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BIRMINGHAM. ALA.—SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS WRITE THEIR OWN TICKET—General view
of the City Auditorium yesterday as the Southern Democrats met to select their own presidential
ticket.' —AP Wirephoto.
Thurmond, Bitter Foe
Of Lynching, Opposes
Carolina Poll Tax
ly the Associated Pres*
COLUMBIA, S. C.. July 17.—Gov.
J. Strom Thurmond. States' Rights
candidate for President, enters na
tional politics after successfully in
augurating a program to modernize
and streamline the Government1 of
South Carolina.
Gov. Thurmond, 45. who advo
cated a "cleanup" of Government in
his 1946 campaign for the gover
norship, devised and pushed
through the General Assembly leg
islation creating a governmental re
organization commission.
The commission, having broad
powers to eliminate overlapping and
duplication in Government agencies.
probably will begin work this fall.
Opposed Poll Tax.
The Governor also has consist
ently urged abolition of the State's
poll tax, legislation to provide secret
ballots in general elections and cre
ation of a personnel merit system for
State Government. These measures
have failed of passage so far.
Although he opposes Federal anti
l>nch legislation, Gov. Thurmond
Is known in South Carolina as a
bitter foe of lynching. Immediately
after the notorious Willies Earle
/lynching at Greenville, the Gov
ernor ordered the State constabu
lary to the scene to investigate.
He told his chief constable not to
report back until the case was
cracked.
Denounced Earle Affair.
The result was the trial of 24 men
charged with the crime. They were
acquitted, however. Gov. Thurmond
repeatedly denounced the Earle af
fair as "mob murder, which South
Carolina wdll not tolerate."
He has opposed Federal anti-poll
tax and anti-lynch legislation on
grounds that its passage would vio
late the Constitution.
A veteran of World War II. hold
ing the rank of lieutenant colonel
in the Army, Gov. Thurmond wears
12 military medals. These include
the Purple Heart, Legidn of Merit,
Branze Star, Belgian Cross of Of
ficer of the Order of the Crown and
French Croix de Guerre.
He served with the 1st Army In
Europe. Landing on Nocmandy
with the 82nd Airborne Division.
Hp was with the 1st all the way
across Europe.
Gov. Wright Fathered
States' Rights Revolt
JACKSON, Miss., July 17 UP).—:
Mississippi Gov. Fielding L. Wright,
the States’ Rights Democratic vice
presidential candidate, lathered the
1948 party revolt.
Gov. Wright sounded the keynote
for the break in his inaugural ad
dress as Governor here last Janu
ary. He warned national party lead
ership then that the South would
break with them if they continued 1
sponsorship of "anti-Southern legis
lation.”
The quiet-mannered, 53-year-old,
gray-headed, cigar-smoking Gover
nor is a native of Sharkey County— j
the home of some 11.000 Negroes j
and about 4,000 white persons. His j
philosophy of government calls for
fair treatmejit of the Negro.
Gov. Wright was born in Rolling !
Fork. Miss;, the son of a county
sheriff. He attended Webb School
in Bellbuckle, Tenn., and later the
University of Alabama, where he
was graduated in law.
He likes to tell of the days 28 years
ago when he began practice of law
in Rolling Fork. Seldom, he says,
was there a jury cnc.sen in Sharkey
County which did not have Negroes
as members. His first capital case
jury, m adjoining Issaquena County,
where there are four Negroes for
every white person, haci 11 Negioes
and one white mgn on the panel..
Gov. Wright began nis political i
career in 1928 when he was elected
to the Mississippi Legislature. Since j
then he has served as presiding!
officer of both houses, as Lieuten- i
ant Governor and as Governor. He |
became Governor in November, 1946, i
on the death of Gov. Thomas L.
Bailey.
He served in World War I as a
private, returning to civilian life in 1
1919.
Congress
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lution when Congress meets to i
authorize an investigation into the
high cost- of meat "because the1
Administration has taken no action
to help reduce the dangerously!
high cost of living.”
Javits Urges Meat Rationing.
The Senator was on a committee j
which last year made an extensive I
inquiry into high prices. The com- j
mittee chairman. Senator Flanders.
ReDublican, of Vermont, advocated:
stand-by rationing powers for meat,!
but he got nowhere with his bill.
Another Republican, Representa
tive Javits of New York, last night
called for a law to have the Pres
ident set up meat rationing and let
Congress end it when it chooses.
But opposition to rationing has been
even more intense among House Re- :
4
. .
Rejecting President Truman’s nomination by t£ie Demo
cratic Convention in Philadelphia, the Southern Democrats
nominated Gov. J. ^trom Thurmond (left) of South Carolina
for the presidency, and Gov. Fielding Wright of Mississippi for
the vice presidency. They are pictured shortly after their
nomination. —AP Wirephoto.
Many Pennsylvanians
Plan Write-in Vote,
States1 Righters Told
By the Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 17.
—An ex-Mississippian, now
from Pennsylvania, said today
“A lot of us folks in Pennsyl
vania are going to write in
names” in the next general
election.
The prediction came from
L. M. McWilliams of Lands
downe, Pa., district manager
for the Studebaker Corp., be
fore the States’ Rights con
vention. Mr. McWilliams said
he had never before addressed
a convention, “but this is the
first time I’ve ever been so
^rapped up in anything.”
publicans than among those in the
Senate.
The White House source said the
Taft-Ellender-Wagner housing bill,
which the Senate has passed twice,
is what the President still wants.
The problem will be to get it through
the House where it died in a double
play action involving both the Bank
ing and Rules Committees in the
final hours before the convention
adjournment last month.
One possibility is that the bill can
be forced to the floor by the petition
method, used once so far in this j
Congress in the oleomargine tax re-j
peal fight. So far about 160 Repre- j
seutatives have signed.the petition!
while 218, a majority of the whole i
House, must sign to bypass the com
mittees. Mr. Javits and Representa
tive Helen Gahagan Douglas, Dem
acrat, of California, are the backers
af the petition. But to be a success,
the petition will have to have added
i large block of Republican signers.
Ellis Urges Firing of 1,000,000.
Although the President can start j
he session off on the living cost!
,ssue, he has no guarantee it will
ceep to that track.
Representative Ellis, Republican,
af West Virginia, yesterday sug
gested that Congress reduce taxes
67,000,000.000 and cut 1,000^00 per
sons from the Federal payroll. Rep
resentative Klein. Democrat, of New
Sfork, said he will begin a drive to
■epeal the Taft-Hartley labor law. j
Representative Mundt, Republican,
af North Dakota, said he will whip
jp a new anti-Communist bill to
replace the one passed by the House
aut sidetracked in the Senate.
The civil rights issue, however, is
ikely to cause more trouble, and
lot tempers, than all other bills
rombined. An antipoK tax law, for
aidding the requirement of such
■axes as a qualification to vote for
r Federal official, passed the House
in the recent session. Speaker Mar
tin has predicted that if the Senate
passed an antilynching bill the House
will approve it at once.
From one retiring member of Con
gress, Senator Hatch. Democrat, of
New Mexico, came the only plea for
an end of politics heard since the
session was called. He said “with
the world and domestic situations
what they are, now is no time to let
politics or other things interfere.”
Honeyseeker Gets Stuck
Searching for honey, a Johan
nesburg (South Africa) man crawled
nto a hole, became wedged and
stuck there for three days, and
itung by bees, before he was found.
Patient Is Electrocuted
By Accident in Iron Lung
ly Associated Pres*
NEW YORK, July 17,—Charles
H. Hochman, assistant medical ex
aminer, said today that a woman
patient at a Bronx hospital was
dectrocuted accidentally yesterday
while in an artificial lung.
Police identified the woman as
Fannie Engelke, 36, of Brooklyn,
a patient in Montefiore hospital,
the Bronx.
Police Lt. John Drake reported
that the woman died when a bron
choscope—an instrument for ex
amining the lungs—was inserted in
her throat and touched her chin
which was resting on the metal
collar of the artificial lung.
Lt. Drake said the hospital re
ported that the artiflfcial lung was
operated by a 110-volt alternating
current motor and the bronchoscope
by a 220-volt direct current motor.
The woman, suffering from a
muscular weakness, was placed in
an artificial lung to aid her breath
ing, Lt. Drake said. He added
that when her lungs began filling
with mucous physicians decided a
bronchoscope was necessary to re
move the mucous.
Dr. Hochman. who performed an
autopsy, termed the electrocution
accidental.
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States' Rights Leaders Expect
To Win 127 Electoral Votes
ly th* Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 17.—
States’ Rights leaders say they can
pick up as many as 137 electoral
votes—perhaps more—in th# No
vember election. ♦ ,
Here is a State-by-State survey,
based on the way delegates talked
at today’s anti-Truman conference
of Southern Democrats :
Alabama—11 electoral votes al
ready pledged against Mr. Truman.
Mississippi—9 votes, also com
mitted to vote for some one besides
Mr. Truman.
Louisiana—10 votes not com
mitted, but former Gov. Sam Jones
says State Democratic Committee
can instruct electors.
Tennesee—12 electors chosen in
convention, States’ Righters say con
vention has power to remove elec
tors; therefore can make them vote
any way it wants.
Georgia—12 votes. Electors still
to be named in primary election.
Florida—8 electors already chosen
in primary. No way to instruct
them. States’ Righters concede, if
they want to support Mr. Truman.
Texas—33 votes. Electors will be
fc.--.-.. »
chosen by Democratic convention
and can be instructed.
Arkansas—9 electors to be named
in convention and can be pledged
against Mr. Truman.
Virginia—11 representatives in
electoral college. Already chosen by
convention and pledged for Mr.
Truman, but anti-Truman forces
contend party can instruct them
otherwise.
South Carolina—8 electors to be
chosen by State Democratic Execu
tive Committee. Electors will be
pledged against Mr. Truman by
State convention resolution, but sub
ject to change because of yesterday’s
court ruling that the Democratic
Party is open to everybody. That
may result in a new convention and
widespread changes.
North Carolina —14 electors.
Chosen in convention and not
pledged but can be.
In addition, the States’ Righters
hope to win support in Oklahoma,
which has 10 votes, and Maryland,
with 8, and plan to enter anti-Tru
man elector candidates in Missouri
and Kentucky, home states of Mr.
Truman and his running mate, Sen
ator Alben Barkley.
A victory in Missouri would give
the States’ Rights move IS electoral
votes.
Reno fo Try Bartender
Jn Slaying of Ex-Wife
By tho Associated Pross
SAN FRANCISCO, Julf 17.—A 44
year-old bartender will be returned
to Reno next week to stand trial
for the slaying of his attractive
young ex-wife.
Police Inspector William Stanton
said Eugene Gambetta kidnaped his
former wife, Thelma Ribail, 25, on a
downtown Reno street Thursday
night, forced her into his car and
shot her to death. Then, Inspector
Stanton said, he stuffed the body
in the car’s turtleback and drove
here.
Gambetta was picked up by police
late yesterday as he sat in his parked
car near the ocean—the body still
in the turtleback. Several hours
later. District Attorney Harold
Taber of Washoe County,'Nevada,
filed a murder complaint in Reno
against the suspect. Gambetta said
he would waive extradition.
“I’m sorry,” Inspector Stanton
quoted Gambetta. “I killed her be
cause I love her. Gambetta and
Miss Ribail were married in 1945.
She divorced him last March 15.
Radios in Heads of Rats
Test Brain Stimulation
| ly the Associated Press
LOS'1'ANGELES, July 17.—A psy
chology professor has devised a
method for Installing miniature ra
dios in the heads of rats to test the
effects of electrical brain stimula
tion, the University of California
at Los Angeles announced today.
Dr. Joseph A. Gengerelli said he
»
devised the method so that speed of
learning, retention, irritability, ex
citability and other behavior traits
which might be influenced by elec
tric shock can be observed.
Anne Brsdstreet, an Andovfr,
Mass., housewife with eight chil
dren, was one of the earliest Ameri
can poets but her first volume »cf
verse was published in London in
1650.
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