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This was one of the scenes during a
lifornia caucus when disorder broke
t as supporters of Brigadier General
rbert C. Holridge (retired) tried to
wsh Chicago’s first caucus of the Cali
nia Democratic delegation. The Hol-
[thenians Are Enioying Pleasure
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Pagins Couni
Tragedy’s Cost
TEHACHAPI, Calif. July 22—
(AP)—With 11 persons dead and
more than 25 injured, Southern
California today began counting
the cost of the second-strongest
earthquake in the state’s recorded
history.
Focal point of the death and
runin was this farming communi
ty of 2,000 on the edge of t&};‘e Dfifl
Jjave.Desert, which M 1 e
fury of the 511, rumbling up
heaval that struck in the dark
hour before dawn yesterday.
No Estimates
But here, as in other stricken
areas, officials said it was too
early to put a dollar sign on dam
age which appears certain to
mount into millions.
Scientists calculated that the
guake, felt from San Francisco to
the Mexican border, centered in
the rugged Tehachapi Mountains
10 miles south of here. f
Ten persons, nine of them chil
dren, died in this town as the
walls tumbled down. The eleventh
was crushed in the collapse of a
guest house roof at a nearby
ranch, Twenty-five persons re
quired hospitalization,
Virtually every large business
building here was damaged. The
main street, deep in rubble, looked
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Friends of Mrs. David B. Evans
of Hapeville, Ga.,, were shocked
by her unexpected death in her
home early Sunday morning.
Mrs. Evans was the second
daughter of the late Stancil Bar
wick and his wife, Emma Black
car Barwick. She was born in
Athens and educated here in the
city schools and Lucy Cobb In
titute, then under the principal
ips of” Miss Millie .Rutherford,
I Mrs. M. A. Lipscomb.
Mrs. Evans made a special study
of music and from the teaching of
IMiss Madeline Keipp became an
accomplished planist and teacher.
She became a member of First
Methodist Church early in life and
served for some time as pianist of
the Sunday School of that church.
After her marriage she affiliat
€ with the First Methodist
Church of Hapeville and was &
:all member until her untimely
deatn,
Mrs. - Evans exemplified the
eal virtues of the Southern wo
man—the highest skill in the arts
of the housewife and homemaker,
a heart filled with compassion for
the bereaved and distressed, a
keen mind interested in.the world
i‘__“”-lt her and in lands for away.
>he, with the help of her hus
; ind, made her home a refuge for
onely and bereaved relatives and
Tany a person of no kinship ex-
S pt that of sorrow and affliction
nd comfort by their fireside.
__The funeral will be held in the
,i-"‘hC‘_Jl Memorial Chapel in
f:':rn-\'lle on Wednesday, .]Puly 28,
& 1:30 p. m. The body will be
brought to Athens for interment
In the Barwick family lot in Oco
bee Hill Cemetery between four
and four-thirty p. m. Friends are
Tfquested not to send flowers but
nstead to make eontributions in
memory of Mrs. Evans to
Georgia Soclety for Crippled %:
dren, Inc., of which W.pg. Anc?l.oy
bresident of The Natfonal Bank of
Athens, is treasurer. |
You Can Help Save The Dogwoods If You Water Them
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
DISCRDER BREAKS OUT AT CALIFORNIA CAUCUS
Citizens Asked
To Water Trees
With almost daily stories in the
newspapers telling of a water
shortage herz and there, low pres
sure water that creates fire haz
ards, Athenians can hardly be
criticized if they have a rather
smug, self-catisfied look on their
faces as they spray gallon after
gallonn of water on their lawns
during the late afternoon hours.
Athens’ water supply is fully
adequate for almost any demand
made upon it and this is due to
far-sighted planning when the new
waterworks was built and the
fact that the system has been kept
up-to-date.
For instance, yesterday alone,
Athenians used about 1,000,000
gallons of water on their lawns,
City Engineer J. G. Beacham said
this morning. That the water was
used on lawns is shown bg the in
crease in consumption. ut the
City Engineer is not worried, even
though that figure is about 1,000,-
000 gallons above normal when
rainfall is normal.
In all, Athens wused 3,500,000
gallons of water Monday, the City
Engineer said.
Atlanta is one of the cities suf
fering from low pressure and a
member of the City Council in-
Fire Chief W. C. Thompson
today warned Athenians and
those living in the county out
side of Athens against starting
grass fires.
“It is terribly dangerous,” the
chief said. “With the grass so
dry, it burns like tinder and
very often will gain such head~
way that buildings are endan
gered before the Fire Depart
ment can reach the scene.”
“We had a call a few days ago
to a grass fire that was endan
gering a $30,006 fhome a short
distance away, the chief said.
“In order to save his home from
the fire he did not start, the
home-owned was forced to call
the departmernt and pay the as
sessment for out-of-city calls,”
he added.
tends to introduce a drastic meas
ure in council making non-essen=
tial use of water supplies a viola=
tion of the law.
However, as local citizens keep
their lawns alive with generous
use of water, they should not for
get to water the dogwood trees
with which the ecity lined the
sidewalks of many of the streets
in an effort to add to the beauty
of Athens. It's much easier and
more sensible to keep the dogwood
trees alive than to have to replant
them. 80, while you're spraying
the lawn, don’t forget to turn the
hose on the dogwood and keep
them alive also. |
Mr. Beacham said the big reser
voir on the Commerce Road holds
plenty of water and there is am
ple water in the river and creek
to keep it full. Mr. Beacham says
the only thing that worries him
about the water situation is that
citizens enjoying watering thelr
lawns may forget all that water
ing, especially if it rains, before
they get their water bills.
In the current issue of the Geor=
gia “Fire Cracker,” a publication
of the Georgia Safety Fire Com
mission, is an article {illustrated
with four pictures, %uoting Athens
Fire Chief W. C. Thompson as to
the water pressure situation here.
Wonderful Record
Chief Thompson says in the ar
ticle that Athens enjoys as fine &
fire record as any city of its m:
in the country and ad&s tha{
is due in large part to the efficient
work of City g:nglncer Beacham
and the fact that the city adminis
tration hag continually added wa~-
ter mains and fire hydrants as the
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ridge group had attempted to qualify a
group for the California primary. In the
confusion it was impossible to obtain any
individual identifications, — (AP Wire
photo.)
Protect Dogwood
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY,
Gloom Overcasts
Stagnant Steel
Situation Today
By JOHN MOODY
PITTSBURGH, July 22 — (AP)
—The CIO United Steelworkers’
renewed demands for a non-com
promise union shop—cempulsory
union membership—cast gloom to
dtfi on the 51-day-old steel strike.
egotiations were at a standstill
and the government gave no indi
cation of further intervention.
The stiffened union shop dew
mand came yesterday at the ses
sion of the union’s 170-man Wage
Policy Committee, summoned in
to session by USW President
Philip Murray.
Before the session ended, indus
trial .representatives—in an un
precedented action—went before
the wunion committee to present
industry’s side of the dispute. But
the plea left the committee’s gol
lective mind unchanged.
Unanimous Vote
Union negotiators headed by
Murray had discussed modified
terms of the union shop as a basis
for possible agreement. The com
mittee voted unanimously to wipe
out such a possibility.
The steel companies’ side of the
dispute was presented to the Wage
Policy Committee by Vice Presi
dent Joseph M. Larkin of Bethle
hem Steel; John Morse, general
counsel for Bethlehem; Vice Pres
ident John A. Stephens of U. 8.
Steel and Board Chairman Ben
Moreell of Jones and Laughlin
Steel.
After the four men spoke, Mur
ray turned to the committee mem
bers who already had voted, and
asked: “Do you want to change
your minds?”
Loud Denial i
Loud yells of “No” and “Hell,
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Calfornia to kill at least 11 persons in the mougtain tova
of Tohfi;}apj Awg% felt mildfy ip Los Ang rfi;s. I%\Tany citl
zens of Los Ango é8 were finfiened by fiw early morn
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ere J. N. Reese Inspects a broken window and tumbled
manneiu'il{m in the windows of the store where he works.
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ATHENS, GA,, TUESDAY, |ULY 22, 1952,
Strife-Plagued Demos Turn To lllinois
Governor For Magic To Unite Torn Party
Dixie Profests
"Loyalty” Rule
BY JACK BELL
CONVENTION HALL, CHICA
GO, July 22, — (AP) — Strife
plagued Democrats turned today
toward Bible-quoting Governor
Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois for
the nomination magic which might
dispel the lowering threat of a
Dixie walkout.
In Stevenson, friends professed
to find a possible presidential
nominee who could draw the sting
of a wound-opening defeat for
potential Southern bolters in the
convention’s shouted adoption
during the weary early morning
hours of a “loyalty” rule.
Ambigious in language and sub
ject to almiost any kind of inter
pretation, the rule said in effect
that delegates must give assurance
they will exert every “honorable
means”’ to sce that the conven
tion’s presidential and vice presi
dential nominees get on their
state’s ballots.
Forced Passage
It was shoved down the throats
of protesting Dixie delegations by
Senator Blair Moody of Mic?nqln,
newspaperman turned politician,
Moody may be eyeing the vice
presidential nomination,
The rule was gaveled into ex
istence by Gevernor Paul Dever
of Massachusetts, the temporary
chairman, after piercing com
plaints by Southern leaders that
it would put themr in the ‘)oaition
of violating their state laws er
party orgs:ization instructions.
Five states with 110 votes to
ward the 615% needed for the
presidential nomination would be
affecte¢ dirvectly. They are Vir
ginia, south Carolina, Georgia,
Mississippi and Louisiana.
All of these five have laid out
machinery with which they could
bolt the national ticket if they
don’t like the nominee or the plat
form.
Texas, with 52 votes, seemed
likely to ge ahmflfii»fid, Moody
rule. Governor Allan Shivers said
it doesn’t eonflict with state laws
there, which he said require that
the people get a chance to vote on
the national party’s nominees.
Strategy Caucuses
But the five other delegations
called strategy caucuses. There
were indications they might de
cide individually or collectively to
defy the rule’s requirement that
the chairman of the delegations
certify the loyalty “assurance.”
No one seemed to know what the
next move might be if that occur
red.
The Moody rule’s adoption fore
cast the later approval by the con
vention of a eivil rights plank so
strong in its terms that the South
erners would have another reason
to stride angrily out of this al
most-leaderless convention.
But the growing possibility that
the reluctant Stevensen would
wind up with a presidential nom
ination he has said repeatedly he
doesn’t waint laid something of a
restraining hand on the bolt
threats.
Vice President Alben Barkley’s
abrupt exit from the presidential
scramble last might strengthened
the draft - Stevenson movement,
which has bheen nurtured on the
convention floor by such able
strategists as Jacob M. Arvey,
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HARMONY BETWEEN GEORGIA AND TEXAS
Senator Richard Russell (Jest) of Geor- during Russell’s visit with the group. He
gla and Governor Allan Shivers, leader of told the Texans he believed the Demo
the anti-Truman Texas “regular” delega- eratie national convention will stick by
tion which has declared for Russell, are a the national committee in seating Shiver’s
picture of harmony as they pose with group.— (AP Wirephoto.)
small flag bearing Lone Star state symbol
Keynoter Dever Rallies Democrats
Toward Victory Over GOP “Fossils™
Georgia Demos
Will “Sit Out”
Loyalty Issue
CHICAGO July 22—(AP)—
Georgia Democrats planned a
caucus today to see what to do
next,
Turned back by the Democratic
convention in a loyalty pledge
fight, there was a belief among
some of the delegates that they
would “sit it out”—that is, remain
at the convention but decline to
take the pledge.
James B, Carmichael of Mariet
ta, a delegate-at-large, said that
i this was done it would take a
two-thirds vote of the convention
to expel the delegation.
The Georgians, however, plan
ned no action until they had stud
ied the adoptiom resolution more
thoroughly.
Gov, Herman Talmadge, dele
gation chairman, said “I am not
pledging to anyone except the
Georgia Democratic party.” He
added that the group was bound
by law not to make pledges other
than to state group.
Athenian Hurt
In Auto Wreck
W. H. Coleman, an employee of
the Athens Cooperative Creamery,
was admitted to the St. Mary’s
Hospital this morning following a
collision involving the creamery
truck which he was driving and a
pick-up truc)f( driven by W. P.
Mize, of Clarksville, Ga.
The accident occurred about
8:40 this morning at the intersec
tion of Hiawassee street and Bou
levard,
Coleman’s condition at the hos
pital was reported as fair this
morning, "but they added that ex
amination had not been completed.
Mize was uninjured.
A reckless driving charge has
been made against Mize.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair to partly cloudy, hot and
sultry today, tonight and Wed
nesday. Chance of afternoon
thundershowers each day. Low
tonight 74, high fomorrow 98.
Sun sets today at 7:42 and rises
tomorrow at 5:37.
GEORGIA — Partly cloudy
and continued hot and humid
this afternoon, tonight and Wed
nesday; widely scattered thun
dershowers.
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Praises Demos,
Scorns GOPs
By WARREN ROGERS JR.
~ CHICAGO July 22 — (AP) —
Convention keynoter Paul A. Dev
er rallied Demeocrats last night
to what he predicted would be
thelr sixth straight election wie
tory over Republican “malice” and
“fossils.”
The Massachusetts governor,
amid roars and rebel yells, threw
up his arms and shouted:
“We have vanquished them be
fore—we shall vanquish them
again.”
Swinging steadily through his
4,500-word speech, Dever heaped
scorn upon the Republican party
and praise upon the Democratic
administration—particularly those
of Presidents \goodrow Wilson,
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry
S. Truman. |
Blasted Ike |
He made no mention of the De
mocrats’ wide-open race for the
presidential nommation this year.
But he blasted the Republican
nominee Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower, as a complete novice un
qualified for the presidency.
The Republican convention two
weeks ago, Dever said, raised
“only the voice of the fossil.” The
platform adopted by the GOP
then, he said, is:
“A shopworn declaration, con
ceived in malice, and dedicated
to the proposition that all the great
achievements of the last 20 years
should be swept away.”
In choosing Eisenhower as
standard bearer over Ohio’s Sen.
Robert A. Taft, he said, the Re
publicans “threw overboard the
faithful pilot who had guided
them for years and Fcl:ced' at their
head one whose owledge of
navigation was confined to other
waters.”
Current Issue
The 1952 election issue, he said,
is ‘“to keep the peace”. Neither
the GOP nor Eisenhower can do
this, he contended, but the Demo
cratic party’s record against Com
munist aggression has proved it
can.
Dever made only passing refer
ence to civil rights, the issue
which split the 1948 Democratic
convention and has imperiled
North-South unity at this one.
“On thig issue, as in all others,”
he said, “the Democratic party
must forever move forward.”
Dever said his personal belief
upholds laws guaranteeing “full
economic opportunity for all Am
ericans, regardless of color, creed,
age or racial origin.”
Prelude Talk
In a prelude earlier in the day
to Dever’s keynote talk, National
Chairman Frank E. McKinney said
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Eoi?fiy by 85,000 People In Athens Trade Anjy
lke To Confer
With Nixon On
Campaian Plans
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
DENVER July 22 —(AP)—Gen.
Dwight D. E'fSel’lhOWEi’ and his
GOP vice Eresidentia running
mate, Sen. Richard N. Nixon of
California, will discuss eampaign
plans Sunday at the éeneral’s
vacation haven in the Colorado
Rockies.
It will be their first get-together
since they conferred briefly in
Chicafo after the Republican Na
tiontal Convention.
Sen. Fred A. Seaton, an adviser
to Eisenhower at the general’s
headquarters here, announced to
day that Nixon will fly from
Washington Saturday to Denver.
Motor To Ranch
On Sunday Nixon will motor 72
miles to the secluded cattle ranch
near Fraser, C 010.,, where Eisen
hower has been vacationing since
last Thursday. Nixon will fly Mon
day afternoon from Denver to Los
Angeles for a brief rest in his
home state before traveling to Co
lumbus, 0., to address the Ohio
Republican Convention July 31.
In Los Angeles, the adjustant
genral of th eVeterans of Foreign
Wars, Julian Dickenson, announc
ed Eisenhower will make his first
major campaign address there be
fore the VFW National Conven
tion opening Aug. 3.
Eisenhower also will receive the
FVW’s Bernard Baruch Award
given the American citizen a panel
of judges says has contributed the
most toward fostering unity and
good will among peoples of the
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Convention Waits Word
Of HST “Favorite Son”
; By PETER EDSON
NEA Correspondent
CHICAGO, July 22 — (NEA) —
With every politician in town
grasping at straws to see which
way the political winds blow,
there is only one sure fact to get
hold of. Most, if not all, of the
Democratic Convention confusion
would be ended if President Har
ry S. Truman would come right
out and say whom he was for as
his successor.
The situation is a good bit like
that prevailing just before the
Jefferson-Jackson' Day dinner in
Washington. For a year everyone
had . been trying to find out if
President Truman would be a
candidate for re-election. He told
no one till he got good and ready.
Then he announced his decision
so it would have maximum socko
effect.
Right Timing
He is now expected to do the
same thing in announcing his
choice as Democratic nominee for
the Presidency. He'll' wait till he
considers his timing just right.
HOME
EDITION
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Three-Way Sp
On Civil Right
Feared Pending
By EDWIN B. HAAKINSON *
CHICAGO July 22 — (AP)
A three-way split over civil rights
-instead of the usual North-South
division-developed among Demo
cratic platform drafters today.
The 19 delegates assigned fto
rough out the party’s presidential
campaign principles began a mar
athon session te finish their task
by Wednesday.,
Sen. Warren @G. Maghuson of
Washington, whe wusually votes
with the Northern wing of the
party, told this reporter he eould
not support a Senate anti-filibuster
plank.
“I think it's dishonest to say we
are going to do something that we
know we cannot do,” he said.
Predioct Adopfion
Sen. Herbert H. Lehman of New
York, also on the drafting group,
and Sen. William Benton of Con
necticut and Sen. Hubert H. Hum
phrey of Minnesota have predicted
adoption not only of a stronger
racial relations section but ‘tn.
plank calling for a change in -
ate rules on filibusters.
They contend that until the Ben
ate rew}!l'ites its ;‘:lt:t.n thén will
be no chance of 4
tvon?ct eivil r;ght birgi}slm
t five days of publie
before the platform group m
ern Democrats, who bolted the
convention four years ago en this
issue, remained strangely silent.
Sen. John SBparkman of Ala
bama, who did not bolt then and
now is supporting Sen. Richard
B. Russell of Georgia for the pre
sidential nomination, said he agre
ed with Magnuson.
Push The Issue
Sparkman also said he believes
that Lehman and other Northern
senators may be pushing the anti
filibuster issue in an effort to pro
‘\nobe the presidential bid of Aver
ell Harriman, wno has backed
‘iheir stand vigorously and public~
y.
’ Sparkman, Magnuson and sev
eral other members of the plat
form-draftinfi froup told this re
porter they believe a bitter eon
vention floor battle could be avoid
ed if the platform is written in
general terms, avoiding specifi¢
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Late Reports
Convention Hall, Chicage, July
22— (AP)—ln the Yight of rapiil, -
ly developing situations in this '
tense convention hall, a state- '’
ment of paramount interes§
to all Georgians came from Rep,
Gene Cox of that state teday. |
He told reporters it was possible '
that the name of Senator Rieh- ' |
ard B. Russell would not be put
before the convention. !
Cox contended the “loyalty
rule” action was, in effect, toss~
ing the November election to the
Republican ticket of Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Russell himself said only: “It
s necessary for me to await the
course of events before 1 c¢an
make a statement.”
A further enlightening devel
opment came from a man
around whom the Demoerats
hope they may be able to unite,
Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illineis,
The Governor has said that he
would accept the presidential
nomination if it is offered.
Then he’ll let ’em have it.
This time could come before or
after the platform is adopted, be
fore or after the nominating
speeches, before or after the first,
second or any other ballot. It
might come before this -gets into
print. :
If it comes early enough, this
convention could be all over in
one ballot, like the Republican
Convention. If that happens, Dem
ocratic National Committee Chair
man Frank McKinney's early
statement that this convention will
adjourn at 11 p. m. Thursday
would be an accurate forecast
whose significance a lot of people
missed.
But you never can tell about
Democrats. You might still find
them here on August 1, batfilutt
out on the 103rd ballot in at
is now being caiied the only un
controlled Democratic Convention
since 1924,
In the meantime, the half-dozen
leading condidates and their man
agers and committed delm in
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