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U. S., Britain, France Demand
That Russia Immediately Lift
Blockade of Berlin West Zones
_. * ■__—
Notes Are Handed to
Soviet Envoys in
Three Capitals
By the Associated Press
The United States, Britain and
France demanded strongly of
Russia today that the Soviet land
blockade of the western sectors
of Berlin be lifted immediately.
Secretary of State Marshall pre
sented the American note of pro
test personally to Soviet Ambassador
Alexander S. Panvushkin in Wash
ington. The British and French
protests were delivered to Russian
Ambassadors in London and Paris.
Immediately after Mr. Panyush
kin saw Gen. Marshall State De
partment press officer Lincoln White
issued this statement:
“Ambassador Panvushkin called
on the Secretary at 11:30 o'clock
this morning and was given a note
regarding the situation in Berlin.
“The Ambassador was informed
that it is not the intention of this
Government to make the contents
of the note public until the Soviet
government had a resonable period
of time to study the note and make
its reply."
Contents of Note Withheld.
Mr. White officially gave no inti
mation of the line which Gen. Mar
shall took.
Other diplomatic informants said
there appeared no doubt that he
demanded the immediate lifting of
the Berlin blockade, and protested
Russia's recent policies in the Ger
man capital. They said he argued
that the Soviet Union must directly
accept responsibility for any lack of
supplies among the millions of Ger
_- 1 i «r i n in 'Rorlin
Mr. White did not define what
was meant by a ‘ reasonable period
of time" in which the Soviet gov
ernment, could study the American
rote, but, presumably it meant sev
eral days, at least.
The contents of the notes from
the three western powers are not
expected to be disclosed for several
days.
Mr. Panyushkin said Gen. Mar
shall had iict expressed to him di
rectly any view on Berlin. He did
not say what they talked about dur
ing the time he was in the secre
tary's office.
Mr. Panyushkin told reporters as
he left the department that he had
received a note from Gen. Marshall
but didn't, know what was in it. He
was in Gen. Marshall's office for 14
minutes.
Bevin Calls Zarubin.
In London. Foreign Secretary
Bevin summoned Ambassador
Georgi Zarubin to the Foreign Of
fice fos an interview which lasted
only a few minutes, and handed him
Britain's note.
fn Paris a special messenger
handed the French protest to Am
bassador Alexander Bogolomov at
his Embassy.
A French spokesman said the
main differences in the notes were
these; The American note referred
to a letter from President Truman
to Prime Minister Stalin; the Brit
ish document referred to the Pots
dam Conference.
The Paris spokesman refused to
discuss other details prior to pub
lication of the texts, but he said
the notes did not constitute an ulti
matum. Other sources said the
three notes made up one of the
strongest protests the Western Al
lies yet have made to the Soviet
Union.
These sources said all three notes
offered to negotiate overall settle
ment of Berlin problems if the Rus
sians would lift the blockade of
Western Berlin. One diplomatic
source in Paris said he doubted
whether the Russians would raise
' the blockade for anything less than
general four-power discussions on
the future of all Germany.
Notes Drafted After Talks.
The notes were drafted after 10
days of talks and constant commu
nications among Mr. Bevin. Ameri
can Ambassador Lewis D. Douglas
and Sir William Strang, Mr. Bevins
German e;:pert.
Both the American and French
Ambassadors in London were said
to have reported almost hourly to
Washington and Paris on steps to
be taken if and when Russia rejects
the joint protest.
Mr. Bevin furnished top-ranking
ministers of Prime Minister Attlee's
cabinet with the latest developments
at No. 10 Downing Street this morn
ing.
Red Propaganda Found
In South Korea Hospital
By the Associated Press
SEOUL, Korea, July 6—Police
said today that anti-American
pamphlets and Communist propa
ganda have been found in nurses
quarters in the Seoul Red Cross
hospital.
Some of the Korean nurses and
doctors are being questioned but
none has been arrested. Police Chief
T. S. Chang announced. He refused
to give details until he completed his
Investigation, but said that Dr. Sohn
Kum Sang, board chairman of the
h spital, had found the literature in
» large bag in a nurses’ room.
HospitaLs have not previously
been involved in the Communist
movement in American-occupied
South Korea.
Bulletin
Woman Dies in Crash
Mrs. Albert F. Kirk of Muir
kirk, Md„ was killed and her
grandson, Robert L. Kirk. 16,
was injured today in a three
car collision on the Baltimore
Washington boulevard 3 miles
south of Laurel. The boy was
treated at Leiand Memorial
Hospital, Riverdale, for scalp
cuts and a wrist fracture.
Plot to Provoke
Berlin Incidents
Charged to Reds
Intervention to Oust
Allies Is Aim, Paris
Foreign Office Says
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By the Associated Press
PARIS, July 6.—The French
Foreign Office announced today
that it has received from the
British Embassy documentary
evidence of a Russian plot to
drive the Western Allies from
Berlin.
The Foreign Office said the Brit
ish information was that Commu
nists in Berlin were instructed by
Moscow to touch off incidents which
w'ould cause intervention by Soviet
forces.
Similar information has come
from French officials in Berlin, the
Foreign Office added. Neither the
British nor the American Embas
sies here would comment.
French diplomatic informants
said the Kremlin has ordered dem
onstrations leading to street fight
ing which would give Russian troops
a chance to intervene and occupy
all Berlin.
Referring to a statement carried j
by the Conservative Paris newspaper
~~(See DOCU M E Nt7 Page IT-IX"
Blockade Is Tightened
As Soviet Puts New
Controls on Trucks
Flow of American Planes
To Berlin Is Resumed
After Weather Clears
By th« Associated Press
BERLIN, July 6.—The Russians
placed strict controls on trucks
entering Western Germany to
day, Western-licensed newspa
pers reported, tightening their
land blockade of the western
sectors of the city.
The Berlin crisis appeared headed
for a climax.
The steady flow of American sup
ply planes into Berlin resumed at
noon after bad flying weather in
the West lamed the spectacular air
lift for seven hours. United States
Air Force officials said planes again
were leaving every four minutes
from the Rhine-Main and Wies
baden fields.
American officials said the Ger
man press reports of new truck con
trols apparently were true.
Confiscation Ordered.
The newspapers said Acting Police
Chief Seidel in the Soviet sector
ordered his force to inspect the
loads of German trucks heading
for Western Berlin from the Rus
sian section of the city. He directed
the confiscation of foodstuffs, scrap,
building materials and telephone
equipment.
Such an order would erect another
wall through the heart of the city,
dividing the EJastern from the
Western parts as did the introduc
tion of two rival currencies by the
Russians and Western powers.
Yesterday American planes flew a
record total of 976 tons of food to
Berlin in 214 flights before bad
weather interrupted the flow.
Air Force headquarters at Frank
furt said an American C-47 crashed
last night near the Wiesbaden air
base w'hile trying to land in bad
weather. Two crew'men were slight
ly injured. It was the first accident
in more than 1.100 food-shuttling,
flights to Berlin, officials said.
Checkpoint Established.
One checkpoint to control trucks
was established inside the Bran
denburg gate at one of the main
thoroughfares running from the
Soviet to the Western sectors.
Russians first established the
checkpoint and later uniformed
German police took over, a German
policeman said. No barricade was
erected.
American military government of
ficials said they were investigating
reports that Berlin's police presi
dent. Paul Markgraf. told his staff
no longer to accept orders or di
rectives from American. British
and French authorities, but to fol
low' only Russian orders.
Berlin's police headquarters is in
the Russian sector, but the Western
(Seen BERLIN, Page A-3.»
Walkout Is On
At Mines Owned
By Steel Firms
10,000 Employed in
Commercial Pits
Also Remain Out
By James Y. Newton
The soft coal mines of the
steel industry were shut down
today as John L. Lewis’ United
Mine Workers held to their “no
contract, no work” tradition, also
closing many commercial pits in
an apparent “sympathy” walk
out.
Reports from Pittsburgh showed
at least 50.000 miners idle in the
two leading coal-producing States.
Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
The 40.000 men employed in the
• captive" mines supply the steel in
dustry, protesting lack of a con
tract. were joined by about 10,000
UMW members who dig coal sold
on the open market.
The steel industry was hit imme
diately. The Carnegie-Ulinois Steel
Co., a United States Steel Corp.
subsidiary, announced in Pittsburgh
the banking of at least eight blast
furnaces and 28 open hearths. Its
Bessemer output at Youngstown,
Ohio, was cut in half. Soft coal is
converted to coke for fueling the
steel mills.
14 u. p. aicn mines ouuu
Total coal production in Western
Pennsylvania, which employes 56.000
miners, was only 20 per cent of nor
mal. United States Steel reported
as idle all of its 14 Pennsylvania
mines, employing 11,000 men. Other
big steel companies were similarly
affected.
The Western Pennsylvania Coal
Operators’ Association raid com
mercial coal production in the
Pittsburgh-Uniontown area was only
a third of normal, with 30 pits and
10,000 men idle. Commercial oper
ators who produce coal for sale
signed a contract 10 days ago with
the UMW and had not been expect
ed to be affected by the new walk
out.
Additional thousands of miners
employed by commercial operators
in West Virginia and Virginia failed
to appear for work today. The
miners, however, apparently- were
just slow in returning from their
10-day vacation which ended last
midnight.
Prolong Vacation.
William Blizzard, president of the
UMW district at Charleston, W. Va„
predicted that 90 per cent of the men
employed at commercial mines would
be at work tomorrow. He said a
majority of the 40,000 miners in his
district, which Includes part of East
ern Kentucky, were already at work
and others were merely prolonging
their vacation for one reason or
another.
The Virginia Coal Operators’ As
sociation said about 12 of its 40
mines were closed. In some in
stances men reported for work, but
the crews were too small to warrant
operation of the pits.
Meanwhile, the National Labor
Relations Board was busy inves
tigating the steel industry charge
that Mr. Lewis and the UMW
committed an unfair labor practice
by insisting that employers sign a
contract including the union shop
without going through employe
election machinery prescribed by
the Taft-Hartley Act.
Quick U. S. Action Expected.
NLRB General Counsel Robert N.
Denham may issue a complaint
against the union, and follow it up
with a petition for a court injunc
tion which, in effect, would order
Mr. Lewis to call off the walkout.
All signs pointed to quick Govern
ment action.
The steel industry, represented by
Harry M. Moses, head of United
States Steel's mines, refused to sign
a new contract with Mr. Lewis be
cause of the anion shop provision,
although agreeing to the $l-per-dav
wage increase and all other parts
of the contract worked out recently
by the commercial mine operators.
Mr. Moses followed up tllat action
by filing at the NLRB regional office
in Baltimore, through Attorney
John C. Gall, the charge that the
contract signed by two-thirds of the
coal industry violates the Taft
Hartley Act.
Under the union shop a non
iSee COAL. Page A-3.)
Parleys at State Department
Reflect Tension Over Europe
By Newbold Noyes, Jr.
The fifth floor of the State De
partment, which contains the offices
of Secretary of State Marshall and
Undersecretary Lovett, resembled
the concourse at Union Station this
morning as the comings and goings
of diplomats reflected heightened
tension over the whole picture in
Europe.
Even as Gen. Marshall laid this
Government's views on the Berlin
blockade on the line for Soviet Am
bassador Panyushkin. the envoys of
four of the Western European union
countries and Canada conferred
down the hall with Mr. Lovett.
The subject of their talk was offi
cially a secret, but it was understood
it related to measures to w'hich the
United States may go to support
Western European security against
the Russian threat.
The juxtaposition of the two con
ferences raised a neat protocol
problem, but worried American of
ficials managed to keep Mr. Pan
yushkin separated from the western |
diplomats. He arrived at the office
at 11:29 a.m„ one minute before the
British Ambassador, Sir Oliver
Franks.
Sir Oliver was accompanied by
F. R. Hoyer Millar, a British Min
ister. French Ambassador Bonnet,
who came in at 11:33, also brought
his minister. Armand Berard.
Baron Silvercruys, the Belgian
envoy, and Netherlands Ambassador
Eelco Van Kleflens ducked reporters
and photographers by taking a back
elevator to Mr. Lovett's office.
First news of the western diplo
mats' meeting had indicated it
would be confined to the five West
ern Union countries — Britain,
France, the Netherlands, Belgium
and Luxembourg. Hughes le Gal
lais Luxembourg Minister, is home
on leave and did not attend the
meeting, however.
But the representation of the
Canadians in the talk was a sur
prise. Canadian Undersecretary of
State Lester Pearson arrived in
(See EUROPEAN, Page A-3.)
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WHERE ARE
THOSESPORSYOU.
WERE GOING
TO USE ON ME ? s
Bernadotte Proposals
For Peace Formally
Rejected by Israel
Zionists' Reply Handed
To U. N. Mediator by
Foreign Minister
»y the Associated Pres*
CAIRO, July 6.—Israel today
formally rejected Count Folke
Bernadotte’s Palestine peace
proposals. Neither Arabs nor
Jews gave a definite reply to the
United Nations mediator's bid
for an extension of the Holy
Land truce.
Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe
Shertok handed Count Bernadotte
a 1.000-word reply to the mediators
proposal to turn Jerusalem over to
Arab rule, make Haifa a free port
and regulate immigration.
Israelis “Deeply Wounded."
The reply said Israeli leaders were
deeply- wounded by the Jerusalem
proposal. The Jews expressed em
phatic opposition to any restriction
on immigration, and urged Count
Bernadotte to reconsider his whole
approach to the problem. This lat
ter was taken as an indication that
the Jews are willing to extend the
truce if new talks develop. The
truce expires Friday.
A dispatch from Tel Aviv last
night quoted an Israeli government
spokesman as saying 27 cabinet
members voted against the Berna
dotte proposals and four abstained,
after a three and a half hour cabi
net session.
Count Bernadotte planned to leave
Tel Aviv for Cairo tonight to re
sume conferences with the Arabs
and to return to Tel Aviv Wednes
day to hear a Jewish reply on the
truce extension.
Resumption of Fight seen.
In Cairo an Egyptian cabinet
source said there is little doubt the
Arabs will resume fighting in Pales
tine when the four-week truce ends,
despite U. N. appeals for an ex
! tension.
The final decision of the Arab
League on the truce extension is ex
pected to be taken up by the league's
Political Committee today.
The informant said last night that
the majority of Arab leaders op
pose the extension request made by
Count Bernadotte.
In Jerusalem, where Arabs and
Jews engaged in gun duels Sunday
and again yesterday, Israeli forces
have begun digging in for an all
out resumption of war.
A Jewish military leader in the
Holy City said Irgun Zvai Leumi
and the Stern Group will fi^it on
until Jerusalem is a part of T^-ael,
even if the Israeli army accepts a
truce extension. The two Jewish
extremist groups are still separate
from the Israeli army in Jerusalem.
Islam Bloc Declared Aim.
Arab League officials in Cairo
said their organization had a dual
aim: Speedy conclusion of the Holy
Land war and creation of an “Is
lamic bloc.”
Military informants said Arab
chiefs of staff and defense ministers
met twice last week to study crea
tion of local civil administration in
Arab-held areas of Palestine, thus
permitting Arab armies to concen
trate on military actions.
A League informant said creation
of an Islamic bloc is being consid
ered to enable “Moslem countries
to stand in front of the Western
powers and America.” The source
1 See-PALESTINE,-Page”A^3 >
Typhoon Lashes Shanghai
i With 80-Mile-an-Hour Wind
By th« Associated Press
SHANGHAI, July 6.—Winds up to
80 miles an hour whipped Shanghai
j today, toppling radio antennae and
power lines in the suburbs, but
: causing only minor damage in
crowded Shanghai Harbor.
The winds, from a typhoon sweep
ing up from the East China Sea,
reached their peak about noon,
diminished and then rose again at
nightfall.
The weather observatory said the
center of the storm might pass east
of Shanghai in the night and that
the noon blow was the climax of
violence here.
Ships in the harbor all rode at
double moorings.
Planes, including those of the
United States Air Forces were flown
to other bases out of the typhoon
path.
Peru Under Martial Law
After Rebellion in Army
By the Associated Pres*
LIMA. Peru, July 6 —Virtual mar
tial law existed in Peru today as the
government acted to restore order
following Sunday's revolt by the
army garrison at Juliaca in South
east Peru.
An official announcement last
night said Brig. Gen. Federico Hur
tado, army inspector general, has
ordered the rebel garrison to sur
render and told them the rest of
the army is loyal to the government.
The announcement said Gen. Hur
tado has been placed in command
ot all armed forces, the police and
the Republican Guard.
Any one on the streets after mid
night must carry a safe conduct pass
issued by the army, the announce
ment said. Only essential vehicles
may move after that hour.
Holiday Crowds Back
In Steamy D. C. After
Unusually Safe 4th
High in Middle 90s
Forecast for Today;
Showers Possible
Washington brought Its holi
day sunburn, picnic indigestion
and July lethargy back to work
today.
Although week-end vacationers
plodded to their chores in the un
expected coolness of dull skies and
a brief 8 a.m. shower, the forecast;
offered them none of the respite
they found on the beaches and pic
nic grounds yesterday.
The lorecast canea ior a mgn
temperature in the middle 90s, high
humidity with prospect of late
afternoon or evening showers, and
a low tonight of about 70 degrees.
Injuries Surprisingly Few.
Great streams of traffic rolled
back into the Washington area by
plane, train, bus and private auto
mobile, late yesterday and last
night, but the volume produced no
fatalities and surprisingly few seri
our injuries.
Authorities had but one drown
ing report.
An Associated Press tabulation
showed the Nation's holiday toll
well past the 500 mark—296 killed
in traffic and 184 drowned.
Fireworks, which injured eight
children, none seriously, in the Met
ropolitan Area, accounted for at
least four deaths over the country.
Apparently the most serious fire
cracker injury treated here was suf
fered by Robert Legard, 19. of Pur
cellville, Va. He was admitted to
George Washington University Hos
pital early Sunday, his eye punc
tured by a piece of a tin can tyider
which he had placed a firecracker.
Boatmen Rescued in Blast.
Two Front Royal (Va.i boatmen
escaped with their lives near mid
night when their speedboat exploded
and sank a short distance off the
Bolling Field Harbor. Police listed
them as Richard L. Cooper 31, and
George M. Sloat, 34.
Harbor police said the boat ap
parently had run out of gas, ob
tained a supply from another craft
and exploded when the engines were
re-started. The men were rescued
by William Wert of East Riverdale,
Md., and Le Roy F. James of 1Q18
Bladensburg road N.E., police re
ported.
Ciary Larsen. /, ana ms sisiei. um
Larsen, 8, of 5978 North Ninth street,
Arlington, suffered minor injuries
when they were struck by a car in
front of the Buckingham Theater in
Arlington. They were taken to Ar
lington Hospital, where Gary was
admitted with head injuries.
The car's driver was listed as Al
bert Roland Fisher. 20. of the 900
block of North Quincy street, Ar
lington.
Police in the area—from those
who handled traffic to those who
patrolled the beaches—called it the
safest and sanest Fourth week-end
"in history.”
While the District got little relief
from the heat, a howling wind and
rain storm hit the northern suburbs
of Baltimore and the area north
of the city early today.
The high winds lasted from 1:30
to 2 ajn. and hit Randallstown,
Owings Mills, Woodbrook, Towson,
Cockeysville, Pikesville, Padonia.
Bel Air and Reisterstown. Telephone
and power lines were damaged.
Three Girls Provide
No Clues in Slaying
01 Carol Bardwell
Never Within 150 Feet
Of Spot Where Body Was
Found, They Tell Police
Three girls seen running from
Rock Creek Park the day Carol
Bardwell was murdered there
convinced police today they can
throw no light on the 10-day-old
mystery.
After questioning them and taking
them to the murder scene, detectives
were satisfied the girls were telling
the truth when they denied seeing
the body or the bicycle Carol was
riding before she was slain on the
evening of Sunday. June 27.
Reached last night after a week's
search, the trio was taken to the
park near Seventeenth street and
Colorado avenue on the outside
chance that some detail had been
forgotten.
But after they had retraced then
steps from nearby playgrounds,
through the woods where the body
was found and down a path to
Seventeenth and Colorado, the chil
dren convinced detectives they were
never within 150 feet of the point
where the body was found.
Lookout Issued Last Week.
When a lookout for the girls was
issued last Tuesday, police believed
they may have seen the murderer
or the bodv, for they were seen
running from the park as though
frightened.
The nrst oi me irio was iuuuu
at 9:30 p.m. yesterday at her home.
The other two were questioned when
they returned from the Washington
Monument fireworks display.
They were identified as Frauline
E. Anderson, 11, of 1705 Vermont
avenue NAV.*, Mildred G. Wright.
11, of 1703 Vermont avenue N.W..
and Mary Holt, 6, of 1105 R street
N.W. All are colored.
Finding the Holt child at home,
detectives questioned her first. They
were shown a faded blue dress that
coincided with a description fur
nished by the informant. At 11 p.m.
the older girls returned home and
were taken to headquarters for an
hour.
The girls said they caught a bus
for the park between 2 and 3 p.m,
the day of the slaying and went to
the playground. This presumably
was the same place Carol told her
parents she was going when she left
home at 4:15 p.m.
Strolled on Bridle Path.
They did not know what time
they decided to leave, but remem
bered strolling through the park
on a bridle path about 150 feet from
the point where 11-year-old Carol’s
body was found at 7:50 p.m.
Instead of turning into a path
that passes 25 feet from the place
the body was found, the girls con
tinued on an extension of the bridle
path until they emerged near Seven
teenth street and Colorado avenue
they said.
They were not running because
they were frightened, but merely
were engaging in a childish race foi
the bus at Sixteenth and Decatui
streets, they said.
Two of the girls. Frauline Ander
son and Mildred Wright, were taker
to the scene by Detective Lt. Johr
Layton, head of a special homicidi
squad, and Detective Sergt. John L
Sullivan. Accompanying them wa;
the Wright girl's mother, who sai<
she was the mother of 10 other chil
dren and wished to co-operate lr
capturing the slayer.
Witnesses Strengthen Story.
Strengthening their story weri
four witnesses, two of whom saw thi
girls go into the woods from thi
playgrounds about 6:30 p.m. and twi
others who saw them emerge abou
6:40 p.m. Police said this was evi
dence that the girls did not tarry
but went directly along the patl
until they reached the street.
One of the girls was‘described ti
police in the original informatioi
as “buxom.’' Police said she appar
ently was the Anderson girl, wh
has a pinafore dress of the styl
and color observed by the in
formant.
With one of the few slender lead
disposed of, investigators concen
trated again'on finding a man see:
with a bloody shirt and nose nea
the scene on the day of the crim<
Detective Chief Robert S. Bryan
said they were working on “severs
other clues.”
The slain girl was the daughter c
Mr. and Mrs. William P. Bardwel
who live at 1635 Webster stre*
N.W.. about six blocks from tb
murder scene.
Eisenhower s Refusal
ChecksT ruman Foes,
But Some Fight On
Hague Still Firm
In Eisenhower
Draft Program
Calls on President
To Request Gener'al :
To Make Race
By th* Associated Press
JERSEY CITY, N. J., July 6.—
Frank Hague, New Jersey Demo- ]
cratic leader, today called on (
President Truman to request j
Gen. Eisenhower to accept the ,
Democratic presidential nomina- l
tion. 1
The vice chairman of the National
Democratic Committee said in a |
statement that “the position of the i
New Jersey delegation is unchanged. 1
* * * New Jersey will cast its 36
votes for an out-and-out draft of '
Gen. Eisenhower at the convention.” ,
The former Jersey City Mayor,
who on Sunday in Asbury Park led
the New Jersey delegation from sup- '
port of President Truman to in
j dorsement of Gen. Eisenhower at an
extraordinary party caucus, con
tinued :
“I can advise the President that
New Jersey will go into the Repub
lican column by over 300.000 votes"
if President Truman is the candi
date. He added, however, that if
Gen. Eisenhower were drafted at
the request of the President the
State would remain Democratic by
over 200,000.
Gen. Eisenhower asserted last
(See HAGUE. Page A-2.)
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Truman Aides Believe
Eisenhower's Action
Kills Opposition
President Speeding Back
To Washington After
Bolivar Ceremonies
j
By Joseph A. Fox
Star Staff Carr„pond»nt
ABOARD PRESIDENT TRU
MAN’S SPECIAL TRAIN, July 6.
!—President Truman was speed
ling back to Washington today,
awaiting the next move of his
foes in the Democratic Party
after the “draft Eisenhower”
move had exploded in their
faces.
The President's aides reported
that Mr. Truman felt Gen. Eisen
hower's assertion that he "could
tnot a0 cpt nomination for any pub
lie office” has removed the only
dangerous threat to Mr. Truman s
nomination on the first ballot at
the Democratic National Convention.
The President's only public com
ment on the Eisenhower statement
was : “Gen. Eisenhower is an honor
able man."
Mr. Truman made that statement,
when he was aroused from bed at!
midnight to receive an Associated
Press report of the general's dis
claimer.
Accepts Bolivar Monument.
President Truman headed for the
Capital almost immediately after he
had accepted a $100,000 statue of
Simon Bolivar, the South American
liberator, on behalf of the United
States from President Romulo Gal
legos of Venezuela.
The presentation was made before
a crowd estimated by police at 15,000
: to 20,000 in the little town of Bolivar
in Southeast Missouri.
The ceremonies were held in heat
variously recorded at 108 to 110.
More than *0 persons were felled by
the high temperatures, including
Gov. Phil M. Donnelly of Missouri.!
but all of the President’s party came
through in good shape.
The Eisenhower disclaimer came
as no surprise to the Truman camp,
which now expects the only organ-,
ized opposition to the President's
nomination to come from friends of;
(See TRUMAN. Page A-6.)
McGrath Urges
Democrats to
| Aid Party Unity
By Associated Press
Democratic National Chairman
1 McGrath appealed today for “all
loyal Democrats to contribute to the
1 unity of the party.’’
Commenting on Gen. Eisenhow
er’s latest statement. Senator Mc
! Grath said in a statement that
‘ President Truman will be nomi
! nated on the first ballot,
i His statement follows:
“Gen. Eisenhower’s restatement
■ of his position that he Could not
, accept a political nomination in the
i forthcoming presidential election
offers an appropriate time to ask all
> loyal Democrats to contribute to the
i unity of the party.
"This does not mean that here
> should be no division of opinion or
> that our convention should not be
.a free and open forum. It does,
however, suggest that the time has
s come when we should be proclaim
. ing the achievements of our party
i1 and its leadership,
r “Knowing the forthrightness of
Gen. Eisenhower, I have never enter
t tained the slightest doubt of his orig
1 inal statement. This being so, I
have adhered to the view which I
f now restate, that in my opinion,
[, President Truman will be nominated,
t as he deserves, by the forthcoming
e Democratic National Convention on
the first ballot,”
Illinois and New York
Delegates Likely to
Back President
By Gould Lincoln
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
ias pulled the rug out from un
ler the feet of the anti-Truman
Democrats who had turned to
lim as their white hope.
When he said at Columbia Uni
ersity last night, “I will not at this
iine identify myself with any politi
al party, and could not accept nom
nation for any public office," Gen.
Ilsenhower took the heart out of the
Irive to stampede the forthcoming
Democratic National Convention for
ilm.
His statement makes improbable
tny successful effort to place him at
he head of the Democratic Party as
ts standard bearer in the coming
lational campaign.
With that as a premise, the gen
;ral added that he could not "par
icipate in partisan political con
est."
All of this was tantamount to say
ng bluntly: "I won’t accept a presi
iential nomination at the hands of
my political party—including the
[Democratic.” Gen. Eisenhower, in a
onger statement last winter, ef
fectually removed himself as a Re
publican presidential possibility.
In New Jersey, however, Frank
Democrats Will Pick
'3d Choice (Truman)
First,' Miller Says
By the Associated Press *
After reading Gen. Elsen
hower's announcement that he
could not accept nomination for
any political office. Representa
tive Miller, Republican, of
Connecticut made this state
ment today:
"The 1948 political conven
tions are as good as over.
“The GOP nominated its first
choice on the third ballot. The
Democratic Party will nominate
its third choice on the first
ballot."
Mr. Miller said he saw the
Democrats’ choice for the presi
dential nomination as Gen.
Eisenhower, Supreme Court
Justice Douglas and President
Truman in that order.
Mague, State Democratic leader,
;alled on President Truman to re
vest Gen. Eisenhower to accept the
Democratic nomination and added:
‘The position of the New Jersey del
ation Is unchanged. New Jersey
jvill cast its 36 votes for an out-and
>ut draft of Gen. Elsenhower.”
This followed a statement by
James Roosevelt, California Demo
;ratic State chairman, refusing to
iccept Gen. Eisenhower's statement
is Anal.
Cracks in Opposition Seen.
But cracks in the anti-Truman
ine began to appear immediately.
Former Gov. John Stelle of Illi
nois, influential down-state leader
of Democrats, predicted that the
50-vote Illinois delegation will vote
for President Truman's nomination
in the party’s national convention.
In a statement which he said was
preoared two days ago, Mr. Stelle
said that “to repudiate Truman
now would mean to scrap the party.
Thete is nothing wrong with Tru
man There is nothing wrong with
bis record.”
Mr. Stelle also said he did not
believe that Justice Douglas would
get much, if any, Illinois support
for ihe presidential nomination,
even from those delegates who had
favored Gen. Eisenhower.
In New York a party spokesman
said Gen. Eisenhower’s declaration
probably will give the bulk of New
York State's votes at the convention
to Mr. Truman.
Jacob N. Arvey. Chicago Demo»
cratic leader, began conferring with
State leaders and said he may issue
a formal statement later today. Ed
Kelly, former Mayor of Chicago,
< See DEMOCRATS, Page-*-6.)
Light Vote Expected
In Oklahoma Today
By th« Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY. July 6.—The
forecast for today’s primary in Okla
homa is light voting with Inter
mittent thundershowers.
A dull campaign and bad weather
are expected to trim the vote to
350,000 to 400,000, compared to previ
ous highs of 800,000. Polls open at
6 a m. and close at 7 i*m.
This is the only election in the
Nation before the Democratic Na
tional Convention opens next Mon
day, but the only likely presidential
significance is reaction to President
Truman’s civil rights program.
The main contest is for the Sen
ate seat to be vacated by Republican
Senator Moore, who is retiring.
Eight seats in the House are also up,
along with a large number of the
lesser State and county posts.
Ten Democrats and six Republi
cans have turned out for the Senate
race.
Leading the Democrats is former
Gov. Robert S. Kerr, a millionaire
oil man who was keynoter at the
1944 Democratic National Conven
tion.
Two of his major opponents are
Representative Gomer Smith, once
national vice president of the Town
send movement, and Attorney Gen
eral Mac Q. Williams.
The other major Democratic can
didate is Representative Glen D.
Johnson, who is abandoning his
House seat to make the race.
On the- Republican side another
House member, Ross Rizley, is con
sidered to have his nomination
clinched.
If no candidate gets a majority,
the two highest compete in the July
27 “runoff” primary.