Saturday, October 22 Beautiful day Called to see Mrs Chetes & Family and attended Mr Cretes funeral this p.m. Maren Hardy & Boby came up this pm and are stopping here Cleone & Royal and children moved down to their home today Sunday, October 23 Beautiful day I attend Sunday School and evening meetings Maron & children are here for a few days Clifford & Myrelle are here unpacking their wedding presents this evening. They are thrilled and very happy Jurist Medina Gains New Stature in N.Y. By ROBERT C. RUARK NEW YORK About the first man of lofty stature to come down the public pike in recent years, it seems to me, is Judge Harold Medina, who is, I hope, at this moment nursing a double Martini and wiggling his toes, sans shoes. Hes earned a rest, and a binge, if he wants one, because the public may put him back to work pretty soon. Judge Medina, as you probably know, is the Job patienced gentleman who pulled his handlebar mustache for the nine long months of the sedition trial while 11 Communists and their lawyers tried their level best to drive him nuts. The Communists were found guilty, and Medina sentenced five of the lawyers to jail terms for contempt of court. Faced Campaign There have been few longer and tougher trials, from the standpoint of the judge, in the history of jurisprudence. Medina was forced to face all the weapons of organized communism confusion, intimidation, racial slurs, a constant attempt by the legal counsel to throw the court into an uproar, goad the judge to honest fury, and thereby force a mistrial. Medina let the lawyers and the defendants romp off with literal murder while the trial was being heard. He did this simply because a sentence of contempt of court for any one of the counsel would have disrupted the proceedings and possibly gained a mistrial for the legal eagles. He endured insult and insolence such as few judges have been called on to take. Withstood Lawyers The actions of the Messrs. Sacher, Isserman, Gladstein, Crockett and McCabe were clearly in contempt from start to finish so much so that there was considerable indignation over Medinas forbearance in his handling of the men who attempted to knock him loose from his dignity and authority. Medina dedicated himself to the trial. It is not commonly known that he reviewed each days proceedings, after hours, passionately searching for any obscure legal pimples which might possibly provide the shrewd defenders with a claim for mistrial. Medina became an anchorite He gave up everything for the trial all personal pleasures, all other business, all distractions. When he was not actively working he sat and waited for energy to flow back into his tissues, for his task was roughly that of a lone football player trying to stand off a whole team for nine months. In his handling of the insults and diversions presented by the lawyers, he was fair to the point of seeming weakness again, in an effort to hand the lads all the rope sufficient for a hanging. Most people Ive talked to were tickled to death that he finally hit the lawyers with the book at the trials end. Looms as Liberal At 61, Medina is a vigorous, robust man. He is sufficiently wealthy self accrued wealth to be above the economic demands on the small politician. He has devoted his life to the law, and is generally accorded to be a genius in his knowledge of it. I doubt if even the scum who booed his entrance to the courthouse, in organized daily rabble rousing, would charge him with a lack of integrity. If there is a tmy liberal man, in the matters of race, religion and politics, it is Harold Medina. Medina has hit the public here with an impact I have not seen since young Tom Dewey sent a flock of thugs to jail. Just over the week end, his capture of the public imagination seems as complete as Joe DiMaggios. All around you hear Medina for governor, even Medina for president. Medina Stands Out Speaking only for me, I buy it all the way. We have been surrounded, since the war, by so many small, cheap people bickerers and bargainers and backslappers and logrollers that a man with the intelligence, poise and tough integrity of Medina shines like a diamond on a pigs snout. I think Judge Medina will suddenly discover that he can be the peoples cherce for anything he wishes. And, while itll cut into his earned relaxation, I hope he goes along with it. Never met the man in my life, but anything he runs for, hes got a solid aye vote here.