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Newspaper Page TextCOTTON {-INCH MIDDLING ..., .. 30%s vel. CXX. No. 158, e Ends Vacation To Devote “ull Attention To GOP Drive 3 . [oyplians Gef \'ow Of Drive ® (1 Corrupfion CAIRO, Egypt — (AP) — The head of Egypt's powerful Watdist party voiced jubilant support to=- day for the country’s new strong mon, Maj. Gen. Mohammed Na ¢uib Bey, and hailed his ouster of King Farouk and his promise of a rolentless nationwide cleanup of “hribery and corruption.” The sweeping praise for Naguib come from Mustapha El Nahas Pasha, the party head Farouk custed from the premiership after last January’s disastrous fire riots in Cairo and who returned early today from a European holiday. A high Watdist source said the party, Egypt’s largest and the vic tor in the last general elections, would support Naguib and his new premier, Aly Maher Pasha. Naguib, himseif, was at the air port to embrace Nahas Pasha when he arrived. Valient Commander “] thank God our people now are entrusted to our valiant army commander,” Nahas declared, add ing, “I pray to God to grant suc cess to the task undertaken by General Naguib.” Later after a conference with Naguib at Egyptian army head onarters, Nahas called Naguib the “zavior of the country.” Nahas Pasha’s praise for Na ¢uib and his plans took on parti cular interest for observers here, since much of the corruption which the new regime has sworn tc root out and punish has been charged in the past to members of the earlier Wafdist administration. The violently nationalist Waf dists, too, were chiefly responsible for Egypt’s ordering the British out of the Suez Canal zone and the Anglo Egyptian Sudan. Bri- | tain’s refusal to comply. set off prolonged and frequent clashes | and anti-British rioting last win (Continued On Page Three) | AE - \ [ thens Soldiers Fack From Dufy "ack From Duty Major Thomas A. Barrow, son of Mrs. James Barrow, Dearing street, arrived yesterday to spend a week in Athens after serving for the last three years with the Sev enth Army Headquarters in Stutt gard, Germany. Major Barrow, twice wounded in World War Two, will leave Monday for Redondo Beach, Calif., to join his wife, Jaequeline and two children, Elizabeth Lynn, and Stevens Thomas, the laster whom he has never seen., At the end of his month’s leave, he will report to the General Command and Staff School at F't. Leavenworth, Kansas. Another Athenian returning from a tour of duty 1s Captain Hampton Rowland, Jr., who has been stationed as an instructor at the ROTC High School in Long Beach, Calif. He is presently serv- Ing for a month at gort Benning. Mrs. Rowland and their three children, Michael, Monette and Hampton Rowland 111, were with Captain Rowland im California and when he takes up his next as siznment, to the Far East Com mand, will be with Mr. and Mrs. Hampton Rowland at Beech Hav ;‘r:. until they join Captain Row and. ; " ;s e> ) §§“% e . % %t»s S e \ W L e, V) &5@ ey e R e %‘\ R e T Sgy N ey o R S e B v .’..;,-.;.(; ; j;';; \.«‘_'f\ {‘ St & . ... g oA 0020 w 0 : i 7 : ; A FARQUK ABDICATES At gunpoint, King Farouk of Lgypt has lo:n reed to abdicate his throne and flee his native land. The soldiers of Egypt's strong man, Gen oral M hammed Naguib Bey, seized the King's })a.laco and ordered him to lurrenger his throne to his six- Monthg.old son, Ahmed Fzud. The King is shown here ®vith W ¢ oner Queen Narriman and the Prince shortly mom infant’s birth.— (NEA Telepkoto.) ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Associated Press Service . Nominees Foresee . Party Victory DENVER July 28 — (AP) — Back at his campaign headquar ters after a 10-day vacation. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower stowed away his fishing gear and turned full attention today to pressing his bid for the presidency. The Republican nominee returna ed here last night from the Rocls: Mountain cattle ranch near Fra® Colo., where he went for a r¥ 4, few days after the Republic/ &} tional convention, N First on the general’s ag & (0= day was a conference wi. his newly appointed political chief of staff, Gov. Sherman Adams of New Hampshire. Eisenhower plans to spend most of the rest of the week conferring with other party leaders. Campaign Talk Yesterday, the general's final day at Fraser, was devoted only in part to relaxation. A good share was given over to discussion of campaign plans with his vice presidential running mate, Sen. Richard M. Nixon of California. Nixon drove to the ranch from Denver early in the morning and —before the serious talking got started—received his first lesson in how to cast for trout. His tutor? 'the GOP presidential nominee himself, an expert fisherman. ‘ Before the conference, Eisen ~hower and Nixon joined in pre dicting a Republican cictory in November over the ticket the De ‘mocrats selected in Chicago last week—Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois as the presidential candi date and Sen. John J. Sparkman of Alabama for vice president. After the conference in Eisen hower’s rustic cabin, Nixon issued this statement: “The general and I discussed campaign organization and itine rary as well as strategy and tac tics and several of the major issues. Intensive Drive “The general and I agreed that this shall be an intensive a cam=- paign as we can make it. We ex pect to conduct a fighting cam paign on the issues and the-facts, and to bring our case to the people. “When the campaign gets under way, we shall visit as many of the states as possible, including states in the South.” Over the week end, Eisenhower and Nixon both slapped at the Stevenson-Sparkman ticket as one committed to all-out defense of thé Truman administration record. “The Democratic party has named its candidates and offers them to the country on a one plank platform: defense of the entire ad ministration record,” Eisenhower said in a statement Saturday, a few hours after the Democratic (Continued On Page Two) . . Religion Prompts - . Man To Killings BRIDGEPORT, WASH. July 29 — (AP) — Four small children and their young mother were slain as they prepared to leave for church services early yesterday and police arrested the father, who admitted killing his family because “the minister said God is a square shooter.” Being held in connection with the multiple slaying that left the modest family home on the out skirts of this north central Wash ington community a shambles was Matthias Swearson, 27 a laborer. Dead were his 25-year-old wife, Joyce, and the couple’s four chil dren, Kay, 4, Peggy, 3, Karen, 2, and Matthias, six months. Some had been shot, the others’ throats had been slashed. Police Chief Lyle Prothero quot ed Swearson as saying: “The Lord told me to take their lives and that I would join them later.” { Radar Picks U Flying Saucers’ ¢4l wasningion NS & yASHINGTON, July 28.—(AP) -Radar—which normally doesn’t show something that isn’t there— has picked up “flying saucers” near the nation’s capital for the second tinrve within a week. Jet fighter pilots searched the skies without directly contacting anything during the six hours that four to 12 unidentified objects in termittently appeared on radar screens at Washington National Airport and nearby Andrews Air Force Base. Weird Lights One pilot said he saw four lights approximately 10 miles away and slightly above him but they dis appeared before he could overtake them. Later, the same pilot said, he saw “a steady white light” five miles away that vanished in about a minute. ’ So far as could be determined, this was the first time jets have been sent ou the trail of such sky ghosts. Officials carefully avoided men tioning “flying saucers,” just as they did when radar picked up seven or eight unidentified ob jects near Washington last Mon day, But the Air Force was ex pected to add the report to its long list of saucer sightings, which officials say are coming in faster than at any time since the initial ‘ﬂurry in 1947. | £ Radar Recordings ' Radar nornrally does not regis ter anything without substance— ‘such as light. But it can pick up such things as a bird in flight or a cloud formation. And one expert said radar is not infallible, The Air Force reported that be tween four and 12 unidentified objects appeared at 8:08 p. m. Saturday night on the radar screens at the Air Route Traffic Control Center operated by the Civil Aeronautics Administration. B Athenians Seek " To Aid 4-H Club A special meeting of civic lead ers is set for this afternoon at four o’clock in the County Agent’s office in Clarke Court House. The purpose of the meetings over which Agent Francis Bowen, will preside is to determine what part local people will play in the de velopment of the State 4-H Club Center at Rock Eagle. A number of local citizens were conducted on a tour of the con- | struction site at Rock Eagle and set the meeting for this afternoon in order to organize for a fund raising drive of the Athens scene. Prison labor is being used for the development of the site, and the state is matching each dollar raised for the project. The pro posed center will take care of | 1200 persons at a time. Seventy- | two cottages have been planned to house the rural youths. { State 4-H Leader W. W. Sutton, who conducted the tour of the‘ camp last Friday, pointed out some of the many advantages of the camp to Athens and emphasized 1 the fact that a portion of the Rock Eagle area will be kept for public use—fishing and swimming. | - . Adlai Explains . Name Confusion ST. LOUIS July 28 — (AP) — Adlai E. Stevenson, the Demo cratic presidential nominee, blam es Mark Twain “for the confusion that exists as to how to pronounce my first name.” In a recent letter to Cyril Cle mens, head of the international Mark Twain Society, the Illinois governor said: “While my grandfather, Adlai E. Stevenson ,was vice president of the United States under Grover Cleveland, Mark Twain was at a luncheon where grandfather was a guest. The newspapers of the time quoted Mark Twain as follows on the pronunciation of my first name: “Philologists sweat and lexico graphers bray. “But the best then can do is to call him Ad-lay. “But at longshoremen’s picnics, where accents are high. “Falr Harvard’s not present, so they call him Ad-lie’ “Anyway,” Stevenson. wrote, “the correct pronunciation is “Ad lay, although to put it mildly. I have been called many things.” “’;ﬁ"v::),'w | ' :E‘Q}”":; P 1 e N ol == o e They’re in season again-—-chim panzee drivers who hold the top of the car up with the left arm. ATHENS, GA., MONDAY, JULY 28, 1952 News In Brief e e COBB LEADS IN QUALIFYING Henry H. Cobb shot a four-over-par 76 yesterday to take the lead in the first day of qualifying for the first annual Cracker land Golf tournament to be held at the Athens Country Club, August 2-3. Qualifying ends at 12:30 p. m. on Saturday. Persons wishing to enter the tournament are asked to contact Howell Hollis, tournament director, immediately, REVIVAL SERVICES SET Revival services begin tonight at 8:15 o’clock at the Attica Bap tist Church, located on the Jefferson Road. The services will con= tinue nightly at the same hour through Friday with Rev. Alvin Brackett, pastor of Sylvan Hills Baptist Church in Atlanta, con ducting the services. WAC SPEAKS TO KIWANIS Lt. Col. Mary M. Pugh, Wac Staff Advisor for the Third Army, will be featured specker at Tuesday’s Kiwanis meeting. The meet ing will be preceded by & luncheon and will be held at Georgian Hotel Tuesday afternoon at one o’clock, The program was arranged by Kiwanian Louis Griffith and the speaker is an attractive, dynamic person. A good attendance at this meeting is urged by the officers of the organization. SENATOR McMAHON DIES WASHINGTON, July 28.—(AP)—Senator Brien McMahon, 48, a Connecticut Democrat with a passion for peace and a key role in the nation’s economic energy program, died today of a spinal ailment, Death came at 10:10 a. n‘l., with members of his family at his side in Georgetown Hospital, where the senator went in June for an operation. ! Illness prevented his campaigning as a candidate for the Dem ocratic presidential nomination. Friends from Connecticut gave him 16 votes anyhow at the Democratic national convention last week. Fronr his hospital bed, McMahon ordered his name with= drawn, PERSISTENT YOUNG DRIVER SOUTH BEND, Ind., July 28.—(AP)—At the age of 8, Donald C. (Chip) Newman has been driving the family eonvertible glmost four months, But that’s all for a while. Hiding the keys did little good. Chip would put the car in gear and press the starter. Finally, a neighbor woman ecalled police when Chip took off in her car, After a private talk with police, Chip agreed not to drive any more until he’s old enough to get a driver’s permit. B 4 NATION’S OLDEST DOG DIES CHARLTON, Mass., July 28.—Fanny, a mongrel dog, died last night at the ripe old dogdom age of 140 years. : She was believed—and there was nobody to dispute it—one of the oldest dogs in New England. Fanny died while undergoing a major operation in the hospital of Dr. M. Terry Mills, The dog was bought 20 years ago by the Edwin Nelson family when one month old. Three years ago she made what mray be another record by hav= ing a litter of four puppies at the age of 17. An average dog’s life span Is between 10 and 14 years and dog authorities claim seven years Jf a human’s life is comparable to one of a dog’s life. ; THREE-TIME WINNER AUGUSTA, July 28.—(AP)—Macon’s Arnold Blum is the first golfer ever to capture the Georgia amateur crown three times in a row, Blum coenquered Alfred Gallagher of Augusta, 10 and 9, Satur day in the 36-hole finals. It was Blum's fourth Georgia title and one of the widest victory margin’s in the tournament’s 39-year history, : PICNIC RIDE KILLS SIX UNIONTOWN, Pa., July 28.—(AP)—Roaring out of control, a heavily-loaded truck smashed headon into an auto filled with pic=- nickers and killed six persons yesterday at nearby Hopwood. The crash eccurred at the foot of the four-mile long Mt., Sunr mit. Victims included five passengers of the car and the truck driver. Dead are Charles Burns, 59; his wife, Eliza, 57; their daughter, Mrs. Bertha Albertini, 80; her husband, Arthur 83, all of Midway, Pa., and Estella Donovan, 76, Zeigles, 111. The truck driver was tentatively identified as Clyde Willis of Baitimore. Deputy Coroner Stephen Haky said the truck apparently broke loose near the top of the hill. The truck smashed‘into the car and glammed it against a stone wall. SHIVERS WINS TEXAS VOTE DALLAS, Texas, July 28.—(AP)—More than a million Texas voters turned a political cold shoulder to Washington Saturday as they swept Governor Allan Shivers back into office and nomi nated Price Daniel, state attorney general, to succeed Texas’ re tiring Senator Tom Connally. Shivers and Daniel are anti-Truman administration Democrats. ! Shivers beat down the double-barrelled challenge of Austin At torney Ralph Yarborough, backed by the pro-Trunran faction of the State Democratic Party, and Mrs. Allene Trayler, San Antonio housewife, Incomplete returns gave him 672,459 votes to 395,802 for Yarborough, who conceded. Mrs. Traylor polled only 29,863. Georgia's ' New Look”™ Results From Contest The “New Look” is here to stay—at least so far as hundreds of Georg}%’s small towns are eon cerned. e “New Look” in this case, however, is not for the pur pose of covering anything up, as was the case in the recent fashion trend, but to discover the needs of Georgia’s small towns and provide adequate solutions to those needs. The people who are the leading exponents of the “New Look” are not Paris Fashion designers, but are citizens of this state who real ize the need for expansion, devel opment and beautification of their hometowns. A close inspection of towns such as Greenville, Dublin, Tifton, Chipley, Comer, and Statesboro (all are towns which won prizes in the Ceorgia Power Company Community Development Contest last year) will reveal the “New Look” that Georgia towns are wearinﬁ these days. Another look at the towns named will show that the im provements have paid off divid ends in proas)crity and business, say the people of those towns. Need Imcentive They have learned in the eight £Murmg which the Georgia ower Company has sponsored its Community Development Con test—that all their towns need is the incentive and initial push to get out and “do the town”. As arker Mcßae, Community De velopment Representative in the Atheng district, points out, “The contest, with its three major cate gories and three big prizes in each class, is just an incentive to get people to do what they know they ought to do.” To give the reader an idea of what some Georgia towns have discovered they “ought to do,” one need only examine a portion of the program carried out by Daw sonville in this year’s competition. Most towns today have water systems for their citizens— but Dawsonville only recently install ed its water works as a part of their program in the Georgia Pow er Contest. At the same time the Dawsonville people decided that telephones would be a nice con venience and have now installed phones in all homes that desire them, and are extending service into the rural areas, All streets in the town—once muddy and un paved —have been given gutter in%:md pavinf jobs. e ninety-four-year-old Court House in Dawsonville had its first real face-lifting in a “coon’s age” as a result of the town’s interest and enthuisam for the contest and their eagerness to improve their environment. That “face-lifting” included general cleaning up, painting, and installation of new and modern restrooms. There are literally hundreds of (Continued On Page Two) Stevenson Gets Ready For Hard-Hitting Campaign 10M Lin Ger 1s Commissioner of Agriculture Tom Linder has been announced “as the principal speaker for Geor=- gia Eggs Day which is to be cele~ brated here August 6. The occasion is the opening of the Georgia Eggs, Inc, headquar ters at the Farmers Market on the Atlanta highway signifying the growth of the pioneer egg market ing organization in Northeast Georgia. £t ¢ Georgia Eggs, Inc. has been operating from the agricultural campus, and has been serving far mers in 20 counties in this area. With the new headquarters, which are to be officially opened to the public August 6, the services of this egg marketing organization are to be expanded and improved. Commissioner Linder has been interested in the egg marketing work here since its beinning some three years ago and made pos sible the new headquarters build ing at the Farmers Market. In connection with this special Day, farmers and business leaders from this part of the state are being invited to inspect the new building and to become better ac quainted with the services of the organization. John Mauldin, Ex tension poultry specialist, has been in charge of Georgia Eggs, Inc. since it began operation. Air Force Sef 60-day Air Force inventory of north Georgia reservists will begin August 4 under the direc tion of Lt. Col. Merritt B. Pound of Athens, head of the political science department at the Uni versity of Georgia and an active ’particip‘ant in Air Force reserve work since World War 11, offi cials in Atlanta said yesterday. Col. Pound arrived in Atlanta today to assume his duties. Some 2,500 members of air force reserve units in 53 north Georgia counties will be called for interviews and examinations.l The purpose of the project is to bring records up to date that may I affect the reservists being called back to duty. The project is a part of a na tionwide inventory of reservists, Air Force officials said. Col. Pound, a graduate of the University of Georgia and the University of North Carolina, has been connected with the Univers ity faculty here for 26 years. He served in both world wars and was stationed in the China-Bur ma-India sector in World War 11. - . Russians Hit Language Snag HELSINKI July 28 — (AP) — Russia’s fraternization policy with American athletes in the Olympic games almost ran into a snag to day when it encountered some U, S. slang. Ray Swartz, coach of the U. S. wrestling team, was asked by some Soviet wrestlers what he thought of the Red grapplers. “Pretty damn good,” replied Russian interpreters wrinkled their brows. “Pretty?” “Damn?” They weren’t sure it was compli mentary. They asked for a repeat. “Good as hell,” answered Swar tz. There was consternation again. The interpreters went into a hub ble for about five minutes, Finally they came out smiling. HEIR TO THRONE BANGKOK, July 28.—(AP)—A son was born today to Queen Siri kit and became the heir to the Thai throne, The Queen and King Phumiphon Aduldet have one other child, a girl born in Swit zerland 15 months ago. Succession must be to a male heir. ATHENS AND VICINITY Partly cloudy and hot today, tonight and Tuesday. High to day 102, low tonight 74, high tomorrow 100. Outlook for Wednesday, fair and hot. The sun sets this evening at 7:37 and rises tomorrow at 5:42. GEORGIA — Partly cloudy and continued hot this after noon, tonight and Tuesday; chance of thundershowers in south and central portions this afternoon, TEMPERATURE - Bighagt 5o vil a 5 e Lowest ' /il S aei a 8 PRGN i St b Erianei il MOFMBL ' Wl el RAINFALL Inches last 24 hours ~ ... .00 Total since duly 1 .. .. .:. & Deficit since July 1 .. .... 8.79 Average July rainfall ~ .. 5.01 Total since January 1 ~ ..27.13 Deficit since January 1 ... 3.95 _Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Ares T, 'y Big Four” Team To Make Talks CHICAGO, July 28 — (AP) — Governor Adlai E. Stevenson re turns today to Springfield and a tumultuous welcome from the Ill inoig capital, to prepare himself for the role of Democratic stand ard bearer in the 1952 presiden tial campaign. He will pick up, but only tem porarily, the reins of the job he had repeatedly said he wanted for four more years—governor of Illi nois. Then he will resign to devote himself to the role “I did not want”—candidate for President of the United States. Weekend Conferences The Democratic nominee spent the weekend conferring with par ty leaders on campaign plans. Among them was Sen. John Sparkman of Alabama, whom the Democratic national convention chose as Stevenson’s running mate as candidate for vice president. Frank E. McKinney, Democratic national chairman, told reporters the party high command had agreed on a “hard-hitting cam paign of no more than 60 days.” It will begin on Labor Day. McKinney said the party’s big four speaking team will be Presi dent Truman, who advised the chairman, “I am at your disposal,” Vice President Alben Barkley, an unsuccessful candidate for the top spot on the 1952 ticket, Stevenson and Sparkman. Whistle Stop The chairman said the team will carry the campaign into every part of the nation, and President Truman was promised a repeti tion of his 1948 whistle stop speak ing tour that salved victory out of generally predicted defeat. Besides Sparkman and McKin ney, other Stevenson visitors Sun day - included Governor Paul A. Dever of Massachusetts, Averell Harriman, Senator Robert Kerr of Oklahoma and Mrs. India Ed wards, vice chairman of the Dem ocratic National Committee. Dever, his own state’s “favorite son” candidate for the presiden tial nomination, told reporters he believes with Stevenson the Dem (Continued On Page Two) Athenians Differ On Convention's Qutcome Townsfolk, looking over their shoulders -at the two national political eonventons recently held in Chicago, are fairly evenly split on their views and political lean ings. Following the mass hysteria and excitment induced by televi sion and radio accounts of the con=- | ventions, most folks are settling back to calmly review the issues and campaigns before making up their minds for the November bal loting. From a sidewalk interview ses sion held on Clayton street this morning, the Banner-Herald re porter gathered that a good half of the citizenry of Athens consider the likelihood of a strengthened Republican party to be great. The outlook on whether this strengthening would be good or not differed widely. One man said bluntly, “Get the Democrats out— I don’t care who takes their place” while another (an older man) thought about “Hoover Days” and determined to “stick with the de mocrats.” l Looking back on the hectic days of the convention when many peo ple left their television sets only long enough to eat, many theories were formaulated on the local scene, One man opined that Ke»l fauver had sold out to Stevenson. Another said all Senator Richard B. Russell needed was thirty days in which to gain a “little added strength”. The same man was of the opinion that Georgia’s junior senator would have taken the no mination if he had met Kefauver Vi T s . BTN : t*ﬁi‘i?'i- : g T il ¥ G, .:;"1-v F ! , %“2"\ . ; o : B i ,4::‘ X y; s w’ 2§ ¢ \ 5::'2: RGP % gea . U e &*3 TAR Y e P G P o oRERE R el o S g D %“ Bwﬁ ¢/ & oA BB % 3% SRgR B G e 2 ‘l"'-”'r‘:"‘ﬁfg‘f:.»s"s?"‘3s" R e e % LNI § fEN R e Y o e e i A g : sok M e Re Rl L RV R SRR B it THE CONTENDERS WHO LOST — These are the men who campaigned the hardest and presented the stiffest opposition to the nomination of Governor Adlai Steven son of Illinois at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Tennessee’s Senator Estes Kefauver (left) is shown as he stood before the convention to relinquish his delegates to the Stevenson landslide after the third: ballot. Senator Richard Russell is shown at the right as he entered the Convention Hall with Governor Hermsan Talmadge (right) of Georgia after he had decided to free his delegates.— (NEA Tlephoto.) HOME EDITION Argentina P Final Respects BUENOS AIRES July 28 (m —Argentina’s humble thouss paid grieving homage today te Ev Peron. They waited four Ihns‘ in milelong queues for a 20-second walk past the bier of their Presi dent’s wife and political partner, who died Saturday night after 1 long illness. Mrs. Peron’s death in her early 30’'s was generally attributed te cancer although there had been no official announcement of the na ture of her illness. Military Services The blonde wife of President Juan D. Peron lay in state in the hall of the Labor Ministry, in a glass-topped casket of mahogany draped in white orchids, await ing a full military tunerai tomor row afternoon. Tons of lilies, reses and carnations packed the hall and overflowed into the streets outside, Temporary interment, at her own request, will be in the hall of the 6,000,000-member General Labor Confederation (CGT). She was the unofficial head of the CGT and her following among its members made her the natien’s most potent political force after Peron himself, The slim beauty was regarded as the most powerful woman in politics in the werld. The CGT promised a prepetual guard, floral offerings and a sym bolic flame always at her tomb. Deep Mourning Unprecedented mourning bz' Ar gentina’s masses—who called her Evita (Little Eva) and looked wpon her as a Cinderella who had risen from their own ranks to heights of glory — began the instant her death was announced. As church bells slowly knelled, vast crowds knelt in a night-long vigil in the rain. Women wept openly, some in a state of near collapse. On Sun day all flags were dipped to half staff. Buildings and lamppests throughout the nation were draped in black. ‘in the state primaries. “These pledged delegates that stuck to Kee fauver could have been pledged to Russell”, he said. Mixed Feelings The Democratic nominee was looked at with favor and with aps prehension by the some dozen pecsy ple interviewed this morning. He was termed as “middlex: m road” and as “lacking presi timber’ by two persons. M. A. Hardman, Colbert, stated that he felt the Democratic party would have the best election year of its history this November and added that he personally is 3 “plain Democrat and will stick te them as long as I live”. Mr. Hard man expressed his gratification tht Russell did not se_k the viee persidency, adding that “he’ll get to top later.” He lauded Viee President Alben Barkley and epin ed that Sparkman will carry the south for the Democrats. A housewife, who requested that ke pema ha withheld, differed with Mr. Hardman on all save ene coulii. interrupted in a local drug store as she finished her lameh, she went on record as being een fident that the Republicans will gain strength in the South and that two parties will be well esta=- blished after the coming election, She was sorry that Russell did n’'t take any opportunity which afforded itself to seek the wvice presidency. “I wanted him te be our president so bad that I'd like to see him get one of the twe (Continued On Page Twe)

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