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Jul? 13, mi fag TA THE CINCINNATI 1 Platform Drafters Wrestle With Civil Rights Issue COMPROMISE Is Big Question In Effort To Prevent Battle On Floor jr is II Msti jk off'1 -V4 Ux- Convention To Get Answer In Afternoon Details Carefully Guarded Y. Time Spervil CHICAGO, July 22 Democratic platform draften were proceeding gingerly tonight on the sensitive and highly controversial civil rights plank for 1952. Already a touchy document, it was made more so by the convention outbreak over the party loyalty pledge that threatened the throwing out of large Southern delegations. The new question was whether FROM ONE RUSSELL TO ANOTHER DELEGATE PEPS THINGS UP PERLE MESTA SPORTS PARIS FROCK LADIES' DAY CONVENTION (1 It wai "Ladiea Day" at tht Democratic convention. Mrs.

Eugenie Anderson, Ambassador to Denmark, looking: girlish in white and cold, drew hearty applause when ahe told the convention the United States had "deserted isolationism" forever. (2) Delegates got a lift during receaa when Mrs. Agnei Kellett, alternate delegate from Hawaii, kicked off her ahoes. into an impromptu dance. (3) Looking chic in her black ahan- Communism Being Checked In Europe By Truman Men, Woman Ambassador Avow urged the women to take more got up on a chair and went tung Paria frock, Mrs.

Perle interest in politica and public Mesta, Minister to Luxembourg, life. (4) Never one to avoid the Rdaaell received a Ruaaell campaign button from Sen. Richard Russell himself. AP Wirephotoa. Stop Stevenson Coup Denied By Kefauver, Betting On Self But Eyeing New York's Vote K.

Y. Time frpennl CHICAGO, July 22 Commit-nism's spread in Europe has been checked through policies put Into effect by the Truman administration, Mrs. Kugenis Anderson, Amhsar' to Denmark, told the Democratic national convention today. These policies, she said, have rebuilt war-shattered economies, restored morale and promoted unity. Mrs.

Anderson, the first American woman to be appointed an Ambassador, was one of five women on the convention program at today's session as the Democrats emphasized the important part that women were playing developing and administering policy under the Fair Deal. The other women were Mrs. Perle Mesla, Minister to Luxembourg: Mrs. Oeorgla Nees Clark, Treasurer of the United Slates; Mrs. Franklin D.

Roosevelt, an American delegate tn the Untied Nations, and Mrs. India Edwards, Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and director of Its women's division. Mrs. Anderson listed five ma-jor accomplishments of the Tru County's Vote IMPORTANCE Of Battle Doubted Genuine Issue Lacking, Observer Thinks Split Between North, South Is More Apparent Than Real, He Adds BV WAI.TKR LIPPMANX While both conventions have be-. gun a fight Involving Southern delegates, there is this impor tant difference between them.

In the Republican convention there were two and only twa factions pro-Tart and pro-Klsenhower. One had tn win, the other had to lose. The stake were the control nf the parly during the campaign and In the next administration, In the Democratic convention, on the other hand, there is besides the two fighting factions each sectional a preponderant ma jority which, unless something un-j predictable happens, can nominate Adlai Stevenson and lead both factions. or this reason, once Governor Stevenson had made his address to the convention, the sec tional fight no longer looked, in fact no longer was, serious and potianr. rty jviDiMitiv it.

evening it was nrettv nlnln. I thmicht. that nn great public principle touching the BY BRADY BLACK (ENQUIRER CORRESPONDENT) CHICAGO, 111., July 22 What has been looked to as the only likely way to stop the draft of Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois for the Democratic nomination for President apparently was folding up today.

The co-operation between sup porters of Sen. Kstes Kefauver of Tennessee and Averell Harrlman of New York, Mutual Security Ad ministrator, In pushing through a loyalty rule yesterday had been sniffed at a a Stevenson alliance, possible atop- However, Senator Kefauver himself spiked this. There are no meetings and no consultations between the two groups to stop the draft, he told The Enquirer, adding Is no formal effort." A Kefauver aid remarked privately that he thought Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. and Paul E.

Fitz-patrick, New York Chairman would swing most of the 94-vote New York delegation to Senator Kefauver from Mr. Harriman. The Associated Press reported, though, that the New Yorkers were straining to get on the for the principle of Federal Baby Called Pawn In Tourney Of Hale Father Agree! lo lake Boy Whom Mother Doesn't Want CHICAGO, July 22 JPi A sev en-day-old baby, called a pawn in a tournament of hate' between his parents, was accepted by his father today. Last month the mother, Mrs. Marjorie Stegert, 25, asked the court to place the then unborn child in the custody of the father, Frank, 25.

Stegert said he didn desire the baby. Mrs. Stegert has a separate-maintenance suit pend ing. Judge George M. Fisher of Su- until after the babv was born.

He believed the mother would change her mind after seeing the baby, The day after the boy, named Kevin, was born Mrs. Stegert informed the court she still wished the father to have the child. Charles A. Boyle, Stegert's lawyer, 'denounced the dispute in court today and called the infant a "pawn in a tournament of hate." After a discussion Stegert volun teered to take the child. Stegert is living with his mother and say he feels he can provide a suitable home.

The court had received many re quests from couples wishing to adopt the boy. Mrs. Stegert said she did not wish to have the baby go to an outsider. She spurned the child because she said she wanted nothing to remind her of her husband. "Smdie" Hat Afloat Turns Out As Hoax Owner Of Panama Irritated By Note Planted And Set Adrift In Miami River A corny "suicide" note planted In a Panama hat and set adrift in the big Miami River turned out to he just a hoax yesterday.

Ryt for while police were worried and the hat's owner deeply put out. The note read, In part: "I have just taken the plunge. Goodby cruel world." It was signed John Englehard. The message was found at 10 a. m.

yesterday by Carolyn Sheets, 12, 541 Klotter Ave. While Hamilton County police pondered and prepared for a search, an anonymous telephone caller declared the whole thing a joke. The caller said that the hat had been tossed into the river Monday night when the "boys" who frequent an Over-the-Rhine cafe held a picnic. But Mr. Englehard, 64, 143 E.

Clifton was indignant. "It was a dirty trick," he said. KIDGWAY IN GREECE SALONIKA. Greece, July 22 UP) Gen. Matthew B.

Ridgway, North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion commander, came to this city 50 miles from the Iron Curtain today to plan its defense against any, Communist Invasion, apotlight, Movie Actreas Jane Stevenson bandwagon and might ditch Mr. Harriman after a complimentary first-ballot vote. Senator Kefauver said he had not talked with Mr. Harriman or anyone else of an alliance to stop Governor Stevenson. "There is no coalition with Harriman or anyone else," The Tennessean observed, "I don't think Colonel (Jake) Arvey (Illinois National Committeeman) Is going to he able, to draft Stevenson, but if he does 1 think I'll win." Senator Kefauver was criticized at PTsa conference today for bringing in supports from various states to speak in his behalf.

He would introduce each in compli mentary terms and then hear compliments and reports of strength from the speakers. After spokesmen from 'three states had been called upon while reporters grew restive, one reporter interrupted to ask: "Senator, we were called here for a press conference. We have questions to ask you. Is this a press conference or a mutual admiration society?" The Senator expressed his regrets and quickly opened himself to questions. uirksen Answer To Attack On Dewey WASHINGTON, July 22 (UP) Sen.

Everett M. Dirksen said to- np "simply told the truth" wnPn he accused Gov. Thomas E. vention oi leaning me nepuoiu-an party to defeat. Asked if he regretted his attack on the New York Governor, the Illinois Senator replied: "How can you have regrets fori stating a fact." Durine a convention speech, Senator Dirksen shook his finger at Governor Dewey and accused him of leading the party to defeat in two previous campaigns.

He said Governor Dewey should not be allowed to do it again. Senator Dirksen who supported Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio for the GOP nomination, told reporters he has received a few complaints about his speech but for every complaint he has gotten 199 pats on the back. The Senator, who is manager of the Repuhlicnn senatorial campaign, said he intends to stump the country in support of the national Republican ticket and GOP Senate candidates.

Due To Convention Telecast, com-J 5fflfeJ faCfS but it does so with such," 7 Election Board Aid Predicts they now had to compromise more than intended previously between Northern and Southern forces, or not at all. There were, however, men nil th 19-member drafting subcommittee, Including Sen. John 4, Sparkman who professed to see, a good rhance for a civil rights plank that would be accepted by the convention even without serious, If any, floor fighting. Word from more conservative Southern ranks, on the other hand, was that the civil rights plank now would "have to be entirely innocuous in order to get through without serious Jntraparty reper cussions. The draftine subcommittee.

after working through much of the night and restarting early ronay, naa approved tentatively major planks covering the fields or foreign policy, labor and agrj culture, and also the carefully woraea presmme on which hours were spent In selectine its nhrases. It appeared that another all-night session at the Conrad Hilton Hotel was In the making. The tentative draft of thenlat form was scheduled to be placed before the full 108-memher Reso- Jutions Committee at 9:30 a. m. tomorrow and to be taken, with its approval, to the convention floor for ratification some time during the afternoon or evening.

DETAILS ARB GUARDED Details of the plnnks approved tentatively by the drafting group, and still subject to revision, were being guarded carefully. In general outline, however, the foreign policy plank whs represented as giving vigorous defense to the conduct of American policy tn China, Korea and Formosa, which had undergone hitler attack hv the Republican platform at that party's convention here earlier this month. It was reported that the plank writers ran into controversies over demands for condemnation of nus sia in the platform for the 1040 massacre of some 12,000 Polish armed forces in the Katyn Forest, near Smolensk A proposed pledge to liberate the peoples behind the Iron Curtain also was asserted to have caused snags in the plank writing Mnw those Questions had been re solved In the tentatively approved draft were not disclosed. The proposed agriculture plank, after expressing pridcful satisfaction over gains made under pro-rm established during the last two decades, was represented as endorsing without reservation inr went nassBue bv Congress of a law to retain price supports on maior commodities at 90 per cent of the parity price level. With this the 1952 planK woum party i stand, taKen flexible supports.

Further, the plank would call, It was said, for the extension of price supports to perishable commodities, which account for three-fourths of all farm Income. It also notes the enlargement of the school lunch programs throughout the country, and speaks for Improved soil conservation programs, "ample farm credit and "adequate facilities for the generation and nf imwcr. uarm en.nnevatives would be nrnteetion acainst "at tempts by opponents to tax them punitively." and a pledge would be civen for cilities, a hot issue of the 1948 Tiii labor nlank was said to have called once more for repea of the Taft-Hartley labor-management law, but other pronouncements and details of this platform chanter were euai'ded well. As the drafters pursued their rame of "feeling out" the situa tion as to the civil rights plank there was additional evidence that strong Northern groups still were not only willing but apparently eager to force a "maximum" com pulsory fair employment practices plank to the convention floor for a showdown, regardless of the political consequences. In quarters close to Averlll lliirrltnan, candidate for the presidential nomination.

It was predicted late today that a civil rights plan containing "less than the very minimum" sought in that camp by way of war upon discriminations because of race, color, religion or national origin would start a floor fight. Further, it was said, 1he fight would not be confined tn domestic civil rights issues, but carried into their implications as relate to the approval of a foreign policy plank. It was contended in this quarter that there could not be an ade quate and effective foreign policy plank that did not give full consideration to the civil rights question here and abroad. While the drafters' orientation on possible compromise underwent adjustment during the day, it was indicated that serious consideration still was being given to a following of the general pattern of the so-called Humphrey-Ives bill which the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare reported favorably just before the Congress adjourned. It would encourage the handling of civil rights cases by the states themselves but would set up a Federal commission tn advise and supervise, with subpoena powers in get Its facts.

However, It would not operate relations of the races or the Con-the procedure under this bill would stitution was genuinely at stakein fRPt be one of conciliation, of HAWAIIAN man administration In the field of foreign policy. These were: The decline of Communism "in every single country" in, free Europe; the restoration of productive economies which have put Europe hack on its feet economically; the ngressiv integration of Europe, bringing unity closer than every before; the establishment of a common defense within the Atlantic community and the building of confidence, American help to the Republic of Korea in resisting Communist aggression is paying rich dividends in Europe, she said. Korea provides proof that "we mean what we said about resisting aggression everywhere," she explained. She held that "the American people have suffered terrible and tragic losses there, but the awful experience of Korea has not been in vain" in that it "galvanled the Western world to act, and to unite, as never before." She made a plea for progress In this country in its attitude toward minorities. She said, "believe me, it.

is deeply disturbing to our democratic friends when they see some of the strange discrepancies between our words and our deeds." To Set Record General Election and who have not. registered before, who have just become of age, who have changed thele name by marriago or Court Order, who have had their registration cancelled previously by failure to vote In either 19A0 or 1951 or those who have moved from one address to another within the county must fill out registration blanks. Registration may be made In person at the office of the Board of Elections, 622 Sycamore between the hours of 8:30 a. m. and 4:30 p.

m. Monday through Friday and from :30 a m. to 12 noon on Hatiii'dnys. In addition to being able to register at the Board of Flections office, all precinct polling places will be open for this purpose on September 24, the deadline date. The hours in the the precinct places will be 10 m.

to 2 p. m. and 4 p. m. to 9 p.

m. Sick or disabled persons may make application by forms in the mail Some voting authorities hold that a turnout and decision of around 60 per cent at the polls gives a substantial cross-section and that a 100 per cent turnout, would give the same decision in percentage. For example, if Candidate A received 55 per cent and Candidate 45 per cent of the vote with 60 per cent of the people casting ballots, the two rivals would receive virtually the same percentages of the vote as if all qualified voters cast ballots. The same would hold true of an issue, tax levy or other proposal, these Authorities say. The leading poll-takers try to predict the outcome of elections by the same cross-section method, hut they often fail because they sample too small a percentage of the total voting potential or they work in areas that are not truly representative of the whole electorate, it was out.

Netherlands Leader Fails To Organize New Cabinet AMSTERDAM, The Nether- lands, July 22 CD Queen Juliana today relieved caretaker Premier Willcm Drees from his tasks of trying to form a new cabinet after he said his efforts to get four parties together had failed. The impasse occurred when the right-wing (Calvinist) Anti-revolutionary Party balked over Mr. Drees' refusal to give them the social affairs post. After the June 25 elections the Queen called on Mr. Drees he- SPEAKER SOUP FRONT To Be Presented GOP In November, Cooper Tells Clubs Wounds Inflicted By Defeat Of Taft Being Healed Party Behind Ike BY A.

M. FORKNEB The wounds that were opened at the Reoublican national convention two weeks ago are Deing neaiea, Myers Y. Cooper, former Governor said in address in Wyoming last night. Speaking at a joint meeting of the Wyoming Lockland Kiwanis Club and Millcreek Valley mem bers of the league of Womer Voters at the Wyoming Civic Center, Mr. Cooper said: "A united Republican party will present a solid front In fighting for the election of JDwight D.

Eisenhower for President nf the United States." Mr. Cooper deplored the defeat of Senator Taft for the nomina tion, and minced no words in castigating the methods by which it was brought about. He said Sena tor Taft failure to win more dele gate strength was due to four principal factors: (1) Fear that Taft would not be the strongest candidate, (2) the "technical" moves to take from him delegates accredited to him by three states, (3) strong international opposition, and (4) opposition by an excep tionally popular man. The former Governor, a flele- gate-at-large from Ohio to Sena tor Taft, in calling for a united front in the November election, said: "We have got to face the facts. The task wilt not be an easy one.

The New Dealers have got" the power and they mean to hold nn to it at all costs. To win we must have a solid front. The supporters of Taft' and Eisenhower were all hut' equally divided In the convention. But all must now march together a one mighty force to win a victory. "We dare not discount the Democratic party's ability to get votes.

Why, a number of states walked out of the 1948 Democratic convention and formed the Dixiecrat party, and still the Democrats won and it didn't take a smart man to do it. "The Republican I party has a habit of insisting it is 'in the bag' before an election, and after the votes are cast of finding out ir is in the other fellow's bag. What is the Republican Party going to do under such circumstances? Why, we are Ameri cans. We want to save our sys tem of government with its op portunities and blessings for the Benefit of our children and our children's children: and to do this we have got to have a change in Washington. That's why we are going to bury our differences and support two great Americans- Eisenhow and Nixon and restore the Republican Party to cower in November." Mr.

Cooper told of a meeting with General Eisenhower and Senator Nixon after the close of the convention: "I told General Eisenhower that I had been in the heat of the fray for Senator Taft. but I wanted him to know that Ohio would not. sulk, but would get behind him in full torce to carry the state. He was, of course, pleased to hear this and was quite as friendly as though i nan neen in nis corner all the while." CHARLES P. TAFT.

Cincinnati attorney and Republican candidate ior governor, got orr to a good start yesterday in his campaign for election in November. Addressing the Northside Kiwanis Ctnh la his first political speech since the May nrhnarv. M. Taft urged recruiting of younr men and women In the v.n..hiu party. Mr.

Taft is scheduled to give two talks today one at 10 a m. at Wilmington College, Wilmine-ton, Ohio, and another at 6-30 p. m. at a Young Remihliesn rLu dinner at Ashland, Ohio. Next week, beginning Tuesday he wil visit and make talks tn in Ohio counties, including Crawford ll.nnnl.

All muni, inni.iA.li, rrsnklin Scioto. Pickaway, Greene, Brown and Hamilton. His schedule week includes participation in th Republican state convention jliimhus, on July 3L and visits 'fn ifour county fairs. pulsion deference to local power and such for local sentiment that barrine a fanatic or a dematroeue in the White House, or a Kit Klux K'" uprising In some locality and education. The bill, as I read it, is an invl tation to the modern South to ac cept the principle of the law and! then to take charge of its administration, NO REAL DIFFERENCE There is nothing here of real substance, and nothing genuine in principle, which divides irreconcilably the North and the South.

As between General Eisenhower and Governor Stevenson, it will be difficult to trump up much of an issue here. The Northern faction came to Chicago knowing that the issue of substance no longer was a big one, having themselves agreed to thin down the force of the "compul- Their Issue has not been civil rights as such but cloture -that I tn say, breaking the filibuster In the Senate which ha thus far prevented the enactment of clvll-rlghts legislation. Cloture is a stick to be used on the Southern diehards who. though they no longer represent the mod ern and rising South, exploit the cry of white supremacy for fac tional purposes. But the stick which the North erners are brandishing is a stage property.

In order to enact clo' ture they would have to have cloture. They have no way of stopping a filibuster against their own proposal to slop a iiiiouster This fight, therefore, is artifi cial. It is a convention maneuver and not a public event. RKAL MAJORITY NKKDKO The real question of whether, when, and how a law like the Humphrey-Ives bill-can be enacted will continue to depend, as under our sys- tern of government it always must, not on a mere majority. but on a majority which has the concurrence of the big minorities in this case of the Southern States.

When will this time come? There are now only nine states of the Union which have compulsory nondiscrimination employment laws. Until there are at least SO states with such taws, Federal compulsion cannot be pushed very far. That is why it would be absurd for the Democrats to treat the issue too tragically. The great majority of them know that with Governor Stevenson it is not in fact an issue that the Democrats can fight much about. Nor is if an issue shout which General Eisenhower and Governor Steven son could fight very fiercely.

icmmttht, issa, a. t. hm Tniwni im.i i A prediction that "county voting registration and balloting will set, a record this year" wss offered yesterday by P. Teichman, Chief Clerk of the Board of Elections. The heightened interest In elections and in election procedure, he said, has been sparked by convention telecasts, broadcasts and November ballot Issues.

The board's records show that the large number of registrants Increased on the Sntur-day prior to the Republican Convention, remained high during the week and increased once again the day after the convention was over. Approximately 8.000 persons registered during convention week alone. November ballot issues of general Interest have increased registrations also, Mr. Teichman believes. "When one puts issues like a school tax levy, public housing petition, public library bond issue and firemen's initiative petition for shorter hours on the ballot," he said, "he is hound to find that more people turn out to register and vote." Ordinarily the summer registration is very light, the chief said, but this year the primary brought almost a record vote.

One of the main causes for this, he reasoned, was the name of Robert Taft as local candidate. "The people are the government." Mr. Teichman said, "and therefore they should exercise their franchise In deciding who should run It." Registration In Ohio is a simple matter. There is no recitation test, no poll lax. All the citizen does is to answer questions pertaining tn length of residence in Ohio, home address and place of birth.

Now registration takes hut a few minutes; in the fall it will he much loncer. Those who wish to vote in the In states which had their own laws that met the standards set by the commission. Enforcement would be through contempt proceedings if the commission's cease and desist orders, approved by court, were disobeyed. Another and concededly milder compromise proposal would set up a division in the Department of Labor, assigned to concentrate upon cases involving alleged dis criminations in employment. But its duties and Powers would be left for the Congress to write into law.

The plan also would call for a constitutional amendment for outlawing the poll tax. and for a law to permit Federal interven as between the southerners and tne iNortnerncrs. ine argument. had become a dispute between the politicians of two minority factions, neither of which had a good prospect of capturing the control of the national party. "PLAYING LOCAL POLITICS" Both sets of politicians had been playing local politics and both were bent on looking and on sounding much more uncompromising than in tact they are.

Both have a vested interest in the quarrel as such, and both would have found it embarrassing to admit how much since 1948 the great issues of principle which are supposed to separate them have been narrowed by the education of public opinion, and by negotiation and persuasion. How far this has gone run be seen bv examininr the so-called Humphrey-Ives bill (3.3.16.) "tn prohibit discrimination In employment because of race, color, religion, national origin or an cestry." This bill was reported favorably less than three weeks ago. It comes from a committee of which Sen. Hubert Humphrey of Minne sota, the leader of the civil-rights movement in the 1948 convention, is the chairman. The bill has the support of Democrats such as Herbert Ihman of New York and Paul Douglas of Illinois, and of Republicans such as Irving M.

Ives of New York, H. Alexander Smith of New Jersey and Wayne Morse of Oregon. The only Senators on the committee who did not concur were Lister Hill of "Alabama, Robert Taft of Ohio Rnd Richard M. Nixon of California. COMIM1.SIOX ONLY lSSl'R The significant fact about the hill is the way it treats the one serious question in the whole field of civil rights whiclr is now at ssue between the Southerners and the Northerners.

That is the question of the enforcement of the principle of nondiscrimination in employment. All the other old. hard-fought controversies about the poll tax and about lynching have virtually disappeared. The modern South is abolishing the poll tax ana is effectively suppressing the horror of lynching. The modern South, moreover, has come to accept the principle of a Federal Interest, of Federal advice and Federal mediation, even in matters of employment.

The only sticking point la whether the Federal government Is to Intervene In the Southern states to compel compliance with Judgments about discrimination In employment, The HumphrA -Ives bill provides' a i'fvi ClNd'NNA TIANS AT FT. CAMPBELL Thejse Cincinnatians, members of tha 2075th Organized Reserve Corps, Ft. Thomas, were photographed as they directed and observed artillery fire during a training problem at Ft. Campbell, where the local unit is conducting training exercises for reserve artillery officers in the Second Army area. Left to right are Maj.

Francis 3305 Mon-teith Maj. John Anning. 2fi40 Victory and Lt. Col. Spencer W.

Cunningham, WMt Coltnn Ave. Tha unit will re tion in cases of lynching, if local cause his lihor Party had enforcement authorities wereicmerged with th strongest pop-found to be derelict 'ular vote. turn to Cincinnati Sunday, following two week of training, ii i -1 -1 a i i-i r- kS li I Si i'i i fl I.