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Evening star., 1952-08-24
MssissipPis Mr. Rankin Had 1t Made Until Reopporonment
Gave Him Opponent Worthy Of the Primary Fight Come

year in his old 1st district,
but his critics say he at times
encountered adverse votes run
ming up to AZ per cent.
BY contrast. the argument
goes, Mr.. Abernethy. in his five
contests in his old district, usu-
ally won by much easier mar
gins, sometimes 2 to / or better.
In the redistricting, Mr..
Rankin still has all 10 counties
OF his old congressional for
tress" and with them all of his
opposition vote. He also now
must meet the problem of six
4th district counties which
formerly have been rather we'll
sold on Mr.. Abernethy.
Should the reasoning of the
unofficial analysts prove correct,
the House will have to get along
without one Of its traditional,
controversial show pieces.
Gallery visitors looked to Mr..
Rankin for excitement. He won
that sort Of fame with his un-
usual flair for acting and his
jet-flame temperament that
could turn the House into an
uproar at the drop Of one crit
ical word.
Subversive Hunter
He never let his public for
get that once he was q power
n Committee on Un-American
Activities. He could see sub
versives in most any maneuver.
He attacked Presidents pro-
grams, struck out at all civil
rights bills. frequently assailed
House colleagues. and even took
on the United States Supreme
Court.
He predicted q celebration
in Moscow" for instance, on
the Supreme Court decision
outlawing enforcement of ra-
cial covenants on use Of prop
critics.
In the House he had tests
with Speaker Rayburn and al
most came to fisticuffs with
Majority Leader Mccormack.
He did throw q punch during
one row in the well Of the House
during the 1945 observance of
the George washington Birth
day anniversary. His adversary
was former Representative
Hook, Michigan Democrat, a
New Dealer.
Apology in Order
In that case, Mr.. Rankin had
accused Mr.. Hook of consorting
with Communists. He took a
swing at the much bigger Mich
igander when the latter called
him a "dirty liar" Both later
told the House they were sorry
about the incident.
Should Mr.. Rankin win his
current primary battle, Repre-
sentative Abernethy will fade
out Of his key position in the
House District Committee. There
he has been one of its most
active members since 1949. He
is chairman Of its subcommittee
on schools, health and welfare.
He has been one of the most
determined opponents Of WASH
ington home rule.
Evening star., 1952-09-09
General Looks Forward
To Seeing Senator Taft

I am delighted to be here and
I tell you that I look forward
to meeting Senator Taft soon,
and I have every reason to be-
lieve that he and I are going to
form one real team to stand to-
gether in every corner Of these
United States, and not merely
in Washington.
If you will permit me one last
observation developed again out
Of past experience and not just
out of what I am in now. then
7 will be ready to answer these
questions if I am the one who
is supposed to answer them. I
wasn't. told exactly what the
program is. It is this: There
are among you people who very
rightfully have given their per-
sonal loyalty in the political
world to another person. To the
Senator, for example. you have
given a loyalty-Senator Taft
which places him in your esti-
nation at the top Of the whole
political heap, and I advise you
that's exactly where you ought
to keep him. The personal 10y
atty that develops between one
man and another that he trusts
implicitly as a leader in a
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chosen field is something pre-
cious and should never be lost.
The leaders properly recognized.
properly united at the top. and
then the whole organization will
have the benefit of these united
loyalties.
I merely want to observe that
because your own particular
leader, the leader that YOU have
chosen for yourself to express
you in the highest places. has
not been given particular as
signment, is no reason for ally
diminution in that loyalty.
You stick right with it. That
is exactly what you should do.
III my book. Thank you very
much for listening to me. So
far as I can answer any Ques-
ton, I shall try.
SENATOR BRICKER: Gen.
Eisenhower, how reassuring
your words are to us gathered
here, and to the American
people. I see Senator John
Butler Of Maryland. Senator
Jim Duff of Pennsylvania and
others. Every member of Con-
. gress knows full we'll the secrecy
orders of the Presidential the
United States now. The Ameri-
can people do not know where
their money is being spent in
many instances. They are pro-
hibited from seeing even the
loyalty files that are now con-
fined to the administration. The
American people can do nothing
about them. We cannot find out
the facts in regard to interna-
tional trade, general, to know
what kind Of legislation to enact
in regard to reciprocal trade.
1t is most gratifying and reas-
suring to me and most every
Congressman and Senator here
and to the people of America
that this, under you, will be a
Government with the consent
of the governed in this country.
Now we have a question -and-
answer period, general. for a
period of Is or 20 minutes, and
then we will have an executive
housekeeping working session
with those who are gathered to-
gether here, candidates and
leaders with you personally. I
will recognize those who desire
to ask any questions. If you
will rise we will send a micro
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there, and it can be repeated in
every nook and Granny. in village
and hamlet, on every farm and
in every township of this whole
country.
Finally, went on further into
the Northwest. You people out
here-you are one of them as I
am-you know that there are
people who take their politics
very thoughtfully. very seriously.
We ran into terrific crowd in
Minnesota. but all the way
through We found the same
thought expressed. There may
not be too much difference in
some of the bipartisan pro-
grams that have been advanced
and supported by the Congress
with respect to farms, but they
are desperately anxious to make
certain that they are honest
people who mean exactly what
they say and they mean to adj
minister them.
There were along on that trip
more experienced politicians
than I. II you people would like
to check up on my own impress
sion: There were Gov. Adams,
Senator Carlson and other such
people. Possibly the newspapers
made some mention of where we
were. In any event, that is what
I saw, that is what I believe and
that is what I report to you to-
day, with the result that I be-
lieve the combat troops are in
the right morale, the right frame
of mind to do the job. I believe
that the leaders have proved
that they know how to organize
it. believe that every element
is here for victory. And, so far
as I am concerned, I am going
out to every associate, every
leader and offer him my Coop
Grafton and ask for his. 1 have
had a great sense of distinction
today that your candidate for
Governor-Charles Taft-came
out to meet me, along with Sen
ator Bricker, the rest of the Re-
publican leaders-county, city
and State.
Evening star., 1952-09-09
Tells of South's Fervor
In Ousting Octopus

I have been visiting them and
I should like to tell you people,
the leaders of the Republican
Party, what I found. 1 went
first to the South, as you know.
!. ! am convinced. ladies and gen.
tlenen. that there is just as
much fervor in the South for
getting rid of this "damnable
octopus" we call the admins
tration Of today as there is
right here in this city. Wher-
ever my party and I went we
were greeted with the same
cry: "Give 'em hell, Ike" That
is what it was all the time, all
along the road, in the city.
everywhere, all directed to one
thing -reflecting the shame,
the sadness and the anger that
they had, that they had to think
of the Government of the
United States in all it's echelons
as rejecting dishonesty, lack Of
integrity, bungling, fumbling
and falling and they are sick
of it.
I went North. I went into
Philadelphia. There I saw what
looked to me to be the results
of a marvel of organization. I
bring that up because I think it
proves-and see certain Of my
old friends who were there that
day-Jim Duff and John Butler
and others-I think it showed
there that the Republican skill
In organization still exists and
that if we bring it out in every
sector of this country as it was
in Philadelphia. unless my 40
years In organizational expert
ence has been wasted, I saw it
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Points to Decrease
In Value of Money

@. John Russell Craig (candi-
date for the 18th congressional
district from. Pennsylvania:
Representative Francis c.
Walter has been in for 20 years.
He hoodwinked the people for
20 years. The question many Of
the Democrats have asked me
is: We have more money in our
pockets than ever before. Will
your party take it away If you
get in?
A. I will tell you what our
party will do. 1t will assure
that man that the money he has
in his pocket is going to remain
worth something and the Gov
ernment won't take it out Of
there.
I just want to call your at
tention to one statistic that I
read on the way over here this
morning, prepared by a profess
sor. I believe, in the University
of Minnesota. that the savings
of ordinary people expressed in
ordinary type of savings. home
loans, insurance, Government
bonds, small Government bonds
all that kind Of savings, pen
sions, amounted to something
like $143 billion just a few
years ago. In the exact length
of time that the Government
has paid out $21 billion in
ened that $143 billion by over
$40 billion. If that is social
security, that isn't the way I
understand it.
@. Crank Small, candidate
for the Fifth Congressional Dis
trict, Maryland): The Demo-
Gratis in my district are preach
ing that in the event Of your
election there will be a mass
firing of Government employees.
Would you care to comment
upon that?
A. On that question, in the
South I made a great point Of
answering it at Tampa. I have
worked with the civil service en-
ployes of the United States all
my life. There is no body of
more devoted. more efficient,
splendid people than the great
masses of that body. Who would
fire them? What we are talking
about is firing their political
bosses who make them hang
their heads in shame about some
of the things that are happening.
I just want to give them good
bosses. Then we will have an
efficient service and not one that
has to live the way it does now
They need have no fear what
soever.
@. (Philip Richman, candi-
date for Fifth Congressional Dis
trict of Pennsylvania: Many
people are concerned about
peace or war. They are under
the impression that you would.
If it were likely to result in
peace. meet with the leaders Of
the Kremlin anyhere in the
world. I haven't heard that ex-
preston given by you directly
and wonder whether you would
give some expression to that at
this time.
A. Mr.. Congressman, in this
business of promoting peace
there are two things that are
necessary: An accomplishment
itself, and then the confidence
of people. particularly our peo-
pie, in the accomplishment. Now.
it is perfectly true that I will
meet anybody anywhere in the
world any time that I believe
there is a worthwhile result to be
accomplished, but because of the
fact that the United States, an
understanding, solvent. sound
United States is certainly the
cornerstone of any peaceful
structure in the world, I would
first inform the United States
exactly where I was going and
exactly what I was trying to do
Evening star., 1952-09-09
BY the Asseeioisd Press

CLEVELAND. Sept. s.-Tert
OF remarks By Gen. Eisenhower
before a Republican regional
meeting OF representatives from
Ohio. Pennsylvania and Mary
land:
Chairman Bliss, ladies and
gentlemen: First, to respond
briefly to a sentiment expressed
by Senator Bricker:: I am quite
well aware that no single man
can set the United States upon
a trend, a direction in its politi-
cal doctrine, its political policy
and activity. He must be sup
ported first by the National Leg
iSlature. So, because there are
present today so many people
who are either now members of
the Senate and the Congress or
are soon going to be. and be-
cause the Senator himself is a
distinguished Representative of
that body, I want to say some
thing about my purposes and
intentions if I am given the re-
sponsibility Of being the Presi-
dent of the United States.
It is this: To restore. to make
good the greatest failure that
now exists in American Govern
ment. the complete loss Of CO.
operation between the executive
and the legislative departments.
Until, on the initiative of the
executive, the advice of that
legislative body and it's leaders
is sought in the making of pro-
grams, until the leaders and the
members Of those bodies are
taken into the confidence of the
President with respect to the
great factors. the facts and sta
tistics on which he is making
plans and recommendations to
submit to the Congress, there
can be no real cooperation.
You cannot take the great
legislative body that is, after all,
the United States and speaks
for the population. and ignore
1t, make fun of it, go up and
down the countryside talking
about it in derogatory terms,
and have our Government work.
Just as Senator Bricker has just
now made a pledge, want to
make this pledge:
Assuming that I have this
great responsibility, the mem
berS of the Congress will be for
the four years I am there in my
intimate confidence, both before
and after the submission of pro-
grams to the Congress for their
legislative action.
On such an occasion as this
there are a thousand things to
talk about. I am going to make
my portion of the program as
brief as possible, but I do want
to tell you one or two things,
and I do it with great deal Of
difhdence because whereas I am
a neophyte in this business, I
am talking to men here who are
old heads. old hands, and whose
wealth Of experience, I suppose.
If added together would be just
about that Of the history Of our
modern political times.
I hope you will not criticize
me too much for making a bit
Of comparison to my old life. I
like to think of the people with
whom I have been visiting In
the country as the combat
troops, the people who go into
the polls themselves, who get
others to go into the polls. and
who are going to make the de-
cisions Just like the combat
troops do on the battlefield. No
matter how good the plans Of
the leaders, no matter how much
leadership may be expected in
the final event who is it? It Is
the men Of the combat troops
who make the decision.
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make them see, either through
argument or fight or persuasion
that they have got to get away
from that guy-that kind Of
thing and get back to Ameri-
caniSm,
Evening star., 1952-09-09

phone to you. Please state your
name and your State, then ask
the question you desire.
Evening star., 1952-05-04
The SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. c. ALL
SUNDAY, 4,

Icolored pastors, are now in pre-
|dominantly white conferences.
MethodiStS from Washington
said it is doubtful whether any
effect will be had in the area on
the present set-up.
Create Episcopal Areas.
Legislation was also approved
creating two new Episcopal areas
probably in the north-central and
south-central Jurisdictions. The
former law provides that leach
jurisdiction having 100000 church
members or less shall be entitled
to four bishops, and for each
additional 100000 church men,
bers or two-thirds thereof, shall
be entitled to one additional bish-
op." The new legislation reduces
both memberships figures to 4O0,-
900 where the Episcopal area in
the jurisdiction is more than TO-
600 square miles.
Bishop Arthur j. Moore of At
lanta, Ga, was presented with the
National Medal of Korea. a civil
ian cultural award of merit. today
Bishop Moore lived in the Orient
from 1884 to 1910.
Three members of the Balti-
Evening star., 1952-05-04
Squadron of72Murphy Children
Modelled on Air Force Lines

Before marriage it seems as il
psychology is the best way tC
bring up the kids.
But after marriage and IL chill
dren, you need organization.
Air Force T7Sergt. Herbert J
Murphy, stationed at the Boiling
Air Force Base, modelled his family
Of II kids on the Air Forces.
Besides his wife, Ruth. aged 81
there are Phyllis, 18; Janet, 16;
Herbert. Is; William, IA; Priscilla
II; Bryant, 8; Carol, z: Sandra
6; Neil, 5: Keith, 3; Kathleen, Q
and Kevin, one month.
The sergeant calls them all "the
Murphy Squadron.
Duty Rosters Drawn Up.
He and Mrs. Murphy draw up
duty rosters for the day. assigning
each older child specific duties
Woe to the child who fails to per-
form an assigned duty. It means
restriction to home area and i'm
position of extra duties, even KIP
The IA Murphys have been liv-
ing in Potomac Heights, Indian
Head, Md. where they shared an
Evening star., 1952-05-04
Ex-Nozi Purotrooper
Is Now 81 in Koreu
BY the Assoeioted Press

WITH THE UNITED STATES
45th DIVISION, Korea.-A forme,
Nazi paratrooper is now a top ser.
geant of the 245th Tank Battalion
45th Division, serving in Korea.
He is Master Sergt. Lothar A.
Pallentin, who was captured by
the United States 101st Airborne
Division during the Battle of the
Bulge" in World War II.
After his capture in December
1914, Pallentin spent the rest of
the war in prisoner Camps in Vir-
ginia and New York. Then he was
returned to Germany. where he
worked for occupation forces until
he entered the United States as
an immigrant in July, 1949.
He resided with an uncle in
Belleville, N. j., until indicted
into the Army in October, 1850.
Evening star., 1952-05-04
Bicycle Speed Record
lis 108 Miles an Hour

NEW YORK.-The fastest re-
corded speed of a bicycle is 108. 81
miles an hour. That speed was at
tained May II, 1941. by Alfred
Letourner, files of the Bicycle In
Stitute of America show.
Mr.. Letourner rode behind q
shield attached to the rear of a
racing car. He pedaled a mile in
1905 seconds. His racing bike had
the highest gear ever fitted to a
bicycle. The large sprocket had 81
teeth, the rear six.
The feat was performed on a
highway outside Bakersfield, Calf
Evening star., 1952-05-04
IMethodists PLANNING
Diplomatic School at
American University
By Cospor Nonnes
Stuy Stoff Cogrespondent

SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, May
l3.-The Methodist Church plans
to make American University a
national center to train American
lProtestants for the diplomatic
and public service fields, The Star
learned today.
A leading spokesman of the de-
nomination explained I'VE want a
good small college of liberal arts
but to the graduate level. We
want school of top distinction in
diplomacy and public service"
To advance this program the
spokesman said 1--WE are expecting
the university's board of trustees
to choose one of the Nations out
standing educators as its new pres
ident. The church hopes to back
him in substantial ways"
The General Conference of the
Methodist Church meeting here
voted yesterday to give American
University 100000 a year for the
next four years. This sum was ap-
proved so the institution could
overcome present handicaps of in
Sufficient funds. inadequate build
ings and other obstacles to its
progress. It is expected that sue
cessor to DR.. Paul F. Douglass, who
resigned last fall, will be appointed
soon.
| Racial Jurisdiction Plan.
The conference today passed
Legislation that would permit COL
ored churched, now in the non
geographical central jurisdiction
to transfer to another jurisdiction
provided certain requirements are
met. When the Methodist Epis-
copal Church. the Methodist Prot
estant Church and the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, were
merged in 1889. the colored
churches were placed in the CEN
trail jurisdiction.
i According to today's action, a
colored church may apply for
membership in a jurisdiction in
which it is located geographically.
Approval for this transfer to be-
come effective must first be OBJ
tanned from the church member
ship, the annual conference to
which the church belongs and the
annual conference to which it is
applying for membership. The
quarterly conference of the trans
ferring church must also agree to
the change.
Observers said this legislation
will probably effect certain areas
more than others, though most
agree action will be slow and few
Negro churches will change. About
I25 colored churches, served by
Evening star., 1952-05-04

eight-room, two-bath home. in
closed by fenced-in yard. It was
constantly Uttered with bicycles
tricycles and squadrons of neigh
borhood kids.
But all that ended yesterday
when the entire Murphy Squadron
took over most of a commercial.
airliner and left for Offutt All
Force Base in Nebraska.
The furniture and tricycles were
shipped. And the entire Murphy
Squadron lined up in front of their
old home for final roll call. All
were present and accounted for
How Finances Worked Out.
Commissioned officers at Boiling
seeing the family taking a quiet
walk about the grounds together
always scratched their heads.
How can a sergeant support a
WSole squadron?"
Well. Murphy is Irish. To sup
plement his Air Force pay and
allowances. the sergeant worked
at the Boiling Nom Commissioned
Officers Club. The older kids had
Evening star., 1952-05-04
Dr.. Brigu|io Appointed
To Civil Defense Post

DR.. Alfred Brigulio has been
appointed co-ordinator for civil
defense medical care services in
the District of Columbia, succeed
ing the late DR.. Oscar B. Hunter.
sr
DR.. Brigulio is an associate In
medicine at George Washington
University Medical School.
DR.. Luther w. Gray was named
deputy co-ordinator and DR.. r.
Royce Franzoni was appointed
deputy chief of the medical re-
sources committee.
Evening star., 1952-05-04

more annual conference we're
elected alternate delegates to the
denominations judicial council
today. They were DR.. Lester A.
Welliver, president of Westminis-
ter MD Theological Seminary.
and the Rev. Harold H. Hughes Of
Roanoke, as ministerial alternates.
and F. Murray Benson of Balti-
more as lay alternate.
Evening star., 1952-05-04
.AustruIiun Develops
Year Round Tomuto

SIDNEY.-An Australian bot
anist, Gilbert Pritchard. has de.
veloped a method of growing to.
matoes that bear the year around
He says the new tomatoes are
more resistant to frost and winc
than ordinary varieties.
His success was achieved BY
grating tomatoes onto a native
shrub known as the Kangaroo
apple.
Evening star., 1952-05-04

"a virtual monopoly on District
newspaper routes in the area.
Janet, l6, worked summers as
life guard, and Phyliss, 18, took a
job at the base when she finished
high school.
Evening star., 1952-05-04

Twists and many other-"Corpet Royalty"
at borooin-hunters sovines! Selection Of
colors in 9 and l2-foot widths.
Evening star., 1952-05-03

will take anything up to two years
to put them down, but it is known
that the field contains eight OF
nine seams of household Goa
varying from 3 feet to 61a feet
thick, over a banded strata Of
some 600 feet.
The first boring took 21Nmonths
to complete. The new series will
enable the position Of the shaft
and the main road to work the
coal to be planned.
The coal is lying at a depth be-
tween 1,150 and 1000 feet, an6
seems to cover square miles al
workable depth. The deepest pit
in the South Lancashire coal field
is the Parsonage pit, which is 1900
feet deep. where the men are
working in a temperature of be.
tween 80 and 100 degrees.
A geological survey official said
"The coal has between SO and 4(
per cent volatile substances-the
substances which produce gas OF
vapor on heating"
A mining engineer rated the
prospects of the new discovery
this way: Goal one foot thick
over a square mile is equivalent tc
about l million tons. In this new
area, anything from 80 million tc
40 million tons is to be won from
each square mile"