIR LIB
F.RT1E8 against encroachment bv
the demagogues, the aelf-seckers
and Uie ambitious and unscrupu
lous leaders who reach constantly
for more and more POWER.
Knowledge of that fact la what
taused our Founding Fathers to
guarantee freedom of the press in
our constitution. Letting tho people
know is the high and sacred funo
llon of the press In a democracy.
Anv newsoaner that consciously
poisons the news It Rives to the
people Is recreant to its trust and
befouls the confidence reposed in
Ihe press by Burke when he termed
It "the Fourth Estate more Im
portant than all the others."
OLCC Holds'
Hearings Here
An examiner for the Oregon
Liquor Control Commission has
concluded two hearings on law in
fraction charges against local
OLGO licensees.
A hearing on a charge of Illegal
lain Of liquor against tho Elks
Lodge was conducted yesterday,
did another on a similar charge
igalnst the Town Club was held
loday, both at the Courthouse.
The examiner waa Sam Mother
Ihead of Portland, and the testl
nony received la to.be referred to
ihe Liquor Commission at Its next
neetlng.
Both alleged infraction of state
liquor laws are said to have oc
nirred in ' June and Involved
charges of . sales of liquor .across
he bar. . ,. ,
Northwest
Woods Fires
Controlled
By Ihe Associated I'rrsa
Pui'lllo NorUiwest foresters kept
a wary eyo on the barometer
H'liui'sdny In the wukn of an ex-
Sluslva outburst of forest fires
lut claimed two Uvea and black
ened thousands of acres of brush
and tlinbcrlanda.
Mom of the flrea wero under
control but atnte forestry oftlcluln
said wind ahlfta or Increases could
set the blitzes feeding anew on
imaer-ury woodiauas.
The futnl lire, located In rugged
C a a c a d e mountain country In
Northeastern Hkaglt County, Wash.,
claimed the lives of Shirley Cook,
46, Itwkpoit, Wiihh.. and his 2u-ycur-uld
son, Charles, Murblo
inount, late Tuesday night,
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN
The blare roared from alashlng
Into tali Umber on Lookout Moun
tain, trapping the Cooks aa the son
attempted to carry nis exnausiea
father from the path of Uie flames,
Both wore lopgors. Four other
loggers escaped.
Washington State Forester Ber
nard Oroll said Uie some 230 men
fighting the Lookout Mountain
blase had 11 nearly under control.
The Evergreen State's second
largest fire is a fire that blackened
aoine 3.000 acres near While Sal
mon Kllckltut County In the aoulh
em part of the atate. Deputy
Supervlnor of Forestry Mlko Web
ster said the fire was "In Uie bag,"
barring an Increase in wind velo
city. It Had cut a swath roughly
seven miles long.
SMALL FIREH
Other small flrea were reported
near Ellenaburg and Ollmcr, In Uie
Wfllte Salmon area.
No large fires were reported In
Oregon. t
In British Cnulmbla, fire flghlera
Wednesday controlled two fires,
one near Nanalmo and another
that swept Uie tiny community of
Chief Lake, near Prince Oeorge.
The Nanalmo fire burned to
within lb yards of two homes al
the summer resort town ol Depar
ture Bay before It was brought
under control.
Relief supplies for families left
homeless when a 1.000-acre blare
ripped Into Chief Lake arrived at
Prince Oeorge Wednesday night
and were hastily loaded on truck
lor movement to the stricken com
munity, 36 miles north of Prince
Oeorge.
Crews Control
Fremont Fire
LAKEVIEW A fire that burned
through 30 acres of scattered Um
ber 16 mtlca north of here yester
day was brought under control last
night and mopplng-up oporaUons
were underway today.
Trie blare was apparently a
"sleeper" left over from the last
thundcrahowcr In this area, accord
ing to Fire Dispatcher Jack Groom.
Il blossomed out Into flame as sur
rounding forestlands dried off.
A 30-man mop-up crew was to be
sent into the area today, Oroom
said. A bulldozer aaststcd Uie 30
man crew which Initially battled
the flames.
This waa the 34th fire of the sea-
son for Fremont National Foreat,
out ii was uie only actually big
one.
State Game Commission
Reveals Hunting Rules
Highlights In Uie tentative 1963
hunting regulations set last week
end bv the Game Commission in
clude a Sept. 37 to Oct. 17 buck
deer season followed by a three
day hunter's choice deer season
for hunters with unused tags, a
Nov. 1 to 30 general elk season,
and a pheasant season opening
Oct, 34 and ending Nov, 3, In
Western Oregon and ending Nov.
u, in eastern urcgon.
The hunter's choice season for
one deer of either sex Is aimed at
cropping deer from agricultural
srcaH and problem rangca where
a browse shortage threatens heavy
winter losses. Tho dales are Ocl.
18, 18. and 30.
In Western Oregon the hunter's
choice season would be outside
national forest exterior boundaries
and within one mile of established
cultivated agricultural lands, Uius
offering protection to non-problem
deer on the higher ranges.
With the exception of Hood Riv
er valley and White River valley
(Wasco 'County), the hunter's
choice area In Eastern Oregon lies
cast of The Dnllcs-Callfornla high
way north to Redmond and east
of the Jefferson, Wasco, and Gil
liam County lines. Tho greater
part ol Central and Southeastern
Oregon are Included in the elthcr
box area, but Malheur County
south of highway 20; all of Umatil
la National Forest; portions of
Ochoco, Wnllown, Whitman, and
Deschutes National Forests; Ihe
Newberry Crater area near Bend;
and the High Desert between Mllll
can and Wagontlre Mountain are
excluded from tho proposed hunt
er's cholco season,
One special deer season of 300
permits would be held In tho New
bridge area of Bakor County, A
total of 1200 permits would be
available for antelope hunters In
the snmo three areas opened lost
year.
The special hunts allowing an
extra door or an antelope would
bo on n drawing basis. Hunters
who received tags last year for an
nntelopo or an extra door will not
be eligible to have their name in
cluded in this year's drawing. i
jwall aisled
Price Five Cents 20 Pages
Shortage Of
Labor Faces
Tule Farms
By RUTH KING
TULELAKE Ail Intensive enm
pulllii lo alublllae the labor and
wage picture In Uie Tuleluke area
for the coining potato harvest Is
to be waged between July 18 and
30 by tho Tulclake Orowers As
sociation. Ed Duckett, Association presi
dent, aald today thai prospects for
one of Uie most critical harvest
labor ahortages since World War
II face Uasln farmers, and a so
lution to the problem is being
aought Uirough cooperation of all
potato mid onion producers.
It is nropoaed Uiat all growera
be asked lo underwrite the cost of
Importing 336 Mexican Nationals at
an estlmuled cost of 130,000. The
fund will be raised by a pledge of
13 per acre on both crops.
ESCROW
Money is to be held in escrow
In the Bunk of America until
enough contracts are signed to
guarantee the contract lor Uie 336
single men. In event the amount
la not raised the checks will be
returned lo Uie growers.
The association recently turned
thumbs down on the rexnslblllty
of underwriting the program this
year. Cost to the organisation of
last year'a importation of. labor
waa 818,000, a prohibitive amount
since only 40 per cent of Ihe total
crop acreage In the Tulelake area
Is represented in the association.
LOST HOUSING
The association lost most of the
worker housing accommodations
this year when the U.S. Bureau of
prisons took over me major pan
of the old Internment camp.
Only six barracks buildings and
one mess hull were allocated to
the asaociaiion.
Mo housing accommodations are
available for families, a source of
harvest help thai has been sails-
actory in past years. Housing
would be needed for 200 families
to provide adequate help.
Duckell aald It la Impossible to
relv on while single men la re
main hare and that the only solu
tion apparently is uupuriauuu m
Mexican labor.
Contracts of NaUonala are writ
ten on a 120 day basis and since
uie harvest nere does not require
that length of time, the associa
tion works through a slate agricul
tural agency,
A pinch Is already being felt In
Uie labor situation according to a
spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of
Reclamation who complained that
men being sent to uie Tulclake
area by Uie bureau are be ng hired
at higher wages by Tulelake farm
ers.
II Is also rumored that there Is
a prospect of using top security
federal prisoners to alleviate the
labor shortage
. DEATHS TOTAL IbS
MANILA ln The number of
persons killed this year in clashes
between Huks and civilians or
troops rose to 766 with eight new
deaths Thursday,
A special elk season In the Troy
area (Wallowa County) and a late
November season in Umatilla
County near Walla Walla would be
held on a free permit basis, Uie
hunter using his regular elk tag.
Two hundred free permits allow
ing one elk of either sex would be
Issued for Uiese hunts.
Eastern Oregon bull elk boundar
ies for the general elk season
would be nearly identical to those
specified last year, and in elther
sex elk area the season would be
extended to December 31 along
the west side of Baker Valley.
Archers wbuld have the same
archery areas for elk and deer as
offerod last year plus a deer
archery season on the Hart moun
tain antelope refuge. -
There would be no liberal pheas
ant bag and limit for Malheur
County where census work by
game agents has shown a decline
In the pheasant population. The
Eastern Oregon Dheasant baa?
would be three cocks per day and
in during me enure season, and
the Western Oregon pheasant bag
two cooks oer dav and not over
four during the entire season. The
popular teenage pneasant Hunt on
the Wilson Wildlife Management
area near Corvnllls would be re
peated.
Mountain quail would be hunted
for Uie first lime in years and
would be included In the regular
quail bag, quail season coinciding;
witii mig pneasHiiii aensou.
Another Hungarlon partridge
hunt would be opened-in North
eastern Oregon, and sage hen
would be hunted In Malheur, Har
ney, and cart of Lake County on
aaies corresponding with the ante
lope hunt In that area. The blue
and ruffed grouse season In West
ern Oregon would fnll during deer
season.
Trancing regulations will bn slm.
liar to last year's with : another
beaver season and. a reduction In
cost of beaver tags from 83 to 1.
public snooting grounds, sun regu
lations, and tagging regulations
would oa uie same.
KLAMATH
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THEY'LL BUILD A PLATFORM Chairman John McCormack of Msiiachuietri, arrow, opens.
Ihe first meeting of ihe preliminary drafting committee for ihe Democratic National Conven
tion platform committee at the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago.
Driving Test
Judges Named
Judges for this Sunday's Jaycee
sponsorcd Rosd-e-o have been
named, aa well as a full afternoon
of demonttraUons and driving con-
WSIS.
Teen-aged contestants In the
Road-e-o have been named, as well
as a full afternoon of demonstra
tions and driving contests.
Teen-aged contestants in the
Road-e-o were given written exam
inations last night at the high
school, and the top winners are lo
participate in Uie actual driving
portion of the competition this Sun-
oay.
Winners are to be announced
Friday.
. Sunday's runoffs are slated to
begin al 3 p.m.. according to Jun
ior Chamber Pres. Call Osborn,
with the best tccn-aged driver to
be awarded not only a trophy
but also -tv free trip to Portland
to compete In the state contest.
State winners. In turn, will go to
Washington, D. C. to compete In
the nationals, with a 81000 scholar
ship al slake.
Judges for the driving test are
Raymond A. Clark, examiner for
the state driver license bureau
here; Traffic Sgt, OdeU Olson, city
police; Paul McCall and Bob Hen
dcrshott, who teach driver-safety
at Klamath Union High School, and
new Police Judge Frank Blackmer.
Demonstrations on schedule Sun.
day include the driving and hand
ling of a semi-truck ana trailer out
fit in tight spots, and the new city
fire ladder truck.
The losls and demonstrations
are to be held at Uie Safeway
Parking Lot, 8th and High Streets.
The program is sponsored na
tionally by Uie Jaycees, and is to
assist in educating young drivers!
in sale ariving meuioas.
S. E. Woodard
Death Told
Snmucl E. Woodard, 70. resi
dent of Klamath County since 1880,
died yesterday at his home in Uie
Holly Hotel here. He had been a
semi-invalid since suffering a
stroke in December, 1046.
Two weeks ago, he had another
stroke and had since been bed
fast. The widow, Mrs. Ethel Wood
ard, has, operated the Holly Hotel
for several years.
Mr. Woodard came to Uie Klam
ath country as a boy In 1890. His
parents settled in Keno, where Uie
elder Woodard operated a grist
mill at the present site of Uie
Copco dam. At 16, young Woodard
became a blacksmith and when he
was stricken In 1846, he was main
tenance superintendent at the Fed
eral Housing Project here.
Besides the wido-s;, Mr, Woodard
Castle Rock, Wash.; a daughter,
Mrs. Wanda Norman, Bremerton,
Wash.; two sisters, Mrs. E, H.
Lawrence, Klamath Falls, and
Mrs. Mary Pringle, Portland; three
grandchildren and five stcp-chtl-drcn.
Funeral services are to be con
ducted Saturday, U a.m., from
Ward's Funeral Home.-
7953 Wheat
Goal Down
WASHINGTON Ifl The na
tion's farmers Have a lower wheat
goal to shoot for next year but
It still, in Uie opinion of Secre
tary of Agriculture Brnnnsn, is
on the siae ot aDunaance. '
Brannan called Wednesday for a
1963 croD of 73 million, acres
roughly 1,080,000,000 bushels based
on normal yield.
This voar a estimated oroduotlon
Is about 170 million bushels more.
Other 1853 goals set bv Brannan
Include: barlcv 13 million acres.
383 million bushels; rye 1,700,
000 acres, 31 million bushels. Oats
(In 11 South states where oats are
fall . seeded! 5.810.000 acres.
89,307,000 bushels,; , .; , ......
FALLh, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY
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Test Pilot Tells Of
1200 mph Flight
By BILL BECKER
LOS ANGELES ( The hottest
plane In the free world, the D-658-3
Skyrocket, holda a new ftpeed re
cord of 1,238 miles an hour, says
the Navy.
And the hottest test pilot, lanky
Bill Bridgcman. says zooming at
that speed is "no different than
flying 760 miles per hour."
The real kick comes, Bridgeman
said in an exclusive Interview last
night, when the rocket - propelled
humminsDira runs out ol power si
a record altitude of 79,494 feet and
swoops -down 16 miles lor a dead-
stick landing on Uie desert.
Both ine speea ana aitiiuae
marks were confirmed here by
Secretary of the Nayy Dan A Kim
ball. Bridgeman fkw the Douglas-
Ike Leaves
On Vacation
DENVER W Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower packed some knock
about clothes and his fishing gear
for a week's vacation starting
Thursday at a rocky mountain
ranch.
The Republican presidential nom
inee originally had planned to set
out Wednesday for the secluded
spot about 70 miles west ol nere
near Fraser, Colo.
He delayed his departure 24
hours so he and Mrs. Elsenhower
could be on hand lor a jo-minwe
stop-over of a plone carrying their
son, MaJ. John D. Eisenhower, to
Seattle. The major will leave there
later this week for duty in Korea.
The general's only companion
during a week of trout fishing at
Fraser will be his long-time friend
Aksel Nielsen. Denver insurance
man' who owns the ranch.
Mrs. Elsenhower will remain at
the home of her mother. Mrs. John
S. Doud, who lives in Denver.
Eisenhower's political staff, head
quartered at the Brown Palace
hotel, also will remain in Denver.
A five-car caravan of newsmen
will accompany the general to the
Nielsen ranch and remain unm
evening. They won't stay on there
because of lack ol accommodations.
Chamber Drive
Shows Growth
Twenty-six luncheon setups were
ordered yesterdav for a report
meeting in the Klamath Chamber
of Commerce's membership drive
and 43 workers showed up. That
pretty well illustrates the enthus
iasm that has fired the campaign
since. It was scheduled several
weeks ago and actually got under
way Monday. -
The membership teams, striving
to approximately double the cham
ber's strength, yesterday checked
in with 48 members and reported
61 present members had increased
ineir membership fee.
Prime reason for the member
ship drive is 'to make the cham
ber program to b o 1 s t e r existing
the Basin" under a full head of
steam,
"Build the Basin" is a new cham
ber program to bolster exstlng
Klamath County business and draw
new mdustry here.
Next report luncheon In the rpo
bershlp drive Is set for tomorrow
noon at the. Wlllard Hotel.
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity and Northern California:
Fair through tomorrow. Low to
night 63, high tomorrow SO,
High yesterday i- t
Low laat night 63
Proclp yesterday 0
Preelp since Oct. 1 , 17.11
Same period last year 14.84
Normal for period "..12.22
17, 1S52
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built rocket ship to unprece
dented heights last Aug. 1 and set
Uie speed record Aug. 15 In tests
at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
ine navy previously naa admit
ted only that the research plane
had "climbed at 1,000 miles an
hour."
In all, Bridgeman made six rock
et flights lost summer after the
Skyrocket was launched at 36,000
teet irom a B-29 mother ship.
tacn time, ine ao-vear-oid Doug
las test pilot said, the needle-nosed
40 -foot ship rammed smoothly
through the sonic barrier which
is reached at about 600 mUes an
hour at 35.000 feet and above. In
gressurised suit and cockpit,
rldgeman says he was "not, es
pecially conscious of speed: " -
"You notice the high speed only
when you make a mistake," the
ex-Navy bomber pilot said. "Then
she really jumps and gets hard to
control. Generally, though, there's
too much blue sky and so many
things to do that, the speed isn't
nouceaoie. "
The record speed was made In
level flight after Uie Skyrocket had
reached the apex of her climb. It
was measured by instruments in
the plane and radar ground read
ings carefully checked by the Navy
Bureau of Aeronautics.
The moment that sends "your
guts into your shoes," Bridgeman
declares, comes when the last of
the four rockets used by Uie plane
loses its thrust.
"Then you have to bend 'er over
fast, level off and start gliding for
home."
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Arizona Farm
MERRILL One hundred and
fifty-one acres of seeded and culti
vated land three miles south of
Yuma, Aris., is the plum plucked
from a capsule in a recent home
stead drawing by Bill Waldrlp,
Merrill.
Waldrip long-time resident and
farmer of Merrill was No. 3 man
in Uie original drawing but with
disqualification of the first two
names moved up to first place to
get Uie pick of the 37 units opened.
There were 41U applicants.
He flew to Yuma this week to
look over the land and found it
all in crop, principally alfalfa and
grapes. The unit has been Uie site
of an experiment station and is in
a high state of cultivation.
Waldrlp farms 1,000 acres of
grain and potatoes with two broth
ers, Tom and Sherman, in the
Klamath Basin. He served in the
Navy during World War II and
saw action in the South Pacific.
He is a member of VFW Lost River
Post, 4056, Merrill.
He will remain here until har
vest Is over and then leave with
Mrs. Waldrlp and three young
daughters to build a home.
Tule Growers
Name Head
TULELAKE John Seus, head of
the claims department for the U.S.
government in Munich, Germany,
Is the new manager of the Tule
lake Growers Association. An
nouncement of his appointment
was mane today oy Ed Ducsett,
president of the association.
Seus will fill the office vacated
by the death of Glendon Smith in
an airplane accident here in early
npru. tie is enroute to the states
at the present time, has been In
Europe since 1943.
He is a native of Hillsboro, Ore
gon, is 39-year-old, a graduate of
Pacific University and of the Port
land School of Law, He was em
ployed for several years as field
man for the Birds Eye Snyder Di
vision or the Best Foods Company.
Ed Seus. 1947 homesteader here,
is a brother. .
Telephone 8111
No. U1Z
Murray Says
Strike End
Not In Sight
PITTSBURGH Wl Philip Mur
ray, president of the striking CIO
United 8teelworkers, waited Thurs
day for Uie White House or In
dustry to take some step toward
breaking the paralyzing 46 day
old dispute.
There has been no visible effort
on either side to reach a settle
ment In Uie economy - strangling
strike since Monday when negotia
tions arranged by Presidential As
sistant John R, Steelman ended In
deadlock.
A maze of rumors sprang up
around Uie country about possible
secret settlement of the strike Uiat
has idled more than a million and
one half workers, but Murray
brushed them all aside with:
"They are without foundation,"
- "Uiat simply isn't so."
TRADE JOURNAL
Iron Age magazine, trade Jour
nal, said Murray's rejection of Uie
industry's compromise offer at the
last peace talks did not meet with
approval oi his union lieutenants.
But union- officials said Iron
Age's report Is without foundation.
The Issue of a union shop, which
would require all workers to join
the union, or some modified form
of it appeared, to be Uie big stum
bling block in the path of a setUe-
meni.
Murray wants compulsory mem
bership, but the Industry is hold
ing out for union membership on
a voluntary oasis oniy.
Murray has called the steelwork
ers 170 - man wage policy com
mittee to meet in Pittsburgh Mon
day. That committee makes all
major union decisions.
STRIKE REPORT
Murray said he will report on
the strike and ask the group to
map a course of future action.
Meanwhile the longest strike in
steel history drifts along in lis
seventh week.
It is costing the nation about 40
million dollars a day in - lost
wages and steel production' alone.
In addition to the idle steelwork
ers there are nearly a million
breadwinners on furlough from In
dustries that depend on steel lor
raw material.
The best available estimates by
observers are that steel workers
have lost something like 37 mil
lion dollars a day in wages since
the strike started June 3.
Workers in allied industries have
lost an estimated 35 million dollars
a day In wages.
Steel tonnage lost through the
strike is valued at 81.650,000,000.
President Has
Better Night
WASHINGTON Wl President
Truman spent a "very good night"
at the Army's Walter Reed Hos
pital, aides said Thursday.
They reported that Truman ex
pects to get back to the White
House by Saturday.
The 68-year-old President en
tered the hospital Wednesday,
marking the first time he was hos
pitalized since he took office more
than seven years ago.
He is undergoing a series of tests
as a result of a mUd virus infection
with which he was afflicted Sunday.
Joseph Short, Uie Presidents
press secretary, said Truman is
seeping ousy going over ine greai
number of bills passed in the clos
ing days of Congress and still
requiring his signature, He has
about 50 bills to go.
Mrs. Trumsn came home by
train Thursday from Indepen
dence, Mo.
She drove directly to the hospi
tal, where her husband occupies
the Presidential suite.
The first lady, who had spent 10
days in Independence with her ail
ing mother declined to discuss the
President's health, but allowed
photographs to be taken. She was
dressed in a black suit and a white
hat.
No appointments were set up for
the President. This seems to rule
out any possibility that he will
confer with Thomas J. Gavin of
Kansas City, Uie man who will
cast Truman's ballot at the Demo
cratic National Convention next
week.
Short said he sees no prospect of
any personal get-together between
Truman ana uavin.
Short said that Truman's physi
cian. Maj. Gen. Wallace H. Gra
ham, expects the President's tem
perature "may go up a teeny little
bit" again Thursday afternoon, as
it has been doing since Sunday.
Truman had no fever Thursday
morning.
' And. Short added:
"The President expects to be
back in the White House by Satur
day.' ,
Short emphasized again that the
President went to the hospital, not
because of his illness, but to facili
tate running the medical tests Dr.
Graham wanted to make.
QAVAiM IN
TEHRAN, Iran m The Mallis
lower house of Parliament
Thursday night nominated Ahmed
Qavam, 77 - year - old rightist
politician, to succeed Premier Mo
hammed Mossadegh, Qavam is a
former premier - and foreign - minister,
Democratic
Hopefuls OK
rair veai
By JACK BELL
CHICAGO 11 President TTu-,
man's fighting declaration against
anv convention "betrayal ' of his
political creed paced a new trend
among Democratic preaiaenilal as
pirants Thursday,
Without any apparent advance
knowledge of Truman's blunt de
mand for endorsement of his "Fair
Deal" program, at least two candi
dates moved to put themselves in
a position if they get the nomina
tionto lead a fight against what
they called "Republican reaction."
Sen. Richard B. Russell of Geor
gia, plagued by his designation as
ine anti-iruman candidate ot ine
south, bid for northern labor and
fair deal" support with a denun
ciation of the Taft-Hartley law he
neipea enact.
KEFAITVER
Sen. Estes Kefauver of Ten
nessee, self-tabbed peoples' choice
for the nomination, called for a
light on what he laoelea "'Republi
can Isolationism and reaction."
Their declarations seemed to
Indicate a developing; pattern of
thinking among Uie presidential
hopefuls that the Republicans'
choice of Gen.. Dwight D. Eisen
hower wilt force the Democrats to
pick a nominee who can call him.
self a, progressive.
In words that naraTleil Truman's
ofnclal message to the convention
delegates. Kefauver told ft news
conference Wednesday:
"The Democratic tnrtv rntut
continue to be the liberal, progres
sive party of Uie nation. We cannot
retreat on either foreign policy off .
iu the domestic field." i
LEADS
Kefauver leafa In thm Ajin.-t afoul
Press delegate tabulation with 356
votes to 120 y, for Russell, based
on pledges of support and known
first ballot preferences.
Mutual Security Director Averell
Harrunan. an all-out supporter of
Truman policies.. Is running third
wjui u6 votes, taxes oio to win..
Truman said In his message, to
be printed in the official convention
program handed to every one of
the 1.57S delegates, that no other
political party has "done so much,
so well, for so many people." Ho
declared;
"There must be no turning back
or faltering on the great course our
party has pioneered. There must
be no betrayal of the New Deal and
fair ueai." ., :
Matching the call of General
Eisenhower for s "shining prom
ise" crusade bv the Republicans.
Truman sounded the bugle notes of
a -burning faith''' crusade by the
Democrats. ,
"TURN ASIDE'
"There will be voices calling -us
to turn aside from the path to
victory."- the President said. "Wo.
cannot-afford to be beguiled by the
weary or ine fainthearted. -
Vice President Albert W. Bark-
ley, whose 7 years may not stop
him from becoming a formidable
candidate for the presidential no
mination, echoed the President's
demand that the party stand on its
record In office..
Reciting what be said were sains
made by farmers, labor, business
and the aged and unemployed, .
Barkley said Uie Democratic party
has "earned the confidence of the
American people."
Truman s message, apparently
written well before he went to
Walter Reed hospital in Washing-.
ton for a check-up after his tussle
with a virus infection, exploded a
new bomb under efforts of National
Chairman Frank McKlnney ' and
others to compromise a civil rights
plank in the party platform. ,
And it threatened further com
plications in Uie contest over the
seating of rival delegations from
Texas. , .
'SWAM' DOWN THE MOUN
TAIN This is Dan O'Neill,
34, of San Francisco, after he
narrowly escaped death or
serious' injur when he slid
head-first a mile down th
snowy slope of Mr. Shasta,
Ha and Carl Miller of Oak-'
land, Calif., were attempting
to seal the peak and were
nearing the summit of the 14,- 1
165-foot mountain when O'
Neill slipped in soft snow.
O'Neill, who is an expert :
swimmer said, , "I kept my !
head, uiad my toes as brakes
and steered with my fore
arms." He suffered painful
snow burn and serious
bruises.
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