Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 51, Number 153, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 3 August 1949 — Page 1

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WEATHER MOSTLY FAIR Indiana: Mostly fair' tonight

and Thursday. Little change . in temperature,

VOL. 51-No. 153

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SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES WEDNESDAY, AUG. 3, 1949

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Britain Charges Russia Using

lave Labor

GENEVA, Switzerland, Aug.. 3 (UP) Britain charged today that Russia has 10,000,000 slave laborers organized on a "mass production basis." Britain's Copley Smith, in making the charge in the United Nations economic ' and social council, "demanded a "straight answer" from the Soviets on whether they will permit a UN investigation. A. A. Artiunian of Russia admitted in his reply that Russia has "corrective labor camps," but contended that the Soviet penal system is the "most humane in the world." He did not give the: "straight answer" demanded by Britain as to whether Russia Would permit a UN invesitgation. "The penal policy of the Soviet Union is a progressive one," he. said. "It is a corrective labor type. Its aim is not only punishment, but re-education, so prisoners will be able to return to the society of workers." During his hour and a half of speaking, Arutiunian accused Britain and most other countries maintaining penal systems far more unfair than that of Russia. He told ECOSOC that the world is confronted with a new slavery "which we believe is extensively practiced in the Soviet Union." : The number is far greater than inrCzarist times, he said. "If the Soviet government has nothing to be ashamed of," he said, "why does it maintain this veil of secrecy, this iron curtain around its prison camps? "What the United Kingdom

Abandon Hope For Education Aid This Year ; WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. (UP) The aid-to-education bill is dead at least for this session of Congress, its ' backers conceded aqw ...

not yet fourteen years of age on which polio has struck at least j Th' .n.H thv have abandoned

July 1 of this year will go to once. Indiana's confirmed case h for final Congressional ac-

winy ouiiuaj reinuuii. aiuuu i , viv "N tion on the measure until 1950,

i ana stay unui weunesaay, claiming one out 01 every iu

Annual 4- H Club Camp At Shakamak All Sullivan County 4-H'ers are reminded that the annual 4-H Club Camp will be held August 14-20 at Shakamak State Park. Sullivan County will again camp with Putnam and Clay Counties

Confirmed Polio Cases Total 280, With 23 Deaths INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 3 (U.R)

as they have for the past several The State Board of Health

years. 4-H boys and girls who were

today added Boone County to the list of 50 other counties in

morning, August 17. 4-H boys and girls who had reached their fourteenth birthday on July 1 will go to camp Wednesday afternoon, August 17 and leave camp Saturday morning, August 20. The camp fee this year has been reduced to $5.00. $1.00 must be paid in advance as a reservation fee. This reservation fee may be paid at the County 4-H Club Fair next week, August 11, 12, and 13. The other $4.00 is payable upon arrival at camp. . Only 4-H Club members who have completed their 1949 4-H

Club projects are eligible to attend camp.

oa7d aid'SaT Cou w'Committee by a bitter religious j There were reports in one or n Ste ZS mS 1. S Na J J ... Unm r, u 4. :j Cimaren. r.dl.11 bune muni, iiian.ii QnJ rpcfistratinn nrnmm snH AiV Pnri.o T-To Viae

More working Yet More Idle, Survey Shows

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (UP)

Employment increased to the

highest leve; of the vear in July

but the number of jobless reach

ed 4,095,000, the largest in seven

and one half years. .

Jobs were held by 59.720.000

wants is a straight answer from persons during the Census Bu-

the delegate of the Soviet Union, reau's survey week in July, the Will his government admit an 'commerce Department reported

impartial commission of investigation appointed by the economic and social council of the United Nations? Yes or no?" . Introduce Evidence ' j Smith introduced as evidence

ah English translation of the of

victims.

"Maybe we can get it out of the House Labor Committee," one

Other cases reported today in-'said, "but that's, about as far as

we'll get for a wnue." i The measure, which would allot $300,000,000 yearly for grants to the states for education purposes,

eluded one which brought Jay County's total, highest in the

state, to 51; one in Allen County

and the other in Tipton County.

Hoosier Corn ft 4

iroD Keoor

As Very Good INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 3 (U.R)

The progress and appearance The Agriculture Department of the Hoosier corn crop is very today allocated $64,625,000 in good to excellent, the Indianap- Federal funds to the states and olis weather bureau reported to-.territories to help finance the

ral School

Lunch Funds

Are Allocate

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (UP)

day.

Most of the corn in the south-

school lunch programs. This was $5,750,000 more than uroe rQvnaor nut lact vpflf TVlA

utPa .V" "allocations ranged from $3,741,mi k stage and m the northern f Pennsylvania to $11,648 counties it, was silking, the bu- . Alagka rlSLb?uUTn . J The Federal funds wiU be used

iicius un me xuuiaiia w ileal

Sixteen County Student At I. U.

Sixteen students from Sullivan County are attending the Indiana University summer session on the Bloomington campus, according to Registrar Charles E.

Harrell.

They are among the 8,292 stu

dents enrolled in all divisions of the University's summer session which will end Aug. 12. The number of full-time students is

higher than last summer's total and includes residents from all 92 counties in the state.

Mr. Harrell said the complete

schedule for the 1949-50 school

year has been completed and that students planning to enter the

For Top Spot

In Defehs

ePIan

By Dayton Moore United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. (UP)

Gen. Omar N. Bradley is slated

to be the first statutory chairman

of the joint Chiefs of Staff, informed sources said today.'

The post will be established by

statute when President Truman

signs into law the new military unification legislation which the House approved by. a 356-7 vote yesterday. The Senate already

Dr. W. C. Anderson of the state has been held up in the Labor

,u;rtu i i- nn luv-aA aunnva t"J 1 1 inlvprs tv this fa shnn hi filP hflii nascpfl it

cent harvested varied consider-for . . . Purhase(i bv sch00ls, their entrance applications and . The legislation makes Defense vi v.. .t 4 ' j participating in a program to

auiy uuk iiiusi were iair 10 good. .

program to ( complete housing arrangements Secretary Louis Johnson undis-

hardest hit area in the state . dispute.

when the case incidence per The committee met for two

1.000 population was figured. The hours yesterday, out tauea to re

incidence in Jay County was al

most two.

Hard Hit Counties Other counties with high polio

population ratios included Union, 1.8; Randolph, 1.0; Delaware, 0.4; Howard. 0.2; Madison, 0.08; St. Joseph, 0.05; and Marion, .03.

Anderson said the National In

fantile Paralysis Foundation gave

an incidence of seven cases of polio per 100,000 total population as being the "general seasonal incidence" in any geographical area. Anderson said some experts set 20 cases per 100,000 population as constituting an epidemic. Meanwhile, Indianapolis Mayor Al Feeney called his city health officer for a "precautionary" conference.

"We've been' fortunate, thank

caused ?? state's pe.r cpita inc0me is.Sept. 14 and former students will

fcv q .nmWnati nt w eiw me national average.

high humidity and frequent rain ' ?inrS? aPPrPmtead 83'500'- : Oat yields were average or 000 for 3 2? COm-

slightly better with 80 per cent of PfwiBwu ter classes will begin Sept. 21.

j - ..... i np i jpn a ft. Trip nr. wiir r h ui ai

register the next two days. En

rollment for all students will be Sept. 17-20 and the fall semes-

the crop harvested

reported the grain

was poorly

250,000 with which it will buy

foods to be distributed among the oarticioating schools. Somewhat more than $1,500,000 will be used

a pending decision to sell uniforms to its officers; Under the present arrangement, armed service officers can buy their uniforms from private concerns. INDEPENDENT OFFICES

God, in proportion to the rest of The Senate passed a $7,663,000,the state," said Feeney. "But we 000 bill to provide funds for the

don't want to sit here and let, 1950 fiscal operations of some 30

this thing creep up on us." Outline Steps

independent government agencies.

It wrote in a clause which would

iVeenev said he wanted Health Han

1 j VTtV t ' I Wtll illV. A IVVIIllV 4 Ik. 1. gj Ullll ULtJ X 3S 3n mcrease of iOfficer Gerald Kempf to outline sion from awarding an atomic fel-

101,000 over June.

But the total of unemployed was 317,000 higher than June and 1,868,000 higher than July, 1948, when it was 2,227,000.' mi ....

i ne, r reason iorxne seemine

the proper emergency steps "so lowship to any student who adthey could be put in! force im-.vocates the violent overthrow of

the government. The rider, pro

posed by Sen. Joseph C. O'Ma-

provide nutritious lunches for

two areas, the report said, of -umuci1- oiaic mu" tion and registration program and Air Force. He has expressed some sprouting in shocked grain1 116 F.eefal funds except where for new students will begin on; the intention of using his powers

to tighten, unification and to save about $1,000,000,000 a year by "cutting out wastage, duplication, and . . . unnecessary civilian employment." Ike Temporary Head. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower has been acting as temporary chairman of the joint chiefs by Presidential order. Adm. William F.' Leahy, Presidential . Chief of Staff, acted in a similar capacity during World War II. But the new unification law will give legal standing to the post for the first time. Bradley, age 56, now is ArmyChief of Staff. He commanded the First Army and later the Twelfth Army group during World War II. He was Veterans' Administrator for two years after the war. - Three assistant secretaries, including a comptroller, are also created in the new bill. Informed sources said two of the special assistants, to the first Defense Secretary, the late James Forrestal, were under serious consideration. They are Wilfred J. McNeil, who has been the Defense SecretEiy's budgetary assistant, and

Mark Leva, the establishment's general counsel.

not yet thrashed. It was

solve the controversy. Chairman John Lesinski, D., Mich., told rer porters he intends to call another meeting "within a few days." Elsewhere in Congress: "FIVE PER CENTERS" A

House military subcommittee , f"led. called Stanley J. Cummings, ex- 1 Tomatoes Ready a; a . e Ai- ikT.ji i I T. Tnmatnpa wprp fair tn anrA

ecuuve secretary 01 uie nauuiuu ; f QminiotrativA mirnn5pi Association of Uniform Manufac-j beginning to ripen in the'01 b turers, to testify on what he'forthern counties. In the south, I heJ nds knows about Washington's "fivela markets were practically Jr Sthilfren of per centers." Subcommittee mem-1 lotted and crops from some V Z the Ll ? caoUa in-

bers said thev intended to ask I commercial neias were going tor . 4 n

him about reports that James V.

market already. Considerable c.ome ?l each state- The alloca

tions included:

u,. i i rotting was reported in some

AAUiib, acii.-3ij;vi iiiaiiaKCiiic;iii. . . nn. r T mm',nr nffOPOf1 fr a fQt f ! areas . because of the hot, humid Illinois, $2,339,160; Indiana, $1

to try to get the Army to reverse

weather and frequent rains. ,507,348; Iowa, $l,163,7b, 'Other crops were reported as Kentucky $2,100,314. good. Second cuttings of alfalfa

were yielding good tonnage. Pastures and meadows were good for the 'season. Soybeans were excellent due to almost ideal growing weather in most sections for this crop.

. J. S. Vandermark, horticulture! assistant at Purdue University,' said the Vincennes peach market reached its peak this week with t Hale Haven ppaches but the I

and

Byrdrandidate

Wins Yirainia

Election Fioht

Students from this county attending the I. U. summer session at Bloomington are:

Carlisle: James F. Jackson, j

R. R. 2; Ruby Ruth McCammon, R. R. 1. Dugger: James E. Anderson, Billie Hutchinson, Jr. Farmersburg: Florence Aleta Ault, R. R. 2; Betty Ellen Brunker, R. R. 1, and Edwin D. Drake, R. R. 2. Jasonville (R. R.): Gerald L. Dix, R. R. 2. Shelburn: Doran A. Lofton, R. R. 1. -Sullivan: Gay Edna Calvert, Kathleen Campbell, R. R. 4, Mary Alyce Donnelly, Robert E. Fuson, John L. Hamilton, Ruth Hinkle, and Leslie Lund Ray.

jMrs. H. McClanahan Dies Al Shelburn

mediately should it become nee essary." Two young girls, one at Ind

lanapolis and ' the-other rai; -Fort-' or FBI investigations of all 'f ef

Wayne, died yesterday. Lela Ka-j lowship applicants

der, age 12, was the lirst fatality

zu r,

Elberta variety will not start to RICHMOND, Va., Aug. 3 mwe until about Aug. 10. (UP) John S. Battle, backed'

Vandermark estimated 1,500 by the state political organiza-

bushels of Hale Haven

ficial ' "correctivelafeoU-Kbr paradox of increased numbers of the Soviet Union. He said it employed and unemployed is the

showed: 1ofoi n..mKa ;iui' . ' j . . . ..

- - . lai.L.. 11U1UUCL Ul muuic n V il I I l 1 1 1 r nnnwiAn f 'mint.. ,iniinvi VII - -

i. - Russia condemns people f0r work. I JTT i.TnT Jama Ma nana r tnr

The Commerce Department' nnrth ni. in th nnlio stand-li,U,,,W 1 '"""S1 1 w'

said that adult workers accounted ;n, . . ,1

fir most of the increase in unem- Barbara Meredith, age 15,: was

pioyment.

Mrs. Nettie McClanahan, age

82, died at 2 o'clock Tuesday af-

peaches tion -of Sen. Harry S. Byrd, to- ternoon at the residence in Shel-

ttf-nxA nnln Jm'lvr 11 1. 1 .1 Al T"V . Ai nuA.M UllYiM

lir ,LX?Zt: She is survived by "three, sis-

bertas would be marketed by certain of final victory - for the ters, Mrs. Mandy Burris and Mrs.

Aug. 25. He said the peaches of- post " iJLorena Moore, both ' of Terre

to forced labor without trial by .law. 2., People are condemned, not only for ordinary crimes, but for holding opinions contrary to those of the government and nil-

ins class. SENTENCED FOR

3. These camps or colonies rimiau uiiuaiuaiiuh . provide an "immense supply of John Cody, of Shelburn, has

cheap and mobile labor at the been sentenced to 180 days at the

the, third polio victim to die in Fprt Wayne, although the State Board of Health listed only seven cases in Allen County.

Most In Jay

License Bureau

Because of ill health and a desire to finish his ' college education, George Easton of Hymera, has resigned his position as man-

beck and call of the various state State Penal Farm and fined $15 three deaths, was still the hard-

and other enterprises." . I ana csts m City court for public," " , T -a T

The council opened debate to- intoxication. JU.",BU "olcu

Delaware County held second place with 33 cases and three deaths.

Other counties with high death tols were Adams with three out

of eight cases, and Hamilton had

Jay County, with 51 cases and ager,of the local! Auto License

day on a UN resolution to set up an inquiry commission to invest- FILES COMPLAINT Igate forced labor in member na- FOR CONVERSION tions. The charges, brought by Ralph L. St. John has filed a the American Federation of La-, complaint for conversion against bor, are directed primarily against John W. Borders in the Sullivan the Soviet Union. I Circuit Court.

Family Of Polio Victims Have Responsibility To Check Spread

One of the big mysteries of Infantile paralysis Is how tne disease spreads and reaches epidemic state. To find some of the answers, United Press Science Writer Paul F. Ellis talked with polio experts at the University of Michigan, who believe that families stricken by polio have a responsibility to take measures to help against the spread of the disease. The following is one of a series on how scientists are meeting the problems of polio.

By Paul F. Ellfs United Press Science Writer (Cnnvriirht IQ49 Bv United Press) ANN ARBOR. Mich., . Aug. 3 (UP) Families where polio has struck can do much toward helping check the spread of the disease a lesson that has been learned in epidemic areas. The stricken family need not isolate itself, but should avoid personal, prolonged contact with other persons, scientists here believe. " The scientists here, members of a team at the School of Public Health of the University of Michigan, comprise a mobile unit that moves into epidemic areas. Financed by the National Foundation for Infantile Paraly

sis, the scientists technically known ' as , epidemiologists specialize in gathering information on the cause of the spread of polio, which still is an unsolved mystery. -

Branch.

Mr. Easton, a wounded veteran of World War II, stated that after hospitalization for removal of shrapnel in his leg, he intends to complete his final college year in order to obtain his B.S. degree. Mrs. Velma F. Brown of Sullivan has been appointed as the new Auto License Branch mana

ger, which has been moved to 6 East Washington Street in the Brown & Co. Store.

three deaths and five cases,

No other counties reported

more than one polio death, but there were nine widely scatered counties in that cateeorv.

Thirtv-fivo nf the Bl rnnnties ln TOMATO QUUEN

which at least one polio case has been reported did not have a fatal case.'

BLUFFTON TO NAME

Have Virus However, recent evidence has shown that when a member of a family comes down with polio that virtually all other members are harboring the disease, although they may never have out

ward symptoms. It is further proof that polio is contracted by

close, intimate contact.

Furthermore, the studies have shown that some members of a

rrHo-Ftrjcken fsmilv have had polio virus in their bodies for as

long as four to six weeks, and

during that time could , have

spread the disease to others.

From the evidence here it would appear, the scientists believe, that instead of an entire community changing its social routine such as closing the

schools, churches, movies and the 'the street to Blair House when swimming pools that it would ,the executive mansion became be best for the polio stricken unsafe, would be able to move familv to chanee its social rou-back into the White House some-

tine until the disease has "run its. time in 1951

While House Repair To Be Costly, Long WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. (UP) It will take from 18 months to two years to make the White House safe again for occupancy, officials said today.

Lorenzo S. Winslow, White House architect, told a reporter

that the actual job of renovating the 150-year-old building would begin in about six weeks that is, sometime in September. Under Winslow's time-table, President Truman and his family, who were forced to move across

BLUFFTON, Ind., Aug: 3. (U.R)

Indiana's tomato queen will be chosen at the annual tomato fes

tival here Sept. 29-30. The festi

val is held in conjunction with

the Bluff ton Street Fair. Festival officials said the queen also

fered would be of the best qual

ity in recent years. . .

Workman's Freedom Plea Is Denied

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug." 3. (U.R)

' Ott Workman's second bid for freedom was denied today.

The State Clemency Commission rejected his bid in a twoday hearing in which parole bids of two other men serving life nrisnrr terms also were reiected.

Workman, . wealthy Loogooteqfor election

farmer, was convicted in 1937 in

the robbery shooting of a farmer.

He was subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment. He was paroled in 1945, but the parole was

withdrawn a month later when

charges were made that a public defender accepted a fee from Workman to get him a parole.

The commission also turned

down the parole requests of Richard Sweet and Edward Dean. Sweet, who had made three previous attempts to get paroled, was convicted on a charge of kidnaping a woman welfare worker during a prison break attempt in

of a

KattlB wnn a nartv nrimarv Haute. 3nd Mrs- Mollie Morrisey

election over three opponents New Goshen, and four grandyesterday, in balloting that was chidre"- , , , regarded as - a test . of Byrd's Thte J?ody wa taken to the Mc-

strength. The organization held "US1 1 uuc ' " firm and its entire slate for the Services will be held at the She 1major offices was nominated. b.un? Church of Christ at 2 o'I clock Thursday afternoon. Burial With 1,685 of the state's 1770 will be in West Lawn Cemetery. precincts reported, Battle had 128,617 votes. Col. Francis P. jiii j in

Miller, the second man, had 103,- W inQQW rccDc!

44.761 and I r

400, Horace Edwards 44,761 and'

Remmie L. Arnold 22,150.

By Virginia state law only a

Sent To Farm

Sam Cooper, age 50, of Shel-

would be crowned "Junior Mis9

Indiana" and would represent the 1940. Dean was a member

state at the annual Junior Miss gang charged with the murder of America Pageant at Pittsburgh an Indianapolis policeman in next year. , '1933.

Appear At Shelburn Church

course" in a particular family. For years the question of compulsory or voluntary quarantine

' Meanwhile, a special government commission set up by Congress planned to meet in one of

has been debated, but most of ;the White House's safer wings to

the scientists believe that in the,cau IQr Bias ana to let out con

case of polio either one is impractical. The experience of San Angelo,

Texas, where an epidemic of po

struction contracts ior the renovation job. Congress has set aside $5,400,000 for the work.

This commission yesterday re

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pluralityof votes cast is na

ing charge from innocent tc

Battle, age 59, a veteran of guilty in Sullivan Circuit Court legislative service, will advance and was fined $1 and costs and from the State Senate to the ex- sentenced to 30 days at the Indecutive office in January. In iana Penal Farm. November, he will be opposed in1 Cooper had originally pleaded the general election by Repub- nt guilty to the charge on Monlican Walter Johnson, but in this day, July 26. The peeping was

state the Democratic candidate saia 10 nave occurred on Juiy

is a shoo-in a the home of Eugene Forbes in

!bneinurn,

Miller, a former Rhoades

Scholar, apparently had the edge

in populous centers, with the aid of the labor vote, but Battle's strength swelled up from rural counties and overwhelmed all opposition.

Rollie E. Smith

Rcllie E. Smith, age 54, of Terre Haute, a former resident of Sullivan County, died yesterday at tha Union Hospital in Terre Haute. He is survived by the widow, Zella Pope Smith; a daughter, Mrs. Donnetta Leach, of Terre Haute; a son, Delbert Smith, of Terre Haute; two brothers, Harry Smith of Mattoon, 111,, and John Smith of Richmond; a sister, Mrs. Reva Pirlle of Sullivan, and three grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the Thomas Funeral Home in Terre Haute with the Rev. George Jewell officiating. Burial will be in Roselawn Memorial Park, Terre Haute.

TODAY'S TEMPERATURES The unofficial temperatures in , Sullivan today were: at 7:30 a.m 72 degrees at noon 85 degre3S

Public Brawl Seems Likely As GOP Seeks Hew Chairman

(In Washington, Battle's vie-1 By Lyle C. Wilson tory cause no surprise in admin- United Press Staff Correspondent istration circles. President Tru-j WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. (UP) man, however interested he may( The Republican National Compersonally have been in the pri- mittee was heading fast today mary, had studiously refrained toward another public brawl over from any word or act that might the party chairmanship.

have been construed as interven- ... . , .

ij v,., ti rne committee win meei iu-

Georee Savchenko :. and : his work. He has collected more

lio is now believed under control jected proposals that, instead of family will appear at the Shel-, than 500 photos, some in color,

and waning, appeared to have

confirmed the theory that closing the schools, churches and the movies has no significant bearing on the spread of the disease. It is usually panic and hysteria

(Continued on Page 2, Col. 8)

a press conference last week as

morrow on call of Chairman Hugh

n www h favors anv f thp D- Scott, Jr., to accept his resig-

candidates, he replied that he nation and to elct a successor.

never intervened

maries.)

in state pri-

Powerful committee elements

which helped batter down Scott's determination to remain in office

Miller warned, however, that are mustered behind the candihe has "just begun" a liberal dacy of Committeeman Guy G.

crusade to break down Byrd , Gabrielson of New Jersey for the

dominance of state politics. Control of the party was the main issue. .

the present White hum Phnrh rif fi-nH nn Ratnr,

government tear it aav Sundav and Monday niehts of the pictures are relisious and

others in black and white. Some

renovating

House, the

down completely and set up an in a series of taiks and meetings others are not.

entirely new Duuaing. lhe com- on Alaska. The family spent four The programs will begin at

mission said It believes it would years in Alaska. , 17:30 p.m. each night and the pubbe better to leave the outer walls in connection, with the talks,1 lie is invited to attend. The Rev. intact and concentrate on re- he will show a series of pictures i H. R. Morehead is the pastor of

omioing tne interior.. and will exhibit Alaskan handi-lthe church.

FPI ARRESTS COUNTERFEIT BOSS NEW YORK, Aug. 3. (UP)-, Federal authorities said today they had dealt a "crushing blow"

to a nationwide counterfeiting

ring with the arrest of ex-con

vict Michael Maione. alleeed East

Coast boss of a multi-mililon dol lar phony money syndicate. Msd

one, age 38, was held in $50,000 bail for grand jury action. He

was arrested at his Bronx apart

ment yesterday but . other top leaders in the ring ' still are

sought.

chairmanship.

Gabrielson is one of several

candidates whom Scott has said publicly he would not accept.

Scott represents an eastern Pennsylvania district in Congress, He was handpicked for the party chairmanship by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey a year ago after the New Yorker won the Republican presidential nomination.

Dewey's humiliating defeat and

the Republican loss of both

Houses of Congress last November led to an ouster move against

Scott. In a national committee meeting at Omaha, Neb., last January, Scott survived an angry attempt to drive him from office. The vote was 54-to-50, a margin

too thin to prevent continued ef

forts to compel Scott to resign. Scott told a press luncheon in mid-July that he would gladly resign if a harmony candidate could be found to succeed him. But he named a few men whose election to the chairmanship he would oppose. Gabrielson was among them. Scott said Gabrielson and Sam F. Pryor of Connecticut were maneuvering to seize control of the national com-. mittee in behalf of special interests. Pryor long has been prominent in Republican politics. He has airlines, shipping and industrial interests. Scott said then that unless a harmony candidate were found

he would fight to retain his office. A few days later he made a surprise announcement that the national committee had been summoned to meet tomorrow to accept his resignation and to elect a successor. ; Sen. Robert A. Taft - of Ohio has said that Gabrielson and sev-' eral others would be acceptable to him for the chairmanship. Others whom Taft would take gladly include A. T. (Bert) Howard of Nebraska and former Rep. Edgar Chenoweth, of Colorado. Former Gov. Ralph F. Gates, Indiana; Arthur G. Summerfield, Michigan, and B. Carroll Reece, Tennessee, are long shot possibilities.