Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 June 1952 — Page 2

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lke Edges

GOP Leaders Fight It Out n to Wire

enator’s Lead Razor Edged By United Press PIERRE, 8. D., June 4—Sen, Robert A. Taft (R. 0.) and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower battled right down to the wire today in the South Dakota presidential primary with Sen. Taft holding . a ragor-edge lead, The General was pulling slowly but steadily abreast of him, clos" ing the gap a few votes at a time, when county vote collection offices closed down for the night and - all counting of yesterday's voting was halted. It appeared that the final results would not be known definitely until later today. Some observers speculated it might be tomorrow before any positive results could be announced. With only 267 of the state's 1053 precincts yet to be heard from, Mr. Taft was only 689 votes ahead of Gen. Eisenhower. The Senator had 60,125 to the General's 59,436.

Warren and Kefauver

Win in California

SAN FRANCISCO, June 4 (UP)—8en. Kefauver and Republican Gov. Earl Warren of California emerged today as winners " of the Golden State’s presidential primary election. : ‘=v Mr. Kefauver pocket 68 more votes for the Democratic -na“tional convention in Chicago In July afte? beating a delegation of old-line Truman followers. Coupled with his victory in yesterday’'s South Dakota election, the coon-skin-cap Senator from Tennessee now commands 251 convention votes, He needs 616 to

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Taft or Gen. Doug! for the GOP nomination.

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| CANDID—The mobile face of Gen. Dwight Eisenhower makes for excellent camera studies. ' These pictures were taken at his press conference in the Pentagon building at Washington. Strikers Vote Today On La Porte Walkout LAPORTE, | Sums 4 Jota at the water Heater mianuectrical Farm Equip-iracturing concern when their conment, Workers Union No. 11% ruc expired Saturday. A tats 1am Frankl, 18, Jerome {to end at day-old strike at tive agreement was reached yes- drowned when he stepped into a Bastain-Morley Co. terday to end the strike, but un.|15-fot hole in a gravel pit near

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Political Roundup—

Barton Given Democrat Post

Will Be Secretary Of State Committee

By IRVING LEIBOWITZ Former City Controller Patrick |Barton today was named secretary of the Democratic State Committee, . { The appointment was made by State Chair‘man Charles | Skillen. ! Mr. Barton 3374 E. Fal Creek Blvd., wa.

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Gives Him

By CHARLES LUCEY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

ABILENE, Kas., June 4— Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower came back .to his own sunsoaked, wheat-rich Kansas today to establish his first politi cal beachhead. A speech late today, a vastly

—these will let Amerjcans make their first judgment of the political thinking of the man who is here, on his own word, because politics wouldn't let him alone. : S80 close is the race between the General and Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. 0.) that the soldier's own top supporters are saying— “It's up to Ike from here on.”

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The Democrats Mr. Barton | also made plans to hold a State Committee meeting June 12. The platform advisory committee has| invited all Hoosiers to help form-| ulate the Democratic platform the same day at the Claypool] Hotel. {

Duff for lke

Sen. James Duff (R. Pa.), one| First, that at least on the big There's little doubt the Taft|

'of the leading supporters of Gen. Eisenhower for President, was due to fly into town today to sing the praises of the General. | A busy schedule awaits the| Eastern lawmaker. He has a |press conference at 2 p. m, a|

meeting with Eisénhower leaders sible delegate.

‘at 3 p. m, ‘visits with top Ike] {boosters at a dinner meeting at the Columbia Club tonight. | At ‘the. Claypool Hotel, {parently there were some politiclans who weren't impressed with Sen. Duff's visit. They had

corridor, saying: “Sen. speaks for General Mum.”

Political Notes

Herbert W. Lane, who lives in the Columbia Club here, said he would formally run: for Governor . He has been campaigning | Over Li State ing trdler. ced the Lanes Caravan. “Bi politicians don’t take his bid seriously. . . . Elmer (Little Doc) Sherwood, ex-Legion lobbyist, has charge of Eisenhower-for-President headquarters in Chi0. '« +» « All the hullabaloo about whether the Republican delegates vote for one office at a time or all together is phony

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%, the nonpolitical nature of his | Abi ap- mosphere here inevitably was political. :

painted two signs in the hotel order springboard to reach the Bluff (whole

Since the New Hampshire primary three months ago, the leadership of the Eisenhower-for-President movement has aged to keep hailing distance of the Senator. Now Gen. Eisenhower must speak for himself. His backers

tougher test in a press conference, tomorrow:

Gen. Eisenhower's visit ' to Abilene, Kas., will be heard and viewed by millions of Ameri cans over television and radio

today. Locally, -TV, WITV and WIRE will bring Ike's live speech Into your home at 6 J. Later tape will . be heard over WIBC at 8 p. m,, WFBM at 9 p. mi. WISH will carry the talk at 9 p. m. if the ball game is rained out.

‘genuineness of Abilene’s wish to give its famed soldier a friendly, warming start toward the presidency.

From Abilene on, there will be little peace and almost no privacy for Ike. .

There has been growing readiness in the last couple weeks to pierce his pelt with sharp new political darts meant to hurt. Nowhere in the long string of presidential primaries was there

have said he will be nominated unless he pulls a mighty boner— and they do not expect it. But some agree victory may not come unless these things happen: |

issues, he lays his cards on the! line with impressive candor. Politicians Everywhere Second, that he shed any stand-offish, let-them-come-and-get-me stance and buckle down to a drive to round up every pos-

Gen. Eisenhower has insisted

lene speech today, but the at-

Probably no presidential candidate ever had such a made-to-

nation. Politicians here

such direct, open attack on the Eisenhower record as in the South Dakota campaign just ended.

strategy will be to hit Gen. Ike hard at every opportunity. In

_|yesterday's Pentagon press con-

ference, the General plainly was firing right back at Sen. Taft's

said he knew no way to run a war without foot soldiers. . Will the General slug it out with the opposition all the way? Some of his Kansas backers think the answer may determine the presidential nomination,

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are stacked.to the ceilings and . Republican governors, shepherd- A ‘manpower. shortage has ing delegates, are here from a hampered efforts of the Indiana

half-dozen states. | An estimated 75,000 were tolc '. Deense program. Frederick

hear the General's speech. Mostly, T Créfors, state director, said they are from his own Kansas— today. See ag

it's & Giada. Has, rr. Crstas said

Vesung. | d on oli ; maybe the second largest wheat woo Au. nr 4 crop in history. This is the 12th Volunteer workers, 124,000 short straight year of rich bounty in|of the necessary requirements to America’s farming midland. man all services fully. All through Abilene;>shrubs are In the Indiana Civil Defense trimmed and lawns manicured. Council’'s first annual meeting Under the great arched elms|yésterday, Mrs. Joseph Walker, around the General's old home, Greenfield, was elected chairman; the bachelor buttons and petunias'Mrs. E. Spencer Walton, Mish-| and zinnias are opening wide in a/awaka, vice chairman, and Ralph|

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propaganda to confuse the issues. new summer's first broiling days. C, Werner, Indianapolis, was re-

elected secretary. '

Dixie Gls to

Show Go Overseas

ED KENNEDY CAMP ATTERBURY, June 4 Overseas orders for at least 5000 members of the 31st (Dixie) Division have been received here. A high Army spokesman cone firmed the draft of men to serve as replacements in Korea and Europe had been ordered by the Department of the Army. . The men will start moving out July 5 by increment with the last group leaving July 20, Half will go to Korea and half to Europe, Those going to the Far East will leave from Camp Stoneman, Cali The European-bound men will stage at Camp Kilmer, N. J,

Officers to Korea

All will get pre-embarkation furloughs. The soldiers to go in the overe seas draft have not been selected, but it was believed no National Guardsmen from the original Mississippi-Alabama unit would be included. . The draft of filler replacements, mostly privates and privates first class, followed by a week the reassignment of many of the division’s original officers to posts {in Korea, ¢ Less than 15,000 men are in the division and the Army order will reduce it to less than two-thirds of combat strength. \ Maj. Gen. A. G. Paxton, division commander, was out of

(big air power theme when he town yesterday and could not be

{reached for commen { - No National Guardsmen are being taken this time, because earlier orders sent them over seas by the thousands. Those re mdining have too short a time to serve on their present tour of duty to make overseas assignments practical.

Needs More Manpower Union Calls Meeting

On Strike Compromise

A chance that a strike which has tied up an estimated $100 million worth of construction in Marion County may be settled this week end was indicated to

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