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Politicians Now Live In Big Goldfish Bowl
By the Staff. of The Scripps-Howard Newspapers &®
CHICAGO, July 10—It can’t be long now. Barring a
political miracle—Ike’s the man. ~ The Senator from Ohio who has tried so hard. for 12
years—who has lived in the suite for one tense, bitter week -—isn’t going to be President after all. At least, most people here have no doubt.
One of Taft's closest allies admitted grimly, just before they called the roll on the Georgia delegates, that it was all over.
There was no premature cheering at Eisenhower, headquarters, no slackening of ‘the drive that has gone on day and night, right around the clock. Ike's strategy board was careful not to be overconfident. But. in the lobbies, the Ike kids went around with baskets and signs that read “Drop
Your Taft Buttons Here.”
Congress Hotel's presidential
{portance in the party was at the (convention, not at election time. |This year theyre talking—like [delegates from any other state— about which candidate might get {the most votes in the South. s “ ” IT'S THE SAME OLD STORY, though, for Perry Howard, Negro national committeeman from Mississippi. His delegates have been challenged at every convention since he took office in 1924. He's bgen seated every time. Between, conventions, he practices law in Washington, D. C. Ld » # A TENNESSEE
DELEGATE
In Taft circles, the edgy, angry had to go home when a strike gigns of defeat were obvious. started in his egg company: Har-
It could come now on the first ballot, should be no later than the second.
With Eisenhower this close to victory, last call is sounding for the bandwagon. It's time for the scramble among the men who'll want to say: “It was my bloc) that put him over.” : The break may come from one of half a dozen delegations. Those with favorite-son candidates are likely to go first. None of them is in the race to help Taft. And that's all they could do now, by
staying in. Sa : n on “ THEY HAVE NO vote, but the people who aren't here count more at this convention than the sweating, jiggling, bellowing delegates. Just because they may be sitting by television sets, watching. . At least three times, the unseen] audience, peering over shoulders) of men running the show, has altered the course of events. First, on the crucial rules test, Monday. Remember when ‘the floor mic-| rophones suddenly went off and GOP Chairman Gabrielson “couldn’t hear” the Eisenhower men who wanted to speak for the Langlie proposal? “Accidents” like that have often happened at conventions. Only this time, five pro-Ike governors started advancing toward the platform. And Sen. Saltonstall of Massachusetts, already there, ‘smiled for the cameras as he said something to Gabrielson. But lip readers might have picked up words not fit to go over the air,
with the whole country watching, the mikes suddenly went back on again. : Second turning point came when TV cameras got inside the credentials committee hearing. It was the first chance the country had to see for itself crude realities of Southern GOP politics. Even delegates from other states watched TV, learned things. Had about the same shock-value as Kefauver ¢rime hearings. Finally, an Eisenhower delegate quietly moved that votes on seating be taken in public. It staggered old-timers, but—in front of the cameras—they couldn't refuse. sw nN | BUT GOLD-FISH-BOWL CON-| VENTION problems aren't all solved. | .
When Gov. Fine called Penn-| sylvania delegation caueus for| small backstage room at conven-| tion hall, technicians, lighting ex-| perts, TV and newsreel cameramen, photographers, radio men, and men with walkie-talkies, tape recorders and radio telephones swarmed in ahead of time. When delegates were due, half the seats were already filled with outsiders. With. 70 delegates, 70
ry Carbaugh of Chattanooga . . . caucuses brought a fist-fight in the Nebraska delegation (over the unit rule) . ... Judge Blair Gunther, Pennsylvanian, is going to have to explain when he gets home why a picture showed him wearing. a Taft button, though he's an Ike man. Explanation is that a fellow delegate was too quick for him, pinned the button on when he wasn’t looking.
» s s BEDFORD SHARP, Texas millionaire oil machinery manufacturer, has been wandering around the Hilton, trying to make a $10, 000 bet that Ike will be nominated. No takers. ; But Houston Oilman Tom Flaxman was luckier. He bet a suit of clothes on Ike, found a Chicago taker. Bet specifies the suits the men are wearing, says the loser must pay off in the Hilton lobby. Bettor in most serious trouble if Taft wins is Louis Seltzer, edi-tor-in-chief of Ohio Scripps-How-ard Papers. He's promised to push Rep. George Bender through the . streets in a -wheelbarrow. Bender weighs 20Q pounds. Seltzer weighs 135 pounds.
8 4 8 FIRST LADY CANDIDATES: _ Mamie Eisenhower's been turning in a Grade A performance. Army-wife training’s stood her in good stead. She knows how to talk pleasantly, say nothing she shouldn't. Even the cameramen like her. : Instead of running from them, she asked if they'd take pictures in several different hats so she could tell which ones were best on her. But she still can’t get used to having people interested Rd BR By a n on the Jput it didn’t keep her from smilng. Martha Taft couldn’t go to convention hall. She watches on TV, like millions of others. She’s made a noble effort to meet folks, help him win, despite her serious illness, but it has tired her. Sen Taft spends a few ‘minutes with her each day; the four Taft sons take turns looking in on her. A companion, Mrs. Daragh Wunder of Cincinnati is with her most of the time.
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BIG UNDERCOVER CONVENTION fight is going on between convention Sergeant - At - Arms Charles Hacker of Chicago and Chief Usher Andy Frain. Row broke.out when Frain tried to follow orders to keep out some 500 gate crashers—members of Cook County Republican Club— that Hacker was helping into convention hall. Gate crashers did it like this, with 50 tickets. Fifty of them would go in, then send one man out with all 50 tickets. Fifty more would then enter. Once inside they'd pin on sergeant at arms badges, supplied by Hacicer. GOP Chairman Gabrielson ordered Chief -Doorkeeper Michael
alternates, crowded in under the blazing lights, room was like the! Black Hole of Calcutta. Soon as Gov. Fine tried to talk, his voice| was drowned out by shouted directions from cameramen.
Caucus had to adjourn without voting. No way to tell delegates) from all the others. | Nes A TOPFLIGHT Funnyman Bob) Hope got crowded clear out of! television picture last night—because politicians were funnier. | Hope was set to go on TV at 9 p. m., to make wisecracks ‘about convention, as sort of between-| the-acts entertainer to liven up network telecast. | But convention proceedings got| Interesting about that time, so Bob was kept on “standby” basis, to be run on at first opportune moment. : He was still on standby almost three hours later, when conven-| tion's funnigst moment occurred. | Puerto Rican delegation got into hassle over its vote on Georgia! delegate contest, and brought] down the house. | The network canceled Hope ap-| pearance. TV felt Hope couldn’t| be that funny.
” ” ” OFFBEAT NOTES: Controversy over civil rights at a GOP convention has never “happened! before. When it did come, it produced tangles like this: Taft,
following tradition, backed the,
stronger plank. But Taft dele-
gates from the lily-white faction of the South, supported the Eisen- |
hower plank, for a voluntary) o
Whereupon Harlem ‘Taft sup-| porters switched to Ike: decided) in the end Negroes would be bet-| ter off with the faction of the! party that was “more open-|
* minded, sympathetic.” |
Except for civil rights row, platNo real
or special interest groups, to pretend it's important.
And somethine’s happened to
the Southern delegates. They used to cast docile votes without any fuss. Knew their only im-
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Hanrahan of Indianapolis to be peacemaker, straighten matters
Ed . s THREE DELEGATES stood on the curb near Chicago Amphitheater trying to hail a cab. One wore an Eisenhower button, two wore Taft buttons. t
Halleck Put On Their List
By CHARLES LUCEY Seripps-Howard Staff Writer
ilantly confident Eisenhower top command today began to play for a first ballot nomination for the General and to canvass the field
running mate. Sweeping Eisenhower which tore from Sen. Robert A. critically important Georgia brought from Eisenhower leader an elated cry: “We're in.”
on: the 1952 GOP ticket centered first on three Californians—Gov. Earl Warren and Sens, William F. Knowland and Richard Nixon— and swept eastward. « Mr. Nixon is the man in Congress who did most to put the finger on Alger Hiss. Sen. Knowland has carried the ball for the GOP on Far East policy and, In political terms, might give the GOP ticket valuable balance—Gen. Ike himself has been concerned chiefly, of course, with Europe. >
In the Midwest, Sen. Everett Dirksen of Illinois, who will put Mr. Taft in nomination, and Rep. Charles Halleck of Indiana, long one of the most influential GOP House members and a man who knows his Capitol Hill, are on the! list. . ; | Of the two, Mr. Halleck is| moré likely. He all but had the vice presidential nomination in 1948 after he helped throw the Indiana vote to Tom Dewey in the Philadelphia convention, but it eluded him. In the East the tentative list has the names of Sens. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and Leverett Saltonstall, both of Massachusetts, Gov. Alfred Driscoll of New Jersey, Sen. James H. Duff of Pennsylvania and Gov. Theodore McKeldin of Maryland, who will nominate Gen. Eisenhower. The Eastern group doesn’t seem as likely as the California
group. This list isn’t all-inclusive. An important name not listed still could be pulled out of the hat. And one of the most important considerations, of course, will be a vice presidential nominee who will help to pull the party together, who may represent a concession to the conservative brethren of the GOP, whose
From Midwest ?
CHICAGO, July 10—A jub-|'
victories! Taft all but a handful of the}
contested | votes of Texas, Louisiana and
Speculation on the No. 2 place ||
! Gen. Eisenhower.
GOP Plank Rejects Isolationism
Halleck Mentioned :
for the strongest vice presidential ©
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By United Press
CHICAGO, July 10—The Repub-
hitcan Party today unveiled a 1352
platform pledging a speedy hulldup of U. .8., air power, reduced foreign ald spending and “an end to corruption” in government. The 4800-word document, sent to the convention floor for approval, charged that the rearmament program is ‘“disgracefully lagging” under the Truman Democratic administration.
It called for the “quickest possible” achievement of a ‘“‘completely adequate” defense force
with emphasis on air power and atomic weapons “in abundance.’
The foreign policy plank — a
compromise carefuly tailored to satisfy both Gen. Dwight D, Eisenhower and Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. O0.)—rejected isolationism and pledged GOP support of “collective security.” foreign aid programs can and
But it said
should be conducted more economically lest the United States “bankrupt” itself. Wants Controls Ended The GOP also promised to do
nomination would help to heal the deep and searing wounds which have opened here in The butlaup of Eisenhower confidence in this convention could be charted as surely as a stock-market graph —and with peaks higher than the valleys were deep. It rose spectacularly with Monday victory over the Taft forces on the convention rules change— a test Gen. Ike's leaders have believed for weeks might be the decisive turn toward nomination. It reached high again yesterday as the Taftmen, in the convention’s credentials committee, caved in on the question of seating 13 Louisiana Eisenhower delegates and taking only four for themselves.
Not Made Lightly
away with “injurious wage and price controls” and to balance the budget so that “a general tax reduction can be made.”
ticipated no serious difficulty in winning approval of the platform by the full convention. But a watered-down civil rights plank, with no specific provision for a fair employment practices commission, drew rumbles of discontent from some Negro delegates. They hinted they might
stronger plank. The ‘platform, approved in a 81-hour secret session of the GOP resolutions committee yesterday, also contains the following key points:
quent” mail delivery.
That decision wasn’t made!
man almost as long as Robert A.! Taft. But the convention on Monday had refused to accept a com-promise-in-reverse which would have given the Mr. Taft six of the 13 disputed delegates from the state. 80, yesterday, the Taft people decided they were licked on this proposition generally and ;so let most of the state's delegate Street: slide to the Eisenhower! e. Part of the decision was strategy, too—it ‘was based on the hope that if Louisiana were conceded, the convention might 'go|
Along came a cab. “I'll take you,” said the driver, |
looking at the Eisenhower man,
“but not these two fellows.” One of the Taftmen blustered: “You're public transportation— you've got to take us.” “The hell I have,” the driver said. “My boss told me I didn’t need to ride anybody but Eisenhower guys.” ® And he drove off,
INDIANAPOLIS TRAFFIC
long with the Taft side on the Georgia and Texas disputes.
Ancients Used Pet
Names, Expert Says CHICAGO, July 10 (UP)—John A. Wilson, University of Chicago expert on Egypt, said today nicknames were used in the land of the pyramids more than "3000 years ago. : Mr. Wilson said in a lecture such monickers and “Red,” “Baldy,” “Big Head,” “Sweet,” “Lazy,” “Happy,” and ‘Gloomy” oftenfwere tagged on subjects of| the Pharaohs. {
“One Egyptian with the dignified to oust the crooks and grafters,land lightened the shadows— ter-
name of Ah-Mose was known as ‘Tiny,’ and a woman named Nes-Ta-Nebet-Ishru was known to her cronies as ‘Bony,’” Mr. Wilson
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said.
at full parity prices for all farm products in the market place.”—
lightly. It meant throwing to the/ In other words, high government { wolves Louisiana's a com-| Supports for farm prices. The ad- Republican nomination, Miss Jo called in to inspect her husband. mitteeman, John Jackson, a Taft ministration’s Brannan Plan was may have to work 20 minutes|She stared in amazement, Miss
roundly condemned.
THREE—State ownership of,
tideland oil.
FOUR—Retention of the TaftHartley Labor “Act with “such amendments . . . as time and experience show to be desirable and which further protect the rights of labor, management and the public.” FIVE—Opposition to “all-pow-erful federal socialistic valley authorities,” and to administration efforts “to undermine state control over water use.”
SIX—Opposition to federal compulsory health insurance “with its crushing cost, wasteful {inefficiency . . . and debased standards of medical care.” SEVEN — Expanded social security to cover “those justly en-|
versal pay-as-we-go pension plans.”
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PROUD BOYS—Young sons of Gov. John S. Fine of Pennsylvania greet him P convention by appearing with three eastern governors who support
" TWELVE—“Immediate” statehood for pro-Republican Hawaii, statehood for pro - Democratic Alaska “under an equitable enabling act,” and. ‘eventual statehood” for Puerto Rico. “Selfgovernment and national suffrage” for the District of Columbia. -
The defense plank was carpentered to please both Gen. Eisenhower, who favors “balanced” land, sea and air forces, and Mr. Taft, who wanted even more emphasis on “air superiority.”
Warns of Russia
It warned that Russia may strike before the “disgracefully lagging” program is in high gear, and promised to develop U. 8. preparedness “with utmost speed a force in being, as distinguished from paper plans.” The civil rights plank called for federal legislation to end lynching and poll taxes and to “further just and equitable treatment in the area of discriminatory employment practices.” Its failure to be more specific about FEPC was criticized by some Negro delegates, who regarded the plank as weaker than
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The civil rights issue caused the biggest fight in the resolutions committee, which okayed without change the foreign policy and defense planks; drafted by subcommittees. Blisters Democdats The platform blistered the Democratic administration for having “evaded” and “flouted” basic duties and having “so undermined the foundations of our republic as to threaten its existence.” It said the Democrats have worked ‘“unceasingly” toward “socialism,” have burdened the nation with “unnecessary and crushing taxation,” and have tolerated “corruption in high places.” It also accused Mr. Truman of having “plunged us into war in Korea without the consent of our citizens , . . and carried on that war without will to victory.” Like the defense plank, the foreign policy stand was regarded as & compromise of Taft and Eisenhower views. It declares that “with foresight the Korean War would never have happened.” As part of its internationalist flavor, regarded as a concession
the party’s 1948 stand. At the same time, Virginia delegate, Lester 8, Parsons, filed a minority report on the platform. Mr. Parsons said the civil rights plank “left the gate wide open” for compulsory FEPC, which he
make them effective.
opposes.
Works Art of Beauty Culture on lke’s Face
By HARRIET VAN HORNE Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
CHICAGO, July 10—Out here where many television folk are
ONE—"“More efficient and fre-|putting in 14 to 18 hours a day,|Wa8 When Miss Trehy took out
{there’s a clear-eyed, well-rested
. TWO—"A farm program aimed Young lady named Jo Trehy who|having their eyes fussed with.”
‘has worked exactly 20 minutes |since July 4.
If Gen. Eisenhower wins the,
more. At the moment she’s just standing by.
This 20-minute assignment, | which whisked Miss Trehy all the,
way from Radio City to Ames, Iowa, was giving Gen. Eisenhower the first pancake makeup treatment he has ever had. Occasion was the July 4 telecast of “We, the People,” which origin-| ated at the Iowa State College] Miss Trehy came back to Chicago| to repeat the treatment should | TV station. Once it was over, the course of history deem it| |necessary. |
‘Loathed Idea’ |
{ How did the General take to jeye pencil and powder puff? “He! was a perfect lamb,” says Miss
|Trehy, “though he obviously titled to it but now excluded”||oathed the whole idea of makeup | {and “a thorough study of unl-lon a man.”
He soreiy needed it, though, for
In Miss Trehy’s’ expert eyes, the
EIGHT—No censorship or “gag supreme Allied commander and
order” on letting the public know “what their government is doing” ~—a slap at President Truman's information security order. NINE — Government reorgani-|
zation as recommended by theithe manner of a mother describ-| 08
Hoover Commission. TEN-—“An end -to corruption,
and to restore honest government! to the people.” ELEVEN — “Overhaul loyalty and security programs” to keep| Communists out of government.
possible’ next President has the coloring of “a baby field mouse.” “He has pale blue eyes and just a little blond fuzz on top of his head,” she related, somewhat in
ing a new Infant. “I darkened the fuzz with a little burnt cork
ribly deep ones—under his eyes.
|T took the shine off his high fore-|turbs other citizens.
Truman Fears His Man GOING ON
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By United Press
WASHINGTON, July 10~—President Truman can't resist taking a crack at his “fa-
vorite” Republican presidential
Mr. Truman canceled his weekly news conference today because most capital correspond-
ents are in Chicago covering
convention. White’ House Press Secretary Joseph Short said the President had “nothing .in particular to report” anyway. But when Mr. Truman met Secretary of State Dean Acheson at National Airport last night upén ‘his return from a tour of Europe asked him what
and South America, he thought of the
‘I'm worried,” the President said - with
(Taft) Is Going to Lose
mock seriousness. is going to get beat.” Mr. Truman has said many times that Sen. Robert A. Taft (R, O.) is his “favorite” candi-
candidate. date for the
GOP national in November.
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meaning he thinks the Ohioan would be the easiest Republjcan for a Democrat to defeat
| - The President appeared in a jocular mood, of his good humor when asked . | what he thought of a statement by Sen. Joseph | R. McCarthy (R. Wis.) about the “Truman- |. Acheson-Lattimore” party. - “I don’t know 3 man replied, “but © damned lie and you can be sure of that.
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policy-—a favorite Taft idea.
head and darkened his ears so they wouldn’t flare out.”
Only time the General recoiled
her eyebrow pencil. “Men hate
iterest ‘of the public service kept {the folks up until their 1:45 a. m. © sign off, a chipper early bird jsounded in fine fettle and said,
verything I do s: to “bad. to Gen. Eisenhower, it pledges © seems to go . continued support of commitments'+ « - I hope I might not lose my| troubles made, of mutual security pro-nerve. ... I don't think I will| discovered grams, and the foreign aid to: . + I hope everybody forgives been added to the unwelcome It also|me- » promises equal importance for the Far East and the West in foreign
“No. 2 Spot On Ticket Convention TV Great, But, Oh, the Ha
Yawn, uh ho hum, Ike is great * and so’s—a hum-y-a-w-n Taft, =
but what. we, sigh, wouldn't give * for a, y-a-w-n night's sleep.
Televiewer awoke a little more *
Mr. and Mrs. Indianapolis § groggy than usual today. The alarm clock ring had an extra
jaring sound. Some
tion—or at least wished the Republicans could have settled their problems during daylight hours. Last night's miracle of tele-
vision, which brought the conven-
tion scene right into their smokefilled living room, today was the
monster which kept them up all :
night. On Time, But Woozy
A sleepy voiced lady at Indian-
apolis Railways, Inc. said the
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wished - they'd never {i heard of the Republican Conven- |
p! . load today was no! later than usual. “Everyone must have come in like I did today,” she said with a yawn. “On time, but tired.” At WFBM-TV, who in the in-
she, too, had enjoyed the programs last night. “But I got enough sleep the night before listening to Hoover to carry me for a few days,” she said.
Man Leaves His Suicide Message On Recording
PHILADELPHIA, July 10 (UP) —A dead man’s voice on an office dictation machine record told his estranged wife and his two children today that-he loved them,
cide because “everything I do seems to go bad.” The voice was that of Willlam Bishop, 32, partner in an insurance agency, who was found dead in his office last night with a 22-caliber pistol by his side. A note on his desk, addressed to police, said his death was “suicide, plain and simple” and asked them to take his final message, dictated on the recording machine, to his wife. The note explained how to play the record on the machine. “I love them all,” Bishop dictated, referring to his wife and children. “She is planning to be married again. I bought the gun for target practice for 15 bucks.
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it works. 5 “Business has not been too good. I am a
Hotel Manager Struck, Robbed
A 62-year-old night hotel ager was slugged early today in a
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but had decided to commit sui-iley, 52,
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Skunks Move Family Under Man's Porch +++ I hope it works . .. I hope| James C. Watson
worst had happened when skunks found a home under his
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into a gun,” Mr. Scribner told police. “Then I was
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family.
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SAYS:
When the glamor job was completed, Mrs. Eisenhower was
Trehy relates, and said it just] didn’t look like Ike.
Los Angeles Shaken By Minor Earthquake
LOS ANGELES, July 10 (UP) —A slight earthquake jarred the Los Angeles area shortly before 2 a. m. (PDT) today, but there were no reports of damage. - The quake gave downtpwn Los| Angeles only a slight shaking, but in nearby Long Beach, police said it was preceeded by an explosion-
residents. Compton police said several persons who heard the windows of their homes rattle called head{quarters to report prowlers in the larea.
Police Crack Down ‘On Noisy Newlyweds
| PLAINFIELD, N. J. July 10 | (UP)—Police warned prospective {newlyweds today to leave church {in a quiet manner after their wedA leaflet ordered drivers in wed{ding motorcades, effective next |Tuesday, to avoid “constant, injcessant and unwarranted blowing {of horns’ because the noise dis-
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