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GOP Snagged On
“Rights” Plank
- BY EDWIN B. HAAKINSON o 1
(HICAGO, July 6.—(AP) —Republican platf~rm archi
tecis admitted unhappily today they are havey% ‘rouble
with their plank on Civil Rights. 02?
in recent gears this convention headache #" % afflicted
mostly the Democrats but now it's botherg?_?@ 1 GOP as
well. 5 g 7 ‘& ,
<on. Eugene D, Millikin of Col
orado, chairman of the Platform
Committee, told this reporter he
now has rough drafts from 10 or
11 subcommittees, “all except civil
rights.”
“if we don’t get one from the
«uheommittee then the full com
mittee will have to write it, “the
Coloradan added.
\illikin still tried to keep a tight
cover on details of the 1952 plat
sorm but other committee sources
provided this version:
211 members on the Civil Rights
qheroup agreed that the party
chould not urge a compulsory fed
¢al system of combatting racial
discrimination.
<omre Republicans favor strict
feceral anti-poll tax, anti-lunch
.nd anti-discrimination measures
but neither Sen. Robert A. Taft
nor Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
hos gone this far. As front-run
nne prospective presidential can
diates it was felt their views
should prevail.
As a compromise and a bid for
Nesro and other racial votes, some
committeemen suggested a volun
tarv federal commission which
could ban discrimination on gov
ernment jobs and government con
tracts.
They also proposed that the vol
un.ary commission be authorized
o examine into racial conditions
ot state and local levels and make
recommendations.
These latter proposals irked
other subcommitteemen who in
sisted that i? Republicans are to
gain Southern votes the party
platform should favor “hands off”
at state and local levels.
Numerous closed-door sessions
of the Civil Rights subcommittee
so far have produced only prom
ises of two sharply differing
drafts.
Chairman Millikin asked all his
subgroups to hand in their sepa
rate planks for polishing and ana
lysis by staff technicians this fore
noon, >
He eortfldfiho to avoid a
bitter dispute \ ghis, su
as split the Demoeratic national
convention into warring factions
four years ago.. This led to a bolt
by Dixie Delegates that kept four
states out of the regular Democra=
tic column in November.
Most of the hotel room confer
ences still centered about the key
foreign policy plank, with wide
spread speculation as to its con
tents.
Millikin, widely known as one of
the Senate’'s best compromisers
and peacemakers, has been maneu
vering to get warring Taft-Eisen
hower factions signed on the dot
ted line before he reveals it.
His task is a touchy one, one
Republican confided, because he
must blister past international
moves of the Democrats enough
to please one GOP faction and still
back the United Nations and col
lective anti-Communist moves suf
ficiently to satisfy another Repub
lican wing.
_At Cedar Rapids, la., last night,
Eisenhower said he understood the
plank in tentative form includes
his own views on how America’s
security should be gafeguarded.
Eisenhower has said the plank
should eall for a policy of eco
operation among the Western
Allies and recognition of the nec
essity of world trade to obtain raw
materials needed in this country.
If such a plank is adopted by
the convention, he said, “1? clearly
cvidences the determination of the
Republican party to be forward
looking and eminently practical in
treating the grave problem of for
eign programs and our security.”
Athens Has 14
Arrests Over
Fourth of July
For those who are easily de
rressed by news of crime and
lations of the law — here is a
comforting comparison of Athens
I Atlanta in respect to the nunr
r of arrests in both cities on the
rourth of July.
Chief Clarence Roberts, of Ath
¢ns, reported today that the total
iber of arrests here yesterday
S only an even dozen. “Light”
is his term for it. o
“Biggest celebration ' ever,
hed the Atlanta Police Depart
ent as it counted up some 650
altests for the holiday in Atlanta.
she figure 1g almost twice the
mber of arrests recorded on
'y 4 last year.
Sheriff Temmy Huff reported
‘om his office that County Police
'd arrested two persons on the
tfourth——bringing the total number
ot local arrests to 14,
Granted that Atlanta has a few
Fiore people than Athens, mest
‘llizens are in agreement that
Athens 1s a pretty “good” town.
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Associated Press Sorvi«”
Allie “end Off
Red Assault
On "old Baldy"”
SEOU, Sunday, July 6 — (AP)
—Allied Infantrymen defending
“Old Baldy” on the western Ko
rean front hurled back another
Communist pre-drawn assult Sat
uirday despite heavy Red artillery
fire.
The U. S. Eighth Army reported
an undetermined number of Chi
nese attempted a wild charge up
the shell-blasted slopes of the out
post hill in the flickering light of
mortar flares.
Three Communist assaults on the
position July Fourth were smash
ed with. Chinese casualties esti
mated at 300.
U. S. Fifth Air Force fighter
bombers again pdastered Commu
nist rear area troop concentrations
and supply arteries. Sleek F-86
Sabre jets, flying protective cover
farther northwest, reported spot
ting four Russian-built MIGs but
no dogfights.
The Air Force disclosed that Fri
day’s secret target of a mass
bombing raid near the Yalu River
boundary of Manchuria was a
North Korean officers training
school. The base, left in flaming
ruin, was described as “a key com
plex” in the Communist military
set-up.
Twelve MIGs were shot down
from a formation of 115 trying to
break up the big raid.
Rowe Rises Are
Held Safurday
Services were conducted yester
day afternoon at 5 o’clock from
Emmanuel Episcopal Church by
Rev. J. Earl Gilbreath, the rector,
for Mrs. Hugh J. Rowe, promi
nent Athenian who died in a local
hospital Friday at 1 p. m. after an
illness of three weeks.
Interment was in Oconee Hill
cemetery, Bridges Funeral Home
in charge of arrangements. An
honorary escort included Dr. Ed
win Pusey, Sam H. Nickerson, Dr.
Harry Talmadge, Colonel Barring
ton L. Flanigen, Norman Nicker
son, Captain Shelton Sanford,
Colonel H. E. Mann, Duncan Bur
net, Edward R. Hodgson, jr., Dr.
Guy O. Whelchel, John J. Wilkins,
George Crane, Harrison A. Birch
more, Howard McWhorter, Dr.
James Green and Jake Joel.
Mrs. Rowe is survived by two
daughters, Mr. Lauren Goldsmith,
Athens, and Mrs. Frank Thomas,
Tuscaloosa, Ala.; two sisters, Mrs,
Gladstone Craig. Athens, and Mrs.
Richard Jones, Jackson, Tenn.;
grandchildren, Lt. Lauren H.
Goldsmith, jr.,, U. 8. Air Force;
Miss Rita Thomas, Hugh Rowe
Thomas and Frank Thomas, jr.,
all of Tuscaloosa; cousin, Mrs.
Martin Gary, Fort Worth Texas.
Mrs. Rowe was a native of Ath
ens and a lifelong resident here.
She was the daughter of the late
Captain James and Martha Ma
sons O'Farrell, and a member of
one of Athens’ best known fami
lies.
She was a member of Emmanuel
Episcopal Church and was devot
ed to her church, Mrs. Rowe had
been in failing health for some
time and had been in a local hos
pital for the past three weeks. She
resided at 310 McWhorter Drive.
Mrs. Rowe was preceded in death
by her husband, Hugh J. Rowe,
former editor of the Banner-Her
ald, several years ago.
Two New Interns
At St. Mary's
On July Ist Dr. Cecil F. Jacobs
and Dr. Frank K. Thompson re
ported for training as First Year
Rotating Interns in St. Mary's
Hospital, Dr. Thompson graduated
from the University of Oregon
Medical School and comes to Ath
ens from Italy, Texas. Dr. Jacobs
from Waycross, Georgia, received
his Doctor of Medicine degree in
June from the Medical College of
Georgia, Augusta Georgia.
Dr. J. Patrick fivans and Dr. R.
H. Swint completed their year of
internship June 30, 1952. Dr. Rob
ert H. Swint was granted a resi=
dency in Surgery at the Lawson
V. A. Hospital and Dr. J. P. Evans
accepted a residency at his medical
alma mater, the University Hos
pital of Augusta, Georgia,
The internship with its hospital
service plays a vital part in con=
ditioning the young physician in
methods of approach to hz
patient’s problem, in modoz‘
treatment and in general id of
practice.
Introduction to medical duties
and responsibilities is systemati~
cally provided by the Intern Com-~
mittee and all members of the
Medical Staff take a personal in
terest in the objectives of each
intern entrusted to their care un
dar their special service.
Danes Delay Sending
Tanker To Russians
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, July
3.—(AP)—An emergency meeting
of the Danish cabinet today failed
to reach a decision on whether to
heed a U. 8. protest against hand
ing over & Danish built tanker to
the Russians.
Meanwhile at the shipyards, the
sleek new grey tanker, already
flaunting the hammer and sickle
and manned by a Russian crew,
was awaiting only minor altera
tions before sailing for a Soviet
port. Some newspapers predicted
the tanker might clear gopenha
gen today, leaving the bitter con
troversy behind her.
The United States has threaten
ed to cut off vital military aid if
Denmark persists in fulfilling its
1948 trade contract with Russia
for the delivery of the recently
completed tanker—the 13,000-ton
Aspherson — and six other mer
chant ships.
The serious” development in
Danish - American relations may
topple Denmark’s coalition gov
ernment,
Only four ministers took part in
the cabinet eonference, which was
summoned yesterday i)y Foreign
Minister Ole Bjoern Kraft, Con
spicuously absent was Prime Min
ister Erik Eriksen, originally
scheduled to attend.
Last week Eriksen turned down
a proposal by U. 8. Ambassador
Mrs. Eugenie Anderson that a
cabinet meeting be called to con
sider the U, 8. protest against the
tanker deal.
Informed sources said Eriksen
considered the Danish - Soviet
tanker deal closed, while Kraft
was inclined to discuss it with the
U. S. government, Eriksen is lead
er of the Agrarian party while
Kraft heads the Conservatives.
The two parties rule Denmark’s
coalition government.
To Learn How
To Keep Kids
Happy, Read On
By R. H. DRIFTMIER, JR.
Well, here it is the end of the
first week in July and week-end
es S e
¥ holiday jaunts )
tains or the beach. Or, like some
of us, the week-end was quietly
spent at home.
But tomorrow is another day,
and the younger set will begin
looking for something new to oc
cupy their leisure moments, And
what could be a better diversion
from ’'Ole Man Sun for the boys
and girls than to drop in at one
of the eight elementary schools
and participate in the wide variety
of activities offered there?
Over 1200 children have taken
advantage of the programy and
have been thoroughly enjoying
themselves making field trips
around the city, studying nature,
building in clay, painting, making
puppets, learning wood craft, and
engaging in group singing. Some
of the older boys and girls have
been taking a driver training
course, while others are being giv
en band lessons.
The program, which is being
made possible through the Mini
mum Foundation Program, opens
its doors to every youngster in
Athens, white or colored, at no
charge whatsoever. Each child
may come anytime he wishes and
occupy himself with the activity
of his own choosing. Almost 14000
pupil hours of activities have
been undertaken so far with great
success.
The enrollment in the program
is increasing in popularity as well
as attendance, but there is still
plenty of vacancies for those who
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E. Howard Scoft
Taken By Death
Eugene Howard Scott, well
known Athens business man, died
at his home at 230 Milledge Circle
Friday night at 9 o’clock after an
illness of several months, Mr.
Scott was 67 years old.
Services will be held Sunday
afternoon at 5 o’clock from First
Presbyterian Church with Dr.
Harmon B. Ramsey, the pastor,
and Dr. Eugene L. Hill, pastor
emeritus, officiating.
Burial will follow in Oconee Hill
Cemetery, Bernstein Funeral Home
in charge of arrangements. Pall
bearers will be Robert Marbut,
Robert Eberhart, L. D. Penny, sr.,
John Mealor, E. E, Bishop, G. O.
Davis, Hoyt Robertson and L. L.
Lester.
The body will lie in state in the
church from 4 o'clock until the
hour for the services.
Mr. Scott is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Irene Scott; four daugh
ters, Miss Constance Scott, Miss
Marie Scott and Mrs. W. L. Hiers,
all of Athens, and Mrs. R. B.
Whitehead, Monroe; three sons, E.
H. Scott, jr., Tulsa, Oklahoma,
Julian Scott, Atlanta, George M.
Scott, Greenville, Miss.; sister,
Mrs. Ruth Scott firi;ifies, Barnes
ville, Ga.; brother, Will Scott, Ath
enfir and fgur grandchlldre‘n.M
, Bcott w ve of Madj
son county u’ tu? t{wm a f‘ofi—
dent of Athens for 63 years. For
many years he was one- of the
partners in Scott Hardware Com
pany and later was active in the
reg estate field,
e was a member of First Pres
byterian Church and was a con
stant attendant at its services for
meny years and was a former of
ficer in the church. . :
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY,
Holiday Death
Near 400; Only
r
{1 Die In Georgia
By The Associated Press
Violent deaths of the July 4th
holiday period pushed grimly to
ward the 400 mark Saturday. The
timetable of traffic fatalities was
ahead of the National Safety
Council’s forecast.
The Grim Reaper’s latest toll on
Georgians set the weekend’s total
at eleven, with four persons losing
their lives in auto or traffic mis
haps and seven being drowned.
With the crush of homeward
bound motorists still to come, auto
mishaps already had claimed at
least 226 lives, The council pre
dicted a toll of 430 for the period
from 6 p. m, Thursday to mid
night Sunday local time.
The highway death rate was at
a much faster clip than the three
day 1952 Memorial Day week=-
end when 363 persons were killed
—an all-time record for a Me
morial holiday.
In addition to the mounting
highway toll, 101 persons had
drowned, and 42 had died from
a variety of other causes.
Only two were victims of fire
works—one death each in Maine
and Arkansas—to give the only
encouraging aspect to the overall
toll of 371 violent deaths.
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BILLY J. CHRIST{IAN
Recifal Is Set
Billy J. Christian, organist and
choirmaster at the Webb Horton
Memorial Presbyterian Church in
Middletown, New York, will pre
sent a recital at the First Christian
Church on July 13, beginning at
8 p. m. :
Mr. Christian will present an
hour-long recital which includes
several world-famous numbers by
composers such as Brahms and
Bach.
Mr. Christian is a former Ath
enian and his parents are Mrs.
Katie N. Christian and Mr. R. F.
Christian. He attended the Ath
ens public schools and graduated
fromy the University of Georgia
with a Bachelor of Fine Arts de~
gree with a major in pipe organ
in 1949. From here, he did grad
uate work in the School of Sacred
Music, at the Union Theological
Seminary in New York City, where
he received a degree of Master of
Sacred Music in 1951,
He has studied organ with sev
eral teachers, including Mrs.
Genevieve Arnold, Athens; Mr.
Hugh Hodgson, Athens; Mr. Don
ald Gilley, Worcester, Mass.; Mr.
Vernon deTar, Church of the As
cension, New York City.
Mr. Christian has held positions
as organist for several years in
Pensacola, Fla., and in the Navy;
for two years at the First Baptist
Church, Athens; and at the Uni
versity of Georgia. He has been
at his present position in Middle
town for three years, where he is
director of a three-choir system,
in which three different age
groups are included.
The recital next Sunday will be
at the First Christian Church on
Dougherty street and the public is
invited to attend.
Mr. Christian’s program of num
bers will include: Chorale-Pre
lude, “O God Thou Holy God” by
Brahms; Toccata and Fugue in D
Minor by Bach; Easter Song, “O
Sons ang Dalggters of the King”
by Guilmant; Death and Resurrec
tion by Langlais; Prelude and
Fugue in G Minor by Dupre;
Fugue and Choral by Honegger,
and Toccata, “O Lord Jesus Christ,
Be Present Now” by Karg-Elert,
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy and continued
hot today. Sun rises 5:27 and
sets 7:48.
GEORGIA — Partly cloudy
and continued rather hot Sune
day. Widely socattered thunder
showers in extreme north por
tion this afternoon or evening.
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Deficit since July 1 .. .... .74
Average July rainfall .. .. 5.01
Total since January 1 .. ..26.72
Deficit’ since January 1 ... .84
ATHENS, GA,, SUNDAY, JULY 6, 1952,
Taft And “lke” Begin Earnest
Struggle For GOP Nomination
Taft Says lke
7
Hasn't Got Votes
WASHINGTON, July 5. —
(AP) — Senator Robert A.
Taft accused Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower today of mak
ing “wild charges because
he doesn't have the dele
gates” to win the Republican
presidential nomination.
The Ohio senator, leading con
tender for Eisenhower for the
GOP nominatiqn, also charged
that the general’s forces are fill
ing the air “with libel and vitup
eration” over the GQP national
committee’s decision yesterday to
award Taft 22 Texas delegates and
Eisenhower 186,
In a statement he read to a
news conference, Taft said Eisen
hower camp’s rejection of his offer
to com[z-omise the Texas dispute
—on the same lines the committee
voted—“shows the ruthless char
acter of the Eisenhower mana
gers.” He added:
“Not being able to secure
enough delegates, they apparently
are going to try to override the
convention by the unlimited use
of propaganda through a press
and radio television system which
they think the can control.
“It should be clear by now that
it is their ottitude and not mine
which threatens party harmony
and success.”
Eisenhower traveled by special
train today to the Chicago scene
of the GOP pre-convention bat
tling. #
The Ohioan told newsmen yes
terday he understood that General
Douglas MacArthur would be
willing to accept the vice presi
dential nomination on a Taft-
MacArthur ticket,
Taft made it clear that he was
not endorsing MacArthur to the
exclusion of others.
“There are many others who
are well qualified to serve as vice
presiednt,” he said.
But last Sunday he said on a
television program that a Taft-
MacArthur slate would “certainly
be quite a ticket.”
Truman Receives
Ovation At Last
Senate Session
WASHINGTON, July S.—(AP)
~—President Truman paid a sur
prise visit to the Senate today and
got a rousing ovation fromr the
members and from the spectators
who crowded the publie galleries.
The President went to the Sen
ate after lunching at the capitol
with prominent Democrats at the
office of Senate Secretary Leslie
Biffle. He slipped quietly into the
rear row seat he once occupied as
a senator from Missouri.
Several senators discovered his
presence and came to his side to
shake hands. Beaming broadly,
Truman chatted for several min
utes with him,
Then Vice President Barkley,
presiding over the Senate, took
note of Truman’s presence and
introduced hinr “as a great Presi
dent of the United States.”
Barkley said Truman would go
down in Kistory as having done an
outstanding job at a crucial time
in world affairs.
Then, drawing laughter, Bark
ley added that in these days of
economy the President had “come
here for one final square meal.”
That was apparently an alusion
to the fact that the President is
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Atlanfan Will
Head Frafernify
At the recent National Conven
tion of Alpha Tau Omega fra
ternity in Swampscott, Massoch
usetts, Br. J. Milton Richardson,
rector of St. Luke’s Episcopal
Church in Atlanta, was elected
Worthy Grand Chief, or the equi
valent of national president.
Dr. Richardson received his AB
and LLB from the University of
Georgia in 1934, He received his
Bachelor of Divinity degree from
Emory on 1936 and entered the
iflgpsigcopal Theological Seminary in
Dr. Richardson has held a na
tional office in ATO since 1932.
He wag first Chief of Province I,
and later Worthy Grand Chaplain,
the equivalent of vice-president,
He was very active in University
extra-curricular activities and
was a member of Bphinx, Gridiron,
Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi,
and the Blue Key.
He has served as rector of St.
Luke’s since 1948, prior to that
time he was the minister %.i charge
of St. Timothy’s Church.
Dr. Richardson will return to
Athens so sitend a ba:&uet in his
honor given by his brothers of the
Georgia MB:: Beta chapter of
Alfiha Tau Omega.
e is the gon murl. Milton
Richardson, g.,d con, Ga., and
he married the former Miss Bug
enia Brookg daughter of Dr. and
Mrs. Preston Brooks of Athens.
They have three children, one
son J. Milton Richardson 111, and
two daughters, Eugenia Brooks
Richardson and Joan Stewartl
Richardson.
Sen. Humphrey Requests
@ a
Campaign Spending Probe
By The Associated Press
A Congressional investigation of campaign spending by
men who seek the presidency was demanded Saturday by
one of them.
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, tech
nically a candidate for the Demo~
cratic presidential nomination as
Minnesota’s “favorite son,” said it
is important to know whether the
cost of a presidential campaign is
now so high that only the wealthy,
or those supported by the wealthy,
gian attain the nation’s highest of=-
ce, -
He asked the Senate Elections
Subcommittee for a full scale
study of the subject embracing
presidential aspirants of both ma
jor parties.
Mentioning no names, Hum
phrey said that if charges of poli=
tical deals, stegling delegates and
smear literature are true “we are
witnessing the degradation of the
nominating process.” If it is not
stopped, he said, it will mean “We
have allowed a price tag to be
placed on the presidency.”
With Republicans still scream
ing at each other over the way the
GOP national committee handled
disputed delegates to the national
convention opening in Chicago
Monday, a I%mocratic delegate
contest shaped wp today in Miss
issippl.
Loyalist Democrats
Pro-Truman Democrats, offer
ing an unconditional pledge of
loyalty to the national party, held
a state convention in Jackson,
Miss., to elect delegates to the na
tional convention starting in Chi
cago July 21. The loyalist dele
gates will challenge a States Rights
slate for Mississippi’s 18 votes at
the national convention,
In Washington, Francis Biddle,
a former attorney general and now
chairman of Americans for Demo
cratic Action ADA, sent a letter
to all Democratic national con
vention delegates last night urging
rejection of what he called “a
strenuous. behind-the-scenes cam
“paign” to compromise i Civil
Rights and nominate Sen. Richard
Russell of Georgia for vice presi
dent,
l Russell’s Repl
~ Russell, at work in fime Senate
is a candidate for the Democratic
presidential nomination and has
said he will not accept nomina
tion for vice president.
Sen. Estes Kefauver of Ten
nessee campaigning in lowa for
the Democratic presidential nom
ination, said in a speech at Cedar
Falls last night that farm price
supports, rural electrification and
other farm programs will be
“crippled by reaction” if the Re
publicans win in November. The
Republicans, he said, still think in
their hemrts it is un-American for
the government to help citizens in
distress.
"(Queen Of Seas”
Hits For Record
ABOARD THE 8. S. UNITED
STATES AT SEA, July S—(AP)
—America’s new queen of the
seas, the S. S. United States, cut
through thick, treacherous fog
with unslackening speed today
and left no doubt she is headed
for a new record crossing of %he
Atlantic, She is reported hitting
36 knots,
Now they're saying unofficially
the streamlined, 53,000-ton streak
of power wilt pass Bishop’s Rock
off the English coast before dawn
Monday and rip from six to 10
hours off the trans-Atlantic speed
record held by Britain’s Queen
Mary.
Bishop’s Rock is the terminal
point of passenger ship speed tests,
which originate at Ambrose Light,
off the American coast.
The United States met her first
severe test last night—her second
at sea on this maiden voyage—and
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Taft Boasts Of Enough Members
In "CUub” To Assure Nomination
By PETER EDISON
NEA Correspondent
CHICAGO July 6-—Taft For
President headquarters now has
enough acceptances of member
ship in a new and secret “Bob
Taft Delegates Club” to claim that
the Ohio Senator will be nominat
ed for President on the first ballot.
An upset could come only if a
large number of these delegates
go back on their pledges to support
Taft,
Credit for the club idea belongs
to Paul W. Walter, Cleveland law
yer. He has been Bob Taft's man=-
ager since 1988. It is admittedly
one of the smartest tricks of poli
tical.sirategy ever put over,
When anouncement of the “Bob
Taft Delegates Club” is made by
Senator Taft himeelf at the right
moment the members will be easi~
ly identified. White “Pledge Pins”
about the size of a small saucer
show a photo of smiling Bob Taft
in a two inch cirecle in the center.
Around the photo in big black let
terg are tha words “Bob Taft De~
| Read Dally by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Asea
Tip-Off Might
Come In Steel
Strike Deadlock
By JOE BRADIS
PITTSBURGH, Julg 5 (AP)—
Striking CIO United Steelworkers
and the steel industry’s Big Six
played hide and seek Saturday—
each waiting for the other to make
the next move in the 33-days ec
onomy-defense crippling strike.
Already dearly 1,025,000 are
idle across the nation. The flfuro
mounts daily as more plants close.
Layoffs in allied industries alone
total 425,000. Steelworkers alone
have lost more than 300 million in
wages.
The end is not in sight as union
and industry vow a battle to the
finish. No new negotiations are on
the books even though both sides
say they’re ready.
Tip Off Monday
Tipoff on what's ahead may
come from the union Monday.
Steelworkers and CIO President
Philip Murray is addressing a huge
rally of his strikers at noart:g
Duquesne, a small milltown wi
plants empolying 6,000 steelwork
ers.
Murray asked C. F. Hood, ex
ecutive vice president of industry
bellwether U. S. Steel, to debate
strike issues at the rally, But Hood
refused, stating:
“lam sure it will not bring
about any constructive results or
assist in bringing an early termina
tion to this unfortuuatg strike.”, .
During the week Steelworker
chiefs in their divide and conquer
campaign huddled in secret w%th
several small steel companies and
signed an interim agreement with
Pittsburgh Steel Co., a basie pro
ducer with 10,500 workers.
Big Six
And the industry’s Big Six—U. S.
Steel, Bethlehem, Republic, Jones
and Laughlin, Youngstown Sheet
and Tube. Inland—also met be
hind closed doors and decided they
will not back down in their fight
against the union shop.
This indicates a long drawn out
fight to the finish.
One top steel executive says
several smaller concerns joined the
battle abainst union demands.
Sharon, Pa. Steel 10,000 em
ployes quickly said it agreed with
the big fellows.
But the USW is signing them,
too. So far some 33 smaller com
panies have signed up, reducing
the unmber of idled steelworkers
by 50,000. That still leaves 600,000
jobless.
Convention Sidelights
Campaign buttons are getting
bigger as the big show prepares
to open. Some are dinner-plate
size, Riding side by side in an
elevator today were two delegates
looking types, each with a button
in his lapel. One: “I Like Ike.”
The other: “I Like Bob Better,”
Buttons are only the beginning
of the convention gadgetry. The
Eisenhower camp put out paper
hats with the legend: “I Like Ike.”
By Nightfall, the Taft people
countered with little “Win With
Bob” cardboard ashtrays. Just the
thing for snuffing out cigar butts
in anybody’s smoke-filled room.
PRAVDA COMMENTS |
MOSCOW, July 6—(AP)— The ‘
Comunist party newspaper Pravda
described pro-Taft and pro-Eis
enhower factions at the Repub
lican national convention in Chi
cago today as just “as corrupt as
the Truman administration.”
legates Club.”
- There are also membership
cards printed in red and black ink
un white pasteboard. There are no
dues for the organization, but the
cards should be valuable as polit
ical seuvenairs, if nothing more
important, later on, such as iden
tifying the holder as being for Bob
before the first ballot.
Organization of this Bob Taft
Delegates Club goes back to the
last week in June when Paul Wal
ter gent telegrams to all Republi
can Convention Delegates asking
if they would like to join the club.
The response was an avalance.
Delegates who had been consid
ered unpledged and even some
who were in the Eisenhower camp
sent in wires saying they’'d be
glad to join and offering Taft full
support.
It is this response that has made
Senator Taft and his managers so
cocky and so sure of victory in the
last few days.
David S. Ingalls, Senator Taft’s
National Campaign Manager; Tom |
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General Arrives -
Amid Big Crowds
BY JACK BELL :
CHICAGO, July S.—(AP)
—General Dwight D. Eisen
hower carried his battle with
Senator Robert A. Taft for
the GOP Presidential nomi
nation into this convemtion
city itself today, declaring::
“If they give me this job-—boy,
it's going to be a slugging match
rig(;m,t’ from the beginning te the
end,
Taft, riding ahead in the dele~
gate count on a Texas-borne surge
toward the nomination, flew
‘back later today from Washing
ton., There this morning Taft ace
cused Eisenhower of making wild
‘charges because he hasn’t the dele«
gate strength to win.
A big crowd with blaring bands
greeted Ejsenhower and his wife
when their campaign special rolle
ed into North Western Station at
11:49 a. m,
The once relaxed and affable
general was fighting mad at what .
he called the efforts of “a m ;
group of arrogant men” te
the nomination from him.
A little girl gave Eisenhower a
boutonniere and presented Mrs,
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EDSEL BENSON
Edsel Benson
Succeeds Snow
As Rotary Head
The Athens Rotary Club has
elected its youngest president
in its history to head the w
gation for thr.nj coming year, -
enson, prominent young -
nessman and civil leader, tools
over the presidency of the club
July 2nd. Ralph Snow, retiring
president, presented the ;elh
~dent’s gavel to Edsel at the Wede
nesday’s meeting.
Mr. Benson is thirty years of
age and a native Athenian. He is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Benson. He was éraduatcd from
the University of Georgia in 1942,
spent twenty three months overseas
serving as a Captain in a ottlghter
Intelligence Unit, and in 1 re=
turned to Athens to become as
sociated in business with his
father. ®
Mr. Benson is a director in the
Athens Chamber of Commerece, a
steward in the First Methodist
Church, president of the First
Methodist Young Adult Class, a
former director of the Athens
Jaycees and of the City Recrea
tion Department.
His wife is the former Jeanne
Reese of Chattanooga, Tenn. They
have two children, Sally and Larry
Benson.
Serving with Mr. Benson for the
coming year as the Rotary Board
of Directors are: Ralph Snow,
James Akins, Richard Blood
worth, Phil Campbell, Howell
Erwin Jr.,, Bill Hartman, Lamar
Dodd, Alton Hosch, and Sam
Nickerson. ¢
C. Coleman of Milwaukee, Taft's
Floor Manager; Representative B.
Carroll Reece of Tennessee, nomi«
nally in charge of delegate rela
tions for Taft; Jack Martin, the
Senator’s Secretary; Vietor John
son and other members of the
Taft board of strategy have all
been amazed at the success of Paul
Walter’s clup Idea.
With a keen mind for political
organization, Walter has taken all
his telegrams and processed them
with business-office efficency.
Walter brought his own office
staff from Cleveland to handle
them.
Dope On Delegates Analyzed
In what lis known as Taft's
“Control Room” in Suites 800-A
and 902-A of the Conrad-Hiiton
Hotel, the wires been part indexsd
and part filed. Data abm
delegate have been trans ;
master cards. These are tabbed
with red, blue and green plastie
markers for gquick sorting. The
tabs reveal a glance whether the
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