The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 22, 1952, Page 8

Page 8 TRELLIS Civil Rights Cause 3-Way Conv. Split By EDWIN B. HAAKINSON CHICAGO (#—A 3-way spiit over civil rights—instead of the usual North-South division — developed among Democratic platform draft- ers today. Sen. Warren G. Magnuson fis Washington, who usually votes the Northern wing of the , told this reporter he could Senate anti-filibuster dishonest to say do something that cannot do,” he said. Sen. Herbert H. Lehman of New fork, also on the drafting group, and Sens. William Benton of Con- L innesota have predicted adop- only of a stronger racial section but also a plank for a change in Senate on filibusters. y contend that until the Sen- rewrites its rules there will chance of getting gga ct civil rights legislation. five days of public hearings before the platform group South- ern. Democrats, who bolted the convention four years ago on this issue, remained strangely silent. Sen. John Sparkman of Alabama, who did not bolt then and now is supporting Sen. Richard B. Rus- let Georgia for the presidential nomination, said he agreed with ‘Magnuson. : Sparkman also said he believes redler that Lehman and other Northern) senators may be pushing the anti- filibuster issue in an effort to pro- mote the presidential bid of Aver- ell Harriman, — stand vigorously and pub- ly. Sparkman, Magnuson and sev- or other members of the plat- form onan sone ei neg re- porter ve a con- vention floor battle could be avoid- ed if the platform is written in general terms, avoiding specific language that irritates the Dixie Democrats. Magnuson said he believes there would be no great difficulty in rg Serene on ane “yee ments favo ved racial re- lations pig od discrimina- tion and lynching: “I think we could even accept the 1948 plank again if we dropped some unnecessary terms from its preamble which mean nothing,” Magnuson said. 4 He added the only way for Dem- ocrats to change Senate rules “is | to elect enough senators to get them changed.” The University of Florida foot- ball team plays seven games in the state of Florida this year. The teams faced in the Peninsula state are Stetson, Citadel, Clem- son, Auburn, Georgia, Miami and Kentucky. _ ER ER Stee When It Calls for a PRESCRIption ‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN MAE'S who has backed; ‘Tuesday, July 22, 1952 LETTER By HAL BOYLE CHICAGO (#—Dearest Wilbur, Politics is cruel. You give your life to the people, and when you ask them a twilight favor—they look the other way. I feel both sad and proud to- day—as sad as if I were the daugh- ter of Vice President Barkley, and the sister of young Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. At the Convention Hall Monday I saw the political death of ‘Dear Alben,’ and the birth as a national political figure of President Roose- velt’s son. In a single day I saw the sun set for one man of 74 years—and the sun rise on a man I went to the evening session as a guest of a dubious Texas del- egate. I believe I mentioned him in my first letter to you. He a very courtly gentleman and says he owns “a small oilfield—not more than half the size of Ili- nois.” He sent an orchid to my and Hubert H. Humphrey |room ror me to wear. It was a small orchid—not more than half the size of Chicago, but colored prettier. Well, the Democrats got to squabbling like Republicans, and fought the Civil War all over again trying to get the Dixiecrats to take a loyalty oath to support the par- ty’s candidates. Lacking either a Robert E. Lee or a Stonewall Jackson, the South lost out fast. In the midst of the battle word spread around that Vice President Barkley was withdrawing from the race for the presidential nomina- tion. The lady next to me was from Kentucky, and she started crying. “That grand old man,” she said. “They have broken his heart, and he gave 47 years to his country. It was cruel to remind him of his age. He still has a younger, kinder heart than most anybody here.” Wilbur, you know I’m an old softie. I started crying, too, and we traded handkerchiefs. Then this lady and I started talking, and it turned out she has the same kind of refrigerator as we do. I guess it is a small world after all. We are going shopping together tomorrow, . It looks to me like the Demo- crats have decided youth must be served, as the old saying goés. The young Democrats here have risen up and taken over the party's first unbossed convention in 20 years. It was a coalition of three Politically young men who put over the “loyalty oath” designed to | keep the South from bolting again. | They were Sen. Blair Moody, Gov. G. Mennen Williams—a handsome, clean-shaven fellow — and Rep. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. But it was young Roosevelt who took the convention by storm. The delegates sprang up cheering when he was introduced as “the great son of a great President.” It was as if a giant pulse of electricity had swept the great hall. . . that politically magic name. He had the famous Roose- vent toss of the head. . . the sweep- ing Roosevelt gesture. . . a voice rougher and more booming than his father as he said: “We do not want to drive Demo- erats out of the party with this rule. . , We want to keep them | in the party.” portrait of his dad at the other jend of the hall. Honey, I know I am being sentimental, but I thought I could actually see the |face of his father break into a small secret smile of pride in his son—just a crinkling at the cor- ners of his mouth. Am I being silly, Wilbur? Anyway, the convention now is humming with word that young Franklin made himself into a na- tional figure in his first speech at a party convention “T-think we ought to nominate Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt for siastic delegate, | Son in moth-balls until 1960 and j run him for President.” | But the ticket most delegates j Seem to think would be most like- ly to beat Gen. Eisenhower is Gov Stevenson and Sen. Russell, They | GARDNER'S — PHARMACY — The Rewall Store TI TRUMAN AVENUE Corner Varela Street PHONE 177 who has lived just half that long. |; As he spoke he looked up at a | Yeep this year,” said one enthu- | “and keep her | Earthquake 2nd Strongest In Calif. History TEHACHAPI, Calif. 9 — With 11 persons dead and more than 25 injured, California today began counting the cost of the sec- ond strongest earthquake in the state’s recorded history, Focal point of the death and ruin was this farming community of 2,000 on the edge of the Mojave Desert, which caught the full fury of the bucking, rumbling upheaval that struck in the dark hour before CONVENTION | Fle. East Coast (Russell Hoff |Wer Appointed To Important Post # NOTES By LEROY A. SIMS And WARREN ROGERS JR. CHICAGO — A new Southern revolt threat, kindled by the Dem- ocratie convention’s adoption of a party loyalty pledge, posed possi- bilities of greater import today than the Dixie bolt of 1948. In their losing battle against the pledge, Southern delegates argued in convention debate early today it might cause the loss of six states. The six—Florida, Georgia, Lou- isiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Virginia—have 59 electoral votes among them. It takes only 266 electoral votes to be elected President and _ traditionally—the last election was a big exception— all of these states’ 59 go to the Democratic candidate. The 1948 rebellion cost the Dem- ocratic nominee, President Tru- man, a total of 39 electoral votes in four Southern states but Mr. Truman, won without them. The four—Alabama, Louisiana, Missis- sippi and South Carolina—went to the States. Rights ticket headed by former Gov. J. Strom Thur- mond of South Carolina, Hence, the stake in any South- ern bolt this time is bigger—two more states and 20 more electoral votes. The pledge battle overshadowed the fight for contested delegates in Texas and Mississippi. It was not clear if it would affect the f seating dispute, now working its jfacilities to care for homeless. At the nearby Women’s State in tents on the grounds after of- ficials declared the six major At Arvin, a community of 8,000 18 miles west, damage in the busi- ness section was almost as severe. But despite the destruction, no serious injuries were reported. Roads leading int tfall State 178 through Walker Pass, had been cleared. Cav Southern Pa which officials cleared for days. In scores of other communities, from the coast to the Nevada border, windows cracked, chande- liers fell, cornices toppled and high one lines parted in showers of Dr. Beno Gutenberg, director of the Seismological Laboratory at the California Institute of Technol- ogy in Pasadena, said aftershocks of the great quake, probably of lesser intensity, will continue for two or three years. He said only the disastrous San Francisco ea of 1906 ex- ceeded Monday’s in power, Skeleton Found FORT LAUDERDALE — At- at the scene and Tindall said he did not examine papers in the wal- jlet for fear they would crumble in jhis hands. was only a skeleton in clothes, figure the only people who would P. S. Wire $100 immediately. | That dubious Texas delegate has | invited me out for cocktails—and |I simply have to have a new | dress, DAILY MIAMI 47 MIN, MONSTOP Airlines way through committees. Texas and Mississippi delegates, seated temporarily, agreed volun- tarily not to vote on any delegate contests. This averted a fight such as split the Republican convention two weeks ago. Whether a 1952 revolt, if it should come—and there were no outward signs that the six states were getting together—would fol- low the 1948 patern was anybody’s guess. But there were at least two par- 1. The underlying issue, civil rights, was the sa! 2. Most of the same states—and, in instances, the same men—were involved. The South’s basic argument is that racial matters should be han- died by the states. It especially objects to any compulsory Fair Employment Practices Commis- sion (FEPC), whieh it contends would blanket the South with fed- eral enforcement agencies. A platform plank on civil rights Pegged to FEPC touched off the 1948 revolt. Northern civil rights enthusiasts this time are calling for an even stronger stand. Negro population in many South- ern states is more than 30 per cent of the total. In dozens of Southern counties, Negroes out- number whites—and in some by proportions of two or three to one. The pledge adopted by the con- vention over Southern protests— that delegates work for election of the nominees chosen by the National Convention—goes back to the 1948 hubbub. In the 1948 election, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina marked their ballots un- der the regular Democratic em- blem. But those popular votes were counted for the States Rights cast in the Electoral College. Within limits, elections are con- ducted under state laws. These statutes vary from state to state but generally give full auhority to party governing bodies wihin the state. ig 's the insurgent’s ace in the This makes ft possible for a Mississippi Democrat, for instance, to maintain party regularity yet vote for a nominee other than the one picked by the National Con- vention. In 1948, the States Rights Demo- crats nominated their own ticket in a convention at Birmingham, Ala., held after the regular Dem- ocratic convention at Philadelphia. The States Righters’ move was seen as a bid for enough electoral votes to cause both the regular ticket and that’s the way hey were | Needs Better Hw’y TALLAHASSEE (#—Two recent itime-test runs down U. S. 1 from Jacksonville to Miami definitely show the need for more highway facilities along Florida’s East ‘firm said today. The firm—Parsons, ‘Hall and McDonald—said the first 360-mile run took more than nine hours and the second more. than 10 hours. The engineers estimated the trip could be made in six hours by observing maximum speed lim- its without any traffic delays and under normal conditions. The firm, in the third installment of its 8-chapter report on the state’s future highway needs, still made no direct reference to a toll turnpike between Jacksonville and Miami, although the survey was ordered by the State Road Depart- ment primarily to determine the feasibility of an East Coast turn- pike. The report said heaviest ger car traffic is along the East Coast between Miami and Jack- sonville but that truck traffic “‘gen- erated” by the West Coast region in the vicinity of Tampa and St. Petersburg approximately equals that generated by Miami and oth- er southeastern regions. The engineers also said Orlando, Ocala and the Plant City-Haines City areas “are large generators of passenger and truck traffic.” The final chapter of the engi- neers’ report is due July 25. Alfred McKethan, chairman of the Road Department, said the board would meet here July 30 to make its own report and rec- ommendations on the engineering firm’s findings. Nation’s Weather By The Associated Press The weatherman offered little hope of relief today from the hot and humid conditions in many sec- tions of the nation. ae ee High temperatures ‘were common Monday. At Blythe, Calif., the thermometer clim| to 109. Las Vegas, Nev., had 108 and Hill City, Kan., 104. But in Lewistown, Mont., the mercury only got up to 63. Showers were numerous from Ohio, in the Eastern Great Lakes region, across New York and New England. Binghamton, N. Y., re- ported 2.27 inches of rainfall. Most of the country, however, had sunny weather. Democratic and Republican nomi- nees to fail to get a majority of electoral votes. That would have thrown the elec- tion into the House of Representa- tives, with each state having one vote. The theory was that Repub- licans and Democrats in the House would be so intent on fighting each other they would choose Gov. Thur- mond. as President. loyalty pledge, several speakers talked about “having the Demo- crats on the ballot.” They referred to the 1948 ballot in Alabama, a state not involved in the current rebellion talk, and in Louisiana, which is. Alabama Democrats, in a 1948 primary election, decided that their state’s 11 votes for Presi- | dent would not go to Mr. Truman. |The 11 men named to cast these votes had signed an iron-clad pledge they would never give them to Mr. Truman. | Alabama’s 1952 electors, how- ever, are pledged to support the |nominee of the Democratic Na- tional Convention. In 1948 the Louisiana State Cen- tral Committee knocked Mr. Tru- man’s name off the ballot. Earl | K. Long, then governor and friend jly to the Truman administration, jealled a special session of the Legislature to get it back on—but without the party label. Louisiana went States Rights. Leander H. Perez of Louisiana, national director of the States Rights movement, was the prime mover behind that maneuver. | Perez is at the 1952 convention as a member of Louisiana's delega- tion, caucusing today on a course [of action. GULFVIEW SUBDIVISION ON BIG COPPIT OPEN Land Cleared for Building and Bulldozed SUBDIVISION FRONTS ON FIRST ST. From Near Overseas Highway to Gulf AQUEDUCT WATER AVAILABLE — ELECTRIC SERVICE SOON All Lots $950.00 Each — Terms $300.00 Cash. Balance Payable In Five Years In Monthly Payments of $12.55 Each Discount of 10% Allowed for All Cash SELECT YOUR LOT FROM PLAT IN OUR Johnson & Johnson aii OFFICE Emerson Realty Co. County,” RUSSELL HOFF This job consist. of inspecting and maintaining health and safe- ty requirements in all hotels and. rooming houses. Hoff wil con- duct unannounced inspections of facilities to see that Florida statutes are being complied with. 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