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CECRGIA’S PRIDE—This is one of the more recent por
traits of Senator Richard Russell, who is one of the top
contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination.
ié&rk@ Plans Dinner
To Honor Sen. Russell
Lrkansas Gives
Ballot Promise
By The Associated Press
Senator Richard B. Russell g
Georgia, Democratic aspirant to
the :rle’s'idefi&, M% make
a hit with Arkansas delegates to
the Democratic national conven
tion opening in Ch,icafi, July 21.
At a meeting in Little Rock yes
terday, delegates applauded when
Harvey G. Combs, an alternate
and former state party secretary,
told Russell: *“You've so nearly
expressed the way we feel about
things that we don’t have any
questions to ask you.”
Second Ballot Choice
The 22-vote Arkansas delegation
is plec‘lyged to “favorite son” Sen
ator J., William Fulbright (D.-
Arkansas). Russell asked for sec
ond choice bhacking.
Two other candidates for the
Democratic presidential nomina
tion teke a dim view of General
Douglas MacArthur’'s keynote
speech to the Republican national
convention.
Averell Harriman called it
“meaningless oratory.” Senator
Estes Kefauver of Tennessee said
it “offered no hope, no guidance
to the people.”
Harriman, the mutual security
idministrator, was in Charleston,
W. Va., yesterday meeting Demo
cratic leaders, He told newsmen
MacArthur “admits we need
friends in the world and yet he
in fact demands that we go it
alone,”
Shares Responsibility
~ Kefauver, campaigning in Du
luth, Minn., said MacArthur him
seif is responsible for some of the
Kcrean situation which he blamed
on the Democratic administration.
Kefauver’s .campaign headquar
ters claimed that the Tennessee
scnator will have 403 delegate
votes pledged to him by the time
the Democratic convention opens.
Russell, eariier this week, claimed
abcut 300 votes. Nomination re
quires 618 votes.
The Jatest Associated Press tab
ulation, based on delegates pledged
or conceded, shows Kefauver with
252 votes, Russell with 117% and
Harriman with 101%.
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lioscow Blasts
“ralse” Confabs
WASHINGTON, July 9.—(AP)
—DMoscow says American presi
dential candidates will be elected
at the Chicago comventions by a
“small circle of bosses” who hire
rooters at S2O a head to cheer for
thelr candidates so the public will
believe it hag a voice in these
-4 ns.,
~ On the basis of Radio Moscow
X lcasts to Russian listeners,
Ollicials reported today that this
Was the Communist party line on
the way candidateg are chosen in
the “false American democracy.”
10 make sure the Russians get
the Communist version of what 18
ging on at Chicago, the Moscow
adio is running a series of talls
h-", Viadimir Morev, a Soviet jour
hallst who sala he attended the
Philadelphia conventions four
Years ago, -
Morev said delegates were plied
;'i';‘:' gifts and advertising souve-
The emvmlpr,, he sald, were
just & vacket vented s 0 2“
Délve people Mlzn imagine that
the mKddm are re-
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“Associated Press Service
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Event Designed
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To Raise Funds
An Appreciation Dinner, honor=-
ing Senator Richard B. Russell
and designed to raise funds to aid
him in his campaign for Presi
dent, will be given Tuesday night,
July 15, at Athens Country Club,
it was announced late yesterday.
Paul Williams, a native of Bar=-
row County, long-time neighbor
and life-time friend of Senator
Russell is permanent chairman for
The oecasiof; = s anm —o Uit
Thursday Meeting
A meeting of Senator Russell’s
friends—all are invited whether
or not they live in Clarke County
—will be held in Civic Hall on the
City Hall lawn Thursday night,
July 10, 6 p. m., at which time
final plans for the dinner will be
formulated.
Tickets for the dinner will go on
gale shortly, at the Chamber of
Commerce office in Civic Hall and
at the three local banks. Price for
the tickets will be announced in
the next few days. Some four
hundred tickets are being printed
for the dinner.
Community Scroll
A scroll expressing the appre
cilation of this community and
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CANDIDATE STANDING BY — With the Credentials
Committee of the Republican National Convention run
ning true to form by recognizing mostly Taft delegates
in its day-long meeting over disputed seats, Senator
Robert Taft remains discreetly in the background. He is
shown here as he conferred with California’s Senator
William F. Knowland at Chicago’s Knickerbocker
Hotel.— (NEA Telephoto.)
Taft Logic Is Problem
For Political Strategists
By PETER EDSON
NEA Correspondent
CHICAGO —(NEA)— Why Sen.
Robert A. Taft and his generals
chose to make their initial test of
G. O. P. convention strength on
the issue of the seven Louisiana
delegates will probably be debated
by political strategists for years to
come.
The first reason given now ls
that Sen. Taft needed only a few
more votes to assure his nomina=
tion on the first ballot, He felt
that the Louisiana delegation was
ango to provide that margin.
%ncond‘ reason given is that
Sen. Taft felt he had a good legal
m on the Louisiana delegates,
is typical Taft refi:o;ining. He
is above everything else, a law
yer. He locks at every question
from a legalistic mind. 8o he de
cided to make a moral stand on
Surprise Strategy By Taft Camp Delivers
{ontested Louisiana Votes To Eisenhower
Convention P
Dramatic Tribute
By WARREN ROGERS JR.
CHICAGO July 9 — (AP) —
Aging Herbert Hoover bid fare
well to Republican convention
delegates last night with a plea to
rip away the Democrats’ “plush
curtain” at home and salvage
“lost statesmanship” abroad.
Hoover, the only living ex-Pres
ident and the last Republican to
hold that office, attacked the Dem
ocratic administration with a vigor
that belied his 77 years.
His calm statements at the out
set and at the end of his speech
that he did not expect to address
another GOP convention because
of “the inexorable course of na
ture”— were met with roared
‘lNofis."
Collides With Ike
He mentioned neither of the top
contenders for Republican presi
dential nomination. But his firmly
worded viewpoint on foreign
policy hewed close to that of
Ohio’s Sen. Robert A. Taft and
collided, roughtly at points, with
that of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhow
er.
~ “A phantom army” was the tag
Hoover applied to the divisions
building in the Allied defense pro
fram launched under Eisenhower’s
eadership. Hoover called for a
powerful Air Force to ‘“restore
‘the advantage of military initia
tive to us"—a frequent Taft
thesis.
~ “I do not propose that we re
treat into our shell like a turtle,”
Hoover said. “I do propose a dead
ly reprisal strategy of a rattle
snake,”
Drip, Drip, Drip
He accused the Democrats, in
office since Hoover's futile try for
re-election in 1932, of eorroding
“the grandeur of the people....
by the drip, drip, drip from dis
honor in high places.”
“Behind this plush curtain‘of tax
mchmd, nd,”. Hoover said, “three
sinister spooks or ghosts are %;x
--ing poison for the American
people.
“They are the shades of Mus
solini, with his bureaucratic fas
cism; of Karl Marx, and his so
cialism; and of Lord Keynes, with
his prepetual government spend
ing, deficits and inflation.”
“This is most likely the last time
I will have the honor of attending
your conventions,” he said for the
second time, as he came to the
windup of his speech.
8 “No!” shouted the delegates
again.
And this time Hoover’s voice
broke.
Waves Of Applause
It wasn’t steady as he finished,
feeling for words, coping with the
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this point.
Open To Criticism
Beyond this, however, the Taft
strategy is wide open to criticism,
as some of his own generals now
admit.
By having Ohio Sen. John W.
Bricker offer the first resolution,
to accept the 1948 rules for the
1952 convention, Taft fordes were
placed at a disadvantage.
Gov, Arthur B. Langlie of Wash
ington immediately offered hg
substitute motion for the Eisen
hower forces, to change the rules.
The substitute motion, therefore,
took precedence. If Gov. Langlie
had been allowed to offer his re
solution first, the Bricker motion
would then have become the sub
stitute and had the parliamentary
rigxt of way,
ailing on this, Rep. Clarence
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PARTY’S PRIDE
Pictured is Herbert Hoover,
who was the object last night of
the first real demenstration
staged by delegw.es at the Re
publican convention.
America Is Cool
Toßrifish Plan
Of Advice Team
BY JOHN SCALI
WASHINGTON, July 9.—(AP)’
—The United States reportedly is
cool to a British suggestion that a
team of political advisers be
named to assist General Mark
Clark, supremre United Nations
commander in Korea.
The State Department is said to
be against creating any formal
new advisory group in the Far
East theater at this time,
Closer Liaison
But top American officials told |
a reporter teday they are consider
ing closer liaison between Clark
and the American ambassadors in
Japan and Korea as & means of
preventing military decisions that
could result in world-wide reper=-
cussions,
Informed diplomatie officials
said Britain’s minister of state,
Selwyn Lloyd, suggested the idea
of a political guidance teanr when
he talked with Secretary Acheson
here several weeks ago.
Realize Implications
Lloyd reportedly argued such a
group, on which Britain would be
represented would make sure
Clark and top American military
leaders in Korea realized the full
international Implications of mili
tary decisions they might make.
A political guidance team, he
felt, might have avoided the flare
up between Britain and the United
States whica resulted from Amer
ican bombing of Communist power |
plants in North Korea without
first notifying the British, |
Superior Court
Begins Monday
Regular July term of Clarke
Superior Court will open Monday
morning, July 14, at ten o’clock
with Judge Henry H. West pre
siding and Solicitor General D.
Marshall Pollock prosecuting for
the state.
Clerk of Courts Elmer J. Craw
ford said while there are a nums
ber of cases on the docket, many
will not be ready for trial and the
business to come before the court
is not expected to be heavy.
Civil docket will be taken up
first, with uncontested divorce
cases scheduled for Friday, July
18. At the conclusion of the civil
docket, the court will take up the
criminal matters.
On the opening day the docket
schedules:
Paul Implement Company Vs.
Bullock (gpl.); Herrington vs.
Michael et al (Spl); Birmingham
Slag Company, Inc., vs. Adams
and Sailors, et al vs. Sailors.
Only case on Tuesday’s sche
dule is Boney vs. Benson.
Wednesday’s docket includes:
Siegfried, Trystee (Spl) vs. Turn
er; Jordan vs. Jordan; Carnes vs.
Carnes; Tanksley vs. Tanksley;
Favors vs. Favors; Shubert vs,
Shubert; Pritchett vs, gritc}fctt;
Gunter vs. Gunter, and Daniel vs.
Daniel, )
Scheduled for Thursday: Fauche
vs. Fauche; Walker vs. Matthews;
Hogan Bros. Lumber Compazsy vs
Gamble; Andrews vs, ‘Wade and
Andrews vs. Wade.
Count On Fine
For Leadershi
By JACK BELL
CONVENTION HALL, CHICA
GO, July 9—(AP)—Backers of
Sen. Robert A. Taft in a surprise
strategy move today yielded 18
contested Louisiana votes in the
Republican national eonvention to
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
In a maneuver interpreted as an
effort to gain support for the Taft
side In a showdown, floor battle
on disputed delegates, Taft back~
ers on the credentials committee
initiated and supported the Louis-~
iana move.
Made No Deal
Backers of Eisenhower made it
elear quickly and emphaticall
that they had made no deal witK
the Taft people.
Wesley Roberts, one of the
chief Eisenhower strategists, told
a reporter the anticipated floor
.fight later today over other eon
tested delegates will go on as
scheduled.
“Our guns are loaded and we
are ready to go,” Roberts said.
Senator Menry Cabot Lodge Jr.,
Eisenhower campaign manager,
whipped out a statement express
ing pleasure over the committee
action. But Lodge added:
“Just so there can be no mis
understanding, however, I want to
make it perfectly clear that the
Eisenhower forces will not acecept
any ‘deals’ or compromises on the
contested delegations.”
Thomas E. Coleman, floor man
ager for Taft, also said there was
no deal with the Eisenhower
forces on the contested delegates.
Coleman told a reporter:
“This is exactly what the cre
dentials committee thought about
the Loulsiana case. We expect to
support the credentials commit
tee’s report all of the way before
m cojnvie‘ntion, even" in cases
where it is us.
NT, m
The move by Taft forces in the
Louisiana case was regarded as
indicating that the Ohio senator’s
leaders have come to the conclu~
sion their drive for the nomina
tion would be damaged more by a
convention defeat on the contest
issue than by the loss of a few
Southern delegates.
They apparently believe the
committee’s action in awarding
the Louisiana delegation to Eisen
hower would offset the decision to
give Georgia—and possibly most
of Texas—to Taft.
The Georgia slate seated by the
committee will cast 17 votes for
Taft.
Today’s Louisiana decision
moved Eisenhower up 11 votes net
in the AP delegate tabulation and
took the same number away from
Taft. That made the score:
Taft 527; Eisenhower 452; oth
ers 108; uncommitted 119.
Taft himself said the loss of
the 11 Louisiana votes still leaves
him with enough to win the pres
idential nomination.
He told a news conference the
decision ‘“is satisfactory to me”
and added he will not appeal any
credentials committee decisions
unless he considers them ‘“decid
edly outrageous.”
The Republican platform build
ers gave tentative approval today
to controversial foreign policy and
national defense planks.
Civil Rights Dispute
But an -angry dispute about
civil rights still threatened to ex
plode, either within the resolu
tions committee or later on the
floor of the convention.
Eisenhower was up early and
moving around among the dele
gates. He talked first to a break
fast gathering of Oklahomans and
told them that if he gains the
presidency he will clean out the
“appointive positions” in Wash
ington.
A little later, Eisenhower saw
California’s 70-vote delegation
and promised them that if he
wins the GOP nomination he will
wage a fighting campaign against
the Democrats “too long in pow=
er.”
The Eisenhower camp was hop
ing to start a bandwagon rolling
for their man with the floor fight
over contested delegates.
The counted on Gov. John S.
Fine of Pennsylvenia to take the
driver's seat with an expected de
claration for the general at a state
delegation caucus on the floor. The
caucus is planned after Fine ad
dresses the covvention.
Eisenhower backers put pressure
on Arthur Summerfield, Michigan
national committeeman, to plump
for the general. Sumerfield told
a reporter he is considering an
nouncing his view, but would not
hint at the stand he will take.
The bandwagon movement—if it
develops—appeared certain of im
petus from some of the 25 dele
f{ates committed to former Gov.
arold E. Stassen of Minnesota.
; FINED FOR NOTHING
PROVINCETOWN, Mass., July
9. — (AP) — Three Englishmen
were fined $8 apiece for nothing
yesterday.
That's just what they wore in
swimming —- noth‘i'p&'
Philip-§. Carringtéh of London,
spbkesman for the trio, told Ju?se
Robert A. Welsh that swimming
in the nude “is not uncommon in
certain paris of England.”
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General Dwight D. Eisenhower (een
ter), confers with members of the Mis
souri delegation to the Republican con
vention at breakfast in Chicago. He urged
“kicking the Demoerats so far Novem%er
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Friday Night Is Important
Added Layoffs
Loom As Result
0f Steel Strike
By GIB STALEY
PITTSBURGH, July 9—(AP)—
Additional layoffs in the railroad
industry loomed today as the re
sult of the nation-wide strike of
600,000 CIO steelworkers.
Nearly 50,000 railroaders have
been furlouihed since the strike
began June 2. They're part of the
422,405 workers in allied indus
tries off the job because of the
steel strike.
The Pennsylvapia Railroad,
which laid off 10,000 men June 8,
says it is being forced to furlough
“several thousand” additional
workers.
Serious Effect
A spokesman declared, “The
strike is having serious progres
sive effect on traffic . . . Now it is
cutting off shipments from many
concerns which depend on steel
for their own production.”
The same situation holds true
on many other railroads through
out the country. Many are moving
only passengers, mail, express and
perishables as the production of
durable goods is curtailed.
Meanwhile, representatives of
the iron ore indusiry say they
plan to ask the steelworkers if a
plan can be worked out to move
iron ore now stockpiled in the
Upper Lakes' region. All ore
shipments, along with iron ore
mining, have been suspended and
industry officials are fearful an
iron ore shortage next winter will
cause steel plants to shut down.
Seeks Action
Philip Murray, president of
both the CIO and the steelwork
ers, ha sasked Att. Gen. McGran
ery to take “prompt and vigorous”
action against six major steel
companies he accused of violating
anti-trust laws.
Murray said the six big pro
ducers, headed by U. S. Steel, are
in “a combination and conspira
cy” preventing all other struck
steel companies from signing new
contracts.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Mostly cloudy and not so
warm with occasional light rain
this afterncon. Partly cloudy
and mild tonight, Thursday and
Friday. Low tonight 66, high to
morrow 84, The sun sets today
gt 7:47 and rises tomorrow at
129,
GEORGIA — Consider
able cloudiness and not so warm
with occasional light rains in
north and scattered thunder
showers in south portion this
afternoon and tomight; partly
cloudy and mild Thursday with
widely scattered thundershowers
near the coast Thursday after
noon,
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Inches rlg%t‘ #Hhours .., .. T
Tqtai §ince July 1.... .. %
Deficit since July 1 .. .... 1.22
Average July rainfall .. .. 5.01
Total since January 1 .. ..26.72
Deficit since January 1 ... 1.32
Reagd Dally by 35,000 Paople in Athons Trade Asge
4 that it'll take them about 20 years to
et back.” Left to right: fiddlo é Pope,
fiermituse; Glen Weber, House Springs;
Eisenhower, and Mrs. Alberta Green,
Westplains.— (AP Wirephoto,)
Make Plans For
i " .
Enemy” Raid
Civil Defense machinery here
today was bdns geared up to top
speed, Athens Defense Coordina~-
-tor Mrs, Harold B. Hodgson said,
adding that next week a trial :311
by “enemy” planes will be made
over Athens in an effort to as
certain how alert are the plane
spotters.
Nobody in Athens knows ex
actly when the planes will come
over, where they are comvt?fl
from, what direction they
take, how high they will be flying.
Secrecy guards the planes just as
the plans of an enemfv plane squa=-
dron would be closely iuarded.
Otis Cross, Watkinsville Road,
is supervisor of the Ground Ob
servation Post, and he has made
arrangements to put the post on
a twenty-four hours a day alert.
Mr. Cross, in the College of Agri
culture Engineering school, {g also
head of the local Civil Air Patrol.
The national Civil Defense or
ganization hopes that the observa
tion posts can be established at
points eight miles apart over the
entire country, makmf each post
responsible for four miles,
To aid Mr. Cross in completing
arrangements for the post, the
state Civil Defense is sending a
trained expert to Athens to con
duct a one-night training course
Friday night in Civic Hall at 8
o’clock.
Need Women, Men
Both women and men are
needed in this phase of Civil De
fense and it is hoped that every
one . interested in the welfare of
this community in the event of an
air raid will attend the meeting.
Many Athenians are inclined to
‘“write off” Athens as a critical
target. That is, until one stops to
think and realizes that we are in
direct line between two critical
targets, Atlanta and Augusta. Also
with the Navy preparing to place
a military installation here the
latter part of the year, Athens it
self will then be classified as a
critical target.
Coordinator Hodgson recalled
this morning that three planes
took off secretly two weeks ago
from England to test the efficien
cy of the observation posts in the
United States and these planes
succeeded in getting by four ob
servation posts before ‘they were
detected by a team of women
spotters, who phoned the warning
in to the Filter Center, but not
before the planes had managed to
drop the simulated bombs within
one block of the Empire State
Building in New York City.
It is customary for persons
manning the observation posts to
remain on duty for one or two
hours at a time, the personnel
working in relays.
Mrs. Hodgson alsc said that
State Civil Defense will soon send
an engineering expert to Athens
to inspect the various buildings
here as possible shelters for
ground zero—the point at which
bombs would fall.
While additional trainin og
courses will be held for each
the various Civil Defense services,
the big thing right now is for
Athenians to attend the Fridai
night mceting in Civie Hall at
o’clock and .ls by giving their
efforts in establishing a Civil De
{ense set-up here that would func
tion efficiently in a time of real
emergency, something that would
be impossible if preparations are
not made in advance.
Plans for the Civil Defense
program were given by Mrs.
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EDITION
British Press
Demands Ousting
0f "Red Dean”
LONDON July 9 —(AP)— An
unprecedented demand for the
ouster of Dr. Hewlett Johnson as
Dean of Ckantex‘bury wag put be
fore th:h %uTe of Qom?\%io—
day as the Br Tess 0! 1
denouncin, thm.som &
legations ghat the Ammeg g
\fiiafiing germ warfare in
ast,
Nine eonsgfvativc membi of
Parlianfint filed a motiop &;
Quee}:l lhabét;l 1 to 7;30\',0 the
appointment e e TB-year-old
dean. Such a gnr cgtgry pe
tition to the crown héds never been
introduced before.
Denounces Dean
The motion said the dean “has
been guilty of actions contrary to
his calling as a cle?ym of a
Christian churech an pr:fi;dldnl
to the gnterest ancl gafety of her
majesty’s subjects.
Dr. Johnson, rcturgifixg from an
eight-week tour of China as the
guest of the Communist l&mnm
ment, showed a press eonference
here yesterday a 12-yard-long
manisfesto he said was dqnod by
Chinese church leaders “deplor
ing” germ warfare. ;
Irrefutable Facts
He told the conference he had
“irrefutable facts” supporting the
germ warfare charges but rh
to answer questions about insects
he claimed he saw and admiited
he had seen no one who had een~
tracted any disease from U, §.—
planted germs.
Almost every London new: r
this morning greeted the Es
statements with outraged -
ials demanding dismissal.
The Dean of Canterbury is ap
pointed by the crown. Under tge
church constitution, he can be dis
missed only for a civil or ec
clesiastical offense.
Truck Overturns,
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Injures Youth
Jerry Davis, 12 year-old son of
Mrs. Noah Davis of Winterville,
was slightly injured yesterday
when a pickup truck in whiech he
was riding skidded and overfurn
ed on the Winterville highway.
The driver of the truck, Mrs.
Davis, and her two other children
and sister were not hurt.
Bridges ambulance carried the
youth to the General Hospital at
about 12:40 yesterday aftelxoon.
He was dismissed today with no
serious injuries.
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