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THE EVENING STAR
Washington, D. C.
FRIDAY. APRIL 4, 1»52
Taft and Eisenhower
Chances Rated Even
In lowa and Michigan
By the Associated Press
Supporters of Senator Taft of
Ohio and Gen. Eisenhower ma
neuvered busily today for delegates
in two important Midwest Repub
lican State conventions—lowa and
Michigan.
The odds appeared about evenly
divided for both presidential as
pirants in each State. Backers of
other candidates were not so
active.
Michigan’s G. O. P. convention
doesn’t open until tomorrow in
Detroit but the backstage was
abuzz with cautious horsetrading.
lowa Republicans meet in Des
Moines today to select 26 delegates
to the Chicago National Conven
tion. Informal caucuses by coun
ties and congressional districts left
the outlook muddled.
But it appeared from prelim
inary commitments that Senator
Taft and Gen. Eisenhower were
running neck and neck, backers
of each claiming four of the eight
districts. Each district picks two
delegates and 10 will be chosen
at large.
Farm Plank Proposed.
The 3,000 Republicans also will
be asked to support a proposed Re
publican national farm plank.
In Michigan Republicans ap
peared agreed to compromise on|
dividing the State’s 46-vote dele
gation rather than risk a show
down fight.
The convention will choose 10
delegates-at-large and districts
will select the other 36 in pre-!
convention sessions.
Leaders of both the Taft and
Eisenhower forces issued state- ‘
ments claiming an edge, but each;
said they would oppose a resolu- i
tion favoring convention indorse-;
ment of any candidate. They said
there was general agreement that!
Michigan would have an unin-|
structed delegation.
Gen. Eisenhower picked up three
more national convention dele- 1
gates in Kansas yesterday. This
resulted when Taft backers at a ;
First District G. O. P. convention
offered no delegate candidates of f
their own. •
The general’s backers pushed
their campaign in Illinois for a
write-in victory over Senator Taft
in next Tuesday’s preference pri
mary. The Ohio Senator is on
the ballot.
Technical Hurdle.
But Gen. Eisenhower faced a
technical hurdle. Election offi
cials said his name didn’t have
to be spelled correctly but voters
would have to draw in a square
beside the written-in name and
write in an X.
Besides Senator Taft, the names
of Harold E. Stassen and Riley
A. Bender, a Chicago hotelman, (
are on the ballot. Senator Ke
fauver of Tennessee is alone on!
the Democratic side. j
Senator Taft told Illinois news
men yesterday he would win next
Tuesday by a "much larger mar
gin’’ than in Wisconsin. Mr. i
Stassen asked for the vote of all'
"who do not approve” of Senator 1
Taft.
Supporters of Illinois Gov. Ad-'
lai Stevenson drummed up a pres
idential write-in campaign. He
is on the ballot for another term
as Governor.
Supporters of California’s Gov.
Earl Warren’s campaign for Pres
ident scheduled filing of petitions:
today to place his name on the!
Republican ballot at the Califor-i
nia preferential primary June 3.
Warren headquarters here an-!
nounced more than 30,000 signa-i
tures are on the petitions. Re
quired are 12,300.
Former Democratic Official
Comes Out for Eisenhower:
By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, April 4.—Herbert
C. Pell, former House member and
1936 vice chairman of the Demo
cratic National Committee, says!
he intends to support Gen. Eisen-!
hower if he is nominated by the;
Republicans.
Mr. Pell, 68, represented the;,
17th New York district in Con-:
gress from 1919 to 1921. After
serving with the Democratic Na
tional Committee, he was ap
pointed Minister to Portugal in [
1937 by President Roosevelt, and:
Minister to Hungary in February,:'
1941. !'
In a letter to the editor of the
New York Times, appearing today,':
Mr. Pell said: ;
”... I have held important pub- !
lie offices by Democratic appoint-!
ment, yet I intend to support Gen.;
Eisenhower if he is nominated.:
and there are many like me. . . .
“There are millions of others 1
who have less connection with the !
Democratic Party who feel the
same way.”
Stassen Frees St. Louis
Delegates From Pledge |
By the Associated Press
ST. LOUIS, April 4.—Harold E.
Stassen released 44 St. Louis Re
publican ward leaders from
pledges of support last night and;
one committteeman promptly an-j
nounced he would support Gen.i
Eisenhower for the G. O. P. presi
dential nomination.
E. W. Bromwich, Stassen Mis
souri manager who announced
the release, added, however, that
the former Minnesota Governor
"is staying in the race, and I’m
staying with him all the way.” j
“So much pressure is being put
on these people,” Mr. Bromwich
explained. “We have harmony!
now. and we don’t want disunity
in the city committee. I told)
them Stassen is staying in the!
race and I am staying with him,
and that they are free to leave or I
stay with us.
“We are going to campaign:
harder than ever. This is not a
case of quitting or conceding any
delegates.”
Rain Falls Fast
Two-and-a-half inches of rain
fell in 20 minutes during a recent
cloudburst over Bindura, South
ern Rhodesia.
Truman Tops All Predecessors
In Number of Cabinet Members
By th» Associated Press
The appointment of James P.
jMcGranery as Attorney General
i gives President Truman the record
of having had more cabinet mem
bers then any other President.
This is due in part to the fact
that he inherited the late Presi
dent Roosevelt’s official family, in
part because six of his cabinet
either quit in a huff or -were fired.
Attorney General McGrath yes
terday was the sixth to quit or
be fired when he resigned over
differences in handling the Gov
ernment cleanup program First
was Treasury Secretary Henry
Morgenthau, jr„ who resigned
July 23 1945, reportedly because
he had heard President Truman
| planned to replace him shortly,
j The other four were:
Interior Secretary Harold L.
Ickes, quit angrily February 15,
1946; Secretary of Commerce
Henry A. Wallace, resigned Sep
tember 20, 1946, over foreign policy
disagreement: Secretary of State
James F. Byrnes, resigned Janu
ary 7. 1947, in clash with the
j President that still is heard, and
Chastened Destroyer Division
Won't Hoist Rebel Flag Again
By the Associated Press
ROME, April 4. — Four United;
States destroyers admitted today!
that the South lost the Civil War. ;
And they won’t fly the Confed
erate flag “no more.”
The four ships—destroyers Hy
man, Purdy, Beatty and Bristol—
when off Korea were known as the
Dixie Division because their com
j manding officers all were from
ithe South.
When they sailed from Hong
Kong en route home recently, the
Bristol hoisted the Confederate
iflag. First reports said all four
destroyers did so. Quite a flap
in Washington followed.
1 “We made a mistake, violated)
iNavy regulations and quite prop
erly were called on it,” the divi
sion commander, Capt. William
Groverman of Newport, R. 1., said
here today.
Are Now in Naples.
The four ships are now in Na
ples. Capt. Groverman and many
■crew members are sightseeing in
Rome.
Capt. Groverman blamed an
overambitious public relations of
ficer for the Bristol’s hoisting of
anything but the Stars and
Stripes.
"Navy regulations directly for
bid flying any other flag except
that of the United States,” he ex
plained. “We were wrong and a
stop was put to it after that one
time.”
“It’s a very sensitive subject,”!
he continued. “I can’t discuss it i
further since the correspondence
iwas classified ‘restricted.’ ”
(In military parlance, ‘restrict
ed’ is the lowest form of informa- j
tion which must not be com-;
municated to unauthorized per
sonnel.)
(Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered
Kefauver Turns Down j
Russell's Challenge )
On Florida Primary
Senator Kefauver of Tennessee
has turned down the proposal of
Senator Russell of Georgia that
| they make a winner-take-all
: agreement in their battle for
Florida’s delegates to the Demo-;
era tic National Convention.
In making the offer yesterday
afternoon Senator Russell noted j
■that Senator Kefauver had made
ithe same proposition to Senator
Kerr in Nebraska’s Democratic
presidential primary, and added:
“I am sure you will agree that
jif your suggestion was good de
mocracy and good Americanism
!in Nebraska, it is equally good
democracy and good Americanism
in Florida, where we are the op
posing candidates.”
Sees Difference in Florida.
But Senator Kefauver did not
agree. He replied that at first
blush the Florida primary may
appear to be similar to that in
Nebraska, but he insisted they
are different.
In Nebraska there was only one
election, and the delegates were
not pledged to support the can
didate who won the popularity
contest, Senator Kefauver said, i
He pointed out that Florida
holds its popularity contest on
May 6. but does not elect its con
vention delegates until three weeks
later, May 27.
Senator Kefauver argued that
the Russell proposal would in ef
fect nullify the second election,
and added. “It’s conceivable some
may change their minds between
May 6 and May 27 and if so they
will have a right to do it.”
Would Violate Rights.
/The Tennessean said that if he
and Senator Russell made a win
jner-take-all agreement they would
be “conspiring to violate the
I States' rights of the people of
Florida.”
Earlier, Senator Kerr had
turned down the same proposition
when advanced by Senator Ke
fauver. and reports from Nebraska
! indicate he acted wisely. Although
Senator Kefauver won the pre
ference primary with a lead of:
22,000 votes over Senator Kerr,
information reaching here indi
cates Senator Kerr still will have!
the support of 5 of the 12 un
pledged Nebraska delegates.
I
Eight-Tenths Passenger
Is Too Costly to Railroad
I By tho Associated Press
BOSTON, April 4. —The Boston;
& Maine Railroad says its 110-1
year-old 16-mile section of line;
from Portsmouth, N. H„ to Ber
wick, Me., has an average pas
senger load of eight-tenths of a
person per day.
The line adds that it costs $50,-
; 000 a year to run one east-bound
train and two west-bound trains
i on that section.
: A company spokesman said the
■ line will request permission to
abandon the section. 1
Defense Secretary Louis A. John
'son, ousted September 12, 1950,
during a running feud with Sec
retary of State Acheson.
j Those who parted under more
'pleasant circumstances: (present
cabinet member in parenthesis):
State Department: Edward R.
| Stettinius, George C. Marshall
j (Dean Acheson).
Treasury: Fred M. Vinson (now
Chief Justice) (John W. Snyder).
; Defense: James V. Forrestal,
Gen. George C. Marshall (Robert
S. Lovett).
Justice: Francis Biddle, Tom
C. Clark (McGranery, when con
firmed by Senate).
Interior: Julius A. Krug (Oscar
L. Chapman).
Agriculture: Claude R. Wickard,
Clinton P. Anderson (Charles F.
Brannan).
Commerce: W. Averell Harri
man (Charles Sawyer).
Labor: Frances Perkins. Louis
B. Schwellenbach (Maurice J.
Tobin).
Post Office: Frank Walker, Rob
ert E. Hannegan (Jesse M. Don
aldson).
'his Confederate forces in 1865.)
i (This information is usually
; presumed to be unrestricted.)
Regulation Invoked.
Other Navy men said a pub
licity release which erroneously
reported all four ships flew the
rebel flag brought the matter to
Washington’s attention. The Navy
promptly ordered an investiga
tion, then invoked the regulation
! barring flags other than the Stars
and Stripes.
Actually, those Confederate
flags were sort of false colors any
way. The four skippers were from
the South and the flags were their
personal property—but most of
j their crewmen were from New
England.
Capt. Groverman was appointed
to the Naval Academy from
Huntington, W. Va.
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Eisenhower Defeated
By Taft in Nebraska
By Margin of 15,000
By the Associated Press
OMAHA, April 4.—Senator Taft
of Ohio defeated Gen. Eisenhower
by about 15.000 votes—36 to 29 per
cent— on the basis of an all but
complete count of votes in the
Nebraska presidential primary.
Victory in the Democratic presi
dential preference race in Tues
day’s election went to Senator
Kefauver of Tennessee by a margin
of 22,000 votes over Senator K6rr
of Oklahoma. Percentagewise,
i Senator Kefauver defeated Sen
ator Kerr 59 to 39.
Senator Taft apparently will
have the support of at least 16 of
the State’s 18 delegates to the
Republican National Convention,
though the candidates for delegate
were not officially pledged to
presidential contenders.
Senator Kerr had an apparent
advantage of at least 5-to-4 over
Senator Kefauver in Democratic
delegates, despite the Tennes
seean’s victory in the popularity
contest.
The vote on presidential pref
jerence candidates on the basis of
! Associated Press returns from 2.-
050 of 2,058 precincts:
Republican Senator Taft
; (write-in), 75,790; Gen. Eisen
hower '(write-in), 60,853; Mrs.
Mary Kenny (a stand-in for Gen.
;MacArthur>, 9,746; Harold E.
i Stassen, 52,891; Gov. Earl War
den of California (write-in), 2,-
415; Gen. MacArtftur (write-in),
17,744; Senator Dirksen of 1111-
jnois (write-in). 6.
Democrat—Senator Kefauver,
63,462; Senator Kerr, 41,485;
! President Truman (write-in),
824: Senator Douglas of Illinois
| (write-in), 28; Senator Russell of
Georgia (write-in), 505; Gov.
Adlai Stevenson of Illinois (write-,
in), 972, and Senator Byrd of
Virginia (write-in), 2.
9,000 Tons of Coal Shifted
A cargo of 9.000 tons of coal
was unloaded onto lighters when
: a ship g-ounded outside the Itali- j
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100 Physicians Attend
D. C. Medical Society
Teaching Conference)
More than 100 doctors, many
from the armed forces, today
attended the District Medical
! Society’s first Conference of Med
ical Teaching and Technics.
The conference aims at obtain
ing better medical teaching,
writing and speaking and is be
lieved to be the first of its kind:
in the country. The two-day ses
sion began at the society’s head
quarters, 1718 M street N.W.
Dr. Morris Fishbein of Chicago.!
former editor of the American
Medical Association s journal, told
the gathering that the case re
port is the most important contri
bution to medical literature.
Urges Monthly Index.
Dr. Fishbein declared that the!
United States should publish a
monthly index of the world’s
medical literature to make this!
; wealth of information more;
readily available. He said there;
are far too many surgical journals
and surgical societies. On the
! other hand, he said, there is an
insufficient number of periodicals
devoted to pathology.
I Writing should be an important
part of a good medical education,
■Dr. Fishbein declared. He advised
his audience to make their articles
new and interesting but warned
they should not be “half baked.”
Secretary Praised.
Dr. Hugh H. Hussey, associate
professor of medicine at George
town University, paid tribute to 1
Theodore Wiprud, the society’s l
executive secretary, as being the:
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| Spence Cuts Head
As He Misses Step
And Falls in House
By the Associated Press
j Representative Spence, 77-year
old Kentucky Democrat, fell and
struck his head on the marble
edge of a wall in the House cham
ber today.
Despite a bleeding scalp wound,
Mr. Spence told newsmen he
merely had missed his footing on
a high step and that he felt
'“pretty goodfc”
I The accident occurred while
Representative Sabath, Democrat,!
i of Illinois, dean of the House, was
being congratulated on his 86th!
birthday.
Mr. Spence was sitting in the
fourth row. When he arose to'
leave his seat, he missed a long
step to the chamber floor and
'fell with his right foot twisted,
under him.
Mr. Spence was cut slightly on
the right side of his head, but;
Representative Judd, Republican,!
of Minnesota, a doctor and former:
medical missionary, said the;
!wound “wasn’t serious.”
“sparkplug” for the conference.
He also lauded George Washing
ton University, Howard Univer
sity and Georgetown University
for giving strong moral and fi
nancial support to the program.
Dr. Frank D. Costenbader, so
ciety president, welcomed the doc
tors and said the conference may
be repeated later.
Other speakers were Dr. Wil
liam Parson, professor of medi
cine at the University of Virginia,
and William C. Davison, manager
)of the Customer Administrative
School of the International Busi
ness Machines Corp.
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Mississippi Erases
Abernethy's District;
Rankin Loses Fight
By the Associated Press
JACKSON. Miss., April 4.—The
Mississippi Legislature yesterday
wiped out Representative Tom
Abernethy’s district. Mr. Aber
nethy’s home county was put into
Representative John Rankin’s
district. Both are Democrats.
Final 87-41 approval came in
the House after three hours of
sometimes bitter debate. Mr.
; Rankin’s supporters tried vainly
jto rewrite the bill so that it would
'not affect his present 10-county
I political fortress.
Senate backers of the plan pre
dicted that putting Mr. Abernethy
;into Mr. Rankin's district backed
by six counties from his old
4th district would give the vet
eran Congressman “his first real
j opposition in years” if both run
for re-election this summer.
The remaining four counties
that formerly comprised Mr. Aber
nethy’s district were attached to
the district now represented by
Representative tJamie Whitten.
The House adopted an exact
copy of a measure that was ap
proved in the Senate Wednesday
by a vote of 33 to 12. It now
goes to the Governor.
Mississippi lost one House mem
ber under the 1950 census.
Under the new district align
ment Attala, Chickasaw, Choc
taw, Pontotoc, Webster and Wins
ton Counties from Mr. Abernethy’s
old district are added to Mr. Ran
kin’s Ist. Calhound, Carroll,;
Grenada and Montgomery Coun
ties went to Wr. Whitten’s district.
Good Friday Worship
To Be Urged in Radio
Appeals by Leaders
Outstanding political, proses
-1 sional and business leaders will
speak over local radio stations
tomorrow through next Friday on
behalf of the three-hour ob
servance of Good Friday next
week.
Harold F. Jones, chairman of
the subcommittee on radio and
television for the Three Hours’
Observance of Good Friday Com
mittee, said that local stations
will give time for short addresses
and interviews during these days.
I Organizations are distributing
; 300 window posters, carrying a
j picture of the Crucifixion scene,
throughout the Metropolitan Area
this week.
Signs will also appear on street
cars from Palm Sunday through
!Good Friday urging employers
and employes to worship from 12
noon to 3 p.m. on the holy day.
The committee seeks the volun
tary co-operation of Government
and District agencies, business
firms and professional organiza
tions in permitting employes to
jtake time off to worship from 12
;noon to 3 p.m. on Good Friday.
Dr. Charles W. Lowry, rector of
All Saints’ Episcopal Church,
Chevy Chase, Md„ is chairman of
the committee. Co-chairmen are
the Most Rev. Patrick A. O’Boyle,
Archbishop of Washington; the
Right Rev. Angus Dun, Episcopal
;Bishop of Washington, and Metho
;dist Bishop Charles Wesley Flint
of Washington.